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Cowleaze Wood is a woodland in the Chiltern Hills, a chalk ridge in South East England. The wood is in the civil parish of Lewknor, about southeast of the village. It is next to the county boundary with Buckinghamshire, and adjoins Lydall's Wood on the Buckinghamshire side of the boundary. The Forestry Commission owns Coweleaze Wood, and planted it between 1957 and 1966.〔 It is particularly known for its bluebells, and walkers are also attracted to the wood by sightings of red kites. There is a large car park adjoining the wood, and a picnic area with sculptured benches designed by furniture designer Fred Baier. ==Air crash== On 31 March 1944 a Handley Page Halifax Mk III bomber aircraft, LW579 of No. 51 Squadron RAF, was returning from the Nuremberg Raid when it crashed in the wood, killing all seven of its crew. LW579 was based at RAF Snaith in the East Riding of Yorkshire and seems to have been at least off course. It was a clear, moonlit night, and it is not clear why the Halifax lost height and crashed into the hill. It was one of six aircraft that the squadron lost in the same night on the same mission.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=The Nuremberg Raid )〕 There is a monument in the wood to the crew of LW579. It is a stone plinth from Lincoln Cathedral,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Lewknor / Stokenchurch Memorial to Halifax MkIII LW579 )〕 now with the men's names inscribed upon it. In 2015 BBC Radio Oxford broadcast a documentary about the crash, the crew and some of their surviving relatives. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Cowleaze Wood」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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