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oak gall wasp 131
water avens (Geum rivale) 23
water fern (Azolla filiculoides) 131
water meadows 38–40, 39 , 75, 146
water rail 34
water soldier (Stratiotes aloides) 112
water voles see voles
water-lilies 112, 151
waved umber (Hemerophila
abruptaria) 162
wavy hair-grass (Deschampsia
flexuosa) 25, 81
Wayland Wood, Norfolk 22
Weald, The, Kent 75
weasel 54, 112, 124
weeds 10, 40, 42, 53, 97, 120, 134,
137, 140, 143, 172
arable 41, 92, 108–9, 111, 143,
173, 190
garden 172–3
waterweeds 83, 112
weeding 92, 98, 108, 111,
171, 173
weedkillers 178
weed seeds 52, 111
weeping willow 62, 130
Wellingtonia 130
Welney bird reserve 34
Welsh Marches 124
Wessex 39, 44, 146
Westmoreland 88
wetland 10, 19, 31–4, 37, 65–6, 87,
97, 101–3, 113, 146, 186–7,
192
Weymouth pine 130 see also pine
wheat 4, 40–1, 73, 91–3, 102, 108,
137, 140, 184
wheatear 180
whinchat 154, 180
Whipsnade Zoo 150
white clover (Trifolium repens) 40,
110, 173
white comfrey (Symphytum
orientale) 171
White, Gilbert 52, 60, 109, 132
whitethorn 104, 144
whitethroat see common whitethroat
Whittlesey mere 33
Whittlewood forest 56
Wicken Fen, Cambridgeshire 102, 157
widgeon 66
wild cat 54, 56
wild olive 62
wild service tree 62
wild thyme (Thymus praecox) 30, 44,
70
wildfowl 40, 65, 128, 180–1
wildlife corridors 48, 85–7, 89
Willesden 80
Williams, William 79, 80
Williams-Ellis, Clough 158
Williamson, Henry 137, 139
willow 10, 46, 51, 167, 181 see also
weeping willow
pollarded 103
willow warbler 9, 23
Wilstone reservoir 84
Wiltshire 30, 39, 39 , 97, 120, 124,
146
Wimbledon Common 176
Winchester 4
Wingate quarry, Durham 81
woad 40
Woburn, Bedfordshire 149, 151
Wodehouse, Sir William 65
wolf 9
Wollaston, Northamptonshire 44
wood anemone (Anemone
nemorosa) 23, 47, 121
wood avens (Geum urbanum) 173
wood pigeon 56, 109, 113, 121,
176–7
Wood, Rev J. G. 134
wood warbler 10, 176
Wood, William 131
woodbine 70
woodcock 70
woodland/woods 1–2, 4, 9–10, 14,
17, 19–25, 29, 37, 46, 49, 56,
77, 89, 106, 113, 118 , 121–2,
152–3, 175, 178, 181, 186–7
ancient 2, 20, 22 , 23, 47, 87, 107,
110, 121, 151–2, 165, 175,
184, 189
clearance 4, 20, 107, 184
coppiced 6, 22–4, 35–6, 49, 83, 88,
107, 119, 121–2, 146, 155,
171, 182
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