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Links
Public sector
Government agencies
Office of the Deputy Prime Minister
Department of the
Environment, Food, and Rural Affairs
Landscape Protection: The Future of the Forest of Dean: government paper
The Forestry Commission, ultimate
successors in 1919 of the Office of Woods, itself the successor to the
Commissioner of Woods (within the Crown lands)
Alice Holt
Research Station, whose web-site has ecological and some historical
material about Alice Holt Forest
The Countryside
Agency
Addressing the Social, Economic, and Environmental Needs of the Forest of
Dean: recommendations to the government
English
Nature
Environment Agency
Countryside
Council for Wales
Defence Estates
Forest and forest-related bodies
Ashdown Forest
Conservators
Forest of Bowland AONB (Area
of Outstanding Natural Beauty)
Epping Forest (Corporation of London)
The Greensand Trust,
Bedfordshire
Verderers of the New Forest
The Forest of Marston Vale
The National Forest, a
regeneration scheme on the borders of Leicestershire, Staffordshire, and
south Derbyshire, linking ancient Needwood in Staffordshire with Charnwood
in Leicestershire.
Sherwood
Forest Trust
Stansted Forest
Cannock
Chase AONB Unit (Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty)
Local government
East Northampton Distict, includes Rockingham Forest
Voluntary sector
National organisations
 Campaign
to Protect Rural England
Campaign
for the Protection of Rural Wales
Open
Spaces Society
Ramblers'
Association
The
Deer Initiative
The
British Deer Society
The
Woodland Trust
The
Tree Council
Ancient
Tree Forum
CCW
/ Ancient Tree Forum Wales
Royal
Forestry Society
The
Arboricultural Association
Royal
Society for the Protection of Birds
Royal
Society of Wildlife Trusts
The
Landscape Institute
Field
Studies Council
The
National Biodiversity Network
The
Geography Association
The
Historical Association
Workers
Educational Association
Forest amenity groups
Alice
Holt Forest - web-site of a residents' action group which contains
ecological items and examples of early maps. See also Forestry Commission,
above.
Friends
of Ashdown Forest
Dean
Heritage Museum Trust
Dean
Forest Voice
Written evidence by Dean Forest Voice to the Select Committee of the
House of Commons on the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister: Housing,
Planning, Local Government and the Regions. (Opposed to statutory landscape
legislation, in favour of increased powers for the Verderers, presided over
by the Deputy Gaveller. 'Our ancient rights are the key [to preserving the
character of the forest].')
Since
Time Out of Mind: Reflections on the past, present, and future of the
Forest of Dean by Keith Webb, a former chairman of the Forest of Dean Local
History Society.
Friends
of Epping Forest
Hainault
Forest Website: Author and photographs, Brian Ecott
New
Forest Association
New
Forest Committee
New
Forest Commoners Defence Association
Rockingham
Forest Trust, also described on the pages of
Northamptonshire County Council and
The Small Woods Association, Woodland Initiatives Register
UK
Biodiversity Action Plan, inter alia involves Rockingham Forest
Thetford
and its Forest, part of the web-site of an amateur field archaeologist,
Paul Brooker
The
Wychwood Project, raising public awareness of the forest in West
Oxfordshire
The
Forest on Our Doorstep, a brief illustrated description of the Wyre
Forest on a personal web-page
Worcestershire
Biological Records Centre, covers Feckingham and other west Midlands
forest areas
National Parks:
authorities and amenity groups
Association of National Parks Authorities
Council for National Parks
(and Friends of the
National Parks)
Exmoor
National Park Authority
The Exmoor Society
Brecon Beacons
National Park Authority
Dartmoor National
Park Authority
Dartmoor
Preservation Association
Peak District National
Park Authority
Yorkshire Dales
National Park
The Yorkshire
Dales Society
North York Moors National
Park Authority
North Yorkshire Moors Association
Northumberland National Park Authority
Lake District
National Park Authority
Friends of the Lake District
Awdurdod Parc Cenedlaethol Eryri / Snowdonia National Park Authority
Brecon
Beacons Park Society/Cymdeithas Parc Bannau Brycheiniog
Business sector
Country
Land & Business Association
The
Royal Forest of Dean
The
Speech House, location of the Verderers' Court of the Forest of Dean
(includes 'History' page)
Brief
History of the Speech House and Verderers' Court (taken from a Speech
House Hotel booklet)
Gascoyne
Cecil Estates, Cranborne and Hatfield
The
New Forest
New
Forest On-Line
Independent policy bodies
Institute for Public
Policy Research
Groundwork UK
Related a cademic
sites
European
Commons Network, a network of scholars working on aspects of the history
of common rights and commonlands in Europe
AHRB
Research Centre for Environmental History, based in the Universities of
St Andrews and Stirling
The
Whittlewood Project, an archaeological, historical, and onomastic
investigation of the medieval forest on the borders of Northamptonshire,
Buckinghamshire, and Oxfordshire
Personal pages
Dr John Langton,
St John's College, Oxford
Dr Graham Jones, Research
Assistant
Other reference sources
'The
Verderers of Epping Forest', BBC History page with text by Richard
Morris and photographs of the sixteenth-century hunt 'Standing'.
The
Ancient Forest of Dean: Extracts from Worth, The Tourist's Guide to
Gloucestershire (1888).
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