0 a large tree with leaves divided into five parts and large round nuts that are cooked and eaten hot
Other species of timber such as sweet chestnut may be an appropriate alternative to green oak.
There are common species and rare species; conifers and hardwoods; the sweet chestnut is included but the horse chestnut is not.
Again, the sweet chestnut has to be replaced; but the horse chestnut—and what can be more beautiful than a horse chestnut when it is in flower?
The area around the summit is mainly heathland, with birch, oak and sweet chestnut trees in the woods at the northern end.
The main support columns are sweet chestnut tree trunks concreted into place.
The woods have tall oaks above a layer of sweet chestnut, rowan and birch, and there are several areas of grassland.
There are sweet chestnut, scots pine, hazel, yew and holly.
Arable farming covered 26% of the parish and woods, mainly coppiced sweet chestnut, covered 20%.
