Local woodlands used to be places of great importance and lots of activity

They provided people with

• Fuel for fires and timber for homes and furniture
• Soles for shoes and dyes for clothes
• Potash for glass and soap
• Foraged food (nuts, berries and mushrooms)
• Bowls, baskets, boats, charcoal, chairs, spoons, soap, paper, whistles, gunpowder and much more!

Today, woodlands are often

• spaces for picnics and walks and homes for wildlife
• places of industry for traditional woodland workers and the larger forestry industries

Shropshire Woodland Heritage Project aims to

• Connect the past with the present; the traditional and the contemporary
• Collect and share woodland stories
• Work in partnership with people to hold local projects
• Share skills in traditional woodland management and green wood crafts

Since the start of this project, in autumn 2003, we have:

• Worked with The Woodside Children’s Project to take logs from a wood with a horse and then they created a bench
• Held a “bodging “workshop as part of Clun’s Green Man Festival
• Run a coppicing demonstration and willow hurdle making in Ercall
• Storytelling and hedge-laying on the Edge at Much Wenlock

There’s much more to come:

Over this year we will be working with people and the woodland spaces in:

Telford Town, Wellington, South Telford, Donnington, Much Wenlock, Westhope, Clun, Shrewsbury, and the Ironbridge Gorge

For more details contact:

Su Barber on 01952 432 769

project@greenwoodcentre.org.uk

The Green Wood Centre
Station Road
Coalbrookdale
Telford
Shropshire
TF8 7DR