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Sherwood Forest is home to the Major Oak, an oak tree between 800 and 1,000 years old, and since the Victorian era, its limbs have been partially supported by scaffolding. In February 1998 a local company took cuttings from the Major Oak and began cultivating clones of the famous tree with the intention of sending saplings to be planted in ...
The Major Oak is a large English oak (Quercus robur) near the village of Edwinstowe in the midst of Sherwood Forest, Nottinghamshire, England. According to local folklore , it was Robin Hood 's shelter where he and his merry men slept.
Robin Hood's Larder (also known as the Butcher's Oak, the Slaughter Tree and the Shambles Oak) was a veteran tree in Sherwood Forest that measured 24 feet (7.3 m) in circumference. The tree had long been hollow and is reputed to have been used by the legendary outlaw Robin Hood and others as a larder for poached meat.
Articles relating to Sherwood Forest and its contents. It is a royal forest in Nottinghamshire , England, famous because of its 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 ).
The boating lake at Sherwood Forest with The Pancake House on the right. The first Center Parcs holiday village in the United Kingdom was opened in July 1987. [5] It is located in 400 acres (1.6 km 2) of woodland at Sherwood Forest, near Newark-on-Trent, Nottinghamshire.
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The site of the Forest was one of the original areas to be protected in perpetuity by the 1845 Nottingham Inclosure Act, which set aside some 80 acres (32 ha) of Sherwood Forest for public recreational use. In commemoration, the Mayor of Nottingham planted the "Inclosure Oak" which can still be seen at the Mansfield Road entrance to the Forest.