Kingswood

Kingswood is a common place name around the world. Originally an English term it refers, quite literally, to a piece of woodland in the possession of the king.

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:Placenames in the United Kingdom:

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:*Kingswood (UK Parliament constituency)

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:*Kingswood, Buckinghamshire

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:*Kingswood, Gloucestershire

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:*Kingswood, Herefordshire

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:*Kingswood, Kent

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:*Kingswood, Powys

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:*Kingswood, South Gloucestershire

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:*Kingswood, Surrey

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:*Kingswood, Warwickshire

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:Placenames in Australia:

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:*Kingswood, New South Wales

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:*Kingswood Park, New South Wales

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Kingswood can also refer to:

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• Kingswood Country, an Australian sitcom, screening from 1980 to 1984
• Holden Kingswood, an automobile manufactured in various forms from 1968 to 1984
• Cranbrook Kingswood School, an American private K-12 school

Place name: REDIRECT Toponymy...

Woodland: Biologically, a woodland is differentiated from a forest. In these terms, a forest has a largely-closed canopy -- in other words, the branches and foliage of trees interlock overhead to provide extensive and nearly continuous shade. A woodland, however, has a largely-open canopy, with sunlight pen...