SPLASH OF ROMANCE There's a touch of Hollywood glamour about Shaw Ghyll Wood, the Trust's delectable new beauty-spot in the Yorkshire Dales. Here, red squirrels skip and kingfishers hunt beside sparkling Hardraw Beck, while just downstream thunders Hardraw Force - the waterfall where Kevin Costner bared all to take a shower in the 1991 swashbuckler Robin Hood, Prince of Thieves. "The falls are just off our land," says Alec Pue, who tends the wood, "but the stream that feeds it winds right through, with footpaths hugging each bank. There's a real magic about the place, especially come springtime when the bluebells and wild garlic are out. And you can definitely imagine Robin and Little John jousting above the eddies and races of the beck!" Shaw Ghyll's seven ancient acres lie just north of Hawes, and were gifted to the Trust this summer. The wood offers a neat juxtaposition with our other new acquisition in these parts: Snaizeholme, on the other side of Wensleydale. The latter has red squirrels too, but is largely lacking in broadleaf woodland. We plan to plant 250,000 trees there.