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Dist:0.4km<br/>At the time of uploading this image this was only the second photograph in this square. Yet the square is only 25 kilometres from the centre of London at TQ3080 with its current 1,622 images. So it seemed only right and proper to try to rephotograph the scene shown in David's First Geograph image in this square from January 2006. Seasonal differences apart, nothing seems to have changed.
©Nigel Cox
Dist:0.5km<br/>Looking west, with the A4180 road at the end of the track. These are mixed deciduous woods which have had oak trees for timber and hornbeams growing under them to keep the oaks straight. The hornbeams are coppiced about every 20 years to supply small timber and poles. The woods are a National Nature Reserve, managed by the London Borough of Hillingdon.
©David Hawgood
Dist:1.0km<br/>The nuts are enclosed in a green husk with sharp spines. This tree is by the car park of Mad Bess Wood in Ruislip. Chestnut trees were introduced to England by the Romans and are common, particularly in parkland.
©David Hawgood
Dist:1.0km south<br/>This is the track around the edge of Mad Bess Wood. It is a public footpath, and has also been made available to horse and bicycle riders.
©David Hawgood
Dist:1.1km northeast<br/>This is an area of large detached houses with large gardens.
©David Hawgood
Dist:1.1km south<br/>The trees are too closely planted for photographs Also the board shows the extent of the plantation
©Jack Hill
Dist:1.1km south<br/>Part of Ruislip Woods National Nature Reserve.
©David Hawgood
Dist:1.2km northwest<br/>This is the London-Hertfordshire border, entering Harefield from Batchworth.
©David Howard
Dist:1.2km northwest<br/>Entering the London Borough of Hillingdon, from Batchworth in Hertfordshire.
©David Howard
Dist:1.2km southeast<br/>Walking through Ruislip Woods we noticed a leaf hanging from a tree on a six foot long thread - then the spider pulled it up. We noticed more leaves on spiders' webs, and came to this area with many pieces of leaf hanging on the web. I couldn't find a description of this spider activity, more information would be welcome.
©David Hawgood
Dist:1.2km east<br/>The pond is part of a stream that runs through Copse Wood and from here goes onto Northwood Hills. Taken on a cold day, there is a very thin film of ice on the pond.
©David Hawgood
Dist:1.3km east<br/>At the time of uploading this image this was only the second photograph in this square. Yet the square is only 24 kilometres from the centre of London at [[TQ3080]] with its current 1,622 images. So it seemed only right and proper to rephotograph the scene shown in David's First Geograph image in this square from January 2006. Seasonal differences apart, nothing seems to have changed. The pond is at the very northern end of Poor's Field.
©Nigel Cox
Dist:1.3km north<br/>Silver birch woodland in this publicly accessible Country Park managed by Three Rivers District Council.
©Nigel Cox
Dist:1.3km west<br/>The houses on the right are Ash Grove. View south-west from public footpath towards Northwood.
©David Hawgood
Dist:1.3km north<br/>The hospital was founded in 1860 as The North London Hospital for Consumption and Diseases of the Chest in Fitzroy Square , London and moved in 1864 to Mount Vernon in Hampstead. In 1904,the hospital moved here to its current site in Northwood. Today it provides a specialist non-surgical cancer service and a burns unit.
©Graham Hale

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