Holly Wood

Holly Wood is a forest in Sparkwell, South Hams District, England. Holly Wood is situated nearby to the locality Newnham Park, as well as near the hamlet Hemerdon.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Dartmoor Zoological Park and Plympton Library.

Dartmoor Zoological Park

Zoo

Photo: Smalljim, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Dartmoor Zoological Society is a 33-acre zoo just north of the village of Sparkwell, on the south-west edge of Dartmoor, in the county of Devon in the South West of England.

Plympton Castle is a ruined medieval castle in Plympton, Devon, England. It stands above the Tory Brook, and may replace an older fortification. The castle was founded as an earth and timber motte-and-bailey in the late 11th century by either Richard de Redvers or his son, Baldwin de Redvers, 1st Earl of Devon.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Cornwood and Plympton.

Cornwood

Photo: RobThinks, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Cornwood is a village in Dartmoor, in the English county of Devon. The village sits within the Dartmoor National Park.

Plympton

Town

Photo: Tony Atkin, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Plympton is a suburb of the city of Plymouth in Devon, England. It is in origin an ancient stannary town. It was an important trading centre for locally mined tin, and a seaport before the River Plym silted up and trade moved down river to Plymouth and was the seat of Plympton Priory the most significant local landholder for many centuries.

Efford

Suburb

Photo: Derek Harper, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Efford is an historic manor formerly in the parish of Eggbuckland, Devon, England. Today it has been absorbed by the city of Plymouth to become a large, mostly post-World War II, eastern suburb of the city.

Holly Wood

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

50.3998° or 50° 23′ 59″ north

Longitude

-4.0372° or 4° 2′ 14″ west

Open location code

9C2Q9XX7+W4

OpenStreetMap ID

way 210367969

OpenStreetMap feature

natural=wood

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