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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.
Cornbury and Wychwood is a civil parish in West Oxfordshire. It includes the country estate of Cornbury Park ( Ordnance Survey grid reference SP350181 ) and the ancient former Royal Forest of Wychwood , which covers several square miles between Cornbury Park, the village of Leafield ( grid reference SP3215 ) and the hamlet of Mount Skippett ...
Charlbury (/ ˈ tʃ ɑːr l b ər i, ˈ tʃ ɔːr l-/) is a town and civil parish in the Evenlode valley, about 6 miles (10 km) north of Witney in the West Oxfordshire district of Oxfordshire, England. It is on the edge of Wychwood Forest and the Cotswolds. The 2011 Census recorded the parish's population as 2,830. [1]
This semi-natural wood is a surviving fragment of the medieval Royal Forest of Wychwood. 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 ...
Shipton-under-Wychwood is a village and civil parish in the Evenlode valley about 4 miles (6.4 km) north of Burford, in the West Oxfordshire district, in the county of Oxfordshire, England. The village is one of three named after the ancient forest of Wychwood .
Ascott-under-Wychwood is a village and civil parish in the Evenlode valley about 4.5 miles (7 km) south of Chipping Norton, Oxfordshire, England. The 2011 Census recorded the parish's population as 560.
A teenage hunter allegedly shot dead his parents and younger brother before taking his own life in a horrifying murder-suicide. Clifford Hunt Jr., 19, is believed to have shot parents Michelle, 48 ...
The parish is elongated north-eastwards. A record of 1300 states that the manor of Asthall was extended into Wychwood Forest after 1154. [4] The name of Field Assarts in the north-east of the parish refers to assarting: [4] the medieval process of clearing any uncultivated land to convert it to agriculture. [7]