Hicks Forstal Wood
Hicks Forstal Wood is a forest in Sturry, City of Canterbury, England. Hicks Forstal Wood is situated nearby to the hamlet Calcott, as well as near Herne Common.Places of Interest
Highlights include Wildwood Discovery Park and East Blean Woods.
Wildwood Discovery Park
Zoo
Wildwood Trust is a woodland discovery park in Herne, near Canterbury in Kent, England. It features over fifty species of native British animals such as deer, badgers, wild boar, wolves and brown bear.
East Blean Woods
Deciduous forest
Photo: Nick Smith, CC BY-SA 2.0.
East Blean Woods is a 151.4-hectare biological Site of Special Scientific Interest south of Herne Bay in Kent. It is also a National Nature Reserve a Special Area of Conservation and a Nature Conservation Review site.
Maypole
Aerodrome
Maypole Airfield was a general aviation airfield located 2.5 miles south of Herne Bay, Kent and 5.2 miles north east of Canterbury, Kent, United Kingdom. It was scheduled to close in January 2021, and is closed as of May 2021.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Canterbury and Herne Bay.
Canterbury
Photo: AlasdairW, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Canterbury is a cathedral and university city in Kent, in the South East of England. Canterbury Cathedral is the seat of the Archbishop of Canterbury, Primate of All England and hence the Primus inter pares of the primates of each national church in the Anglican Communion and spiritual leader and senior clergyman of the Church of England.
Herne Bay
Town
Photo: John Fielding, CC BY 2.0.
Herne Bay is a seaside town on the north coast of Kent in South East England. It is 6 miles north of Canterbury and 4 miles east of Whitstable. It neighbours the ancient villages of Herne and Reculver and is part of the City of Canterbury local government district, although it remains a separate town with countryside between it and Canterbury.
Sturry
Village
Photo: pam fray, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Sturry is a village on the Great Stour river situated 3 miles northeast of Canterbury in Kent. Its large civil parish incorporates several hamlets and, until April 2019, the former mining village of Hersden.
Hicks Forstal Wood
- Type: Forest
- Location: Sturry, City of Canterbury, Kent, South East England, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
51.3292° or 51° 19′ 45″ northLongitude
1.1254° or 1° 7′ 32″ eastOpen location code
9F3384HG+M5OpenStreetMap ID
way 23536267OpenStreetMap feature
natural=wood
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