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Scott,
"wood" and "woods" mean the same thing in British English - a more or less smallish group of trees and brush.

American English only uses "woods" nowadays, but I'm pretty sure if you go...

hey chas.. How about all those National Forests? They ain't no woods. "woods" is smaller. The two words ain't always interchangeable.

Joyce Kilmer Memorial Woods,...

I have a little place along the edge of my land that I call the woods. It's about 30' wide and 200' long.

In the US we don't use the word 'wood' to mean small forest, or whatever. It's 'woods'...