Dorset
West Dorset District
Folke

Folke Wood

Folke Wood is a wood near in , . It was planted by the Woodland Trust in 1985. It consists of native broadleaved trees as well as apple and ash trees. The apple trees are the remains of an orchard which existed in the 19th century.
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Places of Interest

Highlights include Sherborne Castle and Sherborne railway station.

Castle
Photo: JackPeasePhotography, CC BY 2.0.
is a 16th-century Tudor mansion southeast of in , , within the parish of . Originally built by Sir Walter Raleigh as Sherborne Lodge, and extended in the 1620s, it stands in a 1,200-acre park which formed a small part of the 15,000-acre Digby estate.

Railway station
Photo: Geof Sheppard, CC BY-SA 4.0.
serves the town of in , England. It is situated on the West of England Main Line, 118 miles 4 chains down the line from and is currently operated by South Western Railway.

Church
Photo: Chris Downer, CC BY-SA 2.0.
St Peter and St Paul's Church is a Church of England parish church in , , England. It was designed by Robert Howard Shout and built in 1856–57. The church is a Grade II listed building.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Sherborne and Longburton.

Photo: Andrewrabbott, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a small town in . A market town and civil parish in northwest Dorset, it's sited on the River Yeo on the edge of the Blackmore Vale.

Village
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or Long Burton is a village in , England, three miles south of . It is sited on a narrow outcrop of Cornbrash limestone, at the western end of Blackmore Vale. At the 2011 census, it had a population of 470.

Village
Photo: John Allan, CC BY-SA 2.0.
is a civil parish in the county of . The parish virtually encircles the town of , and contains within its boundary both and Sherborne Old Castle.

Folke Wood

Latitude
50.9194° or 50° 55′ 10″ north
Longitude
-2.4886° or 2° 29′ 19″ west
Open location code
9C2VWG96+QH
Open­Street­Map ID
way 86390892
Open­Street­Map feature
landuse=­forest
Wiki­data ID
Q5464501
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Localities in the Area

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Notable Places Nearby

Highlights include Folke Cottage and Parish Church of St Lawrence.

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Folke Wood”. Photo: Diliff, CC BY-SA 3.0.