The Forest
The Forest is a forest in Pluckley, Ashford, England. The Forest is situated nearby to the hamlet Stone Abbage, as well as near Pluckley Thorne.Places of Interest
Highlights include Pluckley railway station and Hoad’s Wood.
Pluckley railway station
Railway station
Photo: Nse1986, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Pluckley railway station is on the South Eastern Main Line in England, serving the village of Pluckley, Kent, which is approximately 1.2 miles to the north.
Hoad’s Wood
Forest
Photo: Geoff Gartside, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Hoad's Wood is an 80.5-hectare biological Site of Special Scientific Interest west of Ashford in Kent. Natural England described the woodland thus: "This site is a good example of a pedunculate oak-hornbeam woodland on Wealden Clay mainly hornbeam coppice-with-standards and oakhazel woodland with some sweet chestnut coppice.
Church of St Nicholas, Pluckley
Church
The Church of St Nicholas, Pluckley is an Anglican church located in Pluckley, Kent in England. There was a church at this site as early as the late 11th century.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Great Chart and Singleton.
Great Chart
Village
Photo: Nick Smith, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Great Chart is a village and former civil parish, now in the parish of Great Chart with Singleton, in the Ashford borough of Kent, England. The parish is split between the ancient village of Great Chart and the modern Singleton neighbourhood on the western outskirts of Ashford.
Singleton
Suburb
Singleton is a suburb of Ashford in Kent, South East England, first developed in the 1980s. Although Singleton forms a contiguous urban area with the large town of Ashford to its east, it is formally a part of Great Chart with Singleton civil parish.
Stubbs Cross
Village
Photo: Robin Webster, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Stubbs Cross is a hamlet in the civil parish of Kingsnorth near Ashford in Kent, England. The area runs from a cross road at Ashford Road that leads to Hamstreet, through to the next T Junction via Magpie Pie Hall Road, leading to but finishing at the road known as Tally Ho Road.
The Forest
- Type: Forest
- Location: Pluckley, Ashford, Kent, South East England, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
51.1511° or 51° 9′ 4″ northLongitude
0.7593° or 0° 45′ 34″ eastOpen location code
9F325Q25+CPOpenStreetMap ID
way 24343314OpenStreetMap feature
natural=wood
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