🌳 Broadleaved woodland

Shelves Plantation

1 ha

Getting here

50.92318, -2.39407

Best for

1 activity

Forest walks

Free50%

Public woodland

Within roughly 5 km

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Walking

1 named nearby · 5 public paths

Named routePublic access

Stour Valley Way · Walking100 km

Shelves Plantation is a broadleaved woodland covering 1 hectares.

16,335 records · NBN Atlas

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Birds36 species recorded

Long-tailed Tit · Blackbird · Carrion Crow

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Insects15 species recorded

Meadow Grasshopper · Speckled Wood · Small White

Species observations from the last 10 years via NBN Atlas

Cattle at Brunsell Knap farm

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🌱 Visiting this spring

🐦Prime nesting season — listen for woodpecker drumming, warbler song and the first cuckoos from April
🦌Roe deer are active before the leaf canopy closes in — dawn and dusk are best

Free entry🐶 Dogs

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