In spring, various flowers grow on the woodland floor such as bluebells, sunny yellow celandines and lily of the valley.

Faesten Dic, ‘the strong dike’, is a boundary feature built around 1,500 years ago by Saxon settlers; it runs for over a kilometre through the forest.

[4] The hall was likely constructed out of timber with a tiled roof,[3] and the period of occupation has been dated to between circa 1280 and 1320 through an analysis of the pottery found at the site.

[6] Why the hall was abandoned is not clear, but possibilities include a failure in the water supply, a rapid impoverishment of the sandy soil found in the surrounding fields, or the impact of the Black Death.

[9] A wooden sculpture of a crashed Hurricane lies just west of Faesten Dic, carved by local sculptor Peter Leadbeater.

Amenities include a post office, butcher, pharmacy, library, petrol station as well as local infant and junior schools.