Heritage Woodland Leaflets

A series of leaflets for the Council's ancient woodlands, also known as the Council's heritage woodlands, are available to download here. The leaflets provide information about the important history of these sites, together with useful information about how to get to and around the woodlands. They also give a background to important wildlife, archaeology and management practices that you might expect to see on a visit.

The leaflets were produced as part of the Heritage Lottery Fund Award Fuelling a Revolution; The Woods That Founded The Steel Country. This was a partnership between the Heritage Lottery Fund, Forestry Commission, Countryside Agency, South Yorkshire Forest Partnership and Rotherham Borough Council.

Professor M. Jones, a local countryside management specialist and landscape historian assisted greatly with the production of the series.

Rotherham's Heritage Woodlands (0.7 Mb)
How to Spot an Ancient Woodland (1.7 Mb)
Wood is Good, More Trees Please (1.7 Mb)
How We Used Ancient Woodlands (1.6 Mb)
Changing Faces of Ancient Woodland (1.7 Mb)
We can Manage - Ancient Woodlands (1.7 Mb)
Wild About our Ancient Woodlands (1.6 Mb)
Scholes Coppice and Bray Plantation (2.8 Mb)
Bassingthorpe Spring (3.2 Mb)
Canklow Wood (3.2 Mb)
Grange Park Woodlands (2.8 Mb)
Hail Mary Hill, Falconer & Treeton Woods (3.4 Mb)
Herringthorpe and Gibbing Greave (3.2 Mb)
Wath, Boyd Royd and Birch Woods (3.4 Mb)

The leaflets are also available in paper format from the Rotherham Visitor Centre.