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Pond Wood

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Then

Pond Wood is a small wood at Northwick Road and Seacroft Gardens, known for old pollarded hornbeams that were still being cut in the estate's early years. A resident writing on Our Oxhey recalls early plans showing a larger pond beside it, later taken into Oxhey Wood School's field. This was probably Park Pond.^{5,16,165,296,703}

Now

It is still mapped as woodland, and Natural England's revised list (2026) counts its 1.6 hectares as ancient woodland. In 2013 a notably old pollarded hornbeam stood at the road junction.

Old black-and-white view of the pond at Pond Wood, believed late 1930s — A pond beside Pond Wood, probably Park Pond, in a photograph its owner believes was taken in the late 1930s, before the estate. © A.C.Burgess, Geograph (CC BY-SA 2.0)

Mentioned in

Farms and fields: The estate in 1872 Before the Estate
Farms and fields: The field names Before the Estate
The old woods: What ancient woodland means Before the Estate
The old woods: Pond Wood and the smaller woods Before the Estate
Building the Estate: What became of Oxhey Place Building the Estate
Building the Estate: The estate goes up Building the Estate
The heart of the estate Walk
Farms and lost houses Walk

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