Stoke Dry Wood
Selected Wild Place / Other Wild Places / Public Rights of Way / VC55 boundary
A public footpath runs east-west through the wood and can be accessed from Uppingham Road, Stockerston.The Rutland Round also runs along the eastern boundary.
Private.
Local Wildlife Site (part)
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This woodland lies to the north of Eyebrook Reservoir. Stoke Dry Wood was created in the early 1950s by the joining of Stoke Great and Stoke Little Woods through the planting of the intervening field with conifers. The original woodlands were clear-felled and the whole planted with oak and spruce. The conifers were then removed in the early years of the twenty-first century.
The Great and Little Woods had probably formerly been Peterken Ash-Maple woods with some Wych Elm Ulmus glabra. They stood on Glacial Boulder Clay, Northampton Sand and Upper Lias Clay and had rich floras.
The most notable rarity from past records before the felling was Yellow Star-of-Bethlehem Gagea lutea, last seen in 1935, but others included Bird’s-nest Orchid Neottia nidus-avis and Toothwort Lathraea squamaria.
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