🦉Wildlife✦Heritage🦅Birds
Dogs welcome
Getting here
51.49959, -0.28701
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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
- ✦Historic character is a year-round quality here — summer brings its own atmosphere to the setting
- ☕Pure In The Park — a good base for a longer summer day out
🌤️ Visiting this summer
- 🌞Midsummer — early morning visits most comfortable; look for deer fawns in quieter clearings
- ✦Historic character is a year-round quality here — summer brings its own atmosphere to the setting
- ☕Pure In The Park — a good base for a longer summer day out
🚲Bike parking☕Café🅿️Parking🛝Playground🚻Toilets
Deciduous woodland priority habitat
Free
🦅Bird watching
Strong match
Deciduous woodland — woodpeckers, warblers and woodland birds
Free
Deciduous woodland — fungi, berries and wild garlic
Varies
Trails nearby
Within roughly 5 km28 signed routes nearby
Signed route nearby
Thames Path Kew Gardens diverted due to bank collapseWalking route▾
The Gruffalo TrailWalking route500 m▾
Named routeLength 500 mRound tripLocal walking route
Capital Ring link to Richmond stationWalking route▾
Named routeRegional walking route
Capital Ring Section 07 (alternate)Walking route▾
Named routeRegional walking route
Brent River Park footpathWalking route▾
Named routeLocal walking route
125 signed routes nearby
Signed route nearby
Route ■Cycling route▾
Named routeRef ■Local cycle route
LCN 33Cycling route▾
Named routeRef 33Local cycle route
LCN 75Cycling route▾
Named routeRef 75Local cycle route
LCN 33Cycling route▾
Named routeRef 33Local cycle route
LCN 33 (spur)Cycling route▾
Named routeRef (33)Local cycle route
LCNCycling route▾
Named routeLocal cycle route
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Wildlife to spot
44,767 records · National Biodiversity Network
Wildlife to spot
44,767 records · National Biodiversity NetworkShoveler · Pochard · Wigeon · Robin · Bittern +30
- ShovelerSpatula clypeata
- PochardAythya ferina
- WigeonMareca penelope
- RobinErithacus rubecula
- BitternBotaurus stellaris
- JayGarrulus glandarius
- MoorhenGallinula chloropus
- MagpiePica pica
- WoodpigeonColumba palumbus
- Pied WagtailMotacilla alba
- Great TitParus major
- Black-headed GullChroicocephalus ridibundus
- JackdawColoeus monedula2025
- Egyptian GooseAlopochen aegyptiaca2025
- Rock DoveColumba livia2025
- StarlingSturnus vulgaris2025
- Coal TitPeriparus ater
- Great Spotted WoodpeckerDendrocopos major
- Long-tailed TitAegithalos caudatus
- Canada GooseBranta canadensis2025
- Carrion CrowCorvus corone2025
- Herring GullLarus argentatus2025
- GoldfinchCarduelis carduelis2025
- Blue TitCyanistes caeruleus2025
- BlackbirdTurdus merula2025
- House SparrowPasser domesticus
- GadwallMareca strepera
- CormorantPhalacrocorax carbo2025
- MallardAnas platyrhynchos2025
- NuthatchSitta europaea2025
- Green WoodpeckerPicus viridis2025
- Stock DoveColumba oenas2025
- Mistle ThrushTurdus viscivorus2025
- GoldcrestRegulus regulus2025
- WrenTroglodytes troglodytes2025
Grey Squirrel · Red Fox
- Grey SquirrelSciurus carolinensis
- Red FoxVulpes vulpes2025
🐸Amphibians2 species
winterspring
2026▾
Smooth Newt · Common Frog
- Smooth NewtLissotriton vulgaris
- Common FrogRana temporaria
🐝Insects10 species
winterspring
2026▾
Dark-edged Bee-fly · Trioza centranthi · Epistrophe eligans · Pipizella · Notonecta (Notonecta) viridis +5
- Dark-edged Bee-flyBombylius major
- Trioza centranthiTrioza centranthi
- Epistrophe eligansEpistrophe eligans
- PipizellaPipizella
- Notonecta (Notonecta) viridisNotonecta (Notonecta) viridis
- Minotaur BeetleTyphaeus typhoeus
Common Cord-moss
- Common Cord-mossFunaria hygrometrica
Species observations from the last 10 years via NBN Atlas
Wildlife to spot
44,767 records · National Biodiversity NetworkShoveler · Pochard · Wigeon · Robin · Bittern +30
- ShovelerSpatula clypeata
- PochardAythya ferina
- WigeonMareca penelope
- RobinErithacus rubecula
- BitternBotaurus stellaris
- JayGarrulus glandarius
- MoorhenGallinula chloropus
- MagpiePica pica
- WoodpigeonColumba palumbus
- Pied WagtailMotacilla alba
- Great TitParus major
- Black-headed GullChroicocephalus ridibundus
- JackdawColoeus monedula2025
- Egyptian GooseAlopochen aegyptiaca2025
- Rock DoveColumba livia2025
- StarlingSturnus vulgaris2025
- Coal TitPeriparus ater
- Great Spotted WoodpeckerDendrocopos major
- Long-tailed TitAegithalos caudatus
- Canada GooseBranta canadensis2025
- Carrion CrowCorvus corone2025
- Herring GullLarus argentatus2025
- GoldfinchCarduelis carduelis2025
- Blue TitCyanistes caeruleus2025
- BlackbirdTurdus merula2025
- House SparrowPasser domesticus
- GadwallMareca strepera
- CormorantPhalacrocorax carbo2025
- MallardAnas platyrhynchos2025
- NuthatchSitta europaea2025
- Green WoodpeckerPicus viridis2025
- Stock DoveColumba oenas2025
- Mistle ThrushTurdus viscivorus2025
- GoldcrestRegulus regulus2025
- WrenTroglodytes troglodytes2025
Grey Squirrel · Red Fox
- Grey SquirrelSciurus carolinensis
- Red FoxVulpes vulpes2025
🐸Amphibians2 species
winterspring
2026▾
Smooth Newt · Common Frog
- Smooth NewtLissotriton vulgaris
- Common FrogRana temporaria
🐝Insects10 species
winterspring
2026▾
Dark-edged Bee-fly · Trioza centranthi · Epistrophe eligans · Pipizella · Notonecta (Notonecta) viridis +5
- Dark-edged Bee-flyBombylius major
- Trioza centranthiTrioza centranthi
- Epistrophe eligansEpistrophe eligans
- PipizellaPipizella
- Notonecta (Notonecta) viridisNotonecta (Notonecta) viridis
- Minotaur BeetleTyphaeus typhoeus
Common Cord-moss
- Common Cord-mossFunaria hygrometrica
Species observations from the last 10 years via NBN Atlas
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