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Key facts
- Location
- Nottinghamshire , England
- Governing body
- Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB), Nottinghamshire County Council , Forestry England
- Website
- visitsherwood .co .uk
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- forest
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Located in
- Nottinghamshire
- Area
- 423
- Image
- Oldest tree in Sherwood Forest park.JPG
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- Commons category
- Sherwood Forest
- different from
- Sherwood Forest
- native label
- Sherwood Forest
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Encyclopedic overview
Robin Hood Statue, Sherwood Forest
Sherwood Forest consists of the remnants of an ancient royal forest in Nottinghamshire, in the East Midlands region of England. It is associated with the legend of Robin Hood. The forest was proclaimed by William the Conqueror and mentioned in the Domesday Book in 1086. The reserve has the highest concentration of ancient trees in Europe.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Sherwood Forest” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.