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Best woods near 10 UK cities
Here's our pick of great woods in and around the UK's busiest cities for sanctuary seekers, wildlife watchers, fitness fans and history hounds alike.
Charlie Mellor • 04 Nov 2021
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Trees woods and wildlife
Birch, downy
Soft on the outside. Tough on the inside. On a global scale, this tree, with its fuzzy leaf stalks, shoots and twigs, grows further north than any other broadleaf species.
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Trees woods and wildlife
Horse chestnut
Spiky cases, gleaming seeds, celebrated by children. Horse chestnuts, with their mahogany-bright conkers, are the very essence of autumn.
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Trees woods and wildlife
Common striated feather-moss
Cushions of feathery green moss strewn nonchalantly over the woodland floor, common striated feather-moss is one cool customer. It brings colour to shady places and it is a characteristic of old ash woodlands in particular.
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Woodland Trust Wood
Joyden's Wood
Dartford & Bexley South
134.81 ha (333.12 acres)
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Woodland Trust Wood
Little Doward Woods
Wyastone Leys nr Whitchurch
82.39 ha (203.59 acres)
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Woodland Trust Wood
Purton
Purton
16.39 ha (40.50 acres)
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Woodland Trust Wood
Top Wood
Grangewood Linton
81.01 ha (200.18 acres)
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Devon Wildlife Trust Wood
Halsdon
Devon
50.06 ha (123.70 acres)
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Berkshire, Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire Wildlife Trust Wood
Foxholes
Oxfordshire
22.59 ha (55.82 acres)