Nunckley Hill Spinney
4 ha
🦉Wildlife🦅Birds🌿Foraging
Free entryDogs welcome4 ha
Getting here
52.72293, -1.15817
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
- ☕Heritage Centre & Tea Room — a good base for a longer summer day out
🌤️ Visiting this summer
- 🌞Midsummer — early morning visits most comfortable; look for deer fawns in quieter clearings
- 🌿Foraging is at its best in summer here
- ☕Heritage Centre & Tea Room — a good base for a longer summer day out
- £Free to visit — no entry charge
- 🐕Dogs welcome
Deciduous woodland priority habitat
Free
🦅Bird watching
Strong match
Deciduous woodland — woodpeckers, warblers and woodland birds
Free
Deciduous woodland — fungi, berries and wild garlic
Varies
🌲Forest walks
Moderate match
Public woodland
Free
Trails nearby
Within roughly 5 km2 signed routes nearby
Signed route nearby
Leicestershire RoundWalking route▾
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National Forest WayWalking route▾
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74 signed routes nearby
Signed route nearby
Loughborough Cycle Network Route 1Cycling route▾
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Route 6Cycling route▾
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Route 1Cycling route▾
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Fosse2Cycling route▾
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Loughborough Cycle Network Route 3Cycling route▾
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Loughborough Cycle Network Route 5Cycling route▾
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Narrow gauge tub wagons, Nunckley Hill station
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Wildlife to spot
39,798 records · National Biodiversity Network
Wildlife to spot
39,798 records · National Biodiversity NetworkMallard · Magpie · Mute Swan · Blue Tit · Tufted Duck +29
- MallardAnas platyrhynchos
- MagpiePica pica
- Mute SwanCygnus olor
- Blue TitCyanistes caeruleus
- Tufted DuckAythya fuligula
- Black-headed GullChroicocephalus ridibundus
- Carrion CrowCorvus corone
- DunnockPrunella modularis
- Pied WagtailMotacilla alba
- GoldeneyeBucephala clangula
- JayGarrulus glandarius
- Grey WagtailMotacilla cinerea
- MoorhenGallinula chloropus
- WrenTroglodytes troglodytes
- CootFulica atra
- RobinErithacus rubecula2025
- JackdawColoeus monedula2025
- GadwallMareca strepera2025
- Great Crested GrebePodiceps cristatus2025
- WoodpigeonColumba palumbus2025
- Grey HeronArdea cinerea2025
- TreecreeperCerthia familiaris
- House SparrowPasser domesticus
- GoldcrestRegulus regulus
- Long-tailed TitAegithalos caudatus
- Great TitParus major2025
- RavenCorvus corax2025
- FieldfareTurdus pilaris2025
- Song ThrushTurdus philomelos2025
- Canada GooseBranta canadensis2025
- BlackbirdTurdus merula2025
- Little EgretEgretta garzetta2025
- Greylag GooseAnser anser2025
- CormorantPhalacrocorax carbo2025
Mole · Grey Squirrel
- MoleTalpa europaea
- Grey SquirrelSciurus carolinensis2025
🐸Amphibians1 species
spring
2026▾
Common Frog
- Common FrogRana temporaria
Dark-edged Bee-fly · Peacock · Common Carder Bee · 7-spot Ladybird · Speckled Wood +6
- Dark-edged Bee-flyBombylius major
- PeacockAglais io
- Common Carder BeeBombus pascuorum
- 7-spot LadybirdCoccinella septempunctata
- Speckled WoodPararge aegeria
- Gorse ShieldbugPiezodorus lituratus
- Large Yellow UnderwingNoctua pronuba
Blushing Bracket · Sarcoscypha · Ramalina farinacea · Cladonia chlorophaea s. lat. · Razor Strop Fungus +10
- Blushing BracketDaedaleopsis confragosa
- SarcoscyphaSarcoscypha
- Ramalina farinaceaRamalina farinacea
- Cladonia chlorophaea s. lat.Cladonia chlorophaea s. lat.
- Razor Strop FungusFomitopsis betulina
- Parmotrema perlatumParmotrema perlatum
- Turkeytail
Dog's Mercury · Groundsel · Common Chickweed · Lords-and-Ladies · Holly +43
- Dog's MercuryMercurialis perennis
- GroundselSenecio vulgaris
- Common ChickweedStellaria media
- Lords-and-LadiesArum maculatum
- HollyIlex aquifolium
- Herb-RobertGeranium robertianum
- IvyHedera helix
Species observations from the last 10 years via NBN Atlas
Wildlife to spot
39,798 records · National Biodiversity NetworkMallard · Magpie · Mute Swan · Blue Tit · Tufted Duck +29
- MallardAnas platyrhynchos
- MagpiePica pica
- Mute SwanCygnus olor
- Blue TitCyanistes caeruleus
- Tufted DuckAythya fuligula
- Black-headed GullChroicocephalus ridibundus
- Carrion CrowCorvus corone
- DunnockPrunella modularis
- Pied WagtailMotacilla alba
- GoldeneyeBucephala clangula
- JayGarrulus glandarius
- Grey WagtailMotacilla cinerea
- MoorhenGallinula chloropus
- WrenTroglodytes troglodytes
- CootFulica atra
- RobinErithacus rubecula2025
- JackdawColoeus monedula2025
- GadwallMareca strepera2025
- Great Crested GrebePodiceps cristatus2025
- WoodpigeonColumba palumbus2025
- Grey HeronArdea cinerea2025
- TreecreeperCerthia familiaris
- House SparrowPasser domesticus
- GoldcrestRegulus regulus
- Long-tailed TitAegithalos caudatus
- Great TitParus major2025
- RavenCorvus corax2025
- FieldfareTurdus pilaris2025
- Song ThrushTurdus philomelos2025
- Canada GooseBranta canadensis2025
- BlackbirdTurdus merula2025
- Little EgretEgretta garzetta2025
- Greylag GooseAnser anser2025
- CormorantPhalacrocorax carbo2025
Mole · Grey Squirrel
- MoleTalpa europaea
- Grey SquirrelSciurus carolinensis2025
🐸Amphibians1 species
spring
2026▾
Common Frog
- Common FrogRana temporaria
Dark-edged Bee-fly · Peacock · Common Carder Bee · 7-spot Ladybird · Speckled Wood +6
- Dark-edged Bee-flyBombylius major
- PeacockAglais io
- Common Carder BeeBombus pascuorum
- 7-spot LadybirdCoccinella septempunctata
- Speckled WoodPararge aegeria
- Gorse ShieldbugPiezodorus lituratus
- Large Yellow UnderwingNoctua pronuba
Blushing Bracket · Sarcoscypha · Ramalina farinacea · Cladonia chlorophaea s. lat. · Razor Strop Fungus +10
- Blushing BracketDaedaleopsis confragosa
- SarcoscyphaSarcoscypha
- Ramalina farinaceaRamalina farinacea
- Cladonia chlorophaea s. lat.Cladonia chlorophaea s. lat.
- Razor Strop FungusFomitopsis betulina
- Parmotrema perlatumParmotrema perlatum
- Turkeytail
Dog's Mercury · Groundsel · Common Chickweed · Lords-and-Ladies · Holly +43
- Dog's MercuryMercurialis perennis
- GroundselSenecio vulgaris
- Common ChickweedStellaria media
- Lords-and-LadiesArum maculatum
- HollyIlex aquifolium
- Herb-RobertGeranium robertianum
- IvyHedera helix
Species observations from the last 10 years via NBN Atlas
Trametes versicolor
Trametes versicolor
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