Plan your visit
🦅Birds🦉Wildlife🍄Fungi
Public accessFree entryDogs welcome
Getting here
53.40694, -0.60181
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Visiting this summer
Seasonal nature notes and what to look for now
- 🐦81+ species recorded in this area — summer evenings are best for activity; watch for Shoveler and Pochard
- 🍄Mushroom foraging is at its best in summer here
- 🛝Playground 120m away — built-in entertainment for younger visitors alongside the wider site
🌤️ Visiting this summer
- 🐦81+ species recorded in this area — summer evenings are best for activity; watch for Shoveler and Pochard
- 🍄Mushroom foraging is at its best in summer here
- 🛝Playground 120m away — built-in entertainment for younger visitors alongside the wider site
- £Free to visit — no entry charge
- 🐕Dogs welcome
🦅Bird watching
Very strong match
Birds — Shoveler, Pochard, Wigeon +78 more · last seen 2025
Free
Birds — Shoveler, Pochard, Wigeon +78 more · last seen 2025
Free
🍄Mushroom foraging
Strong match
Fungi — Chicken Of The Woods, Shaggy Bracket, Oilslick Brittlegill +14 more · last seen 2013
Varies
🦋Insect spotting
Strong match
Insects — Large White, Peacock, Red Admiral +80 more · last seen 2023
Free
Grade II* listed building: CHURCH OF ALL SAINTS; Religious grounds — local heritage
Free
Trails nearby
Within roughly 5 km7 public paths nearby
Public paths
Southfield Lanepublic footpath · 619 m▾
Public pathpublic footpathLength 619 mPath type: service
Southfield Lanepublic footpath · 259 m▾
Public pathpublic footpathLength 259 mPath type: service
Photos
Gargoyle, All Saints' church, Hemswell
Weather for this location
Next 14 daysNearby places
Useful places within 5 km
Wildlife to spot
2,808 records · National Biodiversity Network
Wildlife to spot
2,808 records · National Biodiversity Network🐦Birds12 species
springautumn
2025▾
Shoveler · Wigeon · Pochard · Black-tailed Godwit · Ruff +7
- ShovelerSpatula clypeata
- WigeonMareca penelope
- PochardAythya ferina
- Black-tailed GodwitLimosa limosa
- RuffCalidris pugnax
- HawfinchCoccothraustes coccothraustes
- Short-eared OwlAsio flammeus
- PintailAnas acuta2024
- MerlinFalco columbarius
- Pied WagtailMotacilla alba2024
- Tawny OwlStrix aluco2023
- SwiftApus apus2019
Migrant Hawker · Western Conifer Seed Bug · Southern Hawker · Oxythyrea funesta · 16-spot Ladybird +58
- Migrant HawkerAeshna mixta2020
- Western Conifer Seed BugLeptoglossus occidentalis2022
- Southern HawkerAeshna cyanea2020
- Oxythyrea funestaOxythyrea funesta
- 16-spot LadybirdTytthaspis sedecimpunctata
- Byturus ochraceusByturus ochraceus
🌿Plants3 species
springautumn
2022▾
Milk Thistle · Trailing Bellflower · Guelder-rose
- Milk ThistleSilybum marianum
- Trailing BellflowerCampanula poscharskyana2020
- Guelder-roseViburnum opulus2020
Species observations from the last 10 years via NBN Atlas
Wildlife to spot
2,808 records · National Biodiversity Network🐦Birds12 species
springautumn
2025▾
Shoveler · Wigeon · Pochard · Black-tailed Godwit · Ruff +7
- ShovelerSpatula clypeata
- WigeonMareca penelope
- PochardAythya ferina
- Black-tailed GodwitLimosa limosa
- RuffCalidris pugnax
- HawfinchCoccothraustes coccothraustes
- Short-eared OwlAsio flammeus
- PintailAnas acuta2024
- MerlinFalco columbarius
- Pied WagtailMotacilla alba2024
- Tawny OwlStrix aluco2023
- SwiftApus apus2019
Migrant Hawker · Western Conifer Seed Bug · Southern Hawker · Oxythyrea funesta · 16-spot Ladybird +58
- Migrant HawkerAeshna mixta2020
- Western Conifer Seed BugLeptoglossus occidentalis2022
- Southern HawkerAeshna cyanea2020
- Oxythyrea funestaOxythyrea funesta
- 16-spot LadybirdTytthaspis sedecimpunctata
- Byturus ochraceusByturus ochraceus
🌿Plants3 species
springautumn
2022▾
Milk Thistle · Trailing Bellflower · Guelder-rose
- Milk ThistleSilybum marianum
- Trailing BellflowerCampanula poscharskyana2020
- Guelder-roseViburnum opulus2020
Species observations from the last 10 years via NBN Atlas
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