Oxfordshire
Cherwell
Horton-cum-Studley

Bernwood Forest

Bernwood Forest is a forest in . Historically it was one of several forests of the ancient Kingdom of England and was a Royal hunting forest. It is thought to have been set aside as Royal hunting land when the Anglo-Saxon kings had a palace at and church in , in the 10th century and was a particularly favoured place of Edward the Confessor, who was born in nearby .
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Photo: Steve Daniels, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Studley Priory and Boarstall Tower.

Manor estate
Photo: MCB, CC BY-SA 3.0.
was a small house of Benedictine nuns, ruled by a prioress, in .

Photo: Graham Taylor, CC BY-SA 2.0.
is a 14th-century moated gatehouse located in , , , and now, with its surrounding gardens, a National Trust property.

Church
Photo: Steve Daniels, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Holton and Wheatley.

Hamlet
Photo: Motacilla, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a village and civil parish in South Oxfordshire about 5.5 miles east of . The parish is bounded to the southeast by the , to the east and north by the Thame's tributary Brook, to the south by London Road and to the west by field boundaries with the parishes of and Stanton St John.

Village
Photo: Chris Heaton, CC BY-SA 2.0.
is a and civil parish in South Oxfordshire, , about 5 miles east of . The parish includes the hamlet of , which is west of .

Hamlet
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
is a village and former civil parish, now in the parish of , in the South Oxfordshire district, in and close to the county boundary with , England.

Bernwood Forest

Latitude
51.7974° or 51° 47′ 51″ north
Longitude
-1.1083° or 1° 6′ 30″ west
Open location code
9C3WQVWR+XM
Open­Street­Map ID
node 7528564579
Open­Street­Map feature
natural=­wood
Wiki­data ID
Q4894620
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Satellite Map

Discover Bernwood Forest from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
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In Other Languages

From Catalan to Swedish—“Bernwood Forest” goes by many names.
  • Catalan: “Bosc de Bernwood”
  • Chinese: “伯恩伍德森林”
  • Chinese: “本爾伍德森林”
  • Chinese: “燃木森林”
  • Danish: “Bernwood Forest”
  • Dutch: “Bernwood Forest”
  • German: “Bernwood Forest”
  • Hebrew: “יער ברנווד”
  • Italian: “Foresta di Bernwood”
  • Latin: “Byrnewuda”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Bernwood Forest”
  • Russian: “Бернвудский лес”
  • Spanish: “Bosque Bernwood”
  • Swedish: “Bernwood Forest”

Localities in the Area

Explore places such as Honeyburge and Waterperry Common.

Notable Places Nearby

Highlights include Studley Wood and Hill Coppice.

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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 “Bernwood Forest”. Photo: Steve Daniels, CC BY-SA 2.0.