Cowdray Forest

Cowdray Forest is a forest in Balcombe, Mid Sussex District, England. Cowdray Forest is situated nearby to the locality Cinder Banks, as well as near Red Bridge.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Wings Museum and Tilgate Nature Centre.

Wings Museum

Museum

Photo: Shazz, CC BY-SA 2.0.

The Wings Museum is an aviation museum located in Sussex, United Kingdom. It is housed in a 12,000 square feet hangar-like former farm building in Brantridge Lane, between Handcross and Balcombe.

Tilgate Zoo is a small BIAZA-accredited zoo located within Tilgate Park in Tilgate Forest, South-East Crawley, West Sussex, England. The zoo holds 74 different animal species, and is involved in several programmes to preserve threatened wild species from extinction.

Tilgate Park

Park

Tilgate Park is a large recreational park situated south of Tilgate, south-east Crawley, England. Originally a 2,185-acre part of the ancient Worth Forest, the park and adjacent areas were part of the larger Tilgate Estate.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Crawley and Worth.

Crawley

Photo: AlasdairW, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Crawley is a bustling town of 119,000 people in the northern part of West Sussex, on the border with Surrey, in the South East of England. The biggest influence on the town is Gatwick Airport, which many people claiming it to being the 6th-busiest airport in the world.

Worth

Suburb

Photo: The Voice of Hassocks, Public domain.

Worth is either a civil parish in the Mid Sussex District of West Sussex, or a distinct but historically related village in Crawley.

Pound Hill

Village

Photo: The Voice of Hassocks, CC0.

Pound Hill is one of 14 neighbourhoods within the town of Crawley in West Sussex, England. Pound Hill is located on the east of Crawley. It is bordered by Three Bridges and Manor Royal to the west and Maidenbower to the south.

Cowdray Forest

Type: Forest
Location: Balcombe, Mid Sussex District, West Sussex, South East England, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude

51.0819° or 51° 4′ 55″ north

Longitude

-0.1612° or 0° 9′ 40″ west

Open location code

9C3X3RJQ+PG

OpenStreetMap ID

way 245978204

OpenStreetMap feature

natural=wood

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Highlights include Ironworks (site of) and Burnt Place.

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