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.Photo: alex jane, CC BY-SA 2.0.
- 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.
Beardown Man standing stone
Archaeological site
Photo: Guy Wareham, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Beardown Man standing stone is an archaeological site.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Two Bridges and Lower Cherrybrook Bridge.
Two Bridges
Hamlet
Photo: Phillip Capper, CC BY 2.0.
Two Bridges is an isolated location on the river West Dart in the heart of Dartmoor National Park in Devon, England. It is situated around 2.5 km northeast of Princetown at the intersection of the two roads that cross Dartmoor: one is the old turnpike road which was built across Dartmoor in the late 18th century; the other is the B3357.
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.
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
- View on OpenStreetMap
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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Satellite Map
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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 Little Bee Tor.
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