Old Covert - Broadleaved woodland
8 ha
🦉Wildlife🦅Birds🌿Foraging
Free entryDogs welcome8 ha
Getting here
52.38526, -0.97201
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
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
🌲Forest walks
Moderate match
Public woodland
Free
Trails nearby
Within roughly 5 km3 signed routes nearby
Signed route nearby
Midshires WayWalking route370 km▾
Multi-use trail links the Ridgeway National Trail with the Trans Pennine Trail
Named routeLength 370 kmRegional walking route
Jurassic WayWalking route142 km▾
Named routeLength 142 kmRegional 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
7 signed routes nearby
Signed route nearby
Brampton Valley WayCycling route▾
Route 6Cycling route▾
Named routeRef 6National Cycle Network
Main RouteCycling route3.4 km▾
Named routeRef 6Length 3.4 kmNational Cycle NetworkTraffic-freeSurface unsealedfirm
Main RouteCycling route3.7 km▾
Named routeRef 6Length 3.7 kmNational Cycle NetworkTraffic-freeSurface unsealedfirm
Main RouteCycling route1.3 km▾
Named routeRef 6Length 1.3 kmNational Cycle NetworkTraffic-freeSurface unsealedfirm
Main RouteCycling route216 m▾
Named routeRef 6Length 216 mNational Cycle NetworkTraffic-freeSurface asphalt
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Wildlife to spot
1,224 records · National Biodiversity Network
Wildlife to spot
1,224 records · National Biodiversity NetworkChaffinch
- ChaffinchFringilla coelebs
Creeping Buttercup · Garlic Mustard · Ivy · Ash · Field Forget-me-not +114
- Creeping ButtercupRanunculus repens
- Garlic MustardAlliaria petiolata
- IvyHedera helix
- AshFraxinus excelsior
- Field Forget-me-notMyosotis arvensis
- Creeping CinquefoilPotentilla reptans
- HogweedHeracleum sphondylium
- HollyIlex aquifolium
- White Dead-nettleLamium album
- SycamoreAcer pseudoplatanus
- Herb-RobertGeranium robertianum
- Rosa caninaRosa canina
Species observations from the last 10 years via NBN Atlas
Wildlife to spot
1,224 records · National Biodiversity NetworkChaffinch
- ChaffinchFringilla coelebs
Creeping Buttercup · Garlic Mustard · Ivy · Ash · Field Forget-me-not +114
- Creeping ButtercupRanunculus repens
- Garlic MustardAlliaria petiolata
- IvyHedera helix
- AshFraxinus excelsior
- Field Forget-me-notMyosotis arvensis
- Creeping CinquefoilPotentilla reptans
- HogweedHeracleum sphondylium
- HollyIlex aquifolium
- White Dead-nettleLamium album
- SycamoreAcer pseudoplatanus
- Herb-RobertGeranium robertianum
- Rosa caninaRosa canina
Species observations from the last 10 years via NBN Atlas
