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Autumn colours 2008
 

Join the gold rush. Foresters are watching for the awesome autumn shades in every corner of Britain so that you can relish this riot of colour. So – check the colours, click on the map, plan your route and enjoy leaf peeping paradise, or for more information call 0845 FORESTS (3673787). And once you get out there the walk and the sights will do your heart and soul a power of good.

The woods shown on the map are also shown as text below. Please note that you will find in the list woods that do not show on the map because they are too close together:


 
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Colour rating: turned golden Abbeyford
Colour rating: gone yellow Alice Holt Forest Centre
Colour rating: turned golden Bedford Purlieus National Nature Reserve
Colour rating: turning golden Bedgebury National Pinetum and Forest
Colour rating: turned golden Bentley Community Woodland
Colour rating: turned golden Bourne Woods
Colour rating: turned golden Brodsworth Community Woodland
Colour rating: turned golden Cannock Forest
Colour rating: turned golden Cardinham
Colour rating: turned golden Castle Neroche
Colour rating: still green Chambers Farm Wood
Colour rating: turned golden Chopwell Woodland Park
Colour rating: turned golden Cudworth Common
Colour rating: turned golden Dalby Forest
Colour rating: turned golden Dimmings Dale
Colour rating: turned golden Dinnington Community Woodland
Colour rating: turned golden Fermyn Woods
Colour rating: turning golden Fineshade Wood
Colour rating: turning golden Great Wood
Colour rating: turned golden Hamsterley
Colour rating: turned golden Hazelborough Wood
Colour rating: turned golden Holystone
Colour rating: turned golden Kielder
Colour rating: turned golden Kiveton Community Woodland
Colour rating: turned golden Lydford
Colour rating: turned golden Maulden Wood
Colour rating: turned golden Morkery Wood
Colour rating: turned golden Mortimer Forest
Colour rating: turned golden New Forest
Colour rating: turned golden Phoenix Park, incorporating Thunscoe Community Woodland
Colour rating: still green Salcey Forest
Colour rating: turned golden Sherwood Pines Forest Park
Colour rating: turned golden Simonside
Colour rating: turning golden Stoke Woods
Colour rating: turned golden Temple Wood
Colour rating: gone yellow Thames Chase Community Forest
Colour rating: turned golden Thetford Forest Park
Colour rating: turned golden Wapley Hill Wood
Colour rating: turned golden Wardley Wood
Colour rating: turning golden Wendover Woods
Colour rating: turned golden Westonbirt Arboretum
Colour rating: turned golden Wyre Forest
Colour rating: turned golden Achnashellach (North)
Colour rating: turned golden Allean
Colour rating: turning golden Ardcastle
Colour rating: turned golden Ardery Ard Airigh
Colour rating: turned golden Ariundle
Colour rating: gone yellow Aros Park
Colour rating: turned golden Balmacara
Colour rating: turned golden Beinn Ghuilean
Colour rating: turned golden Bennachie
Colour rating: turned golden Blairadam Wood
Colour rating: turned golden Caberston
Colour rating: turned golden Cademuir
Colour rating: turned golden Callendar Wood
Colour rating: turned golden Cally Wood
Colour rating: turned golden Cambus O' May
Colour rating: turned golden Carbisdale
Colour rating: turned golden Cardrona
Colour rating: turned golden Cnoc nan Ghabar
Colour rating: turned golden Craigvinean
Colour rating: turned golden Craik
Colour rating: turned golden Dalbeattie Forest
Colour rating: turned golden Drummond Hill
Colour rating: turned golden Dun Ghallain
Colour rating: turned golden Dunnottar Woodland Park
Colour rating: turned golden Farigaig
Colour rating: turned golden Faskally
Colour rating: turning golden Forest of Ae
Colour rating: turned golden Gartly Moor Forest
Colour rating: turned golden Glen Affric
Colour rating: turning golden Glen Garry Native Pine Wood
Colour rating: turned golden Glen Trool
Colour rating: turned golden Glencoe Lochan
Colour rating: turned golden Glenfinnan Pinewood
Colour rating: turned golden Glentress Forest
Colour rating: turned golden Great Glen Woods
Colour rating: turned golden Innerleithen - Elibank & Traquair
Colour rating: turning golden Inverinan Forest
Colour rating: turning golden Inverliever Forest
Colour rating: turned golden Kilcamb
Colour rating: turning golden Kilmichael Forest
Colour rating: turned golden Kinloch
Colour rating: turned golden Kirroughtree
Colour rating: turning golden Knapdale Forest
Colour rating: turned golden Lord Ancrum's Wood
Colour rating: turned golden Mabie Forest
Colour rating: turned golden Monaughty
Colour rating: turned golden Pitfichie
Colour rating: turned golden Quarrelwood Woodland Park
Colour rating: turned golden Raven's Rock
Colour rating: turning golden Reelig Glen
Colour rating: turned golden Strome
Colour rating: turned golden Tarbert
Colour rating: still green Tarbet
Colour rating: turned golden The Bin Forest
Colour rating: turned golden Thornielee
Colour rating: turning golden Torrachilty Forest
Colour rating: turned golden Twechar
Colour rating: turned golden Weem Forest
Colour rating: turned golden Whiteash
Colour rating: turned golden Wilsontown- The Glen
Colour rating: turned golden Yair
Colour rating: turned golden Afan Forest Park
Colour rating: turned golden Bargain Wood
Colour rating: turned golden Briton Ferry Woods
Colour rating: turned golden Canaston
Colour rating: still green Clocaenog
Colour rating: turned golden Coed y Brenin
Colour rating: turned golden Cuckoo Wood
Colour rating: turned golden Cwmcarn Forest
Colour rating: turned golden Fforest Fawr
Colour rating: turned golden Gwydyr
Colour rating: turned golden Lower Wyncliffe Wood
Colour rating: turned golden Parkwood
Colour rating: turned golden Pont Llogel
Colour rating: turned golden Tan y Coed
Colour rating: turned golden Warren Wood
Colour rating: turned golden Waterfalls

 
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Cardinham: turned golden
Lydford: turned golden
Stoke Woods: turning golden
Abbeyford: turned golden
New Forest: turned golden
Castle Neroche: turned golden
Bedgebury National Pinetum and Forest: turning golden
Great Wood: turning golden
Alice Holt Forest Centre: gone yellow
Fforest Fawr: turned golden
Westonbirt Arboretum: turned golden
Parkwood: turned golden
Thames Chase Community Forest: gone yellow
Afan Forest Park: turned golden
Briton Ferry Woods: turned golden
Cwmcarn Forest: turned golden
Lower Wyncliffe Wood: turned golden
Bargain Wood: turned golden
Cuckoo Wood: turned golden
Waterfalls: turned golden
Wendover Woods: turning golden
Canaston: turned golden
Maulden Wood: turned golden
Hazelborough Wood: turned golden
Salcey Forest: still green
Warren Wood: turned golden
Wapley Hill Wood: turned golden
Mortimer Forest: turned golden
Wyre Forest: turned golden
Fermyn Woods: turned golden
Thetford Forest Park: turned golden
Fineshade Wood: turning golden
Wardley Wood: turned golden
Bedford Purlieus National Nature Reserve: turned golden
Tan y Coed: turned golden
Cannock Forest: turned golden
Pont Llogel: turned golden
Morkery Wood: turned golden
Bourne Woods: turned golden
Coed y Brenin: turned golden
Temple Wood: turned golden
Dimmings Dale: turned golden
Clocaenog: still green
Gwydyr: turned golden
Sherwood Pines Forest Park: turned golden
Chambers Farm Wood: still green
Kiveton Community Woodland: turned golden
Dinnington Community Woodland: turned golden
Cudworth Common: turned golden
Phoenix Park, incorporating Thunscoe Community Woodland: turned golden
Brodsworth Community Woodland: turned golden
Bentley Community Woodland: turned golden
Dalby Forest: turned golden
Hamsterley: turned golden
Cally Wood: turned golden
Chopwell Woodland Park: turned golden
Dalbeattie Forest: turned golden
Kirroughtree: turned golden
Mabie Forest: turned golden
Kielder: turned golden
Glen Trool: turned golden
Forest of Ae: turning golden
Simonside: turned golden
Holystone: turned golden
Craik: turned golden
Beinn Ghuilean: turned golden
Yair: turned golden
Innerleithen - Elibank & Traquair: turned golden
Thornielee: turned golden
Cademuir: turned golden
Cnoc nan Ghabar: turned golden
Caberston: turned golden
Cardrona: turned golden
Glentress Forest: turned golden
Wilsontown- The Glen: turned golden
Lord Ancrum's Wood: turned golden
Tarbert: turned golden
Twechar: turned golden
Callendar Wood: turned golden
Knapdale Forest: turning golden
Ardcastle: turning golden
Kilmichael Forest: turning golden
Blairadam Wood: turned golden
Tarbet: still green
Inverliever Forest: turning golden
Inverinan Forest: turning golden
Craigvinean: turned golden
Drummond Hill: turned golden
Weem Forest: turned golden
Aros Park: gone yellow
Faskally: turned golden
Glencoe Lochan: turned golden
Allean: turned golden
Dun Ghallain: turned golden
Kilcamb: turned golden
Ardery Ard Airigh: turned golden
Ariundle: turned golden
Glenfinnan Pinewood: turned golden
Dunnottar Woodland Park: turned golden
Cambus O' May: turned golden
Glen Garry Native Pine Wood: turning golden
Great Glen Woods: turned golden
Pitfichie: turned golden
Kinloch: turned golden
Bennachie: turned golden
Farigaig: turned golden
Glen Affric: turned golden
Balmacara: turned golden
Gartly Moor Forest: turned golden
Strome: turned golden
The Bin Forest: turned golden
Reelig Glen: turning golden
Achnashellach (North): turned golden
Torrachilty Forest: turning golden
Whiteash: turned golden
Monaughty: turned golden
Quarrelwood Woodland Park: turned golden
Carbisdale: turned golden
Raven's Rock: turned golden

What's of interest

To enjoy Autumn Colours at their best, visit our Top 10 places to go and slide-show.

What do the autumn colours on the map mean?
still green still green
going yellow going yellow
gone yellow gone yellow
turning golden turning golden
turned golden turned golden

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Did you know
The Japanese have a word for it - momijigari, the traditional Japanese custom of watching the changing colours of trees in autumn. People in Japan will flock to see the changing colours in Kyoto, where world leaders signed up to reducing greenhouse gas emissions.
However, rather than travelling to Japan, you can see the biggest collection of Japanese Maples at Westonbirt. Use the link in the list opposite to visit Westonbirt.