The Oaks
The Oaks is a forest in Thornhaugh, Peterborough, England. The Oaks is situated nearby to the village Thornhaugh, as well as near Wittering.Places of Interest
Highlights include Wittering Airport and Bedford Purlieus National Nature Reserve.
Wittering Airport
Aerodrome
Photo: David Luther Thomas, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Royal Air Force Wittering or more simply RAF Wittering is a Royal Air Force station 10 miles northwest of Peterborough, just south of Stamford, and just west of the A1 Great North Road.
Bedford Purlieus National Nature Reserve
Nature reserve
Photo: Simon Huguet, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Bedford Purlieus is a 211-hectare ancient woodland in Cambridgeshire, in the United Kingdom. It is a national nature reserve and Site of Special Scientific Interest owned and managed by the Forestry Commission.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Stamford and Wittering.
Stamford
Photo: Michael Trolove, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Stamford is a market town at the south-west corner of Lincolnshire, with a population of about 21,000. It's a charming place with a well-preserved Georgian centre, and with opulent Burghley House just south.
Wittering
Village
Photo: John Salmon, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Wittering is a village and civil parish in the City of Peterborough unitary authority area in the ceremonial county of Cambridgeshire, England. The village is about 3 miles south of the market town of Stamford in neighbouring Lincolnshire and about 9 miles west of Peterborough's urban sprawl.
Wansford
Village
Photo: Richard Croft, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Wansford is a village straddling the City of Peterborough and Huntingdonshire districts in the ceremonial county of Cambridgeshire, England. It had a population of 506 at the 2021 Census.
The Oaks
- Type: Forest
- Location: Thornhaugh, Peterborough, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
52.5951° or 52° 35′ 42″ northLongitude
-0.4457° or 0° 26′ 44″ westOpen location code
9C4XHHW3+2POpenStreetMap ID
way 106804447OpenStreetMap feature
natural=wood
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