West Wood Bridle Path
Introduction
The photograph on this page of West Wood Bridle Path by Glyn Baker as part of the Geograph project.
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West Wood Bridle Path
Image: © Glyn Baker Taken: 25 Sep 2010
This Bridle Path passes through. West Wood until recently the wood was owned by the Church Commissioners. It had been leased since the 1930’s by Castlepoint Council. Their lease was due to expire in September 2010. There was great fear that the Commissioners would sell the wood to a private owner for the comparatively cheap price of £250,000 see http://www.echo-news.co.uk/news/local_news/4490302.Residents_campaign_to_keep_West_Wood_for_public_use/ Castlepoint Council website http://www.castlepoint.gov.uk/main.cfm?type=3337 says that the wood is now owned by them. I suspect they paid something less than the asking price as they put a commercial forestry value of £120k on it.
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Image Location
Latitude
51.563207
Longitude
0.604598