Plan your visit
🦅Birds🦉Wildlife✦Heritage
Public accessFree entryDogs welcome2 ha
Getting here
51.58540, -2.09725
Open directionsv
Visiting this summer
Seasonal nature notes and what to look for now
- 🐦52+ species recorded in this area — summer evenings are best for activity; watch for Woodpigeon and Blackbird
- ✦Historic character is a year-round quality here — summer brings its own atmosphere to the setting
- ☕Abbey Café — makes this an easy full-day family visit without needing to pack food
🌤️ Visiting this summer
- 🐦52+ species recorded in this area — summer evenings are best for activity; watch for Woodpigeon and Blackbird
- ✦Historic character is a year-round quality here — summer brings its own atmosphere to the setting
- ☕Abbey Café — makes this an easy full-day family visit without needing to pack food
- £Free to visit — no entry charge
- 🐕Dogs welcome
☕Café🅿️Parking· Paid🚻Toilets
🦅Bird watching
Very strong match
Birds — Woodpigeon, Blackbird, Robin +49 more · last seen 2026; Deciduous woodland — woodpeckers, warblers and woodland birds
Free
Mammals — Red Fox, Grey Squirrel, Muntjac +11 more · last seen 2026; Deciduous woodland priority habitat
Free
Grade I listed building: ABBEY HOUSE AND ATTACHED REAR WALL
Free
🧺Picnic day out
Strong match
café, toilets, car park; Urban park — open green space
Free
🛝Family friendly
Strong match
café, toilets; Urban park — family destination
Free
🍂Seasonal nature
Strong match
Plants — Hogweed, Red Valerian, Common Nettle +64 more · last seen 2025
Free
Trails nearby
Within roughly 5 km1 signed route nearby · 27 public paths nearby
Signed route nearbyPublic paths
Palladian WayWalking route190 km▾
The Old Goal, Buckingham to Pulteney Bridge, Bath
Named routeLength 190 kmRegional walking route
King's Wallpublic footpath · 66 m▾
Public pathpublic footpathLength 66 mSurface asphaltPath type: residential
Worthies Lanepublic footpath · 147 m▾
Public pathpublic footpathLength 147 mSurface asphaltPath type: track
1 signed route nearby
Signed route nearby
Wiltshire CyclewayCycling route155 km▾
Named routeRef WCLength 155 kmRound tripRegional cycle route
Photos
Abbey House and Gardens Malmesbury
Weather for this location
Next 14 daysNearby places
Useful places within 5 km
Wildlife to spot
20,281 records · National Biodiversity Network
Wildlife to spot
20,281 records · National Biodiversity NetworkWoodpigeon · Robin · Wren · Great Tit · Moorhen +21
- WoodpigeonColumba palumbus2025
- RobinErithacus rubecula2025
- WrenTroglodytes troglodytes2025
- Great TitParus major2025
- MoorhenGallinula chloropus2025
- KingfisherAlcedo atthis2025
- Long-tailed TitAegithalos caudatus2025
- MagpiePica pica2025
- Grey WagtailMotacilla cinerea2025
- MallardAnas platyrhynchos2025
- Blue TitCyanistes caeruleus2025
- DunnockPrunella modularis2025
- JackdawColoeus monedula2025
- House SparrowPasser domesticus2025
- Song ThrushTurdus philomelos2025
- Little EgretEgretta garzetta2025
- Carrion CrowCorvus corone2025
- Green WoodpeckerPicus viridis2025
- SwiftApus apus2025
- GoldcrestRegulus regulus
- Collared DoveStreptopelia decaocto2025
- ChiffchaffPhylloscopus collybita2025
- RookCorvus frugilegus2025
- TreecreeperCerthia familiaris2025
- Stock DoveColumba oenas2025
- StarlingSturnus vulgaris2025
Red Fox · Muntjac
- Red FoxVulpes vulpes
- MuntjacMuntiacus reevesi
Grass Snake
- Grass SnakeNatrix helvetica
🐝Insects3 species
summerautumn
2025▾
Common Darter · Sitaris muralis · Beautiful Demoiselle
- Common DarterSympetrum striolatum
- Sitaris muralisSitaris muralis
- Beautiful DemoiselleCalopteryx virgo
🌿Plants17 species
autumnwinter
2025▾
Showy Feather-moss · Wood Bristle-moss · Lateral Cryphaea · Dilated Scalewort · Rowan +12
- Showy Feather-mossOxyrrhynchium speciosum
- Wood Bristle-mossLewinskya affinis
- Lateral CryphaeaCryphaea heteromalla
- Dilated ScalewortFrullania dilatata
- RowanSorbus aucuparia
- Wild CarrotDaucus carota
Species observations from the last 10 years via NBN Atlas
Wildlife to spot
20,281 records · National Biodiversity NetworkWoodpigeon · Robin · Wren · Great Tit · Moorhen +21
- WoodpigeonColumba palumbus2025
- RobinErithacus rubecula2025
- WrenTroglodytes troglodytes2025
- Great TitParus major2025
- MoorhenGallinula chloropus2025
- KingfisherAlcedo atthis2025
- Long-tailed TitAegithalos caudatus2025
- MagpiePica pica2025
- Grey WagtailMotacilla cinerea2025
- MallardAnas platyrhynchos2025
- Blue TitCyanistes caeruleus2025
- DunnockPrunella modularis2025
- JackdawColoeus monedula2025
- House SparrowPasser domesticus2025
- Song ThrushTurdus philomelos2025
- Little EgretEgretta garzetta2025
- Carrion CrowCorvus corone2025
- Green WoodpeckerPicus viridis2025
- SwiftApus apus2025
- GoldcrestRegulus regulus
- Collared DoveStreptopelia decaocto2025
- ChiffchaffPhylloscopus collybita2025
- RookCorvus frugilegus2025
- TreecreeperCerthia familiaris2025
- Stock DoveColumba oenas2025
- StarlingSturnus vulgaris2025
Red Fox · Muntjac
- Red FoxVulpes vulpes
- MuntjacMuntiacus reevesi
Grass Snake
- Grass SnakeNatrix helvetica
🐝Insects3 species
summerautumn
2025▾
Common Darter · Sitaris muralis · Beautiful Demoiselle
- Common DarterSympetrum striolatum
- Sitaris muralisSitaris muralis
- Beautiful DemoiselleCalopteryx virgo
🌿Plants17 species
autumnwinter
2025▾
Showy Feather-moss · Wood Bristle-moss · Lateral Cryphaea · Dilated Scalewort · Rowan +12
- Showy Feather-mossOxyrrhynchium speciosum
- Wood Bristle-mossLewinskya affinis
- Lateral CryphaeaCryphaea heteromalla
- Dilated ScalewortFrullania dilatata
- RowanSorbus aucuparia
- Wild CarrotDaucus carota
Species observations from the last 10 years via NBN Atlas
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