Plan your visit
🦅Birds✦Heritage🌳Ancient
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Getting here
51.50803, -0.12804
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Visiting this summer
Seasonal nature notes and what to look for now
- 🐦49+ species recorded in this area — summer evenings are best for activity; watch for Greylag Goose and Black-headed Gull
- ✦Historic character is a year-round quality here — summer brings its own atmosphere to the setting
- ☕Caffè Nero — a good base for a longer summer day out
🌤️ Visiting this summer
- 🐦49+ species recorded in this area — summer evenings are best for activity; watch for Greylag Goose and Black-headed Gull
- ✦Historic character is a year-round quality here — summer brings its own atmosphere to the setting
- ☕Caffè Nero — a good base for a longer summer day out
Best for
8 activities🦅Bird watching
Very strong match
Birds — Greylag Goose, Black-headed Gull, Mute Swan +46 more · last seen 2026; Ancient woodland — owls, woodpeckers, warblers
✦Heritage
Very strong match
Grade I listed building: The Nelson Monument (Nelson's Column); Historic site
🌳Ancient woodland
Strong match
Ancient woodland — continuous woodland since before 1600
Birds — Greylag Goose, Black-headed Gull, Mute Swan +46 more · last seen 2026; Ancient woodland
🦋Insect spotting
Good match
Insects — Meliscaeva auricollis, Hairy-footed Flower Bee, Melanostoma scalare +3 more · last seen 2026
Trails nearby
Within roughly 5 km33 signed routes nearby
Signed route nearby
Middlesex Street Estate PedwaysWalking route▾
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Peter's Hill pedwayWalking route▾
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Bishopsgate pedwaysWalking route▾
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Jubilee Walkway (Camden Loop)Walking route▾
Named routeRound tripRegional walking route
Green Link Walk (Section 2)Walking route▾
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437 signed routes nearby
Signed route nearby
Cycleway 3Cycling route▾
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LCN 22Cycling route▾
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Route (C27)Cycling route▾
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About this historic site
Grade I registered historic park and garden
Photos
22 photos from nearby open sources
City of Westminster : National Gallery, Trafalgar Square
Photos
City of Westminster : National Gallery, Trafalgar Square
Facilities
🅿️Parking
Q-Park Leicester Square · Paid · 179m
Weather for this location
Next 14 daysNearby places
Useful places within 5 km
Wildlife to spot
41,946 records from NBN Atlas
Wildlife to spot
41,946 records · NBN Atlas🐦Birds49 species
winterspringautumn
2026Greylag Goose · Black-headed Gull · Mute Swan · Moorhen · Coot
+44 more speciesHide species list
All 49 birds recorded nearby (NBN Atlas)
- Greylag GooseAnser anser
- Black-headed GullChroicocephalus ridibundus
- Mute SwanCygnus olor
- MoorhenGallinula chloropus
- CootFulica atra
- Tufted DuckAythya fuligula
- Grey HeronArdea cinerea
- MagpiePica pica
- MallardAnas platyrhynchos
- Canada GooseBranta canadensis
- WoodpigeonColumba palumbus
- RobinErithacus rubecula
- Barnacle GooseBranta leucopsis
- BlackbirdTurdus merula
- Black SwanCygnus atratus
- Great Crested GrebePodiceps cristatus
- Great TitParus major
- Blue TitCyanistes caeruleus
- Rock DoveColumba livia2025
- Egyptian GooseAlopochen aegyptiaca2025
- Herring GullLarus argentatus2025
- Little GrebeTachybaptus ruficollis
- CormorantPhalacrocorax carbo2025
- Carrion CrowCorvus corone2025
- GadwallMareca strepera
- Coal TitPeriparus ater
- Long-tailed TitAegithalos caudatus
- Great Spotted WoodpeckerDendrocopos major
- WrenTroglodytes troglodytes
- JayGarrulus glandarius
- Pied WagtailMotacilla alba
- ChaffinchFringilla coelebs2025
- Bar-headed GooseAnser indicus
- StarlingSturnus vulgaris
- JackdawColoeus monedula
- KingfisherAlcedo atthis2025
- Great White PelicanPelecanus onocrotalus2025
- Red-breasted GooseBranta ruficollis2025
- GoldfinchCarduelis carduelis
- Ruddy DuckOxyura jamaicensis2025
- KestrelFalco tinnunculus2025
- RedwingTurdus iliacus2025
- GoldcrestRegulus regulus2025
- Common GullLarus canus2025
- NeneBranta sandvicensis2025
- TealAnas crecca2025
- WoodcockScolopax rusticola2025
- Ross's GooseAnser rossii2025
- Lesser Black-backed GullLarus fuscus2025
🦌Mammals4 species
winterspring
2026Grey Squirrel · Red Fox · House Mouse · Wood Mouse
🐸Amphibians1 species
winter
2026Smooth Newt
🐝Insects6 species
winterspringautumn
2026Meliscaeva auricollis · Hairy-footed Flower Bee · Melanostoma scalare · Birch Catkin Bug · 7-spot Ladybird
+1 more speciesHide species list
All 6 insects recorded nearby (NBN Atlas)
- Meliscaeva auricollisMeliscaeva auricollis
- Hairy-footed Flower BeeAnthophora plumipes
- Melanostoma scalareMelanostoma scalare
- Birch Catkin BugKleidocerys resedae
- 7-spot LadybirdCoccinella septempunctata
Grey-cushioned Grimmia · White-tipped Bristle-moss
Species observations from the last 10 years via NBN Atlas
Wildlife to spot
41,946 records · NBN Atlas🐦Birds49 species
winterspringautumn
2026Greylag Goose · Black-headed Gull · Mute Swan · Moorhen · Coot
+44 more speciesHide species list
All 49 birds recorded nearby (NBN Atlas)
- Greylag GooseAnser anser
- Black-headed GullChroicocephalus ridibundus
- Mute SwanCygnus olor
- MoorhenGallinula chloropus
- CootFulica atra
- Tufted DuckAythya fuligula
- Grey HeronArdea cinerea
- MagpiePica pica
- MallardAnas platyrhynchos
- Canada GooseBranta canadensis
- WoodpigeonColumba palumbus
- RobinErithacus rubecula
- Barnacle GooseBranta leucopsis
- BlackbirdTurdus merula
- Black SwanCygnus atratus
- Great Crested GrebePodiceps cristatus
- Great TitParus major
- Blue TitCyanistes caeruleus
- Rock DoveColumba livia2025
- Egyptian GooseAlopochen aegyptiaca2025
- Herring GullLarus argentatus2025
- Little GrebeTachybaptus ruficollis
- CormorantPhalacrocorax carbo2025
- Carrion CrowCorvus corone2025
- GadwallMareca strepera
- Coal TitPeriparus ater
- Long-tailed TitAegithalos caudatus
- Great Spotted WoodpeckerDendrocopos major
- WrenTroglodytes troglodytes
- JayGarrulus glandarius
- Pied WagtailMotacilla alba
- ChaffinchFringilla coelebs2025
- Bar-headed GooseAnser indicus
- StarlingSturnus vulgaris
- JackdawColoeus monedula
- KingfisherAlcedo atthis2025
- Great White PelicanPelecanus onocrotalus2025
- Red-breasted GooseBranta ruficollis2025
- GoldfinchCarduelis carduelis
- Ruddy DuckOxyura jamaicensis2025
- KestrelFalco tinnunculus2025
- RedwingTurdus iliacus2025
- GoldcrestRegulus regulus2025
- Common GullLarus canus2025
- NeneBranta sandvicensis2025
- TealAnas crecca2025
- WoodcockScolopax rusticola2025
- Ross's GooseAnser rossii2025
- Lesser Black-backed GullLarus fuscus2025
🦌Mammals4 species
winterspring
2026Grey Squirrel · Red Fox · House Mouse · Wood Mouse
🐸Amphibians1 species
winter
2026Smooth Newt
🐝Insects6 species
winterspringautumn
2026Meliscaeva auricollis · Hairy-footed Flower Bee · Melanostoma scalare · Birch Catkin Bug · 7-spot Ladybird
+1 more speciesHide species list
All 6 insects recorded nearby (NBN Atlas)
- Meliscaeva auricollisMeliscaeva auricollis
- Hairy-footed Flower BeeAnthophora plumipes
- Melanostoma scalareMelanostoma scalare
- Birch Catkin BugKleidocerys resedae
- 7-spot LadybirdCoccinella septempunctata
Grey-cushioned Grimmia · White-tipped Bristle-moss
Species observations from the last 10 years via NBN Atlas
2025
2025
Brown Marmorated Stink BugHalyomorpha halys2025Brown Marmorated Stink BugHalyomorpha halys2025Events & activities nearby
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