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A Celtic land with an industrial past steeped in myth, legend, poetry and song. Croeso i Gymru.
We're proud to be the location of one of Wales’ new commemorative woodlands that will stand as living memorials to those who have sadly lost their lives during the Covid-19 Pandemic.
We are providing nine hectares of land at Hafod, on the southern edge of our Erddig estate to create a beautiful, safe and accessible woodland where people can visit, remember loved ones and spend time in nature.
We’re privileged to be working in partnership with the Welsh Government and Natural Resources Wales to support the commemorative woodlands project.
The new woodland will be for remembrance and reflection, but also to give a future green space for everyone to continue that much needed, beneficial connection with the natural world for ever.
The woodland will have a theme of ‘resilience’; a fitting symbol of the strength the people of Wales have shown over the past year and will play an important role in supporting nature’s recovery and our fight against the climate crisis.
Once finished later in the year the woodland will become a public space and we can all watch the woodland grow together.
We are pleased to share our final design of the commemorative woodland at Erddig. Following community engagement sessions and input from stakeholders several key requirements emerged shaping the final plan into several zones, each with a specific focus:
The woodland space at Erddig will be commemorative in its entirety and we do not intend to have individually dedicated trees. This is because woodlands are dynamic, living systems that are actively managed. In order for them to thrive we will sometimes need to remove trees for safety and to make space for the woodland to mature.
The commemorative woodland project forms part of the Welsh Government’s National Forest Programme. The National Forest will comprise a network of publicly accessible woodlands under high quality management across Wales, to include both new and existing woodlands. Community engagement will be at the forefront of the development of National Forest sites to help ensure the woodlands provide opportunities for recreation, education, and exercise and in this case, also a place for reflection to remember those lost to Covid-19.
Two further commemorative woodlands are being created in partnership with the Welsh Government: Natural Resources Wales’ Brownhill in Carmarthenshire and Caerphilly County Borough Council’s Ynys Hywel.
A Celtic land with an industrial past steeped in myth, legend, poetry and song. Croeso i Gymru.
National Trust Cymru have shared the final design of one of Wales’ new commemorative woodlands at Erddig near Wrexham. People are being invited to help plant trees at the woodland which will be a living memorial to those who have sadly lost their lives during the Covid-19 Pandemic.