Plan your visit
🛝Family🦅Birds🎠Play
Public accessFree entryDogs welcome1 ha
Getting here
52.13332, -0.98827
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Visiting this summer
Seasonal nature notes and what to look for now
- 🐦64+ species recorded in this area — summer evenings are best for activity; watch for Woodpigeon and House Sparrow
- ☀️Summer family visits work well here — arrive early and plan for a longer stay
- ☕Costa Coffee — makes this an easy full-day family visit without needing to pack food
🌤️ Visiting this summer
- 🐦64+ species recorded in this area — summer evenings are best for activity; watch for Woodpigeon and House Sparrow
- ☀️Summer family visits work well here — arrive early and plan for a longer stay
- ☕Costa Coffee — 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, House Sparrow, Blackbird +61 more · last seen 2025; Deciduous woodland — woodpeckers, warblers and woodland birds
Free
🎠Playgrounds
Very strong match
playground, toilets, café, parking
Free
Birds — Woodpigeon, House Sparrow, Blackbird +61 more · last seen 2025; Deciduous woodland priority habitat
Free
🧺Picnic day out
Strong match
café, toilets, car park; Urban park — open green space
Free
Dogs allowed with public access
Free
Trails nearby
Within roughly 5 km5 signed routes nearby · 16 public paths nearby
Signed route nearbyPublic paths
Knightley WayWalking route▾
Named routeLocal walking route
Grafton WayWalking route▾
Named routeRegional walking route
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
Northamptonshire RoundWalking route▾
Meeting Lanepublic footpath · 7 m▾
Public pathpublic footpathLength 7 mPath type: path
Meeting Lanepublic footpath · 6 m▾
Public pathpublic footpathLength 6 mPath type: path
Meeting Lanepublic footpath · 82 m▾
Public pathpublic footpathLength 82 mPath type: service
1 signed route nearby
Signed route nearby
Northamptonshire Cycle Network N-TCycling route▾
Named routeLocal cycle route
Weather for this location
Next 14 daysNearby places
Useful places within 5 km
Wildlife to spot
16,788 records · National Biodiversity Network
Wildlife to spot
16,788 records · National Biodiversity NetworkWoodpigeon · Blue Tit · House Sparrow · Carrion Crow · Robin +29
- WoodpigeonColumba palumbus
- Blue TitCyanistes caeruleus
- House SparrowPasser domesticus
- Carrion CrowCorvus corone
- RobinErithacus rubecula
- MagpiePica pica
- WrenTroglodytes troglodytes
- Black-headed GullChroicocephalus ridibundus
- BlackbirdTurdus merula
- Long-tailed TitAegithalos caudatus
- GoldfinchCarduelis carduelis
- Great TitParus major
- Grey WagtailMotacilla cinerea
- JackdawColoeus monedula
- LinnetLinaria cannabina
- Lesser Black-backed GullLarus fuscus
- StarlingSturnus vulgaris
- ChiffchaffPhylloscopus collybita
- KestrelFalco tinnunculus
- Grey HeronArdea cinerea
- PheasantPhasianus colchicus
- Tawny OwlStrix aluco
- Green WoodpeckerPicus viridis
- StonechatSaxicola rubicola
- NuthatchSitta europaea
- Great Spotted WoodpeckerDendrocopos major
- DunnockPrunella modularis
- GoldcrestRegulus regulus
- Common GullLarus canus
- Pied WagtailMotacilla alba yarrellii
- Herring GullLarus argentatus
- Little OwlAthene noctua
- Collared DoveStreptopelia decaocto
- MoorhenGallinula chloropus
Muntjac · Grey Squirrel
- MuntjacMuntiacus reevesi
- Grey SquirrelSciurus carolinensis
Common Darter · Eristalis pertinax
- Common DarterSympetrum striolatum
- Eristalis pertinaxEristalis pertinax
Elder · Red Dead-nettle · Horse-chestnut · Many-Seeded Goosefoot · Fox-and-cubs +32
- ElderSambucus nigra
- Red Dead-nettleLamium purpureum
- Horse-chestnutAesculus hippocastanum2025
- Many-Seeded GoosefootLipandra polysperma2025
- Fox-and-cubsPilosella aurantiaca2025
- GroundselSenecio vulgaris2025
Species observations from the last 10 years via NBN Atlas
Wildlife to spot
16,788 records · National Biodiversity NetworkWoodpigeon · Blue Tit · House Sparrow · Carrion Crow · Robin +29
- WoodpigeonColumba palumbus
- Blue TitCyanistes caeruleus
- House SparrowPasser domesticus
- Carrion CrowCorvus corone
- RobinErithacus rubecula
- MagpiePica pica
- WrenTroglodytes troglodytes
- Black-headed GullChroicocephalus ridibundus
- BlackbirdTurdus merula
- Long-tailed TitAegithalos caudatus
- GoldfinchCarduelis carduelis
- Great TitParus major
- Grey WagtailMotacilla cinerea
- JackdawColoeus monedula
- LinnetLinaria cannabina
- Lesser Black-backed GullLarus fuscus
- StarlingSturnus vulgaris
- ChiffchaffPhylloscopus collybita
- KestrelFalco tinnunculus
- Grey HeronArdea cinerea
- PheasantPhasianus colchicus
- Tawny OwlStrix aluco
- Green WoodpeckerPicus viridis
- StonechatSaxicola rubicola
- NuthatchSitta europaea
- Great Spotted WoodpeckerDendrocopos major
- DunnockPrunella modularis
- GoldcrestRegulus regulus
- Common GullLarus canus
- Pied WagtailMotacilla alba yarrellii
- Herring GullLarus argentatus
- Little OwlAthene noctua
- Collared DoveStreptopelia decaocto
- MoorhenGallinula chloropus
Muntjac · Grey Squirrel
- MuntjacMuntiacus reevesi
- Grey SquirrelSciurus carolinensis
Common Darter · Eristalis pertinax
- Common DarterSympetrum striolatum
- Eristalis pertinaxEristalis pertinax
Elder · Red Dead-nettle · Horse-chestnut · Many-Seeded Goosefoot · Fox-and-cubs +32
- ElderSambucus nigra
- Red Dead-nettleLamium purpureum
- Horse-chestnutAesculus hippocastanum2025
- Many-Seeded GoosefootLipandra polysperma2025
- Fox-and-cubsPilosella aurantiaca2025
- GroundselSenecio vulgaris2025
Species observations from the last 10 years via NBN Atlas
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