Brocks Hill Country Park and Environment Centre
Plan your visit
🛝Family🦅Birds🎠Play
Public accessFree entryDogs welcome
Getting here
52.59098, -1.08682
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Visiting this summer
Seasonal nature notes and what to look for now
- 🐦36+ species recorded in this area — summer evenings are best for activity; watch for Woodpigeon and Magpie
- ☀️Summer family visits work well here — arrive early and plan for a longer stay
- ☕Jennos Cafe — makes this an easy full-day family visit without needing to pack food
🌤️ Visiting this summer
- 🐦36+ species recorded in this area — summer evenings are best for activity; watch for Woodpigeon and Magpie
- ☀️Summer family visits work well here — arrive early and plan for a longer stay
- ☕Jennos Cafe — makes this an easy full-day family visit without needing to pack food
- £Free to visit — no entry charge
- 🐕Dogs welcome
☕Café🅿️Parking· Paid🛝Playground🚻Toilets
🛝Family friendly
Very strong match
playground, café, toilets; Urban park — family destination
Free
🦅Bird watching
Very strong match
Birds — Woodpigeon, Magpie, Robin +33 more · last seen 2026; Lowland fens — specialist fen birds and passage waders
Free
🎠Playgrounds
Very strong match
playground, toilets, café, parking
Free
Birds — Woodpigeon, Magpie, Robin +33 more · last seen 2026; Deciduous woodland priority habitat
Free
🧺Picnic day out
Strong match
café, toilets, car park; Urban park — open green space
Free
🦋Insect spotting
Strong match
Insects — Common Carder Bee, Lucilia, Common Wasp +229 more · last seen 2026; Lowland fens — fen dragonflies and rare invertebrates
Free
Trails nearby
Within roughly 5 km1 signed route nearby
Signed route nearby
Blaby Village Heritage TrailWalking route▾
89 signed routes nearby
Signed route nearby
Leicester 'Route 4'Cycling route▾
Named routeRef 4Local cycle route
Leicester 'Route 3'Cycling route▾
Named routeRef 3Local cycle route
Route 63Cycling route▾
Named routeRef 63National Cycle Network
Leicester 'Route 2'Cycling route▾
Named routeRef 2Local cycle route
West End WayCycling route▾
Named routeRef West End WayLocal cycle route
Route 6Cycling route▾
Named routeRef 6National Cycle Network
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Brocks Hill Country Park, Oadby, Leics
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Wildlife to spot
60,228 records · National Biodiversity Network
Wildlife to spot
60,228 records · National Biodiversity NetworkWoodpigeon · Robin · Magpie · Blackbird · Great Tit +26
- WoodpigeonColumba palumbus
- RobinErithacus rubecula2025
- MagpiePica pica
- BlackbirdTurdus merula
- Great TitParus major2025
- GoldfinchCarduelis carduelis2025
- Blue TitCyanistes caeruleus2025
- DunnockPrunella modularis2025
- Black-headed GullChroicocephalus ridibundus
- Carrion CrowCorvus corone
- StarlingSturnus vulgaris2025
- WrenTroglodytes troglodytes
- GoldcrestRegulus regulus
- JackdawColoeus monedula2025
- RavenCorvus corax2025
- BullfinchPyrrhula pyrrhula2025
- House SparrowPasser domesticus2025
- Stock DoveColumba oenas2025
- Long-tailed TitAegithalos caudatus2025
- Great Spotted WoodpeckerDendrocopos major2025
- Green WoodpeckerPicus viridis2025
- Common GullLarus canus
- Song ThrushTurdus philomelos2025
- Collared DoveStreptopelia decaocto2025
- ChaffinchFringilla coelebs2025
- Coal TitPeriparus ater2025
- NuthatchSitta europaea2025
- GreenfinchChloris chloris2025
- WoodcockScolopax rusticola2025
- MoorhenGallinula chloropus2025
- ChiffchaffPhylloscopus collybita2025
🦌Mammals1 species
winterautumn
2026▾
Grey Squirrel
- Grey SquirrelSciurus carolinensis
Hairy-footed Flower Bee · Common Bluebottle · 7-spot Ladybird · Dark-edged Bee-fly · Common Wasp +34
- Hairy-footed Flower BeeAnthophora plumipes
- Common BluebottleCalliphora vicina
- 7-spot LadybirdCoccinella septempunctata
- Dark-edged Bee-flyBombylius major
- Common WaspVespula vulgaris
- Eudasyphora cyanellaEudasyphora cyanella
- Eyed Ladybird
Crepidotus · Jelly Ear · Crystal Brain · Physcia adscendens · Yellow Brain +11
- CrepidotusCrepidotus
- Jelly EarAuricularia auricula-judae
- Crystal BrainExidia nucleata
- Physcia adscendensPhyscia adscendens
- Yellow BrainTremella mesenterica
- Coral SpotNectria cinnabarina
- King Alfred's CakesDaldinia concentrica
Species observations from the last 10 years via NBN Atlas
Wildlife to spot
60,228 records · National Biodiversity NetworkWoodpigeon · Robin · Magpie · Blackbird · Great Tit +26
- WoodpigeonColumba palumbus
- RobinErithacus rubecula2025
- MagpiePica pica
- BlackbirdTurdus merula
- Great TitParus major2025
- GoldfinchCarduelis carduelis2025
- Blue TitCyanistes caeruleus2025
- DunnockPrunella modularis2025
- Black-headed GullChroicocephalus ridibundus
- Carrion CrowCorvus corone
- StarlingSturnus vulgaris2025
- WrenTroglodytes troglodytes
- GoldcrestRegulus regulus
- JackdawColoeus monedula2025
- RavenCorvus corax2025
- BullfinchPyrrhula pyrrhula2025
- House SparrowPasser domesticus2025
- Stock DoveColumba oenas2025
- Long-tailed TitAegithalos caudatus2025
- Great Spotted WoodpeckerDendrocopos major2025
- Green WoodpeckerPicus viridis2025
- Common GullLarus canus
- Song ThrushTurdus philomelos2025
- Collared DoveStreptopelia decaocto2025
- ChaffinchFringilla coelebs2025
- Coal TitPeriparus ater2025
- NuthatchSitta europaea2025
- GreenfinchChloris chloris2025
- WoodcockScolopax rusticola2025
- MoorhenGallinula chloropus2025
- ChiffchaffPhylloscopus collybita2025
🦌Mammals1 species
winterautumn
2026▾
Grey Squirrel
- Grey SquirrelSciurus carolinensis
Hairy-footed Flower Bee · Common Bluebottle · 7-spot Ladybird · Dark-edged Bee-fly · Common Wasp +34
- Hairy-footed Flower BeeAnthophora plumipes
- Common BluebottleCalliphora vicina
- 7-spot LadybirdCoccinella septempunctata
- Dark-edged Bee-flyBombylius major
- Common WaspVespula vulgaris
- Eudasyphora cyanellaEudasyphora cyanella
- Eyed Ladybird
Crepidotus · Jelly Ear · Crystal Brain · Physcia adscendens · Yellow Brain +11
- CrepidotusCrepidotus
- Jelly EarAuricularia auricula-judae
- Crystal BrainExidia nucleata
- Physcia adscendensPhyscia adscendens
- Yellow BrainTremella mesenterica
- Coral SpotNectria cinnabarina
- King Alfred's CakesDaldinia concentrica
Species observations from the last 10 years via NBN Atlas
Anatis ocellata
Anatis ocellata
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