Twyford Wood
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Twyford Wood, formerly known as Twyford Forest, is a commercial wood around Grid reference Script error: No such module "Ordnance Survey coordinates". in Lincolnshire owned by the Forestry Commission, England, an agency of the British Government and managed by its subsidiary, Forest Enterprise (England).
History
A woodland had existed before the Second World War, covering approximately Script error: No such module "convert".. During the war, much of the land beyond this was developed from 1943 onwards as RAF North Witham. This was used operationally by the United States USAAF. At the end of air hostilities in Europe, the USAAF handed the site back to the Royal Air Force, who used the site as a bomb-collection dump, from which ordnance was then dispatched for disposal.
At the end of hostilities of the Second World War, the woodland and RAF site were taken over by the Forestry Commission in 1945. In the 1950s, they redeveloped all of their woodlands holdings in the River Trent valley with Scots and Corsican pine for use by local industry, leaving the original Quercus robur oaks on the original woodland in place.
The name Twyford comes from the former medieval village of that name, south of Colsterworth, Script error: No such module "Ordnance Survey coordinates".[1] Note: there is a similarly named surviving village at SK728103
Present
Managed commercially today by Forest Enterprise (England), the Script error: No such module "convert". commercial woodland lies one mile to the east of Colsterworth. To the south is Beaumont Wood.
Soil and geology
The soil association is 712g Ragdale. Chalky till; slowly permeable seasonally waterlogged clayey and fine loamy over clayey soil. Boulder clay over upper Lincolnshire limestone.
Nature conservation
The butterfly reserves are managed by the Lincolnshire branch of Butterfly Conservation. It is home to the dingy skipper and the grizzled skipper.
Facilities
There is a small car park, with access from the A151. The wood is used for off-road motor sport.[2]
References
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- Ordnance Survey. (several maps)
- Bruce Barrymore Halpenny Action Stations 2. (1991) Template:ISBN.
- Soil Survey of England and Wales. Sheet 4. (1983)
- Institute of Geological Sciences. One-Inch Series, Sheet 143.)