It’s not often that I get the chance to enter something utterly new onto the Map, so please forgive me if I crow a little about this one. However, it will not be very loudly since, although I’m most certainly not an arboriculturist, IMO this copse of trees should be levelled to the ground, burnt to ashes & started again from scratch.

PS
IANAA makes a pleasant change to IANAL, does it not?

Harvey’s Plantation
A circular copse of trees; close to though unconnected with local buildings, it stands amidst farmland and, whilst a couple of hedges and a small stand of trees connect, it is alone. On the ground, local trackways appear to get close, though none connect directly & few are officially mapped. Gedling Council have stated in connection with a Preservation Order on the copse (below) that “…the woodland had been a local landmark for over 100 years and makes an important contribution to the landscape.”

This is a distant view from the North-East (the copse starts at the break in the tree-line at the left):–

Owners:– Langridge Homes. The origin & history is unknown. The Gedling Access Road will pass close by to the north. The entire copse is subject to Tree Preservation Order No. 107 (pdf) (confirmed & served 2 March 2009 (pdf)), even though the NCC Senior Forestry Officer observed that “the woodland is showing signs of senescing with dead trees observed”. That latter sentence is clearly true with this closer view from the East, and even more obvious with the insect-ravaged hulk pictured below that:–

The Plantation is in desperate need of maintenance. The floor is littered with fallen trees & ivy is running rampant. I may well have been subject to wrongful mental jitters, but I could not stay inside, it was too distressing (the local historian on Jessop’s Lane told me that old_name=Hanging Lane, and that those condemned to die would be walked up the Lane to the gallows, stopping at the oldest house I’ve mapped so far en route; those gallows, of course, would have been positioned somewhere close to Harvey’s Plantation).

17th Century Gallows

Walking home down Yew Tree Lane today (Sunday 16 April) on my way home after completing a survey on that Lane, and it affords a clear view of the hills. I realised for the first time that Harvey’s Plantation sits on the crown of the highest local hill above all the houses beyond Jessops Lane (Hanging Lane). In that moment I realised that, if the 17th Century Gallows was positioned on the hills beyond the houses, then it would be positioned on (and not close to) the current location of Harvey’s Plantation.

This next photo incidentally shows that view (the Plantation is dead ahead):–

Update 4 July 2022

Mapillary has changed it’s download URLs & therefore all links within my diaries that used photos stored in Mapillary in the old format are broken. I’m slowly going through to update them. The new URLs are terrifyingly long, but show OK on my screen (and I hope also on yours).