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WOODLAND COTTAGE RUIN: The ruin of an ancient and long-forgotten dry-stone cottage is gradually overgrown by the forest. Trees now grow tall out of the two small rooms.

Woodland cottage ruin

WOODLAND COTTAGE RUIN: The ruin of an ancient and long-forgotten dry-stone cottage is gradually overgrown by the forest. Trees now grow tall out of the two small rooms.

Woodland cottage ruin

WOODLAND COTTAGE RUIN: The ruin of an ancient and long-forgotten dry-stone cottage is gradually overgrown by the forest. Trees now grow tall out of the two small rooms.

Woodland cottage ruin

RUSTY AXLE: A large rusty axle with differential and steering rod lies rusting among the trees.

Rusty axle

A DISCARDED ENGINE: The cast iron engine and gear-box from a tractor or truck lies forlorn and rusting on a deeply wooded hillside.

A discarded engine

TIME FOR FUN: The local children know where to find this makeshift swing.

Time for fun

FOREST SCHOOL: Ancient woodland skills are taught to young children in this forest school.

Forest school

IMPROVISED HOT-PLATE: An old circular saw and tractor wheel serve well as and improvised cooker.

Improvised hot-plate

TRACTOR WHEEL: A discarded tractor wheel has eventually become overgrown with climbers, ground vegetation and moss.

Tractor Wheel

MILK CHURN: A battered milk churn with its bottom rusted out.

Milk Churn

ANCIENT VEHICLE CHASSIS.: A vehicle chassis from the 1930s or 1940s lies on its back rusting in the forest margin.

Ancient vehicle chassis.

RUSTING WHEEL: A recently upturned wheel lies rusting deep in the woods.

Rusting wheel

COLLAPSED HUT: All that remains of this forest shelter is the corrugated iron roof, some galvanised guttering and some planks of wood.

Collapsed Hut

RUSTY PHEASANT FEEDER: A home-made pheasant feeder lies rusting in the understory.

Rusty Pheasant Feeder

FOREST BIVOUAC: Looking like the ribcage of a long dead giant creature, this part built bivouac is located in the middle of a fir tree plantation.

Forest Bivouac

IMPROVISED SHELTER: The builders of this improvised shelter used the available trees to construct a two-storey hut complete with a fireplace.

Improvised Shelter

ABANDONED TRAILER: A van trailer lies abandoned and overgrown in the heart of the forest.

Abandoned Trailer

CORRUGATED IRON: Sheets of corrugated iron lie amongst the fir trees.

Corrugated Iron

ASBESTOS DUMP: Too expensive to recycle safely, a pile of deteriorating blue asbestos roofing has been dumped in the middle of the woods.

Asbestos dump

FRIDGE: An ancient quarry has been filled with a range of household and farm discards.

Fridge

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CUCKOO BEE: A cuckoo bee, Nomada flava, is captured drinking nectar from white flowers. This species does not make its own nest. It lays its eggs in the nests of miner bees.

Cuckoo bee

LARGE RED DAMSELFLY: A Large Red Damselfly rests on a blade of variegated aquatic grass.

Large Red Damselfly

SOUTHERN HAWKER DRAGONFLY.: A Southern Hawker dragonfly, Aeshna cyanea, emerges from the nymph.

Southern Hawker dragonfly.

Green

BARRED GRASS SNAKE, NATRIX HELVETICA.: A Barred Grass Snake, Natrix helvetica, hunts for frogs and newts in a garden pond.

Barred Grass Snake, Natrix helvetica.

BARRED GRASS SNAKE, NATRIX HELVETICA.: A Barred Grass Snake, Natrix helvetica, hunts for frogs and newts in a garden pond.

Barred Grass Snake, Natrix helvetica.

BARRED GRASS SNAKE, NATRIX HELVETICA.: A Barred Grass Snake, Natrix helvetica, hunts for frogs and newts in a garden pond.

Barred Grass Snake, Natrix helvetica.

AUTUMN LEAVES: Gold and yellow leaves lie on a bed of green weed in a woodland pond.

Autumn Leaves

SHAGGY INKCAP: The Shaggy Inkcap (Coprinus comatus) is a common mushroom growing on grass and verges in the autumn.

Shaggy Inkcap

SERENITY: A single yellow leaf floats on the undisturbed surface of a moonlit woodland pond.

Serenity