Highpark Wood

Highpark Wood is a forest in Great Gaddesden, Dacorum District, England. Highpark Wood is situated nearby to the village Great Gaddesden, as well as near the hamlet Water End.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Amaravati Buddhist Monastery and St Margaret’s Convent, Hertfordshire.

Amaravati Buddhist Monastery

Buddhist temple

Photo: ibrotha, CC BY 2.0.

Amaravati is a Theravada Buddhist monastery at the eastern end of the Chiltern Hills in South East England. Established in 1984 by Ajahn Sumedho as an extension of Chithurst Buddhist Monastery, the monastery has its roots in the Thai Forest Tradition.

St Margaret’s Convent, Hertfordshire

Archaeological site

St Margaret's Convent was a convent of the Benedictine order near Great Gaddesden in Hertfordshire, England. Founded in 1160, it was abolished as a consequence of King Henry VIII's dissolution of the monasteries in the 1530s.

Church of St Lawrence

Church

Photo: No Swan So Fine, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Hemel Hempstead and Berkhamsted.

Hemel Hempstead

Photo: ZIGGY RADWA, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Hemel Hempstead is a town in the Dacorum district of Hertfordshire, England. It is located 24 miles north-west of London; nearby towns and cities include Watford, St Albans and Berkhamsted.

Berkhamsted

Photo: Misterzee, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Berkhamsted is an historic market town of 18,500 people in Hertfordshire in England, UK. It is about 30 miles north of London.

Adeyfield

Suburb

Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Adeyfield was the first planned neighbourhood to be built in the postwar new town expansion of Hemel Hempstead, in the English county of Hertfordshire.

Highpark Wood

Type: Forest
Location: Great Gaddesden, Dacorum District, Hertfordshire, East of England, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude

51.7842° or 51° 47′ 3″ north

Longitude

-0.511° or 0° 30′ 40″ west

Open location code

9C3XQFMQ+MH

OpenStreetMap ID

way 23650306

OpenStreetMap feature

natural=wood

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