Captain’s Wood

Captain’s Wood is a forest in Shepherdswell with Coldred, Dover District, England. Captain’s Wood is situated nearby to the hamlet Coldred, as well as near the locality Waldershare.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Kearsney railway station and Dover Transport Museum.

Kearsney railway station

Railway station

Photo: Nick Smith, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Kearsney railway station is on the Dover branch of the Chatham Main Line in England, and serves Kearsney and Temple Ewell. It is 75 miles 9 chains down the line from London Victoria and is situated between Shepherds Well and Dover Priory, the terminus.

River Dour

River

The River Dour is a chalk stream in the county of Kent, England. It flows from the villages of Temple Ewell and River between which is a neighbourhood served by a railway station, Kearsney.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Dover and Buckland.

Dover

Photo: Traveler100, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Dover is a major port town in East Kent, facing into the English Channel. At just 21 mi from the French port of Calais, it is the closest port to continental Europe on mainland Britain.

Buckland including Buckland Valley is a village near Dover, in the county of Kent, England. It is noted for the Buckland Anglo-Saxon cemetery whose finds now belong to the British Museum but are on display at Dover Museum.

Eythorne

Village

Eythorne is a civil parish and small village located 7.3 miles north-northwest of Dover in Kent, with a combined population of approximately 2,500 residents including nearby villages Barfrestone and Elvington.

Captain’s Wood

Type: Forest
Location: Shepherdswell with Coldred, Dover District, Kent, South East England, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude

51.1697° or 51° 10′ 11″ north

Longitude

1.2697° or 1° 16′ 11″ east

Open location code

9F335799+VV

OpenStreetMap ID

way 4832493

OpenStreetMap feature

natural=wood

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