Brook Wood - Broadleaved woodland
1 ha
🦉Wildlife🦅Birds🌿Foraging
Free entryDogs welcome1 ha
Getting here
51.16489, 0.62937
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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
- 🌿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
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
🌲Forest walks
Moderate match
Public woodland
Free
Trails nearby
Within roughly 5 km1 signed route nearby
Signed route nearby
Greensand WayWalking route▾
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Wildlife to spot
5,590 records · National Biodiversity Network
Wildlife to spot
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springsummer
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Turtle Dove · Nightingale · Woodpigeon · Barn Owl · Raven +14
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- NightingaleLuscinia megarhynchos
- WoodpigeonColumba palumbus
- Barn OwlTyto alba2024
- RavenCorvus corax
- HobbyFalco subbuteo
- StarlingSturnus vulgaris
- RobinErithacus rubecula
- JackdawColoeus monedula
- Rock DoveColumba livia
- Blue TitCyanistes caeruleus
- Black RedstartPhoenicurus ochruros2024
- Collared DoveStreptopelia decaocto2024
- BlackbirdTurdus merula2023
- Black-headed GullChroicocephalus ridibundus2023
- JayGarrulus glandarius2023
- Herring GullLarus argentatus2023
- ChiffchaffPhylloscopus collybita2023
- KestrelFalco tinnunculus2022
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springsummerautumn
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- BadgerMeles meles2023
- Red FoxVulpes vulpes2024
- Grey SquirrelSciurus carolinensis
- RabbitOryctolagus cuniculus2024
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spring
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Great Crested Newt · Smooth Newt
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- Smooth NewtLissotriton vulgaris
Western Honey Bee · White/Buff-tailed Bumblebee workers · Common Carder Bee · Buff-tailed Bumblebee · 7-spot Ladybird +18
- Western Honey BeeApis mellifera2024
- White/Buff-tailed Bumblebee workersBombus lucorum/terrestris2024
- Common Carder BeeBombus pascuorum2024
- Buff-tailed BumblebeeBombus terrestris2024
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Wildlife to spot
5,590 records · National Biodiversity Network🐦Birds19 species
springsummer
2025▾
Turtle Dove · Nightingale · Woodpigeon · Barn Owl · Raven +14
- Turtle DoveStreptopelia turtur
- NightingaleLuscinia megarhynchos
- WoodpigeonColumba palumbus
- Barn OwlTyto alba2024
- RavenCorvus corax
- HobbyFalco subbuteo
- StarlingSturnus vulgaris
- RobinErithacus rubecula
- JackdawColoeus monedula
- Rock DoveColumba livia
- Blue TitCyanistes caeruleus
- Black RedstartPhoenicurus ochruros2024
- Collared DoveStreptopelia decaocto2024
- BlackbirdTurdus merula2023
- Black-headed GullChroicocephalus ridibundus2023
- JayGarrulus glandarius2023
- Herring GullLarus argentatus2023
- ChiffchaffPhylloscopus collybita2023
- KestrelFalco tinnunculus2022
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springsummerautumn
2025▾
Hedgehog · Badger · Red Fox · Grey Squirrel · Rabbit
- HedgehogErinaceus europaeus2024
- BadgerMeles meles2023
- Red FoxVulpes vulpes2024
- Grey SquirrelSciurus carolinensis
- RabbitOryctolagus cuniculus2024
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spring
2025▾
Great Crested Newt · Smooth Newt
- Great Crested NewtTriturus cristatus
- Smooth NewtLissotriton vulgaris
Western Honey Bee · White/Buff-tailed Bumblebee workers · Common Carder Bee · Buff-tailed Bumblebee · 7-spot Ladybird +18
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- White/Buff-tailed Bumblebee workersBombus lucorum/terrestris2024
- Common Carder BeeBombus pascuorum2024
- Buff-tailed BumblebeeBombus terrestris2024
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