Bedford Purlieus National Nature Reserve
Bedford Purlieus is a 211-hectare ancient woodland in Cambridgeshire, in the United Kingdom. It is a national nature reserve and Site of Special Scientific Interest owned and managed by the Forestry Commission.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Simon Huguet, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Places of Interest
Highlights include Wittering Airport and Church of St Andrew, Thornhaugh.
Wittering Airport
Aerodrome
Photo: David Luther Thomas, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Royal Air Force Wittering or more simply RAF Wittering is a Royal Air Force station within the unitary authority area of Peterborough, Cambridgeshire and the unitary authority area of North Northamptonshire.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Wittering and Wansford.
Wittering
Village
Photo: John Salmon, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Wittering is a village and civil parish in the City of Peterborough unitary authority area in the ceremonial county of Cambridgeshire, England. The village is about 3 miles south of the market town of Stamford in neighbouring Lincolnshire and about 9 miles west of Peterborough's urban sprawl.
Wansford
Village
Photo: Richard Croft, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Wansford is a village straddling the City of Peterborough and Huntingdonshire districts in the ceremonial county of Cambridgeshire, England. It had a population of 506 at the 2021 Census.
Thornhaugh
Village
Photo: Chris Allen, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Thornhaugh is a civil parish and village in the city of Peterborough unitary authority, Cambridgeshire in the United Kingdom. For electoral purposes the parish forms part of the Glinton and Wittering ward and is in the North West Cambridgeshire constituency.
Bedford Purlieus National Nature Reserve
- Type: Nature reserve
- Description: 211-hectare (520-acre) [[ancient woodland]] in Cambridgeshire, in the United Kingdom
- Categories: protected area and recreation area
- Location: Thornhaugh, Peterborough, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
52.5847° or 52° 35′ 5″ northLongitude
-0.4622° or 0° 27′ 44″ westOperator
Forest EnterpriseOpen location code
9C4XHGMQ+V4OpenStreetMap ID
way 331966869OpenStreetMap feature
leisure=nature_reserveWikidata ID
Q4879186
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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 “Bedford Purlieus National Nature Reserve”. Photo: Simon Huguet, CC BY-SA 2.0.