Pound Wood
Pound Wood is a 22.3 nature reserve in Thundersley in Essex. It is owned and managed by the Essex Wildlife Trust. Much of this site is ancient woodland, with some old secondary woodland.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Dudley Miles, CC BY-SA 4.0.
- Type: Nature reserve
- Description: Essex Wildlife Trust Nature reserve
- Also known as: “Pound Woods”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Hadleigh Castle and Tile Wood.
Hadleigh Castle
Photo: JohnArmagh, Public domain.
Hadleigh Castle is a ruined fortification in the English county of Essex, overlooking the Thames Estuary from south of the town of Hadleigh. Built after 1215 during the reign of Henry III by Hubert de Burgh, the castle was surrounded by parkland and had an important economic and defensive role.
Tile Wood
Nature reserve
Photo: Dudley Miles, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Tile Wood is a 6.5-hectare nature reserve in Thundersley in Essex. It is managed by the Essex Wildlife Trust. The wood is ancient, having been mentioned in the Anglo-Saxon period.
Rayleigh Windmill
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Rayleigh Windmill is a grade II listed Tower mill at Rayleigh, Essex, England which has been restored as a landmark and is used as a museum.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Leigh-on-Sea and Canvey Island.
Leigh-on-Sea
Photo: Chris j wood, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Leigh-on-Sea is a beautiful old fishing port on the London side of Southend-on-Sea on the south coast of Essex. Visitor venues in Leigh can be divided into three zones.
Canvey Island
Photo: Oneblackline, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Canvey Island is a town, civil parish and island in the Thames Estuary. It forms part of the Castle Point district of Essex, England. It is separated from the mainland of south Essex by a network of creeks, but is connected to the mainland by bridges.
Hadleigh
Town
Photo: Edward Clack, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Hadleigh is a town in the borough of Castle Point, in the south-east of Essex, England. It lies on the A13 road between Thundersley, Benfleet and Leigh-on-Sea. The A127 'Southend Arterial Road' bypasses the town to the north.
Pound Wood
- Categories: forest and recreation area
- Location: Castle Point District, Essex, East of England, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
51.5679° or 51° 34′ 5″ northLongitude
0.6239° or 0° 37′ 26″ eastOperator
Essex Wildlife TrustOpen location code
9F32HJ9F+5HOpenStreetMap ID
way 33101463OpenStreetMap feature
leisure=nature_reserveOpenStreetMap feature
natural=woodWikidata ID
Q24896416
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Pound Wood”. Photo: Dudley Miles, CC BY-SA 4.0.