List of forests in the United Kingdom

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This is a list of some of the forests in the United Kingdom. Care should be taken to distinguish extensive wooded areas from royal forests which may never have been particularly wooded within historical times.

Contents

England

North

Cheshire

Cumbria

County Durham

Lancashire

Northumberland

Yorkshire

Midlands

West Midlands County

Shropshire

Staffordshire

Warwickshire

Worcestershire

Derbyshire

Nottinghamshire

Leicestershire

Lincolnshire

Rutland

Northamptonshire

East

Essex

Bedfordshire

Hertfordshire

Norfolk

Suffolk

South east

Buckinghamshire

Hampshire

Isle of Wight

Kent

Oxfordshire

Surrey

Sussex

South west

Somerset

Gloucestershire

Wiltshire

Devon

Dorset

Scotland

Angus

Argyll and Bute

Dumfries and Galloway

Strathspey & Badenoch

Fife

Scottish Borders

South Ayrshire

Stirling

Wales

Anglesey (Ynys Môn)

Carmarthenshire (Sir Gaerfyrddin)

Ceredigion

Conwy

Conwy/Denbighshire

Denbighshire

Gwynedd

Monmouthshire

Neath Port Talbot

Powys

Northern Ireland

Classification

See also

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