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The ancient burial ground, village well or Roman villa under your home will be revealed in a ground breaking project to show how the landscape of England has changed over thousands of years.
A new tree-map suggests there could be around two million unrecorded ancient trees in England. ... New map of ancient trees an opportunity for conservation. 30 June 2022. Share Save.
The team got samples of DNA from more than 2,000 people living in rural parts of England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland whose four grandparents had stayed put in their home towns or villages.
Work carried out by the Woodland Trust and volunteers to map these important trees over the past 15 years on the ancient tree inventory has found 180,000 old and notable specimens, of which an ...
The search for historical trees and ancient woodland in Cambridgeshire has been given a boost by experts using maps dating back to the 1840s. Many ancient woodlands across the county have disappeared ...
Ancient maps chart London's growth. The maps were designed to be used by travellers. Most people in London never go anywhere without their A - Z and a new exhibition has opened which shows the same ...
Save our shires: In a glorious evocation of a bygone England, MATTHEW ENGEL embarks on an epic journey through the ancient counties that were wiped off the map in a decade of lunacy ...
Now the new study, published in the journal Ecological Applications, suggests the true figure for ancient, veteran and notable trees could be 1.7-2.1 million across England – around eight to 10 ...