THE UK's leading woodland conservation charity has teamed up with a North Yorkshire estate to remember the Battle of Trafalgar.
The Woodland Trust and Dawnay Estates will hold a ceremonial planting next Friday when Lord Downe will plant a standard oak on the site that will become the ten-acre Revenge Wood, at Wykeham, Scarborough.
The date of the planting is symbolic as it is the 200th anniversary of the Battle of Trafalgar.
Dawnay Estates is hosting Revenge Wood, one of 33 woods to be planted across the UK as part of the Woodland Trust's Trafalgar Woods Project, to commemorate the bicentenary of the battle.
Revenge is named after one of the 33 ships in Nelson's fleet. The ship's captain, Robert Moorsom, came from nearby Whitby.
The ten-acre site will be planted during a week-long schools programme followed by a community planting event on November 19.
It will then be open to visitors.
The trust's regional development officer, Sara Lyons, said: "We are delighted to have the opportunity to mark the bicentenary in Yorkshire by the symbolic planting of a standard oak.
"Oak was one of 18 species of tree used in the ship-building process and we are pleased to be able to demonstrate the link between our maritime history and our natural environment."
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