Sherwood forest is a royal forest in Nottingham shire,England, famous because of its historic association with the legend of robin hood. The area has been wooded since the end of the Last Glacial Period.In the Northern ‘High Forest’ the rather diminutive collection of rivers draining the Sherwood Sand stones: Rain worth Water, The River Maun, the River Medan and the Poulter; cross the Sherwood Sand stones flowing into one another to form the Idle River in the Hatfield District to the north of the 13th century Forest.
Over 900 trees in Sherwood forest are 600 years old or more.There are 1500 species of beetle and 200 types of spiders found in Sherwood Forest. The Major Oak may in fact be three or four trees which fused together centuries ago and not a single tree.