Cotswolds Diary

Columnist Caroline Mills has a difficult decision to make on her family farm

The Cotswolds is renowned for its beech woods, some of which are so significant that they are designated as National Nature Reserves (NNR). This includes the Cotswold Commons and Beechwoods NNR in the heart of the Cotswolds at Cranham, near Stroud. It is the largest nature reserve in the Cotswolds. It is estimated that approximately 10 per cent of the landscape in the Cotswolds is woodland, the majority of which is mixed broadleaved wood. That includes woodland on farms, which as a percentage of agricultural land, has increased over the past 30 years. Situated on the northeast edge of the Cotswolds, it is not so much beech that characterises the landscape around us, but oak and ash. Our farm has small pockets of woodland – around three acres in total, most of…

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