Farley Wood is a
suburb in the
civil parish
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of
Binfield
Binfield is a village and civil parish in Berkshire, England, which at the 2011 census had a population of 8,689. The village lies north-west of Bracknell, north-east of Wokingham, and south-east of Reading at the westernmost extremity of ...
, approximately west of
Bracknell, in the
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county of
Berkshire. Farley Wood is dominated by
Farley Copse (sometimes known as Farley Moor Copse), a large woodland and
local nature reserve on the slopes falling away from Farley Hall and Farley Moor, two large Victorian houses.
Following the building in the 1980s of a small housing estate either side of the Turnpike Road, the remaining copse was adopted by
Bracknell Forest Borough Council providing a large woodland space full of oak, beech and ash trees; it is also home to a large
Wellingtonia pine as well as various
Roe Deer
The roe deer (''Capreolus capreolus''), also known as the roe, western roe deer, or European roe, is a species of deer. The male of the species is sometimes referred to as a roebuck. The roe is a small deer, reddish and grey-brown, and well-adapt ...
.
Farley Wood Community Centre is nearb
To the south of the wood is Farley Moor Lake in the vicinity of which are many of Bracknell's big employers, such as
Cable & Wireless Worldwide, Cable & Wireless,
3M,
Fujitsu,
HP and
Dell in the nearby
Amen Corner Business Park.
References
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Bracknell Forest
Suburbs in the United Kingdom