"The wood is first recorded as a coppice woodland belonging to the 7th Earl of Shrewsbury in a document written in around 1600. This...makes it an ancient woodland...the woodland contains fourteen plant species characteristic of ancient woodlands. The woodland at the site can be divided into two parts. The western third of the area has been greatly modified by plantation forestry " from Wickersley Woods (Fuelling the Revolution website) Uncertain legibility of earlier landscapes due to lack of knowledge of earlier land uses.