Rollestone Wood

Rollestone Wood was a great place to play as a kid, lots of adventure, trees to climb, nature to see and a world full of fantasy for a child, I spent many happy hours playing in the wood.

ROLLESTONE WOOD is in the South East district of Sheffield known as Gleadless Valley.
There’s records showing trees have been grown on the land where today’s wood stands since 1432.
The name Rollestone is a throwback of the name Rawlinstone, which was the surname of the farmer that used to own nearby Herdings Farm, and it is believed that the nearby Herdings Wood and today’s Rollestone Wood use to be linked together as one huge woodland area many centries ago.
Rollestone Wood was around 200 250 years ago a Working Wood, this means a wood that was coppiced for charcoal burning. Even today, in many parts of the wood you can still see the hollow pits were the charcoal burners used to burn the timbers util they produced charcoal that was used to line furnaces in Sheffield.
The wood today is a mixture of broadleaved decidious trees and non-​decidious fur trees (hardwood and softwood). There’s not as many grey squirrels living in the wood now as there was twenty years ago, but foxes are plentiful, especially in late winter when it’s their mating season, hedgehogs too can be seen quite often on warm summer evenings.
Although not a Parkland as some folks know parks, Rollestone Wood is a Woodland Nature Park set aside for people to enjoy in different kinds of ways.