Mountjessop Wood

Mountjessop Wood is a forest in Bickleigh, South Hams District, England. Mountjessop Wood is situated nearby to the hamlet Maristow, as well as near the locality Pound Cross.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Bere Ferrers railway station and Buckland Abbey.

Bere Ferrers railway station

Railway station

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Bere Ferrers station on the Tamar Valley Line is situated near the village of Bere Ferrers in Devon, England. The station is on the former Southern main line between Exeter and Plymouth via Okehampton. It is currently operated by Great Western Railway.

Buckland Abbey

Buckland Abbey is a Grade I listed 700-year-old house in Buckland Monachorum, near Yelverton, Devon, England, noted for its connection with Sir Richard Grenville the Younger and Sir Francis Drake. It is owned by the National Trust.

St Andrew’s Church, Bere Ferrers

Church

Photo: Lobsterthermidor, CC0.

St Andrew's Church in Bere Ferrers, Devon, is a parish church in the Church of England The church contains the oldest stained-glass window in Devon, dated at 600 years old.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Saltash and Southway.

Saltash

Photo: Ed Webster, CC BY 2.0.

Saltash is a town and civil parish in eastern Cornwall, England. Saltash faces the city of Plymouth over the River Tamar and is popularly known as "the Gateway to Cornwall".

Southway

Suburb

Photo: Mick Lobb, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Southway is a large suburban housing estate in north-west Plymouth in the English county of Devon. The name is believed to have derived from the route into Plymouth often used by Buckland Abbey monks, which was known as the "South Way".

Bere Alston

Village

Photo: Tony Atkin, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Bere Alston is a historic village on the Bere Peninsula in West Devon, England, situated between the rivers Tamar and Tavy within the Tamar Valley National Landscape.

Mountjessop Wood

Type: Forest
Location: Bickleigh, South Hams District, Devon, West Country, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude

50.4556° or 50° 27′ 20″ north

Longitude

-4.1515° or 4° 9′ 6″ west

Open location code

9C2QFR4X+69

OpenStreetMap ID

way 145171202

OpenStreetMap feature

landuse=forest

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Localities in the Area

Explore places such as Maristow and Pound Cross.

Notable Places Nearby

Highlights include Maristow Chapel and Blaxton Wood.

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