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The Minister of Education, however, was keen that Woodlands Girls' and Boys' Schools should remain segregated.

The name 'Leece' refers to a woodland clearing; in the Domesday Book it is recorded as land held for the king.

At this date it is still surrounded by the countryside, and woodland dominates the skyline. Up the hill to the left is the Workhouse, with the Trenance flour mill and its chimney below.

Most of the woodland consists of deciduous native trees, but the conifers are 18th- and 19th-century introductions.

This lovely view, typical of this area, shows the landscape where the author Thomas Hardy set The Woodlanders.

Located in a lovely corner of Hampshire, close to the rivers Anton and Test, and near the sprawling woodland of the Harewood Forest, this church includes two 14th- century arcades, one of

The open countryside and woodland beyond the church is now where Carter Drive leads into road after road of neat suburban houses.

It has a delightful old church standing on its own in woodland. The Punch Bowl Inn (left) is central to the village; this is where the Surrey Union Hunt meets on Boxing Day.

Little remains today of Shakespeare's Forest of Arden, only isolated islands of woodland in a sea of agriculture. But the name lives on locally.

This is rural Berkshire at its best, a mixture of dense woodland and winding country lanes. Several substantial new houses have been built on the left of the road in recent years.

Along the Evenlode, that gentle Cotswold stream, stands a string of villages all 'under Wychwood', that ancient wood that still remains one of the most extensive stretches of woodland in Oxfordshire, but

Woodlands Park is a good example of that most English of urban establishments - a local rec.

There is plenty of woodland here.

East Grinstead, a Wealden market town founded during the early 13th-century woodland clearances, was recorded as a borough by 1235.

Cranham has not suffered too much at the hands of unsympathetic development over the years, partly because it is situated in a steep valley and surrounded by dense woodland.

Famously the second-highest point in Essex (the highest being a patch of undistinguished woodland in the parish of Langley), Langdon Hills certainly impressed the traveller Arthur Young.

The woodland environment made an attractive setting for occasional light entertainment - note the stage - and this arena would be a real sun trap owing to its sheltered position.

Today, Knowle End Wood, Edge Hill Wood, Castle Wood and Edgehill Covert grace the top of the escarpment, forming a continuous band of woodland nearly two miles long.

Today, Knowle End Wood, Edge Hill Wood, Castle Wood and Edgehill Covert grace the top of the escarpment, forming a continuous band of woodland nearly two miles long.

Newly opened in November 1965, the school stands in Gainsborough Road at the southern end of the town, and takes its name from the ancient stretch of woodland opposite its gates.

It developed around the railway station when houses were built for middle-class Victorian families who chose to live surrounded by beautiful woodland scenery.

The local industry used charcoal from the great woodlands around the area, and water power from the River Teise on which the village stands.

It stands at the end of a narrow muddy creek, the haunt of the heron and kingfisher, that winds a course between luxuriant woodland.

Shrawley is a very ancient settlement, its woodlands sloping down to the River Severn.