The Project
The Wychwood Project area includes 41 parishes, some 120 square miles.
The project works within the area that was once the Royal Hunting Forest of Wychwood. At Domesday in 1086, the royal forest of Wychwood covered much of what is now West Oxfordshire, England (click here to see a more detailed map of the boundary within West Oxfordshire).
The term Forest referred historically to areas where hunting rights were reserved for the Sovereign and in this area would have included meadows, cultivated open fields, heaths and downs as well as woodlands.
The Project boundaries coincide with the area of the Norman Forest, which lay between the rivers Windrush and Glyme. The area covers all or part of 41 modern day parishes, from Taynton to Woodstock and from just south of Chipping Norton down to Northmoor.
Villages within the area of the Project boundaries
A brief history of Wychwood forest
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