Purr Wood

Purr Wood is a forest in Godmersham, Ashford, England. Purr Wood is situated nearby to the village Godmersham, as well as near Crundale.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Godmersham Park and Chilham Castle.

Godmersham Park

Manor estate

Photo: David Anstiss, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Godmersham Park is a Grade I listed house in Godmersham in the English county of Kent. The house is on the edge of the North Downs between Ashford and Canterbury.

Chilham Castle is a Jacobean manor house and keep in the village of Chilham, between Ashford and Canterbury in the county of Kent, England. The keep is of Norman origin and dates to 1174, although it may have been built on an older Anglo-Saxon fortification.

Church of St Mary, Chilham

Church

Photo: Poliphilo, CC0.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Chilham and Wye.

Chilham

Village

Photo: Jonathan Billinger, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Chilham is a village and civil parish in the Borough of Ashford in Kent, England. It sits on the north bank of the Great Stour around 5+1⁄2 miles to the southwest of Canterbury and seven miles northeast of Ashford.

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.

Godmersham

Village

Photo: John Salmon, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Godmersham is a village and civil parish in the Ashford District of Kent, England. The village straddles the Great Stour river where it cuts through the North Downs and its land is approximately one third woodland, all in the far east and west on the escarpment of the North Downs.

Purr Wood

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

51.2142° or 51° 12′ 51″ north

Longitude

0.9669° or 0° 58′ 1″ east

Open location code

9F326X78+MQ

OpenStreetMap ID

way 4724801

OpenStreetMap feature

natural=wood

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Satellite Map

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Localities in the Area

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Notable Places Nearby

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