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50.86823, -2.45241

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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

4 activities

Wildlife

Very strong match

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

Free

Bird watching

Very strong match

Birds — Woodpigeon, Blue Tit, Carrion Crow +55 more · last seen 2025; Birds — Woodpigeon, Blue Tit, Carrion Crow +55 more · last seen 2025

Free

Insect spotting

Strong match

Insects — Meadow Brown, Gatekeeper, Small White +32 more · last seen 2024; Insects — Meadow Brown, Gatekeeper, Small White +32 more · last seen 2024

Free

Heritage

Strong match

Historic site

Free

Trails nearby

Within roughly 5 km

🚶

Walking

1 signed route nearby

Signed route nearby

Wessex RidgewayWalking route

Named routeRef WRRegional walking route

🚵

Mountain biking

1 signed route nearby

Signed route nearby

Wessex Ridgeway TrailMountain bike route

Named routeListed length 207km

🐴

Horse riding

1 public path nearby

Public paths

Locks Lanebridleway · 281 m

Public pathbridlewayLength 281 mPath type: unclassified

Wildlife to spot

4,338 records · National Biodiversity Network

Wildlife to spot

4,338 records · National Biodiversity Network

🐦

Birds27 species

summerautumn

2025

Woodpigeon · Jackdaw · Robin · Blue Tit · Carrion Crow +22

WoodpigeonColumba palumbus
JackdawColoeus monedula
RobinErithacus rubecula
Blue TitCyanistes caeruleus
Carrion CrowCorvus corone
Great TitParus major
Long-tailed TitAegithalos caudatus
WrenTroglodytes troglodytes
BlackbirdTurdus merula
House SparrowPasser domesticus
StarlingSturnus vulgaris
ChaffinchFringilla coelebs
MallardAnas platyrhynchos
GoldfinchCarduelis carduelis
DunnockPrunella modularis
ChiffchaffPhylloscopus collybita
GoldcrestRegulus regulus
SwallowHirundo rustica
RookCorvus frugilegus
PheasantPhasianus colchicus
RavenCorvus corax
Collared DoveStreptopelia decaocto
RedwingTurdus iliacus
MagpiePica pica
Spotted FlycatcherMuscicapa striata
NuthatchSitta europaea
Green WoodpeckerPicus viridis

🌿

Plants84 species

summer

2025

Wood Avens · Blackthorn · Cleavers · Field Maple · Common Dog-violet +79

Wood AvensGeum urbanum
BlackthornPrunus spinosa
CleaversGalium aparine
Field MapleAcer campestre
Common Dog-violetViola riviniana
Wood DockRumex sanguineus
False-bromeBrachypodium sylvaticum
Enchanter's-nightshadeCircaea lutetiana
Male-fernDryopteris filix-mas
RamsonsAllium ursinum
BluebellHyacinthoides non-scripta
Remote SedgeCarex remota
Greater StitchwortStellaria holostea
Dog's MercuryMercurialis perennis
Wood SpeedwellVeronica montana
HollyIlex aquifolium
Tufted Hair-grassDeschampsia cespitosa
PrimrosePrimula vulgaris
Compact RushJuncus conglomeratus
Goat WillowSalix caprea
Soft Shield-fernPolystichum setiferum
Pendulous SedgeCarex pendula
Yellow PimpernelLysimachia nemorum
Yellow ArchangelLamiastrum galeobdolon
Wood-sorrelOxalis acetosella
Herb-RobertGeranium robertianum
Hedera helixHedera helix
Barren StrawberryPotentilla sterilis
Soft-rushJuncus effusus
AshFraxinus excelsior
Pedunculate OakQuercus robur
Field-roseRosa arvensis
Wood-sedgeCarex sylvatica
Wood Meadow-grassPoa nemoralis
Lesser BurdockArctium minus
ElderSambucus nigra
HazelCorylus avellana
Early Dog-violetViola reichenbachiana
HawthornCrataegus monogyna
Broad Buckler-fernDryopteris dilatata
False Oat-grassArrhenatherum elatius
Cock's-footDactylis glomerata
DogwoodCornus sanguinea
AspenPopulus tremula
Slender St John's-wortHypericum pulchrum
Silver BirchBetula pendula
TormentilPotentilla erecta
Flowering CurrantRibes sanguineum
BrambleRubus fruticosus
Pale SedgeCarex pallescens
Water FigwortScrophularia auriculata
Ragged-RobinSilene flos-cuculi
Hart's-TongueAsplenium scolopendrium
Lords-and-LadiesArum maculatum
Heath SpeedwellVeronica officinalis
HoneysuckleLonicera periclymenum
AgrimonyAgrimonia eupatoria
Polypodium vulgarePolypodium vulgare
GorseUlex europaeus
Crack-willowSalix alba x euxina = S. x fragilis
Meadow ButtercupRanunculus acris
Hedge WoundwortStachys sylvatica
MoschatelAdoxa moschatellina
Norway SprucePicea abies
Turkey OakQuercus cerris
Thin-spiked Wood-sedgeCarex strigosa
AlderAlnus glutinosa
Germander SpeedwellVeronica chamaedrys
NipplewortLapsana communis
Italian Lords-and-LadiesArum italicum
Red CampionSilene dioica
Common VetchVicia sativa subsp. segetalis
Common SallowSalix cinerea
BugleAjuga reptans
Greater BurdockArctium lappa
Scaly Male-fernDryopteris affinis
FoxgloveDigitalis purpurea
Black BryonyTamus communis
Marsh ThistleCirsium palustre
Common NettleUrtica dioica
Creeping ButtercupRanunculus repens
Opposite-leaved Golden-saxifrageChrysosplenium oppositifolium
MeadowsweetFilipendula ulmaria
Marsh-bedstrawGalium palustre

Species observations from the last 10 years via NBN Atlas

Wildlife to spot

4,338 records · National Biodiversity Network

🐦

Birds27 species

summerautumn

2025

Woodpigeon · Jackdaw · Robin · Blue Tit · Carrion Crow +22

WoodpigeonColumba palumbus
JackdawColoeus monedula
RobinErithacus rubecula
Blue TitCyanistes caeruleus
Carrion CrowCorvus corone
Great TitParus major
Long-tailed TitAegithalos caudatus
WrenTroglodytes troglodytes
BlackbirdTurdus merula
House SparrowPasser domesticus
StarlingSturnus vulgaris
ChaffinchFringilla coelebs
MallardAnas platyrhynchos
GoldfinchCarduelis carduelis
DunnockPrunella modularis
ChiffchaffPhylloscopus collybita
GoldcrestRegulus regulus
SwallowHirundo rustica
RookCorvus frugilegus
PheasantPhasianus colchicus
RavenCorvus corax
Collared DoveStreptopelia decaocto
RedwingTurdus iliacus
MagpiePica pica
Spotted FlycatcherMuscicapa striata
NuthatchSitta europaea
Green WoodpeckerPicus viridis

🌿

Plants84 species

summer

2025

Wood Avens · Blackthorn · Cleavers · Field Maple · Common Dog-violet +79

Wood AvensGeum urbanum
BlackthornPrunus spinosa
CleaversGalium aparine
Field MapleAcer campestre
Common Dog-violetViola riviniana
Wood DockRumex sanguineus
False-bromeBrachypodium sylvaticum
Enchanter's-nightshadeCircaea lutetiana
Male-fernDryopteris filix-mas
RamsonsAllium ursinum
BluebellHyacinthoides non-scripta
Remote SedgeCarex remota
Greater StitchwortStellaria holostea
Dog's MercuryMercurialis perennis
Wood SpeedwellVeronica montana
HollyIlex aquifolium
Tufted Hair-grassDeschampsia cespitosa
PrimrosePrimula vulgaris
Compact RushJuncus conglomeratus
Goat WillowSalix caprea
Soft Shield-fernPolystichum setiferum
Pendulous SedgeCarex pendula
Yellow PimpernelLysimachia nemorum
Yellow ArchangelLamiastrum galeobdolon
Wood-sorrelOxalis acetosella
Herb-RobertGeranium robertianum
Hedera helixHedera helix
Barren StrawberryPotentilla sterilis
Soft-rushJuncus effusus
AshFraxinus excelsior
Pedunculate OakQuercus robur
Field-roseRosa arvensis
Wood-sedgeCarex sylvatica
Wood Meadow-grassPoa nemoralis
Lesser BurdockArctium minus
ElderSambucus nigra
HazelCorylus avellana
Early Dog-violetViola reichenbachiana
HawthornCrataegus monogyna
Broad Buckler-fernDryopteris dilatata
False Oat-grassArrhenatherum elatius
Cock's-footDactylis glomerata
DogwoodCornus sanguinea
AspenPopulus tremula
Slender St John's-wortHypericum pulchrum
Silver BirchBetula pendula
TormentilPotentilla erecta
Flowering CurrantRibes sanguineum
BrambleRubus fruticosus
Pale SedgeCarex pallescens
Water FigwortScrophularia auriculata
Ragged-RobinSilene flos-cuculi
Hart's-TongueAsplenium scolopendrium
Lords-and-LadiesArum maculatum
Heath SpeedwellVeronica officinalis
HoneysuckleLonicera periclymenum
AgrimonyAgrimonia eupatoria
Polypodium vulgarePolypodium vulgare
GorseUlex europaeus
Crack-willowSalix alba x euxina = S. x fragilis
Meadow ButtercupRanunculus acris
Hedge WoundwortStachys sylvatica
MoschatelAdoxa moschatellina
Norway SprucePicea abies
Turkey OakQuercus cerris
Thin-spiked Wood-sedgeCarex strigosa
AlderAlnus glutinosa
Germander SpeedwellVeronica chamaedrys
NipplewortLapsana communis
Italian Lords-and-LadiesArum italicum
Red CampionSilene dioica
Common VetchVicia sativa subsp. segetalis
Common SallowSalix cinerea
BugleAjuga reptans
Greater BurdockArctium lappa
Scaly Male-fernDryopteris affinis
FoxgloveDigitalis purpurea
Black BryonyTamus communis
Marsh ThistleCirsium palustre
Common NettleUrtica dioica
Creeping ButtercupRanunculus repens
Opposite-leaved Golden-saxifrageChrysosplenium oppositifolium
MeadowsweetFilipendula ulmaria
Marsh-bedstrawGalium palustre

Species observations from the last 10 years via NBN Atlas

Wildlife to spot

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