Ferndown is one of the easiest places we deliver. It's overwhelmingly post-war and later detached and semi-detached housing on generous plots, which in firewood terms means proper driveways, room to swing a vehicle, and somewhere obvious to tip a load. Half transits and full transits do noticeably better here than they do in Bournemouth.

The area around the golf club and out toward Dudsbury has some substantial houses, several with more than one fire, and those tend to be full transit customers who order once in autumn and don't think about it again. West Parley and Longham are similar — big gardens, log stores, space to season your own if you fancy it.

That space is why Ferndown buys more unseasoned than most of our area. If you've got a spare corner behind a shed, buying fresh-cut at £59/m³ and stacking it for eighteen months is genuinely half the price of buying it ready. Plenty of people here do exactly that on a rolling basis.