Plan your visit
🦅Birds✦Heritage🎠Play
Public accessFree entryDogs welcome
Getting here
52.29792, -0.38943
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Visiting this summer
Seasonal nature notes and what to look for now
- 🐦29+ species recorded in this area — summer evenings are best for activity; watch for Merlin and Short-eared Owl
- ✦Historic character is a year-round quality here — summer brings its own atmosphere to the setting
- ☕Crawfords — makes this an easy full-day family visit without needing to pack food
🌤️ Visiting this summer
- 🐦29+ species recorded in this area — summer evenings are best for activity; watch for Merlin and Short-eared Owl
- ✦Historic character is a year-round quality here — summer brings its own atmosphere to the setting
- ☕Crawfords — makes this an easy full-day family visit without needing to pack food
- £Free to visit — no entry charge
- 🐕Dogs welcome
☕Café🅿️Parking🛝Playground
🦅Bird watching
Very strong match
Birds — Merlin, Short-eared Owl, Swift +26 more · last seen 2025
Free
✦Heritage
Very strong match
Grade I listed building: CHURCH OF ST ANDREW; Religious grounds — local heritage
Free
playground, café, parking
Free
🛝Family friendly
Strong match
playground, café
Free
Birds — Merlin, Short-eared Owl, Swift +26 more · last seen 2025
Free
🍂Seasonal nature
Strong match
Plants — Sweet Violet, Fool's Water-Cress, Common Mouse-ear +86 more · last seen 2019
Free
Trails nearby
Within roughly 5 km2 signed routes nearby
Signed route nearby
Three Shires WayWalking route79 km▾
49 mile route liking the Swan's Way to the Grafham Water circular walk, which it now incorporates, made up largely of bridleways.
Named routeLength 79 kmRegional walking route
North Bedfordshire Heritage TrailWalking route70 km▾
Named routeLength 70 kmRegional walking route
18 signed routes nearby
Signed route nearby
National Byway (Beds)Cycling route▾
Named routeRef NBRegional cycle route
Route HDC 7 (alt route)Cycling route▾
Named routeRef HDC 7 (alt route)Local cycle route
Route HDC 7Cycling route▾
Named routeRef HDC 7Local cycle route
N/ACycling route169 m▾
Named routeLength 169 mNational Cycle NetworkTraffic-freeSurface asphalt
N/ACycling route336 m▾
Named routeLength 336 mNational Cycle NetworkTraffic-freeSurface unsealedfirm
N/ACycling route46 m▾
Named routeLength 46 mNational Cycle NetworkTraffic-freeSurface asphalt
Photos
Kimbolton, St. Andrew's Church: The pulpit (detail)
Weather for this location
Next 14 daysNearby places
Useful places within 5 km
Wildlife to spot
9,895 records · National Biodiversity Network
Wildlife to spot
9,895 records · National Biodiversity Network🐦Birds29 species
winterautumn
2025▾
Merlin · Short-eared Owl · Swift · House Martin · Chaffinch +24
- MerlinFalco columbarius
- Short-eared OwlAsio flammeus2024
- SwiftApus apus2023
- House MartinDelichon urbicum
- ChaffinchFringilla coelebs
- Yellow WagtailMotacilla flava
- WrenTroglodytes troglodytes
- Green WoodpeckerPicus viridis
- Grey PartridgePerdix perdix
- Black-headed GullChroicocephalus ridibundus
- ChiffchaffPhylloscopus collybita
- JackdawColoeus monedula
- PochardAythya ferina
- Red-legged PartridgeAlectoris rufa
- Little Ringed PloverCharadrius dubius2024
- Mediterranean GullIchthyaetus melanocephalus2024
- Barn OwlTyto alba2023
- Little OwlAthene noctua2022
- GreenfinchChloris chloris2022
- SwallowHirundo rustica2022
- GoldfinchCarduelis carduelis2022
- PheasantPhasianus colchicus2022
- Blue TitCyanistes caeruleus2022
- Song ThrushTurdus philomelos2022
- Long-tailed TitAegithalos caudatus2022
- RobinErithacus rubecula2022
- SkylarkAlauda arvensis2022
- BlackbirdTurdus merula2022
- Pyrrhula pyrrhula pyrrhulaPyrrhula pyrrhula pyrrhula2022
Bat · Soprano Pipistrelle · Badger · Stoat · Otter +3
- BatChiroptera2022
- Soprano PipistrellePipistrellus pygmaeus2020
- BadgerMeles meles
- StoatMustela erminea2022
- OtterLutra lutra2022
- Common PipistrellePipistrellus pipistrellus2021
🐸Amphibians2 species
springsummerautumn
2025▾
Common Toad · Smooth Newt
- Common ToadBufo bufo
- Smooth NewtLissotriton vulgaris2021
Hawthorn Shieldbug · Red-legged Shieldbug · Large Red Damselfly
- Hawthorn ShieldbugAcanthosoma haemorrhoidale
- Red-legged ShieldbugPentatoma rufipes
- Large Red DamselflyPyrrhosoma nymphula2023
Sweet Violet · Fool's Water-Cress · Common Mouse-ear · Forked Veilwort · Feverfew +84
- Sweet VioletViola odorata
- Fool's Water-CressHelosciadium nodiflorum
- Common Mouse-earCerastium fontanum
- Forked VeilwortMetzgeria furcata
- FeverfewTanacetum parthenium
- Bulbous ButtercupRanunculus bulbosus
- Herb-RobertGeranium robertianum
Species observations from the last 10 years via NBN Atlas
Wildlife to spot
9,895 records · National Biodiversity Network🐦Birds29 species
winterautumn
2025▾
Merlin · Short-eared Owl · Swift · House Martin · Chaffinch +24
- MerlinFalco columbarius
- Short-eared OwlAsio flammeus2024
- SwiftApus apus2023
- House MartinDelichon urbicum
- ChaffinchFringilla coelebs
- Yellow WagtailMotacilla flava
- WrenTroglodytes troglodytes
- Green WoodpeckerPicus viridis
- Grey PartridgePerdix perdix
- Black-headed GullChroicocephalus ridibundus
- ChiffchaffPhylloscopus collybita
- JackdawColoeus monedula
- PochardAythya ferina
- Red-legged PartridgeAlectoris rufa
- Little Ringed PloverCharadrius dubius2024
- Mediterranean GullIchthyaetus melanocephalus2024
- Barn OwlTyto alba2023
- Little OwlAthene noctua2022
- GreenfinchChloris chloris2022
- SwallowHirundo rustica2022
- GoldfinchCarduelis carduelis2022
- PheasantPhasianus colchicus2022
- Blue TitCyanistes caeruleus2022
- Song ThrushTurdus philomelos2022
- Long-tailed TitAegithalos caudatus2022
- RobinErithacus rubecula2022
- SkylarkAlauda arvensis2022
- BlackbirdTurdus merula2022
- Pyrrhula pyrrhula pyrrhulaPyrrhula pyrrhula pyrrhula2022
Bat · Soprano Pipistrelle · Badger · Stoat · Otter +3
- BatChiroptera2022
- Soprano PipistrellePipistrellus pygmaeus2020
- BadgerMeles meles
- StoatMustela erminea2022
- OtterLutra lutra2022
- Common PipistrellePipistrellus pipistrellus2021
🐸Amphibians2 species
springsummerautumn
2025▾
Common Toad · Smooth Newt
- Common ToadBufo bufo
- Smooth NewtLissotriton vulgaris2021
Hawthorn Shieldbug · Red-legged Shieldbug · Large Red Damselfly
- Hawthorn ShieldbugAcanthosoma haemorrhoidale
- Red-legged ShieldbugPentatoma rufipes
- Large Red DamselflyPyrrhosoma nymphula2023
Sweet Violet · Fool's Water-Cress · Common Mouse-ear · Forked Veilwort · Feverfew +84
- Sweet VioletViola odorata
- Fool's Water-CressHelosciadium nodiflorum
- Common Mouse-earCerastium fontanum
- Forked VeilwortMetzgeria furcata
- FeverfewTanacetum parthenium
- Bulbous ButtercupRanunculus bulbosus
- Herb-RobertGeranium robertianum
Species observations from the last 10 years via NBN Atlas
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