Ash Plantation - Broadleaved woodland
1 ha
Plan your visit
🦉Wildlife🦅Birds🌿Foraging
Free entryDogs welcome1 ha
Getting here
51.59519, 0.05916
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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
🚲Bike parking🅿️Parking· 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
🌲Forest walks
Moderate match
Public woodland
Free
Trails nearby
Within roughly 5 km10 signed routes nearby
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London LOOP (Section 18)Walking route▾
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London LOOP (Section 20)Walking route▾
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LCN 12Cycling route▾
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Wildlife to spot
9,965 records · National Biodiversity Network
Wildlife to spot
9,965 records · National Biodiversity Network🐦Birds28 species
winterspringautumn
2025▾
Woodpigeon · Carrion Crow · Magpie · Rock Dove · Black-headed Gull +23
- WoodpigeonColumba palumbus
- Carrion CrowCorvus corone
- MagpiePica pica
- Rock DoveColumba livia
- Black-headed GullChroicocephalus ridibundus
- JackdawColoeus monedula
- JayGarrulus glandarius2024
- WrenTroglodytes troglodytes2024
- RobinErithacus rubecula2023
- Lesser Black-backed GullLarus fuscus
- Canada GooseBranta canadensis
- Great TitParus major2024
- Great Spotted WoodpeckerDendrocopos major2023
- MallardAnas platyrhynchos
- Collared DoveStreptopelia decaocto
- Common GullLarus canus2024
- Grey HeronArdea cinerea2024
- Blue TitCyanistes caeruleus2024
- House SparrowPasser domesticus2024
- Little OwlAthene noctua2024
- Little EgretEgretta garzetta2024
- SwiftApus apus2023
- BlackcapSylvia atricapilla2023
- BlackbirdTurdus merula2023
- CormorantPhalacrocorax carbo2023
- LapwingVanellus vanellus2023
- Green SandpiperTringa ochropus2023
- KingfisherAlcedo atthis2022
Muntjac · Hedgehog · Red Fox · Indet. Deer
- MuntjacMuntiacus reevesi
- HedgehogErinaceus europaeus2023
- Red FoxVulpes vulpes2022
- Indet. DeerCervidae2022
Slow-worm
🐸Amphibians1 species
spring
2023▾
Common Toad
🐝Insects60 species
springsummer
2025▾
Stag Beetle · Southern Green Shieldbug · Green Shieldbug · Dark Bush-cricket · Eristalis pertinax +55
- Stag BeetleLucanus cervus
- Southern Green ShieldbugNezara viridula
- Green ShieldbugPalomena prasina
- Dark Bush-cricketPholidoptera griseoaptera
- Eristalis pertinaxEristalis pertinax2024
- Banded DemoiselleCalopteryx splendens
Purple-loosestrife
- Purple-loosestrifeLythrum salicaria
Species observations from the last 10 years via NBN Atlas
Wildlife to spot
9,965 records · National Biodiversity Network🐦Birds28 species
winterspringautumn
2025▾
Woodpigeon · Carrion Crow · Magpie · Rock Dove · Black-headed Gull +23
- WoodpigeonColumba palumbus
- Carrion CrowCorvus corone
- MagpiePica pica
- Rock DoveColumba livia
- Black-headed GullChroicocephalus ridibundus
- JackdawColoeus monedula
- JayGarrulus glandarius2024
- WrenTroglodytes troglodytes2024
- RobinErithacus rubecula2023
- Lesser Black-backed GullLarus fuscus
- Canada GooseBranta canadensis
- Great TitParus major2024
- Great Spotted WoodpeckerDendrocopos major2023
- MallardAnas platyrhynchos
- Collared DoveStreptopelia decaocto
- Common GullLarus canus2024
- Grey HeronArdea cinerea2024
- Blue TitCyanistes caeruleus2024
- House SparrowPasser domesticus2024
- Little OwlAthene noctua2024
- Little EgretEgretta garzetta2024
- SwiftApus apus2023
- BlackcapSylvia atricapilla2023
- BlackbirdTurdus merula2023
- CormorantPhalacrocorax carbo2023
- LapwingVanellus vanellus2023
- Green SandpiperTringa ochropus2023
- KingfisherAlcedo atthis2022
Muntjac · Hedgehog · Red Fox · Indet. Deer
- MuntjacMuntiacus reevesi
- HedgehogErinaceus europaeus2023
- Red FoxVulpes vulpes2022
- Indet. DeerCervidae2022
Slow-worm
🐸Amphibians1 species
spring
2023▾
Common Toad
🐝Insects60 species
springsummer
2025▾
Stag Beetle · Southern Green Shieldbug · Green Shieldbug · Dark Bush-cricket · Eristalis pertinax +55
- Stag BeetleLucanus cervus
- Southern Green ShieldbugNezara viridula
- Green ShieldbugPalomena prasina
- Dark Bush-cricketPholidoptera griseoaptera
- Eristalis pertinaxEristalis pertinax2024
- Banded DemoiselleCalopteryx splendens
Purple-loosestrife
- Purple-loosestrifeLythrum salicaria
Species observations from the last 10 years via NBN Atlas
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