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Oxleas Wood remains a public open space close to the top of the hill ; there is also a golf-course and one of the last remaining areas of farmland in inner London, Woodlands Farm ( now an educational charity ).
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Oxleas and Wood
In the 1990s the defence of Oxleas Wood to the east of the town became a focus for a pan-European campaign to resist high capacity urban roads.
* Oxleas Woods, Castle Wood and Jack Wood, located to the north of Eltham, is a Site of Special Scientific Interest.
Oxleas Wood covers and is at least 8, 000 years old.
Severndroog Castle is a folly situated in Oxleas Wood, on Shooter's Hill in south-east London in the Royal Borough of Greenwich.
Oxleas Wood is one of the few remaining areas of ancient deciduous forest in the Royal Borough of Greenwich ( with a small amount passing over the boundary into the London Borough of Bexley ), in southeast London.
It is part of a larger continuous area of woodland and parkland on the south side of Shooter's Hill: other parts are Jack Wood, Shepherdleas Wood, Castle Wood, Oxleas Meadows, Falconwood Field and Eltham Park North ( the latter being divided by the A2 main road from its southern section ).
Typical view of Oxleas Wood
* Oxleas Wood on the website of the Royal Borough of Greenwich
* Case history on the Oxleas Wood anti-road protect.
* Oxleas Wood / Shooters Hill Woodlands, Wild About Britain
* Green Chain, Oxleas Wood and Meadow
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A branch of the Green Chain Walk passes the ruins on its way from Oxleas Wood to Thamesmead riverside.
The Green Chain walking network runs through Shepherdleas Wood, Oxleas Wood, Eltham Common, Eltham Park North and Eltham Park South.
* Oxleas Wood
There is a shorter ha-ha in the grounds of the nearby Jacobean Charlton House and, perhaps suggesting that the art of employing ha-has is not entirely lost, there is an example of a similar wall nearby Severndroog Castle in Oxleas Wood, constructed with what seems to be World War II bomb damage brickwork.
Oxleas and there
Various proposals have been made for a new river crossing, the closest of which was in the late 1980s, when there was a controversial proposal to alter the shape of London's South Circular inner orbital road so it would run through Oxleas Woods.
The proposals for the Thames Gateway bridge have recently been revived and there is concern that, if built, this would lead to pressure to link it to the A2, crossing Oxleas.
Oxleas and is
There is an underground water reservoir in the grassed area called Oxleas Meadow.
Within Oxleas Meadow is a cafe.
Oxleas and Woodlands
* Natural England, Map of Oxleas Woodlands
Wood and remains
Overseas excavations continued and John Turtle Wood discovered the remains of the 4th century BC Temple of Artemis at Ephesos, another Wonder of the Ancient World.
Cheddar Wood and the smaller Macall's Wood form a biological Site of Special Scientific Interest from what remains of the wood of the Bishops of Bath and Wells in the 13th century and of King Edmund the Magnificent's wood in the 10th.
Wood that is burned today in these regions mainly consists of the remains of condemned wooded structures.
The park runs behind Marmora Road and the remains of the embankment then continues along Wood Vale where flats were built on it.
Parts of St John's Wood have been rebuilt at a higher density, but it remains a highly desirable residential district, and one of the most expensive areas of London.
Nothing remains of it today ( Wood 2003 ).
The landscape is more open than that of Ray Wood, and the planting remains immature.
Bagot's Wood, the remains of the ancient Needwood Forest also takes its name from the Bagots.
Londoners would travel north to escape the smoke of the capital and enjoy the last remains of the old Hornsey Wood.
Wood was named Army Chief of Staff in 1910 by President Taft, whom he had met while both were in the Philippines ; he remains the only medical officer to have ever held that position.
The Wood Duck limit remains at two in the Central Flyway and at seven in the Pacific Flyway.
Straddling the Limber parish border are the remains of an undated ring ditch in Swallow Wold Wood.
In 1661 the antiquary Anthony Wood reported that the house was ruinous, and early in the 19th century the remains were in use as a farmhouse and barns.
The location of the original medieval manor house of Holmer remains obscure, although local historians McLain-Smith and Riches have suggested its location at a moated site in nearby Colemans Wood where they have excavated medieval pottery.
Petrified Wood is a fossil in which the organic remains have been replaced by minerals in the slow process of being replaced with stone.
Wood made an indelible contribution to the suburb through this role, and the effect remains evident in the 2000s in the lives of people he influenced at that time.
The bluebell glades of Stocks Wood were said to be a relic of the Forest of Arden and there are Roman remains nearby.
Wood Quay where the oldest remains of Viking Dublin were located was also demolished, and replaced with the headquarters of Dublin's local government, though not without a long and acrimonious planning struggle between the government and preservationists.
* Brenchley Wood ( OS Map 188 ): contains Roman remains, links to Julius Caesar's invasion of England
Although this site is no longer referred to as Gibbet Hill, and was undeveloped until ( at least ) 1906, the toponomy has survived in the name of Gibbet Hill Wood ; an area which Birmingham City Council have identified as " an area of potential archaeological importance " due to " surviving archaeological remains ".
It still remains today, somewhat reduced, sandwiched between the M6 and the Collector Road ( Castle Bromwich & Chelmsley Wood bypass ).
Also very evident on this map are the remains of the old mines towards and within Windmill Wood, immediately to the southeast.
There was an Iron Age fort on Dun Knock ( no visible remains ) and a 1st century Roman camp at Kincladie ( part of the rampart and ditch survive in Kincladie Wood ).
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