Bedford Purlieus National Nature Reserve

About

Bedford Purlieus National Nature Reserve is a forest in london. Established 2000. (Ancient woodland in Cambridgeshire, England.) According to Wikipedia: "Bedford Purlieus is a 211-hectare (520-acre) ancient woodland in Cambridgeshire, in the United Kingdom. It is a national nature reserve and Site of Special Scientific Interest owned and managed by the Forestry Commission. In Thornhaugh civil parish, 10 km (6.2 mi) south of Stamford and 14 km (8.7 mi) west of Peterborough, the wood is within the Peterborough unitary authority area of Cambridgeshire, and borders Northamptonshire. In Roman times it was an iron smelting centre, during the medieval period it was in the Royal Forest of Rockingham, and later it became part of the estates of the Duke of Bedford. Bedford Purlieus appears to have been continuously wooded at least from Roman times, and probably since the ice receded. The woodland may have the richest range of vascular plants of any English lowland wood."

Coordinates

52.5847, -0.4622

Established

2000

Sources

• osm: w331966869 (ODbL)
• wikipedia: Bedford Purlieus National Nature Reserve (CC BY-SA 4.0)
• commons: Bedford Purlieus - geograph.org.uk - 1228194.jpg (CC BY-SA 4.0)