The big picture for England's woods

How does your big picture compare to neighbouring counties and the rest of England? 

  Northumberland Cumbria Tyne & Wear County Durham North Yorkshire Lancashire Merseyside Greater Manchester West Yorkshire East Riding of Yorkshire Cheshire Derbyshire South Yorkshire Shropshire Staffordshire West Midlands Herefordshire Worcestershire Warwickshire Nottinghamshire Lincolnshire Leicestershire Rutland Northampton Gloucestershire Oxfordshire Buckinghamshire Bedfordshire Cambridgeshire Norfolk Suffolk Essex Hertfordshire Greater London Kent East Sussex Surrey West Sussex Berkshire Hampshire Isle of Wight Wiltshire Dorset Bristol Somerset Devon Cornwall

 Facts and figures:

Area Name Population % with access to a 2ha woodland within 500m Woodland Cover % Ancient Woodland in need of restoration % Ancient Woodland % woods threatened in last 10 years lost or damaged in last 10 years
Bedfordshire

Bedfordshire is among the least wooded counties in England.

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8.7 7.9 10.6 27.4 2 0
Berkshire

Berkshire has one of the highest rates of threats to ancient woodland in England.

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13.0 16.5 8.8 26.8 14 3
Bristol

Bristol and the surrounding area is among the least wooded counties in England.

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13.9 6.1 2.7 8.2 0 0
Buckinghamshire

Buckinghamshire has one of the highest numbers of threats to ancient woodland.

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20.2 11.4 18.7 41.5 25 4
Cambridgeshire

Cambridgeshire is the least wooded county in England!

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4.5 3.5 8.2 23.4 9 3
Cheshire

Cheshire is one of the worst counties in England for woodland cover, and faces a high number of threats from development.

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13.7 6.4 2.9 12.5 11 5
Cornwall

The number of people in Cornwall who can visit a wood near their home is among the lowest in England.

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7.6 7.5 6.7 11.2 5 1
County Durham

County Durham is among the least wooded counties in England.

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27.7 7.7 7.1 19.1 6 1
Cumbria

Ancient woods under threat in Cumbria.

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17.5 10.0 11.0 24.9 9 4
Derbyshire

Derbyshire is among the least wooded counties in England.

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15.2 8.7 9.0 21.8 6 0
Devon

Devon is among the top five counties in England for woodland cover

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14.3 19.2 5.8 12.4 8 0
Dorset

Ancient woods are under threat in Dorset.

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18.0 11.9 11.0 23.8 10 4
East Riding of Yorkshire

East Riding of Yorkshire is England's second least wooded county with few people having woodland near their homes.

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2.7 3.7 1.5 2.7 0 0
East Sussex

East Sussex among the best - and the worst - for woodland.

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10.0 18.7 16.8 62.8 40 8
Essex

Essex has one of the highest numbers of threats to ancient woodland. And Essex is also one of the least wooded.

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14.4 6.6 6.3 36.0 40 0
Gloucestershire

A testing time for woodland in Gloucestershire.

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14.0 12.3 28.8 49.1 5 2
Greater London

Greater London's woodland figures all in the red.

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9.1 8.2 1.8 19.4 12 2
Greater Manchester

Greater Manchester is among the least wooded counties in England.

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31.3 7.7 0.2 8.5 1 1
Hampshire

Hampshire is among the best - and the very worst - counties for woodland.

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21.5 19.4 13.7 39.3 48 9
Herefordshire

A testing time for woodland in Herefordshire.

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9.9 11.5 28.1 50.4 11 7
Hertfordshire

A testing time for woodland in Hertfordshire.

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17.5 10.6 13.0 32.7 29 0
Isle of Wight

A testing time for woodland on the Isle of Wight.

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17.0 13.2 15.8 31.8 4 0
Kent

Kent worst county in England for high numbers of threats to ancient woodland and overall woodland losses.

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14.5 13.1 17.1 59.9 88 14
Lancashire

Lancashire among the worst counties in England for the high number of threats to ancient woodland. AND Lancashire is one of the least wooded

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15.8 6.5 2.4 14.8 13 3
Leicestershire

Leicestershire's woodland figures are all in the red with the county being one of the five worst in England for woodland cover.

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4.4 5.8 4.7 14.1 6 1
Lincolnshire

Lincolnshire's woodland figures all in the red AND the county is one of the five worst in England for woodland cover.

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5.8 4.2 12.2 24.1 12 5
Merseyside

Merseyside is among the least wooded counties in England.

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23 6.9 0.00 2.6 3 1
Norfolk

Norfolk has one of the highest numbers of threats to ancient woodland.

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9.8 10.1 3.2 5.3 11 0
North Yorkshire

North Yorkshire among the least wooded counties in England.

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12.7 8.4 12.5 21.6 9 2
Northamptonshire

Northamptonshire's woodland figures all in the red.

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5.8 7.0 19.3 41.1 19 5
Northumberland

Northumberland is among the best counties in England for woodland cover

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16.1 17.4 2.9 5.8 6 2
Nottinghamshire

A testing time for woodland in Nottinghamshire.

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13.0 9.7 5.4 12.9 11 1
Oxfordshire

Oxfordshire's woodland figures are all in the red.

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5.0 9.0 11.9 33.3 14 1
Rutland

Rutland's woodland figures all in the red.

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8.4 6.4 12.8 36.2 3 3
Shropshire

Shropshire has one of the highest numbers of threats to ancient woods.

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23.8 9.3 17.6 29.4 10 7
Somerset

Somerset has one of the highest numbers of threats to ancient woods.

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11.6 8.4 13.5 31.9 14 7
South Yorkshire

A testing time for woodland in South Yorkshire.

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29.5 10.3 13.8 28.8 9 1
Staffordshire

A testing time for woodland in Staffordshire.

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15.1 9.2 11.6 23.7 14 0
Suffolk

Suffolk's woodland figures all in the red.

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8.1 9.4 4.1 12.7 2 1
Surrey

Surrey takes gold as the best county in England for woodland cover BUT woodland threats remain extremely high.

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17.0 24.8 7.2 23.3 38 5
Tyne & Wear

Tyne & Wear's woodland figures all in the red.

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8.8 8.1 20.5 27.2 1 1
Warwickshire

Warwickshire's woodland figures all in the red.

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6.9 6.6 13.5 31.4 14 1
West Midlands

The West Midlands is among the worst counties for high numbers of threats to ancient woodland... AND is one of the five least wooded counties in England!

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17.0 5.8 5.2 14.0 17 1
West Sussex

West Sussex among the best - and the worst - counties for woodland.

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14.5 21.4 23.0 51.1 38 9
West Yorkshire

A testing time for woodland in West Yorkshire.

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15.0 7.9 12.5 23.6 17 6
Wiltshire

Wiltshire's woodland figures in the red.

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8.3 9.9 19.6 37.7 9 2
Worcestershire

A testing time for woodland in Worcestershire.

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11.5 9.8 15.6 36.7 13 3
 

About this data

This list of the 48 'counties' in England show your county as you might understand it, as opposed to administrative areas.

  • Ancient woodland data (as available): Natural England (July 2012)
  • Woodland cover in England: National Forest Inventory (Sept 2012)
  • Population figures: 2001 census
  • Population total with access to a 2ha woodland within 500m: latest Space for People analysis (2009)

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