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A Walk Around the "Wood that Built London" | History News Network

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The North Wood or Norwood once covered a seven-mile stretch of what is now suburbia, cresting a range of hills that formed the Kent-Surrey border. A large part of it lay in the northern reaches of the manor of Croydon, known as the North Wood. The earliest I was able to find is a terrier (from the French registre terrier, or land register) conducted in 1492.

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A Walk Around the "Wood that Built London" | History News Network

Working as a conservation volunteer at the London Wildlife Trust’s Local Nature Reserve at Sydenham Hill Wood in southeast London, I was fascinated to learn about the ancient woodland of which it is a surviving remnant. This expanse of oaks once covered a seven-mile stretch of what is now suburbia, cresting a range of hills that formed the Kent-Surrey border. As a large part of it lay in the northern reaches of the manor of Croydon, it was known…

2 years ago·Washington, United States

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