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. It features over fifty species of native British animals and located along the main road A291 between Herne Bay and Canterbury.

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.

Herne

Village

Photo: John Salmon, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Herne is a village in the civil parish of Herne and Broomfield, in Canterbury district, in the county of Kent, England. It is divided by the Thanet Way from the seaside resort of Herne Bay.

Hicks Forstal Wood

Type: Forest
Location: Sturry, City of Canterbury, Kent, South East England, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude

51.3292° or 51° 19′ 45″ north

Longitude

1.1254° or 1° 7′ 32″ east

Open location code

9F3384HG+M5

OpenStreetMap ID

way 23536267

OpenStreetMap feature

natural=wood

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