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Gorse Plantation

9 ha

📷 Mat Fascione · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0

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Free entryDogs welcome9 ha

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52.80895, -0.68882

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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
🍄Mushroom 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
🍄Mushroom 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

Good to know

£Free to visit — no entry charge
🐕Dogs welcome

Best for

7 activities

Wildlife

Very strong match

Multi-group wildlife — Birds, Mammals; Multi-group wildlife — Birds, Mammals

Free

Mushroom foraging

Strong match

Fungi — Netted Crust, Naematelia aurantia, Hairy Curtain Crust +11 more · last seen 2020; Fungi — Netted Crust, Naematelia aurantia, Hairy Curtain Crust +11 more · last seen 2020

Varies

Insect spotting

Strong match

Insects — Brimstone Moth, Setaceous Hebrew Character, Large Yellow Underwing +356 more · last seen 2025; Insects — Brimstone Moth, Setaceous Hebrew Character, Large Yellow Underwing +356 more · last seen 2025

Free

Bird watching

Strong match

Deciduous woodland — woodpeckers, warblers and woodland birds; Birds — Wigeon, Peregrine, Pochard +14 more · last seen 2024

Free

Foraging

Good match

Deciduous woodland — fungi, berries and wild garlic; Plants — White Dead-nettle, Ground-elder, Red Dead-nettle +3 more foraging species

Varies

Seasonal nature

Good match

Plants — Indet. Comfrey, White Dead-nettle, Ground-elder +9 more · last seen 2025; Plants — Indet. Comfrey, White Dead-nettle, Ground-elder +9 more · last seen 2025

Free

Trails nearby

Within roughly 5 km

🚶

Walking

2 signed routes nearby · 1 public path nearby

Signed route nearbyPublic paths

Viking Way (Barnetby to Whitwell)Walking route

Named routeRegional walking route

Mowbray WayWalking route14 km

Named routeLength 14 kmLocal walking route

🚴

Cycling

2 signed routes nearby

Signed route nearby

National Byway (Lincolnshire)Cycling route

The National Byway in Lincolnshire

Named routeRef NBRegional cycle route

National Byway (Rutland)Cycling route

National Byway in Rutland

Named routeRef NBRegional cycle route

Wildlife to spot

4,523 records · National Biodiversity Network

Wildlife to spot

4,523 records · National Biodiversity Network

🐦

Birds12 species

spring

2025

Wigeon · Peregrine · Red Kite · Buzzard · Meadow Pipit +7

WigeonMareca penelope2022
PeregrineFalco peregrinus2022
Red KiteMilvus milvus
BuzzardButeo buteo2024
Meadow PipitAnthus pratensis2024
FieldfareTurdus pilaris2024
ChaffinchFringilla coelebs2024
Carrion CrowCorvus corone2024
Blue TitCyanistes caeruleus2024
BramblingFringilla montifringilla2024
House MartinDelichon urbicum2023
Mediterranean GullIchthyaetus melanocephalus2023

🐝

Insects73 species

autumn

2025

Sallow Dot · Broken-barred Oak Dot · Common Oak Leaf-miner · Barred Fruit-tree Dot · Ilex Leaf-miner +68

Sallow DotStigmella salicis2021
Broken-barred Oak DotEctoedemia subbimaculella2021
Common Oak Leaf-minerPhyllonorycter quercifoliella2021
Barred Fruit-tree DotEctoedemia atricollis2021
Ilex Leaf-minerPhyllonorycter messaniella2021
Fruit-tree DotStigmella oxyacanthella2021
Small Beech DotStigmella tityrella2021
Norway Maple Leaf-minerPhyllonorycter joannisi2021
Oak DotStigmella roborella2021
Beech DotStigmella hemargyrella2021
Hawthorn ParornixParornix anglicella2021
Common Thorn Leaf-minerPhyllonorycter oxyacanthae2021
Beech Leaf-minerPhyllonorycter maestingella2021
Hawthorn Leaf-minerPhyllonorycter corylifoliella2021
Feathered ThornColotois pennaria2021
December MothPoecilocampa populi2021
SprawlerAsteroscopus sphinx2021
Red-green CarpetChloroclysta siterata2021
Golden DotStigmella aurella2021
Nut-tree DotStigmella microtheriella2021
Common Cloaked TortrixGypsonoma dealbana2021
Speckled Hazel DotStigmella floslactella2021
Beautiful Elm DotStigmella lemniscella2021
Shining Hawthorn DotStigmella hybnerella2021
Apple Leaf MinerLyonetia clerkella2021
Lime DotStigmella tiliae2021
White-spot DotEctoedemia heringi2021
Blackthorn Leaf-minerPhyllonorycter spinicolella2021
Mottled UmberErannis defoliaria2021
November Moth agg.Epirrita dilutata agg.2021
Scarce UmberAgriopis aurantiaria2021
Common Marbled CarpetDysstroma truncata2021
Horse-Chestnut Leaf-minerCameraria ohridella2021
Common Birch Leaf-minerPhyllonorycter ulmifoliella2021
Sycamore Leaf-minerPhyllonorycter geniculella2021
Pear Leaf Blister MothLeucoptera malifoliella2021
Apple NymphCallisto denticulella2021
Angle-barred Rose DotEctoedemia angulifasciella2021
Plain Elm DotStigmella viscerella2021
Blue-shot DotStigmella plagicolella2021
Least Hawthorn DotStigmella perpygmaeella2021
Elm Leaf-minerPhyllonorycter tristrigella2021
Firethorn Leaf MinerPhyllonorycter leucographella2021
Shining Elm Leaf-minerPhyllonorycter schreberella2021
Dark Hornbeam Leaf-minerPhyllonorycter esperella2021
Hornbeam Leaf-minerPhyllonorycter tenerella2021
Oak CarlTischeria ekebladella2021
2-spot LadybirdAdalia bipunctata
Cherry SlugwormCaliroa cerasi2023
Willow Emerald DamselflyChalcolestes viridis2022
Plain Holm Oak DotStigmella suberivora2021
Speckled Holm Oak DotEctoedemia heringella2021
ChestnutConistra vaccinii2021
Green-brindled CrescentAllophyes oxyacanthae2021
SatelliteEupsilia transversa2021
Spruce CarpetThera britannica2021
Wakely's DowdBlastobasis lacticolella2021
Broad-bordered Yellow UnderwingNoctua fimbriata2021
Rusty DotUdea ferrugalis2021
Hazel leaf-minerPhyllonorycter nicellii2021
Oak TuftBucculatrix ulmella2021
Short-barred DotStigmella luteella2021
Willow DotStigmella obliquella2021
Three-spot DotStigmella trimaculella2021
Speckled Bittersweet MothAcrolepia autumnitella2021
Grey Apple DotStigmella incognitella2021
Rowan ParornixParornix scoticella2021
Nut Leaf Blister MothPhyllonorycter coryli2021
Buckthorn DotStigmella catharticella2021
Rose Leaf MinerStigmella anomalella2021
White-shouldered OchreYpsolopha parenthesella2021
Vine's RusticHoplodrina ambigua2021
Notch Wing TortixAcleris emargana2021

🌿

Plants11 species

springsummer

2025

Indet. Comfrey · White Dead-nettle · Ground-elder · Yellow Corydalis · Hedge Woundwort +6

Indet. ComfreySymphytum
White Dead-nettleLamium album2023
Ground-elderAegopodium podagraria
Yellow CorydalisPseudofumaria lutea
Hedge WoundwortStachys sylvatica
Fox-and-cubsPilosella aurantiaca
BluebellHyacinthoides non-scripta x hispanica = H. x massartiana2023
Herb-RobertGeranium robertianum2023
Red Dead-nettleLamium purpureum2023
DandelionTaraxacum2023
Yellow-wortBlackstonia perfoliata2022

Species observations from the last 10 years via NBN Atlas

Wildlife to spot

4,523 records · National Biodiversity Network

🐦

Birds12 species

spring

2025

Wigeon · Peregrine · Red Kite · Buzzard · Meadow Pipit +7

WigeonMareca penelope2022
PeregrineFalco peregrinus2022
Red KiteMilvus milvus
BuzzardButeo buteo2024
Meadow PipitAnthus pratensis2024
FieldfareTurdus pilaris2024
ChaffinchFringilla coelebs2024
Carrion CrowCorvus corone2024
Blue TitCyanistes caeruleus2024
BramblingFringilla montifringilla2024
House MartinDelichon urbicum2023
Mediterranean GullIchthyaetus melanocephalus2023

🐝

Insects73 species

autumn

2025

Sallow Dot · Broken-barred Oak Dot · Common Oak Leaf-miner · Barred Fruit-tree Dot · Ilex Leaf-miner +68

Sallow DotStigmella salicis2021
Broken-barred Oak DotEctoedemia subbimaculella2021
Common Oak Leaf-minerPhyllonorycter quercifoliella2021
Barred Fruit-tree DotEctoedemia atricollis2021
Ilex Leaf-minerPhyllonorycter messaniella2021
Fruit-tree DotStigmella oxyacanthella2021
Small Beech DotStigmella tityrella2021
Norway Maple Leaf-minerPhyllonorycter joannisi2021
Oak DotStigmella roborella2021
Beech DotStigmella hemargyrella2021
Hawthorn ParornixParornix anglicella2021
Common Thorn Leaf-minerPhyllonorycter oxyacanthae2021
Beech Leaf-minerPhyllonorycter maestingella2021
Hawthorn Leaf-minerPhyllonorycter corylifoliella2021
Feathered ThornColotois pennaria2021
December MothPoecilocampa populi2021
SprawlerAsteroscopus sphinx2021
Red-green CarpetChloroclysta siterata2021
Golden DotStigmella aurella2021
Nut-tree DotStigmella microtheriella2021
Common Cloaked TortrixGypsonoma dealbana2021
Speckled Hazel DotStigmella floslactella2021
Beautiful Elm DotStigmella lemniscella2021
Shining Hawthorn DotStigmella hybnerella2021
Apple Leaf MinerLyonetia clerkella2021
Lime DotStigmella tiliae2021
White-spot DotEctoedemia heringi2021
Blackthorn Leaf-minerPhyllonorycter spinicolella2021
Mottled UmberErannis defoliaria2021
November Moth agg.Epirrita dilutata agg.2021
Scarce UmberAgriopis aurantiaria2021
Common Marbled CarpetDysstroma truncata2021
Horse-Chestnut Leaf-minerCameraria ohridella2021
Common Birch Leaf-minerPhyllonorycter ulmifoliella2021
Sycamore Leaf-minerPhyllonorycter geniculella2021
Pear Leaf Blister MothLeucoptera malifoliella2021
Apple NymphCallisto denticulella2021
Angle-barred Rose DotEctoedemia angulifasciella2021
Plain Elm DotStigmella viscerella2021
Blue-shot DotStigmella plagicolella2021
Least Hawthorn DotStigmella perpygmaeella2021
Elm Leaf-minerPhyllonorycter tristrigella2021
Firethorn Leaf MinerPhyllonorycter leucographella2021
Shining Elm Leaf-minerPhyllonorycter schreberella2021
Dark Hornbeam Leaf-minerPhyllonorycter esperella2021
Hornbeam Leaf-minerPhyllonorycter tenerella2021
Oak CarlTischeria ekebladella2021
2-spot LadybirdAdalia bipunctata
Cherry SlugwormCaliroa cerasi2023
Willow Emerald DamselflyChalcolestes viridis2022
Plain Holm Oak DotStigmella suberivora2021
Speckled Holm Oak DotEctoedemia heringella2021
ChestnutConistra vaccinii2021
Green-brindled CrescentAllophyes oxyacanthae2021
SatelliteEupsilia transversa2021
Spruce CarpetThera britannica2021
Wakely's DowdBlastobasis lacticolella2021
Broad-bordered Yellow UnderwingNoctua fimbriata2021
Rusty DotUdea ferrugalis2021
Hazel leaf-minerPhyllonorycter nicellii2021
Oak TuftBucculatrix ulmella2021
Short-barred DotStigmella luteella2021
Willow DotStigmella obliquella2021
Three-spot DotStigmella trimaculella2021
Speckled Bittersweet MothAcrolepia autumnitella2021
Grey Apple DotStigmella incognitella2021
Rowan ParornixParornix scoticella2021
Nut Leaf Blister MothPhyllonorycter coryli2021
Buckthorn DotStigmella catharticella2021
Rose Leaf MinerStigmella anomalella2021
White-shouldered OchreYpsolopha parenthesella2021
Vine's RusticHoplodrina ambigua2021
Notch Wing TortixAcleris emargana2021

🌿

Plants11 species

springsummer

2025

Indet. Comfrey · White Dead-nettle · Ground-elder · Yellow Corydalis · Hedge Woundwort +6

Indet. ComfreySymphytum
White Dead-nettleLamium album2023
Ground-elderAegopodium podagraria
Yellow CorydalisPseudofumaria lutea
Hedge WoundwortStachys sylvatica
Fox-and-cubsPilosella aurantiaca
BluebellHyacinthoides non-scripta x hispanica = H. x massartiana2023
Herb-RobertGeranium robertianum2023
Red Dead-nettleLamium purpureum2023
DandelionTaraxacum2023
Yellow-wortBlackstonia perfoliata2022

Species observations from the last 10 years via NBN Atlas

Wildlife to spot

Photos

📷 Mat Fascione · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0

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