Plan your visit
🦅Birds🦉Wildlife✦Heritage
Public accessFree entryDogs welcome71 ha
Getting here
52.24699, -0.86283
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Visiting this summer
Seasonal nature notes and what to look for now
- 🐦66+ species recorded in this area — summer evenings are best for activity; watch for Robin and Carrion Crow
- ✦Historic character is a year-round quality here — summer brings its own atmosphere to the setting
- 🛝Playground on site — built-in entertainment for younger visitors alongside the wider site
🌤️ Visiting this summer
- 🐦66+ species recorded in this area — summer evenings are best for activity; watch for Robin and Carrion Crow
- ✦Historic character is a year-round quality here — summer brings its own atmosphere to the setting
- 🛝Playground on site — built-in entertainment for younger visitors alongside the wider site
- £Free to visit — no entry charge
- 🐕Dogs welcome
🦅Bird watching
Very strong match
Birds — Robin, Carrion Crow, Woodpigeon +63 more · last seen 2025; Deciduous woodland — woodpeckers, warblers and woodland birds
Free
Birds — Robin, Carrion Crow, Woodpigeon +63 more · last seen 2025; Deciduous woodland priority habitat
Free
Grade I listed building: ABINGTON ABBEY (MUSEUM)
Free
Dogs allowed with public access
Free
🛝Family friendly
Strong match
playground; Urban park — family destination
Free
Trails nearby
Within roughly 5 km3 signed routes nearby
Signed route nearby
Nene WayWalking route177 km▾
Named routeLength 177 kmRegional walking route
Midshires WayWalking route370 km▾
Multi-use trail links the Ridgeway National Trail with the Trans Pennine Trail
Named routeLength 370 kmRegional walking route
Northamptonshire RoundWalking route▾
166 signed routes nearby
Signed route nearby
Route 536Cycling route▾
Named routeRef 536National Cycle Network
Brampton Valley WayCycling route▾
Northampton Cycle Network Connect2Cycling route▾
Named routeRef Connect2Local cycle route
Route 6Cycling route▾
Named routeRef 6National Cycle Network
NorbitalCycling route▾
Named routeRef 539Round tripNational Cycle Network
Main RouteCycling route874 m▾
Named routeRef 539Length 874 mNational Cycle NetworkOn-roadSurface asphalt
Weather for this location
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Wildlife to spot
44,013 records · National Biodiversity Network
Wildlife to spot
44,013 records · National Biodiversity NetworkBlue Tit · Carrion Crow · Black-headed Gull · Goldfinch · Jackdaw +41
- Blue TitCyanistes caeruleus
- Carrion CrowCorvus corone
- Black-headed GullChroicocephalus ridibundus
- GoldfinchCarduelis carduelis
- JackdawColoeus monedula
- WoodpigeonColumba palumbus
- RobinErithacus rubecula
- StarlingSturnus vulgaris
- MagpiePica pica
- House SparrowPasser domesticus
- Stock DoveColumba oenas
- BlackbirdTurdus merula
- Rock DoveColumba livia
- ChaffinchFringilla coelebs
- CormorantPhalacrocorax carbo
- Coal TitPeriparus ater
- Mute SwanCygnus olor
- Mistle ThrushTurdus viscivorus
- Canada GooseBranta canadensis
- Great TitParus major
- MallardAnas platyrhynchos
- CootFulica atra
- GoldcrestRegulus regulus
- Greylag GooseAnser anser
- Common GullLarus canus
- MoorhenGallinula chloropus
- Herring GullLarus argentatus
- Pied WagtailMotacilla alba yarrellii
- WrenTroglodytes troglodytes
- RedwingTurdus iliacus
- Grey HeronArdea cinerea
- Green WoodpeckerPicus viridis
- Great Spotted WoodpeckerDendrocopos major
- Song ThrushTurdus philomelos
- RookCorvus frugilegus
- NuthatchSitta europaea
- DunnockPrunella modularis
- Collared DoveStreptopelia decaocto
- GreenfinchChloris chloris
- Tawny OwlStrix aluco
- Grey WagtailMotacilla cinerea
- Little GrebeTachybaptus ruficollis
- JayGarrulus glandarius
- Tufted DuckAythya fuligula
- GadwallMareca strepera
- TreecreeperCerthia familiaris
Grey Squirrel
- Grey SquirrelSciurus carolinensis
🐸Amphibians1 species
spring
2026▾
Smooth Newt
- Smooth NewtLissotriton vulgaris
Dark-edged Bee-fly · Meliscaeva auricollis
- Dark-edged Bee-flyBombylius major
- Meliscaeva auricollisMeliscaeva auricollis
Red Dead-nettle · Green Alkanet · Common Field-speedwell · Maidenhair Spleenwort · Common Chickweed +6
- Red Dead-nettleLamium purpureum
- Green AlkanetPentaglottis sempervirens
- Common Field-speedwellVeronica persica
- Maidenhair SpleenwortAsplenium trichomanes
- Common ChickweedStellaria media
- Stinking IrisIris foetidissima
- Lesser Celandine
Species observations from the last 10 years via NBN Atlas
Wildlife to spot
44,013 records · National Biodiversity NetworkBlue Tit · Carrion Crow · Black-headed Gull · Goldfinch · Jackdaw +41
- Blue TitCyanistes caeruleus
- Carrion CrowCorvus corone
- Black-headed GullChroicocephalus ridibundus
- GoldfinchCarduelis carduelis
- JackdawColoeus monedula
- WoodpigeonColumba palumbus
- RobinErithacus rubecula
- StarlingSturnus vulgaris
- MagpiePica pica
- House SparrowPasser domesticus
- Stock DoveColumba oenas
- BlackbirdTurdus merula
- Rock DoveColumba livia
- ChaffinchFringilla coelebs
- CormorantPhalacrocorax carbo
- Coal TitPeriparus ater
- Mute SwanCygnus olor
- Mistle ThrushTurdus viscivorus
- Canada GooseBranta canadensis
- Great TitParus major
- MallardAnas platyrhynchos
- CootFulica atra
- GoldcrestRegulus regulus
- Greylag GooseAnser anser
- Common GullLarus canus
- MoorhenGallinula chloropus
- Herring GullLarus argentatus
- Pied WagtailMotacilla alba yarrellii
- WrenTroglodytes troglodytes
- RedwingTurdus iliacus
- Grey HeronArdea cinerea
- Green WoodpeckerPicus viridis
- Great Spotted WoodpeckerDendrocopos major
- Song ThrushTurdus philomelos
- RookCorvus frugilegus
- NuthatchSitta europaea
- DunnockPrunella modularis
- Collared DoveStreptopelia decaocto
- GreenfinchChloris chloris
- Tawny OwlStrix aluco
- Grey WagtailMotacilla cinerea
- Little GrebeTachybaptus ruficollis
- JayGarrulus glandarius
- Tufted DuckAythya fuligula
- GadwallMareca strepera
- TreecreeperCerthia familiaris
Grey Squirrel
- Grey SquirrelSciurus carolinensis
🐸Amphibians1 species
spring
2026▾
Smooth Newt
- Smooth NewtLissotriton vulgaris
Dark-edged Bee-fly · Meliscaeva auricollis
- Dark-edged Bee-flyBombylius major
- Meliscaeva auricollisMeliscaeva auricollis
Red Dead-nettle · Green Alkanet · Common Field-speedwell · Maidenhair Spleenwort · Common Chickweed +6
- Red Dead-nettleLamium purpureum
- Green AlkanetPentaglottis sempervirens
- Common Field-speedwellVeronica persica
- Maidenhair SpleenwortAsplenium trichomanes
- Common ChickweedStellaria media
- Stinking IrisIris foetidissima
- Lesser Celandine
Species observations from the last 10 years via NBN Atlas
Ficaria verna
Ficaria verna
CowslipPrimula verisCowslipPrimula verisGarden Grape-hyacinthMuscari armeniacumGarden Grape-hyacinthMuscari armeniacumYarrowAchillea millefoliumYarrowAchillea millefoliumSweet VioletViola odorataSweet VioletViola odorata