fascinating. I am now pining for the woods and copses of England.

Love that word, "copse." There is a lovely little one (actually there are a number of them mentined on the map) off the wide of the Ridgeway, not far from the Greywether Stones up the road from Avebury...

There are also three little round groves of beech trees along the trail there; slept in one one day; very magical places indeed. The trees are fairy large but do not not look much more than 150 years old...as for how old the locations ae, though...not sure.

peg