← Back✦ Historic site

Northborough Manor House

0 ha

WildlifeBirdsSeasonal

Dogs welcome0 ha

Getting here

52.65601, -0.29980

Open directionsv

Google Maps↗Driving directions Apple Maps↗Driving directions Waze↗Live driving navigation Google Transit↗Bus, rail or tram Apple Transit↗Bus, rail or tram

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
✦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

🌞Midsummer — early morning visits most comfortable; look for deer fawns in quieter clearings
✦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

Good to know

🐕Dogs welcome

Best for

6 activities

Wildlife

Very strong match

Multi-group wildlife — Amphibians, Birds, Mammals; Multi-group wildlife — Amphibians, Birds, Mammals

Free

Bird watching

Very strong match

Birds — Woodpigeon, Mute Swan, Black-headed Gull +87 more · last seen 2026; Birds — Woodpigeon, Mute Swan, Black-headed Gull +87 more · last seen 2026

Free

Seasonal nature

Strong match

Plants — Common Ragwort, Purple-loosestrife, Pendulous Sedge +23 more · last seen 2025; Plants — Common Ragwort, Purple-loosestrife, Pendulous Sedge +23 more · last seen 2025

Free

Insect spotting

Strong match

Insects — Common Blue, Large White, 14-spot Ladybird +37 more · last seen 2026; Insects — Common Blue, Large White, 14-spot Ladybird +37 more · last seen 2026

Free

Heritage

Strong match

Historic site

Free

Foraging

Good match

Plants — White Dead-nettle, Bulrush, Elder

Varies

Trails nearby

Within roughly 5 km

🚶

Walking

1 signed route nearby

Signed route nearby

Torpel WayWalking route

Named route

🚴

Cycling

33 signed routes nearby

Signed route nearby

Seaplane CyclewayCycling route

Named routeLocal cycle route

John Clare Country routeCycling route

Named routeRef 3Local cycle route

The Deepings (Lincolnshire Cycle Routes)Cycling route

Named routeLocal cycle route

The Green WheelCycling route

Named routeRef 21Round tripRegional cycle route

The Green WheelCycling route

Named routeLocal cycle route

Dodds CyclewayCycling route

Named routeLocal cycle route

Wildlife to spot

29,246 records · National Biodiversity Network

Wildlife to spot

29,246 records · National Biodiversity Network

🐦

Birds14 species

autumn

2026

Tufted Duck · Blackbird · Pheasant · Green Woodpecker · Mute Swan +9

Tufted DuckAythya fuligula
BlackbirdTurdus merula2025
PheasantPhasianus colchicus2025
Green WoodpeckerPicus viridis2025
Mute SwanCygnus olor2025
Little EgretEgretta garzetta2025
LapwingVanellus vanellus2025
Black-headed GullChroicocephalus ridibundus2025
WoodpigeonColumba palumbus2025
Great TitParus major2025
Little GrebeTachybaptus ruficollis2025
Pica pica picaPica pica pica2025
Carrion CrowCorvus corone2025
Falco tinnunculus tinnunculusFalco tinnunculus tinnunculus2025

🐝

Insects2 species

winter

2026

7-spot Ladybird · 10-spot Ladybird

7-spot LadybirdCoccinella septempunctata
10-spot LadybirdAdalia decempunctata

🌿

Plants135 species

autumn

2025

Cut-leaved Crane's-bill · Yarrow · Selfheal · Field Maple · Cock's-foot +130

Cut-leaved Crane's-billGeranium dissectum
YarrowAchillea millefolium
SelfhealPrunella vulgaris
Field MapleAcer campestre
Cock's-footDactylis glomerata
Great WillowherbEpilobium hirsutum
Rough Hawk's-beardCrepis biennis
Wild CherryPrunus avium
Wild PrivetLigustrum vulgare
Spear ThistleCirsium vulgare
Ribwort PlantainPlantago lanceolata
Cornus sanguinea subsp. australisCornus sanguinea subsp. australis
IvyHedera helix
DandelionTaraxacum
Crested Dog's-tailCynosurus cristatus
Creeping CinquefoilPotentilla reptans
Common ChickweedStellaria media
Green AlkanetPentaglottis sempervirens
HawthornCrataegus monogyna
Common RagwortJacobaea vulgaris
Great MulleinVerbascum thapsus
Lady's BedstrawGalium verum
Rosa caninaRosa canina
Bristly OxtongueHelminthotheca echioides
Red Dead-nettleLamium purpureum
Common VetchVicia sativa
Water MintMentha aquatica
White Dead-nettleLamium album
Dove's-foot Crane's-billGeranium molle
HazelCorylus avellana
Common NettleUrtica dioica
BrambleRubus fruticosus
Wild CarrotDaucus carota subsp. carota
CleaversGalium aparine
False Oat-grassArrhenatherum elatius
Common MallowMalva sylvestris
NipplewortLapsana communis
Grey Club-rushSchoenoplectus tabernaemontani
Soft-rushJuncus effusus
Common BentAgrostis capillaris
GroundselSenecio vulgaris
Wild TeaselDipsacus fullonum
White CloverTrifolium repens
Ulmus minorUlmus minor
Male-fernDryopteris filix-mas
False Fox-sedgeCarex otrubae
Smooth TareErvum tetraspermum
Huntingdon ElmUlmus glabra x minor = U. x vegeta
FeverfewTanacetum parthenium
Field HorsetailEquisetum arvense
Purple WillowSalix purpurea
PigweedAmaranthus
Poa pratensisPoa pratensis
Hoary RagwortJacobaea erucifolia
Ground-ivyGlechoma hederacea
Common ReedPhragmites australis
Tufted Hair-grassDeschampsia cespitosa
HemlockConium maculatum
Water-plantainAlisma plantago-aquatica
HollyIlex aquifolium
Red FescueFestuca rubra
Guernsey FleabaneErigeron sumatrensis
White MustardSinapis alba
Creeping ButtercupRanunculus repens
Common SallowSalix cinerea
AlderAlnus glutinosa
Lesser BulrushTypha angustifolia
WeldReseda luteola
Wood Small-reedCalamagrostis epigejos
Common Mouse-earCerastium fontanum
BulrushTypha latifolia
Rough Meadow-grassPoa trivialis
Viburnum trilobumViburnum trilobum
Common KnapweedCentaurea nigra
SnapdragonAntirrhinum majus
Great LettuceLactuca virosa
AshFraxinus excelsior
Hard RushJuncus inflexus
Smooth Sow-thistleSonchus oleraceus
Common Field-speedwellVeronica persica
Creeping ThistleCirsium arvense
Silver BirchBetula pendula
Bulbous ButtercupRanunculus bulbosus
Chenopodium albumChenopodium album
Wood DockRumex sanguineus
Hedge WoundwortStachys sylvatica
Cow ParsleyAnthriscus sylvestris
Wayfaring-treeViburnum lantana
Perennial Rye-grassLolium perenne
Upright Hedge-parsleyTorilis japonica
Welted ThistleCarduus crispus
Prickly Sow-thistleSonchus asper
Common Evening-primroseOenothera biennis
Purple ToadflaxLinaria purpurea
BuckthornRhamnus cathartica
HogweedHeracleum sphondylium
Broad-leaved DockRumex obtusifolius
GypsywortLycopus europaeus
White CampionSilene latifolia
Field BindweedConvolvulus arvensis
Canadian FleabaneErigeron canadensis
Horse-radishArmoracia rusticana
Autumn HawkbitScorzoneroides autumnalis
Smooth Hawk's-beardCrepis capillaris
Oxeye DaisyLeucanthemum vulgare
MugwortArtemisia vulgaris
BeetBeta vulgaris
New Zealand PigmyweedCrassula helmsii
Garden Cat-mintNepeta nepetella x racemosa = N. x faassenii
Barren BromeAnisantha sterilis
Pedunculate OakQuercus robur
Meadow ButtercupRanunculus acris
Common Spike-rushEleocharis palustris
Alder BuckthornFrangula alnus
Salix fragilisSalix fragilis
Common Club-rushSchoenoplectus lacustris
Curled DockRumex crispus
AspenPopulus tremula
Rubus ulmifoliusRubus ulmifolius
DaisyBellis perennis
Bromus hordeaceusBromus hordeaceus
BlackthornPrunus spinosa
Hedge BindweedCalystegia sepium
Herb-RobertGeranium robertianum
BogbeanMenyanthes trifoliata
Sun SpurgeEuphorbia helioscopia
DogwoodCornus sanguinea
ElderSambucus nigra
GorseUlex europaeus
Stinking IrisIris foetidissima
Germander SpeedwellVeronica chamaedrys
Red CloverTrifolium pratense
Reed Sweet-grassGlyceria maxima
MeadowsweetFilipendula ulmaria
QuinceCydonia oblonga

Species observations from the last 10 years via NBN Atlas

Wildlife to spot

29,246 records · National Biodiversity Network

🐦

Birds14 species

autumn

2026

Tufted Duck · Blackbird · Pheasant · Green Woodpecker · Mute Swan +9

Tufted DuckAythya fuligula
BlackbirdTurdus merula2025
PheasantPhasianus colchicus2025
Green WoodpeckerPicus viridis2025
Mute SwanCygnus olor2025
Little EgretEgretta garzetta2025
LapwingVanellus vanellus2025
Black-headed GullChroicocephalus ridibundus2025
WoodpigeonColumba palumbus2025
Great TitParus major2025
Little GrebeTachybaptus ruficollis2025
Pica pica picaPica pica pica2025
Carrion CrowCorvus corone2025
Falco tinnunculus tinnunculusFalco tinnunculus tinnunculus2025

🐝

Insects2 species

winter

2026

7-spot Ladybird · 10-spot Ladybird

7-spot LadybirdCoccinella septempunctata
10-spot LadybirdAdalia decempunctata

🌿

Plants135 species

autumn

2025

Cut-leaved Crane's-bill · Yarrow · Selfheal · Field Maple · Cock's-foot +130

Cut-leaved Crane's-billGeranium dissectum
YarrowAchillea millefolium
SelfhealPrunella vulgaris
Field MapleAcer campestre
Cock's-footDactylis glomerata
Great WillowherbEpilobium hirsutum
Rough Hawk's-beardCrepis biennis
Wild CherryPrunus avium
Wild PrivetLigustrum vulgare
Spear ThistleCirsium vulgare
Ribwort PlantainPlantago lanceolata
Cornus sanguinea subsp. australisCornus sanguinea subsp. australis
IvyHedera helix
DandelionTaraxacum
Crested Dog's-tailCynosurus cristatus
Creeping CinquefoilPotentilla reptans
Common ChickweedStellaria media
Green AlkanetPentaglottis sempervirens
HawthornCrataegus monogyna
Common RagwortJacobaea vulgaris
Great MulleinVerbascum thapsus
Lady's BedstrawGalium verum
Rosa caninaRosa canina
Bristly OxtongueHelminthotheca echioides
Red Dead-nettleLamium purpureum
Common VetchVicia sativa
Water MintMentha aquatica
White Dead-nettleLamium album
Dove's-foot Crane's-billGeranium molle
HazelCorylus avellana
Common NettleUrtica dioica
BrambleRubus fruticosus
Wild CarrotDaucus carota subsp. carota
CleaversGalium aparine
False Oat-grassArrhenatherum elatius
Common MallowMalva sylvestris
NipplewortLapsana communis
Grey Club-rushSchoenoplectus tabernaemontani
Soft-rushJuncus effusus
Common BentAgrostis capillaris
GroundselSenecio vulgaris
Wild TeaselDipsacus fullonum
White CloverTrifolium repens
Ulmus minorUlmus minor
Male-fernDryopteris filix-mas
False Fox-sedgeCarex otrubae
Smooth TareErvum tetraspermum
Huntingdon ElmUlmus glabra x minor = U. x vegeta
FeverfewTanacetum parthenium
Field HorsetailEquisetum arvense
Purple WillowSalix purpurea
PigweedAmaranthus
Poa pratensisPoa pratensis
Hoary RagwortJacobaea erucifolia
Ground-ivyGlechoma hederacea
Common ReedPhragmites australis
Tufted Hair-grassDeschampsia cespitosa
HemlockConium maculatum
Water-plantainAlisma plantago-aquatica
HollyIlex aquifolium
Red FescueFestuca rubra
Guernsey FleabaneErigeron sumatrensis
White MustardSinapis alba
Creeping ButtercupRanunculus repens
Common SallowSalix cinerea
AlderAlnus glutinosa
Lesser BulrushTypha angustifolia
WeldReseda luteola
Wood Small-reedCalamagrostis epigejos
Common Mouse-earCerastium fontanum
BulrushTypha latifolia
Rough Meadow-grassPoa trivialis
Viburnum trilobumViburnum trilobum
Common KnapweedCentaurea nigra
SnapdragonAntirrhinum majus
Great LettuceLactuca virosa
AshFraxinus excelsior
Hard RushJuncus inflexus
Smooth Sow-thistleSonchus oleraceus
Common Field-speedwellVeronica persica
Creeping ThistleCirsium arvense
Silver BirchBetula pendula
Bulbous ButtercupRanunculus bulbosus
Chenopodium albumChenopodium album
Wood DockRumex sanguineus
Hedge WoundwortStachys sylvatica
Cow ParsleyAnthriscus sylvestris
Wayfaring-treeViburnum lantana
Perennial Rye-grassLolium perenne
Upright Hedge-parsleyTorilis japonica
Welted ThistleCarduus crispus
Prickly Sow-thistleSonchus asper
Common Evening-primroseOenothera biennis
Purple ToadflaxLinaria purpurea
BuckthornRhamnus cathartica
HogweedHeracleum sphondylium
Broad-leaved DockRumex obtusifolius
GypsywortLycopus europaeus
White CampionSilene latifolia
Field BindweedConvolvulus arvensis
Canadian FleabaneErigeron canadensis
Horse-radishArmoracia rusticana
Autumn HawkbitScorzoneroides autumnalis
Smooth Hawk's-beardCrepis capillaris
Oxeye DaisyLeucanthemum vulgare
MugwortArtemisia vulgaris
BeetBeta vulgaris
New Zealand PigmyweedCrassula helmsii
Garden Cat-mintNepeta nepetella x racemosa = N. x faassenii
Barren BromeAnisantha sterilis
Pedunculate OakQuercus robur
Meadow ButtercupRanunculus acris
Common Spike-rushEleocharis palustris
Alder BuckthornFrangula alnus
Salix fragilisSalix fragilis
Common Club-rushSchoenoplectus lacustris
Curled DockRumex crispus
AspenPopulus tremula
Rubus ulmifoliusRubus ulmifolius
DaisyBellis perennis
Bromus hordeaceusBromus hordeaceus
BlackthornPrunus spinosa
Hedge BindweedCalystegia sepium
Herb-RobertGeranium robertianum
BogbeanMenyanthes trifoliata
Sun SpurgeEuphorbia helioscopia
DogwoodCornus sanguinea
ElderSambucus nigra
GorseUlex europaeus
Stinking IrisIris foetidissima
Germander SpeedwellVeronica chamaedrys
Red CloverTrifolium pratense
Reed Sweet-grassGlyceria maxima
MeadowsweetFilipendula ulmaria
QuinceCydonia oblonga

Species observations from the last 10 years via NBN Atlas

Wildlife to spot

Photos

📷 Tim Heaton · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0

Gate house to Northborough Manor (Northborough Castle)

1 / 22

Events & activities nearby

Switch provider to compare local events, tours and bookable activities.

Bookable tours

Weather for this location

Next 14 days

Loading local forecast…

Nearby places

Useful places within 5 km

🌱Werrington MeadowUrban park4.7 km→🌱Welland GardensUrban park2.3 km→🌱John Eve Park Playing FieldUrban park2.9 km→🌱Hereward Way Play AreaUrban park1.9 km→🌱Riverside ParkUrban park2.1 km→🌱Riverside ParkUrban park2.1 km→

Own or manage this place?

Claim this listing to keep details accurate, add photos, and highlight what makes it special — free.

Claim this page

How was your visit?

How useful was the information on this page?

id: c430755a-bae4-4f62-a788-44a8cd0781ef