Bessy Wood
Introduction
The photograph on this page of Bessy Wood by Ian Capper as part of the Geograph project.
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Bessy Wood
Image: © Ian Capper Taken: 3 May 2014
A block of woodland in an area of wide arable farming. The 1850 6 inch map shows it to have originally been named Bessy Rash, although by the time of the 1895 map it had acquired its current name.
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Image Location
Latitude
53.966757
Longitude
-1.325958