5/5)The Royal Forest of Rockingham, a medieval hunting forest, is a beautiful patchwork of ancient woodlands and open agricultural land with historic features and attractive stone-built forest villages. Today the Forest offers visitors plenty of routes for walking, cycling and riding. Rockingham Forest is at the very centre of the Forestry Commission's Ancient Woodland Project. There are a number of different woods to visit.
- Fineshade Wood
- Wakerley Great Wood
- Fermyn Wood
- Bedford Purlius National Nature Reserve
- Southey Wood (TF 111 025), is a mixed woodland, with majestic oaks. The wood is in the Soke of Peterborough and is located on the minor road between the villages of Upton and Ufford.
How to get there:
Corby is the nearest town or village.
Located between the towns of Kettering and Peterborough
OS Grid Reference: SP9898
For details of public transport visit http://www.transportdirect.info
Places to go in Rockingham Forest
Wakerley Great WoodFermyn Woods
Bedford Purlieus National Nature Reserve
Fineshade Wood
Other places to go in this area
What's on in Rockingham Forest
April
- Craft Fayre Sunday 1 April 2012
Sunday 6 May 2012
Sunday 3 June 2012
Sunday 1 July 2012
Sunday 5 August 2012
Sunday 2 September 2012
Sunday 7 October 2012
Sunday 4 November 2012
Please tell us about your visit
Please email us at northants@forestry.gsi.gov.uk if you have an enquiry or would like a reply to your comments.
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