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: Church of St Mary and Church of St Rumbold.

Church of St Mary

Church

Photo: Chris Downer, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Church of St Rumbold

Church

Photo: Chris Downer, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Bokerley Dyke

Historic site

Photo: Jim Champion, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Bokerley Dyke, Bokerly Dyke, Bokerley Ditch, is a linear earthwork 5.75 kilometres long on Cranborne Chase in Dorset, partially running along the county's border with Hampshire between Woodyates and Martin.

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
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Latitude

50.9709° or 50° 58′ 15″ north

Longitude

-1.9972° or 1° 59′ 50″ west

Operator

RSPB

Open location code

9C2WX2C3+94

OpenStreetMap ID

way 114037022

OpenStreetMap feature

leisure=nature_reserve

Wikidata ID

Q5524309

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Places to explore: Hoe Coppice and Pribdean Wood.

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Highlights: Pump House and Pill Ash.

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