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Knelle Wren Wood is a stunning ancient coppice woodland, surrounded on all sides by contiguous woodland. The outstanding tranquillity of the whole area and the size of this beautiful mature woodland means that here one can feel remote from the outside world, which was of great appeal to the current owners and sure to be the same for the next custodians. They are regretfully selling the woodland owing to moving away from the area and no longer able to visit.  

The woodland is lovely and flat with a canopy comprising mostly of hornbeam coppice with a significant amount of sweet chestnut now overstood – believed to be last managed at the time by an auction of coupes in a local Peasmarsh pub in the 1970s. There are a great many oak standards, as well as birch, aspen, ash, cherry, holly, and two stands of Scots pine, one of which is residence to a sett of badgers.

A number of significant marker species can be found throughout the woodland, including wood anemones, bluebells, red campion, dog’s mercury, and primrose. It is a rare visit here when you do not see deer, and less frequently seen are wild boar, but they clearly enjoy coming to scratch on the fallen Scots pine trunks when humans are absent. The calls of resident Tawny and Little owls punctuate the otherwise peaceful nights. Buzzards can always be seen and heard circling and mewing high above on a blue-sky day, while in the understorey a riot of competing birdsong starts as early as February: among many species of birds, you will hear wren, robin, blackbird, blackcap, several species of tit, and even thrush, who all raise young here.

As well as seasonal streams passing through the woodland, the River Rother is not far away, and a walk along public rights of way across farmland to the northwest leads to a favourite wild swimming and picnic spot of the current owner.

The woodland comes with three useful sheds, erected on raised bases around a clearing in the woodland.  Attaching a large tarp between the trees would make a great all-weather base under which to gather round a firepit, or to sleep in the dry. In June you can while away sunny hours watching bumble bees visit the towering foxgloves in the clearing, which is also frequently visited by butterflies and dragonflies.

All in all, this is a magical spot that has perhaps remained so partially because access is by foot or requires 4WD via a long, shared, clay track. 

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