The Green Light Trust

The Foundry, Bury Road

The Green Light Trust are the Trustees of Golden Wood and Crooked Wood

Golden Wood is a community woodland, and is about 12 years old. It is an area of 20.2 acres. It is linked with Papua New Guinea. It is maintained by volunteers on a monthly basis, when planting, coppicing and general work is carried out. Connected to this is the Forest For Our Children when All Saints Primary School, Lawshall, take part in sowing the seeds etc. Many people use this wood for walking their dogs on a daily basis. 
Crooked Wood is much smaller, an area of 2.2 acres.

The Green Light Trust also organise all kinds of workshops for envrionmental projects.

Hanningfield Green

This is designated a County Wildife Site by the Suffolk County Wildlife Trust because of the range of native flora that grows there. The Green is cut only when the flora have developed, flowered and seeded.





Frithy Wood

This wood is situated at the rear of All Saints Primary School.  The site contains ancient, semi-natural woodland. It includes examples of Ash, Hazel, Oak, Aspen, Wild Cherry, Hawthorn, Hornbeam, Elm, Holly etc.
 
The wood also has a diverse woodland floor vegetation including a variety of plants characteristic of woodlands of this type.

The birdlife of Frithy Wood has been recorded in some detail. Nightingales, Green, Greater Spotted Woodpecker and Lesser Spotted Woodpecker are amongst the species that have bred regularly.

There is documentary evidence for the existence of Frithy Wood back to 1545 and its Saxon name would imply that the wood is much older than that.

The name "Frithy" according to The History of the Countryside - Oliver Rackham (P97)
"A word now called The Frith is almost certain to be pre-conquest, from Old English Fyrhp."
Trees & Woodland in the British Landscape - Oliver Rackham (p108)
"An Anglo-Saxon (parallel) is fyrth, a wood, which has given rise to many Frith or Frithy Woods."