Bickleigh Wood

Bickleigh Wood is a forest in Bickleigh, Mid Devon District, England. Bickleigh Wood is situated nearby to the locality Higher Burn, as well as near the village Cadeleigh.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Bickleigh Castle and Devon Railway Centre.

Bickleigh Castle

Castle

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Bickleigh Castle is a fortified manor house that stands on the banks of the River Exe at Bickleigh in Devon, England. Once considerably larger, Bickleigh now comprises a group of buildings from various periods which together formed a water castle.

Devon Railway Centre

Photo: Lewis Clarke, CC BY-SA 2.0.

The Devon Railway Centre is in the village of Bickleigh in Mid Devon, England, at the former Cadeleigh railway station on the closed Great Western Railway branch from Exeter to Dulverton, also known as the Exe Valley Railway.

Cadbury Castle (Devon)

Archaeological site

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Cadbury Castle is an Iron Age Hillfort close to Bickleigh, Devon, England. It was later encamped by the Parliamentarian forces during the English Civil War under Thomas Fairfax when he laid siege to Bickleigh Castle.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Tiverton and Cadeleigh.

Tiverton

Photo: Lew747, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Tiverton is a market town and civil parish in Devon, England, It is the commercial and administrative centre of the Mid Devon district, and lies on the River Exe, approximately 46 miles north-east of Plymouth, 12 miles north of Exeter, 18 miles west-southwest of Taunton, and 38 miles south-southwest of Weston-super-Mare.

Cadeleigh

Village

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Cadeleigh is a small village and civil parish in the county of Devon in England. It sits in the hills above the valley of the River Exe and is about 15 km north of Exeter and 6 km southwest of Tiverton.

Butterleigh

Village

Photo: Neil Theasby, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Butterleigh is a village and civil parish in Mid Devon, England situated about three miles south east of Tiverton. The village includes a public house, village hall and an award-winning blacksmith. It is famous for its harvest home.

Bickleigh Wood

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

50.8541° or 50° 51′ 15″ north

Longitude

-3.514° or 3° 30′ 51″ west

Open location code

9C2RVF3P+J9

OpenStreetMap ID

way 205506093

OpenStreetMap feature

natural=wood

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