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Royal Forests in England

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  • Forest of Accrington, Lancashire
  • Alice Holt Forest and Woolmer Forest, Hampshire
  • Allerdale Forest, Cumberland
  • Amounderness, Lancashire (including Bleasdale, Fulwood and Myerscough)
  • Ashdown Forest, East Sussex
  • Forest of Bere including Bere Ashley and Bere Porchester, Hampshire
  • Bernwood Forest, Buckinghamshire (including Brill and Panshill) and Oxfordshire
  • Blackmore Forest, Dorset
  • Bolsover Forest, Derbyshire
  • Forest of Bowland, Lancashire and Yorkshire
  • Forest of Braden, Wiltshire (including parish of Minety, Gloucestershire)
  • Brewood Forest, Staffordshire
  • Burrington Forest
  • Cannock Chase, Staffordshire
  • Charnwood Forest
  • Chute Forest, Hampshire and Wiltshire, included Finkley and Digerley Forests
  • Clarendon Forest, Wiltshire (including Panchet and Milchet Park), with the associated Forest of Buckholt, Hampshire
  • Forest of Dartmoor, Devon
  • Forest of Dean, Gloucestershire and Herefordshire
  • Duffield Frith A group of six royal forests in mid Derbyshire
  • Forest of East Derbyshire
  • Epping Forest part of Waltham Forest
  • Exmoor Forest, Somerset
  • Farndale Forest, Yorkshire
  • Feckenham Forest, Warwickshire and Worcestershire
  • Freemantle Forest, Hampshire
  • Forest of Galtres, Yorkshire, disafforested 1629
  • Gillingham Forest, Dorset
  • Groveley Forest, Wiltshire
  • Guildford Park, Surrey
  • Hatfield Forest
  • Hay of Hereford
  • Forest of High Peak, North Derbyshire
  • Forest of Huntingdonshire (including Forests of Weybridge, Sapley and Herthey)
  • Inglewood Forest, Cumberland
  • Irchenfield Forest, Herefordshire (disafforested 1251)
  • Kesteven Forest in The Fens of south Lincolnshire. This is not the modern forestry management district of the same name.
  • Keynsham Forest, Somerset
  • Kingswood, Gloucestershire
  • Kinver Forest, Staffordshire formerly extending into Worcestershire
  • Knaresborough Forest, Yorkshire
  • Langwith Hay, Yorkshire
  • Long Forest, Shropshire
  • Long Mynd or Strattondale, Shropshire
  • Lonsdale (including Wyresdale and Quernsmore), Lancashire
  • Macclesfield Forest, Cheshire
  • Malvern Forest, Worcestershire was strictly only a chase.
  • Mara et Mondrum, Cheshire (Delamere Forest is a remnant)
  • Melksham and Chippenham Forest, Wiltshire
  • Mendip Forest, also known as Cheddar, Somerset
  • Forest of Middlesex, London & South East (Middlesex)
  • Morfe Forest, Shropshire, lying east and southeast of Bridgnorth
  • Needwood Forest in east Staffordshire was parcel of the Duchy of Lancaster
  • Neroche Forest, Somerset
  • New Forest, Hampshire
  • North Petherton, Somerset
  • Forest of Northumberland (disafforested 1280)
  • Pamber Forest, Hampshire
  • Forest of Pendle, Lancashire
  • Pickering Forest, North Yorkshire
  • Poorstock Forest, Dorset (see Powerstock)
  • Purbeck, Dorset
  • Rockingham Forest, (including Brigstock, Cliffe, Geddington and Northampton Park) Northamptonshire
  • Forest of Rossendale, Lancashire
  • Forest of Rutland, with Sauvey Forest, Leicestershire
  • Salcey Forest, Buckinghamshire and Northamptonshire
  • Savernake Forest, Berkshire and Wiltshire
  • Selwood Forest, Somerset and Wiltshire
  • Sherwood Forest, Nottinghamshire
  • Shirlett Forest, Shropshire, whose final extent was a small area northwest of Bridgnorth
  • Shotover Forest (including Stowood), Oxfordshire
  • Forest of Skipton, Yorkshire
  • Somerton Warren, Somerset
  • Stapelwood, Shropshire (including Buriwood, Lythewood and Stepelton)
  • Forest of Trawden, Lancashire
  • Windsor Forest, Berkshire, Hampshire and Surrey
  • Forest of Wirral, Cheshire (disafforested 1376)
  • Whittlewood Forest, Buckinghamshire, Northamptonshire and Oxfordshire
  • Woodstock Forest, Oxfordshire
  • Wrekin Forest (more strictly Mount Gilbert Forest), Shropshire (including Wellington and Wombridge), and the associated Forest of Haughmond
  • Wychwood Forest, Oxfordshire
  • Wyre Forest, Worcestershire and Shropshire was strictly only a chase

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