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The list is arranged alphabetically by ceremonial county. Natural England lists 53,636 ancient woodlands in its database as of 2024, comprising 39,223 ancient and semi-natural woodlands (ASNW), 14,339 ancient replanted woodlands (PAWS) and 64 ancient wood pastures (AWP). [1] Most of these are small, with 45,445 of the woods being below 10 ha in ...
Ancient woodland. Ancient woodland on Inchmahome island in Scotland. In the United Kingdom, ancient woodland is that which has existed continuously since 1600 in England, Wales and Northern Ireland (or 1750 in Scotland). [1][2] Planting of woodland was uncommon before those dates, so a wood present in 1600 is likely to have developed naturally.
Cabilla and Redrice Woods. Castern Wood. Chaddesley Woods National Nature Reserve. Cotton Dell.
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. South of Chingford the forest narrows, and forms a green ...
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.
Lesnes Abbey Woods. Lesnes Abbey Woods, sometimes known as Abbey Wood, is a 73- hectare [1] ancient woodland in southeast London, England. It is located near to, and named after, the ruined Lesnes Abbey in the London Borough of Bexley and gives its name to the Abbey Wood district. The woods are adjacent to the 159-ha Bostall Woods.
The Forest of Arden is a former forest and culturally defined area located in the English West Midlands, [ 1 ] that in antiquity and into the Early Modern Period included much of Warwickshire, and parts of Shropshire, [ 2 ][ 3 ][ 4 ] Staffordshire, the West Midlands, and Worcestershire. [ 5 ][ 6 ][ 7 ] It is associated with William Shakespeare ...
Coldfall Wood. Coordinates: 51°35′49″N 00°09′33″W. Shadows in Coldfall Wood. Coldfall Wood is an ancient woodland in Muswell Hill, North London. It covers an area of approximately 14 hectares (35 acres) and is surrounded by St Pancras and Islington Cemetery, the East Finchley public allotments, and the residential streets Creighton ...