Plan your visit
🛝Family🦅Birds🎠Play
Public accessFree entryDogs welcome4 ha
Getting here
51.34722, 0.59654
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Visiting this summer
Seasonal nature notes and what to look for now
- 🐦52+ species recorded in this area — summer evenings are best for activity; watch for Woodpigeon and Carrion Crow
- ☀️Summer family visits work well here — arrive early and plan for a longer stay
- ☕Parkwood Cafe — makes this an easy full-day family visit without needing to pack food
🌤️ Visiting this summer
- 🐦52+ species recorded in this area — summer evenings are best for activity; watch for Woodpigeon and Carrion Crow
- ☀️Summer family visits work well here — arrive early and plan for a longer stay
- ☕Parkwood Cafe — makes this an easy full-day family visit without needing to pack food
- £Free to visit — no entry charge
- 🐕Dogs welcome
☕Café🅿️Parking· Free🛝Playground🚻Toilets
🛝Family friendly
Very strong match
playground, café, toilets; Urban park — family destination
Free
🦅Bird watching
Very strong match
Birds — Woodpigeon, Carrion Crow, Robin +49 more · last seen 2026; Deciduous woodland — woodpeckers, warblers and woodland birds
Free
🎠Playgrounds
Very strong match
playground, toilets, café, parking
Free
Birds — Woodpigeon, Carrion Crow, Robin +49 more · last seen 2026; Deciduous woodland priority habitat
Free
🧺Picnic day out
Strong match
café, toilets, car park; Urban park — open green space
Free
Dogs allowed with public access
Free
Trails nearby
Within roughly 5 km5 signed routes nearby · 3 public paths nearby
Signed route nearbyPublic paths
Saxon Shore WayWalking route262 km▾
Named routeLength 262 kmRegional walking route
Augustine CaminoWalking route▾
Named routeRegional walking route
Oftord to Canterbury CathedralWalking route▾
follows North Downs Way from Otford to Broughton Lees
Named routeRegional walking route
King Charles III England Coast Path: Iwade to GrainWalking route▾
Named routeRef ECPNational walking route
North Downs Way (Eastern)Walking route▾
Named routeNational walking route
64 signed routes nearby
Signed route nearby
NCN National Route 1Cycling route▾
Named routeRef 1National Cycle Network
(A2)<>(NCN1)Cycling route▾
NCN National Route 17Cycling route▾
Named routeRef 17National Cycle Network
Gillingham<>Rainham Cycle PathCycling route▾
Named routeLocal cycle route
Alternative RouteCycling route▾
Main RouteCycling route460 m▾
Named routeRef 1Length 460 mNational Cycle NetworkOn-roadSurface asphalt
1 signed route nearby
Signed route nearby
Capstone Mountain bike trailMountain bike route▾
Weather for this location
Next 14 daysNearby places
Useful places within 5 km
Wildlife to spot
91,337 records · National Biodiversity Network
Wildlife to spot
91,337 records · National Biodiversity NetworkWoodpigeon · Robin · Black-headed Gull · Blue Tit · Magpie +18
- WoodpigeonColumba palumbus
- RobinErithacus rubecula2025
- Black-headed GullChroicocephalus ridibundus
- Blue TitCyanistes caeruleus2025
- MagpiePica pica2025
- Carrion CrowCorvus corone2025
- Rock DoveColumba livia2025
- Herring GullLarus argentatus2025
- StarlingSturnus vulgaris2025
- DunnockPrunella modularis2025
- Great TitParus major2025
- GoldfinchCarduelis carduelis2025
- House SparrowPasser domesticus2025
- BlackbirdTurdus merula2025
- Collared DoveStreptopelia decaocto2025
- JackdawColoeus monedula2025
- Long-tailed TitAegithalos caudatus2025
- WrenTroglodytes troglodytes2025
- FirecrestRegulus ignicapilla2025
- Great Spotted WoodpeckerDendrocopos major2025
- RedwingTurdus iliacus2025
- JayGarrulus glandarius2025
- NuthatchSitta europaea2025
Grey Squirrel · Red Fox · Feral Cat · Domestic Dog · Mole +1
- Grey SquirrelSciurus carolinensis2025
- Red FoxVulpes vulpes2025
- Feral CatFelis catus2025
- Domestic DogCanis lupus subsp. familiaris2025
- MoleTalpa europaea2025
- BadgerMeles meles
Dark-edged Bee-fly · Eupeodes · Marmalade Hoverfly · Green Shieldbug · Firebug +4
- Dark-edged Bee-flyBombylius major
- EupeodesEupeodes
- Marmalade HoverflyEpisyrphus balteatus
- Green ShieldbugPalomena prasina
- FirebugPyrrhocoris apterus
- Meliscaeva auricollisMeliscaeva auricollis
- Dock BugCoreus marginatus
Species observations from the last 10 years via NBN Atlas
Wildlife to spot
91,337 records · National Biodiversity NetworkWoodpigeon · Robin · Black-headed Gull · Blue Tit · Magpie +18
- WoodpigeonColumba palumbus
- RobinErithacus rubecula2025
- Black-headed GullChroicocephalus ridibundus
- Blue TitCyanistes caeruleus2025
- MagpiePica pica2025
- Carrion CrowCorvus corone2025
- Rock DoveColumba livia2025
- Herring GullLarus argentatus2025
- StarlingSturnus vulgaris2025
- DunnockPrunella modularis2025
- Great TitParus major2025
- GoldfinchCarduelis carduelis2025
- House SparrowPasser domesticus2025
- BlackbirdTurdus merula2025
- Collared DoveStreptopelia decaocto2025
- JackdawColoeus monedula2025
- Long-tailed TitAegithalos caudatus2025
- WrenTroglodytes troglodytes2025
- FirecrestRegulus ignicapilla2025
- Great Spotted WoodpeckerDendrocopos major2025
- RedwingTurdus iliacus2025
- JayGarrulus glandarius2025
- NuthatchSitta europaea2025
Grey Squirrel · Red Fox · Feral Cat · Domestic Dog · Mole +1
- Grey SquirrelSciurus carolinensis2025
- Red FoxVulpes vulpes2025
- Feral CatFelis catus2025
- Domestic DogCanis lupus subsp. familiaris2025
- MoleTalpa europaea2025
- BadgerMeles meles
Dark-edged Bee-fly · Eupeodes · Marmalade Hoverfly · Green Shieldbug · Firebug +4
- Dark-edged Bee-flyBombylius major
- EupeodesEupeodes
- Marmalade HoverflyEpisyrphus balteatus
- Green ShieldbugPalomena prasina
- FirebugPyrrhocoris apterus
- Meliscaeva auricollisMeliscaeva auricollis
- Dock BugCoreus marginatus
Species observations from the last 10 years via NBN Atlas
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