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Note the pipework in the central reservation protected by a few irregularly placed cones: a far cry from today's safety-conscious contra-flows and dense forests of cones.

Lyndhurst is the 'capital' of the New Forest, a bustling tourist base at the heart of this wooded region.

The Commonwealth Institute, with its forest of flag poles each flying the flag of a Commonwealth nation, occupies what was most of the southern end of Holland Park.

It provided a strategic strongpoint, and soon after the Norman Conquest of 1066 a royal castle and later a palace was built there, set amid the royal forest of Windsor.

Situated on the eastern edge of the beautiful Ashdown Forest, the town is now a commuter settlement.

Mansfield lies some 14 miles north of Nottingham and to the west of Sherwood Forest.

The village took its name from the great Quernmore forest which once covered this area.

In the 1870s a Dr Prince persuaded Lord Abergavenny, the landowner, to develop this area, bordering the Ashdown Forest and set at a healthy 800 ft above sea level, as a health resort.

This village is noted for its beautiful woods, a railway tunnel under the Balcombe Forest and a brick viaduct over the Ouse valley. The church of St Mary was built in 1847.

The reservoir was created in 1896; it is one of four 19th-century artificial lakes in Charnwood Forest - the others are Thornton (1854), Cropston (1870) and Blackbrook (1906), all man-made

Almost opposite Foresters Cottages is the headquarters of the Veteran Car Club of Great Britain, and members' cars often visit the village.

The sign tells us that Gisburn Road leads to Clitheroe, hub of the Pendle Forest area. Stone walls, finials, setts, dripstones and lintels characterise Chatburn and the neighbouring villages.

The names over the shops - Ivor Griffiths and Williams the tobacconist's, Charles Kay and Birt's Stores - remind us that the Forest of Dean lies between Wales and England, embracing elements

On the eastern edge of the beautiful Ashdown Forest, the town is now a commuter settlement.

William Rufus's brother Richard also met his death in the New Forest by 'a pestilential blast', while the king's nephew, also called Richard, died either by being shot by an arrow or by strangulation

The reservoir was created in 1896; it is one of four 19th-century artificial lakes in Charnwood Forest - the others are Thornton (1854), Cropston (1870) and Blackbrook (1906), all man-made

Nine Mile Ride runs east to west from south Easthampstead to south of the Arborfield Garrison, originally cutting through Windsor Forest; it is now developed with long lines of bungalows.

The law was limited to the forest of Hardwick, including the 18 towns and villages within its boundary.

Woodstock House is a country house hotel nestling in the Downs below the heights of Charlton Forest. We are near Goodwood racecourse, hence the racing scene on the hotel restaurant signboard.

This village is noted for its beautiful woods, a railway tunnel under the Balcombe Forest and a brick viaduct over the Ouse valley. The church of St Mary was built in 1847.

The town became a thriving port, from which 200 vessels a year carried 265,000 tons of Forest of Dean coal.

A sign at Inglenook shows it to have been a café; beyond is The Foresters' Arms.

Bridge from the Victoria Embankment, a view much changed today, with the awful West Bridgford Hotel of 1962 (now Rushcliffe Civic Centre) replacing the trees, and the 1990s grandstands of Nottingham Forest

The law was limited to the forest of Hardwick, including the 18 towns and villages within its boundary.