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🦅Birds✦Heritage🦉Wildlife
Public accessDogs welcome
Getting here
53.07787, -2.80160
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Visiting this summer
Seasonal nature notes and what to look for now
- 🐦78+ species recorded in this area — summer evenings are best for activity; watch for Barn Owl and Pintail
- ✦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
- 🐦78+ species recorded in this area — summer evenings are best for activity; watch for Barn Owl and Pintail
- ✦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 — Barn Owl, Pintail, Wigeon +75 more · last seen 2025
Free
Historic site with public access
Free
Birds — Barn Owl, Pintail, Wigeon +75 more · last seen 2025
Free
🦋Insect spotting
Strong match
Insects — Small White, Gatekeeper, Green-veined White +136 more · last seen 2023
Free
🍂Seasonal nature
Strong match
Plants — Crescent-cup Liverwort, Marchantia polymorpha subsp. ruderalis, Forked Veilwort +53 more · last seen 2024
Free
Dogs allowed with public access
Free
Trails nearby
Within roughly 5 km8 signed routes nearby · 13 public paths nearby
Signed route nearbyPublic paths
Cheshire CircuitWalking route▾
Named routeRegional walking route
Milennium MileWalking route▾
Named routeLocal walking route
Sandstone TrailWalking route▾
Named routeRegional walking route
Eddisbury WayWalking route27 km▾
Named routeLength 27 kmRegional walking route
Marches WayWalking route▾
4 signed routes nearby
Signed route nearby
Mercian WayCycling route▾
Named routeRef 45National Cycle Network
Cheshire CyclewayCycling route▾
Named routeRef 70Regional cycle route
River to RidgeCycling route▾
Named routeLocal cycle route
Main RouteCycling route7.8 km▾
Named routeRef 45Length 7.8 kmNational Cycle NetworkOn-roadSurface asphalt
Weather for this location
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Wildlife to spot
6,319 records · National Biodiversity Network
Wildlife to spot
6,319 records · National Biodiversity NetworkPintail · Barn Owl · Wigeon · Black-headed Gull · Greylag Goose +27
- PintailAnas acuta2024
- Barn OwlTyto alba2024
- WigeonMareca penelope2024
- Black-headed GullChroicocephalus ridibundus2024
- Greylag GooseAnser anser2024
- GoosanderMergus merganser2024
- ShovelerSpatula clypeata2024
- Common GullLarus canus2024
- Canada GooseBranta canadensis2024
- QuailCoturnix coturnix
- Lesser Black-backed GullLarus fuscus2024
- Pink-footed GooseAnser brachyrhynchus2024
- Tufted DuckAythya fuligula2024
- PeregrineFalco peregrinus
- TealAnas crecca2024
- Herring GullLarus argentatus2024
- House MartinDelichon urbicum
- Black-tailed GodwitLimosa limosa2024
- CootFulica atra2024
- MoorhenGallinula chloropus2024
- RookCorvus frugilegus
- HobbyFalco subbuteo2024
- CurlewNumenius arquata2024
- CormorantPhalacrocorax carbo2024
- GadwallMareca strepera2024
- Barnacle GooseBranta leucopsis2024
- LapwingVanellus vanellus2024
- MallardAnas platyrhynchos2024
- Mandarin DuckAix galericulata2024
- Little EgretEgretta garzetta2023
- ShelduckTadorna tadorna2023
- Mute SwanCygnus olor2023
Badger
🐸Amphibians1 species
spring
2025▾
Great Crested Newt
- Great Crested NewtTriturus cristatus
Japanese Knotweed · Dandelion · Hawthorn · Rusty Willow · Creeping Thistle +84
- Japanese KnotweedReynoutria japonica
- DandelionTaraxacum
- HawthornCrataegus monogyna
- Rusty WillowSalix cinerea subsp. oleifolia
- Creeping ThistleCirsium arvense
- Festuca rubraFestuca rubra
- Soft-rushJuncus effusus
Species observations from the last 10 years via NBN Atlas
Wildlife to spot
6,319 records · National Biodiversity NetworkPintail · Barn Owl · Wigeon · Black-headed Gull · Greylag Goose +27
- PintailAnas acuta2024
- Barn OwlTyto alba2024
- WigeonMareca penelope2024
- Black-headed GullChroicocephalus ridibundus2024
- Greylag GooseAnser anser2024
- GoosanderMergus merganser2024
- ShovelerSpatula clypeata2024
- Common GullLarus canus2024
- Canada GooseBranta canadensis2024
- QuailCoturnix coturnix
- Lesser Black-backed GullLarus fuscus2024
- Pink-footed GooseAnser brachyrhynchus2024
- Tufted DuckAythya fuligula2024
- PeregrineFalco peregrinus
- TealAnas crecca2024
- Herring GullLarus argentatus2024
- House MartinDelichon urbicum
- Black-tailed GodwitLimosa limosa2024
- CootFulica atra2024
- MoorhenGallinula chloropus2024
- RookCorvus frugilegus
- HobbyFalco subbuteo2024
- CurlewNumenius arquata2024
- CormorantPhalacrocorax carbo2024
- GadwallMareca strepera2024
- Barnacle GooseBranta leucopsis2024
- LapwingVanellus vanellus2024
- MallardAnas platyrhynchos2024
- Mandarin DuckAix galericulata2024
- Little EgretEgretta garzetta2023
- ShelduckTadorna tadorna2023
- Mute SwanCygnus olor2023
Badger
🐸Amphibians1 species
spring
2025▾
Great Crested Newt
- Great Crested NewtTriturus cristatus
Japanese Knotweed · Dandelion · Hawthorn · Rusty Willow · Creeping Thistle +84
- Japanese KnotweedReynoutria japonica
- DandelionTaraxacum
- HawthornCrataegus monogyna
- Rusty WillowSalix cinerea subsp. oleifolia
- Creeping ThistleCirsium arvense
- Festuca rubraFestuca rubra
- Soft-rushJuncus effusus
Species observations from the last 10 years via NBN Atlas
