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Coed y Felin - Mill Wood

To Loggerheads

Location:
Take the Loggerheads road south from the village centre for 200 yards. The Millennium Woods can be found to the left of the road.

Coed y Felin or Mill Wood is the name given to the land acquired by the Woodland Trust in 1999. Through the "Woods on your doorstep" scheme, the trust's Millennium Project to create 200 new community woods, the woodland was designed and planted in the year 2000.

Coed y Felin or Mill Wood was given its name because it is adjacent to the old corn mill in the valley below. This medieval mill ceased working after the First World War, but the remains of the buildings can be seen where a path crosses the River Alyn.

You can walk from the roadway though the woods and continue along paths coming out at the top of Trial Hill.
Volunteer Warden : Gill Dobson tel. 01352 741459. (Oct. 2009).

See the badger chain saw carvings

To Cilcain Village

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On the other side and below the footpath between the Pentre and Trial Hill is Coed Nant Gain. Princes Gain is said to have sheltered here from the marauding Saxons in the 6th century AD when the forest extended for miles around and bears, beavers and wolves lived there.

The profusion of ferns, insects, birds, plants, indicate that it has been there since the retreat of the ice-age 12 millennia ago. Man has exploited the woodland for centuries, yet it retains much of its natural ecosystem. It is being restored as a demonstration woodland pioneering Natural Forest Practice by its owner Iliff Simey.

You can view this at www.naturalforestpractice.com

Visitors are welcome by appointment, please telephone 01352 741039

Coed Nant Gain