Cornwall has many beautiful woods, many of which have trails for walking, cycling and horse riding. While most of the areas of woodland in Cornwall are not massive in area, they provide a variety of leisure and environmental activities and a diversity of tree and plant-life, both flowering plants and fungi and are home to hundreds of species of animals and birds.
Areas of ancient wildwood and modern managed woodland, plantations, mixed woodland, broad-leaved woodland, ancient woods of coppiced oak and hazel, even a cliff top forest of dwarf oak trees, all are found in Cornwall
Much of Cornwall's woodland is owned and managed by a handful of organisations including the Forestry Commission, National Trust, Cornwall Wildlife Trust, The Woodland Trust and the Duchy of Cornwall.
The woods and forests are presented by area. Some of the woods have their own detailed page - just click on the links to visit them. Detailed pages for more woodlands are being added.
Howard's Wood, a Woodland Trust wood near Launceston
Jack's Wood near Hallworthy
Lanhydrock woodland NT
Lavethan Wood, a Woodland Trust wood near Bodmin
Middle Banham Farm near Launceston
Pencarrow Estate
Tredidon Barton near Pipers Pool
Windmill Hill near Launceston
Woods near Bolventor
Woods near North Hill
Woods in Looe and South-east Cornwall
Antony Estate, a privately owned (open to the public) wood
Antony House, a National Trust wood
Bicton Wood near Golberdon, Callington
Blanchdown Wood near Gunnislake
Bohetherick Wood near Cotehele NT
Borough Hill, a Cornwall Council wood near Torpoint
Cadsonbury Wood NT
Coombe Valley near Saltash
Deviock Wood near Downderry and Seaton. Woods on your doorstep initiative
Ellwell Woods, near Saltash
Goad Avenue, a Cornwall Council wood near Torpoint
Gunoak Wood
Herodsfoot - Deerpark Forest FC also has cycle trails
Hessenford Woods - Liskeard, also have bike trails
Kilminorth Wood near Looe
Lansallos Wood near Looe NT
Luckett CWT near Kelly Bray and Gunnislake
Mount Edgcumbe Estate
Pentiddy Woods near Pensilva
Pillmere near Saltash
Quarry Park Bottom, a Cornwall Council wood near Torpoint
Seaton Valley Woodland, a privately owned (open to the public) wood
Sheviock Wood near St Germans
Stara Woods near Rilla Mill
St John's Wood near Antony
Sungirt Valley near Liskeard
Tredinnick and Depford, a Cornwall Council near Seaton
Trenant Wood near Looe WT
Windsor and Stocks Woods near Causeland and Sandplace
Woods in Tintagel and North Cornwall
Bowles Wood near Morwenstow
Coombe Valley Woods - Lee Wood and Stowe Wood near Duckpool Wood
Hele Valley Trail, a Woodland Welcome wood near Stratton
Hele Bridge, a privately owned (open to the public) wood
Helland Barton near St Teath
Hollygrove Wood near Duckpool
Lower Lewdon CWT near Kilkhampton
Millook Valley Woods WT
Peter's Wood near Boscastle
Poughill Wood, a Woodland Welcome wood near Stratton
The Dizzard - dwarf oak woodland
The picturesque wooded Coombe Valley is part of the Woodford Woods and Coombe Valley County Nature Site that opens out onto Duckpool Beach, with the hamlet of Coombe nestled within it. Much of it NT.
Trengune wood is a small woodland comprised of willow and hazel scrub wet woodland habitat with birch and occasional oaks near Jacobstow
Welcombe and Marsland CWT near Morwenstow
Whalesborough Farm near Marhamchurch
Woods at Week St Mary
Woods near Crowdy Reservoir
Woods in the St Austell - Fowey Area
Bodinnick Wood near Lostwithiel NT
Crowhill Valley, a Woodland Trust wood near St Austell
Use the + scale on the left of the map to zoom in on an area. Click on a marker to see the name of the location and click the box to go to the information about that place. To zoom out click - on the scale. (Google Map integrated by www.choughmountain.eu)
