Clearing with bluebells, Willenhall Wood
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Clearing with bluebells, Willenhall Wood
Image: © A J Paxton Taken: 4 May 2019
Modern Coventry is built over part of Arden, the northwestern half of Warwickshire, characterised by ancient countryside with extensive woodland, ancient hedges, scattered hamlets and winding lanes with hollow ways. It was never a 'Forest of Arden', and much of the woodland had been cleared by the 13th century (see Oliver Rackham, The New Naturalist Library: Woodlands, Collins, 2006). But many woods survive, and we are fortunate that some were incorporated in to the suburbs of Coventry when the city expanded rapidly after the second world war. Willenhall Wood is one example.
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Image Location
Latitude
52.383467
Longitude
-1.453119