Outside, a lawned terrace overlooks 7,000 acres of oak and beech forest stretching as far as the eye can see.

In some places there are patches of original or replanted beech forest.

Further upstream the river flows through unmodified beech forest.

The 3.5-hectare area contains several buildings and scientific instruments surrounded by beech forest.

Many old beech trees can be found around the edge of the loch - remnants of a beech forest that once covered the area.

I would not be without the two hedges surrounding my front garden and the seedling beech hedge on one boundary in the back.

I have just put in a beech hedge.

A short flagstoned path, flanked by borders filled with bulbs and seasonal flowers, could lead to the house, with the entire front garden enclosed by a clipped beech hedge.

My own beech hedge in the back garden and yew in the front, no more than 20 yards long, took the best part of a day to trim this month!

It led outwards towards open views, their veering perspectives made to feel more dramatic by the long, flanking rows of a pleached beech hedge.

They are lightly smoked over beech wood and air-dried for about a year.

I have seen them feeding beside puddles in farmyards, and once saw one floating on fallen leaves in a ditch full of rainwater in a beech wood.

Stocks were made of unimpressive, but dense and strong beech wood.

For the charcoal that was needed for the reduction of the ore, oak and beech wood were especially well-suited.

The sticks are made of beech wood and are 40 cm (16) long with a diameter of 3 cm (1.2).