The Great North Wood is the closest ancestral forest to any capital city-centre in Europe. The proposed one-mile trail would link an existing network of ancient boundary oaks between Dulwich Park and Dulwich Wood, at the heart of the Great North Wood complex. The walk would be planked in its stretch along the Ambrook, with fencing on the side of the golf course, and it would be gravelled for most of the remaining sections. The proposed heritage trail would feature interpretation boards set up in a narrative way, following the natural history and heritage of the Great North Wood from pre-historic times to present day. The plan is for the trail to lead up to Cox Walk, from where it would continue to the end of Dulwich Wood. Creation and maintenance of the woodland section of the trail would be financed by the Great North Wood project led by London Wildlife Trust. The implementation of this heritage trail would also seek to help restore the lost wetlands that gave name to Dulwich (Dill Village) as part of a River Ambrook/Effra River water management plan embedded within the design of this project, aimed at flood/drought alleviation. We also expect that the trail will commemorate the many forest guardians that have protected the ancestral forests of Norwood Ridge, especially minority groups such as the famous Norwood Gypsies, not least through engagement of local community groups in the planning and implementation of the project. We seek to replant trees grown from historic veteran oak trees, and to commemorate the oldest trees in the Great North Wood as part of this heritage trail, including the Vicar’s Oak, William Blake’s Angel Oak, the guardian of Beulah Spa, the Dulwich Park toilet oak, among others.