Farthings Wood

Farthings Wood is an ancient replanted woodland near Little Missenden in the English county of Buckinghamshire. The predominant tree species in the wood is Corsican pine, interspersed with beech, wild cherry, rowan, ash, silver birch, downy birch and sycamore. There are also Scots pine trees in the southern section of the wood, and hornbeam, oak and hawthorn around the boundaries of the wood. The shrub layer consists of a number of different species. The wood is home to two species of bats, namely the Common Pipistrelle and the Soprano Pipistrelle.^[1] The wood is threatened by the proposed route of the HS2 high-speed railway.

References

1. "HS2 – Impacts on historic and natural environmentap-4.pdf" (PDF). The Chilterns AONB. Chilterns Conservation Board. pp. 6–7. Retrieved 6 December 2012.