Plan your visit
🛝Family🦅Birds🧺Picnic
Public accessFree entryDogs welcome5 ha
Getting here
50.72405, -1.81806
Open directionsv
Visiting this summer
Seasonal nature notes and what to look for now
- 🐦65+ species recorded in this area — summer evenings are best for activity; watch for Woodpigeon and Magpie
- ☀️Summer family visits work well here — arrive early and plan for a longer stay
- ☕Wild & Ginger — makes this an easy full-day family visit without needing to pack food
🌤️ Visiting this summer
- 🐦65+ species recorded in this area — summer evenings are best for activity; watch for Woodpigeon and Magpie
- ☀️Summer family visits work well here — arrive early and plan for a longer stay
- ☕Wild & Ginger — makes this an easy full-day family visit without needing to pack food
- £Free to visit — no entry charge
- 🐕Dogs welcome
☕Café🅿️Parking· Paid🧺Picnic spot🛝Playground🚻Toilets
🛝Family friendly
Very strong match
playground, café, toilets, picnic area; Urban park — family destination
Free
🦅Bird watching
Very strong match
Birds — Woodpigeon, Magpie, Carrion Crow +62 more · last seen 2026; Deciduous woodland — woodpeckers, warblers and woodland birds
Free
🧺Picnic day out
Very strong match
picnic area, café, toilets, car park; Urban park — open green space
Free
🎠Playgrounds
Very strong match
playground, toilets, café, parking
Free
Birds — Woodpigeon, Magpie, Carrion Crow +62 more · last seen 2026; Deciduous woodland priority habitat
Free
🦋Insect spotting
Strong match
Insects — Small White, Large White, Common Blue +81 more · last seen 2025
Free
Trails nearby
Within roughly 5 km5 signed routes nearby
Signed route nearby
Avon Valley PathWalking route55 km▾
Named routeRef AVPLength 55 kmRegional walking route
Stour Valley WayWalking route100 km▾
Named routeRef SVWLength 100 kmRegional walking route
Bourne Valley Greenway walkWalking route▾
Named routeRef BVGLocal walking route
Boscombe Arts Trail.Walking route▾
Bournemouth Coast PathWalking route▾
Named routeLocal walking route
103 signed routes nearby
Signed route nearby
Stour Valley CyclewayCycling route▾
Named routeLocal cycle route
Route 2Cycling route▾
National Cycle Route 2 Christchurch to Axminster
Named routeRef 2National Cycle Network
S6 ProposedCycling route▾
Named routeRef S6 pLocal cycle route
Woodland WalkCycling route▾
Named routeLocal cycle route
NCN25 (AlternateCycling route▾
Named routeRef NCN25Regional cycle route
Route 25Cycling route▾
Named routeRef 25National Cycle Network
Photos
Bandstand at Fisherman's Walk, Pokesdown
Weather for this location
Next 14 daysNearby places
Useful places within 5 km
Wildlife to spot
22,039 records · National Biodiversity Network
Wildlife to spot
22,039 records · National Biodiversity Network🐦Birds41 species
summerautumnwinter
2026▾
Magpie · Woodpigeon · Carrion Crow · Robin · Wren +36
- MagpiePica pica
- WoodpigeonColumba palumbus
- Carrion CrowCorvus corone2025
- RobinErithacus rubecula
- WrenTroglodytes troglodytes2025
- JayGarrulus glandarius
- BlackbirdTurdus merula
- Blue TitCyanistes caeruleus2025
- Great TitParus major2025
- House SparrowPasser domesticus
- Long-tailed TitAegithalos caudatus2025
- Herring GullLarus argentatus2025
- Black-headed GullChroicocephalus ridibundus2025
- Stock DoveColumba oenas2025
- GoldcrestRegulus regulus
- DunnockPrunella modularis
- Great Spotted WoodpeckerDendrocopos major2025
- Song ThrushTurdus philomelos2025
- Mute SwanCygnus olor2025
- MoorhenGallinula chloropus2025
- Coal TitPeriparus ater2025
- JackdawColoeus monedula2025
- NuthatchSitta europaea2025
- StarlingSturnus vulgaris2025
- Collared DoveStreptopelia decaocto2025
- FirecrestRegulus ignicapilla2025
- ChiffchaffPhylloscopus collybita2025
- Green WoodpeckerPicus viridis2025
- SwiftApus apus2025
- GreenfinchChloris chloris
- Rock DoveColumba livia2025
- CormorantPhalacrocorax carbo2025
- KestrelFalco tinnunculus2025
- Great Black-backed GullLarus marinus2025
- Grey HeronArdea cinerea2025
- House MartinDelichon urbicum2025
- CootFulica atra2025
- MallardAnas platyrhynchos2025
- Grey WagtailMotacilla cinerea2025
- Willow WarblerPhylloscopus trochilus2025
- StonechatSaxicola rubicola2025
🦌Mammals2 species
summerautumnwinter
2025▾
Grey Squirrel · Brown Rat
- Grey SquirrelSciurus carolinensis
- Brown RatRattus norvegicus
Wall Lizard · Common Lizard · Turtles, Terrapins and Tortoises
- Wall LizardPodarcis muralis
- Common LizardZootoca vivipara2025
- Turtles, Terrapins and TortoisesTestudines2025
Hornet Hoverfly · Marmalade Hoverfly · Cabbage Bug · Syrphus · Nimbus contaminatus +9
- Hornet HoverflyVolucella zonaria
- Marmalade HoverflyEpisyrphus balteatus
- Cabbage BugEurydema (Eurydema) oleracea
- SyrphusSyrphus
- Nimbus contaminatusNimbus contaminatus
- Fever FlyDilophus febrilis
- Cuckoo-Spit InsectPhilaenus spumarius
Springy Turf-moss
- Springy Turf-mossRhytidiadelphus squarrosus
Species observations from the last 10 years via NBN Atlas
Wildlife to spot
22,039 records · National Biodiversity Network🐦Birds41 species
summerautumnwinter
2026▾
Magpie · Woodpigeon · Carrion Crow · Robin · Wren +36
- MagpiePica pica
- WoodpigeonColumba palumbus
- Carrion CrowCorvus corone2025
- RobinErithacus rubecula
- WrenTroglodytes troglodytes2025
- JayGarrulus glandarius
- BlackbirdTurdus merula
- Blue TitCyanistes caeruleus2025
- Great TitParus major2025
- House SparrowPasser domesticus
- Long-tailed TitAegithalos caudatus2025
- Herring GullLarus argentatus2025
- Black-headed GullChroicocephalus ridibundus2025
- Stock DoveColumba oenas2025
- GoldcrestRegulus regulus
- DunnockPrunella modularis
- Great Spotted WoodpeckerDendrocopos major2025
- Song ThrushTurdus philomelos2025
- Mute SwanCygnus olor2025
- MoorhenGallinula chloropus2025
- Coal TitPeriparus ater2025
- JackdawColoeus monedula2025
- NuthatchSitta europaea2025
- StarlingSturnus vulgaris2025
- Collared DoveStreptopelia decaocto2025
- FirecrestRegulus ignicapilla2025
- ChiffchaffPhylloscopus collybita2025
- Green WoodpeckerPicus viridis2025
- SwiftApus apus2025
- GreenfinchChloris chloris
- Rock DoveColumba livia2025
- CormorantPhalacrocorax carbo2025
- KestrelFalco tinnunculus2025
- Great Black-backed GullLarus marinus2025
- Grey HeronArdea cinerea2025
- House MartinDelichon urbicum2025
- CootFulica atra2025
- MallardAnas platyrhynchos2025
- Grey WagtailMotacilla cinerea2025
- Willow WarblerPhylloscopus trochilus2025
- StonechatSaxicola rubicola2025
🦌Mammals2 species
summerautumnwinter
2025▾
Grey Squirrel · Brown Rat
- Grey SquirrelSciurus carolinensis
- Brown RatRattus norvegicus
Wall Lizard · Common Lizard · Turtles, Terrapins and Tortoises
- Wall LizardPodarcis muralis
- Common LizardZootoca vivipara2025
- Turtles, Terrapins and TortoisesTestudines2025
Hornet Hoverfly · Marmalade Hoverfly · Cabbage Bug · Syrphus · Nimbus contaminatus +9
- Hornet HoverflyVolucella zonaria
- Marmalade HoverflyEpisyrphus balteatus
- Cabbage BugEurydema (Eurydema) oleracea
- SyrphusSyrphus
- Nimbus contaminatusNimbus contaminatus
- Fever FlyDilophus febrilis
- Cuckoo-Spit InsectPhilaenus spumarius
Springy Turf-moss
- Springy Turf-mossRhytidiadelphus squarrosus
Species observations from the last 10 years via NBN Atlas
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