CrtMargaretWood.org.uk
Title
The Countryside Restoration Trust: Margaret Wood
Description
Margaret Wood was left to 'The Countryside Restoration Trust' together with two grass meadows by Mr Duncan Elliott of Huddersfield in 2001. The land is situated on the eastern slopes of the Pennines at Upper Denby between Barnsley and Huddersfield.
The wood itself amounts to almost 20 acres and is south facing. The meadows are a similar size in total. In springtime the woodland floor is carpeted in a wonderful display of bluebells.
It is believed that there has been a wood on the site since before the Norman Conquest. It had originally been an oak and beech wood but was clear felled during the First World War and left. In the 1930s it was described as ‘scrub’ by the Ordinance Survey and during the Second World War there were only a few beech trees standing. By the time the wood came into Duncan Elliott’s possession in 1991 it had been taken over by the invasive sycamore any oak and beech only being poor specimens.
