Highwood, Wokingham

Highwood is a 15.2-hectare Local Nature Reserve in Woodley, west of Wokingham in Berkshire. It is owned by Wokingham Borough Council and managed by the council together with The Friends of Highwood.

Photo: Des Blenkinsopp, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Type: Nature reserve
Description: England, a nature reserve
Also known as: “Highwood Local Nature Reserve”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Reading Abbey and Winnersh Triangle railway station.

Reading Abbey

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Reading Abbey is a large, ruined abbey in the centre of the town of Reading, in the English county of Berkshire. It was founded by Henry I in 1121 "for the salvation of my soul, and the souls of King William, my father, and of King William, my brother, and Queen Maud, my wife, and all my ancestors and successors." In its heyday the abbey was one of Europe's largest royal monasteries.

Winnersh Triangle railway station

Railway station

Photo: Nigel Thompson, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Winnersh Triangle railway station is one of two railway stations in Winnersh, Berkshire, England. It is served by South Western Railway services between London Waterloo and Reading.

Earley railway station

Railway station

Photo: Geof Sheppard, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Earley railway station serves the Berkshire town of Earley, England. It is 66 miles 1 chain down the line from London Charing Cross via Redhill. It is on the Waterloo to Reading Line, and forms the last stop before the terminus of the line at Reading.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Reading and Twyford.

Reading

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Reading is a large, historic town in Berkshire in the South East of England. It is one of the largest towns without city status in the United Kingdom with just under 235,000 inhabitants.

Twyford

Photo: Rosalind Mitchell, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Twyford is in Berkshire. Twyford is largely a commuter settlement for workers travelling to Reading, Maidenhead, Wokingham and, further afield, London.

Earley

Suburb

Photo: Virginia Knight, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Earley is a town and civil parish in the Borough of Wokingham, Berkshire, England. Along with the neighbouring town of Woodley, the Office for National Statistics places Earley within the Reading/Wokingham Urban Area; for the purposes of local government it falls within the Borough of Wokingham, outside the area of Reading Borough Council.

Highwood, Wokingham

Categories: local nature reserve, forest, and recreation area
Location: Woodley, Wokingham, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude

51.4455° or 51° 26′ 44″ north

Longitude

-0.921° or 0° 55′ 16″ west

Open location code

9C3XC3WH+5H

OpenStreetMap ID

way 158678195

OpenStreetMap feature

leisure=nature_reserve

OpenStreetMap feature

natural=wood

Wikidata ID

Q30687699

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