Blackdown Wood
✦ Ancient woodland37 ha
🦅Birds🦉Wildlife🍂Seasonal
Public accessFree entryDogs welcome37 ha
Getting here
50.97943, 0.08005
Open directionsv
Visiting this summer
Seasonal nature notes and what to look for now
- 🌞Midsummer — early morning visits most comfortable; look for deer fawns in quieter clearings
- 🐕Early mornings are best for dog walks in summer — visit before 9am to avoid the heat and find quieter trails
- 🅿️Parking on site — 10 car parks within reach
🌤️ Visiting this summer
- 🌞Midsummer — early morning visits most comfortable; look for deer fawns in quieter clearings
- 🐕Early mornings are best for dog walks in summer — visit before 9am to avoid the heat and find quieter trails
- 🅿️Parking on site — 10 car parks within reach
- £Free to visit — no entry charge
- 🐕Dogs welcome
- 🌿Ancient woodland — rare wildlife habitat
🦅Bird watching
Strong match
Grazing marsh — lapwing, redshank, snipe and wintering wildfowl
Free
Coastal and floodplain grazing marsh priority habitat; Ancient woodland
Free
🍂Seasonal nature
Strong match
Ancient woodland — bluebells, fungi and autumn colour
Free
Dogs allowed — public woodland
Free
〰Waterside walks
Good match
Grazing marsh and ditches — waterside walking
Varies
Deciduous woodland — fungi, berries and wild garlic
Varies
Trails nearby
Within roughly 5 km10 signed routes nearby · 34 public paths nearby
Signed route nearbyPublic paths
Sussex Diamond WayWalking route97 km▾
Named routeLength 97 kmRegional walking route
Vanguard WayWalking route111 km▾
Named routeRef VGWLength 111 kmRegional walking route
Sussex Ouse Valley WayWalking route67 km▾
Named routeLength 67 kmRegional walking route
Walk To Bluebell Railway, Sheffield ParkWalking route900 m▾
Named routeLength 900 mDuration 00:30Point-to-pointLocal walking route
Tolls Walk, Sheffield ParkWalking route2.2 km▾
Named routeLength 2.2 kmDuration 00:45Round tripLocal walking route
Fair Hazelpublic footpath · 477 m▾
Public pathpublic footpathLength 477 mPath type: service
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Wildlife to spot
15,748 records · National Biodiversity Network
Wildlife to spot
15,748 records · National Biodiversity NetworkLong-tailed Tit · Robin · Song Thrush · Wren · Dunnock +30
- Long-tailed TitAegithalos caudatus
- RobinErithacus rubecula
- Song ThrushTurdus philomelos2025
- WrenTroglodytes troglodytes
- DunnockPrunella modularis
- Collared DoveStreptopelia decaocto
- Mistle ThrushTurdus viscivorus
- Great Spotted WoodpeckerDendrocopos major
- BlackbirdTurdus merula2025
- Green WoodpeckerPicus viridis2025
- RedwingTurdus iliacus
- KingfisherAlcedo atthis2025
- Coal TitPeriparus ater2025
- Herring GullLarus argentatus2025
- JackdawColoeus monedula2025
- Pied WagtailMotacilla alba2025
- Rock DoveColumba livia2025
- Red-legged PartridgeAlectoris rufa2025
- JayGarrulus glandarius2025
- Blue TitCyanistes caeruleus2025
- BlackcapSylvia atricapilla2025
- SwallowHirundo rustica2025
- ChiffchaffPhylloscopus collybita
- StarlingSturnus vulgaris
- House SparrowPasser domesticus
- BullfinchPyrrhula pyrrhula2025
- CormorantPhalacrocorax carbo2025
- GoosanderMergus merganser2025
- KestrelFalco tinnunculus2025
- NuthatchSitta europaea2025
- Tawny OwlStrix aluco2025
- RavenCorvus corax2025
- Marsh TitPoecile palustris2025
- Meadow PipitAnthus pratensis2025
- StonechatSaxicola rubicola2025
Badger
🐸Amphibians2 species
winter
2026▾
Common Frog · Common Toad
- Common FrogRana temporaria
- Common ToadBufo bufo2025
🐝Insects7 species
springautumnwinter
2026▾
7-spot Ladybird · Bibio lanigerus · Hawthorn Shieldbug · Parasyrphus punctulatus · Green Shieldbug +2
- 7-spot LadybirdCoccinella septempunctata
- Bibio lanigerusBibio lanigerus
- Hawthorn ShieldbugAcanthosoma haemorrhoidale2025
- Parasyrphus punctulatusParasyrphus punctulatus
- Green ShieldbugPalomena prasina2025
Sweet Chestnut · Gorse · Hazel · Hart's-Tongue · Primrose +47
- Sweet ChestnutCastanea sativa2025
- GorseUlex europaeus
- HazelCorylus avellana
- Hart's-TongueAsplenium scolopendrium
- PrimrosePrimula vulgaris
- DaisyBellis perennis
- SpindleEuonymus europaeus
Species observations from the last 10 years via NBN Atlas
Wildlife to spot
15,748 records · National Biodiversity NetworkLong-tailed Tit · Robin · Song Thrush · Wren · Dunnock +30
- Long-tailed TitAegithalos caudatus
- RobinErithacus rubecula
- Song ThrushTurdus philomelos2025
- WrenTroglodytes troglodytes
- DunnockPrunella modularis
- Collared DoveStreptopelia decaocto
- Mistle ThrushTurdus viscivorus
- Great Spotted WoodpeckerDendrocopos major
- BlackbirdTurdus merula2025
- Green WoodpeckerPicus viridis2025
- RedwingTurdus iliacus
- KingfisherAlcedo atthis2025
- Coal TitPeriparus ater2025
- Herring GullLarus argentatus2025
- JackdawColoeus monedula2025
- Pied WagtailMotacilla alba2025
- Rock DoveColumba livia2025
- Red-legged PartridgeAlectoris rufa2025
- JayGarrulus glandarius2025
- Blue TitCyanistes caeruleus2025
- BlackcapSylvia atricapilla2025
- SwallowHirundo rustica2025
- ChiffchaffPhylloscopus collybita
- StarlingSturnus vulgaris
- House SparrowPasser domesticus
- BullfinchPyrrhula pyrrhula2025
- CormorantPhalacrocorax carbo2025
- GoosanderMergus merganser2025
- KestrelFalco tinnunculus2025
- NuthatchSitta europaea2025
- Tawny OwlStrix aluco2025
- RavenCorvus corax2025
- Marsh TitPoecile palustris2025
- Meadow PipitAnthus pratensis2025
- StonechatSaxicola rubicola2025
Badger
🐸Amphibians2 species
winter
2026▾
Common Frog · Common Toad
- Common FrogRana temporaria
- Common ToadBufo bufo2025
🐝Insects7 species
springautumnwinter
2026▾
7-spot Ladybird · Bibio lanigerus · Hawthorn Shieldbug · Parasyrphus punctulatus · Green Shieldbug +2
- 7-spot LadybirdCoccinella septempunctata
- Bibio lanigerusBibio lanigerus
- Hawthorn ShieldbugAcanthosoma haemorrhoidale2025
- Parasyrphus punctulatusParasyrphus punctulatus
- Green ShieldbugPalomena prasina2025
Sweet Chestnut · Gorse · Hazel · Hart's-Tongue · Primrose +47
- Sweet ChestnutCastanea sativa2025
- GorseUlex europaeus
- HazelCorylus avellana
- Hart's-TongueAsplenium scolopendrium
- PrimrosePrimula vulgaris
- DaisyBellis perennis
- SpindleEuonymus europaeus
Species observations from the last 10 years via NBN Atlas
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