Belsize Wood - Broadleaved woodland
1 ha
Plan your visit
🦉Wildlife🦅Birds🌿Foraging
Free entryDogs welcome1 ha
Getting here
51.55474, -0.14722
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Visiting this summer
Seasonal nature notes and what to look for now
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- 🌞Midsummer — early morning visits most comfortable; look for deer fawns in quieter clearings
- 🌿Foraging is at its best in summer here
- 🛝Playground on site — built-in entertainment for younger visitors alongside the wider site
🌤️ Visiting this summer
- 🌞Midsummer — early morning visits most comfortable; look for deer fawns in quieter clearings
- 🌿Foraging is at its best in summer here
- 🛝Playground on site — built-in entertainment for younger visitors alongside the wider site
- £Free to visit — no entry charge
- 🐕Dogs welcome
🚲Bike parking🅿️Parking· Paid🛝Playground🚻Toilets
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 km38 signed routes nearby
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Pudding Lane pedwayWalking route▾
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Jack The Ripper WalkWalking route▾
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Middlesex Street Estate PedwaysWalking route▾
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Peter's Hill pedwayWalking route▾
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Bishopsgate pedwaysWalking route▾
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195 signed routes nearby
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Cycleway 1Cycling route▾
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LCN 9Cycling route▾
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Cycleway 6Cycling route▾
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LCNCycling route▾
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Regent's CanalCycling route▾
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Bookable toursWildlife to spot
35,555 records · National Biodiversity Network
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Wildlife to spot
35,555 records · National Biodiversity Network🐦Birds37 species
springwinter
2026▾
Starling · Magpie · Woodpigeon · Coot · Black-headed Gull +32
- StarlingSturnus vulgaris
- MagpiePica pica
- WoodpigeonColumba palumbus
- CootFulica atra
- Black-headed GullChroicocephalus ridibundus
- RobinErithacus rubecula
- Tufted DuckAythya fuligula
- Grey HeronArdea cinerea
- MallardAnas platyrhynchos
- MoorhenGallinula chloropus
- Blue TitCyanistes caeruleus
- JayGarrulus glandarius
- Mute SwanCygnus olor
- WrenTroglodytes troglodytes
- KestrelFalco tinnunculus
- Canada GooseBranta canadensis
- Great TitParus major
- House SparrowPasser domesticus
- Great Spotted WoodpeckerDendrocopos major
- NuthatchSitta europaea
- Long-tailed TitAegithalos caudatus
- DunnockPrunella modularis
- GreenfinchChloris chloris
- Pied WagtailMotacilla alba
- Carrion CrowCorvus corone2025
- Herring GullLarus argentatus2025
- Little OwlAthene noctua
- GoldcrestRegulus regulus
- JackdawColoeus monedula
- Coal TitPeriparus ater
- Green WoodpeckerPicus viridis
- RedwingTurdus iliacus
- Collared DoveStreptopelia decaocto
- Rock DoveColumba livia2025
- Egyptian GooseAlopochen aegyptiaca2025
- CormorantPhalacrocorax carbo2025
- BlackbirdTurdus merula2025
Red Fox · Grey Squirrel · Brown Rat · Mole
- Red FoxVulpes vulpes
- Grey SquirrelSciurus carolinensis
- Brown RatRattus norvegicus2025
- MoleTalpa europaea2025
🐸Amphibians3 species
winter
2026▾
Common Toad · Common Frog · Smooth Newt
- Common ToadBufo bufo
- Common FrogRana temporaria
- Smooth NewtLissotriton vulgaris
Epistrophe eligans · Lesser Stag Beetle · Meliscaeva auricollis · Green Shieldbug · 7-spot Ladybird +17
- Epistrophe eligansEpistrophe eligans
- Lesser Stag BeetleDorcus parallelipipedus
- Meliscaeva auricollisMeliscaeva auricollis
- Green ShieldbugPalomena prasina
- 7-spot LadybirdCoccinella septempunctata
- Orange LadybirdHalyzia sedecimguttata
- Syrphus
Species observations from the last 10 years via NBN Atlas
Wildlife to spot
35,555 records · National Biodiversity Network🐦Birds37 species
springwinter
2026▾
Starling · Magpie · Woodpigeon · Coot · Black-headed Gull +32
- StarlingSturnus vulgaris
- MagpiePica pica
- WoodpigeonColumba palumbus
- CootFulica atra
- Black-headed GullChroicocephalus ridibundus
- RobinErithacus rubecula
- Tufted DuckAythya fuligula
- Grey HeronArdea cinerea
- MallardAnas platyrhynchos
- MoorhenGallinula chloropus
- Blue TitCyanistes caeruleus
- JayGarrulus glandarius
- Mute SwanCygnus olor
- WrenTroglodytes troglodytes
- KestrelFalco tinnunculus
- Canada GooseBranta canadensis
- Great TitParus major
- House SparrowPasser domesticus
- Great Spotted WoodpeckerDendrocopos major
- NuthatchSitta europaea
- Long-tailed TitAegithalos caudatus
- DunnockPrunella modularis
- GreenfinchChloris chloris
- Pied WagtailMotacilla alba
- Carrion CrowCorvus corone2025
- Herring GullLarus argentatus2025
- Little OwlAthene noctua
- GoldcrestRegulus regulus
- JackdawColoeus monedula
- Coal TitPeriparus ater
- Green WoodpeckerPicus viridis
- RedwingTurdus iliacus
- Collared DoveStreptopelia decaocto
- Rock DoveColumba livia2025
- Egyptian GooseAlopochen aegyptiaca2025
- CormorantPhalacrocorax carbo2025
- BlackbirdTurdus merula2025
Red Fox · Grey Squirrel · Brown Rat · Mole
- Red FoxVulpes vulpes
- Grey SquirrelSciurus carolinensis
- Brown RatRattus norvegicus2025
- MoleTalpa europaea2025
🐸Amphibians3 species
winter
2026▾
Common Toad · Common Frog · Smooth Newt
- Common ToadBufo bufo
- Common FrogRana temporaria
- Smooth NewtLissotriton vulgaris
Epistrophe eligans · Lesser Stag Beetle · Meliscaeva auricollis · Green Shieldbug · 7-spot Ladybird +17
- Epistrophe eligansEpistrophe eligans
- Lesser Stag BeetleDorcus parallelipipedus
- Meliscaeva auricollisMeliscaeva auricollis
- Green ShieldbugPalomena prasina
- 7-spot LadybirdCoccinella septempunctata
- Orange LadybirdHalyzia sedecimguttata
- Syrphus
Species observations from the last 10 years via NBN Atlas
Syrphus
Syrphus
Dark-edged Bee-flyBombylius majorDark-edged Bee-flyBombylius majorHarlequin LadybirdHarmonia axyridisHarlequin LadybirdHarmonia axyridisBishop's MitreAelia acuminataBishop's MitreAelia acuminataHairy-footed Flower BeeAnthophora plumipesHairy-footed Flower BeeAnthophora plumipes14-spot LadybirdPropylea quattuordecimpunctata14-spot LadybirdPropylea quattuordecimpunctataPhaoniaPhaoniaPhaoniaPhaoniaBaccha elongataBaccha elongataBaccha elongataBaccha elongataAcericerus heydeniiAcericerus heydeniiAcericerus heydeniiAcericerus heydeniiStenodema (Stenodema) laevigataStenodema (Stenodema) laevigataStenodema (Stenodema) laevigataStenodema (Stenodema) laevigataMacrosiphum (Macrosiphum) rosaeMacrosiphum (Macrosiphum) rosaeMacrosiphum (Macrosiphum) rosaeMacrosiphum (Macrosiphum) rosaeAbax parallelepipedusAbax parallelepipedusAbax parallelepipedusAbax parallelepipedusNebria brevicollisNebria brevicollisNebria brevicollisNebria brevicollisBlack ClockPterostichus madidusBlack ClockPterostichus madidusSuillia variegataSuillia variegataSuillia variegataSuillia variegataMarmalade HoverflyEpisyrphus balteatus2025Marmalade HoverflyEpisyrphus balteatus2025