Updated 05 Apr 2014

Trees in the Willow Wood

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Trees in the Willow Wood.

The purpose of this webpage is to record an unusual 1-acre Willow Wood, owned by the National Trust, before it disappears. Location, images and size of trees, mostly Salix alba (white willow) are given. Access is from Eyemead NT land (difficult) or from Bearmead Nature Reserve (easy). Some 20% of the big willows were cut down and stacked near the SE boundary around 2000 by the NT. The wood is part of the Kingston Lacy estate, where it meets the privately owned Bear Mead Nature Reserve. The West border is an old Mill Stream.
Nearby are: | Bear Mead | River Stour | Mill Stream | Weir Lane | Trespassers W |

The Willow Wood
1 acre in area, on the South bank of the Dorset Stour near Corfe Mullen, at SY-991-995, containing 30 large white willow (salix alba) trees.
Taken 02apr2004
Taken 04mar2009

Some of the 30 willows
3405 Trees #17,18,19,20,14,13
3406 ...Tree #15...
3407 Trees #16,19,18,17
3408 Trees #07,08,28
3409 Tree #29
3411 and more.
3415
3416
3417
3418
3410 ...Trees #05,06,02,03,04...

Willows #13 and #29
0638. Taken 12feb2008. Entrance and Mill Stream. Willow #13 is nearest.
3087. Willow #13, girth=4.80m. Taken 10apr2012. "Trespassers W" sign.
3413. Willow #13 is two trees grown together. Taken 25apr2013.
3460. Willow #29 is a single tree, girth=3.40m. Taken 04jun2013.

Flooding of the wood
3139. Flooded on 01may2012
3149. Flood cleared on 07may2012
3377. Flooded on 13jan2013

Willow Wood was once two islands in the river
1847. Wimborne Tithe map.
1888. Ordnance Survey.
1901. OS map 25 inch.
1928. OS map 25 inch.

Location and girth of each Willow
1.2 acre wood, on banks of Dorset Stour at SY-991-995, with 29 large White Willow trees
 


         Girth of trees in cms. 
01=ash, 02-30 willow, 31-32 field maple

01  165 cms   12  245 cms   23  195 cms
02  215       13  320+320*  24  235
03  190       14  235       25  240*
04  195       15  270L      26  240*
05  230       16  275H      27  160
06  195       17  265       28  235H
07  255       18  225       29  340
08  255       19  230       30  280MH
09  180       20  225       31  180
10  240       21  205       32  145
11  250       22  260

 *=2 trees fused | L=severe lean  |
 H=large hole    | MH=mostly hole |

         Average Girth= 251 cms.

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