Park Wood, Medway

Park Wood or Parkwood is a housing estate and district in Gillingham at the south-eastern corner of the Medway conurbation in Kent, England.

It was built mainly during the 1960s and 1970s, largely by Ward Homes, and originally called Rainham Park.

[1] Parkwood is bordered by Wigmore to the west, Rainham to the north, and the M2 motorway to the south.

A 6.1-hectare (15-acre) protected Local Nature Reserve which is owned and managed by Medway Council.

What remains of Foxburrow Wood is remnant of a much larger historic wood, which once covered the entirety of what is now Parkwood, and has flora which are indicators of ancient woodland such as herb paris and bluebells.