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🦅Birds✦Heritage🦉Wildlife
Public accessFree entryDogs welcome0 ha
Getting here
53.01118, -0.33045
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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 Goldfinch and Blackbird
- ✦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 Goldfinch and Blackbird
- ✦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
- £Free to visit — no entry charge
- 🐕Dogs welcome
🦅Bird watching
Very strong match
Birds — Goldfinch, Blackbird, Blue Tit +67 more · last seen 2026
Free
Historic site with public access; Grade I listed building nearby: CHURCH OF ST ANDREW
Free
Birds — Goldfinch, Blackbird, Blue Tit +67 more · last seen 2026
Free
🦋Insect spotting
Strong match
Insects — Small White, Large White, Red Admiral +83 more · last seen 2024
Free
Dogs allowed with public access
Free
🏡Historic gardens
Good match
Historic site with public access
Varies
Trails nearby
Within roughly 5 km1 signed route nearby · 4 public paths nearby
Signed route nearbyPublic paths
Spires and Steeples TrailWalking route▾
Named routeRegional walking route
3 signed routes nearby
Signed route nearby
Route 15Cycling route▾
Named routeRef 15National Cycle Network
Sleaford - Ruskington Cycle PathCycling route▾
Named routeLocal cycle route
Boston Road Cycle PathCycling route▾
Named routeLocal cycle route
2 public paths nearby
Public paths
Clay Pit Lanerestricted byway · 496 m▾
Public pathrestricted bywayLength 496 mPath type: unclassified
Weather for this location
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Wildlife to spot
2,672 records · National Biodiversity Network
Wildlife to spot
2,672 records · National Biodiversity Network🐦Birds46 species
winterautumn
2026▾
Kestrel · Pheasant · Fieldfare · Robin · Yellowhammer +41
- KestrelFalco tinnunculus2025
- PheasantPhasianus colchicus2025
- FieldfareTurdus pilaris2025
- RobinErithacus rubecula2025
- YellowhammerEmberiza citrinella2025
- Little OwlAthene noctua2023
- WoodpigeonColumba palumbus2023
- SkylarkAlauda arvensis2025
- Black-headed GullChroicocephalus ridibundus2025
- Meadow PipitAnthus pratensis2024
- MagpiePica pica2023
- Blue TitCyanistes caeruleus
- BlackbirdTurdus merula2025
- Song ThrushTurdus philomelos2025
- DunnockPrunella modularis2025
- Common GullLarus canus2025
- Mute SwanCygnus olor2025
- Pied WagtailMotacilla alba2024
- JackdawColoeus monedula2024
- ChaffinchFringilla coelebs2024
- GoldfinchCarduelis carduelis2023
- Grey HeronArdea cinerea2023
- RedwingTurdus iliacus2023
- Great TitParus major2023
- House SparrowPasser domesticus
- LapwingVanellus vanellus2025
- Tyto alba albaTyto alba alba2025
- BullfinchPyrrhula pyrrhula2025
- GoldcrestRegulus regulus2024
- Tawny OwlStrix aluco2024
- Coal TitPeriparus ater2024
- SwallowHirundo rustica2024
- RookCorvus frugilegus2024
- Grey WagtailMotacilla cinerea2023
- Green WoodpeckerPicus viridis2023
- Reed BuntingEmberiza schoeniclus2023
- Herring GullLarus argentatus2023
- Long-tailed TitAegithalos caudatus2023
- BlackcapSylvia atricapilla2023
- StarlingSturnus vulgaris2019
- Mistle ThrushTurdus viscivorus2019
- StonechatSaxicola rubicola2019
- MoorhenGallinula chloropus2019
- Carrion CrowCorvus corone2019
- LinnetLinaria cannabina2019
- Red-legged PartridgeAlectoris rufa2019
🐸Amphibians1 species
winter
2025▾
Smooth Newt
- Smooth NewtLissotriton vulgaris
Demetrias atricapillus · Olibrus corticalis · Empis nuntia · 16-spot Ladybird · Large Flax Flea Beetle +61
- Demetrias atricapillusDemetrias atricapillus
- Olibrus corticalisOlibrus corticalis
- Empis nuntiaEmpis nuntia
- 16-spot LadybirdTytthaspis sedecimpunctata
- Large Flax Flea BeetleAphthona euphorbiae
- Clover Seed WeevilProtapion apricans
- White Clover Seed Weevil
Marchantia polymorpha subsp. ruderalis · Crescent-cup Liverwort
- Marchantia polymorpha subsp. ruderalisMarchantia polymorpha subsp. ruderalis
- Crescent-cup LiverwortLunularia cruciata
Species observations from the last 10 years via NBN Atlas
Wildlife to spot
2,672 records · National Biodiversity Network🐦Birds46 species
winterautumn
2026▾
Kestrel · Pheasant · Fieldfare · Robin · Yellowhammer +41
- KestrelFalco tinnunculus2025
- PheasantPhasianus colchicus2025
- FieldfareTurdus pilaris2025
- RobinErithacus rubecula2025
- YellowhammerEmberiza citrinella2025
- Little OwlAthene noctua2023
- WoodpigeonColumba palumbus2023
- SkylarkAlauda arvensis2025
- Black-headed GullChroicocephalus ridibundus2025
- Meadow PipitAnthus pratensis2024
- MagpiePica pica2023
- Blue TitCyanistes caeruleus
- BlackbirdTurdus merula2025
- Song ThrushTurdus philomelos2025
- DunnockPrunella modularis2025
- Common GullLarus canus2025
- Mute SwanCygnus olor2025
- Pied WagtailMotacilla alba2024
- JackdawColoeus monedula2024
- ChaffinchFringilla coelebs2024
- GoldfinchCarduelis carduelis2023
- Grey HeronArdea cinerea2023
- RedwingTurdus iliacus2023
- Great TitParus major2023
- House SparrowPasser domesticus
- LapwingVanellus vanellus2025
- Tyto alba albaTyto alba alba2025
- BullfinchPyrrhula pyrrhula2025
- GoldcrestRegulus regulus2024
- Tawny OwlStrix aluco2024
- Coal TitPeriparus ater2024
- SwallowHirundo rustica2024
- RookCorvus frugilegus2024
- Grey WagtailMotacilla cinerea2023
- Green WoodpeckerPicus viridis2023
- Reed BuntingEmberiza schoeniclus2023
- Herring GullLarus argentatus2023
- Long-tailed TitAegithalos caudatus2023
- BlackcapSylvia atricapilla2023
- StarlingSturnus vulgaris2019
- Mistle ThrushTurdus viscivorus2019
- StonechatSaxicola rubicola2019
- MoorhenGallinula chloropus2019
- Carrion CrowCorvus corone2019
- LinnetLinaria cannabina2019
- Red-legged PartridgeAlectoris rufa2019
🐸Amphibians1 species
winter
2025▾
Smooth Newt
- Smooth NewtLissotriton vulgaris
Demetrias atricapillus · Olibrus corticalis · Empis nuntia · 16-spot Ladybird · Large Flax Flea Beetle +61
- Demetrias atricapillusDemetrias atricapillus
- Olibrus corticalisOlibrus corticalis
- Empis nuntiaEmpis nuntia
- 16-spot LadybirdTytthaspis sedecimpunctata
- Large Flax Flea BeetleAphthona euphorbiae
- Clover Seed WeevilProtapion apricans
- White Clover Seed Weevil
Marchantia polymorpha subsp. ruderalis · Crescent-cup Liverwort
- Marchantia polymorpha subsp. ruderalisMarchantia polymorpha subsp. ruderalis
- Crescent-cup LiverwortLunularia cruciata
Species observations from the last 10 years via NBN Atlas
Protapion fulvipes
Protapion fulvipes
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