Moyra Plantation - Broadleaved woodland
3 ha
🐶Dogs🦉Wildlife🦅Birds
Public accessFree entryDogs welcome3 ha
Getting here
53.01214, -1.14708
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Visiting this summer
Seasonal nature notes and what to look for now
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- 🌞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
- 🅿️Parking 97m away — 10 car parks within reach, toilets nearby
🌤️ 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
- 🅿️Parking 97m away — 10 car parks within reach, toilets nearby
- £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
🛝Family friendly
Good match
toilets
Free
Deciduous woodland — fungi, berries and wild garlic
Varies
Trails nearby
Within roughly 5 km3 signed routes nearby · 3 public paths nearby
Signed route nearbyPublic paths
Broxtowe Country TrailWalking route▾
Robin Hood WayWalking route▾
Named routeRegional walking route
Hucknall Road WalkwayWalking route▾
68 signed routes nearby
Signed route nearby
NTU City Campus to New Basford Avoiding Tram LinesCycling route▾
Named routeRef NTU - New BasfordLocal cycle route
Broxtowe Country TrailCycling route▾
Named routeRegional cycle route
River LeenCycling route▾
Named routeRegional cycle route
Gedling <> ArnoldCycling route▾
Named routeLocal cycle route
Gedling Village <> Burton JoyceCycling route▾
Named routeLocal cycle route
Gedling <> MapperleyCycling route▾
Named routeLocal cycle route
1 public path nearby
Public paths
Thornton Avenuebridleway · 247 m▾
Public pathbridlewayLength 247 mPath type: bridleway
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Wildlife to spot
20,840 records · National Biodiversity Network
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Wildlife to spot
20,840 records · National Biodiversity NetworkWoodpigeon · Robin · Chaffinch · Blue Tit · Greenfinch +31
- WoodpigeonColumba palumbus2025
- RobinErithacus rubecula2025
- ChaffinchFringilla coelebs2025
- Blue TitCyanistes caeruleus2025
- GreenfinchChloris chloris2025
- GoldfinchCarduelis carduelis2025
- Carrion CrowCorvus corone2025
- Green WoodpeckerPicus viridis2025
- JayGarrulus glandarius2025
- Long-tailed TitAegithalos caudatus2025
- PheasantPhasianus colchicus2025
- GoldcrestRegulus regulus2025
- BlackbirdTurdus merula2025
- MagpiePica pica2025
- Grey PartridgePerdix perdix2025
- SwallowHirundo rustica2025
- WoodcockScolopax rusticola
- House SparrowPasser domesticus2025
- DunnockPrunella modularis2025
- Great TitParus major2025
- Black-headed GullChroicocephalus ridibundus2025
- WrenTroglodytes troglodytes2025
- JackdawColoeus monedula2025
- Pied WagtailMotacilla alba yarrellii2025
- LapwingVanellus vanellus2025
- NuthatchSitta europaea2025
- StarlingSturnus vulgaris2025
- RedwingTurdus iliacus2025
- Song ThrushTurdus philomelos2025
- Common GullLarus canus2025
- CormorantPhalacrocorax carbo2025
- Greylag GooseAnser anser2025
- Mute SwanCygnus olor2025
- Tawny OwlStrix aluco2025
- Spotted FlycatcherMuscicapa striata2025
- MallardAnas platyrhynchos2025
🦌Mammals2 species
summerautumn
2025▾
Hedgehog · Mouse
- HedgehogErinaceus europaeus
- MouseMus
🐸Amphibians2 species
spring
2026▾
Common Frog · Great Crested Newt
- Common FrogRana temporaria
- Great Crested NewtTriturus cristatus
Harlequin Ladybird · Orange Ladybird · Red-legged Shieldbug · Syrphus · a weevil +82
- Harlequin LadybirdHarmonia axyridis
- Orange LadybirdHalyzia sedecimguttata2025
- Red-legged ShieldbugPentatoma rufipes2025
- SyrphusSyrphus2025
- a weevilCurculionidae2025
- Birch ShieldbugElasmostethus interstinctus
🌿Plants8 species
summerautumn
2025▾
Wych Elm · Turkey Oak · Hazel · Sneezewort · Yellow Loosestrife +3
- Wych ElmUlmus glabra
- Turkey OakQuercus cerris
- HazelCorylus avellana
- SneezewortAchillea ptarmica
- Yellow LoosestrifeLysimachia vulgaris
- Pale GalingaleCyperus eragrostis
- Common Toadflax
Species observations from the last 10 years via NBN Atlas
Wildlife to spot
20,840 records · National Biodiversity NetworkWoodpigeon · Robin · Chaffinch · Blue Tit · Greenfinch +31
- WoodpigeonColumba palumbus2025
- RobinErithacus rubecula2025
- ChaffinchFringilla coelebs2025
- Blue TitCyanistes caeruleus2025
- GreenfinchChloris chloris2025
- GoldfinchCarduelis carduelis2025
- Carrion CrowCorvus corone2025
- Green WoodpeckerPicus viridis2025
- JayGarrulus glandarius2025
- Long-tailed TitAegithalos caudatus2025
- PheasantPhasianus colchicus2025
- GoldcrestRegulus regulus2025
- BlackbirdTurdus merula2025
- MagpiePica pica2025
- Grey PartridgePerdix perdix2025
- SwallowHirundo rustica2025
- WoodcockScolopax rusticola
- House SparrowPasser domesticus2025
- DunnockPrunella modularis2025
- Great TitParus major2025
- Black-headed GullChroicocephalus ridibundus2025
- WrenTroglodytes troglodytes2025
- JackdawColoeus monedula2025
- Pied WagtailMotacilla alba yarrellii2025
- LapwingVanellus vanellus2025
- NuthatchSitta europaea2025
- StarlingSturnus vulgaris2025
- RedwingTurdus iliacus2025
- Song ThrushTurdus philomelos2025
- Common GullLarus canus2025
- CormorantPhalacrocorax carbo2025
- Greylag GooseAnser anser2025
- Mute SwanCygnus olor2025
- Tawny OwlStrix aluco2025
- Spotted FlycatcherMuscicapa striata2025
- MallardAnas platyrhynchos2025
🦌Mammals2 species
summerautumn
2025▾
Hedgehog · Mouse
- HedgehogErinaceus europaeus
- MouseMus
🐸Amphibians2 species
spring
2026▾
Common Frog · Great Crested Newt
- Common FrogRana temporaria
- Great Crested NewtTriturus cristatus
Harlequin Ladybird · Orange Ladybird · Red-legged Shieldbug · Syrphus · a weevil +82
- Harlequin LadybirdHarmonia axyridis
- Orange LadybirdHalyzia sedecimguttata2025
- Red-legged ShieldbugPentatoma rufipes2025
- SyrphusSyrphus2025
- a weevilCurculionidae2025
- Birch ShieldbugElasmostethus interstinctus
🌿Plants8 species
summerautumn
2025▾
Wych Elm · Turkey Oak · Hazel · Sneezewort · Yellow Loosestrife +3
- Wych ElmUlmus glabra
- Turkey OakQuercus cerris
- HazelCorylus avellana
- SneezewortAchillea ptarmica
- Yellow LoosestrifeLysimachia vulgaris
- Pale GalingaleCyperus eragrostis
- Common Toadflax
Species observations from the last 10 years via NBN Atlas
2025
2025
7-spot LadybirdCoccinella septempunctata7-spot LadybirdCoccinella septempunctata10-spot LadybirdAdalia decempunctata202510-spot LadybirdAdalia decempunctata2025AphodiusAphodius2025AphodiusAphodius2025Opomyza germinationisOpomyza germinationis2025Opomyza germinationisOpomyza germinationis2025Field GrasshopperChorthippus brunneus2025Field GrasshopperChorthippus brunneus2025caddisfliesTrichoptera2025caddisfliesTrichoptera2025Scathophaga stercorariaScathophaga stercoraria2025Scathophaga stercorariaScathophaga stercoraria2025Brown HawkerAeshna grandis2025Brown HawkerAeshna grandis202522-spot LadybirdPsyllobora vigintiduopunctata202522-spot LadybirdPsyllobora vigintiduopunctata2025Meliscaeva auricollisMeliscaeva auricollis2025Meliscaeva auricollisMeliscaeva auricollis2025Deraeocoris (Deraeocoris) flavilineaDeraeocoris (Deraeocoris) flavilinea2025Deraeocoris (Deraeocoris) flavilineaDeraeocoris (Deraeocoris) flavilinea2025ByturusByturus2025ByturusByturus2025CantharisCantharis2025CantharisCantharis2025LagriaLagria2025LagriaLagria2025Parent BugElasmucha grisea2025Parent BugElasmucha grisea2025SuilliaSuillia2025SuilliaSuillia2025NotiophilusNotiophilus2025NotiophilusNotiophilus2025Common DarterSympetrum striolatum2025Common DarterSympetrum striolatum2025Limnephilus lunatusLimnephilus lunatus2025Limnephilus lunatusLimnephilus lunatus2025Yellow Meadow AntLasius flavus2025Yellow Meadow AntLasius flavus2025Cuckoo-Spit InsectPhilaenus spumarius2025Cuckoo-Spit InsectPhilaenus spumarius2025Bright Four-spined LegionnaireChorisops nagatomii2025Bright Four-spined LegionnaireChorisops nagatomii2025Lamprotettix nitidulusLamprotettix nitidulus2025Lamprotettix nitidulusLamprotettix nitidulus2025Athripsodes cinereusAthripsodes cinereus2025Athripsodes cinereusAthripsodes cinereus2025Marsh SnipeflyRhagio tringarius2025Marsh SnipeflyRhagio tringarius2025Bibio pomonaeBibio pomonae2025Bibio pomonaeBibio pomonae2025Small Fleck-winged SnipeflyRhagio lineola2025Small Fleck-winged SnipeflyRhagio lineola2025Lesser Water-BoatmanCorixidae2025Lesser Water-BoatmanCorixidae2025House-flyMusca domestica2025House-flyMusca domestica2025Ribautiana tenerrimaRibautiana tenerrima2025Ribautiana tenerrimaRibautiana tenerrima2025Hornet HoverflyVolucella zonaria2025Hornet HoverflyVolucella zonaria2025Hairy DragonflyBrachytron pratense2025Hairy DragonflyBrachytron pratense2025Migrant HawkerAeshna mixta2025Migrant HawkerAeshna mixta2025Dock BugCoreus marginatus2025Dock BugCoreus marginatus2025Common Red Soldier BeetleRhagonycha fulva2025Common Red Soldier BeetleRhagonycha fulva2025Xylota segnisXylota segnis2025Xylota segnisXylota segnis2025Bembidion quadrimaculatumBembidion quadrimaculatum2025Bembidion quadrimaculatumBembidion quadrimaculatum2025Adonis' LadybirdHippodamia variegata2025Adonis' LadybirdHippodamia variegata2025Marmalade HoverflyEpisyrphus balteatus2025Marmalade HoverflyEpisyrphus balteatus2025Roesel's Bush-cricketRoeseliana roeselii2025Roesel's Bush-cricketRoeseliana roeselii2025Brown ChaferSerica brunnea2025Brown ChaferSerica brunnea2025HarpalusHarpalus2025HarpalusHarpalus2025Violet Ground BeetleCarabus violaceus2025Violet Ground BeetleCarabus violaceus2025Mystacides longicornisMystacides longicornis2025Mystacides longicornisMystacides longicornis2025Sphaerophoria scriptaSphaerophoria scripta2025Sphaerophoria scriptaSphaerophoria scripta2025Cream-spot LadybirdCalvia quattuordecimguttata2025Cream-spot LadybirdCalvia quattuordecimguttata2025Closterotomus trivialisClosterotomus trivialis2025Closterotomus trivialisClosterotomus trivialis2025Eleagnus SuckerCacopsylla fulguralis2025Eleagnus SuckerCacopsylla fulguralis2025TenthredopsisTenthredopsis2025TenthredopsisTenthredopsis2025Rhabdomiris striatellusRhabdomiris striatellus2025Rhabdomiris striatellusRhabdomiris striatellus2025Grypocoris (Lophyromiris) stysiGrypocoris (Lophyromiris) stysi2025Grypocoris (Lophyromiris) stysiGrypocoris (Lophyromiris) stysi2025Geomyza tripunctataGeomyza tripunctata2025Geomyza tripunctataGeomyza tripunctata2025Xanthogramma pedissequumXanthogramma pedissequum2025Xanthogramma pedissequumXanthogramma pedissequum2025Deraeocoris (Deraeocoris) ruberDeraeocoris (Deraeocoris) ruber2025Deraeocoris (Deraeocoris) ruberDeraeocoris (Deraeocoris) ruber2025Birch Catkin BugKleidocerys resedae2025Birch Catkin BugKleidocerys resedae202514-spot LadybirdPropylea quattuordecimpunctata202514-spot LadybirdPropylea quattuordecimpunctata2025Helophilus pendulusHelophilus pendulus2025Helophilus pendulusHelophilus pendulus2025Tachycixius pilosusTachycixius pilosus2025Tachycixius pilosusTachycixius pilosus2025Broad CenturionChloromyia formosa2025Broad CenturionChloromyia formosa2025Campyloneura virgulaCampyloneura virgula2025Campyloneura virgulaCampyloneura virgula2025Meadow Plant BugLeptopterna dolabrata2025Meadow Plant BugLeptopterna dolabrata202524-spot LadybirdSubcoccinella vigintiquattuorpunctata202524-spot LadybirdSubcoccinella vigintiquattuorpunctata2025DioctriaDioctria2025DioctriaDioctria2025Green Nettle WeevilPhyllobius pomaceus2025Green Nettle WeevilPhyllobius pomaceus2025Chrysotoxum bicinctumChrysotoxum bicinctum2025Chrysotoxum bicinctumChrysotoxum bicinctum2025Fine Streaked BugkinMiris striatus2025Fine Streaked BugkinMiris striatus2025Cantharis nigricansCantharis nigricans2025Cantharis nigricansCantharis nigricans2025Narrow-barred FusehornArge melanochra2025Narrow-barred FusehornArge melanochra2025Batman HoverflyMyathropa florea2025Batman HoverflyMyathropa florea2025Phylus (Phylus) melanocephalusPhylus (Phylus) melanocephalus2025Phylus (Phylus) melanocephalusPhylus (Phylus) melanocephalus2025Chequered Click BeetleProsternon tessellatum2025Chequered Click BeetleProsternon tessellatum2025AnthomyiaAnthomyia2025AnthomyiaAnthomyia2025Athous haemorrhoidalisAthous haemorrhoidalis2025Athous haemorrhoidalisAthous haemorrhoidalis2025PhilopedonPhilopedon2025PhilopedonPhilopedon2025Common StilettoThereva nobilitata2025Common StilettoThereva nobilitata2025Ischnomera cyaneaIschnomera cyanea2025Ischnomera cyaneaIschnomera cyanea2025Metatropis rufescensMetatropis rufescens2025Metatropis rufescensMetatropis rufescens2025Dryophilocoris (Dryophilocoris) flavoquadrimaculatusDryophilocoris (Dryophilocoris) flavoquadrimaculatus2025Dryophilocoris (Dryophilocoris) flavoquadrimaculatusDryophilocoris (Dryophilocoris) flavoquadrimaculatus2025WirewormElateridae2025WirewormElateridae2025Epiphragma ocellareEpiphragma ocellare2025Epiphragma ocellareEpiphragma ocellare2025Common CockchaferMelolontha melolontha2025Common CockchaferMelolontha melolontha2025Linaria vulgaris
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