Dave Farnes
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A tree-huggers paradise. 
Chanctonbury Ring
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Pete Askew
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Now that looks like a truly enchanting (if not enchanted) place. And what a cracking series. Love the first and last especially.
Rob MacKillop
Edinburgh Correspondent
Very nice, Dave. What lovely weather we are having!
Raza Shaikh
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Amazing shot!
Chris Bennett
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Gosh David, this sent a shiver down my spine!
I spent most of my school years in the shadow of Chanctonbury, camped there many times and did some of my training to be a forestry manager at Wiston Estate, of which the ring is part and is owned by the descendent of the man who planted those fine, resilient Beech trees and their neighbours who were lost to the storm of October '87.
In the 1960s, the Forestry Commission used to publish a manual for their officers on forestry landscape design and a view of the Ring with Wiston pond in the foreground was featured in the introduction as an examplar of landscape design.
Who was the famous person who said "Any view with Chanctonbury in it is perfect"?
The crazy thing is that you couldn't plant trees like that on such a prominent hill nowadays, it goes against all current thinking, yet if you wanted to fell the wood to restore the original landscape, you would be lynched! We have a lot to learn from our predecessors.
I spent most of my school years in the shadow of Chanctonbury, camped there many times and did some of my training to be a forestry manager at Wiston Estate, of which the ring is part and is owned by the descendent of the man who planted those fine, resilient Beech trees and their neighbours who were lost to the storm of October '87.
In the 1960s, the Forestry Commission used to publish a manual for their officers on forestry landscape design and a view of the Ring with Wiston pond in the foreground was featured in the introduction as an examplar of landscape design.
Who was the famous person who said "Any view with Chanctonbury in it is perfect"?
The crazy thing is that you couldn't plant trees like that on such a prominent hill nowadays, it goes against all current thinking, yet if you wanted to fell the wood to restore the original landscape, you would be lynched! We have a lot to learn from our predecessors.
Dave Farnes
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Thank you for the comments folks, much appreciated.
Chris, thank you for sharing your memories of Chanctonbury, very ineresting. It is a remarkable place. My first visit there for many years. I live near Eastbourne, so I took the train to Worthing and walked from there, I shall be sure to go there again while I can still do it.
The original trees were planted in 1760, long before planning regulations! There is a lot of info about it's history on Wikipedia, worth a read. There is another hilltop, Black Cap near Lewes, that was planted with trees. That was done in 1952 in honour of the Queen's coronation after finding evidence that it had been forested in medieval times.
Chris, thank you for sharing your memories of Chanctonbury, very ineresting. It is a remarkable place. My first visit there for many years. I live near Eastbourne, so I took the train to Worthing and walked from there, I shall be sure to go there again while I can still do it.
The original trees were planted in 1760, long before planning regulations! There is a lot of info about it's history on Wikipedia, worth a read. There is another hilltop, Black Cap near Lewes, that was planted with trees. That was done in 1952 in honour of the Queen's coronation after finding evidence that it had been forested in medieval times.
Chris Bennett
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Looking at your images again, I see the first must have been taken from near the dew pond. My parents still live there, just out of view from this shot, over the trees and down in the Adur valley.
As for planning, much of what we do in forestry is, thankfully, freed from the norms of the planning world, as we benefit from Permitted Development, but it's still sometimes a struggle to convince the Forestry Authority that planting trees is a good thing!
As for planning, much of what we do in forestry is, thankfully, freed from the norms of the planning world, as we benefit from Permitted Development, but it's still sometimes a struggle to convince the Forestry Authority that planting trees is a good thing!
Roshni Patel
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The weather feels really great!
Brian Moore
Moderator
Four gorgeous, luscious images, Dave. (@Pete Askew: 
) I especially like 2 and 4 for the balance of the foreground trees and the distant landscape.
) I especially like 2 and 4 for the balance of the foreground trees and the distant landscape.
Dave Farnes
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Thank you Brian.
