Wardens‘ Wood

Wardens‘ Wood is a forest in Southam, Tewkesbury, England. Wardens‘ Wood is situated nearby to the locality Padcombe Bottom, as well as near the village Charlton Abbots.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Cleeve Hill and Belas Knap.

Cleeve Hill

Peak

Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.

Cleeve Hill is the highest point both of the Cotswolds hill range and of the county of Gloucestershire, at 330 m. It is located on Cleeve Common, which is a Site of Special Scientific Interest looked after by a small charity called Cleeve Common Trust.

Belas Knap

Archaeological site

Photo: Pahazzard, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Belas Knap is a Neolithic, chambered long barrow situated on Cleeve Hill, near Cheltenham and Winchcombe, in Gloucestershire, England. It is a type of monument known as the Cotswold Severn Cairn, all of which have a similar trapezoid shape, and are found scattered along the River Severn.

Cleeve Common

Protected area

Photo: Terry Jacombs, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Cleeve Common is a 455-hectare biological and geological Site of Special Scientific Interest in Gloucestershire, England, notified in 1974. It is looked after by a small charity called Cleeve Common Trust, formally Cleeve Common Board of Conservators.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Winchcombe and Cheltenham.

Winchcombe

Photo: Prichardson, Public domain.

Winchcombe is a town of 5,300 people in the Cotswolds. Winchcombe is a popular destination for walkers and history fans. With people often visiting the running Gloucestershire Warwickshire Heritage Railway steam train that connects it to Broadway and the Cheltenham Racecourse; and Sudeley Castle, the burial place of Queen Katherine Parr, that lies on its outskirts.

Cheltenham

Photo: AlasdairW, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Cheltenham is an historic spa town in England, which started its development in the early 1700s with the discovery of healing waters. It became very popular after the visit of King George III in 1788, and developed further.

Prestbury

Village

Photo: Terry Jacombs, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Prestbury is a village and civil parish in the borough of Cheltenham in Gloucestershire, England. Part of the Tewkesbury parliamentary constituency, it lies approximately 1.5 miles north-east of Cheltenham town centre, at the foot of Cleeve Hill and the Cotswold escarpment.

Wardens‘ Wood

Type: Forest
Location: Southam, Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire, West Country, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude

51.9114° or 51° 54′ 41″ north

Longitude

-1.9839° or 1° 59′ 2″ west

Open location code

9C3WW268+HF

OpenStreetMap ID

way 1444280464

OpenStreetMap feature

landuse=forest

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