Sherwood Forest

Sherwood Forest is a country park surrounding the village of Edwinstowe in Nottinghamshire, England. In several versions of the myth it was home to the hero and outlaw Robin Hood and his merry men-however it is unlikely that unlikely that outlaws would be able to survive harsh winters here. Sherwood forest is also the location of on of the United Kingdom's Center Parcs holiday villages.

There is a particular tree in Sherwood Forest named Major Oak which, according to local folklore, was the actual base of operations of Robin Hood. Major Oak is between 800 and 1000 years old, and since the Victorian era its massive limbs have been supported in part by an elabourate system of artificial scaffolding. In February of 1998 a local company took cuttings from Major Oak and began cultivating cloness of the famous tree with the intention of sending saplings to be planted in major cities around the world.

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  Sherwood Forest Plantation

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  Sherwood Forest was the name USA President John Tyler gave to the home he bought near his birthplace of Greenway, Virginia, in 1842. He said it signified that he had been "outlawed" by the Whig party. He retired there when he left the White House in 1845 and spent the rest of his life there with his second wife and some of his children - he had eight with his first wife, seven with his second wife, and the last of them died in 1947.
  

  The house, originally named "Walnut Grove," was very run-down when Tyler bought it, and Congress refused to pay him the allowance that was customary for upkeep of the White House, so Tyler had to pay for repairs at Sherwood Forest himself, and he did much of the work himself. Owners of the house who started restoring it in the mid-20th century started removing some home-made storm windows and then discovered from old records that Tyler had built them himself, so they kept them. One of the house's claims to fame is the length of the long, skinny ballroom Tyler had added to the house to accommodate the style of dancing popular then - what is today called "line dancing" but was then the "Virginia reel."

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