Wellwish Wood - Broadleaved woodland
✦ Ancient woodland1 ha
Plan your visit
🦉Wildlife🦅Birds🌿Foraging
Free entryDogs welcome1 ha
Getting here
51.14447, 0.42293
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
- 🌿Foraging is at its best in summer here
- 🐕Dogs welcome — bring water in summer; the site has enough space to find shade on hot days
🌤️ Visiting this summer
- 🌞Midsummer — early morning visits most comfortable; look for deer fawns in quieter clearings
- 🌿Foraging is at its best in summer here
- 🐕Dogs welcome — bring water in summer; the site has enough space to find shade on hot days
- £Free to visit — no entry charge
- 🐕Dogs welcome
- 🌿Ancient woodland — rare wildlife habitat
Deciduous woodland priority habitat; Ancient woodland
Free
🦅Bird watching
Strong match
Deciduous woodland — woodpeckers, warblers and woodland birds
Free
Deciduous woodland — fungi, berries and wild garlic
Varies
Ancient woodland — historic landscape
Free
🌲Forest walks
Moderate match
Public woodland
Free
Trails nearby
Within roughly 5 km1 signed route nearby
Signed route nearby
High Weald Landscape TrailWalking route▾
Named routeRef HWLTListed length 145kmRegional walking route
8 signed routes nearby
Signed route nearby
NCN National Route 18Cycling route▾
Named routeRef 18National Cycle Network
Main RouteCycling route4.9 km▾
Named routeRef 18Length 4.9 kmNational Cycle NetworkOn-roadSurface asphalt
Main RouteCycling route187 m▾
Named routeRef 18Length 187 mNational Cycle NetworkOn-roadSurface asphalt
Main RouteCycling route3.9 km▾
Named routeRef 18Length 3.9 kmNational Cycle NetworkOn-roadSurface asphalt
Main RouteCycling route9.5 km▾
Named routeRef 18Length 9.5 kmNational Cycle NetworkOn-roadSurface asphalt
Main RouteCycling route270 m▾
Named routeRef 18Length 270 mNational Cycle NetworkOn-roadSurface asphalt
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4,026 records · National Biodiversity Network
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Wildlife to spot
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springsummer
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- Green WoodpeckerPicus viridis
- MagpiePica pica
- KestrelFalco tinnunculus2023
- SwiftApus apus2023
- Song ThrushTurdus philomelos
- ChiffchaffPhylloscopus collybita
- Great TitParus major
- WrenTroglodytes troglodytes
- StarlingSturnus vulgaris
- GoldfinchCarduelis carduelis
- RobinErithacus rubecula
- WoodpigeonColumba palumbus
- NuthatchSitta europaea
- BlackcapSylvia atricapilla
- Barn OwlTyto alba2023
- Collared DoveStreptopelia decaocto2023
- Blue TitCyanistes caeruleus2023
- JackdawColoeus monedula
- Mandarin DuckAix galericulata
- WhitethroatCurruca communis
- MoorhenGallinula chloropus
- MallardAnas platyrhynchos
- Canada GooseBranta canadensis
- Tufted DuckAythya fuligula
- Carrion CrowCorvus corone
- ChaffinchFringilla coelebs2024
- GoldcrestRegulus regulus2024
- GreenfinchChloris chloris2023
- YellowhammerEmberiza citrinella2023
- Mistle ThrushTurdus viscivorus2023
- Willow WarblerPhylloscopus trochilus2023
- JayGarrulus glandarius2023
- SwallowHirundo rustica2023
- BullfinchPyrrhula pyrrhula2023
- Long-tailed TitAegithalos caudatus2023
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- Common PipistrellePipistrellus pipistrellus2022
- Nathusius's PipistrellePipistrellus nathusii2022
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- Speckled WoodPararge aegeria2021
- Green-veined WhitePieris napi2021
- Large WhitePieris brassicae2021
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- MagpiePica pica
- KestrelFalco tinnunculus2023
- SwiftApus apus2023
- Song ThrushTurdus philomelos
- ChiffchaffPhylloscopus collybita
- Great TitParus major
- WrenTroglodytes troglodytes
- StarlingSturnus vulgaris
- GoldfinchCarduelis carduelis
- RobinErithacus rubecula
- WoodpigeonColumba palumbus
- NuthatchSitta europaea
- BlackcapSylvia atricapilla
- Barn OwlTyto alba2023
- Collared DoveStreptopelia decaocto2023
- Blue TitCyanistes caeruleus2023
- JackdawColoeus monedula
- Mandarin DuckAix galericulata
- WhitethroatCurruca communis
- MoorhenGallinula chloropus
- MallardAnas platyrhynchos
- Canada GooseBranta canadensis
- Tufted DuckAythya fuligula
- Carrion CrowCorvus corone
- ChaffinchFringilla coelebs2024
- GoldcrestRegulus regulus2024
- GreenfinchChloris chloris2023
- YellowhammerEmberiza citrinella2023
- Mistle ThrushTurdus viscivorus2023
- Willow WarblerPhylloscopus trochilus2023
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