✦ Historic site

Wooler Tower

✦ Ancient woodland

📷 wfmillar · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0

Getting here

55.54668, -2.01276

Best for

2 activities

Heritage

Free76%

Historic site

Wildlife

Free75%

Ancient woodland

Trails nearby

Within roughly 5 km

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Walking

1 named nearby · 5 public paths

Named routePublic access

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Cycling

7 named nearby

Named route

Named routes and paths nearby

Pennine Cycleway · Cycling0

Saint Cuthbert's Way (Kirk Yetholm to Lindisfarne) · Walking0

Main Route · Cycling

About this historic site

Wooler Tower is an ancient historic site. As an ancient woodland, it has been continuously wooded since at least 1600 AD — a rare and irreplaceable habitat rich in biodiversity and historical character.

Wildlife to spot

6,426 records · NBN Atlas

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Birds60 species recorded

Robin · Chaffinch · Blackbird

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Mammals2 species recorded

Red Squirrel · Hedgehog

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Reptiles1 species recorded

Slow-worm

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Amphibians1 species recorded

Common Toad

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Insects2 species recorded

7-spot Ladybird · Eristalis pertinax

Species observations from the last 10 years via NBN Atlas

Wildlife to spot

Photos

📷 wfmillar · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0

Tower Hill, Wooler

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Bookable tours

🌱 Visiting this spring

🌸Ancient woodlands are famous for bluebell carpets in April and May — one of Britain's most spectacular wildflower displays
🐦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