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Woodland Oxh B e 4 Moor iv of woodland just waiting to be explored. r 5 D 4 South Park y 2 e e n h a x Oxhey th L or O Central w A h 4 c 1 Woodland The LNR has a easy access circular walk of one km, which t 2 a 5 B L ittle ey Lane starts and ends at the car park. The trail has a firm surface s Prestwick R Oxh od o o a W d e B Northwood h 4 and is suitable for young families with buggies, wheelchair T 5 Headquarters' 42 users and those less mobile. Southern Woodland Natural sculptures found along the way depict the wildlife and history of the Northwood Pinner woods, and benches provide opportunities to stop and take By Road: in the peace and tranquillity. There is a car park in the southern part of the woods at the junction of Prestwick Road and Oxhey Drive. For more energetic users By Bus: the woods contain There are regular buses along Prestwick Road, Sandy Lane several longer trails, and Oxhey Drive. Contact Traveline on 0871 2002233 or www.intalink.org.uk Oyster numerous footpaths Fungus to explore and an By Rail: orienteering course. Oxhey Woods are a 15 minute walk from Carpenters Park Speckled Wood Station. Turn left out of the station car park and take the Butterfly next right onto Oxhey Drive. Continue up Oxhey Drive until you reach the woods.

Oxhey Woods LNR is owned and managed by Council A one hundred hectare woodland Tel: 01923 776611 or www.threerivers.gov.uk with an easy access sculpture trail The Countryside Management Service works with communities across to help them care for and enjoy the environment. Tel: 01462 459 395 or www.hertslink.org/cms

Bluebells Local Nature Reserve Nairn Green About Oxhey Woods Gosforth Lane Oxhey Woods is the largest Local Nature Little Furze Reserve (LNR) in Three Rivers District. Young Young Field Hangings The character of the woods is varied, Old Furze Field Gosforth Lane created by centuries of management for Public footpath to In the southern a variety of woodland products. Today Wren Old woodland the Prestwick Road and Oxhey Drive divide Hangings older trees are the woods into three separate areas. A 41 e widely spaced with 25 S spreading branches, The woods are an important Wildlife a M nd y u The Plantation ir indicating that the woods Site, notable for the unusual Wild Service La f n Beck Mason’s ie e Oxhey Driv ld were once more open. Plants such as Heather, Tree. Sometimes known as the Wood R oa ‘Chequers Tree’ because of its d Wavy-hair grass and Gorse can be found in distinctively patterned bark, the sunny heathland glades. In the past grazing leaves and berries form the e by cows and sheep stopped the glades LNR logo. Wild from becoming overgrown. Today they Service Pond are kept open by periodically cutting down Some parts of the LNR are ancient Tree Furze Clos encroaching trees. woodland, having been continuously wooded for at least four hundred years, Car Park Rhododendron was introduced to Britain in the s Ashridge Drive RR eighteenth century. It thrives on our moist, fertile, and possibly up to ten thousand years. hh oo dd o woodland soils, though its evergreen leaves cast a Features such as sunken pathways, d Pond The Wood e n d deep shade, smothering native woodland flowers. earth banks and ditches can be seen. rr on n W To help prevent damage to the woodland the In the past these earth works often allk marked boundaries between different spread of Rhododendron is controlled. land uses and ownership.

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