A STUNNING piece of woodland with its own natural spring and a historic workmen's hut is up for sale in Herefordshire.

The 6.37-acre freehold wood in Rushock, Kington, is on the market for sale by informal tender with agents Cobb Amos for a guide price of £90,000.

The agents said it offers a fantastic and rare opportunity to purchase a parcel of beautiful woodland with mature trees and sweet chestnut coppice, developed and nurtured by the current owners.

Myndlasses Wood has been owned by the vendors since 2001, and work has been undertaken to conserve and develop the woodland into the fantastic place it is today, Cobb Amos said.

A survey and report conducted in 2012 emphasises the wood as an important site of ecological habitat recognising the springs, streams and damp areas as of specific ecological value.

Sitting in the centre of the wood alongside a stream is a Bomford and Evershed workmen's hut with a log fire, providing shelter and warmth and allowing its occupants to take a step back in time.

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"The first part of the woodland consists of 3.24 acres of sweet chestnut coppice with standard trees planted in 1962," Cobb Amos said.

"The remaining 3.13acres was felled of conifers in 1994 and replanted with mainly sweet chestnut and small amounts of oak, alder, cherry, beech and hazel."

A professional survey in 2012 found the wood was home to ample flora, including native bluebells, foxgloves, and honeysuckle, and fauna including pied flycatchers, blackcaps, willow warblers, woodcocks, blue tits, goldcrests, wrens, and tree creepers, while roe deer also pass through.

Two natural springs run through the woodland – one to the northern boundary which joins the river Arrow near Bullocks Mill, and the other, on Bradnor Hill, feeds into the south

west corner of the wood but sinks by the fruit tree area.