Plan your visit
🦅Birds🦉Wildlife🦋Insects
Dogs welcome
Getting here
54.05454, -2.38802
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Visiting this summer
Seasonal nature notes and what to look for now
- 🐦54+ species recorded in this area — summer evenings are best for activity; watch for Red Grouse (scotica) and Kestrel
- ✦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
- 🐦54+ species recorded in this area — summer evenings are best for activity; watch for Red Grouse (scotica) and Kestrel
- ✦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 — Red Grouse (scotica), Kestrel, Meadow Pipit +51 more · last seen 2024; Blanket bog — golden plover, curlew, dunlin and merlin
Free
Birds — Red Grouse (scotica), Kestrel, Meadow Pipit +51 more · last seen 2024; Blanket bog priority habitat
Free
🦋Insect spotting
Strong match
Insects — Small Heath, Peacock, Small White +16 more · last seen 2025
Free
🍂Seasonal nature
Good match
Plants — Marchantia polymorpha subsp. polymorpha, Forked Veilwort, Marchantia polymorpha subsp. ruderalis +7 more · last seen 2017
Free
🏡Historic gardens
Moderate match
Historic site
Varies
Trails nearby
Within roughly 5 km1 signed route nearby
Signed route nearby
A Pennine JourneyWalking route▾
Named routeListed length 398kmRegional walking route
7 signed routes nearby
Signed route nearby
Lancashire Cycleway (Northern Loop)Cycling route▾
Named routeRef 90Regional cycle route
National Byway Trans-Pennine SpurCycling route▾
Named routeRef NBRegional cycle route
Route 69Cycling route▾
Named routeRef 69National Cycle Network
Yorkshire Dales CyclewayCycling route▾
Named routeRef YDCRegional cycle route
Way of the Roses Cycle RouteCycling route▾
Named routeRef WoRNational Cycle Network
Main RouteCycling route895 m▾
Named routeRef 69Length 895 mNational Cycle NetworkOn-roadSurface asphalt
1 signed route nearby
Signed route nearby
The 8Mountain bike route▾
Weather for this location
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Wildlife to spot
822 records · National Biodiversity Network
Wildlife to spot
822 records · National Biodiversity Network🐦Birds3 species
winterspringautumn
2024▾
Kestrel · Lesser Redpoll · Willow Tit
- KestrelFalco tinnunculus2020
- Lesser RedpollAcanthis flammea cabaret
- Willow TitPoecile montanus
Hedgehog
- HedgehogErinaceus europaeus
🐝Insects4 species
springsummer
2025▾
Meliscaeva auricollis · Melanostoma scalare · Teuchestes fossor · Water Measurer
- Meliscaeva auricollisMeliscaeva auricollis
- Melanostoma scalareMelanostoma scalare
- Teuchestes fossorTeuchestes fossor2022
- Water MeasurerHydrometra stagnorum2019
Bracken · Sheep's Sorrel · Holly · Sitka Spruce · Broad Buckler-fern +145
- BrackenPteridium aquilinum
- Sheep's SorrelRumex acetosella
- HollyIlex aquifolium
- Sitka SprucePicea sitchensis
- Broad Buckler-fernDryopteris dilatata
- HeatherCalluna vulgaris
- Jointed RushJuncus articulatus
Species observations from the last 10 years via NBN Atlas
Wildlife to spot
822 records · National Biodiversity Network🐦Birds3 species
winterspringautumn
2024▾
Kestrel · Lesser Redpoll · Willow Tit
- KestrelFalco tinnunculus2020
- Lesser RedpollAcanthis flammea cabaret
- Willow TitPoecile montanus
Hedgehog
- HedgehogErinaceus europaeus
🐝Insects4 species
springsummer
2025▾
Meliscaeva auricollis · Melanostoma scalare · Teuchestes fossor · Water Measurer
- Meliscaeva auricollisMeliscaeva auricollis
- Melanostoma scalareMelanostoma scalare
- Teuchestes fossorTeuchestes fossor2022
- Water MeasurerHydrometra stagnorum2019
Bracken · Sheep's Sorrel · Holly · Sitka Spruce · Broad Buckler-fern +145
- BrackenPteridium aquilinum
- Sheep's SorrelRumex acetosella
- HollyIlex aquifolium
- Sitka SprucePicea sitchensis
- Broad Buckler-fernDryopteris dilatata
- HeatherCalluna vulgaris
- Jointed RushJuncus articulatus
Species observations from the last 10 years via NBN Atlas
