Thorpe Wood
Thorpe Wood is a 10 hectare nature reserve on the western outskirts of Peterborough in Cambridgeshire. It is managed by the Wildlife Trust for Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire and Northamptonshire.Photo: Dudley Miles, CC BY-SA 4.0.
- Type: Nature reserve
- Description: nature reserve in the United Kingdom
- Also known as: “Thorpe Wood Nature Reserve”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Peterborough railway station and Longthorpe Tower.
Peterborough railway station
Railway station
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Peterborough railway station serves the cathedral city of Peterborough, Cambridgeshire, England. It is sited 76 miles 29 chains north of London King's Cross.
Longthorpe Tower
Photo: Julian Dowse, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Longthorpe Tower is a 14th-century three-storey tower in the Longthorpe area of Peterborough, Cambridgeshire, England. It is famous for its well-preserved set of medieval murals.
Peterborough Cathedral
Church
Photo: NotFromUtrecht, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Peterborough Cathedral, properly the Cathedral Church of St Peter, St Paul and St Andrew, and formerly known as Peterborough Abbey or St Peter's Abbey, is a cathedral in Peterborough, Cambridgeshire, in the United Kingdom.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Peterborough and Castor.
Peterborough
Photo: Mdbeckwith, CC0.
Peterborough is a city in Cambridgeshire in East Anglia, with a population of 202,259 in 2019. It's industrial and ringed by bland "New Town" residential districts, yet has an attractive historic centre around its cathedral, where two British monarchs were buried.
Castor
Village
Photo: Mike Bardill, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Castor is a village and civil parish in the City of Peterborough unitary authority, about 4 miles west of the city centre. The parish is part of the former Soke of Peterborough, which was considered part of Northamptonshire until 1888 and then Huntingdon and Peterborough from 1965 to 1974, when it became part of Cambridgeshire.
Ailsworth
Village
Ailsworth or Ailesworth is a village and civil parish in the City of Peterborough unitary authority, about 4.5 miles west of the city centre. The parish is part of the former Soke of Peterborough, which was considered geographically part of Northamptonshire until in 1974, following the Local Government Act 1972, it became part of Cambridgeshire.
Thorpe Wood
- Categories: forest and recreation area
- Location: Peterborough, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
52.571° or 52° 34′ 16″ northLongitude
-0.292° or 0° 17′ 31″ westOpen location code
9C4XHPC5+C6OpenStreetMap ID
way 105526330OpenStreetMap feature
leisure=nature_reserveOpenStreetMap feature
natural=woodWikidata ID
Q7796718
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