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New Woodland Management Plan
A new Woodland Management Plan has been drafted by Barnet Council in collaboration with the Friends and the Forestry Commission. The draft plan contains many ideas for improving and increasing biodiversity including reintroduction of coppicing, small local recovery zones, pollinator friendly mowing, creation of permanent wetland and ponds at selected locations, hedge laying and the…
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Litterpicking 2023
Meet by Cherry Tree Wood Cafe
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Extend Cherry Tree Wood!
The Friends have put forward a plan to Barnet Council to extend Cherry Tree Wood at the Station Road gate to the High Road taking in the current tarmacked area of Brompton Grove. See area 26a in blue above. Site 26 outlined in red is Park House, currently occupied by Monkey Puzzle nursery which Barnet…
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Opinion Survey Results
The Survey Between 26th June and 12th August 2019, the Friends of Cherry Tree Wood undertook a survey (of 11 questions) of users of Cherry Tree Wood a Barnet owned slice of Ancient Woodland in East Finchley North London. The questionnaire was available in hard copy on the Friends stall at the East Finchley Community…
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Did you know?
Finchley District Council purchased Cherry Tree Wood in July 1915 for £3050 from the Ecclesiastical Commissioners for England. There was opposition to the purchase. One person desribed the Wood as “… a more unsuitable piece of land for a recreation ground cannot easily be found near Finchley.” It is “..virtually a clay heap.”

