It was a great pleasure to be part of the Cree Valley Community Woodlands Trust’s seminar on Woodland Heritage held in and around Newton Stewart, Galloway, on 7th & 8th June 2012, an event supported by the Community Woodlands Association amongst others. The seminar included morning talks, many by local experts, followed by afternoon site visits to the Cree Valley and Knockman’s woods, rich cultural woods with rather differing but equally interesting site histories. These will be teased out further in CVCWT’s new woodland heritage project, a community-led project being funded by HLF amongst others. I look forward to following its progress on www.creevalley.com

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One of the site visits on our woodland heritage workshop on 31st May 2012 for Cairngorms Community Heritage programme (led by RCAHMS, supported by Cairngorms National Park, workshop tutors Peter Quelch & Coralie Mills) was to an overgrown old oak coppice wood at Loch Pityoulish. The many tree-forms made for interesting discussions amongst the group who embodied wide ranging interests and expertise.  Our visit provided a first glimpse into the history of these woods, a legacy of the expansion in oak planting about 200 years ago, with great potential for further exploration and research.

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