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For these reasons ancient woodland is often described as an irreplaceable resource, or 'critical natural capital'. [4] The analogous term used in the United States, Canada and Australia (for woodlands that do contain very old trees) is "old-growth forest". [5] Ancient woodland is formally defined on maps by Natural England and equivalent bodies ...
The woodlands of Bedfordshire cover 6.2% of the county. [2] Some two thirds of this (4,990 ha or 12,300 acres) is broad-leaved woodland, principally oak and ash. [3] A Woodland Trust estimate of all ancient woodland in Bedfordshire (dating back to at least the year 1600), including woods of 0.1 ha (0.25 acres) and upward suggests an area of 1,468 ha (3,630 acres). [4]
Oaken Wood is a 18.7-hectare (46-acre) geological Site of Special Scientific Interest west of Maidstone in Kent. [1] [2] It is a Geological Conservation Review site.[3]Known locally as "Barming Wood" due to the village of Barming being the closest settlement to Oaken Woods, [4] it is an ancient woodland with orchids, dormice, tawny owls, nightingales and many species of bat (alongside various ...
Puzzlewood (grid reference SO578092) is an ancient woodland site and tourist attraction, near Coleford in the Forest of Dean, Gloucestershire, England. [ 1 ][ 2 ] The site, covering 14 acres (5.7 ha), shows evidence of open-cast iron ore mining dating from the Roman period, and possibly earlier. Over a mile of pathways were laid down in the ...
The two-year, three-county Wildlife Trust project used old maps to locate pockets of rare habitat. ... The total area of ancient woodland in the area is now known to be 12,552 hectares (31,016 ...
British wildwood, or simply the wildwood, is the natural forested landscape that developed across much of Prehistoric Britain after the last ice age.It existed for several millennia as the main climax vegetation in Britain given the relatively warm and moist post-glacial climate and had not yet been destroyed or modified by human intervention.
Wistman's Wood. Wistman's Wood is one of Britain's last remaining ancient temperate rainforests and one of three remote high-altitude oakwoods on Dartmoor in Devon, England. The first written document to mention Wistman's Wood date to the 1600s, while more recent tree-ring studies show that individual trees could be many hundreds of years old.
Coordinates: 51.9591°N 0.6517°W. King's Wood is an area of ancient woodland in the parish of Heath and Reach in Bedfordshire, England. The wood lies north of the village of Heath and Reach and east of Great Brickhill and with neighboring Bakers Wood forms the largest area of ancient woodland in Bedfordshire. Much of the wood lies within Kings ...