If you're a resident in Gwent, you may already know the history of a swathe of trees so large that it stretched from the River Usk to the Wye Valley - Coed Gwent -but if you didn't, it's quite surprising when you realise that it was extensive enough to divide Gwent into Gwent Iscoed (Gwent below the wood) and Gwent Uwchcoed (Gwent above the wood). It was in fact the second largest wood in Wales for over 1000 years and now what remains of it is known as Wentwood Forest: even now, it is the ninth largest ancient woodland in the UK, despite the influx of conifers into its broad-leaved realms.
Why am I telling you this? Well, at Cwm Hedd Lakes we're making an effort to replenish the woody splendour of our countryside while attempting to balance the impact of human activities on nature. All of us can be a bit lazy and drive instead of walking, or forget to switch light bulbs off when we leave the room...and I suspect most of us are fed up of being made to feel incredibly guilty for simply being products of the age.
However, a bit of guilt alleviation in a good cause never hurt anyone, which is why you can now do your bit to plant trees at Cwm Hedd. And, unlike schemes that plant trees in Borneo and the like, which you'd have to fly many guilty miles to go and see if you wanted to prove to yourself that your money was being spent in the way in which you'd hoped, Cwm Hedd is on your doorstep.
You could even walk there and pat yourself on the back for having saved some emissions in your venture!
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last updated: 13th May 2008
1 Photographer: Sten Porse
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4Fraxinus excelsior foliage and seeds. Jesmond Dene, Newcastle, Northumberland, UK; August 2005