The dank and mysterious Wistman's Wood on Dartmoor. In fact these photos were taken on a visit in August 2012 when I was camping nearby. I was prompted to have another look at the shots I took by a fascinating book I'm reading called "The Rainforests of Britain and Ireland" by Clifton Bain.
 Rainforests are usually spoken of as being tropical but there are also temperate rainforests. This book looks at some of the last remaining fragments that exist in our part of the world. They are sometimes referred to as the Celtic or Atlantic rainforests due to their distribution along the west coast of Scotland, western Ireland, Cumbria, Wales and the south-west of England.
 Wistman's Wood is one of these. It's so wet on Dartmoor that even the wooden sign pointing the way to the wood is becoming encrusted with lichen. The wood is dominated by stunted oaks that grow among granite boulders and every surface is thick with mosses, lichens and ferns.
 I think elves and trolls are probably extinct in the UK but if there are any to be found anywhere they are probably hiding in Wistman's Wood.