Queen's Wood Country Park

#1674 among destinations in the United Kingdom

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Queenswood Country Park is the only designated country park in the county of Herefordshire. A tourist attraction on Dinmore Hill, it has two components. Its arboretum is a 47-acre tree collection with over 1,200 rare and frequently exotic trees. Queenswood ancient woodland is a 123-acre lightly coppiced woodland to maintain a semi-natural habitat which is designated a Site of Special Scientific Interest and Local Nature Reserve. The site is managed by a partnership between Herefordshire Wildlife Trust and New Leaf. ()

Coordinates: 52°9'27"N, 2°43'28"W

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Queen's Wood Country Park – popular in the area (distance from the attraction)

Nearby attractions include: Hampton Court, Leominster Museum, Priory Church, Grange Court.

1.1 miNE
Museum, History museum, Forts and castles
Hampton Court
29 min walk • Hampton Court Castle, also known as Hampton Court, is a castellated country house in the English county of Herefordshire. The house is in the parish of Hope under Dinmore 4 miles south of Leominster and is a Grade I listed building, which is the highest category of architecture in the statutory protection scheme.
4.8 miN
History museum, Museum
Leominster Museum, Leominster
122 min walk • Leominster Museum, formerly known as Leominster Folk Museum, is an independent, volunteer-run, museum in Leominster, Herefordshire, England.
5 miN
Cemetery, Sacred and religious sites, Church
Priory Church, Leominster
128 min walk • The Priory Church is an Anglican parish church in Leominster, Herefordshire, England, dedicated to Saint Peter and Saint Paul. The building was constructed for a Benedictine Priory in about the 13th century, although there had been an Anglo-Saxon monastery in Leominster, possibly on the same site.
4.9 miN
Specialty museum, Museum
Grange Court, Leominster
125 min walk • Grange Court is a former market hall in Leominster, Herefordshire, England. It was built in 1633 by John Abel, and moved to its present location in 1859. It was then used as a private house until the 1930s, and is now once again a civic building.
6.3 miNW
Manor house
Burton Court
161 min walk • Burton Court is a Grade II* listed English country manor house in the Parish of Eardisland, southwest of Leominster, Herefordshire, England. The manor dates to at least the 11th century and the current house to the early 14th and 18th century.
3.3 miSE
Forts and castles
Sutton Walls Hill Fort
83 min walk • Sutton Walls Hillfort is an elongated ovoid Iron Age Hill fort located four miles north of the city of Hereford, England. It was added to the Sites and Monuments Record in 1988.
5 miN
Monastery
Leominster nunnery, Leominster
129 min walk • Leominster nunnery was an Anglo-Saxon nunnery at Leominster, Herefordshire, England. Founded in the ninth century, the nunnery is known to have been active in the eleventh century.