The Romans set the scene.
The first 12 centuries AD are undoubtedly the most period in the formation of the British countryside. Much of our landscape today was recognisable. Villages formed. Properties of farmland, moorland woodland demarked. The separation of woods from each other, the naming of woods
it is just possible that some of the oldest coppices in counties with strong Roman connections, such as Suffolk and Essex, might go back to managed woodlands by Romans.
Kaliwood 