Coppiced hazel, sycamore, birch, oak, elm, ash, beech, Scots pine and goat willow

Providing excellent habitat, a diverse range of wildlife is attracted to the wood because of the variety of tree cover types, topography, and water courses. Lots of roe deer live in the vicinity of the wood and their trails can be found in several locations - the quiet observer should have regular sightings. A carefully placed trail camera would record a lot of activity.

Many birds frequent the area from buzzards wheeling overhead to geese and swans passing along the coastline, woodland birds include flocks of tits, moving around the canopy in feeding groups and robins never seem to be far away looking for a meal opportunity.

• Two watercourses
• Peaceful
• Good access
• Coppiced trees including some old oak coppice
• Surrounded by woodland
• Bench with a view
• Varied topography

Access is from the A19 and then along Bellows Burn Road to the shared woodland entrance.

A stone track then gives access to the woodland via a ford across the burn. There is space to park at the entrance to the wood. From here, access around the wood is on foot, some areas a on steep south facing banks.

There are no public footpaths within the wood. The Hart to Haswell walkway runs outside the northern boundary.

For viewing purposes there is vehicle access through the first gate at the woodland entrance with space to park closer to Middlethorpe Copse. Please call Dan Watson for the gate combination and do keep the gate locked at all times.

There are no public rights of way within the wood.

The sporting rights are included in the sale.

Our standard covenant will apply.

The wood is ideal for wildlife observation and conservation-based activities such as erecting birdboxes.

Flat areas are suitable for occasional family camping, or using as a base for coppice management operations.

There is excellent coppicing potential for stick products for garden, allotment and craft use as well as opportunities for home firewood collection.

Although Hartlepool is a port with a rich industrial past, the surrounding landscape features pretty villages in rolling magnesian limestone hills, countryside that has seen little development. This area lay outside the Durham coalfield to the north.

Monk Heselden is most likely derived from the local word Dene(den) meaning a deep forested Valley, and Hesle a corruption of Hazel, so the original meaning may have been, "Forested Valley of the Hazel trees", which are common in the, Nesbit, Crimdon and Hesleden Denes, that border the village. It's rather lovely that the dene has the same characteristics at least 1500 years later on.

Hart village, a pretty little settlement with a Saxon church, has ancient ties to the port and far-reaching views out to sea. The Brus wall just outside the church is the remains of a medieval house of a considerable size, on the site of an earlier Saxon Hall, that once belonged to the powerful De Brus family who owned the manor of Hart. It claims to be – the birthplace of Robert the Bruce, the King of Scotland.