HC Deb 23 March 1989 vol 149 cc714-7W
Mr. Redmond

To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if he will list all woodlands in the three counties of Yorkshire either sold or proposed for sale by the Forestry Commission since the passage of the Forestry Act 1981; if he will state for each such woodland(a) the acreage, (b) the map reference and (c) the species composition; and if he will make a statement.

Mr. Ryder

The information is given in the following tables:

Year Name Area (hectares) Grid reference Species1
Woodlands sold in South Yorkshire
1983 Huthwaite Wood 13.3 SE 282 002 C
1983 Land at Silkstone 1.0 SE 295 058 B
1984 Land at Silkstone 1.0 SK 295 058 B
1984 Swinston Hill Wood 20.0 SK 540 845 B
1984 Swinston Hill Package 59.0 SK 540 845 B
1984 Swinston Hill Package 16.0 SK 540 845 B
1985 Cannon Hall Estate 10.4 SE 270 094 B
1985 Lowe Wood Wentworth 17.8 SE 317 035 B
1987 Cantley Estate 10.5 SE 622 030 C
1988 Coumbes Vale Wood 15.2 SK 295 929 B
Woodlands sold in West Yorkshire
1982 Stubbs Wood 4.1 SE 369 158 C
1983 Bearnshaw Tower 98.1 SD 895 255 U
1984 Browsholme Blocks 47.0 SD 685 455 C
1987 Blakey Wood 4.9 SE 094 402 C
1987 Land held from Yorkshire Water Authority 434.5 SD 000 225 C
1988 Coburnhill Wood 23.7 SE 450 348 C
1989 Higher House and Land 62 SE 001 225 B
Woodlands sold in North Yorkshire
1981 Crooked Hill North Bank and Spring Wood 49.0 SE 522 895 C
1982 Brafferton Spring 95.0 SE 455 715 C
1982 New Park Plantations 33.0 SE 550 633 C
1982 Scotton Banks 22.2 SE 332 579 C
1983 Big Ings Wood 8.5 SE 556 679 C
1983 Broxa Moor and Harwood Dale 65.0 SE 948 926 C
1983 Clark Wood 30.0 SE 447 745 C
1983 Grass Wood 65.4 SD 985 655 C
1983 Knotts Plantation 4.4 SE 122 702 C
1983 Land at Flask 1.0 NZ 930 000 B
1983 Riffa Wood 19.1 SE 255 470 C
1983 Westow and Storth Wood 14.8 SE 478 864 C
1984 Bishopwood Main Line Diversion 3.3 SE 549 328 B
1984 Burnt Yates Wood 9.2 SE 236 608 B
1984 Hawkshaw Gill and Clark's Carrwood 65.4 SE 182 634 C
1984 Jackal Wood 6.2 SE 253 490 C
1984 Juniper and Potgate Woods 13.0 SE 278 750 B
1984 Leppington Wood 8.6 SE 768 616 C
1984 Peep 0 Day Wood 4.9 SE 522 720 C
1984 Scardale Package 52.9 SE 895 748 B
1984 Sherbum and Butterwick Whins 17.0 SE 972 728 B
1984 Southwold 31.5 SE 875 711 B
1984 Swinton Estate 286.0 SE 190 810 C
1984 Swinton Estate 183.3 SE 190 810 C
1984 The Avenue 6.5 SE 453 726 C
1984 Warren Slack 17.0 SE 990 744 C
1984 West Moor Plantation 2.9 SE 450 733 C
1984 West Wood 8.5 SE 136 680 C
1984 Wragby Plantations 21.0 SE 930 000 C
1985 Hornby Leasehold 16.1 SE 223 935 C
1985 Ingleby Greenhow (Church Plantation) 1.6 NZ 580 065 B
1985 Levisham Block 68.5 SE 826 895 B
1985 Moor Covert Plantation 11.3 SE 780 657 C
1985 Newton Mulgrave 43.3 NZ 783 130 C
1985 Oxdale, Dargo and Laurel 18.2 SE 884 837 C
1985 Raindale Head 2.5 SE 802 939 C
1985 Scardale Package 193.2 SE 895 735 B
1986 Broxa: Spring Wood East 17.5 NZ 952 919 C
1986 Crookrise and Gargrave (Lot 4) 3.0 SD 980 541 B
1986 Crookrise and Gargrave (Lots, 1, 2, 3, 5, 6) 243.9 SD 956 542 C
1986 Crookrise/Gargrave Part (Sawley) 7.1 SE 988 555 C
1986 Croomdale Plantation 33.0 SE 945 672 B
1986 Everley Banks Plantation 34.5 SD 984 899 C
1986 Fewler Gate Wood 11.6 SE 948 922 C
1986 Irton Moor (Whin Covert and Black Rigg) 39.0 SE 996 868 C
1986 Little Beck Wood 16.2 NZ 883 046 C
1986 Quarry Wood 2.7 SE 247 692 C
1986 Stapleton Park (Brockadale) 28.0 SE 504 175 B
1986 Staxton brow 38.0 TA 020 785 C
1986 Sunny Bank 9.3 SE 238 696 C
1986 Wilstrop Wood 24.7 SE 490 540 C
1987 East and West Belts and Ramshaw Quarry 27.8 SE 154 838 C
Year Name Area(hectares) Grid reference Species1
1987 Elslack 66.5 SD 939 480 C
1987 Harewood Whin 8.6 SE 541 522 C
1987 Longside Plantation 88.5 SE 118 724 C
1987 Witton Fell 107.0 SE 137 849 C
1988 Grinkle Park 35.8 SE 763 178 C
1988 Grinkle Park 134.5 SE 751 169 B
1988 Skipster Hagg Wood 10.0 SE 732 867 C
1The species composition is not available in any more detail than B for mainly broadleaves, C for mainly conifers and U for unplanted.
Woodlands proposed for sale
Name Area (hectares) Grid reference Species1
South Yorkshire
Cantley Estate 106.1 SE 676 047 C
Hollins Plantation 23.0 SE 097 399 C
Owston Wood and Duck Holt 65.7 SE 571 102 B
West Yorkshire
Haw Park 7.3 SE 365 151 B
Home Styes Wood 136.7 SE 105 045 C
Kippax Estate 22.0 SE 453 335 B
Kippax Estate 22.0 SE 452 325 C
Kippax Estate 4.0 SE 453 344 B
North Yorkshire
Stapleton Park 75.0 SE 504 180 B
Stapleton Park 27.0 SE 514 185 B
Stapleton Park 11.0 SE 504 181 B
Stapleton Park 12.0 SE 496 194 B
Stapleton Park 26.0 SE 498 185 C
Back Plantation 12.6 SE 030 513 C
Bullen Wood 17.1 SE 457 383 B
Faceby and Sonny Cliff Wood 61.0 NZ505 018 C
Hollin Head and Piney Moor 29.9 SE 273 733 C
Micklefield Woods 48.0 SE 452 334 B
Camblesforth Estate 48.0 SE 625 272 B
Goathland Package 209.0 NZ820 020 C
Hornby Castle 56.1 SE 212 927 C
Gateforth Woods 29.0 SE 569 284 B
1 The species composition is not available in any more detail than B for mainly broadleaves and C for mainly conifers.

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