ancient woodland

From giant redwoods at Rhinefield to a wartime airfield at Holmsley, the New Forest holds far more than ponies on a B-road. Most visitors to the New Forest slow down at a cattle grid, watch...

Three hundred and fifty thousand visitors each year come for the Major Oak. Almost none discover what else awaits here. Sherwood Forest, globally renowned yet rarely explored, beckons adventurers. Each year, hundreds of thousands arrive...

Here are five ancient woodlands across the UK, where the trees lean close, the light moves slowly, and the ground feels like it remembers everything. There are places in Britain where the map stops being...