Visit a Woodland
Arger Fen & Spouse's Vale Nature Reserve • Suffolk Wildlife trust
Sudbury • A fascinating mosaic of ancient woodland and naturally-regenerating woodland alongside wet meadow and fen - creating a unique, wildlife-rich landscape.
Needham Market • To visit Bonny Wood is, on some levels, to experience two different worlds.
Bradfield Woods National Nature Reserv3 • Suffolk Wildlife Trust
Bury St Edmunds • One of Britain's finest ancient woodlands, Bradfield Woods is a unique wood that has been under continuous, traditional coppice management since 1252.
Bull's Woods National Nature Reserve • Suffolk Wildlife Trust
Bury St Edmunds • There’s a silence in Bull’s Wood that is only broken by the clap and whirring of pigeons and the soft sneezing call of the black bibbed marsh tit.
Captain's Wood Nature Reserve • Suffolk Wildlife trust
Woodbridge • Captain's Wood is a precious ancient woodland full of rare plants and a superb mix of natural habitats for a wide range of wildlife, including fallow deer, barn owl and bats.
Combs Wood Nature Reserve • Suffolk Wildlife Trust
Stowmarket • Situated in rolling farmland just above Combs Ford near Stowmarket, this small but botanically rich reserve has roots stretching back to the Domesday book.
Dunwich Forest • Forestry England
Dunwich • Part of the Suffolk Coast and Heaths National Landscape, Dunwich Forest consists of a mixture of coniferous and broadleaved woodland and is accessible from Dunwich village.
Groton Wood Nature Reserve • Suffolk Wildlife Trust
Hadleigh • This ancient woodland is noted for its small-leaved lime coppice, an indication that the northern part of the wood has existed since prehistoric times.
Helmingham Hall, privately owned parkland
Helmingham • Several public footpaths cross the parkland. The splendid oak avenue leading up the front drive was planted about 1680. Additionally, some of the famous Helmingham oaks in the Park are estimated to be up to 900 years old and many have immense girths.
Ickworth Park • National Trust
Ickworth • With its history traced back to Domesday, Ickworth Estate has quite a story to tell.
Haverhill • Poplar/Ladygate Wood The names of the two halves of an isolated feature to the south of Haverhill. A public footpath runs between the two woodlands.
Newbourne Springs Nature Reserve
Ipswich • This small wooded valley with its spring-fed stream used to be a source of water for Felixstowe. Together with its small area of marsh, fen and adjacent heathland this reserve is good for flowering plants and a variety of birds including treecreeper, goldcrest and two species of woodpecker.
Rendlesham Forest • Forestry England
Rendlesham • Part of the Suffolk Coast and Heaths National Landscape.
Reydon Wood • Suffolk Wildlife Trust
Southwold • A small but fascinating ancient coppiced woodland, famed for its bluebells in the spring.
Staverton Park • Privately owned
Woodbridge • Staverton Park is one of the largest areas of ancient, pollarded oak trees in Europe. Of Saxon origin, the park is one of a handful of British medieval parks to have a continuous history. (Rendlesham & Staverton walk leaflet)
Thetford Forest • Forestry England
Thetford • The UK’s largest manmade lowland forest. A patchwork of pines, heathland and broadleaves contains a rich variety of animal and plant life.
Tunstall Forest • Forestry England
Thetford • A fascinating mosaic of ancient woodland and naturally-regenerating woodland alongside wet meadow and fen - creating a unique, wildlife-rich landscape.
West Stow Country Park • West Suffolk Council
West Stow • 125 acres of parkland along the Lark valley.
Hadleigh • Wolves Wood is a woodland time capsule – it's one of seven ancient woodland areas which once covered East Anglia.