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166.2 acres, Putham Woods, Wheddon Cross, Nr Dunster, Somerset
Sold (STC) - Guide Price £990,000

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• Commercial crops
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Putham Woods offers a new owner large amounts of timber income in the next 10 years with a programme of restructuring and replanting required to secure the next generation of timber production.
Putham Woods are well located in an area of England where
forestry investment is common and deep mineral soils and the
moist climate combine to create technically excellent growing
conditions to all of the tree species common in the UK. The wood
is situated on a series of steep slopes with predominantly north
and easterly facing aspects. The aspect, slope and valley
formation gives excellent topographical shelter from south
westerly winds and has allowed the current crops to grow off the
chart. The tables and charts that foresters are accustomed to
using to assess growth rates and timber volumes are almost
useless in this forest.
Planting of today’s stands of timber began in the early 1960s with
a collection of Douglas fir, western hemlock, larch, spruce as well
as a whole range of productive broadleaves planted on felled
land. A visitor to the wood will now find that the larch has been
fully removed due to infection by the fungal pathogen
Phytophthora ramorum and the balance of over 34 hectares of
conifer crops has been allowed to grow on following thinning.
There is also around 7.5 hectares of mature broadleaves. This
leaves just over 23 hectares of land requiring some further work
to secure replanted conifer crops for the future. Most of this
replanting has the potential to be commercially focused conifer
stands should a prospective purchaser have commercial
objectives...........
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