The Wilderness
The Wilderness is a deciduous forest in Godmersham, Ashford, England. The Wilderness is situated nearby to the village Godmersham, as well as near the hamlet Bilting.Places of Interest
Highlights include Chilham Castle and Godmersham Park.
Chilham Castle
Castle
Photo: Daywalker, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Chilham Castle is a Jacobean manor house and keep in the village of Chilham, between Ashford and Canterbury in the county of Kent, England. The keep is of Norman origin and dates to 1174, although it may have been built on an older Anglo-Saxon fortification.
Godmersham Park
Manor estate
Photo: David Anstiss, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Godmersham Park is a Grade I listed house in Godmersham in the English county of Kent. The house is on the edge of the North Downs between Ashford and Canterbury.
Park Wood
Forest
Park Wood is a 31.1-hectare biological Site of Special Scientific Interest west of Chilham in Kent. This wood is mainly hazel and hornbeam coppice with oak standards, and diverse shrub and ground layers.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Chilham and Wye.
Chilham
Village
Photo: Jonathan Billinger, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Chilham is a village and civil parish in the Borough of Ashford in Kent, England. It sits on the north bank of the Great Stour around 5+1⁄2 miles to the southwest of Canterbury and seven miles northeast of Ashford.
Wye
Village
Photo: O1ive, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Wye is a village and former civil parish, now in the parish of Wye with Hinxhill, in the Ashford district, in Kent, England, 5 miles from Ashford and 12 miles from Canterbury.
Godmersham
Village
Photo: John Salmon, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Godmersham is a village and civil parish in the Ashford District of Kent, England. The village straddles the Great Stour river where it cuts through the North Downs and its land is approximately one third woodland, all in the far east and west on the escarpment of the North Downs.
The Wilderness
- Type: Deciduous forest
- Category: forest
- Location: Godmersham, Ashford, Kent, South East England, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
51.2183° or 51° 13′ 6″ northLongitude
0.9502° or 0° 57′ 1″ eastOpen location code
9F326X92+83OpenStreetMap ID
way 92669972OpenStreetMap feature
natural=wood
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