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This is a magical place: a mystical grove that glimmered on the map; a small slip of green, surrounded by contour lines, bogs and military firing ranges.
Black-a-Tor Copse is a fragment of a type of ancient woodland that has been returned to the public imagination by Guy Shrubsole. His book breathes new life into the idea that damp, emerald-green, ferny woodlands along our archipelago's Atlantic