Firdown Wood
Firdown Wood is a deciduous forest in Bekesbourne-with-Patrixbourne, City of Canterbury, England. Firdown Wood is situated nearby to the village Bekesbourne, as well as near Patrixbourne.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Places of Interest
Highlights include Canterbury Cathedral and St Augustine’s Abbey.
Canterbury Cathedral
Church
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Canterbury Cathedral is the cathedral of the archbishop of Canterbury, the spiritual leader of the Church of England and symbolic leader of the worldwide Anglican Communion.
St Augustine’s Abbey
Photo: Rob Farrow, CC BY-SA 2.0.
St Augustine's Abbey was a Benedictine monastery in Canterbury, Kent, England. The abbey was founded in 598 and functioned as a monastery until its dissolution in 1538 during the English Reformation.
St Martin’s Church
Church
Photo: Oosoom, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Church of St Martin is an ancient Church of England parish church in Canterbury, England, situated slightly beyond the city centre. It is recognised as the oldest church building in Britain still in use as a church, and the oldest existing parish church in the English-speaking world, although Roman and Celtic churches had existed for centuries.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Canterbury and Wincheap.
Canterbury
Photo: AlasdairW, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Canterbury is a cathedral and university city in Kent, in the South East of England. Canterbury Cathedral is the seat of the Archbishop of Canterbury, Primate of All England and hence the Primus inter pares of the primates of each national church in the Anglican Communion and spiritual leader and senior clergyman of the Church of England.
Wincheap
Suburb
Photo: david mills, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Wincheap is a road and suburb in Canterbury, Kent, England. The road forms part of the A28 road, stretching for around 1 mile from the city wall, close by Canterbury East railway station, to the over-crossing of the A2 and the parish of Thanington.
Sturry
Village
Photo: pam fray, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Sturry is a village on the Great Stour river situated 3 miles northeast of Canterbury in Kent. Its large civil parish incorporates several hamlets and, until April 2019, the former mining village of Hersden.
Firdown Wood
- Type: Deciduous forest
- Category: forest
- Location: Bekesbourne-with-Patrixbourne, City of Canterbury, Kent, South East England, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
51.2721° or 51° 16′ 20″ northLongitude
1.1308° or 1° 7′ 51″ eastOpen location code
9F3374CJ+R8OpenStreetMap ID
way 94898889OpenStreetMap feature
natural=wood
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Localities in the Area
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