The Outwoods
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Here and there we meet with a few venerable oaks, which doubtless formed part of the ancient forest; and which possibly "chronicle upon their furrowed trunks ages before the conquest." Such vestiges are now to be found only in a few spots, as Bradgate Park, the neighbourhood of Charley, the borders of the Outwoods, especially in the lane from Nanpantan to Pocket-gate, and perhaps in White Horse Wood.
The names of Woodhouse, Woodthorpe, the Outwoods, Timberwood hills and Charnwood, are all plainly indications of a period when the Forest was clothed with wood. Leland states that, in his time, (about 1550) this Forest "hadde plentye of woode."
For there is hope for a tree,
if it be cut down, that it will sprout again,
and that its shoots will not cease.
Though its root grow old in the earth,
and its stump die in the soil,
yet at the scent of water it will bud
and put out branches like a young plant.