07 Forestry, Ffridd y Mynach (PRN 18337)

Historic background

This area comprises a small patch of mainly 20th-century woodland which dominates an earlier deciduous woodland on the north-facing hillslopes below the uplands of Dolgledr (area 08) above the estuary (see also area 12).

Key historic landscape characteristics

woodland, hill slopes

This is a small area of woodland above the estuary, immediately to the east of Abergwynant and on the main hillslopes of the upland massif which rises above the Mawddach. Most of the dominant species are typical of modern forestry, although the central area contains an area of older, deciduous woodland.