Upper Common - Conifer woodland
4 ha
Plan your visit
🐶Dogs🦉Wildlife🦅Birds
Public accessFree entryDogs welcome4 ha
Getting here
51.35660, -0.43035
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
- 🐕Early mornings are best for dog walks in summer — visit before 9am to avoid the heat and find quieter trails
- 🅿️Parking 182m away — 6 car parks within reach
🌤️ Visiting this summer
- 🌞Midsummer — early morning visits most comfortable; look for deer fawns in quieter clearings
- 🐕Early mornings are best for dog walks in summer — visit before 9am to avoid the heat and find quieter trails
- 🅿️Parking 182m away — 6 car parks within reach
- £Free to visit — no entry charge
- 🐕Dogs welcome
Dogs allowed — public woodland
Free
Deciduous woodland priority habitat
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 km10 signed routes nearby
Signed route nearby
Locks and Levels (SCC)Walking route▾
Named routeLocal walking route
Thames Path - alternateWalking route▾
avoids sole ferry crossing just before Shepperton
Named routeRef TPaltRegional walking route
Canons and CornmillsWalking route▾
Named routeLocal walking route
European walking route E2 west, UK, South East EnglandWalking route▾
Westroute: Stranraer (UK) - Birminhgham (UK) - Calais (FR) - Zoersel (BE) / Eastroute: Stranraer (UK) - Harwich (UK) - Rotterdam (NL) - Zoersel (BE) / Both Routes: Zoersel (BE) - Maastrich (NL) - Luxembourg (LUX) - Lake Geneva (CH) - Nice (FR)
Named routeRef E2International walking route
Basingstoke CanalWalking route▾
Named routeRegional walking route
55 signed routes nearby
Signed route nearby
Brooklands Business Park Accessibility Project (proposed)Cycling route▾
Named routeLocal cycle route
A3 Cycle Route (alternative)Cycling route▾
Named routeLocal cycle route
Hersham station/Walton routeCycling route▾
Named routeLocal cycle route
EuroVelo 2 - Capitals Route - part United Kingdom 5Cycling route▾
Named routeRef EV2International cycle route
Route 4Cycling route▾
Named routeRef 4National Cycle Network
Venus TrailCycling route▾
Named routeRef VenusLocal cycle route
1 signed route nearby
Signed route nearby
Basingstoke Canal TowpathMountain bike route▾
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Wildlife to spot
12,770 records · National Biodiversity Network
Wildlife to spot
12,770 records · National Biodiversity NetworkBlackbird · Blue Tit · Tufted Duck · Great Tit · Robin +41
- BlackbirdTurdus merula2025
- Blue TitCyanistes caeruleus2025
- Tufted DuckAythya fuligula2025
- Great TitParus major2025
- RobinErithacus rubecula2025
- WoodpigeonColumba palumbus2025
- JackdawColoeus monedula2025
- GoldcrestRegulus regulus2025
- Coal TitPeriparus ater2025
- BlackcapSylvia atricapilla2025
- MallardAnas platyrhynchos2025
- MoorhenGallinula chloropus2025
- Song ThrushTurdus philomelos2025
- MagpiePica pica2025
- ChiffchaffPhylloscopus collybita2025
- Carrion CrowCorvus corone2025
- WrenTroglodytes troglodytes2025
- NuthatchSitta europaea2025
- Stock DoveColumba oenas2025
- Long-tailed TitAegithalos caudatus2025
- Great Spotted WoodpeckerDendrocopos major2025
- Collared DoveStreptopelia decaocto2025
- Common GullLarus canus2025
- Egyptian GooseAlopochen aegyptiaca2025
- JayGarrulus glandarius2025
- GreenfinchChloris chloris2025
- SwiftApus apus2025
- StarlingSturnus vulgaris
- House SparrowPasser domesticus2025
- ChaffinchFringilla coelebs2025
- CormorantPhalacrocorax carbo2025
- Barn OwlTyto alba2025
- Rock DoveColumba livia2025
- Great Black-backed GullLarus marinus2025
- CootFulica atra2025
- GadwallMareca strepera2025
- Canada GooseBranta canadensis2025
- Herring GullLarus argentatus2025
- RookCorvus frugilegus2025
- Black-headed GullChroicocephalus ridibundus2025
- Hooded CrowCorvus cornix2025
- Grey WagtailMotacilla cinerea2025
- Green SandpiperTringa ochropus2025
- FirecrestRegulus ignicapilla2025
- KingfisherAlcedo atthis2025
- GoldfinchCarduelis carduelis2025
🐸Amphibians1 species
summer
2025▾
Common Toad
Ampedus balteatus · Rose Chafer · Epistrophe eligans · Tawny Mining Bee · Water Measurer +16
- Ampedus balteatusAmpedus balteatus2025
- Rose ChaferCetonia aurata2025
- Epistrophe eligansEpistrophe eligans
- Tawny Mining BeeAndrena fulva
- Water MeasurerHydrometra stagnorum2025
- Agrypnia variaAgrypnia varia2025
Species observations from the last 10 years via NBN Atlas
Wildlife to spot
12,770 records · National Biodiversity NetworkBlackbird · Blue Tit · Tufted Duck · Great Tit · Robin +41
- BlackbirdTurdus merula2025
- Blue TitCyanistes caeruleus2025
- Tufted DuckAythya fuligula2025
- Great TitParus major2025
- RobinErithacus rubecula2025
- WoodpigeonColumba palumbus2025
- JackdawColoeus monedula2025
- GoldcrestRegulus regulus2025
- Coal TitPeriparus ater2025
- BlackcapSylvia atricapilla2025
- MallardAnas platyrhynchos2025
- MoorhenGallinula chloropus2025
- Song ThrushTurdus philomelos2025
- MagpiePica pica2025
- ChiffchaffPhylloscopus collybita2025
- Carrion CrowCorvus corone2025
- WrenTroglodytes troglodytes2025
- NuthatchSitta europaea2025
- Stock DoveColumba oenas2025
- Long-tailed TitAegithalos caudatus2025
- Great Spotted WoodpeckerDendrocopos major2025
- Collared DoveStreptopelia decaocto2025
- Common GullLarus canus2025
- Egyptian GooseAlopochen aegyptiaca2025
- JayGarrulus glandarius2025
- GreenfinchChloris chloris2025
- SwiftApus apus2025
- StarlingSturnus vulgaris
- House SparrowPasser domesticus2025
- ChaffinchFringilla coelebs2025
- CormorantPhalacrocorax carbo2025
- Barn OwlTyto alba2025
- Rock DoveColumba livia2025
- Great Black-backed GullLarus marinus2025
- CootFulica atra2025
- GadwallMareca strepera2025
- Canada GooseBranta canadensis2025
- Herring GullLarus argentatus2025
- RookCorvus frugilegus2025
- Black-headed GullChroicocephalus ridibundus2025
- Hooded CrowCorvus cornix2025
- Grey WagtailMotacilla cinerea2025
- Green SandpiperTringa ochropus2025
- FirecrestRegulus ignicapilla2025
- KingfisherAlcedo atthis2025
- GoldfinchCarduelis carduelis2025
🐸Amphibians1 species
summer
2025▾
Common Toad
Ampedus balteatus · Rose Chafer · Epistrophe eligans · Tawny Mining Bee · Water Measurer +16
- Ampedus balteatusAmpedus balteatus2025
- Rose ChaferCetonia aurata2025
- Epistrophe eligansEpistrophe eligans
- Tawny Mining BeeAndrena fulva
- Water MeasurerHydrometra stagnorum2025
- Agrypnia variaAgrypnia varia2025
Species observations from the last 10 years via NBN Atlas