Plan your visit
🦅Birds🛝Family🦉Wildlife
Public accessFree entryDogs welcome6 ha
Getting here
52.76964, -1.21000
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Visiting this summer
Seasonal nature notes and what to look for now
- 🐦49+ species recorded in this area — summer evenings are best for activity; watch for Woodpigeon and Magpie
- ☀️Summer family visits work well here — arrive early and plan for a longer stay
- ☕Queens Park Cafe — makes this an easy full-day family visit without needing to pack food
🌤️ Visiting this summer
- 🐦49+ species recorded in this area — summer evenings are best for activity; watch for Woodpigeon and Magpie
- ☀️Summer family visits work well here — arrive early and plan for a longer stay
- ☕Queens Park 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🐄Farm visit
🦅Bird watching
Very strong match
Birds — Woodpigeon, Magpie, House Sparrow +46 more · last seen 2026; Deciduous woodland — woodpeckers, warblers and woodland birds
Free
🛝Family friendly
Strong match
playground, café; Urban park — family destination
Free
Birds — Woodpigeon, Magpie, House Sparrow +46 more · last seen 2026; Deciduous woodland priority habitat
Free
playground, café, parking
Free
🍄Mushroom foraging
Strong match
Fungi — Scarlet Waxcap, Lecanora chlarotera s. lat., Common Orange Lichen +31 more · last seen 2025
Varies
🦋Insect spotting
Strong match
Insects — Hairy-footed Flower Bee, 7-spot Ladybird, Harlequin Ladybird +275 more · last seen 2026
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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40 signed routes nearby
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Hathern <> KegworthCycling route▾
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Loughborough Cycle Network Route 2Cycling route▾
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Loughborough Cycle Network Route 4Cycling route▾
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Loughborough Cycle Network Route 7Cycling route▾
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Loughborough Cycle Network Route 1Cycling route▾
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Route 6Cycling route▾
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Bandstand, Queen's Park, Loughborough
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Wildlife to spot
42,417 records · National Biodiversity Network
Wildlife to spot
42,417 records · National Biodiversity NetworkPied Wagtail · Magpie · Woodpigeon · Nuthatch · Moorhen +21
- Pied WagtailMotacilla alba
- MagpiePica pica2025
- WoodpigeonColumba palumbus2025
- NuthatchSitta europaea2025
- MoorhenGallinula chloropus2025
- Long-tailed TitAegithalos caudatus2025
- Common GullLarus canus2025
- StarlingSturnus vulgaris2025
- House SparrowPasser domesticus2025
- GadwallMareca strepera2025
- RobinErithacus rubecula2025
- Carrion CrowCorvus corone2025
- FieldfareTurdus pilaris2025
- Great TitParus major2025
- Mute SwanCygnus olor2025
- CootFulica atra2025
- BlackbirdTurdus merula2025
- Grey WagtailMotacilla cinerea2025
- Blue TitCyanistes caeruleus2025
- Rock DoveColumba livia2025
- MallardAnas platyrhynchos2025
- Black-headed GullChroicocephalus ridibundus2025
- Canada GooseBranta canadensis2025
- Greylag GooseAnser anser2025
- Tufted DuckAythya fuligula2025
- GoldcrestRegulus regulus2025
Badger · Grey Squirrel
- BadgerMeles meles
- Grey SquirrelSciurus carolinensis
🐸Amphibians2 species
springautumn
2026▾
Common Frog · Common Toad
- Common FrogRana temporaria
- Common ToadBufo bufo2025
Horse-Chestnut Leaf-miner · Cecidomyiidae · Alaptus · Hairy-footed Flower Bee · Common Grass-veneer +108
- Horse-Chestnut Leaf-minerCameraria ohridella2025
- CecidomyiidaeCecidomyiidae2025
- AlaptusAlaptus2025
- Hairy-footed Flower BeeAnthophora plumipes
- Common Grass-veneerAgriphila tristella2025
- Eristalis tenaxEristalis tenax
Scarlet Waxcap · Phyllactinia fraxini
- Scarlet WaxcapHygrocybe coccinea
- Phyllactinia fraxiniPhyllactinia fraxini
🌿Plants4 species
winterspring
2026▾
Hairy Bitter-cress · Common Chickweed · Red Dead-nettle · Mistletoe
- Hairy Bitter-cressCardamine hirsuta
- Common ChickweedStellaria media
- Red Dead-nettleLamium purpureum
- MistletoeViscum album2025
Species observations from the last 10 years via NBN Atlas
Wildlife to spot
42,417 records · National Biodiversity NetworkPied Wagtail · Magpie · Woodpigeon · Nuthatch · Moorhen +21
- Pied WagtailMotacilla alba
- MagpiePica pica2025
- WoodpigeonColumba palumbus2025
- NuthatchSitta europaea2025
- MoorhenGallinula chloropus2025
- Long-tailed TitAegithalos caudatus2025
- Common GullLarus canus2025
- StarlingSturnus vulgaris2025
- House SparrowPasser domesticus2025
- GadwallMareca strepera2025
- RobinErithacus rubecula2025
- Carrion CrowCorvus corone2025
- FieldfareTurdus pilaris2025
- Great TitParus major2025
- Mute SwanCygnus olor2025
- CootFulica atra2025
- BlackbirdTurdus merula2025
- Grey WagtailMotacilla cinerea2025
- Blue TitCyanistes caeruleus2025
- Rock DoveColumba livia2025
- MallardAnas platyrhynchos2025
- Black-headed GullChroicocephalus ridibundus2025
- Canada GooseBranta canadensis2025
- Greylag GooseAnser anser2025
- Tufted DuckAythya fuligula2025
- GoldcrestRegulus regulus2025
Badger · Grey Squirrel
- BadgerMeles meles
- Grey SquirrelSciurus carolinensis
🐸Amphibians2 species
springautumn
2026▾
Common Frog · Common Toad
- Common FrogRana temporaria
- Common ToadBufo bufo2025
Horse-Chestnut Leaf-miner · Cecidomyiidae · Alaptus · Hairy-footed Flower Bee · Common Grass-veneer +108
- Horse-Chestnut Leaf-minerCameraria ohridella2025
- CecidomyiidaeCecidomyiidae2025
- AlaptusAlaptus2025
- Hairy-footed Flower BeeAnthophora plumipes
- Common Grass-veneerAgriphila tristella2025
- Eristalis tenaxEristalis tenax
Scarlet Waxcap · Phyllactinia fraxini
- Scarlet WaxcapHygrocybe coccinea
- Phyllactinia fraxiniPhyllactinia fraxini
🌿Plants4 species
winterspring
2026▾
Hairy Bitter-cress · Common Chickweed · Red Dead-nettle · Mistletoe
- Hairy Bitter-cressCardamine hirsuta
- Common ChickweedStellaria media
- Red Dead-nettleLamium purpureum
- MistletoeViscum album2025
Species observations from the last 10 years via NBN Atlas