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🦅Birds✦Heritage🦉Wildlife
Free entryDogs welcome4 ha
Getting here
50.91422, 0.48702
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Visiting this summer
Seasonal nature notes and what to look for now
- 🐦84+ species recorded in this area — summer evenings are best for activity; watch for Blackbird and Goldfinch
- ✦Historic character is a year-round quality here — summer brings its own atmosphere to the setting
- ☕Café on site — a good base for a longer summer day out
🌤️ Visiting this summer
- 🐦84+ species recorded in this area — summer evenings are best for activity; watch for Blackbird and Goldfinch
- ✦Historic character is a year-round quality here — summer brings its own atmosphere to the setting
- ☕Café on site — a good base for a longer summer day out
- £Free to visit — no entry charge
- 🐕Dogs welcome
☕Café🅿️Parking· Paid🧺Picnic spot🛝Playground
🦅Bird watching
Very strong match
Birds — Blackbird, Goldfinch, Blue Tit +81 more · last seen 2026; Deciduous woodland — woodpeckers, warblers and woodland birds
Free
✦Heritage
Very strong match
Grade I listed building: THE GATEHOUSE, BATTLE ABBEY; Historic site
Free
Birds — Blackbird, Goldfinch, Blue Tit +81 more · last seen 2026; Deciduous woodland priority habitat
Free
🦋Insect spotting
Strong match
Insects — Dark-edged Bee-fly, Harlequin Ladybird, Southern Hawker +40 more · last seen 2026
Free
🍂Seasonal nature
Strong match
Plants — Creeping Buttercup, Ivy, Common Nettle +143 more · last seen 2025
Free
Deciduous woodland — fungi, berries and wild garlic
Varies
Trails nearby
Within roughly 5 km3 signed routes nearby · 1 public path nearby
Signed route nearbyPublic paths
Combe Valley GreenwayWalking route4.5 km▾
The Greenway runs alongside the Combe Valley Way, providing access for walkers and cyclists between Bexhill and Hastings.
Named routeLength 4.5 kmPoint-to-pointLocal walking route
1066 Country Walk - Bexhill LinkWalking route10 km▾
Named routeLength 10 kmRegional walking route
1066 Country WalkWalking route50 km▾
Named routeLength 50 kmRegional walking route
6 signed routes nearby
Signed route nearby
ESCC Cycle Route 209Cycling route▾
Named routeLocal cycle route
ESCC Cycle Route 201Cycling route▾
Named routeLocal cycle route
ESCC Cycle Route 207Cycling route▾
Named routeLocal cycle route
ESCC Cycle Route 202Cycling route▾
Named routeLocal cycle route
Battle Schools Greenway (ESCC Cycle Route 100)Cycling route▾
Named routeLocal cycle route
Battle North (ESCC Cycle Route 110)Cycling route▾
Named routeLocal cycle route
Weather for this location
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Wildlife to spot
96,673 records · National Biodiversity Network
Wildlife to spot
96,673 records · National Biodiversity NetworkGreat Tit · Blue Tit · Woodpigeon · Song Thrush · Firecrest +23
- Great TitParus major
- Blue TitCyanistes caeruleus
- WoodpigeonColumba palumbus
- Song ThrushTurdus philomelos2025
- FirecrestRegulus ignicapilla2025
- GoldfinchCarduelis carduelis2025
- MagpiePica pica2025
- StarlingSturnus vulgaris2025
- Herring GullLarus argentatus2025
- ChaffinchFringilla coelebs2025
- JayGarrulus glandarius2025
- Meadow PipitAnthus pratensis2025
- Carrion CrowCorvus corone2025
- BlackbirdTurdus merula2025
- PheasantPhasianus colchicus2025
- Stock DoveColumba oenas2025
- Pied WagtailMotacilla alba2025
- WrenTroglodytes troglodytes2025
- BullfinchPyrrhula pyrrhula2025
- RobinErithacus rubecula2025
- Long-tailed TitAegithalos caudatus2025
- GoldcrestRegulus regulus2025
- Marsh TitPoecile palustris2025
- RavenCorvus corax2025
- RedwingTurdus iliacus2025
- DunnockPrunella modularis2025
- Tawny OwlStrix aluco2025
- ChiffchaffPhylloscopus collybita2025
🦌Mammals2 species
autumnwinter
2025▾
Hazel Dormouse · Rabbit
- Hazel DormouseMuscardinus avellanarius
- RabbitOryctolagus cuniculus
🐝Insects3 species
springautumn
2026▾
Harlequin Ladybird · Dark-edged Bee-fly · Southern Hawker
- Harlequin LadybirdHarmonia axyridis2025
- Dark-edged Bee-flyBombylius major
- Southern HawkerAeshna cyanea2025
Creeping Buttercup · Common Nettle · Hogweed · Ash · Hawthorn +86
- Creeping ButtercupRanunculus repens
- Common NettleUrtica dioica
- HogweedHeracleum sphondylium
- AshFraxinus excelsior
- HawthornCrataegus monogyna
- CleaversGalium aparine
- Male-fernDryopteris filix-mas
Species observations from the last 10 years via NBN Atlas
Wildlife to spot
96,673 records · National Biodiversity NetworkGreat Tit · Blue Tit · Woodpigeon · Song Thrush · Firecrest +23
- Great TitParus major
- Blue TitCyanistes caeruleus
- WoodpigeonColumba palumbus
- Song ThrushTurdus philomelos2025
- FirecrestRegulus ignicapilla2025
- GoldfinchCarduelis carduelis2025
- MagpiePica pica2025
- StarlingSturnus vulgaris2025
- Herring GullLarus argentatus2025
- ChaffinchFringilla coelebs2025
- JayGarrulus glandarius2025
- Meadow PipitAnthus pratensis2025
- Carrion CrowCorvus corone2025
- BlackbirdTurdus merula2025
- PheasantPhasianus colchicus2025
- Stock DoveColumba oenas2025
- Pied WagtailMotacilla alba2025
- WrenTroglodytes troglodytes2025
- BullfinchPyrrhula pyrrhula2025
- RobinErithacus rubecula2025
- Long-tailed TitAegithalos caudatus2025
- GoldcrestRegulus regulus2025
- Marsh TitPoecile palustris2025
- RavenCorvus corax2025
- RedwingTurdus iliacus2025
- DunnockPrunella modularis2025
- Tawny OwlStrix aluco2025
- ChiffchaffPhylloscopus collybita2025
🦌Mammals2 species
autumnwinter
2025▾
Hazel Dormouse · Rabbit
- Hazel DormouseMuscardinus avellanarius
- RabbitOryctolagus cuniculus
🐝Insects3 species
springautumn
2026▾
Harlequin Ladybird · Dark-edged Bee-fly · Southern Hawker
- Harlequin LadybirdHarmonia axyridis2025
- Dark-edged Bee-flyBombylius major
- Southern HawkerAeshna cyanea2025
Creeping Buttercup · Common Nettle · Hogweed · Ash · Hawthorn +86
- Creeping ButtercupRanunculus repens
- Common NettleUrtica dioica
- HogweedHeracleum sphondylium
- AshFraxinus excelsior
- HawthornCrataegus monogyna
- CleaversGalium aparine
- Male-fernDryopteris filix-mas
Species observations from the last 10 years via NBN Atlas
