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

Look south away from Stirling Corner and past Mill Hill Golf Club bordering Thistle Wood and Scratch Wood (a rural name now adopted by the local motorway service station), and take a moment to reflect

A walk up Gay Street, named after Robert Gay, who granted John Wood the lease on this hilly area north-west of the old city, leads to one of the most celebrated pieces of this remarkable city's townscape

This is another of Benhilton's 1870 villas in attractive wooded grounds. By 1898 Woodside House, in Woodside Road, had become a small private school.

This large area of deciduous woods, in which beech predominates, is a favourite with walkers.

The Grammar School was founded in 1491 by William Wood of Sudbury College. These buildings were designed by Robert Page of London, and opened in 1858 with 26 pupils.

The name of the village means 'a clearing in the oak woods'.

It was removed to Endcliffe Woods in 1903; a statue of the Queen replaced it here in 1905, but it was itself taken to the woods in 1930.

It was removed to Endcliffe Woods in 1903; a statue of the Queen replaced it here in 1905, but it was itself taken to the woods in 1930.

It is an attractive village, and at the west end, on the corner of Wood Lane, is the White Friars Hotel; we see it here from Wood Lane, with the main road passing between the creeper-clad hotel

Timber is being loaded onto barges, or lighters, to be towed up to Gloucester, where vast wood yards were sited along the canal.

This wooded area to the north of the town was laid out and intersected with walks in the latter half of the 19th century and remain today a pleasant, if steep walk to the northern rim of the bowl

Also known as Piper`s Hill Common, this beautiful nature reserve has developed from wood pasture; that is, rough grazing with a scattering of trees.

The Trent Valley Way long-distance footpath runs through the cliff-top woods for over a mile.

Also known as Piper's Hill Common, this beautiful nature reserve has developed from wood pasture; that is, rough grazing with a scattering of trees.

During the 18th century Madeley Wood grew into large industrial community where 3,500 people worked in the iron industry.

This picture shows the Trossachs Hotel situated on the northern shore, and the wooded slopes of Sron Armailte.

Graffham is a wooded hillside village under the Downs. Pescod's Stores has a Hovis sign on a painted wall.

The environs are very beautiful, and comprise one of the finest reaches of the Thames, flanked by gentle hills or cliffs covered with hanging woods.

Appropriately still running beside trees at Burley Villas and Abbeyfield (centre), Silver Street was named in the Middle Ages for the Latin word for a wooded setting, rather than the precious metal.

At Kinsley Wood the ER was planted on both sides of the hill.

Adjoining the Hollow, the main A47 becomes Wood Street. Today the scene is a lot more commercial. The four Belisha beacons have been replaced by their pelican equivalent.

The Dean's seat is just one of the many superb examples of wood-carving in the stalls. Bench ends, misericords and canopies are individually carved.

This picture shows the Trossachs Hotel situated on the northern shore, and the wooded slopes of Sron Armailte.