Plan your visit
🧺Picnic🛝Family🦉Wildlife
Public accessFree entryDogs welcome1 ha
Getting here
51.68786, 0.00017
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Visiting this summer
Seasonal nature notes and what to look for now
- ☀️June — canopy now fully closed, creating cool dappled shade even on warm days
- 🧺Good picnic destination in summer — open space and facilities for a relaxed day out
- ☕Apollo Cafe — makes this an easy full-day family visit without needing to pack food
🌤️ Visiting this summer
- ☀️June — canopy now fully closed, creating cool dappled shade even on warm days
- 🧺Good picnic destination in summer — open space and facilities for a relaxed day out
- ☕Apollo Cafe — makes this an easy full-day family visit without needing to pack food
- £Free to visit — no entry charge
- 🐕Dogs welcome
☕Café🅿️Parking🧺Picnic spot🚻Toilets
🧺Picnic day out
Very strong match
picnic area, café, toilets, car park
Free
🛝Family friendly
Strong match
café, toilets, picnic area
Free
Deciduous woodland priority habitat; Native broadleaved woodland
Free
Dogs allowed — public woodland
Free
Traditional orchard — seasonal fruit, fungi and wild plants
Varies
🦅Bird watching
Strong match
Deciduous woodland — woodpeckers, warblers and woodland birds; Native broadleaved woodland — woodland birds
Free
Trails nearby
Within roughly 5 km17 signed routes nearby · 12 public paths nearby
Signed route nearbyPublic paths
Three Forests WayWalking route96 km▾
Named routeLength 96 kmRound tripRegional walking route
Epping Forest Big WalkWalking route▾
Named routeLocal walking route
LOOP link to Enfield Lock stationWalking route▾
Named routePoint-to-pointRegional walking route
Beech TrailWalking route▾
Named routeLocal walking route
Lea Valley WalkWalking route▾
Transport for London's Section 1 of the Lea Valley Walk within London
Named routePoint-to-pointRegional walking route
South Placepublic footpath · 39 m▾
Public pathpublic footpathLength 39 mPath type: footway
117 signed routes nearby
Signed route nearby
EuroVelo 2 - Capitals Route - part United Kingdom 7Cycling route▾
Named routeRef EV2International cycle route
Route CCycling route▾
Named routeRef CRegional cycle route
Route (1)Cycling route▾
National Cycle Network link route
Named routeRef (1)Local cycle route
Route CCycling route▾
Named routeRef CRegional cycle route
Forty Hall Park GreenwayCycling route▾
Named routeLocal cycle route
Cycleway 1Cycling route▾
Named routeRef C1Regional cycle route
Weather for this location
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Wildlife to spot
59,194 records · National Biodiversity Network
Wildlife to spot
59,194 records · National Biodiversity NetworkPochard · Shoveler · Blue Tit · Magpie · Woodpigeon +45
- PochardAythya ferina
- ShovelerSpatula clypeata2025
- Blue TitCyanistes caeruleus
- MagpiePica pica
- WoodpigeonColumba palumbus
- Great TitParus major
- Long-tailed TitAegithalos caudatus
- RobinErithacus rubecula
- Tufted DuckAythya fuligula
- Carrion CrowCorvus corone2025
- StarlingSturnus vulgaris
- BitternBotaurus stellaris
- RedwingTurdus iliacus2025
- BlackbirdTurdus merula2025
- Collared DoveStreptopelia decaocto
- WrenTroglodytes troglodytes
- Great Spotted WoodpeckerDendrocopos major
- JackdawColoeus monedula
- WigeonMareca penelope2025
- GadwallMareca strepera2025
- MoorhenGallinula chloropus2025
- Little GrebeTachybaptus ruficollis2025
- CormorantPhalacrocorax carbo2025
- MallardAnas platyrhynchos2025
- CootFulica atra2025
- GoldcrestRegulus regulus2025
- Black-headed GullChroicocephalus ridibundus2025
- Grey HeronArdea cinerea2025
- JayGarrulus glandarius2025
- KestrelFalco tinnunculus2025
- BlackcapSylvia atricapilla
- Pied WagtailMotacilla alba
- LapwingVanellus vanellus
- Yellow-legged GullLarus michahellis2025
- Song ThrushTurdus philomelos2025
- Greylag GooseAnser anser2025
- Mute SwanCygnus olor2025
- Great Crested GrebePodiceps cristatus2025
- Canada GooseBranta canadensis2025
- Egyptian GooseAlopochen aegyptiaca2025
- ChiffchaffPhylloscopus collybita2025
- FieldfareTurdus pilaris2025
- House SparrowPasser domesticus2025
- Stock DoveColumba oenas2025
- GoldfinchCarduelis carduelis2025
- DunnockPrunella modularis2025
- PheasantPhasianus colchicus2025
- Rock DoveColumba livia2025
- StonechatSaxicola rubicola2025
- Herring GullLarus argentatus2025
🦌Mammals2 species
winterspring
2026▾
Red Fox · Fallow Deer
- Red FoxVulpes vulpes
- Fallow DeerDama dama
🐸Amphibians1 species
spring
2026▾
Common Frog
- Common FrogRana temporaria
24-spot Ladybird · Dark-edged Bee-fly · 7-spot Ladybird · Rhyzobius chrysomeloides · Platycheirus albimanus +16
- 24-spot LadybirdSubcoccinella vigintiquattuorpunctata
- Dark-edged Bee-flyBombylius major
- 7-spot LadybirdCoccinella septempunctata
- Rhyzobius chrysomeloidesRhyzobius chrysomeloides
- Platycheirus albimanusPlatycheirus albimanus
- 10-spot LadybirdAdalia decempunctata
Species observations from the last 10 years via NBN Atlas
Wildlife to spot
59,194 records · National Biodiversity NetworkPochard · Shoveler · Blue Tit · Magpie · Woodpigeon +45
- PochardAythya ferina
- ShovelerSpatula clypeata2025
- Blue TitCyanistes caeruleus
- MagpiePica pica
- WoodpigeonColumba palumbus
- Great TitParus major
- Long-tailed TitAegithalos caudatus
- RobinErithacus rubecula
- Tufted DuckAythya fuligula
- Carrion CrowCorvus corone2025
- StarlingSturnus vulgaris
- BitternBotaurus stellaris
- RedwingTurdus iliacus2025
- BlackbirdTurdus merula2025
- Collared DoveStreptopelia decaocto
- WrenTroglodytes troglodytes
- Great Spotted WoodpeckerDendrocopos major
- JackdawColoeus monedula
- WigeonMareca penelope2025
- GadwallMareca strepera2025
- MoorhenGallinula chloropus2025
- Little GrebeTachybaptus ruficollis2025
- CormorantPhalacrocorax carbo2025
- MallardAnas platyrhynchos2025
- CootFulica atra2025
- GoldcrestRegulus regulus2025
- Black-headed GullChroicocephalus ridibundus2025
- Grey HeronArdea cinerea2025
- JayGarrulus glandarius2025
- KestrelFalco tinnunculus2025
- BlackcapSylvia atricapilla
- Pied WagtailMotacilla alba
- LapwingVanellus vanellus
- Yellow-legged GullLarus michahellis2025
- Song ThrushTurdus philomelos2025
- Greylag GooseAnser anser2025
- Mute SwanCygnus olor2025
- Great Crested GrebePodiceps cristatus2025
- Canada GooseBranta canadensis2025
- Egyptian GooseAlopochen aegyptiaca2025
- ChiffchaffPhylloscopus collybita2025
- FieldfareTurdus pilaris2025
- House SparrowPasser domesticus2025
- Stock DoveColumba oenas2025
- GoldfinchCarduelis carduelis2025
- DunnockPrunella modularis2025
- PheasantPhasianus colchicus2025
- Rock DoveColumba livia2025
- StonechatSaxicola rubicola2025
- Herring GullLarus argentatus2025
🦌Mammals2 species
winterspring
2026▾
Red Fox · Fallow Deer
- Red FoxVulpes vulpes
- Fallow DeerDama dama
🐸Amphibians1 species
spring
2026▾
Common Frog
- Common FrogRana temporaria
24-spot Ladybird · Dark-edged Bee-fly · 7-spot Ladybird · Rhyzobius chrysomeloides · Platycheirus albimanus +16
- 24-spot LadybirdSubcoccinella vigintiquattuorpunctata
- Dark-edged Bee-flyBombylius major
- 7-spot LadybirdCoccinella septempunctata
- Rhyzobius chrysomeloidesRhyzobius chrysomeloides
- Platycheirus albimanusPlatycheirus albimanus
- 10-spot LadybirdAdalia decempunctata
Species observations from the last 10 years via NBN Atlas
Scathophaga stercoraria
Scathophaga stercoraria
Scathophaga stercoraria
Scathophaga stercoraria
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