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Cadley Park

14 ha

📷 Ian Calderwood · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0

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Public accessFree entryDogs welcome14 ha

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52.77401, -1.57793

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Visiting this summer

Seasonal nature notes and what to look for now

🐦27+ species recorded in this area — summer evenings are best for activity; watch for Black-headed Gull and Swift
☀️Summer family visits work well here — arrive early and plan for a longer stay
🛝Playground 191m away — built-in entertainment for younger visitors alongside the wider site

🌤️ Visiting this summer

🐦27+ species recorded in this area — summer evenings are best for activity; watch for Black-headed Gull and Swift
☀️Summer family visits work well here — arrive early and plan for a longer stay
🛝Playground 191m away — built-in entertainment for younger visitors alongside the wider site

Good to know

£Free to visit — no entry charge
🐕Dogs welcome

ParkingPlayground

Best for

8 activities

Bird watching

Very strong match

Birds — Black-headed Gull, Swift, Woodpigeon +24 more · last seen 2025

Free

Wildlife

Strong match

Birds — Black-headed Gull, Swift, Woodpigeon +24 more · last seen 2025

Free

Insect spotting

Strong match

Insects — Speckled Wood, Large White, Ringlet +30 more · last seen 2025

Free

Playgrounds

Strong match

playground, parking

Free

Family friendly

Strong match

playground; Urban park — family destination

Free

Seasonal nature

Strong match

Plants — Herb-Robert, Cow Parsley, Daisy +101 more · last seen 2026

Free

Trails nearby

Within roughly 5 km

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Walking

5 signed routes nearby · 14 public paths nearby

Signed route nearbyPublic paths

National Forest WayWalking route

Named routeRegional walking route

Ivanhoe WayWalking route

Named routeRegional walking route

Coton in the Elms Circular WalkWalking route10 km

Named routeLength 10 kmLocal walking route

Spires and SteeplesWalking route

Named route

Trent Valley WayWalking route304 km

Named routeLength 304 kmPoint-to-pointRegional walking route

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Cycling

104 signed routes nearby

Signed route nearby

Route 54Cycling route

Named routeRef 54National Cycle Network

Conkers CircuitCycling route

Named routeRef Conkers CircuitRound tripLocal cycle route

Route 63Cycling route

Named routeRef 63National Cycle Network

N/ACycling route26 m

Named routeLength 26 mNational Cycle NetworkOn-roadSurface asphalt

N/ACycling route600 m

Named routeLength 600 mNational Cycle NetworkTraffic-freeSurface unsealedfirm

N/ACycling route2 km

Named routeLength 2 kmNational Cycle NetworkTraffic-freeSurface unsealedfirm

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Mountain biking

4 signed routes nearby

Signed route nearby

Family Forest Trail (Yellow)Mountain bike route

Named routeRef Family Forest TrailRound trip

Wood Farm TrailMountain bike route

Named routeRef Wood Farm Trail

Shell Brook TrailMountain bike route

Named routeRef Shell Brook TrailRound tripLocal cycle route

Hicks Lodge TrailMountain bike route

Named route

Wildlife to spot

20,029 records · National Biodiversity Network

Wildlife to spot

20,029 records · National Biodiversity Network

🌿

Plants136 species

winterspring

2026

Dandelion · Garlic Mustard · Common Nettle · Broad-leaved Dock · Cut-leaved Crane's-bill +131

DandelionTaraxacum
Garlic MustardAlliaria petiolata
Common NettleUrtica dioica
Broad-leaved DockRumex obtusifolius
Cut-leaved Crane's-billGeranium dissectum
GroundselSenecio vulgaris
Spear ThistleCirsium vulgare
Henbit Dead-nettleLamium amplexicaule
AlderAlnus glutinosa
Festuca rubraFestuca rubra
Curled DockRumex crispus
Wood AvensGeum urbanum
Great WillowherbEpilobium hirsutum
Smooth Sow-thistleSonchus oleraceus
Annual Meadow-grassPoa annua
Common ChickweedStellaria media
HazelCorylus avellana
CleaversGalium aparine
SelfhealPrunella vulgaris
Red Dead-nettleLamium purpureum
Red ValerianCentranthus ruber
Hairy Bitter-cressCardamine hirsuta
WeldReseda luteola
Herb-RobertGeranium robertianum
White CloverTrifolium repens
Meadow ButtercupRanunculus acris
HogweedHeracleum sphondylium
Pendulous SedgeCarex pendula
Sticky Mouse-earCerastium glomeratum
Ribwort PlantainPlantago lanceolata
Cock's-footDactylis glomerata
Hedge MustardSisymbrium officinale
HollyIlex aquifolium
Wild TeaselDipsacus fullonum
Dove's-foot Crane's-billGeranium molle
False Oat-grassArrhenatherum elatius
Shining Crane's-billGeranium lucidum
ColtsfootTussilago farfara
White Dead-nettleLamium album
Cow ParsleyAnthriscus sylvestris
DaisyBellis perennis
BroomCytisus scoparius
AshFraxinus excelsior
Common Bird's-foot-trefoilLotus corniculatus
Creeping CinquefoilPotentilla reptans
Hard RushJuncus inflexus
Tufted Hair-grassDeschampsia cespitosa
Beaked Hawk's-beardCrepis vesicaria
Flowering CurrantRibes sanguineum
Purple ToadflaxLinaria purpurea
Green AlkanetPentaglottis sempervirens
Scots PinePinus sylvestris
Ground-elderAegopodium podagraria
Rosa caninaRosa canina
Hedge WoundwortStachys sylvatica
YewTaxus baccata
Hoary PlantainPlantago media
False-bromeBrachypodium sylvaticum
Ivy-leaved SpeedwellVeronica hederifolia
SnowdropGalanthus nivalis
Oxeye DaisyLeucanthemum vulgare
Creeping ButtercupRanunculus repens
Greater CelandineChelidonium majus
HoneysuckleLonicera periclymenum
Procumbent PearlwortSagina procumbens
Cherry LaurelPrunus laurocerasus
Welsh PoppyPapaver cambricum
Snow-in-summerCerastium tomentosum
Silver BirchBetula pendula
Greater PlantainPlantago major
BlackthornPrunus spinosa
FeverfewTanacetum parthenium
Opium PoppyPapaver somniferum
MugwortArtemisia vulgaris
NipplewortLapsana communis
HawthornCrataegus monogyna
Hawkweed OxtonguePicris hieracioides
Ivy-leaved ToadflaxCymbalaria muralis
Buck's-horn PlantainPlantago coronopus
Yorkshire-fogHolcus lanatus
Pedunculate OakQuercus robur
Thale CressArabidopsis thaliana
SycamoreAcer pseudoplatanus
Lesser CelandineFicaria verna
Common MallowMalva sylvestris
Rue-leaved SaxifrageSaxifraga tridactylites
Parsley-piertAphanes arvensis
Hyacinthoides hispanicaHyacinthoides hispanica
Petty SpurgeEuphorbia peplus
Red CloverTrifolium pratense
Common RagwortJacobaea vulgaris
LaurustinusViburnum tinus
Black MedickMedicago lupulina
Winter JasmineJasminum nudiflorum
Bush VetchVicia sepium
Butterfly-bushBuddleja davidii
FoxgloveDigitalis purpurea
Great MulleinVerbascum thapsus
Stellaria mediaStellaria media
Cut-leaved Dead-nettleLamium hybridum
Box-leaved HoneysuckleLonicera pileata
GorseUlex europaeus
Great LettuceLactuca virosa
Portugal LaurelPrunus lusitanica
IvyHedera helix
Lords-and-LadiesArum maculatum
Common IvyHedera helix subsp. helix
Oxford RagwortSenecio squalidus
Common WhitlowgrassErophila verna
ElderSambucus nigra
YarrowAchillea millefolium
Rosebay WillowherbChamaenerion angustifolium
ColumbineAquilegia vulgaris
Common VetchVicia sativa
Shepherd's-purseCapsella bursa-pastoris
Germander SpeedwellVeronica chamaedrys
Swine-cressLepidium coronopus
Field ScabiousKnautia arvensis
Goat WillowSalix caprea
Wood Forget-me-notMyosotis sylvatica
Common CouchElymus repens
PrimrosePrimula vulgaris
Small NettleUrtica urens
Common ReedPhragmites australis
BulrushTypha latifolia
HemlockConium maculatum
Common Mouse-earCerastium fontanum
BrambleRubus fruticosus
Cat's-earHypochaeris radicata
Lesser BurdockArctium minus
Creeping BentAgrostis stolonifera
Rumex crispus x obtusifolius = R. x pratensisRumex crispus x obtusifolius = R. x pratensis
Centaurea nigraCentaurea nigra
Common SallowSalix cinerea
Wood Small-reedCalamagrostis epigejos
Narrow-leaved Everlasting-peaLathyrus sylvestris

Species observations from the last 10 years via NBN Atlas

Wildlife to spot

20,029 records · National Biodiversity Network

🌿

Plants136 species

winterspring

2026

Dandelion · Garlic Mustard · Common Nettle · Broad-leaved Dock · Cut-leaved Crane's-bill +131

DandelionTaraxacum
Garlic MustardAlliaria petiolata
Common NettleUrtica dioica
Broad-leaved DockRumex obtusifolius
Cut-leaved Crane's-billGeranium dissectum
GroundselSenecio vulgaris
Spear ThistleCirsium vulgare
Henbit Dead-nettleLamium amplexicaule
AlderAlnus glutinosa
Festuca rubraFestuca rubra
Curled DockRumex crispus
Wood AvensGeum urbanum
Great WillowherbEpilobium hirsutum
Smooth Sow-thistleSonchus oleraceus
Annual Meadow-grassPoa annua
Common ChickweedStellaria media
HazelCorylus avellana
CleaversGalium aparine
SelfhealPrunella vulgaris
Red Dead-nettleLamium purpureum
Red ValerianCentranthus ruber
Hairy Bitter-cressCardamine hirsuta
WeldReseda luteola
Herb-RobertGeranium robertianum
White CloverTrifolium repens
Meadow ButtercupRanunculus acris
HogweedHeracleum sphondylium
Pendulous SedgeCarex pendula
Sticky Mouse-earCerastium glomeratum
Ribwort PlantainPlantago lanceolata
Cock's-footDactylis glomerata
Hedge MustardSisymbrium officinale
HollyIlex aquifolium
Wild TeaselDipsacus fullonum
Dove's-foot Crane's-billGeranium molle
False Oat-grassArrhenatherum elatius
Shining Crane's-billGeranium lucidum
ColtsfootTussilago farfara
White Dead-nettleLamium album
Cow ParsleyAnthriscus sylvestris
DaisyBellis perennis
BroomCytisus scoparius
AshFraxinus excelsior
Common Bird's-foot-trefoilLotus corniculatus
Creeping CinquefoilPotentilla reptans
Hard RushJuncus inflexus
Tufted Hair-grassDeschampsia cespitosa
Beaked Hawk's-beardCrepis vesicaria
Flowering CurrantRibes sanguineum
Purple ToadflaxLinaria purpurea
Green AlkanetPentaglottis sempervirens
Scots PinePinus sylvestris
Ground-elderAegopodium podagraria
Rosa caninaRosa canina
Hedge WoundwortStachys sylvatica
YewTaxus baccata
Hoary PlantainPlantago media
False-bromeBrachypodium sylvaticum
Ivy-leaved SpeedwellVeronica hederifolia
SnowdropGalanthus nivalis
Oxeye DaisyLeucanthemum vulgare
Creeping ButtercupRanunculus repens
Greater CelandineChelidonium majus
HoneysuckleLonicera periclymenum
Procumbent PearlwortSagina procumbens
Cherry LaurelPrunus laurocerasus
Welsh PoppyPapaver cambricum
Snow-in-summerCerastium tomentosum
Silver BirchBetula pendula
Greater PlantainPlantago major
BlackthornPrunus spinosa
FeverfewTanacetum parthenium
Opium PoppyPapaver somniferum
MugwortArtemisia vulgaris
NipplewortLapsana communis
HawthornCrataegus monogyna
Hawkweed OxtonguePicris hieracioides
Ivy-leaved ToadflaxCymbalaria muralis
Buck's-horn PlantainPlantago coronopus
Yorkshire-fogHolcus lanatus
Pedunculate OakQuercus robur
Thale CressArabidopsis thaliana
SycamoreAcer pseudoplatanus
Lesser CelandineFicaria verna
Common MallowMalva sylvestris
Rue-leaved SaxifrageSaxifraga tridactylites
Parsley-piertAphanes arvensis
Hyacinthoides hispanicaHyacinthoides hispanica
Petty SpurgeEuphorbia peplus
Red CloverTrifolium pratense
Common RagwortJacobaea vulgaris
LaurustinusViburnum tinus
Black MedickMedicago lupulina
Winter JasmineJasminum nudiflorum
Bush VetchVicia sepium
Butterfly-bushBuddleja davidii
FoxgloveDigitalis purpurea
Great MulleinVerbascum thapsus
Stellaria mediaStellaria media
Cut-leaved Dead-nettleLamium hybridum
Box-leaved HoneysuckleLonicera pileata
GorseUlex europaeus
Great LettuceLactuca virosa
Portugal LaurelPrunus lusitanica
IvyHedera helix
Lords-and-LadiesArum maculatum
Common IvyHedera helix subsp. helix
Oxford RagwortSenecio squalidus
Common WhitlowgrassErophila verna
ElderSambucus nigra
YarrowAchillea millefolium
Rosebay WillowherbChamaenerion angustifolium
ColumbineAquilegia vulgaris
Common VetchVicia sativa
Shepherd's-purseCapsella bursa-pastoris
Germander SpeedwellVeronica chamaedrys
Swine-cressLepidium coronopus
Field ScabiousKnautia arvensis
Goat WillowSalix caprea
Wood Forget-me-notMyosotis sylvatica
Common CouchElymus repens
PrimrosePrimula vulgaris
Small NettleUrtica urens
Common ReedPhragmites australis
BulrushTypha latifolia
HemlockConium maculatum
Common Mouse-earCerastium fontanum
BrambleRubus fruticosus
Cat's-earHypochaeris radicata
Lesser BurdockArctium minus
Creeping BentAgrostis stolonifera
Rumex crispus x obtusifolius = R. x pratensisRumex crispus x obtusifolius = R. x pratensis
Centaurea nigraCentaurea nigra
Common SallowSalix cinerea
Wood Small-reedCalamagrostis epigejos
Narrow-leaved Everlasting-peaLathyrus sylvestris

Species observations from the last 10 years via NBN Atlas

Wildlife to spot

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📷 Ian Calderwood · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0

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