Far Popehill Spinney - Broadleaved woodland
2 ha
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🐶Dogs🦉Wildlife🦅Birds
Public accessFree entryDogs welcome2 ha
Getting here
52.34348, -1.33957
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 — 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 on site — 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
Trails nearby
Within roughly 5 km12 signed routes nearby · 2 public paths nearby
Signed route nearbyPublic paths
Centenary WayWalking route▾
Named routeRef CWListed length 100 miRegional walking route
A Coventry WayWalking route▾
Named routeRef ACWListed length 40 miRegional walking route
Shakespeare's Avon WayWalking route142 km▾
From the source at Naseby, Northamptonshire to the Severn at Tewkesbury
Named routeRef SAWLength 142 kmRegional walking route
ACW Circular Walk 08Walking route▾
Named routeRef C08Listed length 16 kmLocal walking route
ACW Circular Walk 08A (short-cut for C08)Walking route▾
Named routeRef C08ALocal walking route
37 signed routes nearby
Signed route nearby
Route 41Cycling route▾
Named routeRef 41National Cycle Network
Route 41Cycling route▾
Named routeRef 41National Cycle Network
Viaduct CyclewayCycling route▾
Ways signed by route signs as part of the Viaduct Cycleway
Named routeLocal cycle route
Route 53Cycling route▾
Named routeRef 53National Cycle Network
Main RouteCycling route2.9 km▾
Named routeRef 41Length 2.9 kmNational Cycle NetworkTraffic-freeSurface asphalt
Main RouteCycling route2 km▾
Named routeRef 41Length 2 kmNational Cycle NetworkTraffic-freeSurface asphalt
1 signed route nearby
Signed route nearby
Ryton Pools Country Park mountain bike routeMountain bike route▾
Named routeRound trip
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Wildlife to spot
9,872 records · National Biodiversity Network
Wildlife to spot
9,872 records · National Biodiversity Network🐦Birds42 species
summerautumn
2025▾
Blue Tit · Great Tit · Jackdaw · Black-headed Gull · Long-tailed Tit +37
- Blue TitCyanistes caeruleus
- Great TitParus major
- JackdawColoeus monedula
- Black-headed GullChroicocephalus ridibundus
- Long-tailed TitAegithalos caudatus
- House MartinDelichon urbicum
- Carrion CrowCorvus corone
- CormorantPhalacrocorax carbo
- MagpiePica pica
- WoodpigeonColumba palumbus
- Little EgretEgretta garzetta
- MallardAnas platyrhynchos
- GoosanderMergus merganser
- Grey WagtailMotacilla cinerea
- CootFulica atra
- Pied WagtailMotacilla alba
- Great Crested GrebePodiceps cristatus
- Green WoodpeckerPicus viridis
- Red-breasted MerganserMergus serrator
- Tufted DuckAythya fuligula
- Little GrebeTachybaptus ruficollis
- MoorhenGallinula chloropus
- Greylag GooseAnser anser
- TealAnas crecca
- Lesser Black-backed GullLarus fuscus
- Common ScoterMelanitta nigra
- GadwallMareca strepera
- Great Black-backed GullLarus marinus
- Herring GullLarus argentatus
- WrenTroglodytes troglodytes
- Mute SwanCygnus olor
- RobinErithacus rubecula
- Meadow PipitAnthus pratensis
- BlackbirdTurdus merula
- Lesser WhitethroatCurruca curruca
- Common TernSterna hirundo
- Canada GooseBranta canadensis
- Ferruginous DuckAythya nyroca
- KestrelFalco tinnunculus
- Great Spotted WoodpeckerDendrocopos major
- TreecreeperCerthia familiaris
- House SparrowPasser domesticus
🐸Amphibians1 species
summer
2025▾
Common Toad
14-spot Ladybird · Cream-spot Ladybird · Adonis' Ladybird · 7-spot Ladybird · Polydrusus formosus +19
- 14-spot LadybirdPropylea quattuordecimpunctata
- Cream-spot LadybirdCalvia quattuordecimguttata
- Adonis' LadybirdHippodamia variegata
- 7-spot LadybirdCoccinella septempunctata
- Polydrusus formosusPolydrusus formosus
- Drupenatus nasturtiiDrupenatus nasturtii
Horsetail · Water Figwort · Torilis · Hart's-Tongue · Lamiastrum galeobdolon subsp. argentatum +30
- HorsetailEquisetum
- Water FigwortScrophularia auriculata
- TorilisTorilis
- Hart's-TongueAsplenium scolopendrium
- Lamiastrum galeobdolon subsp. argentatumLamiastrum galeobdolon subsp. argentatum
- Black SpleenwortAsplenium adiantum-nigrum
- Slender Knapweed
Species observations from the last 10 years via NBN Atlas
Wildlife to spot
9,872 records · National Biodiversity Network🐦Birds42 species
summerautumn
2025▾
Blue Tit · Great Tit · Jackdaw · Black-headed Gull · Long-tailed Tit +37
- Blue TitCyanistes caeruleus
- Great TitParus major
- JackdawColoeus monedula
- Black-headed GullChroicocephalus ridibundus
- Long-tailed TitAegithalos caudatus
- House MartinDelichon urbicum
- Carrion CrowCorvus corone
- CormorantPhalacrocorax carbo
- MagpiePica pica
- WoodpigeonColumba palumbus
- Little EgretEgretta garzetta
- MallardAnas platyrhynchos
- GoosanderMergus merganser
- Grey WagtailMotacilla cinerea
- CootFulica atra
- Pied WagtailMotacilla alba
- Great Crested GrebePodiceps cristatus
- Green WoodpeckerPicus viridis
- Red-breasted MerganserMergus serrator
- Tufted DuckAythya fuligula
- Little GrebeTachybaptus ruficollis
- MoorhenGallinula chloropus
- Greylag GooseAnser anser
- TealAnas crecca
- Lesser Black-backed GullLarus fuscus
- Common ScoterMelanitta nigra
- GadwallMareca strepera
- Great Black-backed GullLarus marinus
- Herring GullLarus argentatus
- WrenTroglodytes troglodytes
- Mute SwanCygnus olor
- RobinErithacus rubecula
- Meadow PipitAnthus pratensis
- BlackbirdTurdus merula
- Lesser WhitethroatCurruca curruca
- Common TernSterna hirundo
- Canada GooseBranta canadensis
- Ferruginous DuckAythya nyroca
- KestrelFalco tinnunculus
- Great Spotted WoodpeckerDendrocopos major
- TreecreeperCerthia familiaris
- House SparrowPasser domesticus
🐸Amphibians1 species
summer
2025▾
Common Toad
14-spot Ladybird · Cream-spot Ladybird · Adonis' Ladybird · 7-spot Ladybird · Polydrusus formosus +19
- 14-spot LadybirdPropylea quattuordecimpunctata
- Cream-spot LadybirdCalvia quattuordecimguttata
- Adonis' LadybirdHippodamia variegata
- 7-spot LadybirdCoccinella septempunctata
- Polydrusus formosusPolydrusus formosus
- Drupenatus nasturtiiDrupenatus nasturtii
Horsetail · Water Figwort · Torilis · Hart's-Tongue · Lamiastrum galeobdolon subsp. argentatum +30
- HorsetailEquisetum
- Water FigwortScrophularia auriculata
- TorilisTorilis
- Hart's-TongueAsplenium scolopendrium
- Lamiastrum galeobdolon subsp. argentatumLamiastrum galeobdolon subsp. argentatum
- Black SpleenwortAsplenium adiantum-nigrum
- Slender Knapweed
Species observations from the last 10 years via NBN Atlas
Fan-bearing Wood-borer
Fan-bearing Wood-borer
Ptilinus pectinicornis
Ptilinus pectinicornis
Cantharis lateralisCantharis lateralisCantharis lateralisCantharis lateralisAmalorrhynchus melanariusAmalorrhynchus melanariusAmalorrhynchus melanariusAmalorrhynchus melanariusDorytomus taeniatusDorytomus taeniatusDorytomus taeniatusDorytomus taeniatusCionus tuberculosusCionus tuberculosusCionus tuberculosusCionus tuberculosusClosterotomus fulvomaculatusClosterotomus fulvomaculatusClosterotomus fulvomaculatusClosterotomus fulvomaculatusOxystoma craccaeOxystoma craccaeOxystoma craccaeOxystoma craccaeRed-legged ShieldbugPentatoma rufipesRed-legged ShieldbugPentatoma rufipesBrooklime Gall WeevilGymnetron veronicaeBrooklime Gall WeevilGymnetron veronicaeElodes elongatusElodes elongatusElodes elongatusElodes elongatusOncopsis alniOncopsis alniOncopsis alniOncopsis alniFigwort WeevilCionus scrophulariaeFigwort WeevilCionus scrophulariaeCionus alaudaCionus alaudaCionus alaudaCionus alaudaOrchesia undulataOrchesia undulataOrchesia undulataOrchesia undulataElodes minutusElodes minutusElodes minutusElodes minutusGrynobius planusGrynobius planusGrynobius planusGrynobius planusDeraeocoris (Knightocapsus) lutescensDeraeocoris (Knightocapsus) lutescensDeraeocoris (Knightocapsus) lutescensDeraeocoris (Knightocapsus) lutescensCeutorhynchus picitarsisCeutorhynchus picitarsisCeutorhynchus picitarsisCeutorhynchus picitarsisCentaurea debeauxii
Centaurea debeauxii
Hedge BindweedCalystegia sepiumHedge BindweedCalystegia sepiumWild MarjoramOriganum vulgareWild MarjoramOriganum vulgareIndet. ComfreySymphytumIndet. ComfreySymphytumMouse-ear-hawkweedPilosella officinarumMouse-ear-hawkweedPilosella officinarumDes Etangs' St John's-wortHypericum maculatum x perforatum = H. x desetangsiiDes Etangs' St John's-wortHypericum maculatum x perforatum = H. x desetangsiiWater ChickweedStellaria aquaticaWater ChickweedStellaria aquaticaCommon Bird's-foot-trefoilLotus corniculatusCommon Bird's-foot-trefoilLotus corniculatusBroad-leaved Everlasting-peaLathyrus latifoliusBroad-leaved Everlasting-peaLathyrus latifoliusWild BasilClinopodium vulgareWild BasilClinopodium vulgareMintMenthaMintMenthaGreen AlkanetPentaglottis sempervirensGreen AlkanetPentaglottis sempervirensSticky GroundselSenecio viscosusSticky GroundselSenecio viscosusGypsywortLycopus europaeusGypsywortLycopus europaeusPerennial Sow-thistleSonchus arvensisPerennial Sow-thistleSonchus arvensisRed GoosefootOxybasis rubraRed GoosefootOxybasis rubraHoary RagwortJacobaea erucifoliaHoary RagwortJacobaea erucifoliaCreeping CinquefoilPotentilla reptansCreeping CinquefoilPotentilla reptansField HorsetailEquisetum arvenseField HorsetailEquisetum arvenseCorn MintMentha arvensisCorn MintMentha arvensisBilbao FleabaneErigeron floribundusBilbao FleabaneErigeron floribundusBittersweetSolanum dulcamaraBittersweetSolanum dulcamaraNuttall's WaterweedElodea nuttalliiNuttall's WaterweedElodea nuttalliiSkullcapScutellaria galericulataSkullcapScutellaria galericulataRumex crispus x maritimus = R. x fallacinusRumex crispus x maritimus = R. x fallacinusRumex crispus x maritimus = R. x fallacinusRumex crispus x maritimus = R. x fallacinusScarlet PimpernelLysimachia arvensisScarlet PimpernelLysimachia arvensisWhite Dead-nettleLamium albumWhite Dead-nettleLamium albumBlue FleabaneErigeron acrisBlue FleabaneErigeron acrisAlchemilla filicaulis subsp. vestitaAlchemilla filicaulis subsp. vestitaAlchemilla filicaulis subsp. vestitaAlchemilla filicaulis subsp. vestitaEvents & activities nearby
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