Shepshed, White Horse Wood

Selected Wild Place / Other Wild Places / Public Rights of Way / VC55 boundary

Getting There

There is limited lay-by parking on the A512. Parking is also possible around the nearby  industrial estate with access along the attractive, former railway - Jubilee Walk.

Status

Privately owned but crossed by a public right of way.

Managed By
The wood is owned by the De Lisle Estate.
Wild places

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Description
White Horse Wood is an old woodland site and appears with the same boundary line on the 1883 OS map. It has many mature trees and a beautiful display of bluebells in the Spring. There are some areas of the wood where felling has taken place and encroaching sycamore has sprung up. Open fields give pleasant views on the northern edge although an industrial estate sits close to the eastern edge. Paths can be very boggy at times.
A large new housing estate is being built on the western edge of the wood.
Wildlife Highlights

Mature hornbeam are self-seeding freely and lying dead-wood provides for a good show of fungi in the Autumn.

 

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