Carpet Cleaning in Highgate Wood, London

Your carpet is an expensive investment for your home. It provides insulation, sound absorption and is comfortable. Carpet also acts as a large, flat environmental filter that traps and holds walk-off and airborne soils, dust, allergens and more, until they are removed. With our regular Highgate Wood carpet cleaning, this investment will last for many, many years. With regular cleaning, well maintained carpets and upholstery in Highgate Wood will last for many, many years and help ensure a healthy home by reducing the amount of dust and allergens that are present. We are dedicated to ensuring that your carpets are as clean, healthy, and as beautiful as possible.
Our aim is to clean for health first, then appearance!
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Covered postcodes: N6

Highgate Wood is a 28 hectare (70 acre) area of ancient woodland in North London, lying between East Finchley, Highgate Village, and Muswell Hill. It was originally part of the Ancient Forest of Middlesex which covered much of London, Hertfordshire and Essex and was mentioned in the Domesday Book.

The flora and fauna in the wood have been managed to varying degrees by humans through the ages. Predominantly an oak, hornbeam and holly wood, Highgate Wood is also home to more than 50 other tree and shrub species which have self-seeded there. The Wild Service Tree (Sorbus torminalis), a rare deciduous tree with brown berries can be found in Highgate Wood. Presence of the Wild Service Tree is commonly taken as an indicator of ancient woodland. 70 different species of bird have been recorded, alongside foxes, grey squirrels, at least four (Pipistrelle (Pipistrellus pipistrellus), Natterer's Bat (Myotis nattereri), the rare Leisler's Bat (Nyctalus leisleri) and the Noctule (Nyctalus noctula) and as many as seven species of bat, 180 species of moth, 12 species of butterfly and 80 species of spider.

Prehistoric flints have been found in the wood. Excavations on the ridge at the northern end of the wood established that Romano-Britons were producing pottery from local materials between AD 50-100. An ancient earthwork runs across the wood. This may have formed part of an enclosure for deer during that period that the Bishop of London owned the wood. However it could also be a prehistoric boundary or defensive work. Between the 16th and 18th centuries the wood was leased to various tenants who managed it by “coppicing with standards”. This involved regularly cutting down areas of Hornbeams to a stump (“coppicing”) to encourage new growth which could be used for fuel or fencing, whilst allowing oak and other tree species to grow to maturity (“standards”). Remnants of wood banks dividing these areas can still be seen. Many of these oaks were then used by the Crown to construct ships and by the Church to construct buildings.

During the Medieval Period, the wood was part of the Bishop of London’s hunting estate. The wood was tenanted between the 16th and 18th centuries. In the 1880s the last tenant gave up his lease. In 1886 the Corporation of London acquired Highgate Wood from the Ecclesiastical Commissioners at no charge on condition that it was "maintained in perpetuity for the benefit of Londoners". It has been owned and managed by the Corporation ever since.

The Corporation of London’s maintenance of the wood was not always sympathetic to its historical origins. On acquisition, asphalt paths were laid, ornamental trees were planted and dead wood was assiduously removed and burned. Highgate Wood was managed more as an urban park than ancient woodland. In 1968 the Conservation Committee of the London Natural History Society expressed its concern at the planting of exotic conifers as being inappropriate for ancient woodland. As a consequence of this protest the planting program was halted and has not been continued. More recently management practices have been much more sympathetic to the Wood's indigenous flora and fauna. Certain areas have been fenced to allow the regeneration of the vegetation free of trampling, and dead wood is allowed to decay ‘’in situ’’ - to the great benefit of saprophytic fungi and a wide range of invertebrates.

The historical and ecological significance of Highgate Wood was recognised in October 1990 when it was designated as a Site of Metropolitan Importance for Nature Conservation. As well as football and cricket fields, Highgate Wood offers visitors a children’s playground, a café and an information centre. Highgate Wood can be reached easily from Highgate station on the Northern Line of the London Underground. It is adjacent to the A1 road and is situated approximately 6 miles (10km) north of Charing Cross, well inside London's metropolitan area.

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