Both the Estates at Wykeham and Danby have significant areas of woodland with approximately
337 acres being commercial coniferous woodland on the ‘high ground’ at Wykeham with
a further 553 acres of broadleaf and conifer amenity woodland at Wykeham and Danby.
The commercial forestry is ideally suited to growing Douglas fir (Pseudotsuga menziesii)
and Sitka spruce (Picea sitchensis), with the Douglas Fir being selected for use
as the climbing poles at the Great Yorkshire Show ground on the account of its straightness
and good dimensions!
The amenity woodland is a mixture of managed oak and other broadleaf trees and relatively
unmanaged native birch woodland, great for wildlife and woodland plants.
The aim of the forestry policy on the Dawnay Estates is to manage the woodlands
to produce useful timber, and perhaps more importantly to maintain the woodland
as a primary landscape feature. As such the woodlands are managed in a sustainable
way in full consultation with the Forestry Commission.
Hardwood and softwood timber is sometimes available for sale by tender. Please
contact the estate
if you are interested in being added to a potential tenderers list.