Buying some woodland

Posted by Tanos on Mon 11 Feb 08, 10:26 AM

I've had my offer to buy some woodland accepted. I've been looking at various pieces of woodland since the autumn, but this one, Bridgewood, has been the best of the bunch: 19 acres of broadleaf woodland on the southern end of the Cheshire plain between Manchester and Birmingham. The wood is very secluded - it's surrounded by streams and ditches on all sides, with a single access point - and includes a lot of young shrubby growth so it's also well screened.

I've always had a love of trees, going right back to my childhood and adolescence, but it was only last year that I discovered how easily you can buy woodland these days. Obviously there is a BDSM dimension to this (which explains my renewed interest in outdoor BDSM like pony play etc ) but I'm also very motivated by the land and trees themselves.

The buying process is very similar to that for houses, with searches, exchange of contracts, a completion date etc, but no chain and no building society that wants some remedial damp-proofing done

The picture shows one of the open glades in the wood. There's a lot of work to be done establishing tracks etc, and this is going to be a multi-year project, but I'm going to try to document the whole process here as a I go along.

Edited Mon 25 Feb 08, 9:57 PM by Tanos