Area of ancient woodland in southeast London, England
Lesnes Abbey Woods
Lesnes Abbey Woods, sometimes known as Abbey Wood, is a 73 ha[1] ancient woodland in southeast London, England. It is located near to, and named after, the ruined Lesnes Abbey in the London Borough of Bexley and gives its name to the Abbey Wood district. The woods are adjacent to Bostall Woods.
Lesnes Abbey Woods is a Local Nature Reserve[2][3] and includes the Abbey Wood geological Site of Special Scientific Interest, an important site for early Tertiary fossils.[4]
^"Designated Sites View". designatedsites.naturalengland.org.uk. Retrieved 23 April 2022.
^"Lesnes Abbey Woods". Local Nature Reserves. Natural England. 5 March 2013. Retrieved 22 January 2014.
^"Map of Lesnes Abbey Woods". Local Nature Reserves. Natural England. Retrieved 22 January 2014.
^Natural England citation, Abbey Wood
and 26 Related for: Lesnes Abbey Woods information
April 2022. "LesnesAbbeyWoods". Local Nature Reserves. Natural England. 5 March 2013. Retrieved 22 January 2014. "Map of LesnesAbbeyWoods". Local Nature...
which once belonged to the monks of LesnesAbbey. The Abbey of St Mary and St Thomas the Martyr at Lesnes (or LesnesAbbey) was founded in 1178 by Richard...
long-managed LesnesAbbeyWoods that are named after it, where the land rises above what would originally have been marshland. LesnesAbbey, as it is now...
tennis courts. LesnesAbbeyWoods is an 88 hectare area of ancient woodland to the south-east of AbbeyWood, named after the LesnesAbbey ruins that lie...
Woods is an area of 159.1 hectares of woodland with areas of heathland located in the Royal Borough of Greenwich ward of AbbeyWood, west of Lesnes Abbey...
the London Borough of Bexley. It is located in LesnesAbbeyWoods south-east of the ruins of LesnesAbbey. Members of the public can dig for fossils in...
October 2012. "Sculpture at Lesnes". LesnesAbbeyWoods. Retrieved 28 August 2023. "Map of the site". LesnesAbbeyWoods. Retrieved 28 August 2023. "Data...
further south. The largest of the open spaces are Foots Cray Meadows, LesnesAbbeyWoods, Danson Park and Hall Place Gardens. There are also many golf courses...
to as Lessness in some records LesnesAbbey, a ruined abbey, in AbbeyWood, southeast London, England LesnesAbbeyWoods, an area of ancient woodland in...
Lessness Heath, and LesnesAbbey, which in turn gave its name to LesnesAbbeyWoods and AbbeyWood. The Hundred of Little and Lesnes occupied the northernmost...
Catholic Bishops Conference of England and Wales. Retrieved 8 August 2020. Woods, Alan (3 July 2012). "Columnist Garry Bushell throws support behind Sidcup's...
of the East Saxons of land at Erith. The surrounding area was known as Lesnes or Lessness, which is mentioned in the Domesday Book of 1086. After the...
Transport for London bus services connecting it with areas including AbbeyWood, Bexleyheath, Bromley, Crayford, Chislehurst, Dartford, Eltham, Erith...
Hasted, some areas of this marshland were drained by 1279 by the monks of LesnesAbbey. Between 1812 and 1816, a canal was built by convicts to take materials...
to assist with draining the flooding of the eastern Royal Arsenal and AbbeyWood) and were left, with the rest of the ironwork, to rust and to vandals...
Mary the Virgin, Welling". Retrieved 14 February 2021. "Pupils at Former AbbeyWood School Sought". Newsshopper.co.uk. 17 September 2008. Retrieved 6 March...
originally a chapel of St Nicholas’ Church in Plumstead, within the Little and Lesnes Hundred. It became a civil parish in its own right in 1854 and formed part...
Winn's Common (No 7 in Bagnold's list) and a badly damaged one in LesnesAbbeyWoods. "Historic England: Shrewsbury Barrow, Entry No 1430983". Retrieved...
Building materials included stone recycled from a nearby former monastery, LesnesAbbey. Sir John's house consisted of a splendid central Great Hall crossed...
Foots Cray Meadows on its way from Old Bexley to Sidcup Place and Petts Wood. There is some industry in an area next to the meadows and bordering the...
the old playing fields. Stationers' Crown Woods Academy (formerly Crown Woods School and later Crown Woods College) is an academy sponsored by the Worshipful...
Global Information