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Unofficial WebsiteTreeton Wood
Treeton Wood is situated between the villages of Treeton and Aughton, and is
some six kilometres south of the centre of Rotherham. It is the largest semi-natural area of
woodland in the local area, being of ancient origin.
It is one of the woodland areas of Rotherham designated as Heritage Woodlands. This means that
the area has been woodland for at least four hundred years. Treeton Woods are first mentioned
in a document from about 1600, when it was owned by the 7th Earl of Shrewsbury. It was managed
woodland used for coppicing and the production of oak bark used for the tanning of leather. It
was known as Oaken Cliff until the Nineteenth Century.
The south-eastern edge of the wood along Treeton Brook is dampish and nutrient rich supporting elm and wych elm. Most of the wood, a mixture of birch and oak, is growing on dry, acid soils which support areas of acid grassland in the clearings.