Stirling Spinney - Broadleaved woodland
1 ha
🦉Wildlife🦅Birds🌿Foraging
Free entryDogs welcome1 ha
Getting here
52.41188, -0.83856
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 km2 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
16 signed routes nearby
Signed route nearby
Brampton Valley WayCycling route▾
Route 6Cycling route▾
Named routeRef 6National Cycle Network
Main RouteCycling route817 m▾
Named routeRef 6Length 817 mNational Cycle NetworkTraffic-freeSurface unsealedfirm
Main RouteCycling route204 m▾
Named routeRef 6Length 204 mNational Cycle NetworkTraffic-freeSurface unsealedfirm
Main RouteCycling route1.4 km▾
Named routeRef 6Length 1.4 kmNational Cycle NetworkTraffic-freeSurface unsealedfirm
Main RouteCycling route3.7 km▾
Named routeRef 6Length 3.7 kmNational Cycle NetworkTraffic-freeSurface unsealedfirm
1 public path nearby
Public paths
No named routes yet. Public paths are shown on the map.
Photos
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Wildlife to spot
1,412 records · National Biodiversity Network
Wildlife to spot
1,412 records · National Biodiversity NetworkSwallow · Starling · Greenfinch · Blue Tit · Goldfinch +37
- SwallowHirundo rustica2024
- StarlingSturnus vulgaris
- GreenfinchChloris chloris2024
- Blue TitCyanistes caeruleus2024
- GoldfinchCarduelis carduelis2024
- DunnockPrunella modularis2024
- Great TitParus major2024
- RobinErithacus rubecula2024
- SwiftApus apus
- FieldfareTurdus pilaris
- KestrelFalco tinnunculus2024
- BullfinchPyrrhula pyrrhula2024
- RedwingTurdus iliacus2024
- MagpiePica pica2024
- Great Spotted WoodpeckerDendrocopos major2024
- JayGarrulus glandarius2024
- LapwingVanellus vanellus2024
- Carrion CrowCorvus corone2024
- MoorhenGallinula chloropus2024
- Meadow PipitAnthus pratensis2024
- Long-tailed TitAegithalos caudatus2024
- YellowhammerEmberiza citrinella2024
- RookCorvus frugilegus2024
- WoodcockScolopax rusticola2024
- Pied WagtailMotacilla alba yarrellii2024
- Song ThrushTurdus philomelos2024
- WrenTroglodytes troglodytes2024
- Mistle ThrushTurdus viscivorus2024
- RavenCorvus corax2024
- Green WoodpeckerPicus viridis2024
- GoldcrestRegulus regulus2024
- PheasantPhasianus colchicus2024
- WoodpigeonColumba palumbus2024
- BlackbirdTurdus merula2024
- Barn OwlTyto alba2024
- Lesser Black-backed GullLarus fuscus2024
- JackdawColoeus monedula2024
- Black-headed GullChroicocephalus ridibundus2024
- SiskinSpinus spinus2024
- ChaffinchFringilla coelebs2024
- SkylarkAlauda arvensis2024
- House MartinDelichon urbicum2024
Red Fox
Banded Demoiselle · Beautiful Demoiselle
- Banded DemoiselleCalopteryx splendens
- Beautiful DemoiselleCalopteryx virgo
Elder · Ground-ivy · False Oat-grass · Black Bryony · White Dead-nettle +93
- ElderSambucus nigra
- Ground-ivyGlechoma hederacea
- False Oat-grassArrhenatherum elatius
- Black BryonyTamus communis
- White Dead-nettleLamium album
- Red Dead-nettleLamium purpureum
- DandelionTaraxacum
Species observations from the last 10 years via NBN Atlas
Wildlife to spot
1,412 records · National Biodiversity NetworkSwallow · Starling · Greenfinch · Blue Tit · Goldfinch +37
- SwallowHirundo rustica2024
- StarlingSturnus vulgaris
- GreenfinchChloris chloris2024
- Blue TitCyanistes caeruleus2024
- GoldfinchCarduelis carduelis2024
- DunnockPrunella modularis2024
- Great TitParus major2024
- RobinErithacus rubecula2024
- SwiftApus apus
- FieldfareTurdus pilaris
- KestrelFalco tinnunculus2024
- BullfinchPyrrhula pyrrhula2024
- RedwingTurdus iliacus2024
- MagpiePica pica2024
- Great Spotted WoodpeckerDendrocopos major2024
- JayGarrulus glandarius2024
- LapwingVanellus vanellus2024
- Carrion CrowCorvus corone2024
- MoorhenGallinula chloropus2024
- Meadow PipitAnthus pratensis2024
- Long-tailed TitAegithalos caudatus2024
- YellowhammerEmberiza citrinella2024
- RookCorvus frugilegus2024
- WoodcockScolopax rusticola2024
- Pied WagtailMotacilla alba yarrellii2024
- Song ThrushTurdus philomelos2024
- WrenTroglodytes troglodytes2024
- Mistle ThrushTurdus viscivorus2024
- RavenCorvus corax2024
- Green WoodpeckerPicus viridis2024
- GoldcrestRegulus regulus2024
- PheasantPhasianus colchicus2024
- WoodpigeonColumba palumbus2024
- BlackbirdTurdus merula2024
- Barn OwlTyto alba2024
- Lesser Black-backed GullLarus fuscus2024
- JackdawColoeus monedula2024
- Black-headed GullChroicocephalus ridibundus2024
- SiskinSpinus spinus2024
- ChaffinchFringilla coelebs2024
- SkylarkAlauda arvensis2024
- House MartinDelichon urbicum2024
Red Fox
Banded Demoiselle · Beautiful Demoiselle
- Banded DemoiselleCalopteryx splendens
- Beautiful DemoiselleCalopteryx virgo
Elder · Ground-ivy · False Oat-grass · Black Bryony · White Dead-nettle +93
- ElderSambucus nigra
- Ground-ivyGlechoma hederacea
- False Oat-grassArrhenatherum elatius
- Black BryonyTamus communis
- White Dead-nettleLamium album
- Red Dead-nettleLamium purpureum
- DandelionTaraxacum
Species observations from the last 10 years via NBN Atlas