Pear Wood - Broadleaved woodland
3 ha
Plan your visit
🦉Wildlife🦅Birds🌿Foraging
Free entryDogs welcome3 ha
Getting here
51.63829, -0.31050
Open directionsv
Visiting this summer
Seasonal nature notes and what to look for now
- ☀️June — canopy now fully closed, creating cool dappled shade even on warm days
- 🌿Foraging is at its best in summer here
- ☕Starbucks — a good base for a longer summer day out
🌤️ Visiting this summer
- ☀️June — canopy now fully closed, creating cool dappled shade even on warm days
- 🌿Foraging is at its best in summer here
- ☕Starbucks — a good base for a longer summer day out
- £Free to visit — no entry charge
- 🐕Dogs welcome
🚲Bike parking☕Café🅿️Parking
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 km28 signed routes nearby · 3 public paths nearby
Signed route nearbyPublic paths
Harrow Weald Common Nature TrailWalking route▾
Short walk. Orange waymarking
http://www.harrowncf.org/Harrow_Weald_Nature_Trail.pdf
Named routeLocal walking route
Celandine RouteWalking route▾
Named routeLocal walking route
LOOP link to Elstree & Borehamwood stationWalking route▾
Named routePoint-to-pointRegional walking route
Dollis Valley Greenwalk linkWalking route▾
Named routeRef DVGlinkLocal walking route
LOOP link to Stanmore UndergroundWalking route▾
Named routeRegional walking route
21 signed routes nearby
Signed route nearby
Shenley CircuitCycling route▾
Named routeRound tripLocal cycle route
LCN 45Cycling route▾
Named routeRef 45Local cycle route
Wembley to Harrow Weald CyclewayCycling route▾
Named routeRegional cycle route
LCN 89Cycling route▾
Named routeRef 89Local cycle route
LCN 89Cycling route▾
Named routeRef 89Local cycle route
Belmont TrailCycling route▾
Named routeLocal cycle route
Photos
A41 Watford Bypass, Elstree
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Wildlife to spot
23,701 records · National Biodiversity Network
Wildlife to spot
23,701 records · National Biodiversity NetworkRobin · Mute Swan · Woodpigeon · Jackdaw · Magpie +45
- RobinErithacus rubecula
- Mute SwanCygnus olor2025
- WoodpigeonColumba palumbus2025
- JackdawColoeus monedula2025
- MagpiePica pica2025
- Carrion CrowCorvus corone2025
- CootFulica atra2025
- Tufted DuckAythya fuligula2025
- Great Crested GrebePodiceps cristatus2025
- MallardAnas platyrhynchos2025
- Lesser Black-backed GullLarus fuscus2025
- Blue TitCyanistes caeruleus2025
- Canada GooseBranta canadensis2025
- GadwallMareca strepera2025
- Great Spotted WoodpeckerDendrocopos major2025
- Meadow PipitAnthus pratensis2025
- Little GrebeTachybaptus ruficollis2025
- Pied WagtailMotacilla alba2025
- JayGarrulus glandarius2025
- Grey HeronArdea cinerea2025
- MoorhenGallinula chloropus2025
- CormorantPhalacrocorax carbo2025
- Black-headed GullChroicocephalus ridibundus2025
- KestrelFalco tinnunculus
- NuthatchSitta europaea
- Green WoodpeckerPicus viridis
- Great TitParus major2025
- TealAnas crecca2025
- Herring GullLarus argentatus2025
- Pink-footed GooseAnser brachyrhynchus2025
- Egyptian GooseAlopochen aegyptiaca2025
- Little EgretEgretta garzetta2025
- WrenTroglodytes troglodytes2025
- Cetti's WarblerCettia cetti2025
- Mistle ThrushTurdus viscivorus2025
- TreecreeperCerthia familiaris2025
- Song ThrushTurdus philomelos2025
- LapwingVanellus vanellus2025
- DunnockPrunella modularis2025
- Common GullLarus canus2025
- Greylag GooseAnser anser2025
- BlackbirdTurdus merula2025
- GoldfinchCarduelis carduelis2025
- SnipeGallinago gallinago2025
- SwallowHirundo rustica2025
- ChiffchaffPhylloscopus collybita2025
- BlackcapSylvia atricapilla2025
- Grey WagtailMotacilla cinerea2025
- Common SandpiperActitis hypoleucos2025
- House MartinDelichon urbicum2025
🦌Mammals3 species
autumnwinter
2025▾
Red Fox · Grey Squirrel · Muntjac
- Red FoxVulpes vulpes
- Grey SquirrelSciurus carolinensis
- MuntjacMuntiacus reevesi
22-spot Ladybird · 7-spot Ladybird · Sigara (Pseudovermicorixa) nigrolineata · Common Earwig · Common Water-Boatman +38
- 22-spot LadybirdPsyllobora vigintiduopunctata2025
- 7-spot LadybirdCoccinella septempunctata2025
- Sigara (Pseudovermicorixa) nigrolineataSigara (Pseudovermicorixa) nigrolineata2025
- Common EarwigForficula auricularia/dentata agg.2025
- Common Water-BoatmanNotonecta (Notonecta) glauca2025
Species observations from the last 10 years via NBN Atlas
Wildlife to spot
23,701 records · National Biodiversity NetworkRobin · Mute Swan · Woodpigeon · Jackdaw · Magpie +45
- RobinErithacus rubecula
- Mute SwanCygnus olor2025
- WoodpigeonColumba palumbus2025
- JackdawColoeus monedula2025
- MagpiePica pica2025
- Carrion CrowCorvus corone2025
- CootFulica atra2025
- Tufted DuckAythya fuligula2025
- Great Crested GrebePodiceps cristatus2025
- MallardAnas platyrhynchos2025
- Lesser Black-backed GullLarus fuscus2025
- Blue TitCyanistes caeruleus2025
- Canada GooseBranta canadensis2025
- GadwallMareca strepera2025
- Great Spotted WoodpeckerDendrocopos major2025
- Meadow PipitAnthus pratensis2025
- Little GrebeTachybaptus ruficollis2025
- Pied WagtailMotacilla alba2025
- JayGarrulus glandarius2025
- Grey HeronArdea cinerea2025
- MoorhenGallinula chloropus2025
- CormorantPhalacrocorax carbo2025
- Black-headed GullChroicocephalus ridibundus2025
- KestrelFalco tinnunculus
- NuthatchSitta europaea
- Green WoodpeckerPicus viridis
- Great TitParus major2025
- TealAnas crecca2025
- Herring GullLarus argentatus2025
- Pink-footed GooseAnser brachyrhynchus2025
- Egyptian GooseAlopochen aegyptiaca2025
- Little EgretEgretta garzetta2025
- WrenTroglodytes troglodytes2025
- Cetti's WarblerCettia cetti2025
- Mistle ThrushTurdus viscivorus2025
- TreecreeperCerthia familiaris2025
- Song ThrushTurdus philomelos2025
- LapwingVanellus vanellus2025
- DunnockPrunella modularis2025
- Common GullLarus canus2025
- Greylag GooseAnser anser2025
- BlackbirdTurdus merula2025
- GoldfinchCarduelis carduelis2025
- SnipeGallinago gallinago2025
- SwallowHirundo rustica2025
- ChiffchaffPhylloscopus collybita2025
- BlackcapSylvia atricapilla2025
- Grey WagtailMotacilla cinerea2025
- Common SandpiperActitis hypoleucos2025
- House MartinDelichon urbicum2025
🦌Mammals3 species
autumnwinter
2025▾
Red Fox · Grey Squirrel · Muntjac
- Red FoxVulpes vulpes
- Grey SquirrelSciurus carolinensis
- MuntjacMuntiacus reevesi
22-spot Ladybird · 7-spot Ladybird · Sigara (Pseudovermicorixa) nigrolineata · Common Earwig · Common Water-Boatman +38
- 22-spot LadybirdPsyllobora vigintiduopunctata2025
- 7-spot LadybirdCoccinella septempunctata2025
- Sigara (Pseudovermicorixa) nigrolineataSigara (Pseudovermicorixa) nigrolineata2025
- Common EarwigForficula auricularia/dentata agg.2025
- Common Water-BoatmanNotonecta (Notonecta) glauca2025
Species observations from the last 10 years via NBN Atlas
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