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.
Forestry and 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 in tipper trailers from £170 including local delivery within 5 miles. Delivery beyond 5 miles is charged accordingly.
Windfall timber often provides spalted beech which is beautiful for fine carpentry. Please contact Tom to find out what we have in stock.
In 2021 we set up a saw mill with help from the British Timber Investments Scheme which enabled us to turn beautiful trees, that would have otherwise been paper pulp or firewood, into sawn timber for carpentry, fencing and wood turning. Please contact us if you are interested in our sustainable, Welsh timber or firewood.
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
Christmas tree sales usually start on weekends only 11am-4.30pm from the last weekend of November -keep an eye out on Usk Castle social media for Christmas tree sales.
If you would like to arrange delivery of your tree, pre-order a tree or view at another time please call Tom in advance.
