Great Wood

Great Wood is a forest in Purleigh, Maldon District, England. Great Wood is situated nearby to the hamlet Cock Clarks, as well as near the village Woodham Ferrers.

Places of Interest

Highlights include St Andrew’s, Bicknacre and RHS Garden Hyde Hall.

St Andrew’s, Bicknacre

Church

Photo: Peter Stack, CC BY-SA 2.0.

St Andrew’s, Bicknacre is a church.

RHS Garden Hyde Hall is a public display garden run by the Royal Horticultural Society in the English county of Essex. It is one of five public gardens run by the society, alongside Wisley in Surrey, Harlow Carr in North Yorkshire, Rosemoor in Devon, and Bridgewater in Greater Manchester.

Bicknacre Priory

Ruins

Photo: Glyn Baker, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Bicknacre Priory, formerly also Woodham Priory or Woodham Ferrers Priory, was a community of Austin Canons in Bicknacre, Woodham Ferrers, Essex, England.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Maldon and South Woodham Ferrers.

Maldon

Photo: Diane Roberts, CC0.

Maldon is a town and civil parish on the Blackwater Estuary in Essex, England. It is the seat of the Maldon District and starting point of the Chelmer and Blackwater Navigation.

South Woodham Ferrers

Town

Photo: Nigel Cox, CC BY-SA 2.0.

South Woodham Ferrers is a town and civil parish in the City of Chelmsford district of Essex, England. It is approximately 35 miles east of London and 8 miles south-east of Chelmsford.

Bicknacre

Village

Photo: Terryjoyce, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Bicknacre is a village in the civil parish of Woodham Ferrers and Bicknacre, in the county of Essex, England. It is approximately 4.0 mi north of South Woodham Ferrers and 5.7 mi southeast of the city of Chelmsford.

Great Wood

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

51.684° or 51° 41′ 2″ north

Longitude

0.619° or 0° 37′ 8″ east

Open location code

9F32MJM9+HH

OpenStreetMap ID

way 139934547

OpenStreetMap feature

landuse=forest

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