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Allegedly this is the highest Beech Tree plantation in the UK, at about 1200 ft.

An ancient wall separates conifers from deciduous trees.

This seat in Hamsterley Forest is at a junction of forestry roads at the south angle of Pennington Plantation which has many beech trees. Frank Lockwood lived long: 1900-1994.

View looking down through Pennington Plantation from near High Acton Currick.

The road is climbing to the north-west away from the forest area known as Pennington Plantation.

Pennington Plantation is a part of the larger woodland of Hamsterley Forest. The trees of the forest are predominantly coniferous but beeches are plentiful in Pennington Plantation - the branches with autumnal leaves intruding from the... (more)

Well, they may or may not have actually been racing, but they were both running, which looks remarkably hard work, even on a fairly level stretch of forest track like this one near the southwestern edge of Hamsterley Forest. Our dog thought... (more)

The slope is of the northern side of the valley of Spurlswood Beck below the trees of Hamsterley Forest. As can be seen further down the valley, the bracken cover of its slopes is very extensive.

There's a large amount of timber cutting going on in that part of Hamsterley Forest just north of Spurlswood Beck. The timber stacks are just the outlying log piles, further along the road there are many more.