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Hanging Wood, London

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Though it is popularly supposed that the wood was used for hanging those highwaymen who were caught, a more likely explanation for the name is the wood's location on steep slopes so that the trees appear to hang from the slope. Such woods are often referred to as 'hanging woods' (the word 'hang'
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was a former woodland area located in what is now southeast
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comes from the Old English 'hangra', a wooded slope).
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Maryon Wilson Park
London
Woolwich Common
Charlton
highwaymen
Shooter's Hill
Blackheath
Maryon Park
Maryon Wilson Park
Gilbert's Pit
Royal Borough of Greenwich
"Map of Charlton, 1746 | Historic Maps of Greenwich | Ideal Homes"
"Hanging Wood"
"Five hidden London spaces"
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