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Legacy woods in South England

Gifts in wills have been instrumental in rescuing threatened woods and creating new areas of native woodland across the UK.

This section highlights examples of woods in South England which have directly benefited from the foresight of those who kindly left a gift in their will to the Woodland Trust.

Abbots Wood

Size: 20 acres (8.14 ha) Near: Keynsham, Somerset

Adcombe Wood & Woodram Copse

Size: 89.43 acres (36.19 ha) Near: Blagdon, somerset

Allington Hill & Cooper's Wood

Size: 43.69 acres (17.68 ha) Near: Bridport, Dorset

Ashenbank Wood

Size: 74.01 acres (29.95 ha) Near: Cobham, Kent

Aversley Wood

Size 152.09 acres (65.55 ha) Near: Sawtry, Cambridgeshire

Avon Valley Woods

Size: 344.84 acres (139.55 ha) Near: Woodleigh, Devon

Binswood

Size: 151.23 acres (61.2 ha) Near: East Worldham, Hampshire

Bisham Woods

Size: 378.57acres (153.2 ha) Near: Cookham Dean, Maidenhead, Berkshire

Bishops Knoll

Size: 7.36 acres (2.98 ha) Near: Stoke Bishop, Bristol

Blackbush & Twenty Acre Shaw Woods

Size: 67.73 acres (27.41 ha) Near: Cudham, Greater London

Blean Woods NNR

Size: 236.85 acres (95.85 ha) Near: Canterbury, Kent

Bovey Valley Woods

Size: 213.33 acres (86.33 ha) Near: Lustleigh, Bovey, Tracey Devon

Brede High Woods

Size: 647.14 acres (261.89 ha) Near: Cripps Corner, East Sussex

Brookland Wood

Size: 7.194 acres (2.91 ha) Near: Fontmell Magna, Dorest

Buck's Valley Woods

Size: 101.63 acres (41.13 ha) Near: Bucks Mill, Devon

Clanger Wood

Clanger Wood Size : 147.35 acres (59.63 ha) Near: Westbury, Wiltshire

Colwell Wood

Size: 2.40 acres (0.97 ha) Near: Totnes, Devon

Culvery Wood

Size: 7.96 acres (7.96 ha) Near: Pensford, Somerset

Duncliffe Wood

Size: 227.73 acres (92.16 ha) Near: Stour Row, Shaftesbury, Dorset

Dutchie's Orchard

Size: 1.06 acres (0.43 ha) Near: South Petherton, Somerset

Earley Wood

Size: 53.77 acres (21.76 ha) Near: Petham, Kent

East Wray Cleave

Size: 57.80 acres (23.39 ha) Near: Lustleigh, Devon

Fordham Hall Estate

Size: 506.52 acres (204.98 ha) Near: Fordham, Colchester, Essex

Glover's Wood

Size: 63.16 acres (25.56 ha) Near: Charlwood, Surrey

Grey Park Wood

Size: 37.39 acres (15.13 ha) Near: Ashburton, Devon

Greyfield Wood

Size: 89.72 acres (36.31 ha) Near: High Littleton, Somerset

Guestling Wood

Size: 110.31 acres (44.64 ha) Near: Hastings, Sussex

Hardwick Wood

Size: 54.51 acres (22.06 ha) Near: Plympton, Nr Plymouth, Devon

Harrocks Wood

Size: 105.79 acres (42.81 ha) Near: Rickmansworth, Watford, Hertfordshire

Havering

Size: 134.05 acres (54.24 ha) Near: Romford, Essex

Heartwood Forest

Size: 134.05 acres (54.25 ha) Near: Romford, Essex

Heath Hills

Size: 15.52 acres (6.28 ha) Near: Brook, Surrey

Hoddesdon Park Wood

Size: 153.25 acres (62.02 ha) Near: Lord Street, Hoddeston, Hertfordshire

Hollow's Wood

Size: 144.51 acres (58.48 ha) Near: Chelsfield, Kent

Houndtor Wood

Size: 60.07 acres (24.31 ha) Near: Lustleigh, Bovey Tracey, Devon

Hucking Estate

Size: 580.40 acres (234.88 ha) Near: Hollingbourne, Kent

Joyden's Wood

Size: 333.15 acres (134.82 ha) Near: Dartford & Bexsley South, Kent

Kiln Wood

Size: 33.01 acres (13.36 ha) Near: Blackboys, East Sussex

Kingsettle Wood

Size: 51.47 acres (20.83 ha) Near: Shaftesbury, Dorset

Mannings Wood

Size: 36.20 acres (14.65 ha) Near: East Dunry, Somerset

Marden Park

Size: 167.12 acres (67.63 ha) Near: Woldingham, Surrey

Moat Wood

Size: 24.54 acres (9.93 ha) Near: South Street, East Hoathly, East Sussex

Nine Hole Wood

Size: 7.31 acres (2.96 ha) Near: Eynsford, Kent

Otterbourne Park Wood

Size: 64.20 acres (25.98 ha) Near: Otterbourne, Hampshire

Oxmoor Copse

Size: 3.01 acres (1.22 ha) Near: Abinger Hammer, Surrey

Penn Wood

Size: 435.72 acres (176.33 ha) Near: Penn Street, Buckinghamshire

Prescott Pinetum

Size: 6.70 acres (2.71 ha) Near: Uplyme, Devon

Rhododendron Wood

Size: 26.02 acres (10.53 ha) Near: Kentisbeare, Devon

Saxten's & Cage's

Size: 56.98 acres (23.06 ha) Near: Fawkham Green, Kent

Shaptor Woods

Size: 194.47 acres (78.7 ha) Near: Bovey Tracey, Devon

Slopes Farm

Size: 10.35 acres (4.19 ha) Near: Lyme Regis, Dorset

Tinney's Firs

Size: 60.05 acres (24.3 ha) Near: Salisbury, Wiltshire

Tramlines Wood

Size: 14.06 acres (5.69 ha) Near: Okehampton, Devon

Trenant Wood

Size: 224.74 acres (90.95 ha) Near: Trenant, Cross Nr Looe, Cornwall

Upper Barn & Crowdhill Copses

Size: 70.23 acres (28.42 ha) Near: Fishers Pond, Hampshire

Victory Wood

Size: 349.59 acres (140.26 ha) Near: Yorkletts, Kent

Watkins Wood

Part of the Avon Valley Woods Size: 344.84 acres (139.55 ha) Near: Woodleigh, Devon

Windmill Piece

Size: 14.83 acres (6 ha) Near: Padbury, Buckinghamshire

Yealm Woods (Newton)

Size: 57.72 acres (23.36 ha) Near: Newton Ferrers, Devon

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