"South Yorkshire Forest"

I've just noticed a sign coming over the M1 that I had noticed before but never really processed. Coming Northbound after the junction where the M18 joins the M1 there is a sign "South Yorkshire Forest" - a similar sign, I believe, is just outside the Sheffield North junction when coming southbound.

Now... we have a bit of (planted) forest round Oughtibridge and Grenoside and a bit around the Rother Valley country-park, but still... what is the South Yorkshire Forest? It strikes me that where these signs are it is more an advert for the fact that Sheffield and Rotherham sprawled out over what once used to be a pretty and serene forest?

Does anybody know what it is about?

I've just noticed a sign coming over the M1 that I had noticed before but never really processed. Coming Northbound after the junction where the M18 joins the M1 there is a sign "South Yorkshire Forest" - a similar sign, I believe, is just outside the Sheffield North junction when coming southbound.

 

Now... we have a bit of (planted) forest round Oughtibridge and Grenoside and a bit around the Rother Valley country-park, but still... what is the South Yorkshire Forest? It strikes me that where these signs are it is more an advert for the fact that Sheffield and Rotherham sprawled out over what once used to be a pretty and serene forest?

 

Does anybody know what it is about?

Seek and you will find http://www.southyorkshireforest.co.uk

I'm sure there are signs on the Bochum Parkway too, right next to collection of around 7 trees. Makes me giggle as if Yorkshire is too tight to do proper forests.

http://www.sheffieldforum.co.uk/archive/index.php/t-51627.html

Instead of ridiculing it, why don`t you sponsor a tree and plant it like the school children were doing this morning on the perimeter of the Hollinsend cricket ground.All of the trees at the bottom of Birley lane are part of the forest that were planted a few years ago.

When we see the sign we always say it's the South Yorkshire Scrub.

Instead of ridiculing it, why don`t you sponsor a tree and plant it like the school children were doing this morning on the perimeter of the Hollinsend cricket ground.All of the trees at the bottom of Birley lane are part of the forest that were planted a few years ago.

But people will be disappointed when they arrive expecting a forest rather than shops, houses and everything else surrounding some trees...

Apparently ,there's a similar one in the East Midlands,which says Nottingham Forest...

My son was part of a project last year that planted over a thousand trees all over Sheffield .

My son was part of a project last year that planted over a thousand trees all over Sheffield .

Good on him

My son was part of a project last year that planted over a thousand trees all over Sheffield .

Well done your son, and it is nice to see some positives on here instead of all the knockers.