Lady Wood - Broadleaved woodland
2 ha
Plan your visit
🦋Insects🐶Dogs🦉Wildlife
Public accessFree entryDogs welcome2 ha
Getting here
51.09345, 1.19395
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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 134m 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 134m away — 6 car parks within reach
- £Free to visit — no entry charge
- 🐕Dogs welcome
🦋Insect spotting
Strong match
Chalk and limestone grassland — chalkhill blue, adonis blue and rare moths
Free
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: European walking route E9, Rye to Dover
Free
Named cycling route nearby: National Cycle Route 2 Dover to Hastings
Varies
Trails nearby
Within roughly 5 km10 signed routes nearby · 32 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
Dallas Brett Crescentpublic footpath · 47 m▾
Public pathpublic footpathLength 47 mPath type: residential
Swiss Waypublic footpath · 10 m▾
Public pathpublic footpathLength 10 mPath type: residential
Crete Road Eastpublic footpath · 19 m▾
Public pathpublic footpathLength 19 mPath type: unclassified
81 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
1 public path nearby
Public paths
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Bookable toursWildlife to spot
14,369 records · National Biodiversity Network
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Wildlife to spot
14,369 records · National Biodiversity NetworkFirecrest · Magpie · Woodpigeon · Herring Gull · Blue Tit +40
- FirecrestRegulus ignicapilla2025
- MagpiePica pica2025
- WoodpigeonColumba palumbus2025
- Herring GullLarus argentatus2025
- Blue TitCyanistes caeruleus2025
- House SparrowPasser domesticus2025
- BlackbirdTurdus merula2025
- StarlingSturnus vulgaris2025
- RobinErithacus rubecula2025
- Carrion CrowCorvus corone2025
- GoldfinchCarduelis carduelis2025
- JackdawColoeus monedula2025
- WrenTroglodytes troglodytes2025
- Little EgretEgretta garzetta2025
- KingfisherAlcedo atthis2025
- ChiffchaffPhylloscopus collybita2025
- DunnockPrunella modularis
- Black-headed GullChroicocephalus ridibundus
- Rock DoveColumba livia2025
- Pied WagtailMotacilla alba2025
- Lesser RedpollAcanthis flammea cabaret2025
- BlackcapSylvia atricapilla2025
- House MartinDelichon urbicum2025
- Great Spotted WoodpeckerDendrocopos major2025
- WheatearOenanthe oenanthe2025
- SwiftApus apus2025
- MallardAnas platyrhynchos2025
- Great TitParus major2025
- FieldfareTurdus pilaris2025
- Arctic SkuaStercorarius parasiticus2025
- Water RailRallus aquaticus2025
- Grey WagtailMotacilla cinerea2025
- SwallowHirundo rustica2025
- KestrelFalco tinnunculus2025
- WhinchatSaxicola rubetra2025
- Reed WarblerAcrocephalus scirpaceus2025
- RedshankTringa totanus2025
- Sandwich TernThalasseus sandvicensis2025
- Little GullHydrocoloeus minutus2025
- Long-tailed TitAegithalos caudatus2025
- Song ThrushTurdus philomelos2025
- YellowhammerEmberiza citrinella2025
- Garden WarblerSylvia borin2025
- Great Black-backed GullLarus marinus2025
- Lesser Black-backed GullLarus fuscus2025
🦌Mammals1 species
springautumn
2025▾
Red Fox
🦎Reptiles3 species
springsummerautumn
2026▾
Common Lizard · Slow-worm · Wall Lizard
- Common LizardZootoca vivipara
- Slow-wormAnguis fragilis2025
- Wall LizardPodarcis muralis2025
Dark Bush-cricket · 7-spot Ladybird · Firebug · Long-winged Cone-head · Tychius meliloti +50
- Dark Bush-cricketPholidoptera griseoaptera2025
- 7-spot LadybirdCoccinella septempunctata2025
- FirebugPyrrhocoris apterus2025
- Long-winged Cone-headConocephalus fuscus2025
- Tychius melilotiTychius meliloti2025
- Swollen-thighed Beetle
Species observations from the last 10 years via NBN Atlas
Wildlife to spot
14,369 records · National Biodiversity NetworkFirecrest · Magpie · Woodpigeon · Herring Gull · Blue Tit +40
- FirecrestRegulus ignicapilla2025
- MagpiePica pica2025
- WoodpigeonColumba palumbus2025
- Herring GullLarus argentatus2025
- Blue TitCyanistes caeruleus2025
- House SparrowPasser domesticus2025
- BlackbirdTurdus merula2025
- StarlingSturnus vulgaris2025
- RobinErithacus rubecula2025
- Carrion CrowCorvus corone2025
- GoldfinchCarduelis carduelis2025
- JackdawColoeus monedula2025
- WrenTroglodytes troglodytes2025
- Little EgretEgretta garzetta2025
- KingfisherAlcedo atthis2025
- ChiffchaffPhylloscopus collybita2025
- DunnockPrunella modularis
- Black-headed GullChroicocephalus ridibundus
- Rock DoveColumba livia2025
- Pied WagtailMotacilla alba2025
- Lesser RedpollAcanthis flammea cabaret2025
- BlackcapSylvia atricapilla2025
- House MartinDelichon urbicum2025
- Great Spotted WoodpeckerDendrocopos major2025
- WheatearOenanthe oenanthe2025
- SwiftApus apus2025
- MallardAnas platyrhynchos2025
- Great TitParus major2025
- FieldfareTurdus pilaris2025
- Arctic SkuaStercorarius parasiticus2025
- Water RailRallus aquaticus2025
- Grey WagtailMotacilla cinerea2025
- SwallowHirundo rustica2025
- KestrelFalco tinnunculus2025
- WhinchatSaxicola rubetra2025
- Reed WarblerAcrocephalus scirpaceus2025
- RedshankTringa totanus2025
- Sandwich TernThalasseus sandvicensis2025
- Little GullHydrocoloeus minutus2025
- Long-tailed TitAegithalos caudatus2025
- Song ThrushTurdus philomelos2025
- YellowhammerEmberiza citrinella2025
- Garden WarblerSylvia borin2025
- Great Black-backed GullLarus marinus2025
- Lesser Black-backed GullLarus fuscus2025
🦌Mammals1 species
springautumn
2025▾
Red Fox
🦎Reptiles3 species
springsummerautumn
2026▾
Common Lizard · Slow-worm · Wall Lizard
- Common LizardZootoca vivipara
- Slow-wormAnguis fragilis2025
- Wall LizardPodarcis muralis2025
Dark Bush-cricket · 7-spot Ladybird · Firebug · Long-winged Cone-head · Tychius meliloti +50
- Dark Bush-cricketPholidoptera griseoaptera2025
- 7-spot LadybirdCoccinella septempunctata2025
- FirebugPyrrhocoris apterus2025
- Long-winged Cone-headConocephalus fuscus2025
- Tychius melilotiTychius meliloti2025
- Swollen-thighed Beetle
Species observations from the last 10 years via NBN Atlas
Oedemera nobilis2025
Oedemera nobilis2025
Great Green Bush-cricketTettigonia viridissima2025Great Green Bush-cricketTettigonia viridissima2025Speckled Bush-cricketLeptophyes punctatissima2025Speckled Bush-cricketLeptophyes punctatissima2025Roesel's Bush-cricketRoeseliana roeselii2025Roesel's Bush-cricketRoeseliana roeselii2025Common Rose FusehornArge pagana2025Common Rose FusehornArge pagana2025Dock BugCoreus marginatus2025Dock BugCoreus marginatus2025Ectophasia crassipennisEctophasia crassipennis2025Ectophasia crassipennisEctophasia crassipennis2025Bishop's MitreAelia acuminata2025Bishop's MitreAelia acuminata2025Biphyllus lunatusBiphyllus lunatusBiphyllus lunatusBiphyllus lunatusLiophloeus tessulatusLiophloeus tessulatusLiophloeus tessulatusLiophloeus tessulatusEupeodes lunigerEupeodes lunigerEupeodes lunigerEupeodes lunigerMeliscaeva auricollisMeliscaeva auricollisMeliscaeva auricollisMeliscaeva auricollisMarmalade HoverflyEpisyrphus balteatusMarmalade HoverflyEpisyrphus balteatusAnommatusAnommatusAnommatusAnommatusParadromius 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 lesnei2025Rufous GrasshopperGomphocerippus rufus2025Rufous GrasshopperGomphocerippus rufus2025Oak Bush-cricketMeconema thalassinum2025Oak Bush-cricketMeconema thalassinum2025Phytocoris (Ktenocoris) varipesPhytocoris (Ktenocoris) varipes2025Phytocoris (Ktenocoris) varipesPhytocoris (Ktenocoris) varipes2025Orange LadybirdHalyzia sedecimguttata2025Orange LadybirdHalyzia sedecimguttata2025Solomon's-seal SawflyPhymatocera aterrima2025Solomon's-seal SawflyPhymatocera aterrima2025Adonis' LadybirdHippodamia variegata2025Adonis' LadybirdHippodamia variegata2025Red-legged ShieldbugPentatoma rufipes2025Red-legged ShieldbugPentatoma rufipes2025Evacanthus interruptusEvacanthus interruptus2025Evacanthus interruptusEvacanthus interruptus2025Hornet HoverflyVolucella zonaria2025Hornet HoverflyVolucella zonaria2025Ferdinandea cupreaFerdinandea cuprea2025Ferdinandea cupreaFerdinandea cuprea2025Cuckoo-Spit InsectPhilaenus spumarius2025Cuckoo-Spit InsectPhilaenus spumarius2025Common Red Soldier BeetleRhagonycha fulva2025Common Red Soldier BeetleRhagonycha fulva2025Potato CapsidClosterotomus norwegicus2025Potato CapsidClosterotomus norwegicus2025Grey Bush-cricketPlatycleis albopunctata2025Grey Bush-cricketPlatycleis albopunctata2025Staticobium staticisStaticobium staticis2025Staticobium staticisStaticobium staticis2025Wasp BeetleClytus arietis2025Wasp BeetleClytus arietis2025Rose ChaferCetonia aurata2025Rose ChaferCetonia aurata2025Cramp-Ball Fungus WeevilPlatyrhinus resinosus2025Cramp-Ball Fungus WeevilPlatyrhinus resinosus2025Tree HopperCentrotus cornutus2025Tree HopperCentrotus cornutus2025Malvapion malvaeMalvapion malvae2025Malvapion malvaeMalvapion malvae2025Red-headed Cardinal BeetlePyrochroa serraticornis2025Red-headed Cardinal BeetlePyrochroa serraticornis2025Green ShieldbugPalomena prasina2025Green ShieldbugPalomena prasina2025Agrypnus murinusAgrypnus murinus2025Agrypnus murinusAgrypnus murinus2025Dyroderes umbraculatusDyroderes umbraculatus2025Dyroderes umbraculatusDyroderes umbraculatus2025Cossonus linearisCossonus linearis2025Cossonus linearisCossonus linearis2025Trioza centranthiTrioza centranthi2025Trioza centranthiTrioza centranthi2025Hawthorn ShieldbugAcanthosoma haemorrhoidale2025Hawthorn ShieldbugAcanthosoma haemorrhoidale2025EupeodesEupeodes2025EupeodesEupeodes2025Large Willow AphidTuberolachnus (Tuberolachnus) salignus2025Large Willow AphidTuberolachnus (Tuberolachnus) salignus2025