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Why use Sweet Chestnut?

Chestnut gateSweet Chestnut is well know as being amazingly strong,durable and long lasting.

Chestnut Coppice is 100% sustainable.

We cut, harvest and process all our products from well managed local woodlands. The cut stools regrow vigorously, taking up far more carbon than a newly planted tree, if done well these trees can be harvested on rotation for years to come.

Chestnut is the ideal fencing material.

Chestnut is full of tannin (a natural preservative) and has very little sapwood, which makes it incredibly resistant to rotting.

A coppice will yield good straight poles, these are turned into your fencing using traditional tools and skills.

Chestnut fenceGood value.

By using Chestnut you can be confident you are using the most suitable timber, other woods will rot before chestnut. Cheap softwood is a false economy, the costs of mending or replacing rotten fences is high.

Coppicing is good for wildlife.

The act of cutting an area of woodland lets light in, stimulating wild flowers, creating habitat for many of our favourite birds, butterflies and mammals.

Support the woodland industries.

Our woodlands need to be managed, by buying from us you are helping us promote the sustainable practices needed to keep woodlands healthy for the future. We train and employ the people needed to keep this industry alive.