Sherwood Forest

Sherwood Forest is a nature reserve in New Castle County, Delaware. Sherwood Forest is situated near the hamlet Log Run, as well as near the village Arden.

Places of Interest

Highlights: Joshua Pyle House and Wagon Barn and Chester-Bethel Church.

Joshua Pyle House and Wagon Barn

Heritage site

Photo: Smallbones, CC0.

Joshua Pyle House and Wagon Barn, also known as the Warren P. Missimer House, is a historic home located near Wilmington, New Castle County, Delaware, United States.

Chester-Bethel Church

Church

Photo: Dwkaminski, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Chester-Bethel Methodist Church is a Methodist church built in 1873 in Wilmington, Delaware, United States. The congregation, which dates to 1780 is the oldest Methodist congregation which has continuously gathered in the state of Delaware.

Claymont Stone School

Heritage site

The Claymont Stone School, also known as Naaman's Creek School #1, is a historic schoolhouse built in 1805, on land donated by Founding Father John Dickinson, in Claymont, Delaware, on the Philadelphia Pike just south of the Darley House.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Claymont and Arden.

Claymont

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Claymont is a town in northern Delaware. A largely blue-collar suburb of Wilmington, its borders are not clearly defined; it is generally accepted to have about 10,000 residents.

Arden

Village

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Arden is a village in New Castle County, Delaware, United States, founded in 1900 as a radical Georgist single-tax community by sculptor Frank Stephens and architect William Lightfoot Price.

Ardencroft

Village

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Ardencroft is a village in New Castle County, Delaware, United States. According to the 2020 census, the population of the village is 226. The village was founded in 1950 as an outgrowth of Arden and Ardentown with a conceptual lifestyle based on Henry George's single tax movement and William Morris's arts and crafts principles.

Sherwood Forest

Type: Nature reserve
Categories: forest and recreation area
Location: New Castle County, Delaware, Mid-Atlantic, United States, North America
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Latitude

39.8088° or 39° 48′ 32″ north

Longitude

-75.4919° or 75° 29′ 31″ west

Open location code

87F6RG55+G6

OpenStreetMap ID

way 1435185246

OpenStreetMap feature

landuse=forest

OpenStreetMap feature

leisure=nature_reserve

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Localities in the Area

Places to explore: Log Run and Buckingham Heights.

Notable Places Nearby

Highlights: Arden Gild Hall and Arden Swim Club.

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