By the way just out of interest

I live within walking distance of an old much larger Norman hunting forest which now includes nearly a thousand hectares of mixed deciduous and evergreen woodland.
Ownership passed to the Crown in 1812 and then to the Forestry Commission, which has managed the forest, since its establishment in 1919.

A Moss was drained in around 1815, supposedly by prisoners from the Napoleonic Wars; it was unsuccessfully planted with oak, and later with Scots pine and western hemlock during the 1940s by the Forestry Commission but this proved uneconomic.

It was decided in 1992 to restore it as a wetland environment, which was achieved in 1998 by clear-felling the area and then flooding it.
I have followed the restoration regularly; the restored mere now provides a habitat for wildlife, particularly birds.

Following the success of this project, it was announced in January this year that a further 33 hectares of drained fenland at four sites in the forest area would be rewetted as part of Natural England's "Wetland Vision" scheme