Wood Banks
Description of this historic site
The greater woodbank encloses Oakley Wood and may date from about 1300. The banks around Moreton Wood and Wiggerland Wood are smaller.
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Notes about this historic site
1 The modern Oakley Wood was originally known as three separate woodlands – Oakley Wood, Moreton Close and Wiggerland Wood. Oakley Wood has long been known to be protected by a woodbank but the existance of woodbanks about the other two woodlands has not previously been recorded.
- For the sources of these notes, see the
- Timetrail record
- produced by the Historic Environment Record.
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