Trees can be individually inspiring but when trees are gathered or clumped together they can range from the majestic to the commercially relevant.  Over centuries trees have provided the largest social impacts from shelter, sustenance and products from timber.  Through changing seasons the aesthetic benefits of the wide variety of trees also give a significant amount of personal pleasure.

Despite problems of disease in some species and Sheffield council contracting to chop down trees close to highways, trees are  ubiquitously visible throughout the UK.

 Tree Zones and Areas Where You See Trees

1. Woods in all shapes and sizes
2. Forest – now applied to conifers but historically area where forest laws applied
3. Copse – broad leaved woodland
4. Spinney
5. Stand
6. Park  – traditionally containing more widely spread trees
7. Arboretum
8. Clough or Ghyll
9. Gill or Dingle – wooded valley
10. Ancient Woodland
11. Carr – usually alder & willow on wetland
12. Chase or firth – a hunting area
13. Enclosure – once land held in common
14. Glade
15. Plantation
16. Hanger   -wood on a  steep slope or bank
17. Ride
18. Shaw-  small wood
19. Spring  – coppiced woodland
20. Wildwood- original forest from the last ice age
21. Landscapes
22. Orchard
23. Woodlot
24. Jungle
25. Thicket
26. Memorials -  graveyards crematoria  and special areas
27. Swamp
28. Grove
29. Nurseries and specialist tree vendors
30. Woodland Trust
31. National Trust Properties
32. Botanic gardens
33. Wild in nature

If you wish to take issue with my selection or know where I have ignored a favourite ‘tree zone’ then send us a comment.