Mystical Photos of the Enchanting English Forests of Wistman's Wood

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24. Mature woodland is rare on Dartmoor, though (it's moorland!),

so "forests of dartmoor" is wide of the mark. This patch of woodland is very small:

Wistman's Wood is one of only three remote high-altitude oakwoods on Dartmoor, Devon, England... Wistman's Wood has been mentioned in writing for hundreds of years. It is likely a left-over from the ancient forest that covered much of Dartmoor c. 7000 BC, before Mesolithic hunter/gatherers cleared it around 5000 BC.[1] Photographic and other records show that Wistman's Wood has changed considerably since the mid-19th century; at the same time climatic conditions have also generally become warmer.[5][6] Not only have the older oak trees grown from a stunted/semi-prostrate to a more ascending form, but a new generation of mostly straight-grown and single-stemmed oaks has developed. The oldest oaks appear to be 400–500 years old, and originated within a degenerating oakwood that survived in scrub form during two centuries of cold climate.[1] In c. 1620 these old trees were described as "no taller than a man may touch to top with his head". Tree height increased somewhat by the mid-19th century, and during the 20th century approximately doubled...

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