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The Cotswolds woods on the western side of the county include those in the Royal Forest of Wychwood. Oxfordshire has nearly 18,000 ha (44,000 acres) of woodland in total (6.9% of its area), two-thirds of which are in woods of over 10 ha (25 acres). 1,839 ha (4,540 acres) of woodland is represented in the 17 ancient woods listed below.
Wychwood or Wychwood Forest is a 501.7-hectare (1,240-acre) biological Site of Special Scientific Interest north of Witney in Oxfordshire. [1] [2] It is also a Nature Conservation Review site, Grade 1, [3] and an area of 263.4 hectares (651 acres) is a national nature reserve [4] [5] The site contains a long barrow dating to the Neolithic period, which is a scheduled monument.
Bagley Wood is a wood in the parish of Kennington, in the Vale of White Horse district, between Oxford and Abingdon in Oxfordshire, England (in Berkshire until 1974). It is traversed from north to south by the A34 road , which was rerouted through the wood in 1972.
Wytham Woods is a 423.8-hectare (1,047-acre) biological Site of Special Scientific Interest north-west of Oxford in Oxfordshire. It is a Nature Conservation Review site. [1] [2] Habitats in this site, which formerly belonged to Abingdon Abbey, [a] include ancient woodland and limestone grassland.
It is overgrown coppice with standards, and the standards are oaks between 30 and 150 years old. Rides have a diverse ground flora, including meadow saffron, broad-leaved helleborine and greater butterfly orchid. [180] Pishill Woods: 42.8 hectares (106 acres) [181] PP Henley-on-Thames
Wytham Abbey is the manor house of the small Oxfordshire (historically Berkshire) village of Wytham. [1] The place-name is first recorded as Wihtham around 957 AD and is thought to come from the Old English for a homestead or village in a river-bend.
Oxfordshire: Or Wychwood [34] Cornwall: Cornwall: 1204: Two woods and two moors disafforested 1215 [34] Dartmoor: Devon: 1204: Annexed to Duchy of Cornwall 1337 [34] High moorlands [8] Dean: Gloucestershire and Herefordshire [34] Midland clay plain, oak forest [8] Delamere: Cheshire: 1812: Remains of the Forests of Mara and Mondrem; outside of ...
Oxfordshire 51°42′54″N 1°27′32″W / 51.715°N 1.459°W / 51.715; Shifford is a hamlet in the civil parish of Aston, Cote, Shifford and Chimney in the West Oxfordshire district, in the county of Oxfordshire , England.