Twyford Forest

Twyford Forest, more recently known as Twyford Wood, and once known as Witham Wood, is a commercial wood around gbmapping|SK948230, in Lincolnshire, England owned by the Forestry Commission, England, an agency of the British Government and managed by its subsidiary, Forest Enterprise (England). About a third of the wood is long-established and the rest was planted with oak ("Quercus robur") and conifers soon after 1950, around the runways of an airfield of the Second World War period. Much of the original wood was cleared in 1943 so that the level land on which it stood could be used for construction of the air station called RAF North Witham.

oil 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.

References

* Ordnance Survey. (several maps)
* Bruce Barrymore Halpenny "Action Stations 2." (1991) ISBN 1-85260-405-0.
* Soil Survey of England and Wales. Sheet 4. (1983)
* Institute of Geological Sciences. One-Inch Series, Sheet 143.)

External links

* [http://www.forestry.gov.uk/website/wildwoods.nsf/LUWebDocsByKey/EnglandLincolnshireKestevenForestTwyfordWood Forestry Commission website, Twyford Wood wildlife]