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This list of ancient woods in England contains areas of ancient woodland in England larger than 10 hectares (25 acres). The list is arranged alphabetically by ceremonial county . Natural England lists 53,636 ancient woodlands in its database as of 2024 [update] , comprising 39,223 ancient and semi-natural woodlands (ASNW), 14,339 ancient ...
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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] The practice of planting woodland was uncommon before those dates, so a wood present in 1600 is likely to have developed naturally. [3]
The approximate historical area of the Great North Wood. The Great North Wood was a natural oak woodland that started three miles (4.8 km) south-east of central London and scaled the Norwood Ridge. At its full extent, the wood's boundaries stretched almost as far as Croydon and as far north as Camberwell.
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.
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.
Foxley Wood is a nature reserve in Foxley, Norfolk, England, the largest ancient woodland and coppice in Norfolk. The Norfolk Wildlife Trust , which manages this reserve, bought it in 1998. [ 1 ] It is 123 hectares (300 acres) in size.
Odell Great Wood is an ancient woodland and biological Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI) in Odell in Bedfordshire.Located around the centre of the parish of Odell, [1] the site was described by Natural England as "in many respects the best example in Bedfordshire" of wet ash-maple woodland, [2] [3] and in historical sources as "the noblest wood in this county". [1]