Wistman’s Wood
Wistman's Wood is one of Britain's last remaining ancient temperate rainforests and one of three remote high-altitude oakwoods on Dartmoor in Devon, England.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Deciduous forest
- Description: oakwood on Dartmoor, Devon, England
- Also known as: “Wistman’s Wood (Nature Reserve)” and “Wistman’s Wood National Nature Reserve”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Dartmoor National Park and Beardown Tors.
Dartmoor National Park
Dartmoor National Park covers a large area of Devon in the West Country of England. It provides opportunities for geocaching, whitewater kayaking and canoeing in the winter months, rock climbing on the granite tors and outcrops, cycling, and angling for wild brown trout, sea trout and salmon.
Beardown Tors
Peak
Photo: Jblackford97, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Beardown Tors is the 14th highest summit of Dartmoor with a height of 513 metres.
Gunpowder factory at Powder Mills, a partially enclosed stone hut circle settlement and round cairn
Industrial building
Photo: Smalljim, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Gunpowder factory at Powder Mills, a partially enclosed stone hut circle settlement and round cairn is an industrial building.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Lower Cherrybrook Bridge and Postbridge.
Lower Cherrybrook Bridge
Locality
Photo: Nigel Cox, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Lower Cherrybrook Bridge is a locality.
Postbridge
Village
Photo: Brian Henman, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Postbridge is a hamlet in the heart of Dartmoor in the English county of Devon. It lies on the B3212, roughly midway between Princetown and Moretonhampstead.
Bellever
Hamlet
Photo: Nthep, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Bellever is a hamlet in Dartmoor, Devon, England. It is located on the river East Dart about 2 kilometres south of Postbridge. The first mention of a settlement at this location is in a Duchy of Cornwall record from 1355 which gives the name of a farm here as Welford, a contraction of wielle and ford.
Wistman’s Wood
- Categories: forest, national nature reserve, and woodland
- Location: Dartmoor Forest, West Devon District, Devon, West Country, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
50.57793° or 50° 34′ 41″ northLongitude
-3.96157° or 3° 57′ 42″ westElevation
1,516 feet (462 metres)Open location code
9C2RH2HQ+59OpenStreetMap ID
way 29590018OpenStreetMap feature
natural=wood
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Swedish—“Wistman’s Wood” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Wistman’s Wood National Nature Reserve”
- French: “Wistman’s Wood”
- Galician: “Bosque de Wistman”
- Igbo: “Wistman’s Wood”
- Italian: “Wistman’s Wood”
- Russian: “Уистманский лес”
- Swedish: “Wistman’s Wood National Nature Reserve”
Localities in the Area
Explore places such as Crockern Tor and Powder Mills.
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Littaford Tor and Longaford Tor.
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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 “Wistman’s Wood”. Photo: alex jane, CC BY-SA 2.0.