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🦅Birds✦Heritage🦉Wildlife
Public accessDogs welcome954 ha
Getting here
52.77654, -0.46837
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Visiting this summer
Seasonal nature notes and what to look for now
- 🐦59+ species recorded in this area — summer evenings are best for activity; watch for Mute Swan and Greylag Goose
- ✦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
- 🐦59+ species recorded in this area — summer evenings are best for activity; watch for Mute Swan and Greylag Goose
- ✦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
🦅Bird watching
Very strong match
Birds — Mute Swan, Greylag Goose, Cormorant +56 more · last seen 2025; Deciduous woodland — woodpeckers, warblers and woodland birds
Free
✦Heritage
Very strong match
Grade I listed building: GRIMSTHORPE CASTLE AND NORTH COURT; Historic site with public access
Free
Birds — Mute Swan, Greylag Goose, Cormorant +56 more · last seen 2025; Deciduous woodland priority habitat
Free
🦋Insect spotting
Strong match
Chalk and limestone grassland — chalkhill blue, adonis blue and rare moths; Insects — Meadow Brown, Small White, Ringlet +92 more · last seen 2025
Free
Traditional orchard — seasonal fruit, fungi and wild plants
Varies
🍂Seasonal nature
Strong match
Plants — Rough-stalked Feather-moss, Wood Avens, Common Feather-moss +71 more · last seen 2025
Free
Trails nearby
Within roughly 5 km1 signed route nearby · 31 public paths nearby
Signed route nearbyPublic paths
The Danelaw WayWalking route▾
Chestnut Avenuepublic footpath · 22 m▾
Public pathpublic footpathLength 22 mPath type: service
Scottlethorpe Roadpublic footpath · 275 m▾
Public pathpublic footpathLength 275 mSurface asphaltPath type: track
Four Mile Ridingpublic footpath · 292 m▾
Public pathpublic footpathLength 292 mSurface dirtPath type: track
1 signed route nearby
Signed route nearby
Lincolnshire Cycle RouteCycling route▾
Named routeLocal cycle route
3 public paths nearby
Public paths
Park Lanebridleway · 12 m▾
Public pathbridlewayLength 12 mSurface gravelPath type: bridleway
Park Lanebridleway · 282 m▾
Public pathbridlewayLength 282 mSurface gravelPath type: bridleway
Park Lanebridleway · 154 m▾
Public pathbridlewayLength 154 mSurface gravelPath type: bridleway
Photos
Ford in Woods at Grimsthorpe Castle
Weather for this location
Next 14 daysNearby places
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Wildlife to spot
14,569 records · National Biodiversity Network
Wildlife to spot
14,569 records · National Biodiversity NetworkBlue Tit · Grey Heron · Green Woodpecker · Wren · Chaffinch +29
- Blue TitCyanistes caeruleus
- Grey HeronArdea cinerea
- Green WoodpeckerPicus viridis
- WrenTroglodytes troglodytes
- ChaffinchFringilla coelebs
- Carrion CrowCorvus corone
- JackdawColoeus monedula2024
- Great TitParus major2024
- DunnockPrunella modularis2024
- CormorantPhalacrocorax carbo
- JayGarrulus glandarius
- Common GullLarus canus
- Willow WarblerPhylloscopus trochilus
- SwallowHirundo rustica
- GadwallMareca strepera
- WoodpigeonColumba palumbus
- Little GrebeTachybaptus ruficollis
- Great Crested GrebePodiceps cristatus
- Reed WarblerAcrocephalus scirpaceus
- Little EgretEgretta garzetta
- Long-tailed TitAegithalos caudatus
- Greylag GooseAnser anser
- CootFulica atra
- KestrelFalco tinnunculus
- MallardAnas platyrhynchos
- Mute SwanCygnus olor
- PheasantPhasianus colchicus
- MoorhenGallinula chloropus
- Marsh TitPoecile palustris
- RookCorvus frugilegus2024
- Great Spotted WoodpeckerDendrocopos major2024
- RobinErithacus rubecula2024
- MagpiePica pica2024
- BlackbirdTurdus merula2024
🐝Insects16 species
springsummer
2025▾
Large Walnut Aphid · Common Blue Damselfly · Azure Damselfly · Broad-bodied Chaser · Brown Hawker +11
- Large Walnut AphidPanaphis juglandis
- Common Blue DamselflyEnallagma cyathigerum
- Azure DamselflyCoenagrion puella
- Broad-bodied ChaserLibellula depressa
- Brown HawkerAeshna grandis
- Band-eyed Brown HorseflyTabanus bromius
Marsh-bedstraw · Rough Meadow-grass · False Fox-sedge · Creeping Bent · Heath Speedwell +127
- Marsh-bedstrawGalium palustre
- Rough Meadow-grassPoa trivialis
- False Fox-sedgeCarex otrubae
- Creeping BentAgrostis stolonifera
- Heath SpeedwellVeronica officinalis
- False Oat-grassArrhenatherum elatius
- Dog's MercuryMercurialis perennis
Species observations from the last 10 years via NBN Atlas
Wildlife to spot
14,569 records · National Biodiversity NetworkBlue Tit · Grey Heron · Green Woodpecker · Wren · Chaffinch +29
- Blue TitCyanistes caeruleus
- Grey HeronArdea cinerea
- Green WoodpeckerPicus viridis
- WrenTroglodytes troglodytes
- ChaffinchFringilla coelebs
- Carrion CrowCorvus corone
- JackdawColoeus monedula2024
- Great TitParus major2024
- DunnockPrunella modularis2024
- CormorantPhalacrocorax carbo
- JayGarrulus glandarius
- Common GullLarus canus
- Willow WarblerPhylloscopus trochilus
- SwallowHirundo rustica
- GadwallMareca strepera
- WoodpigeonColumba palumbus
- Little GrebeTachybaptus ruficollis
- Great Crested GrebePodiceps cristatus
- Reed WarblerAcrocephalus scirpaceus
- Little EgretEgretta garzetta
- Long-tailed TitAegithalos caudatus
- Greylag GooseAnser anser
- CootFulica atra
- KestrelFalco tinnunculus
- MallardAnas platyrhynchos
- Mute SwanCygnus olor
- PheasantPhasianus colchicus
- MoorhenGallinula chloropus
- Marsh TitPoecile palustris
- RookCorvus frugilegus2024
- Great Spotted WoodpeckerDendrocopos major2024
- RobinErithacus rubecula2024
- MagpiePica pica2024
- BlackbirdTurdus merula2024
🐝Insects16 species
springsummer
2025▾
Large Walnut Aphid · Common Blue Damselfly · Azure Damselfly · Broad-bodied Chaser · Brown Hawker +11
- Large Walnut AphidPanaphis juglandis
- Common Blue DamselflyEnallagma cyathigerum
- Azure DamselflyCoenagrion puella
- Broad-bodied ChaserLibellula depressa
- Brown HawkerAeshna grandis
- Band-eyed Brown HorseflyTabanus bromius
Marsh-bedstraw · Rough Meadow-grass · False Fox-sedge · Creeping Bent · Heath Speedwell +127
- Marsh-bedstrawGalium palustre
- Rough Meadow-grassPoa trivialis
- False Fox-sedgeCarex otrubae
- Creeping BentAgrostis stolonifera
- Heath SpeedwellVeronica officinalis
- False Oat-grassArrhenatherum elatius
- Dog's MercuryMercurialis perennis
Species observations from the last 10 years via NBN Atlas
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