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Ensure the future the Ensure Cover image: Gregor Fulton. Gregor image: Cover paper recycled on Printed 3340 09/06 3340 ʤ Registered Charity Number 294344 Number Charity Registered Enjoy the present the Enjoy Tel:028 9127 5787 www.woodland-trust.org.uk 5787 9127 Tel:028 Bangor, County Down, BT20 3BX BT20 Down, County Bangor, Sense the past the Sense 1 Dufferin Court, Dufferin Avenue Dufferin Court, Dufferin 1 The Woodland Trust Woodland The Our work at Prehen Wood is supported by: supported is Wood Prehen at work Our Prehen Wood Prehen www.woodland-trust.org.uk or visit our website at website our visit or 5787 9127 028 telephone 60289 ' Crown Copyright 2006 Copyright Crown ' 60289 Permit map Ireland Northern utwn ofn u oeaotwa ed,please do, we what about more out find to want just Summer Hill Summer If you want to help us in our work here at Prehen Wood or Wood Prehen at here work our in us help to want you If e iv r D m a h woods and has planted over 5 million native trees. native million 5 over planted has and woods g in r d n a tiny organisation into one that now manages over 1,000 over manages now that one into organisation tiny S conservation charity. In over 30 years we have grown from a from grown have we years 30 over In charity. conservation House To Prehen To The Woodland Trust is the UK s leading woodland leading s UK the is Trust Woodland The Prehen Wood Prehen P r e h e n P a r k Victoria Road (A5) Road Victoria Prehen Road Prehen Hotel Everglades Foyle To LDerry To River accessed via Prehen Park. Prehen via accessed the Everglades Hotel, from here, Prehen Wood can be can Wood Prehen here, from Hotel, Everglades the on your right hand side, you will see the main entrance of entrance main the see will you side, hand right your on Hotel, turn left onto a slip road, Prehen Road. Shortly after, Shortly Road. Prehen road, slip a onto left turn Hotel, the bank of the River Foyle.Approaching the Everglades the Foyle.Approaching River the of bank the aeteA itraRa rmLDryt taae along Strabane, to L’Derry from Road Victoria A5 the Take approximately two miles from L’Derry’s city centre. city L’Derry’s from miles two approximately Prehen Wood sits on the east bank of the River Foyle, River the of bank east the on sits Wood Prehen Peter Nash Peter From L’Derry City L’Derry From woodland alive woodland How you can help keep keep help can you How How to find Prehen Wood Prehen find to How Sense the past Enjoy the present Ensure the future In 2003, with a lot of support from Prehen Historical and The Hill is a green lung for the people of Derry. It provides Environmental Society, the Woodland Trust acquired the a fantastic recreational and educational resource for both wood at Prehen to ensure this wonderful ancient local people and visitors, and is a living legacy for our future woodland site would be conserved for the benefit of generations. It provides a vital wildlife habitat in the middle future generations. of an otherwise urban landscape.As more and more people visit Prehen Wood they are already witnessing vital As new keepers of the wood , we are restoring the changes.Yet there is much more to do. ancient woodland and creating new habitats for our native wildlife. It is a wood for all seasons providing year round enjoyment for thousands of visitors. Spring brings an amazing array of WTPL/Steven Kind WTPL/Steven The Londonderry Plantation’ by T.W.Moody published in 1939 by William Mullan and woodland flowers, only matched by autumn s stunning Son, Belfast. colour. Privileged visitors may even catch a glimpse of some Prehen Wood is a remnant of the extensive woodland that special wild inhabitants.There are several walking routes once covered much of the east bank of the River Foyle waiting to show you the way, as shown on the map inside from the Craigavon Bridge into County Tyrone.When this leaflet. English planters came to Derry in 1600, Sir Henry Docwra, Ecotrail the then Governor, wrote in his memoirs that he sent men daily from the city over to these woods to bring back Throughout the woodland there are a series of numbered timber and that they had to fight for it daily. waymarkers.These relate to the Ecotrail. The environmental trail encourages young people to develop Prehen Wood was once part of the Prehen House Estate, an awareness and appreciation of the natural and built which in 1876 totalled 358 hectares (885 acres).The land environment. It is also linked to the sport of orienteering. was once owned by the Goldsmith’s Company of London For further information go to www.ecotrails.co.uk from 1619.The estate was occupied from 1622, firstly by the Elvin and Tomkins families and finally by the Knox family. At the outbreak of the First World War the estate was Nash Peter sequestered by the government, because the last of the Knox family married a German National.After the War the estate was sold off in pieces, including the remaining woods, which were sold in 1929 for timber production.A local outcry ensued about the imminent destruction of the woodland and the editor of the local paper took up the cause, calling for some timber to be left standing. Prehen Wood was spared. 3340 Prehen leaflet 26/9/06 8:59 am Page 1 Page am 8:59 26/9/06 leaflet Prehen 3340 Ensure the future the Ensure Cover image: Gregor Fulton. Gregor image: Cover paper recycled on Printed 3340 09/06 3340 ʤ Registered Charity Number 294344 Number Charity Registered Enjoy the present the Enjoy Tel: 028 9127 5787 www.woodland-trust.org.uk 5787 9127 028 Tel: Bangor, County Down, BT20 3BX BT20 Down, County Bangor, Sense the past the Sense 1 Dufferin Court, Dufferin Avenue Dufferin Court, Dufferin 1 The Woodland Trust Woodland The Our work at Prehen Wood is supported by: supported is Wood Prehen at work Our Prehen Wood Prehen www.woodland-trust.org.uk or visit our website at website our visit or 5787 9127 028 telephone 60289 ' Crown Copyright 2006 Copyright Crown ' 60289 Permit map Ireland Northern utwn ofn u oeaotwa ed,please do, we what about more out find to want just Summer Hill Summer If you want to help us in our work here at Prehen Wood or Wood Prehen at here work our in us help to want you If e iv r D m a h woods and has planted over 5 million native trees. native million 5 over planted has and woods g in r d n a tiny organisation into one that now manages over 1,000 over manages now that one into organisation tiny S conservation charity. In over 30 years we have grown from a from grown have we years 30 over In charity. conservation House To Prehen To The Woodland Trust is the UK s leading woodland leading s UK the is Trust Woodland The Prehen Wood Prehen P r e h e n P a r k Victoria Road (A5) Road Victoria Prehen Road Prehen Hotel Everglades Foyle oLDerry L To River accessed via Prehen Park. Prehen via accessed the Everglades Hotel, from here, Prehen Wood can be can Wood Prehen here, from Hotel, Everglades the on your right hand side, you will see the main entrance of entrance main the see will you side, hand right your on Hotel, turn left onto a slip road, Prehen Road. Shortly after, Shortly Road. Prehen road, slip a onto left turn Hotel, the bank of the River Foyle.Approaching the Everglades the Foyle.Approaching River the of bank the aeteA itraRa rmLDryt taae along Strabane, to L’Derry from Road Victoria A5 the Take approximately two miles from L’Derry’s city centre. city L’Derry’s from miles two approximately Prehen Wood sits on the east bank of the River Foyle, River the of bank east the on sits Wood Prehen Peter Nash Peter From L’Derry City L’Derry From woodland alive woodland How you can help keep keep help can you How How to find Prehen Wood Prehen find to How Sense the past Enjoy the present Ensure the future In 2003, with a lot of support from Prehen Historical and The Hill is a green lung for the people of Derry. It provides Environmental Society, the Woodland Trust acquired the a fantastic recreational and educational resource for both wood at Prehen to ensure this wonderful ancient local people and visitors, and is a living legacy for our future woodland site would be conserved for the benefit of generations. It provides a vital wildlife habitat in the middle future generations. of an otherwise urban landscape.As more and more people visit Prehen Wood they are already witnessing vital As new keepers of the wood , we are restoring the changes.Yet there is much more to do. ancient woodland and creating new habitats for our native wildlife. It is a wood for all seasons providing year round enjoyment for thousands of visitors. Spring brings an amazing array of WTPL/Steven Kind WTPL/Steven The Londonderry Plantation’ by T.W.Moody published in 1939 by William Mullan and woodland flowers, only matched by autumn s stunning Son, Belfast. colour. Privileged visitors may even catch a glimpse of some Prehen Wood is a remnant of the extensive woodland that special wild inhabitants.There are several walking routes once covered much of the east bank of the River Foyle waiting to show you the way, as shown on the map inside from the Craigavon Bridge into County Tyrone.When this leaflet.