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Joyden's Wood is one of over 1,000 woods looked after by the Woodland Trust . The first records of a wood on this site go back to 1600AD making it an Ancient Woodland Site. LOCATION Joyden's Wood is located on the boundary between the London Borough Of Bexley in Greater London and the Dartford Borough of Kent . Locally, the wood is surrounded by the settlements of Joydens Wood, Old Bexley , North Cray , Wilmington and Swanley . WILDLIFE As in all Woodland, wildlife thrives here. The most notable though is the rare Great Crested Newt that has been found in the area. There are 9 ponds throughout the wood each of which is a habitat for all three British newts:
ARCHAEOLOGY Joyden's Wood is home to some fascinating ancient monuments. Faesten Dic, ‘the strong dike’ was built 1500 years ago by Saxon settlers and runs for over a kilometre through the forest. Furthermore, there have been traces of settlements found in the forest that are over 2000 years old and Denehole s have been found. During the Second World War , two Hurricane fighters crashed in the wood and some of the hollows you can see in the wood are bomb craters. THE ESTATE
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