Wild Britain: Week 2. The best of the Woodland Trust’s sites

Wild Britain: Week 2. The best of the Woodland Trust’s sites
In centuries gone by, you had to be very wealthy to look on woods as we do now, and see them as only a place of pleasure. Instead, they would have been where you gathered firewood, nuts, and berries; let your pigs forage; collected herbs and plants for your medicines; feared to travel alone; and where, because you knew little of the wider world, you believed strange sprites and spirits lived and …

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