Bullsnape Wood - Broadleaved woodland
2 ha
🐶Dogs🦉Wildlife🦅Birds
Public accessFree entryDogs welcome2 ha
Getting here
53.83766, -2.66103
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
- 🐕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 · 7 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
39 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
NCN 622 (Steep gradient route)Cycling route▾
Named routeRef 622National Cycle Network
2 public paths nearby
Public paths
No named routes yet. Public paths are shown on the map.
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Wildlife to spot
6,016 records · National Biodiversity Network
Wildlife to spot
6,016 records · National Biodiversity Network🐦Birds48 species
springsummer
2025▾
Carrion Crow · Greenfinch · Woodpigeon · Blue Tit · Starling +43
- Carrion CrowCorvus corone
- GreenfinchChloris chloris
- WoodpigeonColumba palumbus
- Blue TitCyanistes caeruleus2024
- StarlingSturnus vulgaris2024
- JackdawColoeus monedula
- Great TitParus major
- ChaffinchFringilla coelebs2024
- Black-headed GullChroicocephalus ridibundus2024
- GoldfinchCarduelis carduelis2024
- WrenTroglodytes troglodytes2024
- OystercatcherHaematopus ostralegus2024
- BlackbirdTurdus merula2024
- Greylag GooseAnser anser2024
- Anas platyrhynchos xAnas platyrhynchos x2023
- ChiffchaffPhylloscopus collybita
- NuthatchSitta europaea
- SwallowHirundo rustica2024
- CurlewNumenius arquata2024
- Herring GullLarus argentatus2024
- Collared DoveStreptopelia decaocto2024
- RobinErithacus rubecula2024
- Lesser Black-backed GullLarus fuscus2024
- House SparrowPasser domesticus2024
- MagpiePica pica2024
- LapwingVanellus vanellus2024
- Tawny OwlStrix aluco2021
- House MartinDelichon urbicum
- Coal TitPeriparus ater
- Rock DoveColumba livia2024
- Mistle ThrushTurdus viscivorus2024
- ShelduckTadorna tadorna2024
- Pied WagtailMotacilla alba2024
- Willow WarblerPhylloscopus trochilus2024
- JayGarrulus glandarius2024
- PheasantPhasianus colchicus2024
- BlackcapSylvia atricapilla2024
- Song ThrushTurdus philomelos2024
- MallardAnas platyrhynchos2024
- MoorhenGallinula chloropus2024
- GoldcrestRegulus regulus2024
- Passer domesticus domesticusPasser domesticus domesticus2024
- Great Spotted WoodpeckerDendrocopos major2024
- SiskinSpinus spinus2024
- BramblingFringilla montifringilla2024
- Long-tailed TitAegithalos caudatus2023
- Barn OwlTyto alba2021
- KestrelFalco tinnunculus2021
Grey Squirrel · Common Pipistrelle · Brown Hare · Pygmy Shrew · Roe Deer +9
- Grey SquirrelSciurus carolinensis2019
- Common PipistrellePipistrellus pipistrellus2021
- Brown HareLepus europaeus
- Pygmy ShrewSorex minutus2019
- Roe DeerCapreolus capreolus2021
- OtterLutra lutra
🐸Amphibians1 species
spring
2023▾
Common Frog
- Common FrogRana temporaria
Large White · Small Tortoiseshell · Small White · Painted Lady · Red Admiral +14
- Large WhitePieris brassicae2019
- Small TortoiseshellAglais urticae2019
- Small WhitePieris rapae2019
- Painted LadyVanessa cardui2019
- Red AdmiralVanessa atalanta2019
- PeacockAglais io
🌿Plants5 species
springsummer
2025▾
Horse-chestnut · Tutsan · Blackthorn · Early Dog-violet · Silver Birch
- Horse-chestnutAesculus hippocastanum2024
- TutsanHypericum androsaemum
- BlackthornPrunus spinosa2023
- Early Dog-violetViola reichenbachiana2020
- Silver BirchBetula pendula2019
Species observations from the last 10 years via NBN Atlas
Wildlife to spot
6,016 records · National Biodiversity Network🐦Birds48 species
springsummer
2025▾
Carrion Crow · Greenfinch · Woodpigeon · Blue Tit · Starling +43
- Carrion CrowCorvus corone
- GreenfinchChloris chloris
- WoodpigeonColumba palumbus
- Blue TitCyanistes caeruleus2024
- StarlingSturnus vulgaris2024
- JackdawColoeus monedula
- Great TitParus major
- ChaffinchFringilla coelebs2024
- Black-headed GullChroicocephalus ridibundus2024
- GoldfinchCarduelis carduelis2024
- WrenTroglodytes troglodytes2024
- OystercatcherHaematopus ostralegus2024
- BlackbirdTurdus merula2024
- Greylag GooseAnser anser2024
- Anas platyrhynchos xAnas platyrhynchos x2023
- ChiffchaffPhylloscopus collybita
- NuthatchSitta europaea
- SwallowHirundo rustica2024
- CurlewNumenius arquata2024
- Herring GullLarus argentatus2024
- Collared DoveStreptopelia decaocto2024
- RobinErithacus rubecula2024
- Lesser Black-backed GullLarus fuscus2024
- House SparrowPasser domesticus2024
- MagpiePica pica2024
- LapwingVanellus vanellus2024
- Tawny OwlStrix aluco2021
- House MartinDelichon urbicum
- Coal TitPeriparus ater
- Rock DoveColumba livia2024
- Mistle ThrushTurdus viscivorus2024
- ShelduckTadorna tadorna2024
- Pied WagtailMotacilla alba2024
- Willow WarblerPhylloscopus trochilus2024
- JayGarrulus glandarius2024
- PheasantPhasianus colchicus2024
- BlackcapSylvia atricapilla2024
- Song ThrushTurdus philomelos2024
- MallardAnas platyrhynchos2024
- MoorhenGallinula chloropus2024
- GoldcrestRegulus regulus2024
- Passer domesticus domesticusPasser domesticus domesticus2024
- Great Spotted WoodpeckerDendrocopos major2024
- SiskinSpinus spinus2024
- BramblingFringilla montifringilla2024
- Long-tailed TitAegithalos caudatus2023
- Barn OwlTyto alba2021
- KestrelFalco tinnunculus2021
Grey Squirrel · Common Pipistrelle · Brown Hare · Pygmy Shrew · Roe Deer +9
- Grey SquirrelSciurus carolinensis2019
- Common PipistrellePipistrellus pipistrellus2021
- Brown HareLepus europaeus
- Pygmy ShrewSorex minutus2019
- Roe DeerCapreolus capreolus2021
- OtterLutra lutra
🐸Amphibians1 species
spring
2023▾
Common Frog
- Common FrogRana temporaria
Large White · Small Tortoiseshell · Small White · Painted Lady · Red Admiral +14
- Large WhitePieris brassicae2019
- Small TortoiseshellAglais urticae2019
- Small WhitePieris rapae2019
- Painted LadyVanessa cardui2019
- Red AdmiralVanessa atalanta2019
- PeacockAglais io
🌿Plants5 species
springsummer
2025▾
Horse-chestnut · Tutsan · Blackthorn · Early Dog-violet · Silver Birch
- Horse-chestnutAesculus hippocastanum2024
- TutsanHypericum androsaemum
- BlackthornPrunus spinosa2023
- Early Dog-violetViola reichenbachiana2020
- Silver BirchBetula pendula2019
Species observations from the last 10 years via NBN Atlas
2022
2022
RabbitOryctolagus cuniculus2021RabbitOryctolagus cuniculus2021Red FoxVulpes vulpes2021Red FoxVulpes vulpes2021Pipistrelle Bat speciesPipistrellus2021Pipistrelle Bat speciesPipistrellus2021PipistrellePipistrellus pipistrellus2021PipistrellePipistrellus pipistrellus2021Natterer's BatMyotis nattereri2021Natterer's BatMyotis nattereri2021Soprano PipistrellePipistrellus pygmaeus2021Soprano PipistrellePipistrellus pygmaeus2021HedgehogErinaceus europaeus2020HedgehogErinaceus europaeus2020NoctuleNyctalus noctula2018NoctuleNyctalus noctula20182019
2019
Speckled WoodPararge aegeria2019Speckled WoodPararge aegeria2019Small CopperLycaena phlaeas2019Small CopperLycaena phlaeas2019CommaPolygonia c-album2018CommaPolygonia c-album2018Green-veined WhitePieris napi2019Green-veined WhitePieris napi2019Meadow BrownManiola jurtina2019Meadow BrownManiola jurtina2019GatekeeperPyronia tithonus2019GatekeeperPyronia tithonus2019Cuckoo-Spit InsectPhilaenus spumarius2019Cuckoo-Spit InsectPhilaenus spumarius2019Brown HawkerAeshna grandisBrown HawkerAeshna grandisFork-tailed Flower BeeAnthophora furcata2020Fork-tailed Flower BeeAnthophora furcata2020Greater Horntail WaspUrocerus gigas2020Greater Horntail WaspUrocerus gigas20202-spot LadybirdAdalia bipunctata20182-spot LadybirdAdalia bipunctata2018Harlequin LadybirdHarmonia axyridis2018Harlequin LadybirdHarmonia axyridis2018Large SkipperOchlodes sylvanus2018Large SkipperOchlodes sylvanus2018