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Autumn colours 2007
 

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: turning golden Abbeyford
Colour rating: turning golden Alice Holt Woodland Park
Colour rating: turning golden Bedford Purlieus National Nature Reserve
Colour rating: gone yellow Bedgebury National Pinetum and Forest
Colour rating: turned golden Bentley Community Woodland
Colour rating: gone yellow Bourne Woods
Colour rating: turned golden Brodsworth Community Woodland
Colour rating: turned golden Cardinham
Colour rating: going yellow Castle Neroche
Colour rating: turned golden Chambers Farm Wood
Colour rating: turned golden Chopwell Woodland Park
Colour rating: turned golden Cowleaze
Colour rating: turning golden Croydon Hill
Colour rating: turned golden Cudworth Common
Colour rating: turned golden Dalby Forest
Colour rating: turning golden Delamere Forest Park
Colour rating: still green Dimmings Dale
Colour rating: turned golden Ennerdale
Colour rating: turning golden Fermyn Woods
Colour rating: turned golden Fineshade Wood
Colour rating: turned golden Forest Of Dean
Colour rating: turned golden Giggle Alley
Colour rating: turned golden Grizedale Forest Park
Colour rating: turning golden Hazelborough Wood
Colour rating: turned golden Hepburn
Colour rating: turned golden Hodgemoor
Colour rating: turned golden Holystone
Colour rating: turning golden Horrocks Woods
Colour rating: turning golden Lydford
Colour rating: gone yellow Maulden Wood
Colour rating: turned golden Miterdale
Colour rating: gone yellow Morkery Wood
Colour rating: turned golden New Forest
Colour rating: turned golden Phoenix Park, incorporating Thunscoe Community Woodland
Colour rating: turning golden Salcey Forest
Colour rating: turned golden Savernake
Colour rating: turned golden Shabbington
Colour rating: still green Sherwood Pines Forest Park
Colour rating: turned golden Simonside
Colour rating: turning golden Southey Wood
Colour rating: turning golden Stoke Woods
Colour rating: turning golden Temple Wood
Colour rating: turned golden Thames Chase Community Forest
Colour rating: turned golden Thetford Forest Park
Colour rating: turning golden Viridor Wood
Colour rating: turning golden Wakerley Great Wood
Colour rating: turning golden Wardley Wood
Colour rating: turned golden Wendover Woods
Colour rating: turned golden Wye Valley Woods
Colour rating: turned golden Wyre Forest
Colour rating: turned golden Achnashellach (North)
Colour rating: turned golden Achray Forest
Colour rating: turned golden Allean
Colour rating: turned golden Ardcastle
Colour rating: turned golden Ardery Ard Airigh
Colour rating: turned golden Ariundle
Colour rating: turned golden 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: turning golden Caberston
Colour rating: turning golden Cademuir
Colour rating: turned golden Callendar Wood
Colour rating: turned golden Cally Wood
Colour rating: turned golden Cambus O' May
Colour rating: turning golden Carbisdale
Colour rating: turning golden Cardrona
Colour rating: turned golden Cnoc nan Ghabar
Colour rating: turned golden Craigvinean
Colour rating: turning 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 East Loch Lomond Woodland
Colour rating: turned golden Farigaig
Colour rating: turned golden Faskally
Colour rating: turned golden Gartly Moor Forest
Colour rating: turned golden Glen Affric
Colour rating: turned 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: turning golden Glentress Forest
Colour rating: turned golden Great Glen Woods
Colour rating: turning golden Innerleithen - Elibank & Traquair
Colour rating: turned golden Inverinan Forest
Colour rating: turned golden Inverliever Forest
Colour rating: turned golden Kilcamb
Colour rating: turned golden Kilmichael Forest
Colour rating: turned golden Kilmun Aboretum
Colour rating: turned golden Kinloch
Colour rating: turned golden Kirroughtree
Colour rating: turned golden Knapdale Forest
Colour rating: turned golden Loch Ard 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: turning golden Raven's Rock
Colour rating: turned golden Reelig Glen
Colour rating: turned golden Strathyre Forest
Colour rating: turned golden Strome
Colour rating: turned golden Tarbert
Colour rating: turned golden Tarbet
Colour rating: turned golden The Bin Forest
Colour rating: turning golden Thornielee
Colour rating: turned 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: turning golden Yair
Colour rating: turned golden Afan Forest Park
Colour rating: turned golden Bargain Wood
Colour rating: turned golden Briton Ferry Woods
Colour rating: turning golden Canaston
Colour rating: turned golden Clocaenog
Colour rating: turned golden Coed y Brenin
Colour rating: still green 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 Nant yr Arian
Colour rating: turned golden Parkwood
Colour rating: turning golden Pont Llogel
Colour rating: turned golden Tan y Coed
Colour rating: turned golden Warren Wood
Colour rating: turning golden Waterfalls

 
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East Loch Lomond Woodland: turned golden
Wardley Wood: turning golden
Canaston: turning golden
Cardinham: turned golden
Wakerley Great Wood: turning golden
Alice Holt Woodland Park: turning golden
Strathyre Forest: turned golden
Grizedale Forest Park: turned golden
Afan Forest Park: turned golden
Maulden Wood: gone yellow
Cuckoo Wood: still green
Gartly Moor Forest: turned golden
Brodsworth Community Woodland: turned golden
Achray Forest: turned golden
Glen Garry Native Pine Wood: turned golden
Innerleithen - Elibank & Traquair: turning golden
Briton Ferry Woods: turned golden
Raven's Rock: turning golden
Croydon Hill: turning golden
Hazelborough Wood: turning golden
New Forest: turned golden
Achnashellach (North): turned golden
Reelig Glen: turned golden
Horrocks Woods: turning golden
Dun Ghallain: turned golden
Glen Trool: turned golden
Cowleaze: turned golden
Coed y Brenin: turned golden
Warren Wood: turned golden
Knapdale Forest: turned golden
Abbeyford: turning golden
Balmacara: turned golden
Tarbet: turned golden
Bennachie: turned golden
Tan y Coed: turned golden
Glen Affric: turned golden
Phoenix Park, incorporating Thunscoe Community Woodland: turned golden
Pont Llogel: turning golden
Chopwell Woodland Park: turned golden
Waterfalls: turning golden
Kirroughtree: turned golden
Cwmcarn Forest: turned golden
Bentley Community Woodland: turned golden
Yair: turning golden
Inverinan Forest: turned golden
Simonside: turned golden
Quarrelwood Woodland Park: turned golden
Hepburn: turned golden
Wyre Forest: turned golden
Cudworth Common: turned golden
Kilcamb: turned golden
Shabbington: turned golden
Dimmings Dale: still green
Cademuir: turning golden
Wye Valley Woods: turned golden
Cally Wood: turned golden
Tarbert: turned golden
Callendar Wood: turned golden
Parkwood: turned golden
Dalbeattie Forest: turned golden
Chambers Farm Wood: turned golden
Fermyn Woods: turning golden
Cnoc nan Ghabar: turned golden
Lydford: turning golden
Craik: turning golden
Thames Chase Community Forest: turned golden
Sherwood Pines Forest Park: still green
Thornielee: turning golden
Bargain Wood: turned golden
Beinn Ghuilean: turned golden
Castle Neroche: going yellow
Strome: turned golden
Holystone: turned golden
Glentress Forest: turning golden
Salcey Forest: turning golden
Clocaenog: turned golden
Bourne Woods: gone yellow
Mabie Forest: turned golden
Caberston: turning golden
Ariundle: turned golden
Morkery Wood: gone yellow
Nant yr Arian: turned golden
Forest Of Dean: turned golden
Farigaig: turned golden
Savernake: turned golden
Torrachilty Forest: turned golden
Fforest Fawr: turned golden
Lower Wyncliffe Wood: turned golden
Cardrona: turning golden
Blairadam Wood: turned golden
Whiteash: turned golden
Hodgemoor: turned golden
Faskally: turned golden
Ardcastle: turned golden
Glencoe Lochan: turned golden
Twechar: turned golden
Wendover Woods: turned golden
Great Glen Woods: turned golden
Ardery Ard Airigh: turned golden
Loch Ard Forest: turned golden
Kilmun Aboretum: turned golden
Wilsontown- The Glen: turned golden
Dunnottar Woodland Park: turned golden
Pitfichie: turned golden
Bedford Purlieus National Nature Reserve: turning golden
Southey Wood: turning golden
Kinloch: turned golden
Ennerdale: turned golden
Giggle Alley: turned golden
Viridor Wood: turning golden
Inverliever Forest: turned golden
Aros Park: turned golden
Fineshade Wood: turned golden
Temple Wood: turning golden
Thetford Forest Park: turned golden
Bedgebury National Pinetum and Forest: gone yellow
Cambus O' May: turned golden
Stoke Woods: turning golden
Gwydyr: turned golden
Miterdale: turned golden
Delamere Forest Park: turning golden
Carbisdale: turning golden
The Bin Forest: turned golden
Glenfinnan Pinewood: turned golden
Allean: turned golden
Weem Forest: turned golden
Kilmichael Forest: turned golden
Monaughty: turned golden
Drummond Hill: turned golden
Craigvinean: turned golden
Lord Ancrum's Wood: turned golden
Dalby Forest: 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.