Plan your visit
🦅Birds🦉Wildlife🦋Insects
Public accessFree entryDogs welcome
Getting here
54.16630, -1.29018
Open directionsv
Visiting this summer
Seasonal nature notes and what to look for now
- 🐦63+ species recorded in this area — summer evenings are best for activity; watch for Woodpigeon and Rook
- ✦Historic character is a year-round quality here — summer brings its own atmosphere to the setting
- 🐾Spilmans on site — a good way to combine wildlife and an animal visit in the same trip
🌤️ Visiting this summer
- 🐦63+ species recorded in this area — summer evenings are best for activity; watch for Woodpigeon and Rook
- ✦Historic character is a year-round quality here — summer brings its own atmosphere to the setting
- 🐾Spilmans on site — a good way to combine wildlife and an animal visit in the same trip
- £Free to visit — no entry charge
- 🐕Dogs welcome
🦅Bird watching
Very strong match
Birds — Woodpigeon, Rook, Blackbird +60 more · last seen 2026
Free
Birds — Woodpigeon, Rook, Blackbird +60 more · last seen 2026
Free
🦋Insect spotting
Strong match
Insects — Lesser Swallow Prominent, Engrailed, Chestnut +183 more · last seen 2024
Free
Grade II* listed building: Church of St Cuthbert; Religious grounds — local heritage
Free
Named cycling route nearby: White Rose Route - Thirsk Variant
Varies
Dogs allowed with public access
Free
Trails nearby
Within roughly 5 km1 signed route nearby · 6 public paths nearby
Signed route nearbyPublic paths
Swale WayWalking route▾
Named routeRegional walking route
Mill Lanepublic footpath · 1.2 km▾
Public pathpublic footpathLength 1.2 kmSurface gravelPath type: service
18 signed routes nearby
Signed route nearby
White Rose Route - Thirsk VariantCycling route▾
Named routeRef 657National Cycle Network
National Byway (Easingwold Loop)Cycling route▾
Named routeRef NBRegional cycle route
The White Rose Cycle RouteCycling route▾
Named routeRef 65National Cycle Network
Main RouteCycling route4.7 km▾
Named routeRef 657Length 4.7 kmNational Cycle NetworkOn-roadSurface asphalt
Main RouteCycling route1.2 km▾
Named routeRef 657Length 1.2 kmNational Cycle NetworkOn-roadSurface asphalt
Main RouteCycling route6.7 km▾
Named routeRef 657Length 6.7 kmNational Cycle NetworkOn-roadSurface asphalt
Photos
St Cuthbert's Church. Little Sessay
Weather for this location
Next 14 daysNearby places
Useful places within 5 km
Wildlife to spot
4,720 records · National Biodiversity Network
Wildlife to spot
4,720 records · National Biodiversity NetworkRook · Woodpigeon · Blackbird · Robin · Carrion Crow +42
- RookCorvus frugilegus2024
- WoodpigeonColumba palumbus2024
- BlackbirdTurdus merula
- RobinErithacus rubecula2024
- Carrion CrowCorvus corone2024
- JackdawColoeus monedula2024
- GoldfinchCarduelis carduelis2024
- GreenfinchChloris chloris2024
- Reed BuntingEmberiza schoeniclus2024
- DunnockPrunella modularis2024
- Great TitParus major2024
- WrenTroglodytes troglodytes2024
- House SparrowPasser domesticus2024
- Blue TitCyanistes caeruleus2024
- SkylarkAlauda arvensis2024
- PheasantPhasianus colchicus2024
- Rock DoveColumba livia2024
- ChaffinchFringilla coelebs2024
- LinnetLinaria cannabina2024
- Red-legged PartridgeAlectoris rufa2024
- Song ThrushTurdus philomelos2024
- Pied WagtailMotacilla alba2024
- NuthatchSitta europaea2024
- WhitethroatCurruca communis2024
- StarlingSturnus vulgaris2024
- ChiffchaffPhylloscopus collybita2024
- YellowhammerEmberiza citrinella2024
- Willow WarblerPhylloscopus trochilus2023
- Black-headed GullChroicocephalus ridibundus2024
- BlackcapSylvia atricapilla2024
- Great Spotted WoodpeckerDendrocopos major2024
- Collared DoveStreptopelia decaocto2024
- MagpiePica pica2024
- Barn OwlTyto alba2022
- MallardAnas platyrhynchos
- KestrelFalco tinnunculus2025
- HobbyFalco subbuteo2024
- QuailCoturnix coturnix2024
- Greylag GooseAnser anser2024
- MoorhenGallinula chloropus2024
- Tree SparrowPasser montanus2024
- Coal TitPeriparus ater2024
- Mistle ThrushTurdus viscivorus2023
- Little TernSternula albifrons2023
- Garden WarblerSylvia borin2022
- SwallowHirundo rustica2022
- WheatearOenanthe oenanthe2022
Rabbit · Brown Hare · Red Deer · Roe Deer · Otter +4
- RabbitOryctolagus cuniculus2024
- Brown HareLepus europaeus2024
- Red DeerCervus elaphus2023
- Roe DeerCapreolus capreolus
- OtterLutra lutra2023
- American MinkNeovison vison2022
🐝Insects5 species
summerautumn
2024▾
Oak Bush-cricket · House-fly · Orange Ladybird · Red-legged Shieldbug · Rosemary Beetle
- Oak Bush-cricketMeconema thalassinum
- House-flyMusca domestica2023
- Orange LadybirdHalyzia sedecimguttata2022
- Red-legged ShieldbugPentatoma rufipes2022
- Rosemary BeetleChrysolina americana2022
Species observations from the last 10 years via NBN Atlas
Wildlife to spot
4,720 records · National Biodiversity NetworkRook · Woodpigeon · Blackbird · Robin · Carrion Crow +42
- RookCorvus frugilegus2024
- WoodpigeonColumba palumbus2024
- BlackbirdTurdus merula
- RobinErithacus rubecula2024
- Carrion CrowCorvus corone2024
- JackdawColoeus monedula2024
- GoldfinchCarduelis carduelis2024
- GreenfinchChloris chloris2024
- Reed BuntingEmberiza schoeniclus2024
- DunnockPrunella modularis2024
- Great TitParus major2024
- WrenTroglodytes troglodytes2024
- House SparrowPasser domesticus2024
- Blue TitCyanistes caeruleus2024
- SkylarkAlauda arvensis2024
- PheasantPhasianus colchicus2024
- Rock DoveColumba livia2024
- ChaffinchFringilla coelebs2024
- LinnetLinaria cannabina2024
- Red-legged PartridgeAlectoris rufa2024
- Song ThrushTurdus philomelos2024
- Pied WagtailMotacilla alba2024
- NuthatchSitta europaea2024
- WhitethroatCurruca communis2024
- StarlingSturnus vulgaris2024
- ChiffchaffPhylloscopus collybita2024
- YellowhammerEmberiza citrinella2024
- Willow WarblerPhylloscopus trochilus2023
- Black-headed GullChroicocephalus ridibundus2024
- BlackcapSylvia atricapilla2024
- Great Spotted WoodpeckerDendrocopos major2024
- Collared DoveStreptopelia decaocto2024
- MagpiePica pica2024
- Barn OwlTyto alba2022
- MallardAnas platyrhynchos
- KestrelFalco tinnunculus2025
- HobbyFalco subbuteo2024
- QuailCoturnix coturnix2024
- Greylag GooseAnser anser2024
- MoorhenGallinula chloropus2024
- Tree SparrowPasser montanus2024
- Coal TitPeriparus ater2024
- Mistle ThrushTurdus viscivorus2023
- Little TernSternula albifrons2023
- Garden WarblerSylvia borin2022
- SwallowHirundo rustica2022
- WheatearOenanthe oenanthe2022
Rabbit · Brown Hare · Red Deer · Roe Deer · Otter +4
- RabbitOryctolagus cuniculus2024
- Brown HareLepus europaeus2024
- Red DeerCervus elaphus2023
- Roe DeerCapreolus capreolus
- OtterLutra lutra2023
- American MinkNeovison vison2022
🐝Insects5 species
summerautumn
2024▾
Oak Bush-cricket · House-fly · Orange Ladybird · Red-legged Shieldbug · Rosemary Beetle
- Oak Bush-cricketMeconema thalassinum
- House-flyMusca domestica2023
- Orange LadybirdHalyzia sedecimguttata2022
- Red-legged ShieldbugPentatoma rufipes2022
- Rosemary BeetleChrysolina americana2022
Species observations from the last 10 years via NBN Atlas
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