East Midlands Tourism

Once part of a royal hunting forest, Sherwood Forest Country Park covers 450 acres and incorporates some truly ancient areas of native woodland where slender birch trees grow alongside more than one thousand veteran oaks - most of which are over 500 years old. The largest and most famous of these is the Major Oak, linked throughout the world to Sherwood's legendary hero - Robin Hood. At the entrance to the country park is Sherwood Forest Visitor Centre with an exhibition on ‘Robyn Hodes Sherwode, two shops and the Forest Table Restaurant. A Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI) and Nottinghamshire's first National Nature Reserve (NNR), the forest is also home to a wide variety of flora and fauna that live on the dead wood and among the fallen leaves.