Lineover Wood Volunteer Group
Lineover Wood
Our active volunteer group have been helping to manage the wood for almost 26 years now.
Lineover means “lime bank” in Anglo-Saxon and the wood was first recorded under this name in around 800 AD. The Wood was part of the Dowdeswell Estate for many years and was bought by Cheltenham Borough Council in the late Nineteenth century as part of the catchment area for Dowdeswell Reservoir which supplies water to Cheltenham.
The Severn Trent Water Authority bought the estate and wood in 1974 and then sold the wood to the Woodland Trust twelve years later. The wood is an SSSI also known locally as 'Redwood', a name given to the northern end of the site in the nineteenth century.
