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Forest of Arden; Heart of England Forest; Worcestershire. Wyre Forest (part in Shropshire) Derbyshire. Darwin Forest; Nottinghamshire. Greenwood Forest; Sherwood Forest;
The Forest has a large number of cycling and walking trails. [38] [39] [40] Kesteven Forest: Lincolnshire: Kesteven Forest covers several woods, including the Bourne Woods. [41] Kielder Forest: Northumberland: 65000 Kielder is the largest artificial forest in England and remains one of the Forestry Commission's major timber producing forests.
Forestry England is a division of the Forestry Commission, responsible for managing and promoting publicly owned forests in England. It was formed as Forest Enterprise in 1996, before devolving to Forest Enterprise England on 31 March 2003 and then being rebranded to Forestry England on 1 April 2019. [1] [2] Its mission is to connect everyone ...
Forestry is a devolved matter in the UK, administered by separate agencies in each nation. They are: in England, the Forestry Commission; in Scotland, Scottish Forestry; in Wales, Natural Resources Wales; and in Northern Ireland, the Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs (DAERA). [36]
26% of the UK woodland (0.86 million hectares) is managed by Forestry England, Forestry and Land Scotland, Natural Resources Wales or the Northern Ireland Forest service. [64] When the Forestry Commission was founded in 1919 it inherited responsibility for several forests, some of which were former royal forests and contained ancient woodland. [65]
The Forest is also a setting of the Warriors novel series, in which the 'Forest Territories' was initially based on New Forest. [65] The New Forest and southeast England, around the 12th century, is a prominent setting in Ken Follett's novel The Pillars of the Earth. It is also a prominent setting in Elizabeth George's novel This Body of Death.
Sherwood Forest is the remnants of an ancient royal forest in Nottinghamshire, England, having a historic association with the legend of Robin Hood. The area has been wooded since the end of the Last Glacial Period (as attested by pollen sampling cores ).
York Community Woodland is a site managed by Forestry England near to Knapton in York, England. The site covers 78 hectares (193 acres), and by its opening in 2024, 210,000 trees had been planted. The site is owned by the City of York Council, and offers an open space on the western side of the City of York. Spare land has been allocated on the ...