AFTERMATH: The land off Medway Drive in Horwich after trees were chopped down RESIDENTS were left "in tears" after a number of trees were chopped down in Horwich. Workers arrived at land off Medway Drive on Thursday morning to cut trees down, much to neighbours' surprise. Some were upset as emotions boiled over following the felling. The site after the trees were chopped down Susan Cooper, of nearby Melbourne Close, said: "It was like a mini forest. "I am devastated, there are hedgehogs that go in my garden which lived there." Bolton Council sold the land where the trees stood in 2013.