Management Plan for Firth Park - MP4-Interreg

5.5.4 Tree stock
Fig 22 View of Woodland
Hinde Common Wood is located on the eastern edge of Firth Park, approximately 3.5km
from the city centre in the parish of Grimesthorpe. It comprises 2 small blocks of woodland
separated by a public footpath. The woodland is bordered by Firth Park Lane to the north,
House Lane to the east and Firth Park Road to the west (Figure 1). The woodland forms
part of the larger Firth Park, which is one of Parks Woodlands and Countryside’s City Sites
as defined by the Parks Categorisation Strategy (2001).
The land falls from north to south and also (and more steeply) from east to west. The
highest point is located on the north eastern corner (110m a.s.l). The lowest point is
located on the south western corner (80m a.s.l).
The site is bordered by residential housing to the north and south and adjoins Firth Park
along the western edge. The B6086, Firth Park Road runs between the park and the
woodland. (Figure 1). The total area of the woodland measured using GIS mapping is
3.44ha.
The Trees and Woodlands Team, (Parks, Woodlands and Countryside) manage the
woodland.
The woodland does not benefit from any areas of archaeological importance. However a
Neolithic polished stone axe and fragments of Iron Age Quern Stones have been recorded
locally.
A Level 2 field survey, carried out in December 2001, recorded 7no. sites. These are
detailed in section 1.2.3(a).
The woodland was once part of a larger wood known as Brushes Wood, an ancient
woodland site (NAA 2001). However the current extent of the woodland is much smaller
than that shown on earlier Ordnance Survey maps. The western end of the original
woodland and the southern tip of Sub-compartment 539 have been split by Firth Park
Road and subsequent residential development.
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