Abstract
From the late 12th century to the dissolution of the monasteries, the King's Wood belonged to Roche Abbey, a Cistercian house in South Yorkshire. Since then, it has formed part of the Sandbeck estate. An interdisciplinary approach draws on ecological survey, archival study and place-name evidence to understand its role as timber resource, pleasure park and heritage and wildlife site. In particular, it suggests that the remarkable abundance of large-leaved limes, Tilia platyphyllos, in this wood and along the nearby Magnesian Limestone scarp, places the wood at the core of an ancient Anglian district which still bears the name Lindrick, the 'lime-tree ridge'.
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