Lady Park Wood National Nature Reserve (England and Wales)
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- Work cat.: 2016057957: Woodland development, 2017:ECIP t.p. (Lady Park Wood) ch. 1 (Lady Park is now a National Nature Reserve; overlooking the Wye [River]; southern Britain)
- Forty years of change in Lady Park Wood : the old-growth stands. Journal of ecology, v. 75 (1987): 477-512; pdf file viewed Dec. 19, 2016:p. 477, intro. (Lady Park Wood was reserved for ecological research in 1944 on the initiative of the Foresty Commission, British Ecological Society, and Oxford University Department of Forestry) p. 478, general history and description of Lady Park Wood (National grid reference 546145: 51 [degrees] 49 [minutes] N, 2 [degrees] 39 [minutes] W); small part of High Meadows Woods; contiguous with the Forest of Dean; woods derive their name from the estate to which the formerly belonged, built chiefly about 1580 and 1650, by the Hall family; woods were inherited by Viscount Gage in 1719, and purchased by the Crown in 1817; Lady Park Wood; appears on Ordnance Survey maps as Reddings Inclosure; until nineteenth century was known as Hadnock Wood, or Hodenoc, Hodenach; Lady Parke appears on two surveys)
- First-nature.com(Lady Park Wood National Nature Reserve, near Monmouth, Monmouthshire; part of Wye Valley)
- Gov.uk www site, July 17, 2017:Gloucestershire's National nature reserves, updated June 2017 (Lady Park Wood; straddles the border between England and Wales 3 km north of Monmouth)
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Lady Park Wood National Nature Reserve (grid reference SO546144) is a 45-hectare (110-acre) nature reserve straddling the borders of Gloucestershire in England and Monmouthshire in Wales. Most of the wood is in Wales – where it forms Wales' easternmost point – but it is managed under agreement with Natural England. The wood is in the Wye Valley Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. It is part of the Upper Wye Gorge Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI) and the River Wye Special Area of Conservation (SAC). The site is owned by the Forestry Commission and access is on recognised rights of way. Permits are needed to access non-public areas. The wood has been a research location for some time as unmanaged woodland and is a prime woodland conservation area. It is notable as being the easternmost point of Wales. The wood take its name from the estate to which it formerly belonged, which was built up chiefly between about 1580 and 1650 by the Hall family of the now demolished High Meadow House. The woods were inherited by Viscount Gage in 1719 and purchased by the Crown in 1817. There is a gated small cave (part mine) in the wood, located near the Biblins campsite.
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