Plan your visit
🛝Family🧺Picnic🎠Play
Public accessFree entryDogs welcome
Getting here
51.38560, 0.54818
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Visiting this summer
Seasonal nature notes and what to look for now
- 🐦59+ species recorded in this area — summer evenings are best for activity; watch for Robin and Blue Tit
- ☀️Summer family visits work well here — arrive early and plan for a longer stay
- ☕Café on site — makes this an easy full-day family visit without needing to pack food
🌤️ Visiting this summer
- 🐦59+ species recorded in this area — summer evenings are best for activity; watch for Robin and Blue Tit
- ☀️Summer family visits work well here — arrive early and plan for a longer stay
- ☕Café on site — 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🛝Playground🚻Toilets
🛝Family friendly
Very strong match
playground, café, toilets, picnic area; Urban park — family destination
Free
🧺Picnic day out
Very strong match
picnic area, café, toilets, car park; Urban park — open green space
Free
🎠Playgrounds
Very strong match
playground, toilets, café, parking
Free
🦅Bird watching
Very strong match
Birds — Robin, Blue Tit, Blackbird +56 more · last seen 2026
Free
Birds — Robin, Blue Tit, Blackbird +56 more · last seen 2026
Free
🦋Insect spotting
Strong match
Insects — Meadow Brown, Gatekeeper, Brimstone +55 more · last seen 2025
Free
Trails nearby
Within roughly 5 km11 signed routes nearby
Signed route nearby
Saxon Shore WayWalking route262 km▾
Named routeLength 262 kmRegional walking route
Augustine CaminoWalking route▾
Named routeRegional walking route
Oftord to Canterbury CathedralWalking route▾
follows North Downs Way from Otford to Broughton Lees
Named routeRegional walking route
King Charles III England Coast Path: Iwade to GrainWalking route▾
Named routeRef ECPNational walking route
Rochester Riverside WalkWalking route▾
Named routeLocal walking route
212 signed routes nearby
Signed route nearby
NCN National Route 1Cycling route▾
Named routeRef 1National Cycle Network
NCN National Route 177Cycling route▾
Named routeRef 177National Cycle Network
(A2)<>(NCN1)Cycling route▾
Heron TrailCycling route▾
Named routeRef 179National Cycle Network
NCN National Route 17Cycling route▾
Named routeRef 17National Cycle Network
Gillingham<>Rainham Cycle PathCycling route▾
Named routeLocal cycle route
1 signed route nearby
Signed route nearby
Capstone Mountain bike trailMountain bike route▾
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Weather for this location
Next 14 daysNearby places
Useful places within 5 km
Wildlife to spot
7,683 records · National Biodiversity Network
Wildlife to spot
7,683 records · National Biodiversity NetworkRobin · Blackbird · Blue Tit · Great Tit · Rock Dove +45
- RobinErithacus rubecula2025
- BlackbirdTurdus merula2025
- Blue TitCyanistes caeruleus2025
- Great TitParus major2025
- Rock DoveColumba livia2025
- WoodpigeonColumba palumbus2025
- WrenTroglodytes troglodytes2025
- Long-tailed TitAegithalos caudatus2025
- Collared DoveStreptopelia decaocto2025
- ChaffinchFringilla coelebs2025
- MagpiePica pica2025
- GoldfinchCarduelis carduelis2025
- Black-headed GullChroicocephalus ridibundus
- Coal TitPeriparus ater2025
- StarlingSturnus vulgaris2025
- Green WoodpeckerPicus viridis2025
- BlackcapSylvia atricapilla2025
- Carrion CrowCorvus corone2025
- ShelduckTadorna tadorna
- Brent GooseBranta bernicla
- House SparrowPasser domesticus
- MallardAnas platyrhynchos
- Mute SwanCygnus olor
- GoldcrestRegulus regulus2025
- Great Spotted WoodpeckerDendrocopos major2025
- JayGarrulus glandarius2025
- Herring GullLarus argentatus2025
- Pied WagtailMotacilla alba
- DunnockPrunella modularis2025
- Grey WagtailMotacilla cinerea2025
- LapwingVanellus vanellus2025
- Willow WarblerPhylloscopus trochilus2025
- SwallowHirundo rustica2025
- YellowhammerEmberiza citrinella2025
- WhitethroatCurruca communis2025
- Mistle ThrushTurdus viscivorus2025
- ChiffchaffPhylloscopus collybita2025
- KestrelFalco tinnunculus2025
- JackdawColoeus monedula2025
- FirecrestRegulus ignicapilla2025
- Song ThrushTurdus philomelos2025
- CurlewNumenius arquata2025
- Grey PloverPluvialis squatarola2025
- DunlinCalidris alpina2025
- OystercatcherHaematopus ostralegus2025
- AvocetRecurvirostra avosetta2025
- Great Crested GrebePodiceps cristatus2025
- RedshankTringa totanus2025
- CootFulica atra2024
- MoorhenGallinula chloropus2024
Red Fox
🐸Amphibians1 species
autumn
2025▾
Common Frog
- Common FrogRana temporaria
Speckled Bush-cricket · Long-winged Cone-head · Cantharidae · Snail Hunter · Firebug +6
- Speckled Bush-cricketLeptophyes punctatissima
- Long-winged Cone-headConocephalus fuscus
- CantharidaeCantharidae
- Snail HunterCychrus caraboides
- FirebugPyrrhocoris apterus
- Southern Green ShieldbugNezara viridula
- Field Grasshopper
Species observations from the last 10 years via NBN Atlas
Wildlife to spot
7,683 records · National Biodiversity NetworkRobin · Blackbird · Blue Tit · Great Tit · Rock Dove +45
- RobinErithacus rubecula2025
- BlackbirdTurdus merula2025
- Blue TitCyanistes caeruleus2025
- Great TitParus major2025
- Rock DoveColumba livia2025
- WoodpigeonColumba palumbus2025
- WrenTroglodytes troglodytes2025
- Long-tailed TitAegithalos caudatus2025
- Collared DoveStreptopelia decaocto2025
- ChaffinchFringilla coelebs2025
- MagpiePica pica2025
- GoldfinchCarduelis carduelis2025
- Black-headed GullChroicocephalus ridibundus
- Coal TitPeriparus ater2025
- StarlingSturnus vulgaris2025
- Green WoodpeckerPicus viridis2025
- BlackcapSylvia atricapilla2025
- Carrion CrowCorvus corone2025
- ShelduckTadorna tadorna
- Brent GooseBranta bernicla
- House SparrowPasser domesticus
- MallardAnas platyrhynchos
- Mute SwanCygnus olor
- GoldcrestRegulus regulus2025
- Great Spotted WoodpeckerDendrocopos major2025
- JayGarrulus glandarius2025
- Herring GullLarus argentatus2025
- Pied WagtailMotacilla alba
- DunnockPrunella modularis2025
- Grey WagtailMotacilla cinerea2025
- LapwingVanellus vanellus2025
- Willow WarblerPhylloscopus trochilus2025
- SwallowHirundo rustica2025
- YellowhammerEmberiza citrinella2025
- WhitethroatCurruca communis2025
- Mistle ThrushTurdus viscivorus2025
- ChiffchaffPhylloscopus collybita2025
- KestrelFalco tinnunculus2025
- JackdawColoeus monedula2025
- FirecrestRegulus ignicapilla2025
- Song ThrushTurdus philomelos2025
- CurlewNumenius arquata2025
- Grey PloverPluvialis squatarola2025
- DunlinCalidris alpina2025
- OystercatcherHaematopus ostralegus2025
- AvocetRecurvirostra avosetta2025
- Great Crested GrebePodiceps cristatus2025
- RedshankTringa totanus2025
- CootFulica atra2024
- MoorhenGallinula chloropus2024
Red Fox
🐸Amphibians1 species
autumn
2025▾
Common Frog
- Common FrogRana temporaria
Speckled Bush-cricket · Long-winged Cone-head · Cantharidae · Snail Hunter · Firebug +6
- Speckled Bush-cricketLeptophyes punctatissima
- Long-winged Cone-headConocephalus fuscus
- CantharidaeCantharidae
- Snail HunterCychrus caraboides
- FirebugPyrrhocoris apterus
- Southern Green ShieldbugNezara viridula
- Field Grasshopper
Species observations from the last 10 years via NBN Atlas
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Chorthippus brunneus
Roesel's Bush-cricketRoeseliana roeseliiRoesel's Bush-cricketRoeseliana roeseliiAlydus calcaratusAlydus calcaratusAlydus calcaratusAlydus calcaratusDark Bush-cricketPholidoptera griseoapteraDark Bush-cricketPholidoptera griseoapteraTortoise BugEurygaster testudinariaTortoise BugEurygaster testudinariaEvents & activities nearby
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