Plan your visit
🦅Birds🦉Wildlife✦Heritage
Public accessDogs welcome9 ha
Getting here
51.18530, -1.10498
Open directionsv
Visiting this summer
Seasonal nature notes and what to look for now
- 🐦67+ species recorded in this area — summer evenings are best for activity; watch for Blackbird and Woodpigeon
- ✦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
- 🐦67+ species recorded in this area — summer evenings are best for activity; watch for Blackbird and Woodpigeon
- ✦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 — Blackbird, Woodpigeon, Blue Tit +64 more · last seen 2025; Deciduous woodland — woodpeckers, warblers and woodland birds
Free
Birds — Blackbird, Woodpigeon, Blue Tit +64 more · last seen 2025; Deciduous woodland priority habitat
Free
Historic site with public access
Free
🦋Insect spotting
Strong match
Insects — Large White, Small White, Peacock +31 more · last seen 2024
Free
🍄Mushroom foraging
Good match
Fungi — Nettle Clustercup Rust, Russet Toughshank, Bolete Mould +3 more · last seen 2019
Varies
Dogs allowed with public access
Free
Trails nearby
Within roughly 5 km4 signed routes nearby
Signed route nearby
Wayfarers WalkWalking route▾
Walbury Hill, Berkshire to Emsworth, Hampshire
Named routeRegional walking route
Three Castles PathWalking route▾
Named routeRegional walking route
Ox Drove WayWalking route▾
St James' WayWalking route110 km▾
Named routeRef SJWLength 110 kmRegional walking route
3 signed routes nearby
Signed route nearby
National Cycle Route 23Cycling route▾
Named routeRef 23National Cycle Network
Basingstoke Strategic Cycle NetworkCycling route▾
Named routeLocal cycle route
Main RouteCycling route14.4 km▾
Named routeRef 23Length 14.4 kmNational Cycle NetworkOn-roadSurface asphalt
6 signed routes nearby
Signed route nearby
Candovers Off Road Cycle TrailMountain bike route▾
Named routeHampshire off Road cycle trails
Alton Off-Road Cycle TrailMountain bike route▾
Named routeHampshire off Road cycle trails
Cliddesden Duck Pond (Cycling Discoveries for Mountain Bikes in and Around North Hampshire)Mountain bike route▾
Named routeRef 2: Cliddesden Duck Pond
Ellisfield Off-Road Cycle TrailMountain bike route▾
Named routeHampshire off Road cycle trails
The Ox Drove mountain bike routeMountain bike route▾
Abbotstone Down Off-Road Cycle TrailMountain bike route▾
Named routeHampshire off Road cycle trails
13 public paths nearby
Public paths
Oak Hill Lanebyway open to all traffic · 1.1 km▾
Public pathbyway open to all trafficLength 1.1 kmSurface pebblestonePath type: track
Damsel Lanebridleway · 1.6 km▾
Public pathbridlewayLength 1.6 kmSurface asphaltPath type: service
Photos
Pond at entrance to Moundsmere Manor
Weather for this location
Next 14 daysNearby places
Useful places within 5 km
Wildlife to spot
2,134 records · National Biodiversity Network
Wildlife to spot
2,134 records · National Biodiversity Network🐦Birds41 species
springsummer
2025▾
Woodpigeon · Pheasant · Blackbird · Wren · Blue Tit +36
- WoodpigeonColumba palumbus
- PheasantPhasianus colchicus
- BlackbirdTurdus merula
- WrenTroglodytes troglodytes
- Blue TitCyanistes caeruleus
- ChaffinchFringilla coelebs
- House SparrowPasser domesticus2024
- RookCorvus frugilegus2024
- GoldfinchCarduelis carduelis
- DunnockPrunella modularis
- MagpiePica pica2024
- Collared DoveStreptopelia decaocto2024
- Great TitParus major
- Carrion CrowCorvus corone
- Great Spotted WoodpeckerDendrocopos major
- RobinErithacus rubecula
- BlackcapSylvia atricapilla2024
- JackdawColoeus monedula2024
- Red-legged PartridgeAlectoris rufa2024
- SkylarkAlauda arvensis2024
- House MartinDelichon urbicum
- Song ThrushTurdus philomelos
- KestrelFalco tinnunculus2024
- Tawny OwlStrix aluco2022
- GoldcrestRegulus regulus
- SwallowHirundo rustica2024
- Pied WagtailMotacilla alba2024
- GreenfinchChloris chloris2024
- YellowhammerEmberiza citrinella2024
- Long-tailed TitAegithalos caudatus
- SwiftApus apus2024
- Little OwlAthene noctua2023
- HawfinchCoccothraustes coccothraustes2023
- ChiffchaffPhylloscopus collybita
- Stock DoveColumba oenas
- WoodcockScolopax rusticola
- NuthatchSitta europaea
- WhitethroatCurruca communis2024
- JayGarrulus glandarius2024
- Yellow-legged GullLarus michahellis2023
- Lesser Black-backed GullLarus fuscus2022
Brown Hare · Rabbit · Roe Deer · Hedgehog · Muntjac
- Brown HareLepus europaeus
- RabbitOryctolagus cuniculus
- Roe DeerCapreolus capreolus2023
- HedgehogErinaceus europaeus2022
- MuntjacMuntiacus reevesi2022
Broad-bodied Chaser · Macrophya albicincta · Red-headed Cardinal Beetle · Lesser Stag Beetle · Hairy-footed Flower Bee +2
- Broad-bodied ChaserLibellula depressa2022
- Macrophya albicinctaMacrophya albicincta
- Red-headed Cardinal BeetlePyrochroa serraticornis
- Lesser Stag BeetleDorcus parallelipipedus2023
- Hairy-footed Flower BeeAnthophora plumipes2023
- Large Red DamselflyPyrrhosoma nymphula
Species observations from the last 10 years via NBN Atlas
Wildlife to spot
2,134 records · National Biodiversity Network🐦Birds41 species
springsummer
2025▾
Woodpigeon · Pheasant · Blackbird · Wren · Blue Tit +36
- WoodpigeonColumba palumbus
- PheasantPhasianus colchicus
- BlackbirdTurdus merula
- WrenTroglodytes troglodytes
- Blue TitCyanistes caeruleus
- ChaffinchFringilla coelebs
- House SparrowPasser domesticus2024
- RookCorvus frugilegus2024
- GoldfinchCarduelis carduelis
- DunnockPrunella modularis
- MagpiePica pica2024
- Collared DoveStreptopelia decaocto2024
- Great TitParus major
- Carrion CrowCorvus corone
- Great Spotted WoodpeckerDendrocopos major
- RobinErithacus rubecula
- BlackcapSylvia atricapilla2024
- JackdawColoeus monedula2024
- Red-legged PartridgeAlectoris rufa2024
- SkylarkAlauda arvensis2024
- House MartinDelichon urbicum
- Song ThrushTurdus philomelos
- KestrelFalco tinnunculus2024
- Tawny OwlStrix aluco2022
- GoldcrestRegulus regulus
- SwallowHirundo rustica2024
- Pied WagtailMotacilla alba2024
- GreenfinchChloris chloris2024
- YellowhammerEmberiza citrinella2024
- Long-tailed TitAegithalos caudatus
- SwiftApus apus2024
- Little OwlAthene noctua2023
- HawfinchCoccothraustes coccothraustes2023
- ChiffchaffPhylloscopus collybita
- Stock DoveColumba oenas
- WoodcockScolopax rusticola
- NuthatchSitta europaea
- WhitethroatCurruca communis2024
- JayGarrulus glandarius2024
- Yellow-legged GullLarus michahellis2023
- Lesser Black-backed GullLarus fuscus2022
Brown Hare · Rabbit · Roe Deer · Hedgehog · Muntjac
- Brown HareLepus europaeus
- RabbitOryctolagus cuniculus
- Roe DeerCapreolus capreolus2023
- HedgehogErinaceus europaeus2022
- MuntjacMuntiacus reevesi2022
Broad-bodied Chaser · Macrophya albicincta · Red-headed Cardinal Beetle · Lesser Stag Beetle · Hairy-footed Flower Bee +2
- Broad-bodied ChaserLibellula depressa2022
- Macrophya albicinctaMacrophya albicincta
- Red-headed Cardinal BeetlePyrochroa serraticornis
- Lesser Stag BeetleDorcus parallelipipedus2023
- Hairy-footed Flower BeeAnthophora plumipes2023
- Large Red DamselflyPyrrhosoma nymphula
Species observations from the last 10 years via NBN Atlas
2020
2020
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