I'd not visited Burley Old since the storms; I've purposely avoided coming here as I knew what we'd be likely to find. I wasn't wrong, it was carnage. Limbs, boughs and branches of every size litter the woodland floor, amongst them in excess of 20 ancient and veteran trees either truncated or uprooted, along with numerous smaller trees. If you need an example of the accumulated damage wrought by a decade or more of increasing winds, both in regularity and severity, then take a wander through Burley Old. The face of the forest is changing.
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