UNITED KINGDOM · ENGLAND · HABITATS · WOODLAND
Long Established Woodland
What this layer shows
Woodland present since at least 1893: not ancient, but old enough to have developed rich biodiversity and old-growth features. Natural England maps it county by county with the Ancient Woodland Inventory revision, so outside the finished counties absence means not yet mapped, never that a wood is recent.
Publisher and licence
Natural England 2026 · Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database rights 2026. OS AC0000851168. OGL v3.0
© Natural England 2026, Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database rights 2026. OS AC0000851168. OGL v3.0
Where the data comes from
ARCGIS · services.arcgis.com
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Facts shown for each feature
Area (ha) · County · Reference
In these presets
Woodland
Everything wooded: the Ancient Woodland Inventory and its revision, deciduous woodland, traditional orchards, wood pasture and parkland, and the National Forest Inventory. Ancient woodland is irreplaceable habitat under the NPPF, so its boundary, and whether the revised inventory moved it, is usually the first thing a client needs to know.
Forestry
The checks behind a felling licence or a woodland creation application: ancient woodland and its revision, the National Forest Inventory, the live felling licence register, EWCO low-sensitivity land, the 1891–1914 historic woodland maps, wood pasture, deciduous priority habitat, and the statutory designations that constrain felling and planting: SSSI, SAC, SPA and Ramsar.
Other layers in this group
- Ancient Woodland Inventory (Scotland)
- Native Woodland Survey (Scotland)
- Caledonian Pinewood Inventory
- National Forest Inventory (Scotland)
- National Forest for Wales
- Traditional Orchards (Wales)
- Wood Pasture & Parkland (Wales)
- Historic Woodland 1891–1914
- Lost Historic Woodland
- Ancient Woodland
- Ancient Woodland (revised counties)
- Deciduous Woodland