Birchwood Park

Birchwood Park is a neighborhood in James City, Virginia. Birchwood Park is situated nearby to the neighborhood Kingswood, as well as near Winston Terrace.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Walsingham Academy Upper School and Governor’s Palace.

Walsingham Academy Upper School

School

Photo: Pbritti, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Walsingham Academy is an independent Catholic school for Pre-K through twelfth grade located in Williamsburg, Virginia in the United States. It was founded in 1947 and is administered by the Sisters of Mercy of Merion, Pennsylvania.

Governor’s Palace

Historic building

Photo: Ron Cogswell, CC BY 2.0.

The Governor's Palace, Williamsburg was the official residence of the British governors of Virginia. Located in Williamsburg, Virginia, the original building also served as the official residence of two U.S. state governors, Patrick Henry and Thomas Jefferson. Governor’s Palace is situated 2½ miles northeast of Birchwood Park.

Muscarelle Museum of Art

Museum

Photo: Jrcla2, Public domain.

The Muscarelle Museum of Art is a university museum affiliated with the College of William & Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia. While the Museum only dates to 1983, the university art collection has been in existence since its first gift – a portrait of the physicist Robert Boyle – in 1732. Muscarelle Museum of Art is situated 1½ miles northeast of Birchwood Park.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Williamsburg and Jamestown.

Williamsburg

Photo: Humberto Moreno, CC BY 4.0.

Williamsburg is a city in southeast Virginia. Settled in 1632, it was the capital of Virginia from 1699 to 1779 and in 1926, John D. Rockefeller Jr commissioned a restoration project to bring Williamsburg back to its former colonial glory.

Jamestown

Locality

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The Jamestown settlement in the Colony of Virginia was the first permanent English settlement in the Americas. It was located, in what later became James City County, on the northeast bank of the James River, about 2.5 mi southwest of present-day Williamsburg. Jamestown is situated 3½ miles southwest of Birchwood Park.

Scotland

Village

Photo: Ser Amantio di Nicolao, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Scotland also known as Scotland Wharf is a census-designated place in Surry County, Virginia, United States. As of the 2020 census, Scotland had a population of 153. Scotland is situated 5 miles southwest of Birchwood Park.

Birchwood Park

Type: Neighborhood
Category: locality
Location: James City, Virginia, South, United States, North America
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Latitude

37.24654° or 37° 14′ 48″ north

Longitude

-76.73051° or 76° 43′ 50″ west

Elevation

52 feet (16 metres)

Open location code

879567W9+JQ

OpenStreetMap ID

node 158544045

OpenStreetMap feature

place=neighbourhood

GeoNames ID

4747642

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