Wychwood
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Wychwood or Wychwood Forest is a biological Site of Special Scientific Interest north of Witney in Oxfordshire. It is also a Nature Conservation Review site, Grade 1, and an area of is a national nature reserve The site contains a long barrow dating to the Neolithic period, which is a scheduled monument.
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Within Vinony's link graph, Wychwood is referenced by 254 other articles, and connects out to Wootton, Bampton and long barrow.
The entry is geolocated on the map, across 2 mapped points.
It is catalogued under topics including English royal forests, Forests and woodlands of Oxfordshire and Former civil parishes in Oxfordshire.
Its subject is documented across 4 Wikipedia language editions.
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- royal forest
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Located in
- Oxfordshire
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- Wychwood Forest
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Encyclopedic overview
12 sectionsContents
- Etymology
- Toponymy
- History
- Foresters of Wychwood
- Modern Wychwood
- Wychwood in art
- Paintings
- Literature
- Notes
- References
- Further reading
- External links
Wychwood or Wychwood Forest is a biological Site of Special Scientific Interest north of Witney in Oxfordshire. It is also a Nature Conservation Review site, Grade 1, and an area of is a national nature reserve The site contains a long barrow dating to the Neolithic period, which is a scheduled monument.
In past centuries the forest covered a much larger area, since cleared in favour of agriculture, villages and towns. However, the forest's area has fluctuated. Parts cleared for agriculture during Britain's centuries under Roman rule later reverted to forest. The existence of the ancient Wychwood is recognised by the authoritative Victoria County History, but the planned Volume XIX has yet to be completed.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Wychwood” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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2 mapped locations