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Thieves Wood & Harlow Wood loop

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Thieves Wood & Harlow Wood loop

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Thieves Wood & Harlow Wood loop

02:01

7.73km

60m

Hiking

Moderate hike. Good fitness required. Mostly accessible paths. Sure-footedness required. The starting point of the route is right next to a parking lot.

Last updated: June 7, 2024

Waypoints

Start point

Parking

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876 m

Thieves Wood

Highlight • Trail

Walking trails, picnic benches and a definite folklore ambience await at Thieves Wood. Once the hunting ground of robbers and highwaymen and with associations to folklore legend Robin Hood, if the trees could talk, they'd surely have great tales to tell. There's a refreshment cabin at the car park for that all important refuel after a ramble.

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2.39 km

Harlow Wood

Highlight • Trail

Great place for a walk or bike ride. Lots of trails to get yourself lost on for an hour or two :)

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4.57 km

Fountain Dale Ponds

Highlight • Forest

Fans of English folklore heed this well, for it was at Fountain Dale where the first meeting of Robin Hood and Friar Tuck took place. Legend goes that they fought at the moat, the remains of which are sadly all but gone.

Interestingly, Sir Walter Scott wrote his famous novel Ivanhoe here. The novel is partly to thank for the modern perception of many of the principal characters of Robin Hood folklore, including the Prince of Thieves himself.

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7.73 km

End point

Parking

Way Types & Surfaces

Way Types

4.48 km

2.29 km

487 m

379 m

< 100 m

Surfaces

2.26 km

2.21 km

1.97 km

1.13 km

136 m

< 100 m

Elevation

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Saturday 11 July

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