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Description: | Etching by Heywood Sumner in the Artist's edition (1883) of John R Wise, 'The New Forest: its history and scenery', p. 199. It is used in a chapter exploring the barrows on Bratley Plain. Heywood Sumner described the wood several years later in 'The New Forest', 1924 (p. 53-4). "Bushy Bratley is a famous old wood standing above Bratley water, to the east of the Ringwood and Cadnam highroad. These venerable beeches are now in a stage of gradual decay. Gaps and clearances occur in the wood. Here, the ruin of an uprooted tree, there, piles of cord-wood amid crowds of foxgloves, telling of latter-day windfalls, and of "sign" (assigned) wood" awaiting clearance. And we cannot console ourselves with good hope for the future. There is not much chance for natural regeneration in Bushy Bratley, because there are few thickets here to protect young seedling trees from the destructive nibbling of Forest cattle and ponies." | Format: | image/jpeg | License: | http://www.sopse.org.uk/ixbin/hixclient.exe?a=query&p=gateway&f=generic_sitetext%2ehtm&_IXFIRST_=1&_IXMAXHITS_=1&cms_con_core_subtype%3acms_con_text_what=copyright&%3acms_sys_group=%22sopse%22 | Subjects: | New Forest tree wood Bushy Bratley beech Bushey Bratley | Temporal: | start=1882-01-01; | Source: | Sense of place SE | Creator: | Heywood Sumner | Identifier: | http://www.sopse.org.uk/ixbin/hixclient.... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | image/jpeg | Go to resource |
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