Parks · Mid Wales
Queen's Wood Country Park
Queen's Wood Country Park — park in United Kingdom.
Philip Halling — CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons licence
Plan your visit
- Typical visit
- 1 h–2 h
- Nearest railway station
- Leominster · 7.6 km
- Free entry
- Family-friendly
- Dog-friendly
About
Queen's Wood Country Park is a public park in the United Kingdom. Wikidata describes it as: "park in United Kingdom". Coordinates: 52.1574°, -2.7243°.
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Protected designations
- Site of Special Scientific Interest: Dinmore Hill Woods SSSI
- Site of Special Scientific Interest: River Lugg SSSI
Designations sourced from Natural England open data under OGL v3.
From the Wikipedia article
Queen's Wood Country Park is the only designated country park in the county of Herefordshire. A tourist attraction on Dinmore Hill, it has two components. Its arboretum is a 47-acre (0.19 km2) tree collection with over 1,200 rare and frequently exotic trees. Queens Wood's ancient woodland is a 123-acre (0.50 km2) lightly coppiced woodland to maintain a semi-natural habitat which is designated a Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI) and Local Nature Reserve (LNR).The site is managed by a partnership between Herefordshire Wildlife Trust and New Leaf. The country park lies within the civil parishes of Bodenham, Hope under Dinmore and Wellington.
Excerpt from Wikipedia under CC BY-SA 4.0. See the source article linked in Sources below.
Background
History
Queens Wood is a fragment of the vast ancient oak wood that once stretched to the Welsh borders and beyond. It frequently reverted to the source of all estates, "the crown" (the monarch) intermittently, and changed its name from 'Kings Wood' to 'Queen's Wood' in the reign of Queen Elizabeth I. During the 17th century Queens Wood belonged to the adjacent Hampton Court House or Castle which is on the opposite side of the local main road. During World War I the woods were virtually clear-felled to provide timber for the war effort.
Sourced from Wikipedia under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- Coordinates
- 52.1574, -2.7243
- District
- Herefordshire, County of
- Parish
- Bodenham
- Postcode
- HR6 0PY
- Parliamentary constituency
- North Herefordshire
- Nearest railway station
- Leominster — 7.6 km
Sources
- wikidata: Q7270150 (CC0)
- wikipedia: Queen's Wood Country Park (CC BY-SA 4.0)
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Frequently asked questions
- Where is Queen's Wood Country Park?
- Queen's Wood Country Park is in Mid Wales, United Kingdom (postcode HR6 0PY), in the parish of Bodenham.
- Is Queen's Wood Country Park a protected site?
- Yes — Queen's Wood Country Park is part of the Dinmore Hill Woods SSSI Site of Special Scientific Interest and the River Lugg SSSI Site of Special Scientific Interest.
- Is Queen's Wood Country Park free to visit?
- Yes, Queen's Wood Country Park is free to enter.
- How do I get to Queen's Wood Country Park?
- The nearest railway station is Leominster, about 7.6 km away. Drivers can navigate to postcode HR6 0PY.