Discovering the Island's Historic Trees...

 
The Histree Trail Project was initially a two year project launched in November 2006 with support of a £47,000 Heritage Lottery Fund grant. Because of the success of the project it was extended by a further six months until March 2009.
 
The first 18 months of the project were dedicated to finding and recording the Island’s special trees, collecting local stories and researching local heritage. The next stage was to put all the information together and design the series of trails which were dictated by the location of groups of trees in publicly accessible places.
 


The involvement of the community was fundamental to the project. Almost 100 volunteers contributed to the Histree Trail Project, some of whom were dedicated, long-term volunteers, regularly attending site visits with the project officer and assisting with tree surveying.

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 During the project, over 200 trees were recorded with at least 50 having some kind of heritage linked to them whether they were planted by somebody famous, mark an ancient boundary, have a special name or are just plain magnificent!
 

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A volunteer verifier is currently reviewing the veteran trees recorded and submitting them to the National Ancient Tree Hunt Project, putting the Island’s champion trees firmly on the map.
 
There are eight Histree Trails across the Island ranging in length. Each trail is accompanied by a leaflet which takes you on a tour of the finest trees. To download the leaflets, visit the Trails section of the website.

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Page last updated on: 26/05/2009