England

England

England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...

• Forest of Marston Vale
  Forest of Marston Vale
  The Forest of Marston Vale is an evolving community forest in Marston Vale, which runs south west from the towns of Bedford and Kempston in Bedfordshire, England towards the M1 motorway. It is operated by a registered charity called the Marston Vale Trust....
  
  

• Burnham Beeches
  Burnham Beeches
  Burnham Beeches is an area of 220 hectares of ancient woodland, located close to Farnham Common, Burnham and Beaconsfield, in Buckinghamshire. It is approximately 25 miles to the west of London, England.-Preservation:...
  
  
• Whiteleaf Hill
  Whiteleaf, Buckinghamshire
  Whiteleaf is a hamlet in the civil parish of Princes Risborough and the ecclesiastical parish of Monks Risborough in Buckinghamshire, England. It is located 7 miles south of the county town of Aylesbury and 8 miles north of High Wycombe...
  
  

• Delamere Forest
  Delamere Forest
  Delamere Forest or Delamere Forest Park is a wood in the Cheshire West and Chester area of Cheshire, England, near the town of Frodsham. It includes of mixed deciduous and evergreen woodland, centred at around , making it the largest area of woodland in Cheshire...
  
  
• Macclesfield Forest
  Macclesfield Forest
  Macclesfield Forest is an area of woodland, predominantly conifer plantation, located around south east of Macclesfield in the civil parish of Macclesfield Forest and Wildboarclough, in Cheshire, England. The existing woodland is the last substantial remnant of the Royal Forest of Macclesfield, a...
  
  

• Hamsterley Forest
  Hamsterley Forest
  Hamsterley Forest is a commercial forest in County Durham operated by the Forestry Commission. It is the largest forest in County Durham and covers more than 2000 hectares. Recreational activities are promoted within the forest and are focussed at the eastern end around the...
  
  

• Whinfell Forest
  Whinfell Forest
  Whinfell Forest is now a small area of woodland in the parish of Brougham, Cumbria that lies south east of Penrith in Cumbria and just off the A66 road leading to Appleby-in-Westmorland. The forest is a short distance from the Lake District national park and is surrounded by a large number of...
  
  

• Darwin Forest

• Ashclyst Forest

• National Forest
  National Forest, England
  The National Forest is one of England’s most ambitious environmental projects. Across parts of Leicestershire, Derbyshire and Staffordshire, are being transformed, blending ancient woodland with new planting to create a new national forest...
  
  

• Epping Forest
  Epping Forest
  Epping Forest is an area of ancient woodland in south-east England, straddling the border between north-east Greater London and Essex. It is a former royal forest, and is managed by the City of London Corporation....
  
  
• Waltham Forest

• Royal Forest of Dean

• New Forest
  New Forest
  The New Forest is an area of southern England which includes the largest remaining tracts of unenclosed pasture land, heathland and forest in the heavily-populated south east of England. It covers south-west Hampshire and extends into south-east Wiltshire....
  
  

• Brighstone Forest
  Brighstone Forest
  Brighstone Forest is located in the southwest of the Isle of Wight. It is the largest forest on the Isle of Wight, being just a few hectares larger than Parkhurst Forest. It is spread over a number of hilly ridges which form the backbone of the Isle of Wight. From west to east the ridges are...
  
  
• Parkhurst Forest
  Parkhurst Forest
  Parkhurst Forest is a woodland to the north-west of Newport, Isle of Wight .The site is partly a site of special scientific interest. It consists of both ancient woodland, relict heathland and plantation woodland. The woodland is freehold owned and managed by the Forestry Commission. It is 395...
  
  

• Bedgebury Forest
  Bedgebury Forest
  Bedgebury Forest is a forest surrounding Bedgebury National Pinetum, near Flimwell in Kent. In contrast to the National Pinetum, which contains exclusively coniferous trees, the forest contains both deciduous and coniferous species. It forms part of the High Weald Area Of Outstanding Natural...
  
  

• Forest of Bowland
  Forest of Bowland
  The Forest of Bowland, also known as the Bowland Fells, is an area of barren gritstone fells, deep valleys and peat moorland, mostly in north-east Lancashire, England. A small part lies in North Yorkshire, and much of the area was historically part of the West Riding of Yorkshire...
  
  
• Gisburn Forest

• Charnwood Forest
  Charnwood Forest
  Charnwood Forest is an upland tract in north-western Leicestershire, England, bounded by Leicester, Loughborough, and Coalville. The area is undulating, rocky and picturesque, with barren areas. It also has some extensive tracts of woodland; its elevation is generally 600 ft and upwards, the area...
  
  

• Thetford Forest
  Thetford Forest
  Thetford Forest is the largest lowland pine forest in Britain, Thetford Forest Park is located in a region straddling the north of Suffolk and the south of Norfolk in England...
  
  
• Horsford Woods (Horsford Forest)

• Rockingham Forest
  Rockingham Forest
  Rockingham Forest is a former Mediæval royal hunting forest in the East Midlands region of England; most of which was in the county of Northamptonshire but also extended slightly into the neighbouring counties of Leicestershire and Lincolnshire .The forest originally stretched from Stamford down...
  
  

• Kielder Forest
  Kielder Forest
  Kielder Forest is a large forestry plantation in Northumberland, England, surrounding the reservoir Kielder Water. It is the largest man-made woodland in Europe...
  
  

• Greenwood Forest
• Sherwood Forest
  Sherwood Forest
  Sherwood Forest is a Royal Forest in Nottinghamshire, England, that is famous through its historical association with the legend of Robin Hood. Continuously forested since the end of the Ice Age, Sherwood Forest National Nature Reserve today encompasses 423 hectares surrounding the village of...
  
  

• Wychwood
  Wychwood
  The Wychwood, or Wychwood Forest, is an area now covering a small part of rural Oxfordshire. In past centuries the forest covered a much larger area, since cleared in favour of agriculture, villages and towns. However, the forest's area has fluctuated...
  
  

• Leighfield Forest
  Leighfield
  Leighfield is a civil parish in the county of Rutland in the East Midlands of England. There is no settlement centre in the parish, only a few isolated properties. In the 2001 census it had a population of 10, which was the fourth smallest of Rutland's parish populations...
  
  

• Morfe Forest
• Mortimer Forest
  Mortimer Forest
  Mortimer Forest is a forest on the Shropshire/Herefordshire border in England, near the town of Ludlow.-History:Mortimer Forest was an ancient hunting forest, like similar areas including Bircher Common...
  
  

• the former Royal Forest
  Royal forest
  A royal forest is an area of land with different meanings in England, Wales and Scotland; the term forest does not mean forest as it is understood today, as an area of densely wooded land...
  
   of North Petherton
  North Petherton
  North Petherton is a small town and civil parish in Somerset, England, situated on the edge of the eastern foothills of the Quantocks, and close to the edge of the Somerset Levels.The town has a population of 5,189...
  
  
• Selwood Forest
  Selwood Forest
  Selwood Forest is an area of woodland on the borders between Somerset, Dorset and Wiltshire in south west England. In Anglo-Saxon times it was far more substantial and covered a much greater area forming a natural barrier between the Anglo-Saxons of Wessex and the Britons of Dumnonia and the Severn...
  
  

• Cannock Chase
  Cannock Chase
  Cannock Chase is a mixed area of countryside in the county of Staffordshire, England. The area has been designated as the Cannock Chase Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. The Chase gives its name to the Cannock Chase local government district....
  
  
• Kinver
  Kinver
  Kinver is a large village in South Staffordshire district, Staffordshire, England. It is in the far south-west of the county, at the end of the narrow finger of land surrounded by the counties of Shropshire, Worcestershire and the West Midlands. The nearest towns are Stourbridge in the West...
  
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• Ashdown Forest
  Ashdown Forest
  Ashdown Forest is an ancient area of tranquil open heathland occupying the highest sandy ridge-top of the High Weald Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. It is situated some south of London in the county of East Sussex, England...
  
  
• Dallington Forest
  Dallington Forest
  Dallington Forest is a 16.2 hectare biological Site of Special Scientific Interest, located in East Sussex, England. The site was notified in 1985 under the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981, and is currently an area of ancient woodland....
  
  
• St Leonard's Forest
  St Leonard's Forest
  St. Leonard's Forest is at the western end of the Wealden Forest Ridge which runs from Horsham to Tonbridge, and is part of the High Weald Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. It lies on the ridge to the south of the A264 between Horsham and Crawley with the villages of Colgate and Lower Beeding...
  
  
• Worth Forest

• Forest of Arden
  Arden, Warwickshire
  Arden is an area, mainly located in Warwickshire, England, traditionally regarded as stretching from the River Avon to the River Tame.-History:...
  
  
• Forest of Dennis
  Forest of Dennis
  The Forest of Dennis is a very young forest consisting mainly of native English deciduous trees located near Bidford on Avon, Warwickshire, England. The forest was started in 2001 by the English businessman and philanthropist Felix Dennis. The forest currently covers 4.5 square kilometres...
  
  

• Black Country Urban Forest
  Black Country Urban Forest
  The Black Country Urban Forest is a partnership of the voluntary sector and local government with the aim of making urban forestry the characteristic landscape of one of England's industrial areas, The Black Country....
  
  

• Savernake Forest
  Savernake Forest
  Savernake Forest is on a Cretaceous chalk plateau between Marlborough and Great Bedwyn in Wiltshire, England. Its area is approximately .It is privately owned by the Trustees of Savernake Estate, the Earl of Cardigan, and his family solicitor. Since 1939 the running of the forest has been...
  
  

• Wyre Forest
  Wyre Forest
  Wyre Forest is a large, semi-natural woodland and forest which straddles the borders of Worcestershire and Shropshire, England.The Wyre Forest district of Worcestershire takes its name from the forest, despite the fact that much of the woodland does not lie within the district's boundaries, but...
  
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• Forest of Andred
• Forest of Avon
• Forest of Mercia
  Forest of Mercia
  The Forest of Mercia lies within the northernmost boundary of the more ancient and well-known Forest of Arden which covered the area when it formed part of the Kingdom of Mercia, and is one of twelve Community forests established close to major towns and cities across England...
  
  
• Mersey Forest
  Mersey Forest
  This article is about a community forest in the United Kingdom. See also Mersey Forest, Tasmania.The Mersey Forest is a network of woodlands and green spaces being created across Merseyside and North Cheshire by a wide-ranging partnership of different organisations including local authorities,...
  
  

Scotland

Scotland

Scotland is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. Occupying the northern third of the island of Great Britain, it shares a border with England to the south and is bounded by the North Sea to the east, the Atlantic Ocean to the north and west, and the North Channel and Irish Sea to the...

• Argyll Forest Park

• Forest of Ae
  Forest of Ae
  The Forest of Ae is located between Nithsdale and Annandale in Dumfries and Galloway in south-west Scotland.The forest was first planted in the 1920s, primarily with Sitka spruce. It has the designation of a 'Priority Forest' for Red Squirrel conservation...
  
  
• Carsphairn Forest
• Corriedoo Forest
• Dalbeattie Forest
• Dundeugh Forest
• Fleet Forest
• Laurieston Forest
• Mabie Forest
• Penninghame Forest

• Abernethy Forest
  Abernethy Forest
  Abernethy Forest is a remnant of the Caledonian Forest near Aviemore, Badenoch and Strathspey, Highland, Scotland. It is an RSPB reserve, close to Loch Garten Osprey Centre, which is also owned by the RSPB. There is approximately 4,000 hectares of forest within the reserve, and just under half of...
  
  
• Glenmore Forest
  Glenmore Forest Park
  Glenmore Forest Park is a remnant of the Caledonian Forest near Aviemore, Badenoch and Strathspey, Highland, Scotland. It is located in the Cairngorms National Park.The park surrounds Loch Morlich, and is below the rise of the Cairngorms....
  
  
• Rothiemurchus Forest
  Rothiemurchus Forest
  Rothiemurchus Forest is a remnant of the Caledonian Forest at near Aviemore, Badenoch and Strathspey, Highland, Scotland.The forest is popular for recreation, but contains some of the most important wildlife in Europe, including the osprey, Scottish crossbill, capercaillie, crested tit and wild...
  
  

• Tentsmuir Forest
  Tentsmuir Forest
  Tentsmuir Forest in Fife, Scotland, stands next to Kinshaldy Beach with a view across the Firth of Tay. Covering some , the area was originally moorland before acquisition by the Forestry Commission in the 1920s....
  
  

• Craik Forest
  Craik Forest
  Craik Forest is a forest near Hawick in the Scottish Borders area of Scotland, and managed by the Forestry Commission.-See also:*Craik, Scottish Borders*Ettrick Forest*Wauchope Forest*List of forests in the United Kingdom...
  
  
• Ettrick Forest
  Ettrick Forest
  Ettrick Forest is a former royal forest in the Scottish Borders area of Scotland.It is a large area of moorland, south of Peebles, stretching from Dollar Law to Selkirk.-See also:*James Hogg*Craik Forest*Wauchope Forest...
  
  
• Wauchope Forest
  Wauchope Forest
  Wauchope Forest is a forest on the Rule Water, in the Scottish Borders area of Scotland, south of Hawick, and including the A6088, the A68 and the B6357, as well as Newcastleton, Bonchester Bridge, Hobkirk, Southdean, Hyndlee, Carter Bar, Abbotrule, Chesters, Scottish Borders.-See also:*List of...
  
  

• Arecleoch Forest
• Carrick Forest
• Changue Forest
• Tairlaw Forest

• Queen Elizabeth Forest Park
• Rowardennan Forest
• Strathyre Forest

Wales

Wales

Wales is a country that is part of the United Kingdom and the island of Great Britain, bordered by England to its east and the Atlantic Ocean and Irish Sea to its west. It has a population of three million, and a total area of 20,779 km²...

• Brechfa Forest
  Brechfa Forest
  The Brechfa Forest is an area of forest in Carmarthenshire, south Wales.Much of the planting took place during the 1930s, with work carried out by young unemployed men from a Ministry of Labour work camp...
  
  

• Penglais Nature Park
  Penglais Nature Park
  Penglais Nature Park is a woodland situated in Aberystwyth, Ceredigion in Wales.The park is a combination of woodland and a disused quarry. Spring brings a display of a carpet of bluebells in common with the many other bluebell woods....
  
  

• Gwydir Forest
  Gwydir Forest
  Gwydir Forest, also spelled Gwydyr, is located in Conwy county borough and the Snowdonia National Park in North Wales. It takes its name from the ancient Gwydir Estate, established by the John Wynn family of Gwydir Castle, which owned this area....
  
  

• Clocaenog Forest
  Clocaenog Forest
  Clocaenog Forest is in West Denbighshire/Conwy, Wales on Mynydd Hiraethog.It is 40 square miles in extent, mostly coniferous softwoods under the control of the Forestry Commission. It was planted in 1905 on what was mostly moorland and many hill farms. It is a highland region, mostly above 350...
  
  

• Llandegla Forest
  Llandegla Forest
  Llandegla Forest is a forest of planted conifers covering 6.5 square kilometres in Denbighshire, north-east Wales. It is situated to the south-east of the village of Llandegla at the north-western edge of Ruabon Moors. The forest is owned by UPM Tilhill and planting began in the early 1970s...
  
  

• Coed-y-Brenin
  Coed-y-Brenin
  Coed-y-Brenin is a forest in the Snowdonia National Park, North Wales near Dolgellau at . It is well-known as a mountain bike resort and for its hiking trails...
  
  

• Wentwood
  Wentwood
  Wentwood is a forested area of hills, rising to 309 metres , in Monmouthshire, South Wales. It is located to the north east of, and partly within the boundaries of, the city of Newport.- Geology :...
  
  

• Afan Forest Park
  Afan Forest Park
  The Afan Forest Park is a forest park in Britain. It is set in the Afan Valley in Neath Port Talbot, in south Wales. It is well-known for its mountain biking and hiking or hillwalking trails...
  
  

• Clun Forest
  Clun Forest
  Clun Forest is a remote, rural area of open pastures, moorland and mixed deciduous/coniferous woodland in the southwest part of the English county of Shropshire and also just over the border into Powys, Wales....
  
  
• Hafren Forest
  Hafren Forest
  The Hafren Forest lies North-West of Llanidloes, an ancient market town situated in Mid-Wales.Covering around 40 square kilometres, and consisting of mainly Pine and Spruce trees, the Forest takes its name from the Afon Hafren which rises in a deep peat bog approximately 800m outside its western...
  
  

• Newborough Forest
  Newborough Forest
  Newborough Forest is a forest to the west of Newborough, Anglesey, North Wales.It is one of the most important red squirrel conservation sites in the United Kingdom. It appears increasingly likely that there are now only 500 red squirrels in Wales and numbers are continuing to decline.The whole...
  
  

Northern Ireland

Northern Ireland

Northern Ireland is one of the four countries of the United Kingdom. Situated in the north-east of the island of Ireland, it shares a border with the Republic of Ireland to the south and west...

• Ballypatrick Forest
• Belvoir Forest
• Castlewellan Forest Park
• Drum Manor Forest Park
  Drum Manor Forest Park
  Drum Manor Forest Park is a forest in Northern Ireland, south of the Sperrin Mountains and west of Lough Neagh. It was bought from a private owner in 1964 and opened to the public in 1970.See: Forests in the United Kingdom-External links:*...
  
  
• Ely Lodge Forest
• Florence Court Forest Park
  Florence Court Forest Park
  - Size and location :The forest is located on the north east shoulder of Cuilcagh mountain and covers an area of 1,200 hectares. The forest adjoins the National Trust property and Florence Court House.- History :...
  
  
• Glenariff Forest Park
  Glenariff Forest Park
  Glenariff Forest Park is an 1185 hectare forest in County Antrim, Northern Ireland. It is part of Glenariff glen itself. The forest is managed by the Northern Ireland Forest Service, the state body responsible for forestry in the province, which is part of the Department of Agriculture and Rural...
  
  
• Gortin Glen Forest Park
• Gosford Forest Park
  Gosford Forest Park
  Gosford Forest Park is located outside the Co. Armagh village of Markethill. Gosford Forest Park, previously Gosford Demesne, was acquired by the Department of Agriculture in 1958 and comprises some 240 hectares of diverse woodland and open parkland...
  
  
• Lough Navar Forest Drive
• Rostrevor Forest
• Tollymore Forest Park
  Tollymore Forest Park
  Tollymore Forest Park was the first state forest park in Northern Ireland, established on the 2 June 1955. It is located at Bryansford, near the town of Newcastle. Covering an area of at the foot of the Mourne Mountains, the forest park offers panoramic views of the surrounding mountains and the...
  
  

See also

• Forestry in the United Kingdom
  Forestry in the United Kingdom
  Forestry is the management of trees and forests for environmental or economic gain. The United KingdomThe United Kingdom is a political unit , the British Isles is a geographical unit , and Great Britain is the name of the largest of those islands...
  
  
• Community forests in England
  Community Forests in England
  England's twelve community forests are afforestation-based regeneration projects which were established in the early 1990s. Each of them is a partnership between the Forestry Commission and the Countryside Agency, which are agencies of the British government, and the relevant local councils.Most of...
  
  
• Crown Estate
  Crown Estate
  In the United Kingdom, the Crown Estate is a property portfolio owned by the Crown. Although still belonging to the monarch and inherent with the accession of the throne, it is no longer the private property of the reigning monarch and cannot be sold by him/her, nor do the revenues from it belong...
  
  
• English Lowlands beech forests
  English Lowlands beech forests
  The term English Lowlands beech forests refers to a terrestrial ecoregion in Northern Europe, as defined by the World Wide Fund for Nature and the European Environment Agency...
  
  
• Forestry Commission
  Forestry Commission
  The Forestry Commission is a non-ministerial government department responsible for forestry in Great Britain. Its mission is to protect and expand Britain's forests and woodlands and increase their value to society and the environment....
  
  
• List of Ancient Woods in England

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