Sherwood Forest is now 450 acres, down from 100,000, and come Britons are concerned, saying the forest is one of England’s essential features. Only 450 ancient oaks are still alive. I wonder what that ancient shepherd of trees, Treebeard, would say about this.
It is not generally known, but many of the earliest Robin Hood ballads place him, not in Sherwood Forest, but in the valley of Barnsdale, which is in the same general area, but a different place.