ABSTRACT
Wood-pastures are intricate, usually ancient, landscapes; intimate mixes of both trees and pasture. Quelch (2010) defines them as: ‘Ancient wood pastures in the uplands are areas of grazed pasture, heath or open hill with a scattering of open-grown veteran trees, some of which may have been pollarded in the past’. Like Vera (2007), he also described wood-pasture as: ‘a “savannah” kind of landscape, being intermediate in character between woodland and (hill) grazing and depending on both’ (P. Quelch, pers. comm.). As wood-pastures are so variable, there are probably other ways of describing them and although there might be some difference in emphasis, they still relate to the same broad habitat.
