Ancient Tree Forum

Trees have long been a part of our cultural landscape and throughout history have been worked and managed. Ancient trees are often all that remains as a legacy of some of our most historic landscapes; but through them one can glimpse what was happening in the past. Ancient trees are rare but sometimes where you see one you then notice lots! The greatest concentrations of ancient trees are found in traditional forests, wood pastures, parkland and wooded commons. However, where there has been change of use down the centuries, an ancient tree or group of trees may be all that remains standing isolated in fields, hedgerows, the middle of housing estates or development. Look for ancient trees in both the lowlands and the uplands.
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Forests	Chases and parks	Wood-pastures


Commons	Ancient woodland	Hedgerows


Urban gardens	Orchards	Fields