🌞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
📍Open access throughout summer — no booking required
🌤️ 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
📍Open access throughout summer — no booking required
Good to know
£Free to visit — no entry charge
🐕Dogs welcome
Best for
5 activities
🐶
Dog walks
Strong match
Dogs allowed — public woodland
Free
🦉
Wildlife
Strong match
Deciduous woodland priority habitat
Free
🦅
Bird watching
Strong match
Deciduous woodland — woodpeckers, warblers and woodland birds
Free
🌿
Foraging
Good match
Deciduous woodland — fungi, berries and wild garlic
Varies
🌲
Forest walks
Good match
Public woodland
Free
Trails nearby
Within roughly 5 km
🚶
Walking
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8 signed routes nearby · 30 public paths nearby
Signed route nearbyPublic paths
Woodpecker TrailWalking route▾
Named routeLocal walking route
Millstream WayWalking route▾
Named routeLocal walking route
Rail Trail: Wythall > ShirleyWalking route4.8 km▾
A 3-mile wander through the pasture and meadows around the outer Shirley suburbs of Major’s Green and Hollywood. Eyes peeled for the Iron Age hillfort!
Duration: 1.5 hours
Distance: 3 miles
Named routeRef rtWytLength 4.8 kmPoint-to-pointLocal walking route
A 1.75-mile short and easy route to Earlswood passing through farm and heathland, crossing the River Cole, and skirting Fulford Golf Course.
Duration: 1 hour
Distance: 1.75 miles
Named routeRef rtEwdLength 2.8 kmPoint-to-pointLocal walking route
