Broadleaved woodland near Oakley Green
1 ha
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🐶Dogs🦉Wildlife🦅Birds
Public accessFree entryDogs welcome1 ha
Getting here
51.48163, -0.65767
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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 165m away — 6 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 165m away — 6 car parks within reach
- £Free to visit — no entry charge
- 🐕Dogs welcome
Dogs allowed — public woodland
Free
Deciduous woodland priority habitat
Free
🦅Bird watching
Strong match
Deciduous woodland — woodpeckers, warblers and woodland birds
Free
Deciduous woodland — fungi, berries and wild garlic
Varies
Named cycling route nearby: Round Berkshire Cycle Route
Varies
Trails nearby
Within roughly 5 km7 signed routes nearby
Signed route nearby
Three Castles PathWalking route▾
Named routeRegional walking route
Jubilee River PathWalking route▾
Thames PathWalking route296 km▾
Named routeRef TPLength 296 kmNational walking route
European walking route E2 west, UK, South East EnglandWalking route▾
Westroute: Stranraer (UK) - Birminhgham (UK) - Calais (FR) - Zoersel (BE) / Eastroute: Stranraer (UK) - Harwich (UK) - Rotterdam (NL) - Zoersel (BE) / Both Routes: Zoersel (BE) - Maastrich (NL) - Luxembourg (LUX) - Lake Geneva (CH) - Nice (FR)
Named routeRef E2International walking route
Ramblers RouteWalking route▾
Named routeLocal walking route
137 signed routes nearby
Signed route nearby
Route 61Cycling route34 km▾
Route 61 travels from Maidenhead to Hatfield, Welwyn Garden City and Hertford before arriving near Hoddesdon.
Named routeRef 61Length 34 kmNational Cycle Network
Route 4Cycling route▾
Named routeRef 4National Cycle Network
Holyport GreenwayCycling route▾
Named routeLocal cycle route
Beeches CyclewayCycling route▾
Named routeLocal cycle route
Round Berkshire Cycle RouteCycling route▾
Named routeRegional cycle route
North Town linkCycling route▾
Named routeLocal cycle route
1 public path nearby
Public paths
No named routes yet. Public paths are shown on the map.
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A308 Windsor Road near Water Oakley
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Wildlife to spot
38,600 records · National Biodiversity Network
Wildlife to spot
38,600 records · National Biodiversity NetworkMagpie · Blue Tit · Black-headed Gull · Mallard · Rock Dove +40
- MagpiePica pica2025
- Blue TitCyanistes caeruleus
- Black-headed GullChroicocephalus ridibundus
- MallardAnas platyrhynchos2025
- Rock DoveColumba livia2025
- Meadow PipitAnthus pratensis2025
- Pied WagtailMotacilla alba2025
- Grey HeronArdea cinerea2025
- WoodpigeonColumba palumbus2025
- StarlingSturnus vulgaris2025
- Carrion CrowCorvus corone2025
- RobinErithacus rubecula2025
- Tufted DuckAythya fuligula2025
- CormorantPhalacrocorax carbo2025
- JackdawColoeus monedula2025
- Grey WagtailMotacilla cinerea2025
- House SparrowPasser domesticus2025
- Common GullLarus canus2025
- Song ThrushTurdus philomelos2025
- Long-tailed TitAegithalos caudatus2025
- BlackbirdTurdus merula2025
- Herring GullLarus argentatus2025
- MoorhenGallinula chloropus2025
- Great TitParus major2025
- Green WoodpeckerPicus viridis2025
- Great Spotted WoodpeckerDendrocopos major2025
- LinnetLinaria cannabina2025
- Egyptian GooseAlopochen aegyptiaca2025
- Mute SwanCygnus olor2025
- LapwingVanellus vanellus2025
- Cetti's WarblerCettia cetti2025
- ChiffchaffPhylloscopus collybita2025
- ChaffinchFringilla coelebs2025
- TealAnas crecca2025
- Little EgretEgretta garzetta2025
- GoldfinchCarduelis carduelis2025
- DunnockPrunella modularis2025
- Collared DoveStreptopelia decaocto2025
- StonechatSaxicola rubicola2025
- Red-crested PochardNetta rufina2025
- RavenCorvus corax2025
- CootFulica atra2025
- Lesser Black-backed GullLarus fuscus2025
- Great Crested GrebePodiceps cristatus2025
- GadwallMareca strepera2025
🐝Insects45 species
winterspring
2026▾
Common Quaker · Chestnut · Hebrew Character · Small Quaker · Oak Beauty +40
- Common QuakerOrthosia cerasi
- ChestnutConistra vaccinii
- Hebrew CharacterOrthosia gothica
- Small QuakerOrthosia cruda
- Oak BeautyBiston strataria
- Twin-spotted QuakerAnorthoa munda
Species observations from the last 10 years via NBN Atlas
Wildlife to spot
38,600 records · National Biodiversity NetworkMagpie · Blue Tit · Black-headed Gull · Mallard · Rock Dove +40
- MagpiePica pica2025
- Blue TitCyanistes caeruleus
- Black-headed GullChroicocephalus ridibundus
- MallardAnas platyrhynchos2025
- Rock DoveColumba livia2025
- Meadow PipitAnthus pratensis2025
- Pied WagtailMotacilla alba2025
- Grey HeronArdea cinerea2025
- WoodpigeonColumba palumbus2025
- StarlingSturnus vulgaris2025
- Carrion CrowCorvus corone2025
- RobinErithacus rubecula2025
- Tufted DuckAythya fuligula2025
- CormorantPhalacrocorax carbo2025
- JackdawColoeus monedula2025
- Grey WagtailMotacilla cinerea2025
- House SparrowPasser domesticus2025
- Common GullLarus canus2025
- Song ThrushTurdus philomelos2025
- Long-tailed TitAegithalos caudatus2025
- BlackbirdTurdus merula2025
- Herring GullLarus argentatus2025
- MoorhenGallinula chloropus2025
- Great TitParus major2025
- Green WoodpeckerPicus viridis2025
- Great Spotted WoodpeckerDendrocopos major2025
- LinnetLinaria cannabina2025
- Egyptian GooseAlopochen aegyptiaca2025
- Mute SwanCygnus olor2025
- LapwingVanellus vanellus2025
- Cetti's WarblerCettia cetti2025
- ChiffchaffPhylloscopus collybita2025
- ChaffinchFringilla coelebs2025
- TealAnas crecca2025
- Little EgretEgretta garzetta2025
- GoldfinchCarduelis carduelis2025
- DunnockPrunella modularis2025
- Collared DoveStreptopelia decaocto2025
- StonechatSaxicola rubicola2025
- Red-crested PochardNetta rufina2025
- RavenCorvus corax2025
- CootFulica atra2025
- Lesser Black-backed GullLarus fuscus2025
- Great Crested GrebePodiceps cristatus2025
- GadwallMareca strepera2025
🐝Insects45 species
winterspring
2026▾
Common Quaker · Chestnut · Hebrew Character · Small Quaker · Oak Beauty +40
- Common QuakerOrthosia cerasi
- ChestnutConistra vaccinii
- Hebrew CharacterOrthosia gothica
- Small QuakerOrthosia cruda
- Oak BeautyBiston strataria
- Twin-spotted QuakerAnorthoa munda
Species observations from the last 10 years via NBN Atlas
March Moth
March Moth
Alsophila aescularia
Alsophila aescularia
Spring HarbingerTortricodes alternellaSpring HarbingerTortricodes alternellaBrindled PugEupithecia abbreviataBrindled PugEupithecia abbreviataClouded DrabOrthosia incertaClouded DrabOrthosia incertaDouble-striped PugGymnoscelis rufifasciataDouble-striped PugGymnoscelis rufifasciataRed-green CarpetChloroclysta siterata2025Red-green CarpetChloroclysta siterata2025March TubicDiurnea fagellaMarch TubicDiurnea fagellaSatelliteEupsilia transversaSatelliteEupsilia transversaDotted BorderAgriopis marginariaDotted BorderAgriopis marginariaSpring UsherAgriopis leucophaeariaSpring UsherAgriopis leucophaeariaLight Brown Apple MothEpiphyas postvittanaLight Brown Apple MothEpiphyas postvittanaDecember MothPoecilocampa populi2025December MothPoecilocampa populi2025Dark ArchesApamea monoglypha2025Dark ArchesApamea monoglypha2025Dark ChestnutConistra ligula2025Dark ChestnutConistra ligula2025Australian Orange-tipTachystola acroxantha2025Australian Orange-tipTachystola acroxantha2025Pale Mottled WillowCaradrina clavipalpisPale Mottled WillowCaradrina clavipalpisOak-tree PugEupithecia dodoneataOak-tree PugEupithecia dodoneataAngle ShadesPhlogophora meticulosaAngle ShadesPhlogophora meticulosaVaried Carpet BeetleAnthrenus verbasciVaried Carpet BeetleAnthrenus verbasciAgonopterix ciliella/heraclianaAgonopterix ciliella/heraclianaAgonopterix ciliella/heraclianaAgonopterix ciliella/heraclianaCaloptiliaCaloptiliaCaloptiliaCaloptiliaEarly Oak Gall MothPammene giganteanaEarly Oak Gall MothPammene giganteanaYellow HornedAchlya flavicornis galbanusYellow HornedAchlya flavicornis galbanusEarly ThornSelenia dentariaEarly ThornSelenia dentariaEarly GreyXylocampa areolaEarly GreyXylocampa areolaWater-dropwort BrownDepressaria daucellaWater-dropwort BrownDepressaria daucellaHemlock MothAgonopterix alstromerianaHemlock MothAgonopterix alstromerianaVaried OchreYpsolopha ustellaVaried OchreYpsolopha ustellaSmall Brindled BeautyApocheima hispidariaSmall Brindled BeautyApocheima hispidariaDotted ChestnutConistra rubigineaDotted ChestnutConistra rubigineaOak NycteolineNycteola revayanaOak NycteolineNycteola revayanaLichen TortrixAcleris literanaLichen TortrixAcleris literanaPale Brindled BeautyPhigalia pilosariaPale Brindled BeautyPhigalia pilosariaYellow-Line QuakerLeptologia macilenta2025Yellow-Line QuakerLeptologia macilenta2025Light EmeraldCampaea margaritaria2025Light EmeraldCampaea margaritaria2025Large Yellow UnderwingNoctua pronuba2025Large Yellow UnderwingNoctua pronuba2025Silver YAutographa gamma2025Silver YAutographa gamma2025Cypress CarpetThera cupressata2025Cypress CarpetThera cupressata2025Winter MothOperophtera brumata2025Winter MothOperophtera brumata2025