🐦74+ species recorded in this area — summer evenings are best for activity; watch for Raven and Mediterranean Gull
✦Historic character is a year-round quality here — summer brings its own atmosphere to the setting
🐕Dogs welcome — bring water in summer; the site has enough space to find shade on hot days
🌤️ Visiting this summer
🐦74+ species recorded in this area — summer evenings are best for activity; watch for Raven and Mediterranean Gull
✦Historic character is a year-round quality here — summer brings its own atmosphere to the setting
🐕Dogs welcome — bring water in summer; the site has enough space to find shade on hot days
Good to know
£Free to visit — no entry charge
🐕Dogs welcome
Best for
7 activities
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Bird watching
Very strong match
Birds — Raven, Mediterranean Gull, Peregrine +71 more · last seen 2025; Deciduous woodland — woodpeckers, warblers and woodland birds
Free
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Wildlife
Strong match
Birds — Raven, Mediterranean Gull, Peregrine +71 more · last seen 2025; Deciduous woodland priority habitat
Free
🦋
Insect spotting
Strong match
Chalk and limestone grassland — chalkhill blue, adonis blue and rare moths; Insects — Variable Damselfly, 7-spot Ladybird, Eristalis tenax +5 more · last seen 2025
Free
🍂
Seasonal nature
Strong match
Plants — Salad Burnet, Hedge Bedstraw, Common Bird's-foot-trefoil +213 more · last seen 2025
Free
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Heritage
Strong match
Historic site
Free
🌿
Foraging
Good match
Deciduous woodland — fungi, berries and wild garlic
Varies
Trails nearby
Within roughly 5 km
🚶
Walking
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9 signed routes nearby
Signed route nearby
South Downs WayWalking route160 km▾
Named routeLength 160 kmNational walking route
Greenwich Meridian TrailWalking route440 km▾
A long-distance walk that follows the line of the Prime Meridian. Inaugurated in 2009, to coincide with the 125th anniversary of the Greenwich Meridian.
Named routeRef GMTLength 440 kmRegional walking route
Vanguard WayWalking route111 km▾
Named routeRef VGWLength 111 kmRegional walking route
