Joydens Wood

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A satellite image of Joydens Wood

Joyden's Wood is one of over 1,000 woods looked after by the Woodland Trust. The first records of a wood on this site go back to 1600AD making it an Ancient Woodland Site.

1 Location
2 Wildlife
3 Archaeology
4 The Estate
5 External links

[edit] Location

Joydens's Wood is located in South East England in the county of Kent, just South of London. Locally, the wood is surrounded by the settlements of Old Bexley, North Cray, Wilmington and Swanley.

[edit] Wildlife

As in all Woodland, wildlife thrives here. The most notable though is the rare Great Crested Newt's that have been found in the area. There are 9 ponds throughout the wood each of which is habitats to all three British newts:

[edit] Archaeology

Joyden's Wood is home to some fascinating ancient monuments. Faesten Dic, ‘the strong dike’ was built 1500 years ago by Saxon settlers and runs for over a kilometre through the forest. Furthermore, their have been traces of settlments found in the forest that are over 2000 years old and denehole's have been found. During the Second World War, two Hurricane fighters crashed in the wood and some of the hollows you can see in the wood are bomb craters.

[edit] The Estate

Joyden's Wood estate is home to hundreds of people with a local infant and junior school. Buses frequently pass through the estate and are run by Arriva the B15 bus is contracted by TfL. Its local train stations are Bexley and Dartford.

[edit] External links

view • talk • edit The town of Dartford in Kent, South East England with the surrounding suburbs, villages, towns and parishes :
Bean • Darenth • Dartford • Ebbsfleet • Greenhithe • Hawley • Joydens Wood • Longfield • Longfield and New Barn • Maypole • New Barn • Southfleet • Stone • Sutton-at-Hone • Sutton-at-Hone and Hawley • Swanscombe • Swanscombe and Greenhithe • Wilmington
The borough of Dartford List of places in Kent