Monks Wood
Monks Wood is a 157-hectare National Nature Reserve north-west of Huntingdon in Cambridgeshire, and a Nature Conservation Review site, Grade I. A slightly more extensive area of 169.3 hectares is the Monks Wood and The Odd Quarter biological Site of Special Scientific Interest.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Shaun Ferguson, CC BY-SA 2.0.
- Type: Nature reserve
- Description: nature reserve in Sawtry, Cambridgeshire, UK
- Also known as: “Monks Wood NNR”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Woodwalton Marsh and St Andrew’s Church, Woodwalton.
Woodwalton Marsh
Nature reserve
Photo: Michael Trolove, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Woodwalton Marsh is a 0.8-hectare biological Site of Special Scientific Interest north-east of Woodwalton in Cambridgeshire. It is managed by the Wildlife Trust for Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire and Northamptonshire.
St Andrew’s Church, Woodwalton
Church
Photo: Rob enwiki, CC BY-SA 3.0.
St Andrew's Church is a redundant Anglican church standing in an isolated position in fields about 2 kilometres to the north of the village of Woodwalton in Huntingdonshire, Cambridgeshire, England.
Sawtry Abbey
Ruins
Sawtry Abbey was a Cistercian abbey located between Sawtry and Woodwalton in Cambridgeshire, England. The abbey was founded in 1147 by Simon II de Senlis, Earl of Northampton, who was the grandson of Earl Waltheof and Judith, the niece of William the Conqueror who held the manor when the Domesday Survey was compiled.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Woodwalton and Upton.
Woodwalton
Village
Photo: Chris Stafford, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Woodwalton is a village in Cambridgeshire, England, in Wood Walton civil parish. The village lies approximately 6 miles north of Huntingdon and just east of the A1.
Upton
Village
Photo: Chris Stafford, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Upton is a village and former civil parish, now in the parish of Upton and Coppingford, in the Huntingdonshire district, in the county of Cambridgeshire, England.
Coppingford
Hamlet
Photo: Michael Trolove, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Coppingford is a village and former civil parish, now in the parish of Upton and Coppingford, in Cambridgeshire, England. Coppingford lies approximately 7 miles north-west of Huntingdon.
Monks Wood
- Categories: national nature reserve, rewilding, woodland, forest, and recreation area
- Location: England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
52.40553° or 52° 24′ 20″ northLongitude
-0.23987° or 0° 14′ 24″ westElevation
171 feet (52 metres)Open location code
9C4XCQ46+63OpenStreetMap ID
way 98166788OpenStreetMap feature
leisure=nature_reserveOpenStreetMap feature
natural=woodGeoNames ID
2642321Wikidata ID
Q6900954
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Swedish—“Monks Wood” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Monks Wood National Nature Reserve”
- French: “Monks Wood”
- Swedish: “Monks Wood National Nature Reserve”
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Localities in the Area
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Notable Places Nearby
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Monks Wood”. Photo: Shaun Ferguson, CC BY-SA 2.0.