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[[Image:Track through Swinley Forest - geograph.org.uk - 714801.jpg|right|thumb|300px|Track through Swinley Forest]] | |||
==Coverage== | ==Coverage== | ||
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Situated to the south-west of [[Windsor Great Park]], the forest stretches from [[Bracknell]], in the north, to [[Bagshot]], in the south. It is owned and managed by the Crown Estate and comprises over {{convert|2600|acre|km2|0}} of woodland across gently undulating hills. Although now mostly a modern plantation of [[Scots Pine]]s, the area was once part of [[Windsor Forest]]. Swinley Forest includes '''Crowthorne Woods''' around [[Caesar's Camp, Bracknell Forest|Caesar's Camp]] between the [[Nine Mile Ride]] and Crowthorne; '''Swinley Park''' between [[Forest Park, Bracknell Forest|Forest Park]] and the [[B3017 road|B3017]]; '''Bagshot Heath''' just west of Bagshot; and '''Swinley Woods''' around Kings Ride between the B3017 and [[South Ascot]]. Much of the woods cover what used to be moorland as indicated by the names of some of the hills, such as [[Broadmoor Hospital|Broadmoor]], [[Owlsmoor]], Wishmoor, Gormoor, Whitmoor and Englemoor (now [[Englemere Pond|Englemere]]). | |||
==History== | |||
===Mountain Biking=== | |||
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''Swinley Park'' once surrounded ''Swinley Lodge'' where the King kept the Royal Staghounds in [[Georgian era|Georgian times]]. It was at the centre of ''Swinley Walke'', one of the sub-divisions of Windsor Forest. | |||
[[ | In the 18th century [[Daniel Defoe]] - writing in the fashion of the time of regarding uncultivated land as wild and forbidding - described Bagshot Heath as {{quote|"a vast tract of land [...] which is not only poor, but even quite steril {{sic}}, given up to barrenness, horrid and frightful to look on [...] much of it is a sandy desert [...] This sand indeed is checked by the heath, or heather, which grows in it [...] but the ground is otherwise so poor and barren that the product of it feeds no creatures, but some very small sheep, who feed chiefly on the said heather [...] nor are there any villages, worth mentioning, and but few houses or people for many miles far and wide".<ref>{{cite book |title=The Making of the English Landscape |author=W. G. Hoskins |publisher=Book Club Associates |year=1977 |page=140 }}</ref>}} | ||
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[[ | There are a number of late 18th century [[redoubt]]s scattered throughout the forest. These defensive earth fortifications were built here not as working defences but as training grounds to carry out military exercises in the buildup to the [[Napoleonic Wars]]. | ||
[[ | In May 2011 forest fires broke out throughout the forest; the cause is believed to be a mixture of the unseasonably dry conditions and arson. Although the fires were stated at the time by the [[Royal Berkshire Fire and Rescue Service]] to have been the most extensive fires ever tackled by the service, the extent of the damage to the forest was relatively limited. {{citation needed|date=July 2012}} | ||
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==Favourite Dogs== | |||
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[[Wowser]] | |||
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