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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]
Epping Forest is a 2,400-hectare (5,900-acre) area of ancient woodland, and other established habitats, which straddles the border between Greater London and Essex.The main body of the forest stretches from Epping in the north, to Chingford on the edge of the London built-up area.
Puzzlewood (grid reference) 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.
West Blean and Thornden Woods is a 781-hectare (1,930-acre) biological Site of Special Scientific Interest north of Canterbury in Kent. [1] [2] It is part of the Blean Woods Nature Conservation Review site (a Grade I site), [3] [4] and an area of 490 hectares (1,200 acres) is a nature reserve managed by the Kent Wildlife Trust. [5]
Ancient woodland is formally defined on maps by Natural England and equivalent bodies. Mapping of ancient woodland has been undertaken in different ways and at different times, resulting in a variable quality and availability of data across regions, although there are some efforts to standardise and update it. [6]
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 17th century, while more recent tree-ring studies show that individual trees could be many hundreds of years old.
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.
The name "Heartwood" was chosen for the growing forest as a nod to the heart-shaped leaves of the rare Lime trees present in these original pockets of ancient woodland. [ 3 ] On 9 December 2009, a Guinness World Record attempt was made for the BBC Tree O'Clock scheme, in association with the Woodland Trust to plant the most new trees as ...