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Thurning Mill Lane, MELTON CONSTABLE, NR24 2LL

Track to Thurning Mill

Looking up Mill Lane on the road to Briston. The trees, bushes and shrubs on either side of the road never go thirsty! The area is frequently flooded from the nearby stream.

Marked on OS maps as Pegg's Plantation this area once used to be part of the old Briston Common. It is now a privately owned woodland - privately owned but walkers are very welcome here. Under the stewardship of its owners several paths were opened up; some of the predominant Scots pines, planted during the 1960s, are being felled (marked with white paint) to allow more room and light for a more diverse vegetation. Young trees of various different species have been planted, and in order to provide habitats and shelter for wildlife not all dead wood is removed. See http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/786559 for more detailed information.

South of Mill Lane > http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/786611.

Marked on OS maps as Pegg's Plantation this area once used to be part of the old Briston Common. It is now a privately owned woodland - privately owned but walkers are very welcome here. Under the stewardship of its owners several paths were opened up; some of the predominant Scots pines, planted during the 1960s, are being felled (marked with white paint) to allow more room and light for a more diverse vegetation. Young trees of various different species have been planted, and in order to provide habitats and shelter for wildlife not all dead wood is removed. See http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/786559 for more detailed information.

Presumed to once have been the location of clay pits, the ground on the southwestern edge of Lumley and Irvin Woods, beside Mill Lane, is damp where it borders on the road and overgrown with bracken higher up. No Scots pines are growing here. Marked on OS maps as Pegg's Plantation this area once used to be part of the old Briston Common. It is now a privately owned woodland - privately owned but walkers are very welcome here. Under the stewardship of its owners several paths were opened up; some of the predominant Scots pines, planted during the 1960s, are being felled (marked with white paint) to allow more room and light for a more diverse vegetation. Young trees of various different species have been planted, and in order to provide habitats and shelter for wildlife not all dead wood is removed. See http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/786559 for more detailed information.

A sign affixed to a tree by the gate says "Private - Keep Out" > http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/786622. This private woodland appears to have been part of Pegg's Plantation at some time in the past but unlike the owners of the section further down the road - in the adjacent grid square to the south - now called Lumley and Irvin Woods > http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/786547 -, the owner of this section does not make walkers very welcome here.

Past Lumley and Irvin Woods > http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/786547. The woodland at left is Old Mill Plantation; the view direction is westerly.

The southwestern edge; Mill Lane can be glimpsed beyond the fallen tree. Presumed to once have been the location of clay pits, the ground on the southwestern edge of Lumley and Irvin Woods, beside Mill Lane, is damp where it borders on the road and overgrown with bracken higher up. No Scots pines are growing here. Marked on OS maps as Pegg's Plantation this area once used to be part of the old Briston Common. It is now a privately owned woodland - privately owned but walkers are very welcome here. Under the stewardship of its owners several paths were opened up; some of the predominant Scots pines, planted during the 1960s, are being felled (marked with white paint) to allow more room and light for a more diverse vegetation. Young trees of various different species have been planted, and in order to provide habitats and shelter for wildlife not all dead wood is removed. See http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/786559 for more detailed information.

Presumed to once have been the location of clay pits, the ground on the southwestern edge of Lumley and Irvin Woods, beside Mill Lane, is damp where it borders on the road and overgrown with bracken higher up. No Scots pines are growing here. Marked on OS maps as Pegg's Plantation this area once used to be part of the old Briston Common. It is now a privately owned woodland - privately owned but walkers are very welcome here. Under the stewardship of its owners several paths were opened up; some of the predominant Scots pines, planted during the 1960s, are being felled (marked with white paint) to allow more room and light for a more diverse vegetation. Young trees of various different species have been planted, and in order to provide habitats and shelter for wildlife not all dead wood is removed. See http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/786559 for more detailed information.