Ellis Wood
Ellis Wood is a forest in Strensall with Towthorpe, York, England. Ellis Wood is situated nearby to the village Strensall, as well as near the hamlet Towthorpe.Places of Interest
Highlights include Strensall Common and Queen Elizabeth Barracks.
Strensall Common
Heath
Strensall Common is 1,430 acres of common land to the east of the village of Strensall, in the City of York, England. The land is recognised as an SSSI and a Special Area of Conservation, with much of it being owned and maintained by the Ministry of Defence, which has a rifle range on its southern edge.
Queen Elizabeth Barracks
Military installation
Photo: Gareth Foster, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Queen Elizabeth Barracks is a British Army installation in Strensall, North Yorkshire, England. It opened in the 1880s, and since 2016, it has been under threat of closure, but was reprieved in 2024.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Haxby and Strensall.
Haxby
Town
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Haxby is a town and civil parish in the City of York, a unitary authority area in the English county of North Yorkshire. According to the 2001 Census, the parish had a population of 8,754, which reduced to 8,428 at the 2011 Census.
Strensall
Village
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
Strensall is a village in the Strensall with Towthorpe civil parish in the unitary authority of the City of York in North Yorkshire, England, on the River Foss north of York and north-east of Haxby.
Wigginton
Village
Photo: Stuart and Fiona Jackson, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Wigginton is a village and civil parish in the unitary authority of the City of York in North Yorkshire, England. It is situated 4 miles north of York.
Ellis Wood
- Type: Forest
- Location: Strensall with Towthorpe, York, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
54.0423° or 54° 2′ 32″ northLongitude
-1.0489° or 1° 2′ 56″ westOpen location code
9C6W2XR2+WCOpenStreetMap ID
way 228054796OpenStreetMap feature
natural=wood
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