Did you know we have teamed up with the National Forest on an innovative 75-year partnership that has already planted over 60,000 trees to create a beautiful woodland in the heart of the UK? As well as establishing a forest for the community to enjoy for years to come, it’s a celebration of our long-term commitment to sustainability, supporting our goal to be carbon neutral.
By following this 6½-mile walk, you will encounter the past and future of Burton and the surrounding area.
You can see how the Trent and Mersey Canal played a part in the town's industrial history and how old gravel workings have been transformed into a nature reserve.
The 10-mile Birthday Walk was specially prepared in celebration of the first decade, 1995-2005, of the National Forest Company.
With a choice of a number of short loops off the highlighted route, links to other footpaths and a number of nearby shops and pubs, the Birthday Walk is also an ideal outdoor activity for family outings, birthdays and celebrations
This 10-mile walk takes you on a route which passes through former coal mining sites which have now been transformed into woodlands and country parks, and by the picturesque Thornton reservoir.
This 6-mile walk links six new woodlands in the attractive rural landscape of the Mease Lowlands. Discover forests from 1994 to 2007, filled with a variety of native species in different stages of maturity, and see the birth of new forests first-hand.
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