Few areas offer such variety as Thorndon Park and its surroundings. Ancient woodland and historic deer parks lie close alongside recently planted woodland and a landscape of small pastures, while nearby is the high forest of Hartswood and former common land.
Donkey Lane Plantation
Hartswood
Little Warley Common
The Old Park
Thorndon Park
Warley Gap
Brentwood railway station is about 2km (via Hartswood and Little Warley Common) from Thorndon North. Buses from Brentwood Town Centre run to Eagle Way, Warley.