page_title: Thackley
section_title: Buck Wood
hierarchical_section_title: Thackley / Geography / Buck Wood
caption_attribution_description: English: Entrance to Buck Wood at Thackley Road. The sign indicates the bridleway through the wood starts here, but is not shown on the OS maps. The horse 'gate ' on the left is similar to that at the other end of the route, then shown as a Permissive Bridleway, see my photograph 1568015. The information board was erected by 'The Friends of Buck Wood'.
context_page_description: Thackley is a small suburb near Bradford, West Yorkshire in England. The village is loosely bordered by the village of Idle to the south, to the west by the West Royd area of Shipley and elsewhere by the Leeds and Liverpool Canal. Thackley is the northernmost part of Bradford south of the River Aire.
context_section_description: Buck Wood lies to the north of Thackley.
  The wood covers an area of fairly level high ground, as well as the steep north-facing slope down to the Leeds and Liverpool canal.
  Above this valley Buck Wood forms a broad semi-circular zone of woodland, adjoining other similar woods that are part of a woodland corridor stretching along the Aire Valley.
  Covering 42 hectares, Buck Wood is bordered by the curving route of the canal at its lower perimeter around 60 m above sea-level.
  Its highest boundary 135 m above sea level, is shaped by the tree-lined sweep of Ainsbury Avenue leading from Thackley through to Esholt.
  Thackley itself forms the southern boundary of the Wood, and at the northern edge near Dawson Wood is where part of the land is taken up by Yorkshire Water's waste water primary settling tanks.
  Buck Wood lies above a layer of millstone grit rock with numerous rocky outcrops, especially on the steeper slopes, where quarrying has taken place.
  The wood contains a mixture of habitats, with areas of both broad-leaved woodland and mixed deciduous/coniferous plantations.
  It has patches of marshland created by the many springs occurring throughout the Wood.
  There are fields scattered within the woodland, some used as pasture for grazing.
  Buck Wood has a variety of habitats and is an important reservoir for wildlife in Thackley and the surrounding area, and an area for walking and other leisure activities.
caption: The entrance to Buck Wood on Thackley Road
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