Richards Wood

Richards Wood is a forest in Hastingleigh, Ashford, England. Richards Wood is situated nearby to the locality Wye Downs, as well as near Broad Downs.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Wye railway station and Church of St Mary.

Wye railway station

Railway station

Photo: Andy Stephenson, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Wye railway station serves Wye in Kent, England, on the Ashford to Ramsgate line. The station and all trains that serve the station are operated by Southeastern.

Church of Saint Gregory and Saint Martin, Wye, Kent

Church

Photo: Rensi, Public domain.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Wye and Hastingleigh.

Wye

Village

Photo: O1ive, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Wye is a village and former civil parish, now in the parish of Wye with Hinxhill, in the Ashford district, in Kent, England, 5 miles from Ashford and 12 miles from Canterbury.

Hastingleigh

Village

Photo: Hywel Williams, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Hastingleigh is a small civil parish centred on an escarpment of the Kent Downs. The parish is three miles east of Wye and ten miles south of Canterbury, extending to the hill-scape of the Devil's Kneading Trough, on the North Downs Way with views towards Ashford, Romney Marsh and the patchy remnant forest of The Weald.

Kennington

Suburb

Photo: John Salmon, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Kennington is a suburb of Ashford and civil parish in Kent, England. It is about a mile northeast of the town centre and north of the M20 motorway, and contains the 13th-century church, St Mary's.

Richards Wood

Type: Forest
Location: Hastingleigh, Ashford, Kent, South East England, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude

51.1739° or 51° 10′ 26″ north

Longitude

0.9746° or 0° 58′ 28″ east

Open location code

9F325XFF+HR

OpenStreetMap ID

way 4724797

OpenStreetMap feature

natural=wood

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