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🦅Birds🦉Wildlife✦Heritage
Public accessDogs welcome118 ha
Getting here
52.29182, -0.89848
Open directionsv
Visiting this summer
Seasonal nature notes and what to look for now
- 🐦83+ species recorded in this area — summer evenings are best for activity; watch for Shoveler and Wigeon
- ✦Historic character is a year-round quality here — summer brings its own atmosphere to the setting
- 🐕Dogs welcome — bring water in summer; the site has enough space to find shade on hot days
🌤️ Visiting this summer
- 🐦83+ species recorded in this area — summer evenings are best for activity; watch for Shoveler and Wigeon
- ✦Historic character is a year-round quality here — summer brings its own atmosphere to the setting
- 🐕Dogs welcome — bring water in summer; the site has enough space to find shade on hot days
🦅Bird watching
Very strong match
Birds — Shoveler, Wigeon, Pochard +80 more · last seen 2026; Deciduous woodland — woodpeckers, warblers and woodland birds
Free
Birds — Shoveler, Wigeon, Pochard +80 more · last seen 2026; Deciduous woodland priority habitat
Free
Historic site with public access
Free
🦋Insect spotting
Strong match
Insects — 7-spot Ladybird, Varied Carpet Beetle, Eristalis tenax +19 more · last seen 2025
Free
🍂Seasonal nature
Strong match
Plants — Sweet Violet, Lesser Celandine, Ground-ivy +28 more · last seen 2025
Free
Dogs allowed with public access
Free
Trails nearby
Within roughly 5 km2 signed routes nearby · 20 public paths nearby
Signed route nearbyPublic paths
Midshires WayWalking route370 km▾
Multi-use trail links the Ridgeway National Trail with the Trans Pennine Trail
Named routeLength 370 kmRegional walking route
Northamptonshire RoundWalking route▾
Spring Closepublic footpath · 167 m▾
Public pathpublic footpathLength 167 mPath type: residential
Spinney Closepublic footpath · 133 m▾
Public pathpublic footpathLength 133 mSurface asphaltPath type: residential
HW62public footpath · 103 m▾
Public pathpublic footpathLength 103 mSurface unpavedPath type: footway
60 signed routes nearby
Signed route nearby
Brampton Valley WayCycling route▾
Pitsford Water CircuitCycling route▾
Named routeLocal cycle route
Route 6Cycling route▾
Named routeRef 6National Cycle Network
NorbitalCycling route▾
Named routeRef 539Round tripNational Cycle Network
Main RouteCycling route957 m▾
Named routeRef 539Length 957 mNational Cycle NetworkTraffic-freeSurface asphalt
Main RouteCycling route306 m▾
Named routeRef 6Length 306 mNational Cycle NetworkOn-roadSurface asphalt
Weather for this location
Next 14 daysNearby places
Useful places within 5 km
Wildlife to spot
12,796 records · National Biodiversity Network
Wildlife to spot
12,796 records · National Biodiversity NetworkShoveler · Wigeon · Pochard · Peregrine · Hobby +35
- ShovelerSpatula clypeata2025
- WigeonMareca penelope2025
- PochardAythya ferina
- PeregrineFalco peregrinus2025
- HobbyFalco subbuteo2025
- Black RedstartPhoenicurus ochruros2025
- StarlingSturnus vulgaris
- Rock DoveColumba livia2025
- Blue TitCyanistes caeruleus2025
- Black-headed GullChroicocephalus ridibundus2025
- GoldfinchCarduelis carduelis2025
- RobinErithacus rubecula2025
- MagpiePica pica2025
- WoodpigeonColumba palumbus2025
- JackdawColoeus monedula2025
- Great TitParus major2025
- Carrion CrowCorvus corone2025
- JayGarrulus glandarius
- NuthatchSitta europaea2025
- Yellow-legged GullLarus michahellis2025
- Pied WagtailMotacilla alba yarrellii2025
- House SparrowPasser domesticus2025
- DunnockPrunella modularis2025
- Green WoodpeckerPicus viridis2025
- TreecreeperCerthia familiaris2025
- MoorhenGallinula chloropus2025
- BlackbirdTurdus merula2025
- WrenTroglodytes troglodytes2025
- RuffCalidris pugnax2025
- ChaffinchFringilla coelebs2025
- Stock DoveColumba oenas2025
- Lesser Black-backed GullLarus fuscus2025
- GreenfinchChloris chloris2025
- Black-necked GrebePodiceps nigricollis2025
- GoldcrestRegulus regulus2025
- Long-tailed TitAegithalos caudatus2025
- PintailAnas acuta2025
- MerlinFalco columbarius2025
- BitternBotaurus stellaris2025
- Little Ringed PloverCharadrius dubius2025
🐝Insects4 species
springsummerautumn
2025▾
7-spot Ladybird · Common Darter · Speckled Bush-cricket · Varied Carpet Beetle
- 7-spot LadybirdCoccinella septempunctata
- Common DarterSympetrum striolatum
- Speckled Bush-cricketLeptophyes punctatissima
- Varied Carpet BeetleAnthrenus verbasci
Mind-your-own-business · Yarrow · Bristly Oxtongue · Hairy Bitter-cress · Fat-hen +23
- Mind-your-own-businessSoleirolia soleirolii
- YarrowAchillea millefolium
- Bristly OxtongueHelminthotheca echioides
- Hairy Bitter-cressCardamine hirsuta
- Fat-henChenopodium album
- Meadow ButtercupRanunculus acris
- MugwortArtemisia vulgaris
Species observations from the last 10 years via NBN Atlas
Wildlife to spot
12,796 records · National Biodiversity NetworkShoveler · Wigeon · Pochard · Peregrine · Hobby +35
- ShovelerSpatula clypeata2025
- WigeonMareca penelope2025
- PochardAythya ferina
- PeregrineFalco peregrinus2025
- HobbyFalco subbuteo2025
- Black RedstartPhoenicurus ochruros2025
- StarlingSturnus vulgaris
- Rock DoveColumba livia2025
- Blue TitCyanistes caeruleus2025
- Black-headed GullChroicocephalus ridibundus2025
- GoldfinchCarduelis carduelis2025
- RobinErithacus rubecula2025
- MagpiePica pica2025
- WoodpigeonColumba palumbus2025
- JackdawColoeus monedula2025
- Great TitParus major2025
- Carrion CrowCorvus corone2025
- JayGarrulus glandarius
- NuthatchSitta europaea2025
- Yellow-legged GullLarus michahellis2025
- Pied WagtailMotacilla alba yarrellii2025
- House SparrowPasser domesticus2025
- DunnockPrunella modularis2025
- Green WoodpeckerPicus viridis2025
- TreecreeperCerthia familiaris2025
- MoorhenGallinula chloropus2025
- BlackbirdTurdus merula2025
- WrenTroglodytes troglodytes2025
- RuffCalidris pugnax2025
- ChaffinchFringilla coelebs2025
- Stock DoveColumba oenas2025
- Lesser Black-backed GullLarus fuscus2025
- GreenfinchChloris chloris2025
- Black-necked GrebePodiceps nigricollis2025
- GoldcrestRegulus regulus2025
- Long-tailed TitAegithalos caudatus2025
- PintailAnas acuta2025
- MerlinFalco columbarius2025
- BitternBotaurus stellaris2025
- Little Ringed PloverCharadrius dubius2025
🐝Insects4 species
springsummerautumn
2025▾
7-spot Ladybird · Common Darter · Speckled Bush-cricket · Varied Carpet Beetle
- 7-spot LadybirdCoccinella septempunctata
- Common DarterSympetrum striolatum
- Speckled Bush-cricketLeptophyes punctatissima
- Varied Carpet BeetleAnthrenus verbasci
Mind-your-own-business · Yarrow · Bristly Oxtongue · Hairy Bitter-cress · Fat-hen +23
- Mind-your-own-businessSoleirolia soleirolii
- YarrowAchillea millefolium
- Bristly OxtongueHelminthotheca echioides
- Hairy Bitter-cressCardamine hirsuta
- Fat-henChenopodium album
- Meadow ButtercupRanunculus acris
- MugwortArtemisia vulgaris
Species observations from the last 10 years via NBN Atlas
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