The hedgerow trees are of typical clayland composition: oak, ash and field maple, with suckering elm.

The small scale settlement at Ram Hill and Henfield is largely well integrated within the framework of hedgerow trees and woodland.

A more open landscape structure of mown fairways, low mounding, remnant hedgerows and hedgerow trees and young planting is evident.

Near at hand, indeed, the hedgerow trees were still fairly green, shot through with bright autumnal yellows, bright as sunshine.

The woods behind the Chase, and all the hedgerow trees, took on a solemn splendour under the dark low-hanging skies.

The meadows are divided by well developed ancient hedges and there are occasional hedgerow trees.

The meadows are bordered by very old hedges of Hawthorn and Blackthorn, which include some hedgerow trees such as Oak.

It also provides hay and leaves, branches of hedgerow trees and ash, willow and bamboo for the Trust's animals.

Many hedgerow trees are veteran trees and therefore of great wildlife interest.

Around 20 million elm trees, most of them hedgerow trees, were felled or died through Dutch elm disease in the late 1960s.