Hyning Scout Wood

Hyning Scout Wood is a wood between Yealand Conyers and Warton in Lancashire.

Hyning Scout Wood

Its features include limestone pavement and coppicing for charcoal. The trees include beech, larch, sweet chestnut and Scots pine. Its woodland plants include bluebells, dog's mercury, hart's-tongue fern and Solomon's Seal. Roe deer and both grey and red squirrels are found there.[1]

It is managed by the Woodland Trust; is part of the Arnside and Silverdale Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty and is recognised as a Biological Heritage Site by the county.[1] The wood contains a memorial plaque for anthropologist Mary Gluckman.

References
  1. Hyning Scout Wood, Woodland Trust


54.155°N 2.765°W / 54.155; -2.765

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