HC Deb 10 March 1989 vol 148 cc97-9W
Sir Geoffrey Johnson Smith

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

Mr. Ryder

The information is given in the following tables:

Name Area (hectares) Grid reference Species1
Woodlands sold in East Sussex
Blossom Wood 1.2 TQ 866 217 C
Funnells Wood (part) 3.4 TQ 440 264 C
Haywards Heath Package:
Beechy Wood 8.0 TQ 412 258 B
Brickyard 14.0 TQ 405 245 B
Circle Wood 8.0 TQ 404 250 B
Coneyborough 8.0 TQ 398 246 B
Cpt. 255 0.5 TQ 412 249 B
Dane Wood (part) 6.8 TQ 407 270 C
Hatches Wood 8.0 TQ 432 251 C
Kings Wood 9.0 TQ 392 253 B
Knell Wood 6.0 TQ 392 257 B
Mill Rough 5.0 TQ 417 256 B
Pound and Furzefield 14.0 TQ 405 253 B
Rigg Wood 8.0 TQ 428 250 C
Round Wood 6.0 TQ 394 249 C
Shepherds Wood 1.0 TQ 408 242 C
Spring and Verralls 25.0 TQ 440 250 C
Wapsbourne Wood 76.0 TQ 395 240 B
Lucks Wood 12.0 TQ 625 336 B
Newlands Wood and Long Shaw 6.0 TQ 626 296 C
Sheffield Park Woodlands:
Dane Wood (part) 0.2 TQ 407 270 C
Little Rotherfield 6.0 TQ 403 227 B
Rotherfield and Great Wet Wood 18.5 TQ 410 225 C
The Plantation 5.0 TQ 393 223 C
Smiths Charities:
Bacon Hollow etc. 21.0 TQ 637 167 B
Causeway Wood 14.0 TQ 606 172 C
Church Wood 10.5 TQ 606 178 C
Little Iwood etc. 29.0 TQ 628 173 B
Snape Wood (part) 2.7 TQ 628 305 B
Whartons Wood 7.0 TQ 461 177 C
Woodlands proposed for sale in East Sussex
Batts Wood 64.5 TQ 635 275 C
Woodlands sold in West Sussex
Arundel Estate 462.0 TQ 055 075 B
Brick Kiln Copse 11.0 SU 783 222 B
Brinsbury Estate (part) 18.0 TQ 057 215 B
Harting Combe 15.0 SU 805 260 C
Kingspark Plaist (land at) 0.1 SU 996 313 B
Kingspark Wood (land at) 1.1 SU 990 310 B
Littlewood Common (land at) 0.7 SU 874 152 B
Marden (fenced-in piece) 12.0 SU 799 165 C
Markwells (West) 43.4 SU 750 138 C
Markwells (East) and High Copse 39.6 SU 755 136 C
Newells Rough and Lodgesale 54.0 TQ 202 262 C
Sheepwash Copse—Elsted 6.0 SU 804 195 C
Southwater 142.5 TQ 143 256 B
Tilgate (land at) 0.3 TQ 266 343 B
Tullecombe (land at) 0.8 SU 804 255 B
Walderton Down (land at) 0.3 SU 792 104 B
Wildham (land at) 1.2 SU 811 129 B
Woodshill 38.0 TQ 093 204 C

Name Area (hectares) Grid reference Species1
Woolavington Down 38.0 SU 930 164 B
Woodlands proposed for sale in West Sussex
Drovers Estate 44.0 SU 865 155 B
Elsted Manor Estate (part) 43.0 SU 805 180 B
Hedgelands Copse 11.0 TQ 002 293 C
Old Copse 23.0 TQ 220 295 C
Owlbeech Wood 21.9 TQ 205 315 C
Sheephovel and Northland Wood 16.0 TQ 201 292 B
Sparrwood and Swear Hanger 13.3 SU 995 298 B
Wephurst Wood 38.0 TQ 028 298 C
1 The species composition is not available in any more detail than B for mainly broadleaves and C for mainly conifers.

Mr. Gardiner

To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if he will list all woodlands in Surrey either sold or proposed for sale by the Forestry Commission since the Forestry Act 1981 and give, in respect of each woodland(a) its acerage, (b) its map reference and (c) its species composition, by percentage.

Mr. Ryder

[holding answer 15 February 1989]: The information is given in the following table:

Name Area (hectares) Grid reference Species1
Woodlands sold in Surrey
Abinger and Poynters Estate:
Chatley Wood 18.7 TQ 088 589 C
Bramble Wood (part) 3.6 TQ 099 584 B
Bramble Wood (part) 1.0 TQ 099 583 B
Brickfield (part) 1.9 TQ 099 580 B
Brickfield (part) 3.1 TQ 101 581 B
Barrow Green 2.6 TQ 375 530 B
Barrow Green Court 36.5 TQ 378 534 B
Birch Wood 39.0 TQ 355 565 B
Bunce Farm Woods 16.0 TQ 213 464 C
Canterbury Copse (part) 1.3 SU 990 340 B
Collick Moor Farm 3.0 TQ 145 455 B
Crocknorth Cottage (land at) 0.5 TQ 105 506 B
Ford Manor Estate:
Bidbury Wood 2.0 TQ 421 410 C
Burnpit Wood 5.5 TQ 414 412 C
Cowden Birches 3.0 TQ 417 410 B
Old Furzefield 6.0 TQ 432 412 B
Old Plantation 27.5 TQ 425 423 C
Great Church Wood 5.0 TQ 370 540 B
High Chart, Titsey 75.0 TQ 433 523 C
Ledgers Park—Holt Wood 26.0 TQ 377 593 C
Lower Canfold Wood 23.0 TQ 082 393 C
Quince Cottage (land at) 0.2 SU 982 351 B
Scammels Grove 15.0 TQ 187 463 C
Sydney Wood (part) 2.0 TQ 020 330 C
Whitmoor Pond and Poor Jack 30.0 SU 993 545 B
Winterfold—Hurt Wood 129.0 TQ 069 435 C
Woodlands proposed for sale in Surrey
None.
1 The species composition is not available in any more detail than B for mainly broadleaves and C for mainly conifers.