UNITED KINGDOM · ENGLAND · HABITATS · WOODLAND
Lost Historic Woodland
What this layer shows
Where woodland stood on the 1891–1914 Ordnance Survey maps and stands no longer: the strongest evidence layer for woodland-creation targeting and ghost-woodland surveys. AI-extracted by Forest Research; evidence, not proof. 1.66 million parcels; draws close in.
Publisher and licence
Contains, or is based on, information supplied by the Forestry Commission & Environment Agency. © Crown copyright and database right 2026. OGL v3.0
Where the data comes from
ARCGIS · services2.arcgis.com
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Facts shown for each feature
Broadleaf · Conifer
In these presets
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
- Ancient Woodland
- Ancient Woodland (revised counties)
- Long Established Woodland
- Deciduous Woodland