Dixton Wood, Cotswold Water Park

Name: Dixton Wood
Address: Cotswold Water Park, United Kingdom

#63 among attractions in Cotswold Water Park

Nature, Natural attraction, Forest

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Dixton Wood is a 13.14-hectare biological Site of Special Scientific Interest in Gloucestershire, notified in 2000. Dixton Wood is recognised as a Special Area of Conservation under the EU Habitats Directive. ()

Coordinates: 51°58'53"N, 2°1'56"W

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Cotswold Water Park United Kingdom

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Dixton Wood – popular in the area (distance from the attraction)

Nearby attractions include: Sudeley Castle, Prescott Speed Hill Climb, Stanway House, Hailes Abbey.

4 miSE
Fortress with artefacts and famous gardens
Sudeley Castle, Winchcombe
102 min walk • Nestled in the heart of the Cotswolds, Sudeley Castle emerges as a quintessential example of England's rich historical tapestry. This enchanting castle, located in the picturesque town of Winchcombe, offers visitors a unique glimpse into the country's royal past.
1.2 miS
Sport venue, Sport, Sport complex
Prescott Speed Hill Climb, Cheltenham
30 min walk • Prescott Speed Hill Climb is a hillclimb in Gloucestershire, England. The course used for most events is 1,128 yards in length, and the hill record is held by Wallace Menzies who took the outright hill record in a Gould GR59M single seater with a time of 34.65 seconds on Sunday 5 September 2021.
5.1 miE
Garden, Museum, Fountain
Stanway House, Broadway
132 min walk • Stanway House is a Jacobean manor house, located near the village of Stanway in Gloucestershire, England. The manor of Stanway was owned by Tewkesbury Abbey for 800 years then for 500 years by the Tracy family and their descendants, the Earls of Wemyss and March.
4.5 miE
Ruins, Monuments and statues, History museum
Hailes Abbey, Broadway
116 min walk • Hailes Abbey is a former Cistercian abbey, in the small village of Hailes, two miles northeast of Winchcombe, Gloucestershire, England. It was founded in 1246 as a daughter establishment of Beaulieu Abbey. The abbey was dissolved by Henry VIII in 1539. Little remains of the abbey. It is a Grade I listed building and a scheduled monument.
5.2 miS
Park
Pittville Park, Cheltenham
133 min walk • The Pittville Pump Room was the last and largest of the spa buildings to be built in Cheltenham. The benefits of Cheltenham's mineral waters had been recognised since 1716, but not until after the arrival of Henry Skillicorne in 1738 did serious exploitation of their potential as an attraction begin.
4.6 miSE
Historical place, Archaeological site
Belas Knap, Winchcombe
116 min walk • Belas Knap is a neolithic, chambered long barrow situated on Cleeve Hill, near Cheltenham and Winchcombe, in Gloucestershire, England. It is a scheduled ancient monument in the care of English Heritage but managed by Gloucestershire County Council. "Belas" is possibly derived...
3.6 miE
Church
St Andrew's Church, Cotswold Water Park
93 min walk • St Andrew's Church, Toddington is a Grade I Listed Building in the town of Toddington, Gloucestershire, England. The present church is the third to occupy the site.
2.7 miS
51°56'36"N • 2°1'4"W
Cleeve Hill Golf Course, Cotswold Water Park
70 min walk • Golf
5 miS
Architecture, Museum, Historical place
Pittville Pump Room, Cheltenham
128 min walk • Pittville School is a coeducational foundation secondary school located in the Pittville area of Cheltenham in the English county of Gloucestershire.
2.6 miSW
Church
St Michael & All Angels Church, Bishop's Cleeve
66 min walk • St Michael & All Angels is the Anglican church in the village of Bishop's Cleeve, just north of Cheltenham in Gloucestershire. Informally the church is known simply as St Michael's.
3.3 miSE
Monastery
Winchcombe Railway Museum, Winchcombe
86 min walk • Winchcombe Abbey is a now-vanished Benedictine abbey in Winchcombe, Gloucestershire; this abbey was once in the heart of Mercia, an Anglo Saxon kingdom at the time of the Heptarchy in England.