George Eglese

Two hundred and thirty years after the first pines were planted on Harlow Moor, a new identity for Pinewoods has emerged, reconnecting the woodland with its place in Harrogate’s story of health, nature and the Cure. In 1796, Scots pines were planted across six acres of Harlow Moor. Around them remained a much older landscape of heath, gorse, heather, open sky and bracing air. It was a modest beginning. Over the following two centuries, further planting would spread across the moor, creating...

In 2025, Rotary Wood marked twenty years since planting began. Created as a centenary project, it has grown into a community woodland, an important part of Pinewoods and a living legacy for Harrogate. In 2005, the first trees were planted on approximately four acres of council-owned land near Harlow Moor Road. The project commemorated one hundred years of Rotary International, but its purpose extended beyond the anniversary. Harrogate Rotary set out to create something living and lasting: a...