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The Major Oak is a large English oak ( Quercus robur) near the village of Edwinstowe in the midst of Sherwood Forest, Nottinghamshire, England. According to local folklore, it was Robin Hood 's shelter where he and his merry men slept.
28. Okt. 2016 · It’s no surprise that in the first Tree of the Year competition to be held in Britain, in 2014, the Major Oak was voted England’s favourite tree. Although the Major Oak saw off stiff...
15. Feb. 2018 · The tree takes its name from local historian and archaeologist Major Hayman Rooke, who wrote about the tree in his 1790 book “Remarkable Oaks in the park of Welbeck in the county of Nottingham”. Contrary to popular belief, it’s not the ‘major’ or largest oak in England, but comes from ‘the Major’s Oak’. Prior to that ...
Although it’s undeniably big, it’s not called the Major Oak because of its size. In 1790, soldier and antiquarian Major Hayman Rooke (1723-1806) wrote a book detailing the oak trees of the area and people began to refer to it as the Major Oak in his honour. What are the fences and supports about?
- Origins
- Royal Hunting Forest
- The Medieval Landscape
- Stuart and Later Sherwood
- Victorian Sherwood and The Major Oak
- Industrialisation and The Second World War
- Sherwood in The 20th Century
- Sherwood Today
Sherwood Country Park lies just north of Edwinstowe, two miles from Ollerton and 17 miles north of Nottingham on the A614 Nottingham-Doncaster road. The park is within an area which originally bore a Viking name “birch lund”, now known as Birklands.
The name 'Sherwood' was first recorded in 958AD when it was called Sciryuda, meaning 'the woodland belonging to the shire'. It became a Royal hunting forest after the Norman invasion of 1066, and was popular with many Norman kings, particularly King John and Edward I. The ruins of King John’s hunting lodge can still be seen near the Nottinghamshire...
Medieval Sherwood was not - as many imagine - a continuous swathe of dense virgin forest. It comprised birch and oak woodland, interspersed with large areas of open sandy heath and rough grassland. Sherwood also contained three Royal deer parks, near Nottingham Castle, Bestwood and Pittance (Clipstone) Park. Medieval woodland was by no means wild. ...
King James I loved to hunt in Sherwood, but his son, the ill-fated Charles I was the last king to use it as a hunting forest. Charles was executed as a result of the English Civil Wars. During this time of unrest, the forest suffered from a lack of proper management. During the late 1600s, King Charles II revived as best he could the game reserves ...
During Victorian times, Sherwood became a tourist attraction, with interest in the ancient ‘greenwood’ fuelled by romantic novels set in medieval times, such as Walter Scotts’ Ivanhoe. The main areas visited centred around the Major Oak, one of many hundreds of old Sherwood oaks. Its earliest recorded name was the Cockpen Tree in the mid 1800’s, as...
The industrialisation of the 19th and 20th centuries brought a major impact on Sherwood. Things that impacted on the Sherwood landscape: 1. coal mining 2. new coal towns and villages 3. the coming of the canals 4. railways 5. factories 6. roads 7. farming 8. grazing 9. ship building and industrial use 10. Victorian tourism 11. private ownership 12....
By the 1950s, Birklands was part of the Thoresby estate owned by the Manvers family, and woodland management had ceased there, because the area had become uneconomic to maintain. Now undisturbed by commercial forestry, the ecology of this mature native woodland flourished. A landmark since Victorian times, the Major Oak and its surrounding woodland...
Today, Sherwood Country Park is a heritage site of international significance, with annual visitor figures of around 350,000. We work with many conservation and ‘green’ agencies such as English Nature, the Countryside Commission and the Nature Conservation Council, committed to its management aims of “sustainable development of its natural resource...
The Major Oak, England's finest living National Monument was first known as the Cockpen tree or Queen Oak. Facts > estimated weight 23 Tons, Girth 33 feet, and a spread of 92 feet and 800-1000 years old.
8. Mai 2024 · The Major Oak is one of the nation’s most iconic trees. At an estimated 1,100 years old, it is believed to be among the oldest and largest oaks to be found anywhere in these isles. Despite its fragile state, it is also one of the few of Britain’s great old oaks to retain a full.
