York’s Wood

Places of Interest

Bernwood Forest

Forest

Photo: Steve Daniels, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Bernwood Forest is a forest in England. Historically it was one of several forests of the ancient Kingdom of England and was a Royal hunting forest. It is thought to have been set aside as Royal hunting land when the Anglo-Saxon kings had a palace at Brill and church in Oakley, in the 10th century and was a particularly favoured place of Edward the Confessor, who was born in nearby Islip.

Studley Priory

Manor estate

Photo: MCB, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Studley Priory was a small house of Benedictine nuns, ruled by a prioress, in Oxfordshire.

Boarstall Tower

Photo: Graham Taylor, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Boarstall Tower is a 14th-century moated gatehouse located in Boarstall, Buckinghamshire, England, and now, with its surrounding gardens, a National Trust property.

Places in the Area

Wheatley

Village

Photo: Chris Heaton, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Wheatley is a village and civil parish in South Oxfordshire, England, about 5 miles east of Oxford. The parish includes the hamlet of Littleworth, which is west of Wheatley.

Holton

Hamlet

Photo: Motacilla, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Holton is a village and civil parish in South Oxfordshire about 5.5 miles east of Oxford. The parish is bounded to the southeast by the River Thame, to the east and north by the Thame's tributary Holton Brook, to the south by London Road and to the west by field boundaries with the parishes of Forest Hill with Shotover and Stanton St John.

Waterperry

Hamlet

Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.

Waterperry is a village in the civil parish of Waterperry with Thomley, in the South Oxfordshire district of Oxfordshire, England. It lies about 7 miles east of Oxford and is in the valley of the River Thame, close to the county boundary with Buckinghamshire.

York’s Wood

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Places with the Same Name

Localities in the Area

Notable Places Nearby

Curious Forests to Discover

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