The Warren - Broadleaved woodland
2 ha
Plan your visit
🐶Dogs🦉Wildlife🦅Birds
Public accessFree entryDogs welcome2 ha
Getting here
51.09033, 1.19533
Open directionsv
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 231m away — 6 car parks within reach
🌤️ 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 231m away — 6 car parks within reach
- £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
Named hiking route nearby: King Charles III England Coast Path: Folkestone to Ramsgate
Free
Named cycling route nearby: National Cycle Route 2 Dover to Hastings
Varies
Deciduous woodland — fungi, berries and wild garlic
Varies
Trails nearby
Within roughly 5 km10 signed routes nearby · 34 public paths nearby
Signed route nearbyPublic paths
Corridors to the countrysideWalking route▾
Follow the kestrel to the DownsWalking route▾
Named routeLocal walking route
King Charles III England Coast Path: Camber to FolkestoneWalking route▾
Named routeRef ECPNational walking route
European walking route E9, Rye to DoverWalking route▾
Named routeRef E9International walking route
North Downs Way (Eastern)Walking route▾
Named routeNational walking route
Wear Bay Roadpublic footpath · 53 m▾
Public pathpublic footpathLength 53 mSurface concrete:platesPath type: residential
Swiss Waypublic footpath · 10 m▾
Public pathpublic footpathLength 10 mPath type: residential
78 signed routes nearby
Signed route nearby
Cinque Ports CyclewayCycling route▾
Named routeLocal cycle route
NCN Regional Route 17 (Kent)Cycling route▾
Named routeRef 17Regional cycle route
SeafrontCycling route▾
Named routeLocal cycle route
to Folkestone WestCycling route▾
Named routeLocal cycle route
National Cycle Route 2 Dover to HastingsCycling route▾
Named routeRef 2National Cycle Network
to the Town Centre (NCR2)Cycling route▾
Named routeLocal cycle route
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Wildlife to spot
13,276 records · National Biodiversity Network
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Wildlife to spot
13,276 records · National Biodiversity NetworkKingfisher · Redshank · Little Egret · Firecrest · Ringed Plover +47
- KingfisherAlcedo atthis2025
- RedshankTringa totanus2025
- Little EgretEgretta garzetta2025
- FirecrestRegulus ignicapilla2025
- Ringed PloverCharadrius hiaticula2025
- MagpiePica pica
- Sandwich TernThalasseus sandvicensis2025
- Pied WagtailMotacilla alba2025
- Great Crested GrebePodiceps cristatus2025
- WoodpigeonColumba palumbus2025
- StarlingSturnus vulgaris2025
- Herring GullLarus argentatus2025
- RazorbillAlca torda2025
- Brent GooseBranta bernicla2025
- Rock PipitAnthus petrosus2025
- GannetMorus bassanus2025
- House MartinDelichon urbicum2025
- Black-headed GullChroicocephalus ridibundus
- Carrion CrowCorvus corone2025
- GoldfinchCarduelis carduelis2025
- Blue TitCyanistes caeruleus2025
- House SparrowPasser domesticus2025
- JackdawColoeus monedula2025
- RobinErithacus rubecula2025
- Grey WagtailMotacilla cinerea2025
- Arctic SkuaStercorarius parasiticus2025
- Red-throated DiverGavia stellata2025
- DunnockPrunella modularis
- Rock DoveColumba livia2025
- WrenTroglodytes troglodytes2025
- BlackbirdTurdus merula2025
- LinnetLinaria cannabina2025
- Lesser RedpollAcanthis flammea cabaret2025
- Little GullHydrocoloeus minutus2025
- CurlewNumenius arquata2025
- ChiffchaffPhylloscopus collybita2025
- WheatearOenanthe oenanthe2025
- MallardAnas platyrhynchos2025
- Great TitParus major2025
- Velvet ScoterMelanitta fusca2025
- ShagGulosus aristotelis2025
- BlackcapSylvia atricapilla2025
- FieldfareTurdus pilaris2025
- Common ScoterMelanitta nigra2025
- Tufted DuckAythya fuligula2025
- Leach's PetrelHydrobates leucorhous2025
- Water RailRallus aquaticus2025
- SwallowHirundo rustica2025
- KestrelFalco tinnunculus2025
- Great Spotted WoodpeckerDendrocopos major2025
- WhinchatSaxicola rubetra2025
- Reed WarblerAcrocephalus scirpaceus2025
Red Fox
🦎Reptiles1 species
springautumn
2026▾
Common Lizard
- Common LizardZootoca vivipara
Long-winged Cone-head · Great Green Bush-cricket · Biphyllus lunatus · Liophloeus tessulatus · Eupeodes luniger +12
- Long-winged Cone-headConocephalus fuscus2025
- Great Green Bush-cricketTettigonia viridissima2025
- Biphyllus lunatusBiphyllus lunatus
- Liophloeus tessulatusLiophloeus tessulatus
- Eupeodes lunigerEupeodes luniger
- Meliscaeva auricollisMeliscaeva auricollis
Species observations from the last 10 years via NBN Atlas
Wildlife to spot
13,276 records · National Biodiversity NetworkKingfisher · Redshank · Little Egret · Firecrest · Ringed Plover +47
- KingfisherAlcedo atthis2025
- RedshankTringa totanus2025
- Little EgretEgretta garzetta2025
- FirecrestRegulus ignicapilla2025
- Ringed PloverCharadrius hiaticula2025
- MagpiePica pica
- Sandwich TernThalasseus sandvicensis2025
- Pied WagtailMotacilla alba2025
- Great Crested GrebePodiceps cristatus2025
- WoodpigeonColumba palumbus2025
- StarlingSturnus vulgaris2025
- Herring GullLarus argentatus2025
- RazorbillAlca torda2025
- Brent GooseBranta bernicla2025
- Rock PipitAnthus petrosus2025
- GannetMorus bassanus2025
- House MartinDelichon urbicum2025
- Black-headed GullChroicocephalus ridibundus
- Carrion CrowCorvus corone2025
- GoldfinchCarduelis carduelis2025
- Blue TitCyanistes caeruleus2025
- House SparrowPasser domesticus2025
- JackdawColoeus monedula2025
- RobinErithacus rubecula2025
- Grey WagtailMotacilla cinerea2025
- Arctic SkuaStercorarius parasiticus2025
- Red-throated DiverGavia stellata2025
- DunnockPrunella modularis
- Rock DoveColumba livia2025
- WrenTroglodytes troglodytes2025
- BlackbirdTurdus merula2025
- LinnetLinaria cannabina2025
- Lesser RedpollAcanthis flammea cabaret2025
- Little GullHydrocoloeus minutus2025
- CurlewNumenius arquata2025
- ChiffchaffPhylloscopus collybita2025
- WheatearOenanthe oenanthe2025
- MallardAnas platyrhynchos2025
- Great TitParus major2025
- Velvet ScoterMelanitta fusca2025
- ShagGulosus aristotelis2025
- BlackcapSylvia atricapilla2025
- FieldfareTurdus pilaris2025
- Common ScoterMelanitta nigra2025
- Tufted DuckAythya fuligula2025
- Leach's PetrelHydrobates leucorhous2025
- Water RailRallus aquaticus2025
- SwallowHirundo rustica2025
- KestrelFalco tinnunculus2025
- Great Spotted WoodpeckerDendrocopos major2025
- WhinchatSaxicola rubetra2025
- Reed WarblerAcrocephalus scirpaceus2025
Red Fox
🦎Reptiles1 species
springautumn
2026▾
Common Lizard
- Common LizardZootoca vivipara
Long-winged Cone-head · Great Green Bush-cricket · Biphyllus lunatus · Liophloeus tessulatus · Eupeodes luniger +12
- Long-winged Cone-headConocephalus fuscus2025
- Great Green Bush-cricketTettigonia viridissima2025
- Biphyllus lunatusBiphyllus lunatus
- Liophloeus tessulatusLiophloeus tessulatus
- Eupeodes lunigerEupeodes luniger
- Meliscaeva auricollisMeliscaeva auricollis
Species observations from the last 10 years via NBN Atlas
Marmalade HoverflyEpisyrphus balteatusMarmalade HoverflyEpisyrphus balteatusParadromius linearisParadromius linearis2025Paradromius linearisParadromius linearis202522-spot LadybirdPsyllobora vigintiduopunctata202522-spot LadybirdPsyllobora vigintiduopunctata2025Nephrotoma flavipalpisNephrotoma flavipalpis2025Nephrotoma flavipalpisNephrotoma flavipalpis2025Western Conifer Seed BugLeptoglossus occidentalis2025Western Conifer Seed BugLeptoglossus occidentalis2025Batman HoverflyMyathropa florea2025Batman HoverflyMyathropa florea2025Field GrasshopperChorthippus brunneus2025Field GrasshopperChorthippus brunneus2025Lesne's EarwigForficula lesnei2025Lesne's EarwigForficula lesnei2025Speckled Bush-cricketLeptophyes punctatissima2025Speckled Bush-cricketLeptophyes punctatissima2025Rufous GrasshopperGomphocerippus rufus2025Rufous GrasshopperGomphocerippus rufus2025Roesel's Bush-cricketRoeseliana roeselii2025Roesel's Bush-cricketRoeseliana roeselii2025Events & activities nearby
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