Slipper Lowe Plantation - Grassland
3 ha
Plan your visit
🦉Wildlife🦅Birds🐶Dogs
Public accessFree entryDogs welcome3 ha
Getting here
53.67526, -2.51445
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
- 📍Open access throughout summer — no booking required
🌤️ 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
- 📍Open access throughout summer — no booking required
- £Free to visit — no entry charge
- 🐕Dogs welcome
Deciduous woodland priority habitat
Free
🦅Bird watching
Strong match
Deciduous woodland — woodpeckers, warblers and woodland birds
Free
Dogs allowed with public access
Free
Deciduous woodland — fungi, berries and wild garlic
Varies
Named hiking route nearby: Full walk - Witton Weavers Way
Free
🍂Seasonal nature
Moderate match
Grassland — spring and summer wildflowers
Free
Trails nearby
Within roughly 5 km4 signed routes nearby · 3 public paths nearby
Signed route nearbyPublic paths
Warpers Trail - Witton Weavers WayWalking route▾
Named routeLocal walking route
Reelers Trail - Witton Weavers WayWalking route▾
Named routeLocal walking route
Tacklers Trail - Witton Weavers WayWalking route▾
Named routeLocal walking route
Full walk - Witton Weavers WayWalking route▾
1 signed route nearby
Signed route nearby
Lancashire Cycleway (Southern Loop)Cycling route▾
Named routeRef 91Regional cycle route
Photos
Open land on the top of Slipper Lowe
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Wildlife to spot
6,971 records · National Biodiversity Network
Wildlife to spot
6,971 records · National Biodiversity NetworkWren · Nuthatch · Fieldfare · Red Grouse (scotica) · Canada Goose +39
- WrenTroglodytes troglodytes2025
- NuthatchSitta europaea
- FieldfareTurdus pilaris
- Red Grouse (scotica)Lagopus scotica2025
- Canada GooseBranta canadensis
- StarlingSturnus vulgaris
- Coal TitPeriparus ater
- JayGarrulus glandarius
- MallardAnas platyrhynchos
- KestrelFalco tinnunculus
- MagpiePica pica2025
- Great TitParus major2025
- BlackbirdTurdus merula2025
- Long-tailed TitAegithalos caudatus
- TreecreeperCerthia familiaris2025
- Blue TitCyanistes caeruleus2025
- RobinErithacus rubecula2025
- Tufted DuckAythya fuligula
- WoodcockScolopax rusticola
- ChaffinchFringilla coelebs
- LapwingVanellus vanellus
- WoodpigeonColumba palumbus2025
- PheasantPhasianus colchicus2025
- RedwingTurdus iliacus2025
- CootFulica atra2025
- Great Spotted WoodpeckerDendrocopos major2025
- JackdawColoeus monedula2025
- Reed BuntingEmberiza schoeniclus2025
- Mistle ThrushTurdus viscivorus2025
- BullfinchPyrrhula pyrrhula2025
- GoosanderMergus merganser2025
- Whooper SwanCygnus cygnus2025
- Herring GullLarus argentatus2025
- Lesser Black-backed GullLarus fuscus2025
- GoldfinchCarduelis carduelis2025
- Greylag GooseAnser anser2025
- Black-headed GullChroicocephalus ridibundus2025
- Rock DoveColumba livia2025
- GoldcrestRegulus regulus2025
- DunnockPrunella modularis2025
- MoorhenGallinula chloropus2025
- Carrion CrowCorvus corone2025
- House SparrowPasser domesticus2025
- Barn OwlTyto alba2025
Mole · Roe Deer · Brown Hare · Grey Squirrel · Badger
- MoleTalpa europaea
- Roe DeerCapreolus capreolus
- Brown HareLepus europaeus
- Grey SquirrelSciurus carolinensis2025
- BadgerMeles meles
🐸Amphibians1 species
winter
2026▾
Common Frog
- Common FrogRana temporaria
🌿Plants12 species
winterautumn
2026▾
Cross-leaved Heath · Cranberry · Crowberry · Bog Asphodel · Opposite-leaved Golden-saxifrage +7
- Cross-leaved HeathErica tetralix
- CranberryVaccinium oxycoccos
- CrowberryEmpetrum nigrum subsp. nigrum
- Bog AsphodelNarthecium ossifragum
- Opposite-leaved Golden-saxifrageChrysosplenium oppositifolium
- Common CottongrassEriophorum angustifolium
Species observations from the last 10 years via NBN Atlas
Wildlife to spot
6,971 records · National Biodiversity NetworkWren · Nuthatch · Fieldfare · Red Grouse (scotica) · Canada Goose +39
- WrenTroglodytes troglodytes2025
- NuthatchSitta europaea
- FieldfareTurdus pilaris
- Red Grouse (scotica)Lagopus scotica2025
- Canada GooseBranta canadensis
- StarlingSturnus vulgaris
- Coal TitPeriparus ater
- JayGarrulus glandarius
- MallardAnas platyrhynchos
- KestrelFalco tinnunculus
- MagpiePica pica2025
- Great TitParus major2025
- BlackbirdTurdus merula2025
- Long-tailed TitAegithalos caudatus
- TreecreeperCerthia familiaris2025
- Blue TitCyanistes caeruleus2025
- RobinErithacus rubecula2025
- Tufted DuckAythya fuligula
- WoodcockScolopax rusticola
- ChaffinchFringilla coelebs
- LapwingVanellus vanellus
- WoodpigeonColumba palumbus2025
- PheasantPhasianus colchicus2025
- RedwingTurdus iliacus2025
- CootFulica atra2025
- Great Spotted WoodpeckerDendrocopos major2025
- JackdawColoeus monedula2025
- Reed BuntingEmberiza schoeniclus2025
- Mistle ThrushTurdus viscivorus2025
- BullfinchPyrrhula pyrrhula2025
- GoosanderMergus merganser2025
- Whooper SwanCygnus cygnus2025
- Herring GullLarus argentatus2025
- Lesser Black-backed GullLarus fuscus2025
- GoldfinchCarduelis carduelis2025
- Greylag GooseAnser anser2025
- Black-headed GullChroicocephalus ridibundus2025
- Rock DoveColumba livia2025
- GoldcrestRegulus regulus2025
- DunnockPrunella modularis2025
- MoorhenGallinula chloropus2025
- Carrion CrowCorvus corone2025
- House SparrowPasser domesticus2025
- Barn OwlTyto alba2025
Mole · Roe Deer · Brown Hare · Grey Squirrel · Badger
- MoleTalpa europaea
- Roe DeerCapreolus capreolus
- Brown HareLepus europaeus
- Grey SquirrelSciurus carolinensis2025
- BadgerMeles meles
🐸Amphibians1 species
winter
2026▾
Common Frog
- Common FrogRana temporaria
🌿Plants12 species
winterautumn
2026▾
Cross-leaved Heath · Cranberry · Crowberry · Bog Asphodel · Opposite-leaved Golden-saxifrage +7
- Cross-leaved HeathErica tetralix
- CranberryVaccinium oxycoccos
- CrowberryEmpetrum nigrum subsp. nigrum
- Bog AsphodelNarthecium ossifragum
- Opposite-leaved Golden-saxifrageChrysosplenium oppositifolium
- Common CottongrassEriophorum angustifolium
Species observations from the last 10 years via NBN Atlas
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