According to 'The Guardian' Savernake Forest is in their Top 10 best woods and forests for myths and legends.
If anything The Guardian reports, 'rather too many weird things have attached themselves to this royal hunting forest over the years – it's as if it were some kind of mad myth magnet. The fall-out is that, on any given day, you're likely to be accosted by the ghost of a white deer, a headless woman riding on a horse, a phantom coach and horses, or black hounds that bring bad luck to all who see them.
The 1.800-hectare (4,500-acre) forest is the only ancient one in Britain in private hands but it is run by the Forestry Commission, so we can all visit for free.
Highlights include Capability Brown's astonishing beech avenue and the 1,000-year-old Big Belly oak, also known as the King of Limbs and the only tree in the land to have a Radiohead album named after it.'
