Restoration of a centuries-old wood will be celebrated at a special ceremony on Sunday thanks to a £13,000 grant and many hours of toil by villagers.

Many new trees have been planted at the 300-year-old Milking Hill Wood, at Embsay, near Skipton, including native oak from Bolton Abbey.

The project was overseen by environmental body Yorventure.

Members of the Embsay-with-Eastby parish council's tree planting sub-committee will join the Marquess of Hartington at Sunday's ceremony.

A bench will also be dedicated to the memory of Malcolm Garbutt, the council's former clerk who died last year.

Simon Roodhouse, chairman of the sub-committee, said: "The restoration of the wood has been a real community effort, and it is fitting contribution to the millennium.''

Workers from the Bolton Abbey estate, which owns the site, co-ordinated the restoration work, including new fencing, and helped children from the village plant trees.

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