White Horse Wood

White Horse Wood is a recently created English country park near Thurnham to the north of Maidstone, Kent.

White Horse Wood is Kent's newest country park, created as a Millennium project to replace the ancient woodland on top of the North Downs.

[1] The site hosts the medieval ruins of Thurnham Castle and also traces of an Iron Age settlement.

[2] Over 20,000 trees have been planted at the site including oak, ash, silver birch, wild cherry and crab apple.

The Kent County Agricultural Society has a plot in the wood where it has planted 1,200 specifically Kent-grown trees, including oak, ash, hornbeam and crab apple.

The open area marking the former Iron Age enclosure in White Horse Wood