Plan your visit
🦅Birds✦Heritage🦉Wildlife
Public accessDogs welcome9 ha
Getting here
50.75917, -3.29165
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Visiting this summer
Seasonal nature notes and what to look for now
- 🐦70+ species recorded in this area — summer evenings are best for activity; watch for Pheasant and Rook
- ✦Historic character is a year-round quality here — summer brings its own atmosphere to the setting
- 🐕Dogs welcome — bring water in summer; the site has enough space to find shade on hot days
🌤️ Visiting this summer
- 🐦70+ species recorded in this area — summer evenings are best for activity; watch for Pheasant and Rook
- ✦Historic character is a year-round quality here — summer brings its own atmosphere to the setting
- 🐕Dogs welcome — bring water in summer; the site has enough space to find shade on hot days
🦅Bird watching
Very strong match
Birds — Pheasant, Rook, Woodpigeon +67 more · last seen 2025; Grazing marsh — lapwing, redshank, snipe and wintering wildfowl
Free
✦Heritage
Very strong match
Grade I listed building: CADHAY HOUSE; Historic site with public access
Free
Birds — Pheasant, Rook, Woodpigeon +67 more · last seen 2025; Coastal and floodplain grazing marsh priority habitat
Free
Traditional orchard — seasonal fruit, fungi and wild plants
Varies
🦋Insect spotting
Strong match
Insects — Oil Beetle, Brachypera zoilus, Fever Fly +10 more · last seen 2026; Traditional orchard — specialist orchard insects and lichens
Free
〰Waterside walks
Good match
Grazing marsh and ditches — waterside walking
Varies
Trails nearby
Within roughly 5 km8 signed routes nearby · 12 public paths nearby
Signed route nearbyPublic paths
East Devon WayWalking route▾
Named routeRef EDWListed length 61kmRegional walking route
Otter Valley WalkWalking route20 km▾
Named routeRef OVWLength 20 kmPoint-to-pointRegional walking route
Coleridge LinkWalking route14.5 km▾
A circular route in the Otter Valley.
Named routeRef COLLength 14.5 kmLocal walking route
Orange WayWalking route560 km▾
Named routeRef ORWLength 560 kmRegional walking route
Exeter to Honiton WayWalking route▾
Named routeRef EXHONRegional walking route
19 signed routes nearby
Signed route nearby
Route 248Cycling route▾
Named routeRef 248National Cycle Network
N/ACycling route46 m▾
Named routeLength 46 mNational Cycle NetworkTraffic-freeSurface asphalt
Main RouteCycling route242 m▾
Named routeRef 248Length 242 mNational Cycle NetworkOn-roadSurface asphalt
Main RouteCycling route358 m▾
Named routeRef 248Length 358 mNational Cycle NetworkOn-roadSurface asphalt
N/ACycling route481 m▾
Named routeLength 481 mNational Cycle NetworkOn-roadSurface asphalt
N/ACycling route148 m▾
Named routeLength 148 mNational Cycle NetworkTraffic-freeSurface asphalt
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Cadhay House Tree Lined Drive
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Wildlife to spot
10,085 records · National Biodiversity Network
Wildlife to spot
10,085 records · National Biodiversity NetworkPheasant · Woodpigeon · Rook · Blackbird · Robin +30
- PheasantPhasianus colchicus
- WoodpigeonColumba palumbus
- RookCorvus frugilegus
- BlackbirdTurdus merula
- RobinErithacus rubecula
- Carrion CrowCorvus corone
- Song ThrushTurdus philomelos
- JackdawColoeus monedula
- Great TitParus major
- Grey WagtailMotacilla cinerea
- SiskinSpinus spinus
- Pied WagtailMotacilla alba yarrellii
- Blue TitCyanistes caeruleus
- MallardAnas platyrhynchos
- Herring GullLarus argentatus
- House SparrowPasser domesticus
- Great Spotted WoodpeckerDendrocopos major
- GoldfinchCarduelis carduelis
- TealAnas crecca
- DunnockPrunella modularis
- WrenTroglodytes troglodytes
- MoorhenGallinula chloropus
- ChaffinchFringilla coelebs
- GoosanderMergus merganser
- MagpiePica pica
- CormorantPhalacrocorax carbo
- Long-tailed TitAegithalos caudatus
- RedwingTurdus iliacus
- TreecreeperCerthia familiaris
- Little EgretEgretta garzetta
- KingfisherAlcedo atthis
- Grey HeronArdea cinerea
- Rock DoveColumba livia
- JayGarrulus glandarius
- Tawny OwlStrix aluco
Rabbit · Red Fox · Red-necked Wallaby · Badger · Hazel Dormouse +7
- RabbitOryctolagus cuniculus
- Red FoxVulpes vulpes
- Red-necked WallabyNotamacropus rufogriseus
- BadgerMeles meles
- Hazel DormouseMuscardinus avellanarius
- Wood MouseApodemus sylvaticus
- HedgehogErinaceus europaeus
Oil Beetle
Species observations from the last 10 years via NBN Atlas
Wildlife to spot
10,085 records · National Biodiversity NetworkPheasant · Woodpigeon · Rook · Blackbird · Robin +30
- PheasantPhasianus colchicus
- WoodpigeonColumba palumbus
- RookCorvus frugilegus
- BlackbirdTurdus merula
- RobinErithacus rubecula
- Carrion CrowCorvus corone
- Song ThrushTurdus philomelos
- JackdawColoeus monedula
- Great TitParus major
- Grey WagtailMotacilla cinerea
- SiskinSpinus spinus
- Pied WagtailMotacilla alba yarrellii
- Blue TitCyanistes caeruleus
- MallardAnas platyrhynchos
- Herring GullLarus argentatus
- House SparrowPasser domesticus
- Great Spotted WoodpeckerDendrocopos major
- GoldfinchCarduelis carduelis
- TealAnas crecca
- DunnockPrunella modularis
- WrenTroglodytes troglodytes
- MoorhenGallinula chloropus
- ChaffinchFringilla coelebs
- GoosanderMergus merganser
- MagpiePica pica
- CormorantPhalacrocorax carbo
- Long-tailed TitAegithalos caudatus
- RedwingTurdus iliacus
- TreecreeperCerthia familiaris
- Little EgretEgretta garzetta
- KingfisherAlcedo atthis
- Grey HeronArdea cinerea
- Rock DoveColumba livia
- JayGarrulus glandarius
- Tawny OwlStrix aluco
Rabbit · Red Fox · Red-necked Wallaby · Badger · Hazel Dormouse +7
- RabbitOryctolagus cuniculus
- Red FoxVulpes vulpes
- Red-necked WallabyNotamacropus rufogriseus
- BadgerMeles meles
- Hazel DormouseMuscardinus avellanarius
- Wood MouseApodemus sylvaticus
- HedgehogErinaceus europaeus
Oil Beetle
Species observations from the last 10 years via NBN Atlas