Bullsnape Wood - Broadleaved woodland
1 ha
🐶Dogs🦉Wildlife🦅Birds
Public accessFree entryDogs welcome1 ha
Getting here
53.83815, -2.65656
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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
- 🐕Early mornings are best for dog walks in summer — visit before 9am to avoid the heat and find quieter trails
- 📍Open access throughout summer — no booking required
🌤️ Visiting this summer
- 🌞Midsummer — early morning visits most comfortable; look for deer fawns in quieter clearings
- 🐕Early mornings are best for dog walks in summer — visit before 9am to avoid the heat and find quieter trails
- 📍Open access throughout summer — no booking required
- £Free to visit — no entry charge
- 🐕Dogs welcome
Dogs allowed — public woodland
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
Trails nearby
Within roughly 5 km2 signed routes nearby · 8 public paths nearby
Signed route nearbyPublic paths
Ribble WayWalking route114 km▾
The Ribble Way follows the valley of the River Ribble from the mouth to the source near to the Pennine Way National Trail on Gayle Moor.
Named routeLength 114 kmRegional walking route
Preston Guild WheelWalking route▾
Relation for walking route. The Cycling relation is separately mapped as NCN 622
Named routeRound tripLocal walking route
32 signed routes nearby
Signed route nearby
Route 6Cycling route▾
Named routeRef 6National Cycle Network
Lancashire Cycleway (Northern Loop)Cycling route▾
Named routeRef 90Regional cycle route
NCN 622 Preston Guild WheelCycling route▾
Named routeRef 622National Cycle Network
Southern Loop to Great EcclestonCycling route▾
Named routeRef 7Local cycle route
The Trough of BowlandCycling route▾
Named routeRef 10Local cycle route
The Chipping RoundCycling route▾
Named routeRef 6Local cycle route
1 public path nearby
Public paths
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Wildlife to spot
4,429 records · National Biodiversity Network
Wildlife to spot
4,429 records · National Biodiversity Network🐦Birds44 species
winterspringsummer
2025▾
Starling · Blackbird · Black-headed Gull · Curlew · Carrion Crow +39
- StarlingSturnus vulgaris2024
- BlackbirdTurdus merula2024
- Black-headed GullChroicocephalus ridibundus2024
- CurlewNumenius arquata2024
- Carrion CrowCorvus corone2024
- Blue TitCyanistes caeruleus2024
- GreenfinchChloris chloris2024
- SwallowHirundo rustica2024
- Mistle ThrushTurdus viscivorus2024
- Herring GullLarus argentatus2024
- OystercatcherHaematopus ostralegus2024
- Greylag GooseAnser anser2024
- Song ThrushTurdus philomelos2024
- Anas platyrhynchos xAnas platyrhynchos x2023
- House MartinDelichon urbicum
- ChaffinchFringilla coelebs2024
- GoldfinchCarduelis carduelis2024
- WrenTroglodytes troglodytes2024
- RobinErithacus rubecula2024
- WoodpigeonColumba palumbus2024
- Lesser Black-backed GullLarus fuscus2024
- House SparrowPasser domesticus2024
- MagpiePica pica2024
- LapwingVanellus vanellus2024
- Tawny OwlStrix aluco2021
- FieldfareTurdus pilaris2014
- ChiffchaffPhylloscopus collybita2024
- Rock DoveColumba livia2024
- Collared DoveStreptopelia decaocto2024
- ShelduckTadorna tadorna2024
- Pied WagtailMotacilla alba2024
- Willow WarblerPhylloscopus trochilus2024
- Great TitParus major2024
- JayGarrulus glandarius2024
- PheasantPhasianus colchicus2024
- BlackcapSylvia atricapilla2024
- MallardAnas platyrhynchos2024
- MoorhenGallinula chloropus2024
- Long-tailed TitAegithalos caudatus2023
- NuthatchSitta europaea2023
- JackdawColoeus monedula2023
- Barn OwlTyto alba2021
- KestrelFalco tinnunculus2021
- RedwingTurdus iliacus2014
Common Pipistrelle · Brown Hare · Hedgehog · Roe Deer · Rabbit +7
- Common PipistrellePipistrellus pipistrellus2021
- Brown HareLepus europaeus
- HedgehogErinaceus europaeus2017
- Roe DeerCapreolus capreolus2021
- RabbitOryctolagus cuniculus2021
- Red FoxVulpes vulpes
🐸Amphibians1 species
spring
2023▾
Common Frog
- Common FrogRana temporaria
Harlequin Ladybird · Small Tortoiseshell · Peacock · Comma · Large White +43
- Harlequin LadybirdHarmonia axyridis2018
- Small TortoiseshellAglais urticae2018
- PeacockAglais io2018
- CommaPolygonia c-album2018
- Large WhitePieris brassicae2018
- Meadow BrownManiola jurtina
🌿Plants6 species
springsummer
2025▾
Horse-chestnut · Bluebell · Tutsan · Blackthorn · Silver Birch +1
- Horse-chestnutAesculus hippocastanum2024
- BluebellHyacinthoides non-scripta2017
- TutsanHypericum androsaemum
- BlackthornPrunus spinosa2023
- Silver BirchBetula pendula2019
- Hyacinthoides
Species observations from the last 10 years via NBN Atlas
Wildlife to spot
4,429 records · National Biodiversity Network🐦Birds44 species
winterspringsummer
2025▾
Starling · Blackbird · Black-headed Gull · Curlew · Carrion Crow +39
- StarlingSturnus vulgaris2024
- BlackbirdTurdus merula2024
- Black-headed GullChroicocephalus ridibundus2024
- CurlewNumenius arquata2024
- Carrion CrowCorvus corone2024
- Blue TitCyanistes caeruleus2024
- GreenfinchChloris chloris2024
- SwallowHirundo rustica2024
- Mistle ThrushTurdus viscivorus2024
- Herring GullLarus argentatus2024
- OystercatcherHaematopus ostralegus2024
- Greylag GooseAnser anser2024
- Song ThrushTurdus philomelos2024
- Anas platyrhynchos xAnas platyrhynchos x2023
- House MartinDelichon urbicum
- ChaffinchFringilla coelebs2024
- GoldfinchCarduelis carduelis2024
- WrenTroglodytes troglodytes2024
- RobinErithacus rubecula2024
- WoodpigeonColumba palumbus2024
- Lesser Black-backed GullLarus fuscus2024
- House SparrowPasser domesticus2024
- MagpiePica pica2024
- LapwingVanellus vanellus2024
- Tawny OwlStrix aluco2021
- FieldfareTurdus pilaris2014
- ChiffchaffPhylloscopus collybita2024
- Rock DoveColumba livia2024
- Collared DoveStreptopelia decaocto2024
- ShelduckTadorna tadorna2024
- Pied WagtailMotacilla alba2024
- Willow WarblerPhylloscopus trochilus2024
- Great TitParus major2024
- JayGarrulus glandarius2024
- PheasantPhasianus colchicus2024
- BlackcapSylvia atricapilla2024
- MallardAnas platyrhynchos2024
- MoorhenGallinula chloropus2024
- Long-tailed TitAegithalos caudatus2023
- NuthatchSitta europaea2023
- JackdawColoeus monedula2023
- Barn OwlTyto alba2021
- KestrelFalco tinnunculus2021
- RedwingTurdus iliacus2014
Common Pipistrelle · Brown Hare · Hedgehog · Roe Deer · Rabbit +7
- Common PipistrellePipistrellus pipistrellus2021
- Brown HareLepus europaeus
- HedgehogErinaceus europaeus2017
- Roe DeerCapreolus capreolus2021
- RabbitOryctolagus cuniculus2021
- Red FoxVulpes vulpes
🐸Amphibians1 species
spring
2023▾
Common Frog
- Common FrogRana temporaria
Harlequin Ladybird · Small Tortoiseshell · Peacock · Comma · Large White +43
- Harlequin LadybirdHarmonia axyridis2018
- Small TortoiseshellAglais urticae2018
- PeacockAglais io2018
- CommaPolygonia c-album2018
- Large WhitePieris brassicae2018
- Meadow BrownManiola jurtina
🌿Plants6 species
springsummer
2025▾
Horse-chestnut · Bluebell · Tutsan · Blackthorn · Silver Birch +1
- Horse-chestnutAesculus hippocastanum2024
- BluebellHyacinthoides non-scripta2017
- TutsanHypericum androsaemum
- BlackthornPrunus spinosa2023
- Silver BirchBetula pendula2019
- Hyacinthoides
Species observations from the last 10 years via NBN Atlas
2021
2021
Pipistrelle Bat speciesPipistrellus2021Pipistrelle Bat speciesPipistrellus2021PipistrellePipistrellus pipistrellus2021PipistrellePipistrellus pipistrellus2021Natterer's BatMyotis nattereri2021Natterer's BatMyotis nattereri2021Soprano PipistrellePipistrellus pygmaeus2021Soprano PipistrellePipistrellus pygmaeus2021NoctuleNyctalus noctula2018NoctuleNyctalus noctula2018BadgerMeles meles2018BadgerMeles meles20182018
2018
Green-veined WhitePieris napi2018Green-veined WhitePieris napi2018Painted LadyVanessa cardui2018Painted LadyVanessa cardui2018Red AdmiralVanessa atalanta2018Red AdmiralVanessa atalanta2018Speckled WoodPararge aegeria2017Speckled WoodPararge aegeria2017Fork-tailed Flower BeeAnthophora furcataFork-tailed Flower BeeAnthophora furcataGreater Horntail WaspUrocerus gigasGreater Horntail WaspUrocerus gigas2-spot LadybirdAdalia bipunctata20182-spot LadybirdAdalia bipunctata2018GatekeeperPyronia tithonus2018GatekeeperPyronia tithonus2018Small CopperLycaena phlaeas2018Small CopperLycaena phlaeas2018Small WhitePieris rapae2018Small WhitePieris rapae2018Southern HawkerAeshna cyanea2017Southern HawkerAeshna cyanea2017Emperor DragonflyAnax imperator2017Emperor DragonflyAnax imperator2017Lily BeetleLilioceris lilii2017Lily BeetleLilioceris lilii2017Common White WaveCabera pusaria2016Common White WaveCabera pusaria2016Buff ErmineSpilosoma lutea2016Buff ErmineSpilosoma lutea2016RivuletPerizoma affinitata2016RivuletPerizoma affinitata2016Dark SpectacleAbrostola triplasia2016Dark SpectacleAbrostola triplasia2016Flame CarpetXanthorhoe designata2016Flame CarpetXanthorhoe designata2016Marbled MinorOligia strigilis2016Marbled MinorOligia strigilis2016Clouded SilverLomographa temerata2016Clouded SilverLomographa temerata2016Silver-ground CarpetXanthorhoe montanata2016Silver-ground CarpetXanthorhoe montanata2016Mottled RusticCaradrina morpheus2016Mottled RusticCaradrina morpheus2016Dark ArchesApamea monoglypha2016Dark ArchesApamea monoglypha2016Brimstone MothOpisthograptis luteolata2016Brimstone MothOpisthograptis luteolata2016FlameAxylia putris2016FlameAxylia putris2016May HighflyerHydriomena impluviata2016May HighflyerHydriomena impluviata2016Small Angle ShadesEuplexia lucipara2016Small Angle ShadesEuplexia lucipara2016Flame ShoulderOchropleura plecta2016Flame ShoulderOchropleura plecta2016Elephant Hawk-mothDeilephila elpenor2016Elephant Hawk-mothDeilephila elpenor2016Heart & DartAgrotis exclamationis2016Heart & DartAgrotis exclamationis2016Ingrailed ClayDiarsia mendica2016Ingrailed ClayDiarsia mendica2016Middle-barred MinorOligia fasciuncula2016Middle-barred MinorOligia fasciuncula2016Green ArchesAnaplectoides prasina2016Green ArchesAnaplectoides prasina2016Large Yellow UnderwingNoctua pronuba2016Large Yellow UnderwingNoctua pronuba2016White ErmineSpilosoma lubricipeda2016White ErmineSpilosoma lubricipeda2016SnoutHypena proboscidalis2016SnoutHypena proboscidalis2016Swallow ProminentPheosia tremula2016Swallow ProminentPheosia tremula2016Beautiful Golden YAutographa pulchrina2016Beautiful Golden YAutographa pulchrina2016Common CarpetEpirrhoe alternata2016Common CarpetEpirrhoe alternata2016Small Clouded BrindleApamea unanimis2016Small Clouded BrindleApamea unanimis2016Poplar Hawk-mothLaothoe populi2016Poplar Hawk-mothLaothoe populi2016Clouded-bordered BrindleApamea crenata2016Clouded-bordered BrindleApamea crenata2016Hyacinthoides2017
Hyacinthoides2017
