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Sherwood Forest is a royal forest in Nottinghamshire, England, famous by its historical association with the legend of Robin Hood. A forest since the end of the Ice Age (as attested by pollen sampling cores), Sherwood Forest National Nature Reserve today encompasses 423.2 hectares,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Sherwood Forest NNR )〕, surrounding the village of Edwinstowe, the site of Thoresby Hall. The forest that most people associate with Sherwood Forest is actually named Birklands and Bilhaugh. It is a remnant of an older, much larger, royal hunting forest, which derived its name from its status as the ''shire (or sher) wood'' of Nottinghamshire, which extended into several neighbouring counties (shires), bordered on the west along the River Erewash and the Forest of East Derbyshire. When the Domesday Book was compiled in 1086, the forest covered perhaps a quarter of Nottinghamshire in woodland and heath subject to the forest laws. ==Management and conservation== The Sherwood Forest Trust are a small charity that covers the ancient royal boundary and current national character area of Sherwood Forest.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Home - The Sherwood Forest Trust Nottinghamshire )〕 Their aims are based on conservation, heritage and communities, but also include tourism and the economy. Nottinghamshire County Council and The Forestry Commission manages the ancient remnant of forest north of the village of Edwinstowe, and provides walks and trails and a host of other activities.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Sherwood Forest )〕 This central core of ancient Sherwood is a SSSI,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Magic Map Application )〕 NNR,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Nottinghamshire's National Nature Reserve )〕 and SAC.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Birklands and Bilhaugh )〕 It is a very important site for ancient oaks, wood pasture, invertebrates and fungi, as well as being linked to the legends of Robin Hood. Part of the forest was opened as a country park to the public in 1969 by Nottinghamshire County Council, which manages a small part of the forest under lease from the Thoresby Estate. In 2002, a portion of Sherwood Forest was designated a National Nature Reserve by English Nature. In 2007, Natural England officially incorporated the Budby South Forest, Nottinghamshire's largest area of dry lowland heath, into the Nature Reserve, nearly doubling its size from . Some portions of the forest retain many very old oaks, especially in the portion known as the Dukeries, south of the town of Worksop, which was so called because it used to contain five ducal residences. The River Idle, a tributary of the Trent, is formed in Sherwood Forest from the confluence of several minor streams. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Sherwood Forest」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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