What's in a name?
Parts of the wood have been given names for hundreds of years. Fineshade Wood is not huge, but it is just about large enough to get lost in, and if you want to refer to particular tracks or sections it helps to have a name. Everyone who has lived, worked or visited the wood regularly over hundreds if not thousands of years must have made up names for the tracks they used or the areas that they coppiced or hunted. The process of naming continues today. When we first moved into
