By Patrick Jones
I’ve just been looking through the Tree Survey for the Country Park before passing it on to the committee and was amazed by the sheer number of specimen trees. I could not resist breaking it down. I don’t know if this has been done but the following are my (possibly inaccurate) figures.
oak 
ash 
willow
138 listed trees comprising:-
107 oaks
- 10 ancient
- 16 veteran
- 81 other
10 willows
- 1 ancient
- 4 veteran
- 5 others
17 ash
- 2 veteran
- 15 other
4 other varieties
In olden days we could have knocked up a couple of ships from these!
Southwick Country Park Nature Reserve 
It took 2000 oak trees to build an 18thC ship of the line but only 15 to build a Viking longboat so you have enough oaks for a small fleet. Up for a spot of pillaging?
We will need horned helmets to go with our high-viz vests.