monmouthshire Firewood & Timber
sustainable timber local sawmill
Usk Castle is surrounded by both ancient and commercial woodland, lovingly and sustainably maintained and managed to provide rough sawn timber for carpentry and building projects and windfall timber for firewood.
It takes 40 years for a spruce tree to grow to maturity when it can be felled for timber, and new ones replanted. Growing trees are thought to be very efficient carbon sinks. Thinning out the woods, to allow trees room to grow, and windfall timber, provides well-seasoned firewood which is available for local delivery in tipper trailers, tonne bags or spud boxes.
Christmas trees on sale
As well as firewood we also sell our own Christmas trees each year from Usk Castle front drive. They are freshly cut and transported a short distance from their woodland home to the castle gates
In 2021 we set up a saw mill with help from the British Timber Investment Scheme which enabled us to turn beautiful trees that would otherwise have been firewood or pulp into sawn timber for carpentry, fencing and wood turning. Please contact us if you are interested in our sustainable, Welsh timber, firewood and keep an eye out on Usk Castle social media for Christmas tree sales.
