![Juniper scrub in open woodland on a hillside next to Ullswater](/media/5218/juniper-scrub-open-birch-woodland-ullswater-img_8423-alastair-hotchkiss.jpg?anchor=center&mode=crop&heightratio=0.5622047244094488188976377953&width=647&rnd=132095541290000000)
Credit: Alastair Hotchkiss / WTML
Juniper itself can also form a distinct woodland type, and while it is mostly in Scotland, pockets also occur in the Pennines, Northumberland and Cumbria.
Yew woods are a rare and special spectacle, but are also among our most species-poor woodlands, with the dense shade they cast. They occur almost entirely on the chalk of the North and South Downs, and Chilterns.