Bisham Woods is an 86-hectare (210-acre) biological Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI) west of Cookham in Berkshire.[1][2] The site is also a Local Nature Reserve[3][4] and part of Chilterns Beechwoods Special Area of Conservation.[5] The SSSI is part of a 153.2-hectare (379-acre) site, also called Bisham Woods, which has been owned and managed by the Woodland Trust since 1990.[6]
The woods[7] consist of several sections. The northern part is the ancient woodland SSSI, with compartments known as Quarry Wood, Fultness Wood, High Wood and Inkydown Wood. With the River Thames just to the north, and views across the Chiltern Hills, they include beechwoods, with rare woodland orchids.[8] The remaining compartments, including Park Wood, High Wood, Goulding's Wood, Carpenters Wood and Dungrovehill Wood, are areas of 19th- and 20th-century planting noted for bluebells.[9][10] These are nearer Maidenhead, near the A308 and A404. The woods are open to the public, and are well served with paths and bridleways, with parking nearby.[11]
Quarry Wood is the site of Bisham Quarry, an important medieval source of stone, much of which was used to build Windsor Castle. From medieval times the woods were part of the extensive Bisham Estates of the Earls of Salisbury.[12] An ice house, built in the 1760s to provide ice for Bisham Abbey, is within the woods, and opened to the public four times a year.[6] The woods are the original 'Wild Wood' in Kenneth Grahame's 1908 children's book The Wind in the Willows, which he wrote in the nearby village of Cookham Dean.[13] Percy Bysshe Shelley composed The Revolt of Islam in the area of Bisham Woods in 1817 when he was living at Marlow.[14]
A memorial in Carpenters Wood commemorates the crash site of a Halifax Bomber from the Royal Air Force 578 Squadron, on 18 July 1944. The memorial was dedicated on 18 July 1998.[15]
^ abcd"Designated Sites View: Bisham Woods". Sites of Special Scientific Interest. Natural England. Retrieved 16 October 2019.
^"Map of Bisham Woods". Sites of Special Scientific Interest. Natural England. Retrieved 16 October 2019.
^"Bisham Woods". Local Nature Reserves. Natural England. Archived from the original on 2016-03-04.
^"Map of Bisham Woods". Local Nature Reserves. Natural England.
^"Designated Sites View: Chilterns Beechwoods". Special Areas of Conservation. Natural England. Retrieved 16 October 2019.
^ abWoodland Trust Management Plan 2009-2014
^'Welcome to Bisham Woods.' Information board within the woods
^Wild About Britain Archived December 2, 2010, at the Wayback Machine
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Salisbury and the Hoby family. Bisham has a local nature reserve on the eastern edge of the village, called BishamWoods. Bisham Church is mentioned in Jerome...
1817.[citation needed] Shelley composed the work in the vicinity of BishamWoods, near Great Marlow in Buckinghamshire, northwest of London, from April...
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and local nature reserve on the western edge of the village, called BishamWoods. It neighbours Cookham Village, Marlow, Furze Platt and Pinkneys Green...
BishamWoods". Sites of Special Scientific Interest. Natural England. Archived from the original on 16 April 2020. Retrieved 3 October 2019. "Bisham Woods...
Flanders. He was admitted to the Privy Council in March 1552. The manor of Bisham Abbey in Berkshire was given to him, at the expense of the former queen...
to the village to write the book. Quarry Wood in Bisham, adjoining, is said to have been the original Wild Wood. The English painter Stanley Spencer was...
clothes and no headgear or linen bed clothing), before being transferred to Bisham Manor, Berkshire, until March 1312. From there, she was moved to Windsor...
(1902). Powell, Edgar (ed.). The Travels and Life of Sir Thomas Hoby, Kt of Bisham Abbey, written by himself, 1547–1564. Royal Historical Society. Publications...
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ducks include the familiar native mallard, plus introduced Mandarin duck and wood duck. Other water birds to be found on the Thames include the great crested...
join a provisional training camp for the Nigeria under-20 team held at Bisham Abbey in preparation for the 2011 FIFA U-20 World Cup. However, he failed...
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survived, before allowing them to be laid to rest in the family vault at Bisham Abbey. Although he had defeated the Neville brothers, Edward had little...
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