Smugglers Wood
Smugglers Wood is a forest in Christchurch, England. Smugglers Wood is situated nearby to the suburb Friars Cliff, as well as near Somerford.Places of Interest
Highlights include Highcliffe Castle and Hinton Admiral railway station.
Highcliffe Castle
Castle
Photo: Davepape, Public domain.
Highcliffe Castle, situated on the cliffs at Highcliffe, Dorset, was built between 1831 and 1835 by Charles Stuart, 1st Baron Stuart de Rothesay in a Romantic and Picturesque, Gothic Revival style near the site of High Cliff House, a Georgian Mansion designed for the 3rd Earl of Bute with the gardens laid out by Capability Brown.
Hinton Admiral railway station
Railway station
Photo: Mike Smith, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Hinton Admiral railway station is a station serving the villages of Bransgore and Hinton and the seaside town of Highcliffe on the Hampshire/Dorset border in southern England.
Stocks
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Stocks are a feet restraining device that were used as a form of corporal punishment and public humiliation. The use of stocks is seen as early as Ancient Greece, where they are described as being in use in Solon's law code.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Bransgore and New Milton.
Bransgore
Photo: Peter Facey, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Bransgore is a village in the New Forest that developed in the 19th century when a church and a school were built. It has the picturesque character of a rural English village.
New Milton
Town
Photo: Singinglemon, CC0.
New Milton is a market town and civil parish in the New Forest district, in southwest Hampshire, England. To the north is in the New Forest and to the south the coast at Barton on Sea.
Highcliffe
Town
Photo: Stephen Williams, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Highcliffe or Highcliffe-on-Sea is a seaside town in the civil parish of Highcliffe and Walkford, in the unitary authority area of Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole, in the ceremonial county of Dorset in England.
Smugglers Wood
Latitude
50.749° or 50° 44′ 56″ northLongitude
-1.7268° or 1° 43′ 36″ westOpen location code
9C2WP7XF+H7OpenStreetMap ID
way 685237124OpenStreetMap feature
natural=wood
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