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Ancient Woodland is land that has had a continuous woodland cover since 1600AD and may be ancient semi natural woodland (ASNW), which retains a native tree and shrub cover that has not been planted, although it may have been managed by coppicing or felling and allowed to regenerate naturally, or plantation on ancient woodland sites (PAWS) where the original tree cover has been felled and replaced by planting, often with conifers, and usually over the last century.<\/SPAN><\/P>

The inventory identifies over 52,000 ancient woodland sites in England. Ancient woodland is identified using presence or absence of woods from old maps, information about the wood's name, shape, internal boundaries, location relative to other features, ground survey, and aerial photography. The information recorded about each wood and stored on the Inventory Database includes its grid reference, its area in hectares and how much is semi-natural or replanted. Prior to the digitisation of the boundaries, only paper maps depicting each ancient wood at 1:50 000 scale were available. <\/SPAN><\/P><\/DIV><\/DIV><\/DIV>", "summary": "", "title": "Ancient Woodland", "tags": [], "type": "", "typeKeywords": [], "thumbnail": "", "url": "", "minScale": 500000, "maxScale": 5000, "spatialReference": "", "accessInformation": "© Natural England copyright. Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right [INSERT CURRENT YEAR]", "licenseInfo": "

Only Ancient Woodland Sites that were over 2 Ha on the 1920's Base Maps are Included on the Inventory. <\/SPAN><\/P>

Some of these may now be less than 2ha because of subsequent clearance. Woods that were less than 2ha on the base maps are not included even though some of these are ancient. The inventory is classed as \"provisional\" because it is under a constant system of review and update as new information is received or actual changes are recorded. If you have information that would help us to update the inventory please contact Natural England. <\/SPAN><\/SPAN><\/P>

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