Park Wood
Restoration
West Malvern, Worcestershire

About Park Wood
Park Wood is owned by the Malvern Hills Conservators and managed by us, Wildwood Coppice Crafts. The woodland is an ancient semi-natural woodland and is characterised by a derelict hazel coppice understorey with oak and ash standards. The hazel is slowly but surely dying due to a 50 year legacy of virtually no coppice management. Hazel does not naturally thrive in a dense woodland environment. It needs light to survive and the larger trees shade it out and weaken it until such a time when it may die. We are restoring the hazel coppice to improve conditions for wildlife, wild flowers and to produce a supply of hazel in the future for use in traditional coppice crafts such as hurdle making. But for the foreseeable future, the restoration work results in a large amount of poor quality cord wood which is converted into firewood and charcoal

>Volunteering session dates this winter

>Directions to Park Wood (pdf) (word)

>How you can sponsor tree planting - A Growing Gift

>Park Wood Management Plan

>Why do we need to fell large trees?

>Wildlife in Park Wood

>Wildflowers and wildflower monitoring

>Coppice restoration work

>Small Woods magazine article on Park Wood management