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Redesdale Forest

313 ha

📷 Richard Webb · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0

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Free entryDogs welcome313 ha

Getting here

55.29296, -2.39113

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Visiting this summer

Seasonal nature notes and what to look for now

  • ☀️June — canopy now fully closed, creating cool dappled shade even on warm days
  • 🍄Mushroom foraging is at its best in summer here
  • 🐕Dogs welcome — bring water in summer; the site has enough space to find shade on hot days

Good to know

  • £Free to visit — no entry charge
  • 🐕Dogs welcome
  • 🌳Large woodland — room to roam

Best for

8 activities

Wildlife

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

Free

Mushroom foraging

Fungi — Platismatia glauca, Dark Crottle, Blackening Waxcap +125 more · last seen 2021; Fungi — Platismatia glauca, Dark Crottle, Blackening Waxcap +125 more · last seen 2021

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Bird watching

Birds — Tawny Owl, Chaffinch, Meadow Pipit +44 more · last seen 2023; Upland heathland — red grouse, merlin and short-eared owl

Free

Seasonal nature

Plants — Marsupella aquatica, Urn Haircap, Cow-horn Bog-moss +138 more · last seen 2014; Plants — Marsupella aquatica, Urn Haircap, Cow-horn Bog-moss +138 more · last seen 2014

Free

Insect spotting

Insects — Peacock, Sericomyia lappona, Dor Beetle +10 more · last seen 2017; Insects — Peacock, Sericomyia lappona, Dor Beetle +10 more · last seen 2017

Free

Foraging

Plants — Two-horned Pincerwort, Forcipated Pincerwort, Wood-rust +1 more foraging species

Varies

Trails nearby

Within roughly 5 km
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Walking

1 signed route nearby

Signed route nearby
Pennine Way (Middleton in Teesdale to Kirk Yetholm)Walking route
Named routeNational walking route
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Cycling

1 signed route nearby

Route 686Cycling route
Named routeRef 686National Cycle Network

Wildlife to spot

Photos

Little used track, Redesdale Forest

📷 Richard Webb · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0

Little used track, Redesdale Forest

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Nearby places

Useful places within 5 km

⛪St Francis ChurchReligious grounds3 km→✦The Three Kings four poster stone circle and round cairnHistoric site2.4 km→✦Three Kings Stone CircleHistoric site2.4 km→✦Long cairn 360m south west of Dour HillHistoric site4.5 km→✦Round cairn on western slopes of Dour Hill, 250m south west of summitHistoric site4.7 km→✦Round cairn, 800m east of Mally's CragHistoric site4.8 km→

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