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two particularly fine Beech trees<br />
at the junction of Throop Road and<br />
<strong>Holdenhurst</strong> <strong>Village</strong> Road make a<br />
key visual contribution at the heart<br />
of the western residential part of<br />
<strong>Holdenhurst</strong>. Also within this part of<br />
the <strong>Conservation</strong> <strong>Area</strong> the garden of<br />
The Old Vicarage is very well treed<br />
with a substantial number of mature<br />
trees.<br />
7.51 Beyond The Old School on the northern<br />
side of <strong>Holdenhurst</strong> <strong>Village</strong> Road there<br />
is a fine quality strip of woodland that<br />
stretches for a considerable distance<br />
in between the western and eastern<br />
residential parts of the village. The<br />
importance of this is also noted in<br />
paragraph 10.12. The trees are mainly<br />
middle-aged specimens that are<br />
densely planted, the species here being<br />
mainly Pendunculate Oak and Scots<br />
Pine.<br />
7.52 Beyond Magdalen Cottage on Sturt Lane<br />
is a small pocket of woodland. Little<br />
has changed for centuries, and this<br />
wood is annotated on old maps and<br />
preserved in the old field name ‘wood’.<br />
7.53 The concentration of Yew trees (both<br />
native and Irish) around the church<br />
adds to the setting of this listed<br />
building and goes some way towards<br />
shielding the noise and visual intrusion<br />
of the A338. The front boundary of<br />
the church has a good quality and well<br />
established native box hedge.<br />
Hedgerows<br />
7.54 The <strong>Holdenhurst</strong> area contains many<br />
fine and established native, rural<br />
hedgerows. The hedgerows provide<br />
an excellent wildlife habitat due to<br />
their dense nature and form corridors<br />
in which wildlife can travel. The<br />
current retention, maintenance and<br />
improvement of these agricultural land<br />
hedgerows should be encouraged. The<br />
species of trees in these hedgerows<br />
are the native ones, in the main<br />
Blackthorn, Hawthorn, Field Maple,<br />
Hazel and Holly.<br />
<strong>Village</strong> Green<br />
7.55 The village green with its group of<br />
three large Horse Chestnut trees and<br />
Rowan tree forms a focal point for<br />
the eastern settlement. A sense of<br />
enclosure is created at this point with<br />
the open area framed by the buildings,<br />
boundary hedging and trees. The<br />
buildings around the green add to the<br />
ambience, and this coupled with the<br />
The village green<br />
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<strong>Holdenhurst</strong> <strong>Village</strong> <strong>Conservation</strong> <strong>Area</strong> <strong>Appraisal</strong> - March 2014