County with most trees

[rich p]

I've heard a few times that Sussex has the second highest number of trees of the English counties but I can't find out which has the most.

Any ideas?

 

[ColinJ]

I've heard a few times that Sussex has the second highest number of trees of the English counties but I can't find out which has the most.

Any ideas?

I don't know which county has the highest number of trees, but the county with maximum tree coverage is apparently Surrey.

(You sometimes have to try the second page of the Google results! )

 

[lukesdad]

I thought it was Surrey.

 

[rich p]

Well done Colin. I did try!

The chart on page 2 seems to indicate that Surrey has less trees than E&W Sussex, Kent and Hampshire. Did I miss something?

Edit:
Looking again I think that table was referring to ancient woodland.

 

[lukesdad]

I went to school in Surrey and thats what we were told then. Mind it is rather along time ago. Lived in Hants but thats mainly downland and farmland. Would have said it was similar for E and W sussex.

 

[Greedo]

I've heard a few times that Sussex has the second highest number of trees of the English counties but I can't find out which has the most.

Any ideas?

You trying to tell us something old yin!


http://www.thescottishsun.co.uk/sco...w-rapped-for-alleged-try-for-a-tree-bonk.html

 

[Globalti]

One thing is for sure - up here in the NW there are more trees than ever. If you look at old black & white pictures of the mill country the countryside is almost bereft of trees, presumably because they all got cut down for pit props or firewood. Now all the old industrial sites, motorway verges and waste land are covered in semi-mature trees. Even the hillside above my house in Summerseat was a bare grassy slope when I moved in and now, 21 years later, it's thickly wooded.

 

[dellzeqq]

and the most common species? (I know the answer to this, so guess away....)

England's indigenous forests had more or less been felled by 1650, after which time framed buildings pretty much died out (and, yes, Aperitif, the timber for Liberty's was imported....).

 

[rich p]

You trying to tell us something old yin!


http://www.thescottishsun.co.uk/sco...w-rapped-for-alleged-try-for-a-tree-bonk.html

Don't take the p*ss, you old yang; I really loved that tree

 

[Globalti]

The most common species must be the pines, since commercial forestry really started?

Or are you going to tell us it's something like sycamore, a non-native species?

 

[dellzeqq]

Sitka Spruce. Not good.