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Wytham Woods: Tales from the a long-studied woodland with Dr Keith Kirby
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- The Nature Recovery Podcast
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- Mar 4, 2026
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Send us Fan Mail In this episode we talk to Dr Keith Kirby MBE about Wytham Woods, a Thames Valley hill of limestone, ancient woodland and one of the most intensively studied woodland sites in the world. Keith traces the site’s deep history (a coral reef 150 million years ago), the human influence on the landscape over centuries, and the key decisions that shaped the wood we see today: enclosure and planting by estate owners, the university bequest in the 1940s, and the later tussles between ...