The joys of owning your own wood

The joys of owning your own wood - at Moneyweek.co.uk - the best of the week's international financial media.

For as little as £20,000, you could buy a charming wood of around eight acres. It probably won't make your fortune, says Emma Thelwell, but it will be perfect for fun weekend getaways

Buying your own bit of woodland "is back in vogue", says David Budworth in The Sunday Times. It might not be an obvious way to spend your money it seems hard to imagine people bragging about their woods, and imploring friends to visit as they do with their sunshine villas but there is nonetheless a certain satisfaction to be had from owning your own little patch of trees.

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Emma Thelwell

Emma is a former digital journalist with more than 15 years of experience in national news in the UK and overseas. She was an assistant editor at MoneyWeek, covering property, funds, alternative investments and the share tips pages, then Emma moved on to The Daily Telegraph, first as a personal finance reporter and then as a business reporter. 

Emma also worked as a finance correspondent for Ninemsn (Australia’s Channel 9 online) in Sydney, Australia for just over a year, and since then Emma has worked at Channel 4 News as a reporter and producer, and she spent more than 4 years at BBC online. At present Emma is a senior manager for content and thought leadership at PwC.