The Forest of Mercia lies within the northernmost boundary of the more ancient and well-known Forest of Arden which covered the area when it formed part...

Forest County Durham Hamsterley Forest Lancashire Gisburn Forest Northumberland Kielder Forest Yorkshire Dalby Forest Wykeham Forest Forest of Mercia...

here for safe passage through the forest. Thorkell of Arden, a descendant of the ruling family of Mercia, was one of the few major English landowners who...

England's community forests are afforestation-based regeneration projects which were established in the early 1990s. Each of them is a partnership between...

577, after the Battle of Deorham. After 628, the kingdom became a client or sub-kingdom of Mercia as a result of the Battle of Cirencester. The Tribal...

Around 790 the Saxon King Offa of Mercia built his dyke high above the Wye, but the area was still claimed by the Kingdom of Gwent and Morgannwg before it...

Sherwood Forest is the remnants of an ancient royal forest in Nottinghamshire, England, having a historic association with the legend of Robin Hood. The...

Chasewater led to the building of the £1.9 million Forest of Mercia Innovation Centre in 2000 and the restoration of the Chasewater Railway as a heritage...

subsequently passed to a series of kings with unknown genealogies. During the 8th century, as the hegemony of Mercia grew, Wessex largely retained its...

broadly to the early-medieval kingdom of Mercia, and later became important in the Industrial Revolution of the 18th and 19th centuries. They are now...