Broadleaved woodland near Garston
1 ha
🦉Wildlife🦅Birds🌿Foraging
Free entryDogs welcome1 ha
Getting here
53.35365, -2.88732
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
- ☕Café on site — a good base for a longer summer day out
🌤️ Visiting this summer
- 🌞Midsummer — early morning visits most comfortable; look for deer fawns in quieter clearings
- 🌿Foraging is at its best in summer here
- ☕Café on site — 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 km5 signed routes nearby
Signed route nearby
Trans-Pennine Trail (Southport to Liverpool)Walking route▾
Named routeRegional walking route
Wirral Circular TrailWalking route60 km▾
Named routeRef WCTLength 60 kmRegional walking route
Trans-Pennine Trail (Liverpool to Warrington)Walking route▾
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Mersey WayWalking route▾
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Allerton Country WalkWalking route▾
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112 signed routes nearby
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University Cycle RouteCycling route▾
Named routeRef 1Local cycle route
Woolton & WavertreeCycling route▾
Named routeRef WooltonLocal cycle route
City Centre - OtterspoolCycling route▾
Named routeRef OtterspoolLocal cycle route
Route 56Cycling route▾
Named routeRef 56National Cycle Network
Route 56Cycling route▾
Named routeRef 56National Cycle Network
Liverpool Loop LineCycling route▾
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Wildlife to spot
26,596 records · National Biodiversity Network
Wildlife to spot
26,596 records · National Biodiversity NetworkWoodpigeon · Magpie · Blackbird · Robin · Blue Tit +18
- WoodpigeonColumba palumbus2025
- MagpiePica pica
- BlackbirdTurdus merula
- RobinErithacus rubecula
- Blue TitCyanistes caeruleus
- Collared DoveStreptopelia decaocto2025
- Great TitParus major
- Black-headed GullChroicocephalus ridibundus2025
- WrenTroglodytes troglodytes2025
- Herring GullLarus argentatus2025
- Song ThrushTurdus philomelos2025
- Pied WagtailMotacilla alba2025
- GoldfinchCarduelis carduelis2025
- MoorhenGallinula chloropus
- NuthatchSitta europaea
- KestrelFalco tinnunculus
- ShelduckTadorna tadorna
- Rock DoveColumba livia2025
- ChaffinchFringilla coelebs2025
- House SparrowPasser domesticus2025
- DunnockPrunella modularis2025
- Coal TitPeriparus ater2025
- JayGarrulus glandarius2025
Red Fox · Harvest Mouse · Field Vole · Brown Rat
- Red FoxVulpes vulpes
- Harvest MouseMicromys minutus
- Field VoleMicrotus agrestis
- Brown RatRattus norvegicus2025
🐸Amphibians1 species
spring
2026▾
Common Toad
Wood Avens · Common Nettle · Himalayan Balsam · Ivy · Hogweed +48
- Wood AvensGeum urbanum
- Common NettleUrtica dioica
- Himalayan BalsamImpatiens glandulifera
- IvyHedera helix
- HogweedHeracleum sphondylium
- CleaversGalium aparine
- Lesser CelandineFicaria verna
Species observations from the last 10 years via NBN Atlas
Wildlife to spot
26,596 records · National Biodiversity NetworkWoodpigeon · Magpie · Blackbird · Robin · Blue Tit +18
- WoodpigeonColumba palumbus2025
- MagpiePica pica
- BlackbirdTurdus merula
- RobinErithacus rubecula
- Blue TitCyanistes caeruleus
- Collared DoveStreptopelia decaocto2025
- Great TitParus major
- Black-headed GullChroicocephalus ridibundus2025
- WrenTroglodytes troglodytes2025
- Herring GullLarus argentatus2025
- Song ThrushTurdus philomelos2025
- Pied WagtailMotacilla alba2025
- GoldfinchCarduelis carduelis2025
- MoorhenGallinula chloropus
- NuthatchSitta europaea
- KestrelFalco tinnunculus
- ShelduckTadorna tadorna
- Rock DoveColumba livia2025
- ChaffinchFringilla coelebs2025
- House SparrowPasser domesticus2025
- DunnockPrunella modularis2025
- Coal TitPeriparus ater2025
- JayGarrulus glandarius2025
Red Fox · Harvest Mouse · Field Vole · Brown Rat
- Red FoxVulpes vulpes
- Harvest MouseMicromys minutus
- Field VoleMicrotus agrestis
- Brown RatRattus norvegicus2025
🐸Amphibians1 species
spring
2026▾
Common Toad
Wood Avens · Common Nettle · Himalayan Balsam · Ivy · Hogweed +48
- Wood AvensGeum urbanum
- Common NettleUrtica dioica
- Himalayan BalsamImpatiens glandulifera
- IvyHedera helix
- HogweedHeracleum sphondylium
- CleaversGalium aparine
- Lesser CelandineFicaria verna
Species observations from the last 10 years via NBN Atlas
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