Lower Pool Coppice
✦ Ancient woodland5 ha
Plan your visit
🦉Wildlife🌿Foraging🍂Seasonal
Free entryDogs welcome5 ha
Getting here
52.33595, -2.53201
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
- 🌿Foraging is at its best in summer here
- 🐕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
- 🌿Foraging is at its best in summer here
- 🐕Dogs welcome — bring water in summer; the site has enough space to find shade on hot days
- £Free to visit — no entry charge
- 🐕Dogs welcome
- 🌿Ancient woodland — rare wildlife habitat
🦉Wildlife
Very strong match
Multi-group wildlife — Birds, Mammals, Reptiles; Multi-group wildlife — Birds, Mammals, Reptiles
Free
Traditional orchard — seasonal fruit, fungi and wild plants; Plants — Hazel, Bramble, Dandelion +28 more foraging species
Varies
🍂Seasonal nature
Strong match
Ancient woodland — bluebells, fungi and autumn colour; Plants — Himalayan Balsam, Common Dog-violet, Wild Cherry +194 more · last seen 2017
Free
🦅Bird watching
Strong match
Birds — Tawny Owl, Blue Tit, Robin +46 more · last seen 2025; Birds — Tawny Owl, Blue Tit, Robin +46 more · last seen 2025
Free
🦋Insect spotting
Strong match
Insects — Small White, Gatekeeper, Meadow Brown +113 more · last seen 2025; Insects — Small White, Gatekeeper, Meadow Brown +113 more · last seen 2025
Free
Ancient woodland — historic landscape
Free
Trails nearby
Within roughly 5 km2 signed routes nearby
Signed route nearby
Simon Evans WayWalking route▾
Named routeRegional walking route
Shropshire Way (Route 11, Link to Severn Way)Walking route14 km▾
Named routeLength 14 kmRegional walking route
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Wildlife to spot
3,511 records · National Biodiversity Network
Wildlife to spot
3,511 records · National Biodiversity Network🐦Birds27 species
summerautumn
2025▾
Tawny Owl · Swift · Wren · Nuthatch · Robin +22
- Tawny OwlStrix aluco2019
- SwiftApus apus
- WrenTroglodytes troglodytes
- NuthatchSitta europaea
- RobinErithacus rubecula
- House SparrowPasser domesticus
- Blue TitCyanistes caeruleus
- DunnockPrunella modularis
- BlackbirdTurdus merula
- Great Spotted WoodpeckerDendrocopos major2020
- WoodpigeonColumba palumbus
- WhitethroatCurruca communis
- GoldcrestRegulus regulus
- MagpiePica pica
- House MartinDelichon urbicum
- KestrelFalco tinnunculus
- Long-tailed TitAegithalos caudatus
- ChiffchaffPhylloscopus collybita
- BlackcapSylvia atricapilla
- GreenfinchChloris chloris
- MoorhenGallinula chloropus
- Song ThrushTurdus philomelos
- SwallowHirundo rustica
- Carrion CrowCorvus corone
- Great TitParus major2020
- ChaffinchFringilla coelebs2020
- Coal TitPeriparus ater2020
🦌Mammals6 species
springsummer
2023▾
Hedgehog · Common Pipistrelle · Brown Long-eared Bat · Soprano Pipistrelle · Noctule +1
- HedgehogErinaceus europaeus
- Common PipistrellePipistrellus pipistrellus2022
- Brown Long-eared BatPlecotus auritus2022
- Soprano PipistrellePipistrellus pygmaeus2022
- NoctuleNyctalus noctula2021
Slow-worm
Peacock · Gatekeeper · Red Admiral · Psychomyia pusilla · Cheumatopsyche lepida +56
- PeacockAglais io2019
- GatekeeperPyronia tithonus2019
- Red AdmiralVanessa atalanta2019
- Psychomyia pusillaPsychomyia pusilla2019
- Cheumatopsyche lepidaCheumatopsyche lepida2019
- Sericostoma personatumSericostoma personatum
Species observations from the last 10 years via NBN Atlas
Wildlife to spot
3,511 records · National Biodiversity Network🐦Birds27 species
summerautumn
2025▾
Tawny Owl · Swift · Wren · Nuthatch · Robin +22
- Tawny OwlStrix aluco2019
- SwiftApus apus
- WrenTroglodytes troglodytes
- NuthatchSitta europaea
- RobinErithacus rubecula
- House SparrowPasser domesticus
- Blue TitCyanistes caeruleus
- DunnockPrunella modularis
- BlackbirdTurdus merula
- Great Spotted WoodpeckerDendrocopos major2020
- WoodpigeonColumba palumbus
- WhitethroatCurruca communis
- GoldcrestRegulus regulus
- MagpiePica pica
- House MartinDelichon urbicum
- KestrelFalco tinnunculus
- Long-tailed TitAegithalos caudatus
- ChiffchaffPhylloscopus collybita
- BlackcapSylvia atricapilla
- GreenfinchChloris chloris
- MoorhenGallinula chloropus
- Song ThrushTurdus philomelos
- SwallowHirundo rustica
- Carrion CrowCorvus corone
- Great TitParus major2020
- ChaffinchFringilla coelebs2020
- Coal TitPeriparus ater2020
🦌Mammals6 species
springsummer
2023▾
Hedgehog · Common Pipistrelle · Brown Long-eared Bat · Soprano Pipistrelle · Noctule +1
- HedgehogErinaceus europaeus
- Common PipistrellePipistrellus pipistrellus2022
- Brown Long-eared BatPlecotus auritus2022
- Soprano PipistrellePipistrellus pygmaeus2022
- NoctuleNyctalus noctula2021
Slow-worm
Peacock · Gatekeeper · Red Admiral · Psychomyia pusilla · Cheumatopsyche lepida +56
- PeacockAglais io2019
- GatekeeperPyronia tithonus2019
- Red AdmiralVanessa atalanta2019
- Psychomyia pusillaPsychomyia pusilla2019
- Cheumatopsyche lepidaCheumatopsyche lepida2019
- Sericostoma personatumSericostoma personatum
Species observations from the last 10 years via NBN Atlas
Feral Ferret
Feral Ferret
Mustela putorius subsp. furo2021
Mustela putorius subsp. furo2021
2019
2019
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