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This is the lane at Highnam wood.

Queen Square was laid out by John Wood the Elder, and building started in 1728 to his designs.

The trees of Low Wood stretch out into the lake, while the steep scree-clad slopes of Illgill Head—the famous Wasdale Screes—soar up the southern shores.

Queen Victoria much admired the town of Dartmouth and its beautiful estuary, recording in her journal that '...the place is lovely, with its wooded rocks and church and castle at the entrance.

The wooded islands of Derwent, Lord's and St Herbert's are clearly visible, as are the background Newlands Fells.

Taken from Billy Banks Wood south of the Swale, this distant view shows the defensive site of Richmond Castle, and the town clinging precariously - and picturesquely - to the hillside

Middleton – its full name is Middleton- by-Wirksworth – was a quarrying and mining village which produced the famous Hopton Wood stone.

A Victorian party linger beside the 'dripping well' in the deep wooded Fairlight Glen.

Nestling deep in a wooded valley, the tranquillity of this view is a world away from the busy A287 that runs through here today.

Founded in 1239 by the monks of Beaulieu Abbey, Netley Abbey occupies a pretty, wooded setting close to Southampton Water. The abbey was dissolved in 1536 and later became a private mansion.

Founded in 1239 by the monks of Beaulieu Abbey, Netley Abbey occupies a pretty, wooded setting close to Southampton Water. The abbey was dissolved in 1536 and later became a private mansion.

The heavily wooded Belle Isle and Claiffe Heights bear witness to the zeal of Thomas Curwen in planting huge numbers of larch and other trees following his purchase of the land a century earlier.

The second element of Bulphan's name is the word 'fen'.

Note the intricately carved screen, the work of the famous Hunstone family of wood-carvers from the village, which is affectionately known locally as 'Tidser'.

There are reports of ten thousand being killed, and part of the local woods are still known as the Bloody Oaks.

'Morlund', an ancient spelling preserving the word 'lundr', suggests that hereabouts Norse settlers entertained a superstitious awe for a wood or sacred grove set upon or close by moorland

Nalder & Collyer have had their sign re-lettered, but the Greenstede Café is still at No 82 and the shop between Cromwell House and Sackville House is still a butcher's, Ernest Octavius ('Ocky') Wood

Yarmouth Pier opened in 1876, and was built out of wood, a common material for the less elaborate piers.

The miniature railway at Cofton Wood was nearly as popular as the tea room, though one cannot help wondering if the adults in this picture are not just the teeniest bit embarrassed.

Lovely at all times of the year, the Golden Valley where Chalford clings on its hillside is indeed glorious when autumn touches its many wooded steeps and slopes, dips and dells with a golden

Beyond the town, in the background, is the Little Skirrid mountain, the top of which is not quite as wooded as it is today.

Woods Corner is a hamlet in the parish of Dallington, about four miles north-east of Herstmonceux.

In the 19th century, this area south of Dorking was a wild and dangerous part of Surrey, where highwaymen pursued their villainous trade and smugglers transported their contraband goods at night along

The name is possibly derived from the Celtic 'ked koit', the tomb in the wood.