Leicestershire

Outwoods

Woodhouse Eaves, Loughborough

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Description:Woodland

Found in category: Leicestershire Support Group

Charnwood Borough Council own and manage this Site of Special Scientific Interest.
Classed as an Ancient Woodland, the Outwoods supports a rich variety of plants, insects and birds typical of such old woodlands. Wet alder and dry oak/birch woodland is interspersed with blocks of conifer planting, evidence of the extensive clear felling and commercial replanting which took place in the 1940's. The pre-Cambrian pocky outcrops are a characteristic feature of the Charnwood area.
If you visit in Spring, look out for the bluebells which carpet the ground and listen out for birds announcing their territories.
Photographs taken at the area can be seen at Outwoods Photographs