The Green Insurance Company at Kidburngill - Customer driving emissions

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Validated under the Woodland Carbon Code on 18th January 2012 - project IDs 2011/EN/0022 and 2011/EN/0023 .

This site is on a prominent hill slope close to the Lake District National Park. It offers good visibility from the A5086 Cleator Moor – Cockermouth road and offers full public access.

The area was once covered with native woodland of which only a few veteran Oaks and coppiced Alder remain. Within the area is an old quarry containing a badger sett. There is an abundance of woodland wildflowers, Bluebell, Wood Sorrel and Foxglove, which have been preserved by the exclusion of livestock and the re-creation of a new Oakwood which will join up with existing woodland fragments.

  • Trees planted:

  • 44,880 over 34.4 hectares

  • When:

  • Two phases, Spring 2009 and Spring 2010

  • CO2 captured:

  • 16,347 tonnes

  • Species mix:

  • Oak 63%, Alder 11%, Ash 11%, Rowan 4%, Willow 4%, Hawthorn 4%