Plan your visit
🦅Birds🧺Picnic✦Heritage
Public accessFree entryDogs welcome10 ha
Getting here
53.98230, -1.88999
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Visiting this summer
Seasonal nature notes and what to look for now
- 🐦51+ species recorded in this area — summer evenings are best for activity; watch for Grey Heron and Blackbird
- 🧺Good picnic destination in summer — open space and facilities for a relaxed day out
- ☕Café on site — makes this an easy full-day family visit without needing to pack food
🌤️ Visiting this summer
- 🐦51+ species recorded in this area — summer evenings are best for activity; watch for Grey Heron and Blackbird
- 🧺Good picnic destination in summer — open space and facilities for a relaxed day out
- ☕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· Paid🧺Picnic spot🚻Toilets
🦅Bird watching
Very strong match
Birds — Grey Heron, Blackbird, Dipper +48 more · last seen 2026
Free
🧺Picnic day out
Very strong match
picnic area, café, toilets, car park
Free
✦Heritage
Very strong match
Grade I listed building: PRIORY OF ST MARY; Historic site with public access
Free
Birds — Grey Heron, Blackbird, Dipper +48 more · last seen 2026; Good quality semi-improved grassland priority habitat
Free
🛝Family friendly
Strong match
café, toilets, picnic area
Free
Dogs allowed with public access
Free
Trails nearby
Within roughly 5 km6 signed routes nearby · 6 public paths nearby
Signed route nearbyPublic paths
Dales WayWalking route129 km▾
Named routeLength 129 kmRegional walking route
Bradford Millennium WayWalking route▾
Named routeLocal walking route
Strid Wood Natural Trail - Red TrailWalking route▾
Dales High WayWalking route145 km▾
Runs from Saltaire (West Yorkshire) to Appleby-in-Westmorland (Cumbria) roughly following route of Settle and Carlisle railway
Named routeLength 145 kmPoint-to-pointRegional walking route
Dales Way - Harrogate Link PathWalking route▾
Named routeLocal walking route
1 signed route nearby
Signed route nearby
Yorkshire Dales CyclewayCycling route▾
Named routeRef YDCRegional cycle route
13 public paths nearby
Public paths
Priory Trail (Dales Way)bridleway · 98 m▾
Public pathbridlewayLength 98 mSurface fine_gravelPath type: bridleway
Waterfall Bridgebridleway · 55 m▾
Public pathbridlewayLength 55 mSurface woodPath type: bridleway
Priory Trail (Dales Way)bridleway · 33 m▾
Public pathbridlewayLength 33 mSurface fine_gravelPath type: bridleway
Weather for this location
Next 14 daysNearby places
Useful places within 5 km
Wildlife to spot
17,560 records · National Biodiversity Network
Wildlife to spot
17,560 records · National Biodiversity Network🐦Birds51 species
autumnwinter
2026▾
Grey Heron · Blackbird · Dipper · Long-tailed Tit · Chaffinch +46
- Grey HeronArdea cinerea2025
- BlackbirdTurdus merula
- DipperCinclus cinclus2025
- Long-tailed TitAegithalos caudatus2025
- ChaffinchFringilla coelebs2025
- RobinErithacus rubecula2025
- Black-headed GullChroicocephalus ridibundus2025
- Blue TitCyanistes caeruleus2025
- Great TitParus major2025
- NuthatchSitta europaea
- StarlingSturnus vulgaris2025
- MallardAnas platyrhynchos2025
- Rock DoveColumba livia2025
- CormorantPhalacrocorax carbo2025
- JackdawColoeus monedula2025
- WoodpigeonColumba palumbus2025
- WrenTroglodytes troglodytes2025
- Carrion CrowCorvus corone2025
- Coal TitPeriparus ater2025
- PheasantPhasianus colchicus2025
- KestrelFalco tinnunculus2025
- Mandarin DuckAix galericulata2025
- Grey WagtailMotacilla cinerea2025
- GoosanderMergus merganser2025
- RookCorvus frugilegus2025
- FieldfareTurdus pilaris2025
- Red-legged PartridgeAlectoris rufa2025
- House SparrowPasser domesticus2025
- Mistle ThrushTurdus viscivorus2025
- TreecreeperCerthia familiaris2025
- GoldcrestRegulus regulus2025
- MagpiePica pica2025
- RedwingTurdus iliacus2025
- Great Spotted WoodpeckerDendrocopos major2025
- Collared DoveStreptopelia decaocto2025
- Greylag GooseAnser anser2025
- MoorhenGallinula chloropus2025
- JayGarrulus glandarius2025
- Common GullLarus canus2025
- Red Grouse (scotica)Lagopus scotica2025
- GoldfinchCarduelis carduelis2025
- Pied WagtailMotacilla alba yarrellii2025
- Lesser Black-backed GullLarus fuscus2025
- GreenfinchChloris chloris2025
- Little EgretEgretta garzetta2025
- LapwingVanellus vanellus2025
- KingfisherAlcedo atthis2025
- BullfinchPyrrhula pyrrhula2025
- TealAnas crecca2025
- Meadow PipitAnthus pratensis2025
- Stock DoveColumba oenas2025
Great Scented Liverwort · Fox-tail Feather-moss · Frizzled Pincushion · Silky Wall Feather-moss · Lateral Cryphaea +3
- Great Scented LiverwortConocephalum conicum
- Fox-tail Feather-mossThamnobryum alopecurum
- Frizzled PincushionPlenogemma phyllantha
- Silky Wall Feather-mossHomalothecium sericeum
- Lateral CryphaeaCryphaea heteromalla
- Blunt Feather-mossHomalia trichomanoides
Species observations from the last 10 years via NBN Atlas
Wildlife to spot
17,560 records · National Biodiversity Network🐦Birds51 species
autumnwinter
2026▾
Grey Heron · Blackbird · Dipper · Long-tailed Tit · Chaffinch +46
- Grey HeronArdea cinerea2025
- BlackbirdTurdus merula
- DipperCinclus cinclus2025
- Long-tailed TitAegithalos caudatus2025
- ChaffinchFringilla coelebs2025
- RobinErithacus rubecula2025
- Black-headed GullChroicocephalus ridibundus2025
- Blue TitCyanistes caeruleus2025
- Great TitParus major2025
- NuthatchSitta europaea
- StarlingSturnus vulgaris2025
- MallardAnas platyrhynchos2025
- Rock DoveColumba livia2025
- CormorantPhalacrocorax carbo2025
- JackdawColoeus monedula2025
- WoodpigeonColumba palumbus2025
- WrenTroglodytes troglodytes2025
- Carrion CrowCorvus corone2025
- Coal TitPeriparus ater2025
- PheasantPhasianus colchicus2025
- KestrelFalco tinnunculus2025
- Mandarin DuckAix galericulata2025
- Grey WagtailMotacilla cinerea2025
- GoosanderMergus merganser2025
- RookCorvus frugilegus2025
- FieldfareTurdus pilaris2025
- Red-legged PartridgeAlectoris rufa2025
- House SparrowPasser domesticus2025
- Mistle ThrushTurdus viscivorus2025
- TreecreeperCerthia familiaris2025
- GoldcrestRegulus regulus2025
- MagpiePica pica2025
- RedwingTurdus iliacus2025
- Great Spotted WoodpeckerDendrocopos major2025
- Collared DoveStreptopelia decaocto2025
- Greylag GooseAnser anser2025
- MoorhenGallinula chloropus2025
- JayGarrulus glandarius2025
- Common GullLarus canus2025
- Red Grouse (scotica)Lagopus scotica2025
- GoldfinchCarduelis carduelis2025
- Pied WagtailMotacilla alba yarrellii2025
- Lesser Black-backed GullLarus fuscus2025
- GreenfinchChloris chloris2025
- Little EgretEgretta garzetta2025
- LapwingVanellus vanellus2025
- KingfisherAlcedo atthis2025
- BullfinchPyrrhula pyrrhula2025
- TealAnas crecca2025
- Meadow PipitAnthus pratensis2025
- Stock DoveColumba oenas2025
Great Scented Liverwort · Fox-tail Feather-moss · Frizzled Pincushion · Silky Wall Feather-moss · Lateral Cryphaea +3
- Great Scented LiverwortConocephalum conicum
- Fox-tail Feather-mossThamnobryum alopecurum
- Frizzled PincushionPlenogemma phyllantha
- Silky Wall Feather-mossHomalothecium sericeum
- Lateral CryphaeaCryphaea heteromalla
- Blunt Feather-mossHomalia trichomanoides
Species observations from the last 10 years via NBN Atlas
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