The Hazel Pear Wood is a development by the Woodland Trust, with generous financial support from Sainsbury's Homebase. Click here for our main Hazel Pear Wood page, and see the links lower down for some of the contributors to our anniversary event.

"Opposite the wood, the Acton Bridge Garden Centre hosted a very popular display of birds of prey by Gary Buckles from Stockley Birds of Prey, and the younger visitors were able to help handle Lily, the Barn Owl and Jazz the Harris Hawk, and then to try to outrun Jazz as he flew down the wood. Meanwhile, Christine Jordan from the Dane Coppice Craft Group explained and demonstrated the traditional skills of basket weaving from long willow stems of different colours. Visitors were also able to see an exhibition of the growth of the wood from the original plans for a field of pasture, the planting in 2000 as part of the Woodland Trust's "Woods on your Doorstep" project, and its development to the present day.

"The organisers paid special thanks to the support they had received from Minshalls Butchers of Weaverham, who provided the excellent, generous hamburgers, David at the Garden Centre, who donated the commemorative apple tree, Mike at the Hazel Pear for his loan of the barbeque facilities, and everyone who helped to make the event such a happy success".