Adder Bank Shaw - Broadleaved woodland
✦ Ancient woodland0 ha
🦉Wildlife🦅Birds🌿Foraging
Free entryDogs welcome0 ha
Getting here
51.35473, 0.23417
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
- 🌿Foraging is at its best in summer here
- 🐕Dogs welcome — bring water in summer; the site has enough space to find shade on hot days
🌤️ Visiting this summer
- 🌞Midsummer — early morning visits most comfortable; look for deer fawns in quieter clearings
- 🌿Foraging is at its best in summer here
- 🐕Dogs welcome — bring water in summer; the site has enough space to find shade on hot days
- £Free to visit — no entry charge
- 🐕Dogs welcome
- 🌿Ancient woodland — rare wildlife habitat
Deciduous woodland priority habitat; Ancient woodland
Free
🦅Bird watching
Strong match
Deciduous woodland — woodpeckers, warblers and woodland birds
Free
Deciduous woodland — fungi, berries and wild garlic
Varies
Ancient woodland — historic landscape
Free
🌲Forest walks
Moderate match
Public woodland
Free
Trails nearby
Within roughly 5 km5 signed routes nearby
Signed route nearby
Darent Valley PathWalking route▾
Named routeLocal walking route
North Downs Way (Eastern)Walking route▾
Named routeNational walking route
Samuel Palmer TrailWalking route▾
Immerse yourself in the life, work and inspiration of Samuel Palmer on an audio-guided journey through Shoreham and surrounding areas.
Named routeLocal walking route
Oftord to Canterbury CathedralWalking route▾
follows North Downs Way from Otford to Broughton Lees
Named routeRegional walking route
Southwark Cathedral to OtfordWalking route▾
part A of a route from Southwark Cathedral to Canterbury Cathedral
Named routeRegional walking route
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Wildlife to spot
4,872 records · National Biodiversity Network
Wildlife to spot
4,872 records · National Biodiversity Network🐦Birds43 species
springsummer
2025▾
Raven · Hobby · Blackbird · Robin · Chiffchaff +38
- RavenCorvus corax
- HobbyFalco subbuteo
- BlackbirdTurdus merula
- RobinErithacus rubecula
- ChiffchaffPhylloscopus collybita
- Barn OwlTyto alba2024
- Pied WagtailMotacilla alba yarrellii
- Carrion CrowCorvus corone
- WoodpigeonColumba palumbus
- SkylarkAlauda arvensis
- Rock DoveColumba livia
- JackdawColoeus monedula
- WrenTroglodytes troglodytes
- Great TitParus major
- Song ThrushTurdus philomelos
- ChaffinchFringilla coelebs
- PheasantPhasianus colchicus
- BlackcapSylvia atricapilla
- GoldfinchCarduelis carduelis
- WhitethroatCurruca communis
- FirecrestRegulus ignicapilla2024
- SwallowHirundo rustica
- Herring GullLarus argentatus
- NuthatchSitta europaea
- PeregrineFalco peregrinus
- Mediterranean GullIchthyaetus melanocephalus2024
- DunnockPrunella modularis2024
- Great Spotted WoodpeckerDendrocopos major2024
- Blue TitCyanistes caeruleus2024
- StarlingSturnus vulgaris2024
- JayGarrulus glandarius2024
- House SparrowPasser domesticus2024
- MagpiePica pica2024
- YellowhammerEmberiza citrinella
- Lesser WhitethroatCurruca curruca
- NightingaleLuscinia megarhynchos
- Garden WarblerSylvia borin
- Green WoodpeckerPicus viridis2024
- Stock DoveColumba oenas2024
- Collared DoveStreptopelia decaocto2024
- GoldcrestRegulus regulus2024
- Dartford WarblerCurruca undata2023
- Falco subbuteo subbuteoFalco subbuteo subbuteo2023
Hazel Dormouse · Eurasian Serotine · Wood Mouse · Common Pipistrelle · Soprano Pipistrelle +4
- Hazel DormouseMuscardinus avellanarius
- Eurasian SerotineCnephaeus serotinus
- Wood MouseApodemus sylvaticus2023
- Common PipistrellePipistrellus pipistrellus2023
- Soprano PipistrellePipistrellus pygmaeus2023
- NoctuleNyctalus noctula
🐝Insects4 species
summerautumn
2023▾
Stag Beetle · Common Rose Fusehorn · Larinus carlinae · Drilus flavescens
- Stag BeetleLucanus cervus
- Common Rose FusehornArge pagana
- Larinus carlinaeLarinus carlinae
- Drilus flavescensDrilus flavescens
Species observations from the last 10 years via NBN Atlas
Wildlife to spot
4,872 records · National Biodiversity Network🐦Birds43 species
springsummer
2025▾
Raven · Hobby · Blackbird · Robin · Chiffchaff +38
- RavenCorvus corax
- HobbyFalco subbuteo
- BlackbirdTurdus merula
- RobinErithacus rubecula
- ChiffchaffPhylloscopus collybita
- Barn OwlTyto alba2024
- Pied WagtailMotacilla alba yarrellii
- Carrion CrowCorvus corone
- WoodpigeonColumba palumbus
- SkylarkAlauda arvensis
- Rock DoveColumba livia
- JackdawColoeus monedula
- WrenTroglodytes troglodytes
- Great TitParus major
- Song ThrushTurdus philomelos
- ChaffinchFringilla coelebs
- PheasantPhasianus colchicus
- BlackcapSylvia atricapilla
- GoldfinchCarduelis carduelis
- WhitethroatCurruca communis
- FirecrestRegulus ignicapilla2024
- SwallowHirundo rustica
- Herring GullLarus argentatus
- NuthatchSitta europaea
- PeregrineFalco peregrinus
- Mediterranean GullIchthyaetus melanocephalus2024
- DunnockPrunella modularis2024
- Great Spotted WoodpeckerDendrocopos major2024
- Blue TitCyanistes caeruleus2024
- StarlingSturnus vulgaris2024
- JayGarrulus glandarius2024
- House SparrowPasser domesticus2024
- MagpiePica pica2024
- YellowhammerEmberiza citrinella
- Lesser WhitethroatCurruca curruca
- NightingaleLuscinia megarhynchos
- Garden WarblerSylvia borin
- Green WoodpeckerPicus viridis2024
- Stock DoveColumba oenas2024
- Collared DoveStreptopelia decaocto2024
- GoldcrestRegulus regulus2024
- Dartford WarblerCurruca undata2023
- Falco subbuteo subbuteoFalco subbuteo subbuteo2023
Hazel Dormouse · Eurasian Serotine · Wood Mouse · Common Pipistrelle · Soprano Pipistrelle +4
- Hazel DormouseMuscardinus avellanarius
- Eurasian SerotineCnephaeus serotinus
- Wood MouseApodemus sylvaticus2023
- Common PipistrellePipistrellus pipistrellus2023
- Soprano PipistrellePipistrellus pygmaeus2023
- NoctuleNyctalus noctula
🐝Insects4 species
summerautumn
2023▾
Stag Beetle · Common Rose Fusehorn · Larinus carlinae · Drilus flavescens
- Stag BeetleLucanus cervus
- Common Rose FusehornArge pagana
- Larinus carlinaeLarinus carlinae
- Drilus flavescensDrilus flavescens
Species observations from the last 10 years via NBN Atlas
2023
2023
BatChiropteraBatChiropteraBrown Long-eared BatPlecotus auritus2023Brown Long-eared BatPlecotus auritus2023Pygmy ShrewSorex minutus2023Pygmy ShrewSorex minutus2023