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Before Bullenshaw House was built, the area was wooded and provided a natural playground for youngsters. During the war two air-raid shelters were built into the hill.

The wooded estate of Mount Edgecumbe is the hereditary seat of the Earls of Mount Edgecumbe.

But the pond and the wooded nooks around Bonchurch are as great an attraction as they were for the Victorian visitor.

During the medieval period it was undoubtedly extensively wooded, and its name possibly means 'the grazing place of feral stallions'.

A pleasant setting against a backdrop of wooded hills and a gentle coastline with wonderful views to the southern Lakes helped establish Silverdale as a quietly fashionable medicinal sea-bathing resort

The No 142 bus, advertising Kent Life magazine, is bound for Weeds Wood via Huntsman's Corner.

Its name is believed to have come from the appearance of charcoal workers as they emerged from working in the woods.

But the pond and the wooded nooks around Bonchurch are as great an attraction as they were for the Victorian visitor.

It lies in a wooded vale below desolate moorland, the source of the River Barle.

By the 1650s Lionel Copley had become one of the leading ironmasters in South Yorkshire, thanks to a leasing arrangement with the Earl of Shrewsbury which gave him access to Shrewsbury charcoal woods

We are standing on Winckford Bridge across the Chelmer - described by Peter Muilman in his 1769 'History of Essex' as “a handsome bridge built of wood, painted.”

The proprietor, F York Jones, used to advertise proudly that Cofton Wood Tea Room had 'special arrangements for supplying jugs of tea without waiting, even on the busiest days.'

By the 1920s, Fittleworth had become an artists' mecca owing to its pretty woods, its fine views from its commons, its quaint architecture and, it has been suggested, the warm welcome offered at the Swan

This wooded hill in the town centre is topped by the ruins of a Norman castle, whose builders might not be entirely surprised to find that the outer bailey now houses a zoo: after all, exotic animals were

Luccombe village itself is seen here against the backdrop of the wooded Horner Hill in a view taken from Knowle Top.

The school has been converted into a house by the architect Robert Wood.

The village is certainly one of Devon's prettiest, not least for its setting, strung in a series of hamlets around the junction of several pastoral and wooded combes.

They took their power from the Roeburn and Hindburn, and served several industries that included nail-making, hatting, wood-turning and sawing.

Highly-coloured and gilded walls and ceilings, tiled floors and exotic wood help to make it a romantic Victorian fantasy.

Note the unmarked roads, the shops on the left (D H Davies and M Woods) and the various forms of traffic (there are bicycles and motor cars, and a bus on the left).

This is still a distinct village, with lanes winding uphill, although the wall on the right has now been replaced by a 1970s close, Titan Barrow, the name perpetuating a house of 1748 by Wood the Elder

The wooded ravine of Nicky Nook draws botanists and sketchers.

Benfleet's wooded hills once provided vital material for fuel and boat-building.

Chapel Common has a quaint 16th-century chapel in a wood, with a new church of St Luke built nearby in 1878.