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Did anyone buy a woodland

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Dowser · 03/09/2018 18:18

I’d love one.
Just wondered if it’s much hard work
Do you get to visit it often.
Did you regret it?
Thanks

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Impulsesealer · 03/09/2018 18:19

No but dh wants one.
What do you do with it?

AvocadosBeforeMortgages · 03/09/2018 19:17

I sometimes see signs up advertising a woodland for sale. I do wonder why you'd buy one unless you lived on neighbouring land tbh - there are plenty of public woodlands to visit, and I can't see it being a profitable use of your money as you're not going to get planning permission.

HerRoyalNotness · 03/09/2018 19:19

I’d like one we could camp on occasionally, is that allowed? Mooch around in the woods, with a stream for splashing, building dens. Getting kids into the outdoors and a more basic experience

autumnboys · 03/09/2018 19:25

Sort of. Our estate backs on to the local country park. Due to an error when the builders laid the estate out, a strip of it still belonged to the building society the builders bought the land from. They offered us the chance to buy it, making it clear that they would sell it to our neighbour if we didn’t buy it. So we did. Tbh, we could do more with it. We are crap at gardening. It cost us a small fortune to fence. It’s mostly nettles & brambles. Looks lovely when the bluebells are out though.

Stupomax · 03/09/2018 19:36

My house is set in woodland so we manage an acre. It's surprisingly expensive and time consuming for such a small lot. We own a pick up truck and several chain saws and we cut all the wood we burn and we still chip a lot and send a lot to the transfer station to be composted. Ours is about 1/3 maple which we keep meaning to tap for syrup. There's a lot of poplar in there which is really annoying, and we take out a lot of the fast growing rubbish like pine so that the oak has a chance. I'm in New England so too far north for bluebells sadly. I keep meaning to fill the woods at the front of the house with other bulbs, and we have loads of ferns. I love being surrounded by trees but it does make me laugh when other people say they're tired from soending a day weeding and I've still got a weeks worth of downed trees to clear.

QueenofLouisiana · 03/09/2018 19:41

We adopted a plot of our village woodland. DS and I helped to plant parts of it when he was a toddler. I like to think he’ll take his children and grandchildren to visit it many years from now.

BarbaraofSevillle · 03/09/2018 20:17

How much do these woodlands cost? It seems to be a bit of a gimmick and it's not like there's a shortage of freely available public woodlands to play in, walk and cycle in etc.

And if you wanted to camp, you could just go to a campsite anyway. Or you could probably get away with wild camping in any old wood if you picked your spot carefully. No-one's likely to find you. Unless it's on your own secure property, private woodland is not likey to be any safer/secure.

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Dowser · 03/09/2018 20:29

Well I’ve seen one for £22k for a tad over 2 acres
that ticks a lot of boxes. They go up dramatically depending on how much land
I can’t visualise 2 acres though.
Yes you can camp on them but only for 28 nights a year...who monitors it I have no idea but as long as young take the mick I cannot see how they will count

The idea really appeals to me but I’m over an hour away and I think to get the most use of it you want it less than a 30 min drive.

I thought my husband would have been up for this ( he was a Boy Scout and heck I would’ve bought him his own machete) but I think I’d be on my own with this one

And yes, my family think I’m crackers.

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ShrodingersSturdyPyjamas · 03/09/2018 20:32

If i had a sugar maple, i'd be tapping that bugger every spring.

clairethewitch70 · 03/09/2018 20:33

I have 2 acres of woodland, with my house plonked in the centre. I love it but it is a pain to maintain and scary in high winds.

Scrowy · 03/09/2018 20:46

We have sold a few bits of woodland from our farm over the years to raise money for other projects on the farm pay off the massive overdraft.

The people who have bought them haven't done a huge amount with them really. There might be a few government subsidies available, and I suppose you could manage it for firewood for a wood burner or two.

tosoroli · 03/09/2018 21:52

We have woodlands as part of our farm, if it’s not directly next to where you live or you have no real plan for t apart from visiting it and camping it feels a waste of money, you could use that to go on some really long good camping holidays each year to different parts of the country rather then just the same two acres.

gutrotweins · 03/09/2018 22:20

We adopted a tiny bit of woodland in memory of my dad - no flowers at the funeral, just donations to the particular (very active) woodland trust.
The trust had a lovely bench made in his memory, and sent my mother a photo of it (we live a long way away and she'd be unable to reach the site, so photos have to suffice).

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