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The weather was definitely on the autumny side. A gusty, inconsistent breeze from the West and dark, almost black clouds being chased along and shedding heavy showers as they went. So I thought I’d just have short stroll around the farmland and countryside to the South West of Garstang. Something that has attracted me to this particular bit of the Fylde countryside is the number of oddly named tiny patches of woodland that are dotted about. It might be nice to plot a route to catch sight of some of them to see if they lived up to their names. In a pretty small area to the North of Churchtown and around Nateby and Winmarliegh I found almost thirty named small woods. A list of their names;
Some of them are named after people like Agnes, Bella and the odd Nickytom, some after geographical features like Gravel Hill, Old Hall and Turfdale, some from birds like Curlew and Cuckoo and some just curious like Pancake.
I saw some of them and mostly they looked like neglected patches of woodland. None of them being actively cultivated as wooland lots but some of them obviously used for breeding and shooting birds. Small game hunting is big in these parts. In one spot a completely new wood had been planted that wasn’t on the OS map. Lots of small birches, a few oaks and hawthorns looking as though they had been planted four or five years ago.
The weather brightened up as the day went on and it ended up clear and sunny.
The weather was definitely on the autumny side. A gusty, inconsistent breeze from the West and dark, almost black clouds being chased along and shedding heavy showers as they went. So I thought I’d just have short stroll around the farmland and countryside to the South West of Garstang. Something that has attracted me to this particular bit of the Fylde countryside is the number of oddly named tiny patches of woodland that are dotted about. It might be nice to plot a route to catch sight of some of them to see if they lived up to their names. In a pretty small area to the North of Churchtown and around Nateby and Winmarliegh I found almost thirty named small woods. A list of their names;
| Hagg Wood | Cuckoo Wood |
| Shrogg’s Wood | Top Moss Wood |
| Upper and Lower Humblescough Woods | Grand Agnes Wood |
| New Wood | Turfdale Wood |
| Park Wood | Curlew Wood |
| Long Wood | Elswick Patch Wood |
| Big Wood | Buttfield Wood |
| Bower’s Wood | Nickytom Wood |
| Island Wood (x2) | Black Wood |
| Bella’s Wood | Gravel Hill Wood |
| Watson’s Wood | Wray Wood |
| Wag Wood | New Plantation |
| Moss Side Wood | Old Hall Wood |
| Pancake Wood |
Some of them are named after people like Agnes, Bella and the odd Nickytom, some after geographical features like Gravel Hill, Old Hall and Turfdale, some from birds like Curlew and Cuckoo and some just curious like Pancake.
I saw some of them and mostly they looked like neglected patches of woodland. None of them being actively cultivated as wooland lots but some of them obviously used for breeding and shooting birds. Small game hunting is big in these parts. In one spot a completely new wood had been planted that wasn’t on the OS map. Lots of small birches, a few oaks and hawthorns looking as though they had been planted four or five years ago.
The weather brightened up as the day went on and it ended up clear and sunny.
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