Runham Wood - Broadleaved woodland
1 ha
Plan your visit
🦉Wildlife🦅Birds🌿Foraging
Free entryDogs welcome1 ha
Getting here
51.22517, 0.67539
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
- ⛺Camping available here — summer nights at this site are worth planning around
🌤️ Visiting this summer
- 🌞Midsummer — early morning visits most comfortable; look for deer fawns in quieter clearings
- 🌿Foraging is at its best in summer here
- ⛺Camping available here — summer nights at this site are worth planning around
- £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 km7 signed routes nearby · 2 public paths nearby
Signed route nearbyPublic paths
Stour Valley WalkWalking route▾
Named routeListed length 82.9 kmRegional walking route
Oftord to Canterbury CathedralWalking route▾
follows North Downs Way from Otford to Broughton Lees
Named routeRegional walking route
Scenic Green Trail Section 7Walking route13.6 km▾
Named routeRef SGT7Length 13.6 kmLocal walking route
North Downs Way (Eastern)Walking route▾
Named routeNational walking route
Greensand WayWalking route▾
Named routeRef GWRegional walking route
16 signed routes nearby
Signed route nearby
NCN National Route 177 (Proposed)Cycling route▾
Named routeRef 177National Cycle Network
NCN National Route 17Cycling route▾
Named routeRef 17National Cycle Network
Main RouteCycling route477 m▾
Named routeRef 17Length 477 mNational Cycle NetworkTraffic-freeSurface unsealedfirm
Main RouteCycling route321 m▾
Named routeRef 17Length 321 mNational Cycle NetworkTraffic-freeSurface asphalt
Main RouteCycling route2.8 km▾
Named routeRef 17Length 2.8 kmNational Cycle NetworkTraffic-freeSurface unsealedfirm
Main RouteCycling route525 m▾
Named routeRef 17Length 525 mNational Cycle NetworkTraffic-freeSurface unsealedfirm
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Wildlife to spot
2,906 records · National Biodiversity Network
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Wildlife to spot
2,906 records · National Biodiversity NetworkRobin · Woodpigeon · Blackbird · Blackcap · Mistle Thrush +44
- RobinErithacus rubecula2023
- WoodpigeonColumba palumbus2023
- BlackbirdTurdus merula2023
- BlackcapSylvia atricapilla
- Mistle ThrushTurdus viscivorus2023
- MagpiePica pica2022
- Carrion CrowCorvus corone2022
- MallardAnas platyrhynchos2022
- Grey WagtailMotacilla cinerea2022
- Collared DoveStreptopelia decaocto
- Tawny OwlStrix aluco
- House MartinDelichon urbicum
- Spotted FlycatcherMuscicapa striata
- Little OwlAthene noctua2024
- StarlingSturnus vulgaris2023
- Mandarin DuckAix galericulata2023
- GoldcrestRegulus regulus2023
- SwiftApus apus2023
- Sedge WarblerAcrocephalus schoenobaenus2023
- SkylarkAlauda arvensis2023
- Egyptian GooseAlopochen aegyptiaca2023
- RookCorvus frugilegus2023
- RavenCorvus corax2023
- JayGarrulus glandarius2023
- Yellow WagtailMotacilla flava2023
- CuckooCuculus canorus2023
- KingfisherAlcedo atthis2022
- Little GrebeTachybaptus ruficollis2022
- CootFulica atra2022
- WhinchatSaxicola rubetra2022
- KestrelFalco tinnunculus2022
- StonechatSaxicola rubicola2022
- LinnetLinaria cannabina2022
- Black-headed GullChroicocephalus ridibundus2022
- MoorhenGallinula chloropus2022
- ChiffchaffPhylloscopus collybita2022
- Grey HeronArdea cinerea2022
- Great TitParus major2022
- CormorantPhalacrocorax carbo2022
- GoldfinchCarduelis carduelis2022
- DunnockPrunella modularis2022
- Canada GooseBranta canadensis2022
- Blue TitCyanistes caeruleus2022
- Herring GullLarus argentatus2022
- PheasantPhasianus colchicus2022
- ChaffinchFringilla coelebs2022
- Pied WagtailMotacilla alba yarrellii2022
- WrenTroglodytes troglodytes2022
- Song ThrushTurdus philomelos2022
🦌Mammals16 species
springsummerautumn
2026▾
Grey Squirrel · Hazel Dormouse · Wood Mouse · Brown Rat · Noctule +11
- Grey SquirrelSciurus carolinensis
- Hazel DormouseMuscardinus avellanarius2025
- Wood MouseApodemus sylvaticus2025
- Brown RatRattus norvegicus2025
- NoctuleNyctalus noctula2025
Common Lizard
- Common LizardZootoca vivipara
🐝Insects10 species
summerwinter
2025▾
Speckled Bush-cricket · Harlequin Ladybird · Roesel's Bush-cricket · Golden-ringed Dragonfly · 16-spot Ladybird +5
- Speckled Bush-cricketLeptophyes punctatissima
- Harlequin LadybirdHarmonia axyridis2023
- Roesel's Bush-cricketRoeseliana roeselii
- Golden-ringed DragonflyCordulegaster boltonii2024
- 16-spot LadybirdTytthaspis sedecimpunctata2023
Species observations from the last 10 years via NBN Atlas
Wildlife to spot
2,906 records · National Biodiversity NetworkRobin · Woodpigeon · Blackbird · Blackcap · Mistle Thrush +44
- RobinErithacus rubecula2023
- WoodpigeonColumba palumbus2023
- BlackbirdTurdus merula2023
- BlackcapSylvia atricapilla
- Mistle ThrushTurdus viscivorus2023
- MagpiePica pica2022
- Carrion CrowCorvus corone2022
- MallardAnas platyrhynchos2022
- Grey WagtailMotacilla cinerea2022
- Collared DoveStreptopelia decaocto
- Tawny OwlStrix aluco
- House MartinDelichon urbicum
- Spotted FlycatcherMuscicapa striata
- Little OwlAthene noctua2024
- StarlingSturnus vulgaris2023
- Mandarin DuckAix galericulata2023
- GoldcrestRegulus regulus2023
- SwiftApus apus2023
- Sedge WarblerAcrocephalus schoenobaenus2023
- SkylarkAlauda arvensis2023
- Egyptian GooseAlopochen aegyptiaca2023
- RookCorvus frugilegus2023
- RavenCorvus corax2023
- JayGarrulus glandarius2023
- Yellow WagtailMotacilla flava2023
- CuckooCuculus canorus2023
- KingfisherAlcedo atthis2022
- Little GrebeTachybaptus ruficollis2022
- CootFulica atra2022
- WhinchatSaxicola rubetra2022
- KestrelFalco tinnunculus2022
- StonechatSaxicola rubicola2022
- LinnetLinaria cannabina2022
- Black-headed GullChroicocephalus ridibundus2022
- MoorhenGallinula chloropus2022
- ChiffchaffPhylloscopus collybita2022
- Grey HeronArdea cinerea2022
- Great TitParus major2022
- CormorantPhalacrocorax carbo2022
- GoldfinchCarduelis carduelis2022
- DunnockPrunella modularis2022
- Canada GooseBranta canadensis2022
- Blue TitCyanistes caeruleus2022
- Herring GullLarus argentatus2022
- PheasantPhasianus colchicus2022
- ChaffinchFringilla coelebs2022
- Pied WagtailMotacilla alba yarrellii2022
- WrenTroglodytes troglodytes2022
- Song ThrushTurdus philomelos2022
🦌Mammals16 species
springsummerautumn
2026▾
Grey Squirrel · Hazel Dormouse · Wood Mouse · Brown Rat · Noctule +11
- Grey SquirrelSciurus carolinensis
- Hazel DormouseMuscardinus avellanarius2025
- Wood MouseApodemus sylvaticus2025
- Brown RatRattus norvegicus2025
- NoctuleNyctalus noctula2025
Common Lizard
- Common LizardZootoca vivipara
🐝Insects10 species
summerwinter
2025▾
Speckled Bush-cricket · Harlequin Ladybird · Roesel's Bush-cricket · Golden-ringed Dragonfly · 16-spot Ladybird +5
- Speckled Bush-cricketLeptophyes punctatissima
- Harlequin LadybirdHarmonia axyridis2023
- Roesel's Bush-cricketRoeseliana roeselii
- Golden-ringed DragonflyCordulegaster boltonii2024
- 16-spot LadybirdTytthaspis sedecimpunctata2023
Species observations from the last 10 years via NBN Atlas
RabbitOryctolagus cuniculus2024RabbitOryctolagus cuniculus2024BadgerMeles meles2025BadgerMeles meles2025Red FoxVulpes vulpesRed FoxVulpes vulpesHedgehogErinaceus europaeus2025HedgehogErinaceus europaeus2025Common PipistrellePipistrellus pipistrellus2025Common PipistrellePipistrellus pipistrellus2025Bank VoleMyodes glareolus2023Bank VoleMyodes glareolus2023Common ShrewSorex araneus2023Common ShrewSorex araneus2023Roe DeerCapreolus capreolus2025Roe DeerCapreolus capreolus2025Pygmy ShrewSorex minutus2023Pygmy ShrewSorex minutus2023MoleTalpa europaea2023MoleTalpa europaea2023Field VoleMicrotus agrestis2022Field VoleMicrotus agrestis2022Rhyzobius chrysomeloides
Rhyzobius chrysomeloides
Rhyzobius chrysomeloides2023
Rhyzobius chrysomeloides2023
7-spot LadybirdCoccinella septempunctata20237-spot LadybirdCoccinella septempunctata2023Graphopsocus cruciatusGraphopsocus cruciatus2023Graphopsocus cruciatusGraphopsocus cruciatus2023Rosemary BeetleChrysolina americana2022Rosemary BeetleChrysolina americana2022Glow-wormLampyris noctiluca2021Glow-wormLampyris noctiluca2021Events & activities nearby
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