More extensive woodland clearance took place to make way for fields and pastures.

Mining, ironworks, water management, increasing settlement, woodland clearances, cattle driving, agriculture and, later, tourism, all undermined this imperial protection over the centuries.

Farming would have greatly increased and caused significant changes in the fluvial sediment regime through woodland clearance and colluvial hillwash.

It is often a relict of former woodland vegetation, surviving in open grassland and grassy heaths after woodland clearance despite being a shade lover.

He and his successors began the process of woodland clearance, and established the village of "Sheriff's Newton", now Shirenewton.

It forages for insects in high trees in dense forest, and this always rare species has been adversely affected by woodland clearance.

Asterleigh's toponym indicates that it was created by woodland clearance on what would then have been the edge of Wychwood Forest.

The main effect of humans on this species is indirect, through woodland clearance which affects the habitat, predation by cats, and collisions with windows, buildings and cars.

This species has suffered a serious decline, especially in central and southern England, as a result of woodland clearance.

Archaeologist Julian Thomas theorises that these sites may have been "very long-lived woodland clearances" that had become landmarks and meeting-places.