Bedford Purlieus National Nature Reserve | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2019-06-15

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00:01:03 1 National nature reserve
00:02:42 2 Forestry Commission Wood
00:03:12 2.1 Commercial management
00:05:07 2.2 Conservation and public access
00:07:12 3 The Wansford Estate
00:07:41 3.1 Thornhaugh Woods
00:08:39 3.2 The Duke of Bedford's Purlieus
00:09:51 3.3 Grubbing up
00:10:44 3.4 The woodland compartments
00:11:23 3.5 Selling up
00:12:18 4 Royal Forest of Rockingham
00:14:31 5 Roman industry and woodland
00:16:27 6 Wartime use
00:17:02 7 See also



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Bedford Purlieus is a 211-hectare (520-acre) ancient woodland in Cambridgeshire, in the United Kingdom. It is a national nature reserve and Site of Special Scientific Interest owned and managed by the Forestry Commission. In Thornhaugh civil parish, 10 km (6.2 mi) south of Stamford and 14 km (8.7 mi) west of Peterborough, the wood is within the Peterborough unitary authority area of Cambridgeshire, and borders Northamptonshire. In Roman times it was an iron smelting centre, during the medieval period it was in the Royal Forest of Rockingham, and later it became part of the estates of the Duke of Bedford. Bedford Purlieus appears to have been continuously wooded at least from Roman times, and probably since the ice receded. The woodland may have the richest range of vascular plants of any English lowland wood. It acquired particular significance in the 1970s as an early subject for the historical approach to ecology and woodland management.