Plan your visit
🦅Birds🛝Family🦉Wildlife
Public accessFree entryDogs welcome
Getting here
52.42073, -0.79968
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Visiting this summer
Seasonal nature notes and what to look for now
- 🐦73+ species recorded in this area — summer evenings are best for activity; watch for Mute Swan and Moorhen
- ☀️Summer family visits work well here — arrive early and plan for a longer stay
- ☕Olivers — makes this an easy full-day family visit without needing to pack food
🌤️ Visiting this summer
- 🐦73+ species recorded in this area — summer evenings are best for activity; watch for Mute Swan and Moorhen
- ☀️Summer family visits work well here — arrive early and plan for a longer stay
- ☕Olivers — makes this an easy full-day family visit without needing to pack food
- £Free to visit — no entry charge
- 🐕Dogs welcome
☕Café🅿️Parking· Free🛝Playground
🦅Bird watching
Very strong match
Birds — Mute Swan, Moorhen, Mallard +70 more · last seen 2025
Free
🛝Family friendly
Strong match
playground, café; Urban park — family destination
Free
Birds — Mute Swan, Moorhen, Mallard +70 more · last seen 2025; Traditional orchard priority habitat
Free
playground, café, parking
Free
🦋Insect spotting
Strong match
Insects — Dark-edged Bee-fly, Tipula pagana, Acrossus rufipes +54 more · last seen 2026; Traditional orchard — specialist orchard insects and lichens
Free
Traditional orchard — seasonal fruit, fungi and wild plants
Varies
Trails nearby
Within roughly 5 km2 signed routes nearby
Signed route nearby
Midshires WayWalking route370 km▾
Multi-use trail links the Ridgeway National Trail with the Trans Pennine Trail
Named routeLength 370 kmRegional walking route
Jurassic WayWalking route142 km▾
Named routeLength 142 kmRegional walking route
Weather for this location
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Wildlife to spot
10,050 records · National Biodiversity Network
Wildlife to spot
10,050 records · National Biodiversity NetworkTipula confusa · Limnephilus lunatus · Meliscaeva auricollis · Marmalade Hoverfly · Western Conifer Seed Bug +4
- Tipula confusaTipula confusa2025
- Limnephilus lunatusLimnephilus lunatus2025
- Meliscaeva auricollisMeliscaeva auricollis
- Marmalade HoverflyEpisyrphus balteatus
- Western Conifer Seed BugLeptoglossus occidentalis2025
- Harlequin LadybirdHarmonia axyridis2025
- Hesperocorixa sahlbergiHesperocorixa sahlbergi2025
- Birch ShieldbugElasmostethus interstinctus2025
- Acrossus rufipesAcrossus rufipes2025
Red Dead-nettle · White Dead-nettle · Ivy · Oxeye Daisy · Wood Avens +114
- Red Dead-nettleLamium purpureum
- White Dead-nettleLamium album
- IvyHedera helix
- Oxeye DaisyLeucanthemum vulgare
- Wood AvensGeum urbanum
- AshFraxinus excelsior
- Common NettleUrtica dioica
Species observations from the last 10 years via NBN Atlas
Wildlife to spot
10,050 records · National Biodiversity NetworkTipula confusa · Limnephilus lunatus · Meliscaeva auricollis · Marmalade Hoverfly · Western Conifer Seed Bug +4
- Tipula confusaTipula confusa2025
- Limnephilus lunatusLimnephilus lunatus2025
- Meliscaeva auricollisMeliscaeva auricollis
- Marmalade HoverflyEpisyrphus balteatus
- Western Conifer Seed BugLeptoglossus occidentalis2025
- Harlequin LadybirdHarmonia axyridis2025
- Hesperocorixa sahlbergiHesperocorixa sahlbergi2025
- Birch ShieldbugElasmostethus interstinctus2025
- Acrossus rufipesAcrossus rufipes2025
Red Dead-nettle · White Dead-nettle · Ivy · Oxeye Daisy · Wood Avens +114
- Red Dead-nettleLamium purpureum
- White Dead-nettleLamium album
- IvyHedera helix
- Oxeye DaisyLeucanthemum vulgare
- Wood AvensGeum urbanum
- AshFraxinus excelsior
- Common NettleUrtica dioica
Species observations from the last 10 years via NBN Atlas
