Garston Wood
Garston Wood is a 34-hectare woodland nature reserve in Cranborne Chase, Dorset, England, near the boundary with Wiltshire. It is at grid reference SU004190, around 15 km SE of Shaftesbury and around 3 km north of the village of Sixpenny Handley, owned by the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds to protect species living in the region.Photo: Nigel Freeman, CC BY-SA 2.0.
- Type: Nature reserve
- Description: nature reserve in Dorset, England
- Also known as: “RSPB Garston Wood”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Wor Barrow and Church of St Mary.
Wor Barrow
Archaeological site
Photo: Simon Barnes, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Wor Barrow is a Neolithic long barrow on Cranborne Chase, about 1 mile east of Sixpenny Handley in Dorset, England. It is a scheduled monument. Its excavation by Augustus Pitt Rivers in 1893–1894 has been described as "an important event in the study of British archaeology".
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Sixpenny Handley and Pentridge.
Sixpenny Handley
Village
Photo: Mike Faherty, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Sixpenny Handley or Handley is a village and former civil parish, now in the parish of Sixpenny Handley and Pentridge, in north east Dorset, England, situated on Cranborne Chase ten miles north east of Blandford Forum.
Pentridge
Hamlet
Photo: Chris Downer, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Pentridge is a village and former civil parish, now in the parish of Sixpenny Handley and Pentridge, in the Dorset district, in the ceremonial county of Dorset, England, lying in the north-east of the county.
Bowerchalke
Village
Photo: Chalkeman, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Bowerchalke is a village and civil parish in Wiltshire, England, about 9 miles southwest of Salisbury. It is in the south of the county, about 1 mile from the boundary with Dorset and 2 miles from that with Hampshire.
Garston Wood
- Categories: protected area and recreation area
- Location: Sixpenny Handley, East Dorset District, Dorset, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
50.9709° or 50° 58′ 15″ northLongitude
-1.9972° or 1° 59′ 50″ westOperator
RSPBOpen location code
9C2WX2C3+94OpenStreetMap ID
way 114037022OpenStreetMap feature
leisure=nature_reserveWikidata ID
Q5524309
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