Hatfield Forest has many hornbeam trees.

We are doing a Coppice restoration project on a 35 acre Hornbeam wood in south Norfolk (UK) We plan to start making charcoal in the new year. Norfolks Hornbeam woods were very important for the charcoal industry here in east anglia as we needed it for smelting iron etc

@mikegan73 The Romans also introduced Roe Deer. The scottish population predates the Romans; the english animals are introduced european stock, or so it was 10 years ago. Hornbeam is the best british wood for shoe lasts. The woods surrounding London may in part owe their existance to the need for oven and fire wood. Beech was here before the Romans, which doesn't preclude their "introducing" it.

What are these people smoking?

Just lovely!

The American hornbeam is an understory tree but looks much like the English hornbeam. There is a variety called the Hop Hornbeam that has flowers that look like hops. They are sometimes called muscle beech or musclewood because of the sinewy nature of growth and Ironwood because it is so hard. Also commonly called blue birch or blue beech. They don't seem to grow as large and spread out as the English hornbeam but grow narrow and upright. I have an 8" diameter beam that I placed at the bottom of my stairs that I touch each morning as I come downstairs for breakfast.

the guys in the film do and have done for 20 plus years

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Ironwood is one of the common names for a hornbeam

Hop hornbeam makes a good bow.