Ancient woodland information

Websites

• You can view the ancient woodland inventories, old maps and recorded ancient trees on the Woodland Trust website (just switch on the layers you want and zoom in)
• Old maps has a range of maps to view and buy from different periods of history
• Website for the Northern Ireland ancient woodland inventory project

Publications

• Forthcoming from the Forestry Commission. Managing Ancient & Native Woodland: England Practice guide.
• Linnard (2000) Welsh Woods and Forests: a history
• Peterken (1996) Natural Woodland: Ecology and conservation in northern temperate regions
• Peterken (1993) Woodland conservation and management
• Rackham (2007) Woodlands New Naturalist Series no 100
• Rackham (2003) Ancient Woodland: its history, vegetation and uses in England (2nd Ed)
• Rackham (1986) The History of the Countryside
• Rackham (1976) Trees and Woodland in the British Landscape
• Smout (2003) People and Woods in Scotland: A history
• Smout (ed) (1997) Scottish Woodland History
• SNH (1997) The inventory of ancient and long-established woodland sites and the inventory of semi-natural woodlands (provisional) Information and Advisory Note Number 95
• Steven and Carlisle (1959) The native pinewoods of Scotland
• Vera (2000) Grazing ecology and forest history
• Westaway (2006) Weald ancient woodland survey (pdf)
• The Woodland Trust (2005) The conservation and restoration of plantations on ancient woodland sites

Articles

• Goldberg et al (2007) The ancient woodland concept as a practical conservation tool in Great Britain. Journal for Nature Conservation 15: 109-119
• Spencer and Kirby (1992) An Inventory of Ancient Woodland for England and Wales. Biological Conservation
• Walker and Kirby (1989) Inventories of ancient, long-established and semi-natural woodland in Scotland Research and Survey in nature conservation, NCC