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🦅Birds✦Heritage🦉Wildlife
Public accessFree entryDogs welcome
Getting here
52.95205, -0.30654
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Visiting this summer
Seasonal nature notes and what to look for now
- 🐦66+ species recorded in this area — summer evenings are best for activity; watch for Blackbird and Great Tit
- ✦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
- 🐦66+ species recorded in this area — summer evenings are best for activity; watch for Blackbird and Great Tit
- ✦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
- £Free to visit — no entry charge
- 🐕Dogs welcome
🦅Bird watching
Very strong match
Birds — Blackbird, Great Tit, Dunnock +63 more · last seen 2025
Free
✦Heritage
Very strong match
Grade I listed building: CHURCH OF ST ANDREW; Religious grounds — local heritage
Free
Mammals — Grey Squirrel, Feral Cat, Hedgehog +11 more · last seen 2024
Free
🦋Insect spotting
Strong match
Insects — Small White, Red Admiral, Peacock +46 more · last seen 2024
Free
Dogs allowed with public access
Free
⛪Churchyard walks
Good match
Churchyard or religious grounds — wildlife sanctuary and quiet reflection
Free
Trails nearby
Within roughly 5 km20 public paths nearby
Public paths
Ladbroke Closepublic footpath · 15 m▾
Public pathpublic footpathLength 15 mPath type: residential
School Lanepublic footpath · 79 m▾
Public pathpublic footpathLength 79 mSurface asphaltPath type: residential
North Drovepublic footpath · 3.4 km▾
Public pathpublic footpathLength 3.4 kmPath type: unclassified
2 signed routes nearby
Signed route nearby
Route 15Cycling route▾
Named routeRef 15National Cycle Network
Boston Road Cycle PathCycling route▾
Named routeLocal cycle route
4 public paths nearby
Public paths
Chapel Lanerestricted byway · 85 m▾
Public pathrestricted bywayLength 85 mSurface asphaltPath type: residential
Photos
Sedilia and Piscina, St Andrew's church, Helpringham
Weather for this location
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Wildlife to spot
2,767 records · National Biodiversity Network
Wildlife to spot
2,767 records · National Biodiversity Network🐦Birds47 species
springsummer
2025▾
Jackdaw · Woodpigeon · Carrion Crow · Collared Dove · Robin +42
- JackdawColoeus monedula2024
- WoodpigeonColumba palumbus2024
- Carrion CrowCorvus corone2024
- Collared DoveStreptopelia decaocto
- RobinErithacus rubecula2024
- Great TitParus major2024
- ChaffinchFringilla coelebs2024
- House SparrowPasser domesticus2024
- BlackbirdTurdus merula2024
- RookCorvus frugilegus2024
- Blue TitCyanistes caeruleus2023
- SwallowHirundo rustica
- Long-tailed TitAegithalos caudatus2024
- KestrelFalco tinnunculus2024
- PheasantPhasianus colchicus2024
- MagpiePica pica2024
- WrenTroglodytes troglodytes2024
- Little OwlAthene noctua2024
- GreenfinchChloris chloris2023
- Pied WagtailMotacilla alba2023
- GoldfinchCarduelis carduelis2024
- MallardAnas platyrhynchos2023
- SkylarkAlauda arvensis2023
- Reed BuntingEmberiza schoeniclus2023
- Stock DoveColumba oenas2023
- Lesser Black-backed GullLarus fuscus2023
- YellowhammerEmberiza citrinella2023
- DunnockPrunella modularis2023
- Song ThrushTurdus philomelos2023
- Meadow PipitAnthus pratensis2023
- Grey PartridgePerdix perdix2023
- LinnetLinaria cannabina2023
- WhitethroatCurruca communis2023
- Whooper SwanCygnus cygnus
- SwiftApus apus
- Green WoodpeckerPicus viridis2024
- WaxwingBombycilla garrulus2024
- Barn OwlTyto alba2023
- StarlingSturnus vulgaris2023
- Yellow WagtailMotacilla flava2023
- Sedge WarblerAcrocephalus schoenobaenus2023
- RedshankTringa totanus2023
- Great Spotted WoodpeckerDendrocopos major2023
- Black-headed GullChroicocephalus ridibundus2023
- Mistle ThrushTurdus viscivorus2023
- Grey WagtailMotacilla cinerea2023
- MoorhenGallinula chloropus2023
🦌Mammals6 species
springsummer
2024▾
Brown Hare · Fallow Deer · Rabbit · Roe Deer · Red Fox +1
- Brown HareLepus europaeus2023
- Fallow DeerDama dama
- RabbitOryctolagus cuniculus2023
- Roe DeerCapreolus capreolus2023
- Red FoxVulpes vulpes2023
- HedgehogErinaceus europaeus
Grass Snake
- Grass SnakeNatrix helvetica
🐸Amphibians1 species
spring
2023▾
Great Crested Newt
- Great Crested NewtTriturus cristatus
🐝Insects2 species
springsummer
2024▾
Platystoma seminationis · Sphaerophoria
- Platystoma seminationisPlatystoma seminationis
- SphaerophoriaSphaerophoria2023
Meadowsweet · Reed Canary-grass · Fat Duckweed · Amphibious Bistort · Branched Bur-reed +66
- MeadowsweetFilipendula ulmaria
- Reed Canary-grassPhalaris arundinacea
- Fat DuckweedLemna gibba
- Amphibious BistortPersicaria amphibia
- Branched Bur-reedSparganium erectum
- Creeping BentAgrostis stolonifera
- Purple-loosestrife
Species observations from the last 10 years via NBN Atlas
Wildlife to spot
2,767 records · National Biodiversity Network🐦Birds47 species
springsummer
2025▾
Jackdaw · Woodpigeon · Carrion Crow · Collared Dove · Robin +42
- JackdawColoeus monedula2024
- WoodpigeonColumba palumbus2024
- Carrion CrowCorvus corone2024
- Collared DoveStreptopelia decaocto
- RobinErithacus rubecula2024
- Great TitParus major2024
- ChaffinchFringilla coelebs2024
- House SparrowPasser domesticus2024
- BlackbirdTurdus merula2024
- RookCorvus frugilegus2024
- Blue TitCyanistes caeruleus2023
- SwallowHirundo rustica
- Long-tailed TitAegithalos caudatus2024
- KestrelFalco tinnunculus2024
- PheasantPhasianus colchicus2024
- MagpiePica pica2024
- WrenTroglodytes troglodytes2024
- Little OwlAthene noctua2024
- GreenfinchChloris chloris2023
- Pied WagtailMotacilla alba2023
- GoldfinchCarduelis carduelis2024
- MallardAnas platyrhynchos2023
- SkylarkAlauda arvensis2023
- Reed BuntingEmberiza schoeniclus2023
- Stock DoveColumba oenas2023
- Lesser Black-backed GullLarus fuscus2023
- YellowhammerEmberiza citrinella2023
- DunnockPrunella modularis2023
- Song ThrushTurdus philomelos2023
- Meadow PipitAnthus pratensis2023
- Grey PartridgePerdix perdix2023
- LinnetLinaria cannabina2023
- WhitethroatCurruca communis2023
- Whooper SwanCygnus cygnus
- SwiftApus apus
- Green WoodpeckerPicus viridis2024
- WaxwingBombycilla garrulus2024
- Barn OwlTyto alba2023
- StarlingSturnus vulgaris2023
- Yellow WagtailMotacilla flava2023
- Sedge WarblerAcrocephalus schoenobaenus2023
- RedshankTringa totanus2023
- Great Spotted WoodpeckerDendrocopos major2023
- Black-headed GullChroicocephalus ridibundus2023
- Mistle ThrushTurdus viscivorus2023
- Grey WagtailMotacilla cinerea2023
- MoorhenGallinula chloropus2023
🦌Mammals6 species
springsummer
2024▾
Brown Hare · Fallow Deer · Rabbit · Roe Deer · Red Fox +1
- Brown HareLepus europaeus2023
- Fallow DeerDama dama
- RabbitOryctolagus cuniculus2023
- Roe DeerCapreolus capreolus2023
- Red FoxVulpes vulpes2023
- HedgehogErinaceus europaeus
Grass Snake
- Grass SnakeNatrix helvetica
🐸Amphibians1 species
spring
2023▾
Great Crested Newt
- Great Crested NewtTriturus cristatus
🐝Insects2 species
springsummer
2024▾
Platystoma seminationis · Sphaerophoria
- Platystoma seminationisPlatystoma seminationis
- SphaerophoriaSphaerophoria2023
Meadowsweet · Reed Canary-grass · Fat Duckweed · Amphibious Bistort · Branched Bur-reed +66
- MeadowsweetFilipendula ulmaria
- Reed Canary-grassPhalaris arundinacea
- Fat DuckweedLemna gibba
- Amphibious BistortPersicaria amphibia
- Branched Bur-reedSparganium erectum
- Creeping BentAgrostis stolonifera
- Purple-loosestrife
Species observations from the last 10 years via NBN Atlas
2023
2023
Lythrum salicaria
Lythrum salicaria
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