Ha Ha

In a new direction for us, but building on exisiting skills we currently have a team having "fun" constructing 180m long Ha-Ha near Chipping Norton using gabion baskets and dry stone walling stone to extend the clients garden into the field without having the views disturbed by fences.

 

Ha-Ha's were designed to provide stock proof barriers while allowing the view from the house to remain unimpeded. Generally around the larger country Houses they allowed Cattle and Sheep to appear to graze in the fields right up to the house, without the need for Parkland railing or more visually intrusive wooden fences.

 

It is very rewarding to be involved in  creating a new Ha-Ha.

Cleft chestnut post and rail fencing

The Nicholsons Forestry team have recently completed erecting 250m of cleft chestnut post and rail fencing for a client in Warwickshire, under the instruction of garden designer James Alexander-Sinclair.  The fence is to separate the wider garden of the property from adjoining grazing land, whilst maintaining views from the house to a newly constructed lake and across the Warwickshire countryside beyond.

The posts and rails were sourced from near Midhurst in West Sussex - the chestnut was felled during the winter and processed into the morticed posts and rails 'in the wood'.  The team worked hard and completed the work in just over a week, including attaching rabbit netting along the entire length.

We hope to back on site in the autumn to plant some more specimen trees between the house and the fence to create a 'parkland setting' for the house.