Beacon Wood
Beacon Wood is a deciduous forest in Hoath, City of Canterbury, England. Beacon Wood is situated nearby to the hamlet Maypole, as well as near Ford.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Places of Interest
Highlights include East Blean Woods and Maypole.
East Blean Woods
Deciduous forest
Photo: Nick Smith, CC BY-SA 2.0.
East Blean Woods is a 151.4-hectare biological Site of Special Scientific Interest south of Herne Bay in Kent. It is also a National Nature Reserve a Special Area of Conservation and a Nature Conservation Review site.
Maypole
Aerodrome
Maypole Airfield was a general aviation airfield located 2.5 miles south of Herne Bay, Kent and 5.2 miles north east of Canterbury, Kent, United Kingdom. It was scheduled to close in January 2021, and is closed as of May 2021.
Wildwood Discovery Park
Zoo
Wildwood Trust is a woodland discovery park in Herne, near Canterbury in Kent, England. It features over fifty species of native British animals such as deer, badgers, wild boar, wolves and brown bear.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Herne Bay and Herne.
Herne Bay
Town
Photo: John Fielding, CC BY 2.0.
Herne Bay is a seaside town on the north coast of Kent in South East England. It is 6 miles north of Canterbury and 4 miles east of Whitstable. It neighbours the ancient villages of Herne and Reculver and is part of the City of Canterbury local government district, although it remains a separate town with countryside between it and Canterbury.
Herne
Village
Photo: John Salmon, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Herne is a village in the civil parish of Herne and Broomfield, in Canterbury district, in the county of Kent, England. It is divided by the Thanet Way from the seaside resort of Herne Bay.
Greenhill
Suburb
Greenhill is an outlying suburb of the coastal town of Herne Bay, in Kent in southeast England. The erstwhile Thanet Way, now renumbered as the A2990 road, separates Greenhill from Herne Bay.
Beacon Wood
- Type: Deciduous forest
- Category: forest
- Location: Hoath, City of Canterbury, Kent, South East England, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
51.3432° or 51° 20′ 36″ northLongitude
1.1566° or 1° 9′ 24″ eastOpen location code
9F3385V4+7JOpenStreetMap ID
way 4816294OpenStreetMap feature
natural=wood
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