Return of the Wilderness to the UK?

[bigpaul]

When we left Devon to move to Glastonbury, a certain woodland we know was clear and easily entered, when we came back 10 years later, that same wood was overgrown and impossible to enter without chopping down some of those trees. now I have no idea WHEN in that 10 years this occurred but at least that gives us some kind of timescale, its certainly no more than 10, possibly 5, could even have been 3 years, but without any intervention by humans it is inevitable, mother nature always reclaims what is hers. and that also includes roads, houses and other structures built by man.