Sunday, 19 May 2024

Latchmore Brook

 
The forest isn't as uniform as you might imagine, homogeneous blocks of woodland and heath it isn't; although many areas of heath or woodland may share a very similar floral make up, each has it's own distinct aspects and attributes. That's why it's so easy to end up with countless 'favourite' spots. Amberwood and Island Thorns are favourites of mine, they're quite unlike any other woods in the forest; overwhelmingly deciduous, mostly stands of Beech and Oak of varying degrees of spread; walking their myriad tracks and paths is magical, none more so than when following the Latchmore Brooks' bank-side path, and especially as it passes through the stands of Amberwood.  The stands here abouts have a certain air to them, a natural magic that's hard to describe.

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