Prior’s Wood

Prior’s Wood is a forest in Henham, Uttlesford District, England. Prior’s Wood is situated nearby to the hamlet Little Henham, as well as near the village Widdington.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Quendon Wood and Newport railway station.

Quendon Wood

Forest

Photo: Dudley Miles, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Quendon Wood is a 32.1-hectare biological Site of Special Scientific Interest in Quendon in Essex. The site is ancient coppiced woodland with a rich variety of fauna on different types of soil.

Newport railway station

Railway station

Photo: Bill Boaden, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Newport railway station is on the West Anglia Main Line serving the village of Newport in Essex, England. It is 39 miles 72 chains down the line from London Liverpool Street and is situated between Elsenham and Audley End stations.

Church of St Mary the Virgin

Church

Photo: Robert Edwards, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Stansted Mountfitchet and Henham.

Stansted Mountfitchet

Photo: Adrian Cable, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Stansted Mountfitchet, commonly known as Stansted, is a village and civil parish in the Uttlesford district of Essex, England. It lies 35 miles north-east of London.

Henham

Village

Photo: TeskeyUK, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Henham, or Henham-on-the-Hill is a village and civil parish in the Uttlesford district of Essex, England. The village is situated 2.5 miles north from London Stansted Airport.

Quendon

Village

Photo: Acabashi, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Quendon is a linear village in the civil parish of Quendon and Rickling, in the Uttlesford district of Essex, England. Quendon is located on the B1383 between Saffron Walden and Bishop's Stortford.

Prior’s Wood

Type: Forest
Location: Henham, Uttlesford District, Essex, East of England, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude

51.9539° or 51° 57′ 14″ north

Longitude

0.2371° or 0° 14′ 13″ east

Open location code

9F32X63P+GR

OpenStreetMap ID

way 119397954

OpenStreetMap feature

landuse=forest

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Localities in the Area

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