Neptune Wood

Over 10,000 oak trees – planted to represent the tens of thousands of oak trees used to construct all the ships of the British fleet.
A series of maritime-themed willow sculptures – found in the open area between the car park and the wood.
Every species of tree that was used in a ship of Nelson’s time – planted in the arboretum area adjacent to the oaks.

All of the trees in Neptune Wood were planted by local people, including 750 local school children.
The arboretum area includes Alder, which helped to keep gunpowder dry, and Rowan which was used to make bowls, hoops and barrels.
8,000 oak trees in the wood are a provenance trial, a research experiment looking at how trees are adapted to different environmental conditions. The trees came from Great Britain, France and Spain – all the countries involved in the Battle of Trafalgar.