Directions to your tree

The new woodland is located 2 miles from the small town of Lostwithiel in South Cornwall in a tributary valley to the river Fowey.

Lostwithiel's ordinance survey grid reference is SX1059 and it's GPS location is PL22 0LF. However, this is the nearest GPS, it is not the exact one. There is no exact GPS location.

Directions by car

• If you are traveling in a westerly direction towards Lostwithiel along the A390 take the left turning sign posted 'Lerryn' beside the 'Lostwithiel Welcomes You' sign. (Ignore all previous signs for Lerryn).
• 150 metres later turn left just before the Earl of Chatham pub.
• Continue for approx 1.5 miles until you see a right turning sign posted for St. Winnow.
• Take this turning onto a very quiet country lane and continue for another ?? of a mile to where the lane merges with another from the left.
• Immediately on the right there is a field gate. You can park on the verge either side of the gate, but please don't block it.
• Walk through the gate into the field and walk beside the hedge on your right for 50 metres until you come to another gate. You are now at the entrance to the main woodland beginning with reference letter 'S'.
• Walk through the gate and keep the hedge on your right. Once you reach the next gate you will notice that the beginning of some of the rows nearby will have marker posts with numbers.
• Now look at your individual tree reference number. The letter 'S' refers to the woodland. The first number refers to the row and the second number refers to the tree along this row.
• Only every fifth row has a numbered marker post. So for example, if your row number is 27 look for the marker post reading 25 and then simply step up two rows. Now walk along the row counting off the oak trees which are interspersed with hazel trees until you have reached the right number.
• The reason for planting hazel trees between the oaks is to give the woodland more bio-diversity and help create shelter for the newly planted oaks in their first few years. Because the hazel trees reach a much smaller height in maturity they will not compete for space with the oaks, but will make a more appealing under-story for native flora and fauna.

  See map below to find your way around the wood. Click on the map for a larger scale.
  

  
  

  Directions to trees with an 'L' reference
  If the tree you are looking for has a reference number starting with the letter 'L' then it is located in our first woodland planted in 1994. Sponsorships closed for this woodland several years ago.

  How to find
  Just inside the entrance you will find an explanation board describing how to locate a specific tree.