Nature Reserve
Chambers Farm Wood is part of the Bardney Limewoods National Nature Reserve, one of the most important examples of a small-leaved lime woodland remaining in Britain. It occupies land believed to have been under continuous woodland cover for thousands of years. The Domesday Survey of 1086 suggests that this was a well-wooded area in a poorly wooded county; it is commonly believed that Chambers Wood was part of the woodland mentioned.
Chambers Farm Wood is varied and interesting; it shows the ever-changing usage priorities of woodland in the countryside and illustrates the interplay between woodland and farming over many centuries. The woods are named after the 1848 tenant farmer, John Chambers.
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