Plan your visit
🎠Play🐶Dogs🦉Wildlife
Public accessFree entryDogs welcome4 ha
Getting here
52.05211, -0.70120
Open directionsv
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
- ☀️Summer family visits work well here — arrive early and plan for a longer stay
- 🛝Playground 217m away — built-in entertainment for younger visitors alongside the wider site
🌤️ Visiting this summer
- 🌞Midsummer — early morning visits most comfortable; look for deer fawns in quieter clearings
- ☀️Summer family visits work well here — arrive early and plan for a longer stay
- 🛝Playground 217m away — built-in entertainment for younger visitors alongside the wider site
- £Free to visit — no entry charge
- 🐕Dogs welcome
🚲Bike parking🅿️Parking· Free🛝Playground
Dogs allowed — public woodland
Free
Deciduous woodland priority habitat
Free
🛝Family friendly
Strong match
playground
Free
🦅Bird watching
Strong match
Deciduous woodland — woodpeckers, warblers and woodland birds
Free
Deciduous woodland — fungi, berries and wild garlic
Varies
Trails nearby
Within roughly 5 km8 signed routes nearby · 12 public paths nearby
Signed route nearbyPublic paths
Midshires WayWalking route370 km▾
Multi-use trail links the Ridgeway National Trail with the Trans Pennine Trail
Named routeLength 370 kmRegional walking route
Grand Union Canal WalkWalking route▾
Napton to Coy Carp section
Named routeRegional walking route
Western Historic Parkland WalkWalking route6 km▾
Named routeLength 6 kmRound tripLocal walking route
Hanslope Circular RideWalking route▾
Named routeRegional walking route
Ouse Valley Way 1 (Syresham to Turvey)Walking route▾
Named routeRegional walking route
Tanfield Lanepublic footpath · 34 m▾
Public pathpublic footpathLength 34 mPath type: tertiary
Tanfield Lanepublic footpath · 96 m▾
Public pathpublic footpathLength 96 mPath type: tertiary
138 signed routes nearby
Signed route nearby
Millennium Circular RouteCycling route▾
Named routeRef MLocal cycle route
Route 6Cycling route▾
Named routeRef 6National Cycle Network
MK Redway Super Route V11Cycling route▾
Named routeRef V11Local cycle route
MK Redway Super Route V7Cycling route▾
Named routeRef V7Local cycle route
MK Redway Super Route V6Cycling route▾
Named routeRef V6Local cycle route
MK Redway Super Route V4Cycling route▾
Named routeRef V4Local cycle route
1 public path nearby
Public paths
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Wildlife to spot
22,922 records · National Biodiversity Network
Wildlife to spot
22,922 records · National Biodiversity NetworkMute Swan · Grey Heron · Coot · Tufted Duck · Great Crested Grebe +40
- Mute SwanCygnus olor
- Grey HeronArdea cinerea
- CootFulica atra
- Tufted DuckAythya fuligula
- Great Crested GrebePodiceps cristatus
- MoorhenGallinula chloropus
- GadwallMareca strepera
- Little GrebeTachybaptus ruficollis2025
- Black-headed GullChroicocephalus ridibundus
- CormorantPhalacrocorax carbo2025
- Carrion CrowCorvus corone2025
- MallardAnas platyrhynchos2025
- Lesser Black-backed GullLarus fuscus2025
- Canada GooseBranta canadensis2025
- LapwingVanellus vanellus2025
- TealAnas crecca
- Common GullLarus canus2025
- WoodpigeonColumba palumbus2025
- Long-tailed TitAegithalos caudatus2025
- BlackbirdTurdus merula2025
- Blue TitCyanistes caeruleus2025
- MagpiePica pica2025
- Cetti's WarblerCettia cetti2025
- Common ScoterMelanitta nigra2025
- RobinErithacus rubecula2025
- GoldeneyeBucephala clangula2025
- Black SwanCygnus atratus2025
- Pied WagtailMotacilla alba2025
- Rock DoveColumba livia2025
- Great Black-backed GullLarus marinus2025
- GoldfinchCarduelis carduelis2025
- DunnockPrunella modularis2025
- JayGarrulus glandarius2025
- Green WoodpeckerPicus viridis2025
- KingfisherAlcedo atthis2025
- Little EgretEgretta garzetta2025
- StarlingSturnus vulgaris2025
- JackdawColoeus monedula2025
- Water RailRallus aquaticus2025
- Larus argentatus argenteusLarus argentatus argenteus2025
- SnipeGallinago gallinago2025
- Green SandpiperTringa ochropus2025
- WrenTroglodytes troglodytes2025
- Herring GullLarus argentatus2025
- SkylarkAlauda arvensis2025
🐸Amphibians1 species
spring
2026▾
Smooth Newt
- Smooth NewtLissotriton vulgaris
Migrant Hawker
- Migrant HawkerAeshna mixta
White Dead-nettle · Hazel · Cow Parsley · Cleavers · Lords-and-Ladies +5
- White Dead-nettleLamium album
- HazelCorylus
- Cow ParsleyAnthriscus sylvestris
- CleaversGalium aparine
- Lords-and-LadiesArum maculatum
- DaisyBellis perennis
- Lesser CelandineFicaria verna
Species observations from the last 10 years via NBN Atlas
Wildlife to spot
22,922 records · National Biodiversity NetworkMute Swan · Grey Heron · Coot · Tufted Duck · Great Crested Grebe +40
- Mute SwanCygnus olor
- Grey HeronArdea cinerea
- CootFulica atra
- Tufted DuckAythya fuligula
- Great Crested GrebePodiceps cristatus
- MoorhenGallinula chloropus
- GadwallMareca strepera
- Little GrebeTachybaptus ruficollis2025
- Black-headed GullChroicocephalus ridibundus
- CormorantPhalacrocorax carbo2025
- Carrion CrowCorvus corone2025
- MallardAnas platyrhynchos2025
- Lesser Black-backed GullLarus fuscus2025
- Canada GooseBranta canadensis2025
- LapwingVanellus vanellus2025
- TealAnas crecca
- Common GullLarus canus2025
- WoodpigeonColumba palumbus2025
- Long-tailed TitAegithalos caudatus2025
- BlackbirdTurdus merula2025
- Blue TitCyanistes caeruleus2025
- MagpiePica pica2025
- Cetti's WarblerCettia cetti2025
- Common ScoterMelanitta nigra2025
- RobinErithacus rubecula2025
- GoldeneyeBucephala clangula2025
- Black SwanCygnus atratus2025
- Pied WagtailMotacilla alba2025
- Rock DoveColumba livia2025
- Great Black-backed GullLarus marinus2025
- GoldfinchCarduelis carduelis2025
- DunnockPrunella modularis2025
- JayGarrulus glandarius2025
- Green WoodpeckerPicus viridis2025
- KingfisherAlcedo atthis2025
- Little EgretEgretta garzetta2025
- StarlingSturnus vulgaris2025
- JackdawColoeus monedula2025
- Water RailRallus aquaticus2025
- Larus argentatus argenteusLarus argentatus argenteus2025
- SnipeGallinago gallinago2025
- Green SandpiperTringa ochropus2025
- WrenTroglodytes troglodytes2025
- Herring GullLarus argentatus2025
- SkylarkAlauda arvensis2025
🐸Amphibians1 species
spring
2026▾
Smooth Newt
- Smooth NewtLissotriton vulgaris
Migrant Hawker
- Migrant HawkerAeshna mixta
White Dead-nettle · Hazel · Cow Parsley · Cleavers · Lords-and-Ladies +5
- White Dead-nettleLamium album
- HazelCorylus
- Cow ParsleyAnthriscus sylvestris
- CleaversGalium aparine
- Lords-and-LadiesArum maculatum
- DaisyBellis perennis
- Lesser CelandineFicaria verna
Species observations from the last 10 years via NBN Atlas
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