Cloud Wood - Mixed woodland
✦ Ancient woodland5 ha
🦉Wildlife🦋Insects🍂Seasonal
Free entryDogs welcome5 ha
Getting here
51.45504, -2.29081
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
Deciduous woodland priority habitat; Ancient woodland
Free
🦋Insect spotting
Strong match
Chalk and limestone grassland — chalkhill blue, adonis blue and rare moths
Free
🍂Seasonal nature
Strong match
Ancient woodland — bluebells, fungi and autumn colour
Free
🦅Bird watching
Strong match
Deciduous woodland — woodpeckers, warblers and woodland birds
Free
Deciduous woodland — fungi, berries and wild garlic
Varies
Ancient woodland — historic landscape
Free
Trails nearby
Within roughly 5 km3 signed routes nearby
Signed route nearby
Macmillan WayWalking route290 km▾
Named routeRef MWALength 290 kmListed length 461Regional walking route
Cotswold WayWalking route164 km▾
Named routeRef CWLength 164 kmNational walking route
Limestone LinkWalking route58 km▾
Named routeRef LLLength 58 kmRegional walking route
1 signed route nearby
Signed route nearby
Avon Wiltshire Cycle LinkCycling route▾
Named routeRegional cycle route
1 public path nearby
Public paths
Star Lanebyway open to all traffic · 974 m▾
Public pathbyway open to all trafficLength 974 mSurface compactedPath type: track
Photos
2010 : Track in Marshfield Wood
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Wildlife to spot
2,958 records · National Biodiversity Network
Wildlife to spot
2,958 records · National Biodiversity Network🐦Birds51 species
springsummer
2026▾
Woodpigeon · Skylark · Blackbird · Jackdaw · Pheasant +46
- WoodpigeonColumba palumbus2025
- SkylarkAlauda arvensis2025
- BlackbirdTurdus merula2025
- JackdawColoeus monedula2025
- PheasantPhasianus colchicus2025
- Corn BuntingEmberiza calandra2025
- RobinErithacus rubecula2025
- Carrion CrowCorvus corone2025
- WhitethroatCurruca communis2025
- SwallowHirundo rustica2025
- WrenTroglodytes troglodytes2025
- DunnockPrunella modularis2025
- GoldfinchCarduelis carduelis2025
- RookCorvus frugilegus2025
- RavenCorvus corax2025
- ChiffchaffPhylloscopus collybita2025
- YellowhammerEmberiza citrinella2025
- KestrelFalco tinnunculus2025
- House SparrowPasser domesticus2025
- ChaffinchFringilla coelebs2025
- SwiftApus apus2024
- Herring GullLarus argentatus2025
- Blue TitCyanistes caeruleus2025
- Song ThrushTurdus philomelos2025
- StarlingSturnus vulgaris2025
- Red-legged PartridgeAlectoris rufa2025
- LinnetLinaria cannabina2024
- House MartinDelichon urbicum2024
- LapwingVanellus vanellus
- BlackcapSylvia atricapilla2025
- NuthatchSitta europaea2025
- Green WoodpeckerPicus viridis2025
- MagpiePica pica2025
- Great Spotted WoodpeckerDendrocopos major2025
- Stock DoveColumba oenas2024
- Grey WagtailMotacilla cinerea2024
- GoldcrestRegulus regulus2024
- Meadow PipitAnthus pratensis2025
- GreenfinchChloris chloris2025
- RedwingTurdus iliacus2025
- Little EgretEgretta garzetta2024
- Pied WagtailMotacilla alba yarrellii2024
- JayGarrulus glandarius2024
- Grey HeronArdea cinerea2024
- Great TitParus major2024
- Lesser Black-backed GullLarus fuscus2024
- MoorhenGallinula chloropus2023
- Collared DoveStreptopelia decaocto2023
- Tree SparrowPasser montanus2023
- Common GullLarus canus2023
- Mistle ThrushTurdus viscivorus2023
🦌Mammals7 species
summerautumn
2023▾
Pygmy Shrew · Hedgehog · Wood Mouse · Muntjac · Yellow-necked Mouse +2
- Pygmy ShrewSorex minutus
- HedgehogErinaceus europaeus
- Wood MouseApodemus sylvaticus
- MuntjacMuntiacus reevesi
- Yellow-necked MouseApodemus flavicollis
- Brown HareLepus europaeus
🐝Insects2 species
springsummer
2025▾
Common Rose Fusehorn · Common Cockchafer
- Common Rose FusehornArge pagana
- Common CockchaferMelolontha melolontha2023
🌿Plants3 species
wintersummer
2025▾
Fairy Flax · Thin-spiked Wood-sedge · Cherry Laurel
- Fairy FlaxLinum catharticum
- Thin-spiked Wood-sedgeCarex strigosa2024
- Cherry LaurelPrunus laurocerasus2024
Species observations from the last 10 years via NBN Atlas
Wildlife to spot
2,958 records · National Biodiversity Network🐦Birds51 species
springsummer
2026▾
Woodpigeon · Skylark · Blackbird · Jackdaw · Pheasant +46
- WoodpigeonColumba palumbus2025
- SkylarkAlauda arvensis2025
- BlackbirdTurdus merula2025
- JackdawColoeus monedula2025
- PheasantPhasianus colchicus2025
- Corn BuntingEmberiza calandra2025
- RobinErithacus rubecula2025
- Carrion CrowCorvus corone2025
- WhitethroatCurruca communis2025
- SwallowHirundo rustica2025
- WrenTroglodytes troglodytes2025
- DunnockPrunella modularis2025
- GoldfinchCarduelis carduelis2025
- RookCorvus frugilegus2025
- RavenCorvus corax2025
- ChiffchaffPhylloscopus collybita2025
- YellowhammerEmberiza citrinella2025
- KestrelFalco tinnunculus2025
- House SparrowPasser domesticus2025
- ChaffinchFringilla coelebs2025
- SwiftApus apus2024
- Herring GullLarus argentatus2025
- Blue TitCyanistes caeruleus2025
- Song ThrushTurdus philomelos2025
- StarlingSturnus vulgaris2025
- Red-legged PartridgeAlectoris rufa2025
- LinnetLinaria cannabina2024
- House MartinDelichon urbicum2024
- LapwingVanellus vanellus
- BlackcapSylvia atricapilla2025
- NuthatchSitta europaea2025
- Green WoodpeckerPicus viridis2025
- MagpiePica pica2025
- Great Spotted WoodpeckerDendrocopos major2025
- Stock DoveColumba oenas2024
- Grey WagtailMotacilla cinerea2024
- GoldcrestRegulus regulus2024
- Meadow PipitAnthus pratensis2025
- GreenfinchChloris chloris2025
- RedwingTurdus iliacus2025
- Little EgretEgretta garzetta2024
- Pied WagtailMotacilla alba yarrellii2024
- JayGarrulus glandarius2024
- Grey HeronArdea cinerea2024
- Great TitParus major2024
- Lesser Black-backed GullLarus fuscus2024
- MoorhenGallinula chloropus2023
- Collared DoveStreptopelia decaocto2023
- Tree SparrowPasser montanus2023
- Common GullLarus canus2023
- Mistle ThrushTurdus viscivorus2023
🦌Mammals7 species
summerautumn
2023▾
Pygmy Shrew · Hedgehog · Wood Mouse · Muntjac · Yellow-necked Mouse +2
- Pygmy ShrewSorex minutus
- HedgehogErinaceus europaeus
- Wood MouseApodemus sylvaticus
- MuntjacMuntiacus reevesi
- Yellow-necked MouseApodemus flavicollis
- Brown HareLepus europaeus
🐝Insects2 species
springsummer
2025▾
Common Rose Fusehorn · Common Cockchafer
- Common Rose FusehornArge pagana
- Common CockchaferMelolontha melolontha2023
🌿Plants3 species
wintersummer
2025▾
Fairy Flax · Thin-spiked Wood-sedge · Cherry Laurel
- Fairy FlaxLinum catharticum
- Thin-spiked Wood-sedgeCarex strigosa2024
- Cherry LaurelPrunus laurocerasus2024
Species observations from the last 10 years via NBN Atlas
Rabbit
Rabbit
Oryctolagus cuniculus2022
Oryctolagus cuniculus2022
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