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Manor house at Mudgley

4 ha

📷 Graham Richards · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0

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Public accessFree entryDogs welcome4 ha

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51.20692, -2.79837

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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

Good to know

£Free to visit — no entry charge
🐕Dogs welcome

Best for

7 activities

Wildlife

Very strong match

Multi-group wildlife — Birds, Mammals; Multi-group wildlife — Birds, Mammals

Free

Bird watching

Very strong match

Birds — Gadwall, Mute Swan, Chaffinch +58 more · last seen 2026; Birds — Gadwall, Mute Swan, Chaffinch +58 more · last seen 2026

Free

Heritage

Strong match

Historic site with public access

Free

Seasonal nature

Strong match

Plants — Clustered Feather-moss, Dilated Scalewort, Small Hairy Screw-moss +24 more · last seen 2025; Plants — Clustered Feather-moss, Dilated Scalewort, Small Hairy Screw-moss +24 more · last seen 2025

Free

Dog walks

Good match

Dogs allowed with public access

Free

Waterside walks

Good match

Grazing marsh and ditches — waterside walking

Varies

Trails nearby

Within roughly 5 km

🚶

Walking

1 signed route nearby · 12 public paths nearby

Signed route nearbyPublic paths

Samaritans Way South WestWalking route166 km

Named routeLength 166 kmRegional walking route

🚴

Cycling

4 signed routes nearby

Signed route nearby

National Cycle Network Route 26 (Proposed)Cycling route

Named routeRef 26National Cycle Network

National BywayCycling route

Named routeRef NBRegional cycle route

Bittern TrailCycling route

Named routeLocal cycle route

Link from Route 3 to the Bittern TrailCycling route

Named routeLocal cycle route

Wildlife to spot

47,287 records · National Biodiversity Network

Wildlife to spot

47,287 records · National Biodiversity Network

🐦

Birds61 species

winter

2026

Gadwall · Mute Swan · Chaffinch · Great Crested Grebe · Coot +56

GadwallMareca strepera
Mute SwanCygnus olor
ChaffinchFringilla coelebs
Great Crested GrebePodiceps cristatus
CootFulica atra
Great TitParus major
Long-tailed TitAegithalos caudatus
LapwingVanellus vanellus
GoldfinchCarduelis carduelis
Blue TitCyanistes caeruleus
Tufted DuckAythya fuligula
StarlingSturnus vulgaris2025
MagpiePica pica2025
Carrion CrowCorvus corone2025
Grey HeronArdea cinerea2025
BlackbirdTurdus merula2025
WrenTroglodytes troglodytes2025
WoodpigeonColumba palumbus2025
ChiffchaffPhylloscopus collybita2025
MallardAnas platyrhynchos
RookCorvus frugilegus2025
Little EgretEgretta garzetta2025
JackdawColoeus monedula2025
GoldcrestRegulus regulus2025
KestrelFalco tinnunculus
DunnockPrunella modularis
Black-headed GullChroicocephalus ridibundus2025
Pied WagtailMotacilla alba yarrellii2025
Canada GooseBranta canadensis2025
Cetti's WarblerCettia cetti2025
RobinErithacus rubecula2025
TealAnas crecca2025
KingfisherAlcedo atthis2025
RedwingTurdus iliacus2025
Reed BuntingEmberiza schoeniclus2025
Black SwanCygnus atratus
PheasantPhasianus colchicus2025
MoorhenGallinula chloropus2025
RedshankTringa totanus2025
WigeonMareca penelope2025
Black-tailed GodwitLimosa limosa2025
Greylag GooseAnser anser2025
PochardAythya ferina2025
ShovelerSpatula clypeata2025
Coal TitPeriparus ater2025
Lesser Black-backed GullLarus fuscus2025
CormorantPhalacrocorax carbo2025
RavenCorvus corax2025
Little GrebeTachybaptus ruficollis2025
BullfinchPyrrhula pyrrhula2025
Meadow PipitAnthus pratensis2025
FieldfareTurdus pilaris2025
LinnetLinaria cannabina2025
StonechatSaxicola rubicola2025
MerlinFalco columbarius2025
Herring GullLarus argentatus2025
Collared DoveStreptopelia decaocto2025
SnipeGallinago gallinago2025
Great Spotted WoodpeckerDendrocopos major2025
Stock DoveColumba oenas2025
TreecreeperCerthia familiaris2025

🦌

Mammals1 species

spring

2026

Harvest Mouse

Harvest MouseMicromys minutus

🐝

Insects1 species

winter

2026

Lesser Stag Beetle

Lesser Stag BeetleDorcus parallelipipedus

🌿

Plants27 species

winter

2025

Clustered Feather-moss · Dilated Scalewort · Small Hairy Screw-moss · Rambling Tail-moss · Common Pocket-moss +22

Clustered Feather-mossRhynchostegium confertum
Dilated ScalewortFrullania dilatata
Small Hairy Screw-mossSyntrichia laevipila
Rambling Tail-mossAnomodon viticulosus
Common Pocket-mossFissidens taxifolius
Fox-tail Feather-mossThamnobryum alopecurum
Nicholson's Beard-mossDidymodon nicholsonii
Flat NeckeraNeckera complanata
Wood Bristle-mossLewinskya affinis
Capillary Thread-mossBryum capillare
Common Feather-mossKindbergia praelonga
Even ScalewortRadula complanata
Rough-stalked Feather-mossBrachythecium rutabulum
Swartz's Feather-mossOxyrrhynchium hians
Supine Plait-mossHypnum cupressiforme var. resupinatum
Streblotrichum convolutum var. commutatumStreblotrichum convolutum var. commutatum
Lesser Bird's-claw Beard-mossStreblotrichum convolutum var. convolutum
Short-leaved Pocket-mossFissidens incurvus
Silky Wall Feather-mossHomalothecium sericeum
Common Cord-mossFunaria hygrometrica
Cylindric Beard-mossDidymodon insulanus
Wall Screw-mossTortula muralis
Green Pocket-mossFissidens viridulus
Creeping Feather-mossAmblystegium serpens
Squirrel-tail MossLeucodon sciuroides
Silver-mossBryum argenteum
Green Yoke-mossZygodon viridissimus

Species observations from the last 10 years via NBN Atlas

Wildlife to spot

47,287 records · National Biodiversity Network

🐦

Birds61 species

winter

2026

Gadwall · Mute Swan · Chaffinch · Great Crested Grebe · Coot +56

GadwallMareca strepera
Mute SwanCygnus olor
ChaffinchFringilla coelebs
Great Crested GrebePodiceps cristatus
CootFulica atra
Great TitParus major
Long-tailed TitAegithalos caudatus
LapwingVanellus vanellus
GoldfinchCarduelis carduelis
Blue TitCyanistes caeruleus
Tufted DuckAythya fuligula
StarlingSturnus vulgaris2025
MagpiePica pica2025
Carrion CrowCorvus corone2025
Grey HeronArdea cinerea2025
BlackbirdTurdus merula2025
WrenTroglodytes troglodytes2025
WoodpigeonColumba palumbus2025
ChiffchaffPhylloscopus collybita2025
MallardAnas platyrhynchos
RookCorvus frugilegus2025
Little EgretEgretta garzetta2025
JackdawColoeus monedula2025
GoldcrestRegulus regulus2025
KestrelFalco tinnunculus
DunnockPrunella modularis
Black-headed GullChroicocephalus ridibundus2025
Pied WagtailMotacilla alba yarrellii2025
Canada GooseBranta canadensis2025
Cetti's WarblerCettia cetti2025
RobinErithacus rubecula2025
TealAnas crecca2025
KingfisherAlcedo atthis2025
RedwingTurdus iliacus2025
Reed BuntingEmberiza schoeniclus2025
Black SwanCygnus atratus
PheasantPhasianus colchicus2025
MoorhenGallinula chloropus2025
RedshankTringa totanus2025
WigeonMareca penelope2025
Black-tailed GodwitLimosa limosa2025
Greylag GooseAnser anser2025
PochardAythya ferina2025
ShovelerSpatula clypeata2025
Coal TitPeriparus ater2025
Lesser Black-backed GullLarus fuscus2025
CormorantPhalacrocorax carbo2025
RavenCorvus corax2025
Little GrebeTachybaptus ruficollis2025
BullfinchPyrrhula pyrrhula2025
Meadow PipitAnthus pratensis2025
FieldfareTurdus pilaris2025
LinnetLinaria cannabina2025
StonechatSaxicola rubicola2025
MerlinFalco columbarius2025
Herring GullLarus argentatus2025
Collared DoveStreptopelia decaocto2025
SnipeGallinago gallinago2025
Great Spotted WoodpeckerDendrocopos major2025
Stock DoveColumba oenas2025
TreecreeperCerthia familiaris2025

🦌

Mammals1 species

spring

2026

Harvest Mouse

Harvest MouseMicromys minutus

🐝

Insects1 species

winter

2026

Lesser Stag Beetle

Lesser Stag BeetleDorcus parallelipipedus

🌿

Plants27 species

winter

2025

Clustered Feather-moss · Dilated Scalewort · Small Hairy Screw-moss · Rambling Tail-moss · Common Pocket-moss +22

Clustered Feather-mossRhynchostegium confertum
Dilated ScalewortFrullania dilatata
Small Hairy Screw-mossSyntrichia laevipila
Rambling Tail-mossAnomodon viticulosus
Common Pocket-mossFissidens taxifolius
Fox-tail Feather-mossThamnobryum alopecurum
Nicholson's Beard-mossDidymodon nicholsonii
Flat NeckeraNeckera complanata
Wood Bristle-mossLewinskya affinis
Capillary Thread-mossBryum capillare
Common Feather-mossKindbergia praelonga
Even ScalewortRadula complanata
Rough-stalked Feather-mossBrachythecium rutabulum
Swartz's Feather-mossOxyrrhynchium hians
Supine Plait-mossHypnum cupressiforme var. resupinatum
Streblotrichum convolutum var. commutatumStreblotrichum convolutum var. commutatum
Lesser Bird's-claw Beard-mossStreblotrichum convolutum var. convolutum
Short-leaved Pocket-mossFissidens incurvus
Silky Wall Feather-mossHomalothecium sericeum
Common Cord-mossFunaria hygrometrica
Cylindric Beard-mossDidymodon insulanus
Wall Screw-mossTortula muralis
Green Pocket-mossFissidens viridulus
Creeping Feather-mossAmblystegium serpens
Squirrel-tail MossLeucodon sciuroides
Silver-mossBryum argenteum
Green Yoke-mossZygodon viridissimus

Species observations from the last 10 years via NBN Atlas

Wildlife to spot

Photos

📷 Graham Richards · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0

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