Long Wood

Long Wood is a forest in Fiskerton, West Lindsey District, England. Long Wood is situated near the locality Fiskerton Fen, as well as near Ferry Hill.

Places of Interest

Highlights: Bardney Abbey and Stainfield Priory.

Bardney Abbey

Monastery

Photo: Richard Croft, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Bardney Abbey in Lincolnshire, England, was a Benedictine monastery founded in 697 by King Æthelred of Mercia, who was to become the first abbot. The monastery was supposedly destroyed during a Danish raid in 869.

Stainfield Priory

Monastery

Photo: Richard Croft, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Stainfield Priory was a Benedictine nunnery at Stainfield in the North of Lincolnshire, England, between Wragby and Fiskerton. The priory of St Mary at Stainfield was the only nunnery of the Benedictine order in Lincolnshire.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Bardney and Reepham.

Bardney

Village

Photo: Richard Croft, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Bardney is a village and civil parish in the West Lindsey district of Lincolnshire, England. The population of the civil parish was 1,643 at the 2001 census increasing to 1,848 at the 2011 census.

Reepham

Village

Photo: Richard Croft, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Reepham is a small village in the West Lindsey district of Lincolnshire, England. It is situated 5 miles north-east from the city and county town of Lincoln.

Stainfield

Hamlet

Photo: Richard Croft, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Stainfield is a village and civil parish about 10 miles east of the city of Lincoln, in the West Lindsey district of Lincolnshire, England. The population of the civil parish at the 2011 census was 189.

Long Wood

Type: Forest
Location: Fiskerton, West Lindsey District, Lincolnshire, East Midlands, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude

53.236° or 53° 14′ 10″ north

Longitude

-0.3826° or 0° 22′ 58″ west

Open location code

9C5X6JP8+9W

OpenStreetMap ID

way 64061973

OpenStreetMap feature

landuse=forest

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Localities in the Area

Places to explore: Fiskerton Fen and Ferry Hill.

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Highlights: Oxeney Island and Barlings Abbey.

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