It is interesting to see what the early topographical writers had to say about Wistmans Wood, one of the earlier descriptions comes from the Reverend J. Swete and was written in 1797. It appears that he was not too impressed with the place: It is hardly possible to conceive any thing of the sort so grotesque as this Wood appears, with their branches just spreading themselves over the enormous blocks of granite among which they are intermingled; and their upper lateral roots twisted around their bases, and in the most fantastic wreathings insinuated, whereon a recess, or interstice offered themselves - from the visible decay of their branches, their having long ceased to produce acorns, and the encroachments of the Moss, their destiny seems to be near, and in the 4th part of a Century, they may be conceived to say Actum est Nobis - indeed this Moss, (in the common way so injurious to trees) must in the voluminous mass in which it is here found, have hastened on the ruin of the trees... Silence seemed to have taken up her abode in this sequestered wood - and to a superstitious mind some impression would have occurred approaching to dread, or sacred horror.. From this diatribe one would possibly get the impression that he found the wood a bit daunting and maybe even a trifle un-nerving.
Posted on: Thu, 10 Jul 2014 03:01:00 +0000
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