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Park Wood, Cambridgeshire

protected area in Cambridgeshire, England

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 8, 2026
Entity authorityQ29019742 ↗
Source-derived summary

Park Wood is an 8.1-hectare (20-acre) biological Site of Special Scientific Interest east of Brinkley in Cambridgeshire.

This is woodland of the wet ash/maple type, a scarce and declining habitat. Ground flora include bluebell, dog’s mercury and oxlip, and there are indicators of ancient woodland such as herb-paris and butterfly-orchid.

The site is private land with no public access.

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“Park Wood, Cambridgeshire” enters the record as protected area in Cambridgeshire, England. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Park, Wood and Cambridgeshire can confirm, complicate or overturn.

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This entry incorporates text from “Park Wood, Cambridgeshire” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.