The Queen Elizabeth Diamond Jubilee Wood

Near Normanton Le Heath in Leicestershire is The Queen Elizabeth Diamond Jubilee Wood. The area is a 460 acre site featuring many different plantations in honour of the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee. 

There are plantations  sponsored by supermarkets and newspapers and it is part of the later which attracted me to visiting. My Great Aunty sponsored a tree in honour of her late Brother who sadly did not survive WWII. He was 21 when presumed dead after his plane was seen downing in the sea. I often think of him and have read of his yearning to see the Leicestershire countryside again which he expressed in his final letters home. Sadly he never saw it again. So its rather fitting he has a little place to be remembered here. 

I'm trying to visit all of the Woodland Trust sites in Leicestershire, and this one is well worth a visit! I very much enjoyed the Wind Turbine overlooking the area, it felt like the plantations sit between the turbine and the distant radio towers of Copt Oak, polarity switching between depending on the terrain. 

In 15 years or so this site will be much more mature, but even now in its plantation phase its still an excellent resource for the local people. Still much more to explore. Il be sure to visit again!