🦉Wildlife✦Heritage🦅Birds
Dogs welcome
Getting here
51.19851, 0.84127
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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
- 🐕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
- ✦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
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 km10 signed routes nearby · 7 public paths nearby
Signed route nearbyPublic paths
Stour Valley WalkWalking route▾
Named routeListed length 82.9 kmRegional walking route
North Downs Way (Canterbury loop)Walking route▾
Named routeNational walking route
Beech Walk & SculpturesWalking route▾
Named routeLocal walking route
Oftord to Canterbury CathedralWalking route▾
follows North Downs Way from Otford to Broughton Lees
Named routeRegional walking route
North Downs Way (Eastern)Walking route▾
Named routeNational walking route
65 signed routes nearby
Signed route nearby
NCN National Route 18Cycling route▾
Named routeRef 18National Cycle Network
Comma TrailCycling route▾
Named routeLocal cycle route
Orange Tip TrailCycling route▾
Named routeLocal cycle route
NCN National Route 177 (Proposed)Cycling route▾
Named routeRef 177National Cycle Network
Proposed NCN National Route 18Cycling route▾
Named routeRef 18National Cycle Network
Pilgrims Cycle TrailCycling route▾
Named routeRegional cycle route
1 public path nearby
Public paths
North Downs Way/Pilgrims Waybyway open to all traffic · 1.8 km▾
Public pathbyway open to all trafficLength 1.8 kmSurface gravelPath type: track
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Wildlife to spot
2,377 records · National Biodiversity Network
Wildlife to spot
2,377 records · National Biodiversity Network🐦Birds34 species
springsummer
2025▾
Woodpigeon · Jackdaw · Blue Tit · Skylark · Blackbird +29
- WoodpigeonColumba palumbus
- JackdawColoeus monedula
- Blue TitCyanistes caeruleus
- SkylarkAlauda arvensis
- BlackbirdTurdus merula
- RobinErithacus rubecula
- GoldfinchCarduelis carduelis
- RookCorvus frugilegus2024
- House SparrowPasser domesticus2024
- YellowhammerEmberiza citrinella2024
- WrenTroglodytes troglodytes
- Great TitParus major2024
- ChaffinchFringilla coelebs2024
- SwallowHirundo rustica2024
- BlackcapSylvia atricapilla2024
- Carrion CrowCorvus corone
- MoorhenGallinula chloropus2024
- DunnockPrunella modularis2024
- ChiffchaffPhylloscopus collybita2024
- PheasantPhasianus colchicus2024
- WhitethroatCurruca communis2024
- StarlingSturnus vulgaris2024
- Song ThrushTurdus philomelos2022
- Herring GullLarus argentatus
- MagpiePica pica2024
- Pied WagtailMotacilla alba
- Collared DoveStreptopelia decaocto
- Long-tailed TitAegithalos caudatus
- CuckooCuculus canorus
- Willow WarblerPhylloscopus trochilus2024
- Little EgretEgretta garzetta2024
- GreenfinchChloris chloris2023
- Great Spotted WoodpeckerDendrocopos major2022
- House MartinDelichon urbicum2021
🦌Mammals2 species
springsummerwinter
2025▾
Rabbit · Brown Hare
- RabbitOryctolagus cuniculus2023
- Brown HareLepus europaeus
🐸Amphibians1 species
summer
2025▾
Common Toad
Meadow Brown · Red Admiral · Small White · Gatekeeper · Red-legged Shieldbug +25
- Meadow BrownManiola jurtina2024
- Red AdmiralVanessa atalanta2024
- Small WhitePieris rapae2024
- GatekeeperPyronia tithonus2024
- Red-legged ShieldbugPentatoma rufipes
- Green ShieldbugPalomena prasina
Species observations from the last 10 years via NBN Atlas
Wildlife to spot
2,377 records · National Biodiversity Network🐦Birds34 species
springsummer
2025▾
Woodpigeon · Jackdaw · Blue Tit · Skylark · Blackbird +29
- WoodpigeonColumba palumbus
- JackdawColoeus monedula
- Blue TitCyanistes caeruleus
- SkylarkAlauda arvensis
- BlackbirdTurdus merula
- RobinErithacus rubecula
- GoldfinchCarduelis carduelis
- RookCorvus frugilegus2024
- House SparrowPasser domesticus2024
- YellowhammerEmberiza citrinella2024
- WrenTroglodytes troglodytes
- Great TitParus major2024
- ChaffinchFringilla coelebs2024
- SwallowHirundo rustica2024
- BlackcapSylvia atricapilla2024
- Carrion CrowCorvus corone
- MoorhenGallinula chloropus2024
- DunnockPrunella modularis2024
- ChiffchaffPhylloscopus collybita2024
- PheasantPhasianus colchicus2024
- WhitethroatCurruca communis2024
- StarlingSturnus vulgaris2024
- Song ThrushTurdus philomelos2022
- Herring GullLarus argentatus
- MagpiePica pica2024
- Pied WagtailMotacilla alba
- Collared DoveStreptopelia decaocto
- Long-tailed TitAegithalos caudatus
- CuckooCuculus canorus
- Willow WarblerPhylloscopus trochilus2024
- Little EgretEgretta garzetta2024
- GreenfinchChloris chloris2023
- Great Spotted WoodpeckerDendrocopos major2022
- House MartinDelichon urbicum2021
🦌Mammals2 species
springsummerwinter
2025▾
Rabbit · Brown Hare
- RabbitOryctolagus cuniculus2023
- Brown HareLepus europaeus
🐸Amphibians1 species
summer
2025▾
Common Toad
Meadow Brown · Red Admiral · Small White · Gatekeeper · Red-legged Shieldbug +25
- Meadow BrownManiola jurtina2024
- Red AdmiralVanessa atalanta2024
- Small WhitePieris rapae2024
- GatekeeperPyronia tithonus2024
- Red-legged ShieldbugPentatoma rufipes
- Green ShieldbugPalomena prasina
Species observations from the last 10 years via NBN Atlas
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