Skew Plantation - Conifer woodland
17 ha
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🦋Insects🦉Wildlife🦅Birds
Free entryDogs welcome17 ha
Getting here
51.90260, -1.54536
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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
- 🌿Foraging is at its best in summer here
- 🐕Dogs welcome — bring water in summer; the site has enough space to find shade on hot days
🌤️ Visiting this summer
- 🌞Midsummer — early morning visits most comfortable; look for deer fawns in quieter clearings
- 🌿Foraging is at its best in summer here
- 🐕Dogs welcome — bring water in summer; the site has enough space to find shade on hot days
- £Free to visit — no entry charge
- 🐕Dogs welcome
🦋Insect spotting
Strong match
Chalk and limestone grassland — chalkhill blue, adonis blue and rare moths
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
🌲Forest walks
Moderate match
Public woodland
Free
Trails nearby
Within roughly 5 km5 signed routes nearby
Signed route nearby
Oxfordshire WayWalking route110 km▾
a traverse of Oxfordshire from the Cotswolds to the Chilterns
Named routeRef OWLength 110 kmRegional walking route
Shakespeare's WayWalking route235 km▾
Named routeLength 235 kmRegional walking route
Wychwood WayWalking route59.5 km▾
Named routeLength 59.5 kmRegional walking route
D'Arcy Dalton WayWalking route107 km▾
Follows roughly the western boundary of Oxfordshire in unspoilt countryside.
Named routeLength 107 kmRegional 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
30 signed routes nearby
Signed route nearby
Cotswold Line Cycle RouteCycling route▾
Named routeRef 442National Cycle Network
National Byway (Oxon and Glos)Cycling route▾
Named routeRef NBRegional cycle route
Main RouteCycling route449 m▾
Named routeRef 442Length 449 mNational Cycle NetworkOn-roadSurface asphalt
Main RouteCycling route2.5 km▾
Named routeRef 442Length 2.5 kmNational Cycle NetworkOn-roadSurface asphalt
Main RouteCycling route430 m▾
Named routeRef 442Length 430 mNational Cycle NetworkOn-roadSurface asphalt
Main RouteCycling route210 m▾
Named routeRef 442Length 210 mNational Cycle NetworkTraffic-freeSurface grass
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Wildlife to spot
2,155 records · National Biodiversity Network
Wildlife to spot
2,155 records · National Biodiversity NetworkSwallow · House Sparrow · Rook · Goldfinch · Robin +34
- SwallowHirundo rustica2025
- House SparrowPasser domesticus
- RookCorvus frugilegus2025
- GoldfinchCarduelis carduelis
- RobinErithacus rubecula
- BlackbirdTurdus merula2025
- GreenfinchChloris chloris
- LinnetLinaria cannabina2025
- YellowhammerEmberiza citrinella2025
- BlackcapSylvia atricapilla
- DunnockPrunella modularis2025
- JackdawColoeus monedula2025
- Blue TitCyanistes caeruleus2025
- Red-legged PartridgeAlectoris rufa2025
- SkylarkAlauda arvensis2025
- WrenTroglodytes troglodytes2025
- WoodpigeonColumba palumbus2025
- Great TitParus major
- Carrion CrowCorvus corone2025
- Long-tailed TitAegithalos caudatus2025
- Barn OwlTyto alba2025
- Collared DoveStreptopelia decaocto2023
- ChiffchaffPhylloscopus collybita2023
- MagpiePica pica
- ChaffinchFringilla coelebs2023
- Song ThrushTurdus philomelos2023
- Great Spotted WoodpeckerDendrocopos major2023
- NuthatchSitta europaea2023
- Stock DoveColumba oenas2025
- Helmeted GuineafowlNumida meleagris2025
- Pied WagtailMotacilla alba yarrellii2025
- Green WoodpeckerPicus viridis2025
- FieldfareTurdus pilaris2025
- House MartinDelichon urbicum2023
- Lesser Black-backed GullLarus fuscus2023
- WhitethroatCurruca communis2023
- Coal TitPeriparus ater2023
- Willow WarblerPhylloscopus trochilus2023
- PheasantPhasianus colchicus2023
Badger · Grey Squirrel · Brown Hare
- BadgerMeles meles
- Grey SquirrelSciurus carolinensis
- Brown HareLepus europaeus
🦎Reptiles2 species
springautumn
2025▾
Common Lizard · Grass Snake
- Common LizardZootoca vivipara
- Grass SnakeNatrix helvetica2024
🐸Amphibians1 species
springsummer
2025▾
Common Toad
🐝Insects23 species
springsummerautumn
2026▾
7-spot Ladybird · Harlequin Ladybird · Speckled Bush-cricket · Swollen-thighed Beetle · Hairy Shieldbug +18
- 7-spot LadybirdCoccinella septempunctata2025
- Harlequin LadybirdHarmonia axyridis2025
- Speckled Bush-cricketLeptophyes punctatissima2025
- Swollen-thighed BeetleOedemera nobilis2025
- Hairy Shieldbug
Hart's-tongue Thyme-moss
- Hart's-tongue Thyme-mossPlagiomnium undulatum
Species observations from the last 10 years via NBN Atlas
Wildlife to spot
2,155 records · National Biodiversity NetworkSwallow · House Sparrow · Rook · Goldfinch · Robin +34
- SwallowHirundo rustica2025
- House SparrowPasser domesticus
- RookCorvus frugilegus2025
- GoldfinchCarduelis carduelis
- RobinErithacus rubecula
- BlackbirdTurdus merula2025
- GreenfinchChloris chloris
- LinnetLinaria cannabina2025
- YellowhammerEmberiza citrinella2025
- BlackcapSylvia atricapilla
- DunnockPrunella modularis2025
- JackdawColoeus monedula2025
- Blue TitCyanistes caeruleus2025
- Red-legged PartridgeAlectoris rufa2025
- SkylarkAlauda arvensis2025
- WrenTroglodytes troglodytes2025
- WoodpigeonColumba palumbus2025
- Great TitParus major
- Carrion CrowCorvus corone2025
- Long-tailed TitAegithalos caudatus2025
- Barn OwlTyto alba2025
- Collared DoveStreptopelia decaocto2023
- ChiffchaffPhylloscopus collybita2023
- MagpiePica pica
- ChaffinchFringilla coelebs2023
- Song ThrushTurdus philomelos2023
- Great Spotted WoodpeckerDendrocopos major2023
- NuthatchSitta europaea2023
- Stock DoveColumba oenas2025
- Helmeted GuineafowlNumida meleagris2025
- Pied WagtailMotacilla alba yarrellii2025
- Green WoodpeckerPicus viridis2025
- FieldfareTurdus pilaris2025
- House MartinDelichon urbicum2023
- Lesser Black-backed GullLarus fuscus2023
- WhitethroatCurruca communis2023
- Coal TitPeriparus ater2023
- Willow WarblerPhylloscopus trochilus2023
- PheasantPhasianus colchicus2023
Badger · Grey Squirrel · Brown Hare
- BadgerMeles meles
- Grey SquirrelSciurus carolinensis
- Brown HareLepus europaeus
🦎Reptiles2 species
springautumn
2025▾
Common Lizard · Grass Snake
- Common LizardZootoca vivipara
- Grass SnakeNatrix helvetica2024
🐸Amphibians1 species
springsummer
2025▾
Common Toad
🐝Insects23 species
springsummerautumn
2026▾
7-spot Ladybird · Harlequin Ladybird · Speckled Bush-cricket · Swollen-thighed Beetle · Hairy Shieldbug +18
- 7-spot LadybirdCoccinella septempunctata2025
- Harlequin LadybirdHarmonia axyridis2025
- Speckled Bush-cricketLeptophyes punctatissima2025
- Swollen-thighed BeetleOedemera nobilis2025
- Hairy Shieldbug
Hart's-tongue Thyme-moss
- Hart's-tongue Thyme-mossPlagiomnium undulatum
Species observations from the last 10 years via NBN Atlas
Dolycoris baccarum2025
Dolycoris baccarum2025
Red-legged ShieldbugPentatoma rufipes2025Red-legged ShieldbugPentatoma rufipes2025Green ShieldbugPalomena prasina2025Green ShieldbugPalomena prasina2025Roesel's Bush-cricketRoeseliana roeselii2024Roesel's Bush-cricketRoeseliana roeselii2024Beautiful DemoiselleCalopteryx virgo2023Beautiful DemoiselleCalopteryx virgo2023Scathophaga stercorariaScathophaga stercorariaScathophaga stercorariaScathophaga stercorariaDark-edged Bee-flyBombylius majorDark-edged Bee-flyBombylius majorSyrphusSyrphus2025SyrphusSyrphus2025Hawthorn ShieldbugAcanthosoma haemorrhoidale2025Hawthorn ShieldbugAcanthosoma haemorrhoidale2025EupeodesEupeodes2025EupeodesEupeodes2025Summer ChaferAmphimallon solstitiale2025Summer ChaferAmphimallon solstitiale2025Common CockchaferMelolontha melolontha2025Common CockchaferMelolontha melolontha2025Broad-bodied ChaserLibellula depressa2025Broad-bodied ChaserLibellula depressa2025Red-headed Cardinal BeetlePyrochroa serraticornis2025Red-headed Cardinal BeetlePyrochroa serraticornis2025Common Burying BeetleNicrophorus vespillo2025Common Burying BeetleNicrophorus vespillo2025Dark Bush-cricketPholidoptera griseoaptera2024Dark Bush-cricketPholidoptera griseoaptera20242-spot LadybirdAdalia bipunctata20232-spot LadybirdAdalia bipunctata2023Common DarterSympetrum striolatum2023Common DarterSympetrum striolatum2023Meadow GrasshopperPseudochorthippus parallelus2023Meadow GrasshopperPseudochorthippus parallelus2023