Fountain Timber Products

Fountain Timber is located south of Bristol between Backwell and Wrington and offers visitors access to the heart of the woods. Entry to the site is off Brockley Combe and as you climb the hill on the private drive you enter what was known as Wrington Warren. When it was sold as part of the Wrington Estate in 1895 it was described as "about 550 acres affording excellent sport". The Warren was used as a decoy in the Second World War, using lights and fires to make the bomber pilots think they were over Bristol. The Americans, prior to D-Day, trained making roads using rubble from bomb damaged Bristol. With true country logic one track is still called the Yankee Road.

Fountain Forestry bought the Warren in 1957; the name comes from Fountain House, the prestigious post-war building in the City of London with a fountain in the entrance hall.