Article 5HHZT National Trust to recreate 19th-century Norfolk woodland using RAF photos

National Trust to recreate 19th-century Norfolk woodland using RAF photos

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Jessica Murray
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Oxburgh Hall project will replant native trees in Grade II-listed parkland with Edwardian survey map

The National Trust is reconstructing a 19th-century landscape in Norfolk using an Edwardian survey map and aerial photographs taken by the Royal Air Force after the second world war.

The 190,000 project at Oxburgh Hall, which will take a decade to complete, will replant native trees in the Grade II-listed landscape, making it one of the largest wood pastures the charity has ever created.

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