Bob W wrote: >>Very nice gallery. Pretty countryside (England looks so >>manicured compared >>to California). Age, I think, mainly. How long one has been >>settled vs the >>other. > > > probably. That part of the country has been inhabited continuously > since the end of the last Ice Age, I think. Deforestation happened > over several thousand years, and there has been agriculture there for > about 6,000 years. Dorset grew rich off sheep farming during the > Georgian period, and the hedgerows would have been planted following > the Enclosures of the 18th (?) century. > > There are still some primeval woodlands in the region, but not much, > so practically the whole countryside is man-made.
Ancient woodland, meaning over about 600 years old. The only primeval (meaning never managed) woodland (and that's debateable) in Europe is on the Poland/Belarus border. Apart from a few blanket and raised bogs, the whole of the UK landscape is created by Mankind. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
