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Environmental finalist Mark Herbert, Combwell Wood

This SSSI site just outside Kilndown is being managed with biodiversity in mind.

The woodland, found down narrow and winding country lanes, is a "ghyll wood", an area of wetland wood on the steep side of a stream's upper reaches.
According to the Wildfowl & Wetlands Trust (WWT), ghyll woodlands are often undisturbed by human activity and have their own microclimate.

Volunteers manage about 200 acres of the 400-acre woodland.

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