Plan your visit
🦅Birds🦉Wildlife✦Heritage
Public accessDogs welcome
Getting here
55.03326, -2.24295
Open directionsv
Visiting this summer
Seasonal nature notes and what to look for now
- 🐦59+ species recorded in this area — summer evenings are best for activity; watch for Carrion Crow and Curlew
- ✦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
- 🐦59+ species recorded in this area — summer evenings are best for activity; watch for Carrion Crow and Curlew
- ✦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 — Carrion Crow, Curlew, Skylark +56 more · last seen 2025
Free
Birds — Carrion Crow, Curlew, Skylark +56 more · last seen 2025; Good quality semi-improved grassland priority habitat
Free
Historic site with public access
Free
🍂Seasonal nature
Strong match
Plants — Common Tamarisk-moss, Glittering Wood-moss, Great Plait-moss +169 more · last seen 2023
Free
Named hiking route nearby: Hadrian's Wall Path; Named hiking route nearby: Hadrian's Wall Path
Free
Dogs allowed with public access
Free
Trails nearby
Within roughly 5 km2 signed routes nearby · 3 public paths nearby
Signed route nearbyPublic paths
Pennine Way (Middleton in Teesdale to Kirk Yetholm)Walking route▾
Named routeNational walking route
Hadrian's Wall PathWalking route134.5 km▾
Named routeLength 134.5 kmNational walking route
9 signed routes nearby
Signed route nearby
Hadrian's CyclewayCycling route▾
Named routeRef 72National Cycle Network
National Byway (County Durham and Northumberland)Cycling route▾
The National Byway route through County Durham and Northumberland
Named routeRef NBRegional cycle route
National Byway Hexham LoopCycling route▾
Named routeRef NBRegional cycle route
Main RouteCycling route265 m▾
Named routeRef 72Length 265 mNational Cycle NetworkOn-roadSurface asphalt
Main RouteCycling route739 m▾
Named routeRef 72Length 739 mNational Cycle NetworkOn-roadSurface asphalt
Main RouteCycling route511 m▾
Named routeRef 72Length 511 mNational Cycle NetworkOn-roadSurface asphalt
1 signed route nearby
Signed route nearby
Stonehaugh TrailMountain bike route▾
Named routeRound trip
Photos
(The site of) Milecastle 32
Weather for this location
Next 14 daysNearby places
Useful places within 5 km
Wildlife to spot
797 records · National Biodiversity Network
Wildlife to spot
797 records · National Biodiversity NetworkCurlew · Carrion Crow · Kestrel · Skylark · Meadow Pipit +49
- CurlewNumenius arquata
- Carrion CrowCorvus corone
- KestrelFalco tinnunculus
- SkylarkAlauda arvensis
- Meadow PipitAnthus pratensis2023
- GoldfinchCarduelis carduelis
- StarlingSturnus vulgaris
- Barn OwlTyto alba2024
- SwallowHirundo rustica2023
- JackdawColoeus monedula
- RookCorvus frugilegus
- SnipeGallinago gallinago
- ChaffinchFringilla coelebs
- WoodpigeonColumba palumbus2023
- WrenTroglodytes troglodytes
- PheasantPhasianus colchicus
- Golden PloverPluvialis apricaria
- FieldfareTurdus pilaris2024
- Mute SwanCygnus olor2024
- LinnetLinaria cannabina2023
- Pied WagtailMotacilla alba yarrellii2023
- BlackbirdTurdus merula2023
- LapwingVanellus vanellus2023
- WhitethroatCurruca communis2023
- MallardAnas platyrhynchos2023
- Common GullLarus canus2023
- RavenCorvus corax2023
- Reed BuntingEmberiza schoeniclus2020
- House SparrowPasser domesticus
- Pink-footed GooseAnser brachyrhynchus
- Red Grouse (scotica)Lagopus scotica
- Rock DoveColumba livia
- Lesser RedpollAcanthis flammea cabaret
- Barnacle GooseBranta leucopsis
- Grey HeronArdea cinerea2024
- Great Spotted WoodpeckerDendrocopos major2023
- Greylag GooseAnser anser2023
- Great TitParus major2023
- RobinErithacus rubecula2023
- House MartinDelichon urbicum2023
- Willow WarblerPhylloscopus trochilus2023
- ChiffchaffPhylloscopus collybita2023
- Blue TitCyanistes caeruleus2023
- CootFulica atra2023
- Little OwlAthene noctua2021
- Sand MartinRiparia riparia2020
- Black-headed GullChroicocephalus ridibundus2020
- Mistle ThrushTurdus viscivorus2020
- Sedge WarblerAcrocephalus schoenobaenus2020
- StonechatSaxicola rubicola2020
- RedwingTurdus iliacus2020
- Canada GooseBranta canadensis2020
- Great Black-backed GullLarus marinus2020
- BullfinchPyrrhula pyrrhula2019
🦌Mammals2 species
winterspring
2020▾
Hedgehog · Brown Hare
- HedgehogErinaceus europaeus
- Brown HareLepus europaeus
🌿Plants50 species
wintersummer
2023▾
Cranberry · Common Butterwort · Bottle Sedge · Beech Fern · Salad Burnet +45
- CranberryVaccinium oxycoccos
- Common ButterwortPinguicula vulgaris
- Bottle SedgeCarex rostrata
- Beech FernPhegopteris connectilis
- Salad BurnetPoterium sanguisorba
- Little Shaggy-mossRhytidiadelphus loreus2022
Species observations from the last 10 years via NBN Atlas
Wildlife to spot
797 records · National Biodiversity NetworkCurlew · Carrion Crow · Kestrel · Skylark · Meadow Pipit +49
- CurlewNumenius arquata
- Carrion CrowCorvus corone
- KestrelFalco tinnunculus
- SkylarkAlauda arvensis
- Meadow PipitAnthus pratensis2023
- GoldfinchCarduelis carduelis
- StarlingSturnus vulgaris
- Barn OwlTyto alba2024
- SwallowHirundo rustica2023
- JackdawColoeus monedula
- RookCorvus frugilegus
- SnipeGallinago gallinago
- ChaffinchFringilla coelebs
- WoodpigeonColumba palumbus2023
- WrenTroglodytes troglodytes
- PheasantPhasianus colchicus
- Golden PloverPluvialis apricaria
- FieldfareTurdus pilaris2024
- Mute SwanCygnus olor2024
- LinnetLinaria cannabina2023
- Pied WagtailMotacilla alba yarrellii2023
- BlackbirdTurdus merula2023
- LapwingVanellus vanellus2023
- WhitethroatCurruca communis2023
- MallardAnas platyrhynchos2023
- Common GullLarus canus2023
- RavenCorvus corax2023
- Reed BuntingEmberiza schoeniclus2020
- House SparrowPasser domesticus
- Pink-footed GooseAnser brachyrhynchus
- Red Grouse (scotica)Lagopus scotica
- Rock DoveColumba livia
- Lesser RedpollAcanthis flammea cabaret
- Barnacle GooseBranta leucopsis
- Grey HeronArdea cinerea2024
- Great Spotted WoodpeckerDendrocopos major2023
- Greylag GooseAnser anser2023
- Great TitParus major2023
- RobinErithacus rubecula2023
- House MartinDelichon urbicum2023
- Willow WarblerPhylloscopus trochilus2023
- ChiffchaffPhylloscopus collybita2023
- Blue TitCyanistes caeruleus2023
- CootFulica atra2023
- Little OwlAthene noctua2021
- Sand MartinRiparia riparia2020
- Black-headed GullChroicocephalus ridibundus2020
- Mistle ThrushTurdus viscivorus2020
- Sedge WarblerAcrocephalus schoenobaenus2020
- StonechatSaxicola rubicola2020
- RedwingTurdus iliacus2020
- Canada GooseBranta canadensis2020
- Great Black-backed GullLarus marinus2020
- BullfinchPyrrhula pyrrhula2019
🦌Mammals2 species
winterspring
2020▾
Hedgehog · Brown Hare
- HedgehogErinaceus europaeus
- Brown HareLepus europaeus
🌿Plants50 species
wintersummer
2023▾
Cranberry · Common Butterwort · Bottle Sedge · Beech Fern · Salad Burnet +45
- CranberryVaccinium oxycoccos
- Common ButterwortPinguicula vulgaris
- Bottle SedgeCarex rostrata
- Beech FernPhegopteris connectilis
- Salad BurnetPoterium sanguisorba
- Little Shaggy-mossRhytidiadelphus loreus2022
Species observations from the last 10 years via NBN Atlas
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