Plan your visit
🦅Birds✦Heritage🦉Wildlife
Public accessFree entryDogs welcome
Getting here
51.81957, -2.47701
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Visiting this summer
Seasonal nature notes and what to look for now
- 🐦80+ species recorded in this area — summer evenings are best for activity; watch for Blue Tit and Great Tit
- ✦Historic character is a year-round quality here — summer brings its own atmosphere to the setting
- 🛝Playground on site — built-in entertainment for younger visitors alongside the wider site
🌤️ Visiting this summer
- 🐦80+ species recorded in this area — summer evenings are best for activity; watch for Blue Tit and Great Tit
- ✦Historic character is a year-round quality here — summer brings its own atmosphere to the setting
- 🛝Playground on site — built-in entertainment for younger visitors alongside the wider site
- £Free to visit — no entry charge
- 🐕Dogs welcome
🅿️Parking· Free🛝Playground
🦅Bird watching
Very strong match
Birds — Blue Tit, Great Tit, House Sparrow +77 more · last seen 2025
Free
✦Heritage
Very strong match
Grade I listed building: CHURCH OF ST ETHELBERT; Religious grounds — local heritage
Free
Birds — Blue Tit, Great Tit, House Sparrow +77 more · last seen 2025
Free
🦋Insect spotting
Strong match
Insects — Anoplotrupes stercorosus, 7-spot Ladybird, Emperor Dragonfly +34 more · last seen 2025
Free
🍂Seasonal nature
Strong match
Plants — Fissidens bryoides var. bryoides, Common Striated Feather-moss, Bruch's Pincushion +84 more · last seen 2021
Free
Trails nearby
Within roughly 5 km5 signed routes nearby · 15 public paths nearby
Signed route nearbyPublic paths
Gloucestershire WayWalking route161 km▾
Named routeLength 161 kmRegional walking route
Salmon WayWalking route▾
Named routeArlingham paths
Geopark WayWalking route175 km▾
Named routeRef geoLength 175 kmRegional walking route
Severn Way (3) Worcester to BristolWalking route153 km▾
Named routeRef SW (3)Length 153 kmRegional walking route
Forest of Dean Sculpture TrailWalking route▾
Named routeRef FoDSTLocal walking route
Three Trees Waypublic footpath · 68 m▾
Public pathpublic footpathLength 68 mPath type: residential
Folders Lanepublic footpath · 72 m▾
Public pathpublic footpathLength 72 mPath type: residential
8 signed routes nearby
Signed route nearby
Mallards Pike LinkCycling route▾
National Cycle Network Route 42Cycling route▾
Named routeRef 42National Cycle Network
Family cycle route (easy)Cycling route▾
Named routeLocal cycle route
Hicksters Way LoopCycling route▾
Shorter alternative return route to Cannop Cycle Centre or Beechenhurst than following the Family Cycle Trail
Named routeLocal cycle route
Main RouteCycling route7.4 km▾
Named routeRef 42Length 7.4 kmNational Cycle NetworkTraffic-freeSurface unsealedfirm
Main RouteCycling route177 m▾
Named routeRef 42Length 177 mNational Cycle NetworkOn-roadSurface asphalt
2 public paths nearby
Public paths
No named routes yet. Public paths are shown on the map.
Photos
Error on St Ethelbert's church clock face in Littledean
Weather for this location
Next 14 daysNearby places
Useful places within 5 km
Wildlife to spot
25,122 records · National Biodiversity Network
Wildlife to spot
25,122 records · National Biodiversity Network🐦Birds45 species
winterautumn
2025▾
Blue Tit · House Sparrow · Wren · Blackbird · Great Tit +40
- Blue TitCyanistes caeruleus
- House SparrowPasser domesticus
- WrenTroglodytes troglodytes
- BlackbirdTurdus merula
- Great TitParus major
- GoldfinchCarduelis carduelis
- Pied WagtailMotacilla alba yarrellii
- RobinErithacus rubecula
- Lesser Black-backed GullLarus fuscus
- WoodpigeonColumba palumbus
- ChaffinchFringilla coelebs
- DunnockPrunella modularis
- House MartinDelichon urbicum
- ChiffchaffPhylloscopus collybita
- MagpiePica pica
- JackdawColoeus monedula
- Common GullLarus canus
- GoldcrestRegulus regulus
- Carrion CrowCorvus corone
- Coal TitPeriparus ater
- Song ThrushTurdus philomelos
- NuthatchSitta europaea
- Black-headed GullChroicocephalus ridibundus
- Great Spotted WoodpeckerDendrocopos major
- Herring GullLarus argentatus
- Long-tailed TitAegithalos caudatus
- StarlingSturnus vulgaris
- JayGarrulus glandarius
- TreecreeperCerthia familiaris
- RedwingTurdus iliacus
- Stock DoveColumba oenas
- BullfinchPyrrhula pyrrhula
- BlackcapSylvia atricapilla
- Willow WarblerPhylloscopus trochilus
- SiskinSpinus spinus
- SwiftApus apus
- Green WoodpeckerPicus viridis
- RavenCorvus corax
- CrossbillLoxia curvirostra
- SkylarkAlauda arvensis
- Grey WagtailMotacilla cinerea
- Garden WarblerSylvia borin
- RookCorvus frugilegus
- Collared DoveStreptopelia decaocto2024
- Meadow PipitAnthus pratensis2024
Grey Squirrel · Water Shrew
- Grey SquirrelSciurus carolinensis
- Water ShrewNeomys fodiens
Common Lizard
- Common LizardZootoca vivipara
🐸Amphibians2 species
summerautumn
2025▾
Common Frog · Great Crested Newt
- Common FrogRana temporaria
- Great Crested NewtTriturus cristatus
🐝Insects14 species
springsummer
2025▾
Emperor Dragonfly · Anoplotrupes stercorosus · 7-spot Ladybird · 14-spot Ladybird · Orange Ladybird +9
- Emperor DragonflyAnax imperator
- Anoplotrupes stercorosusAnoplotrupes stercorosus
- 7-spot LadybirdCoccinella septempunctata
- 14-spot LadybirdPropylea quattuordecimpunctata
- Orange LadybirdHalyzia sedecimguttata
- Swollen-thighed BeetleOedemera nobilis
Species observations from the last 10 years via NBN Atlas
Wildlife to spot
25,122 records · National Biodiversity Network🐦Birds45 species
winterautumn
2025▾
Blue Tit · House Sparrow · Wren · Blackbird · Great Tit +40
- Blue TitCyanistes caeruleus
- House SparrowPasser domesticus
- WrenTroglodytes troglodytes
- BlackbirdTurdus merula
- Great TitParus major
- GoldfinchCarduelis carduelis
- Pied WagtailMotacilla alba yarrellii
- RobinErithacus rubecula
- Lesser Black-backed GullLarus fuscus
- WoodpigeonColumba palumbus
- ChaffinchFringilla coelebs
- DunnockPrunella modularis
- House MartinDelichon urbicum
- ChiffchaffPhylloscopus collybita
- MagpiePica pica
- JackdawColoeus monedula
- Common GullLarus canus
- GoldcrestRegulus regulus
- Carrion CrowCorvus corone
- Coal TitPeriparus ater
- Song ThrushTurdus philomelos
- NuthatchSitta europaea
- Black-headed GullChroicocephalus ridibundus
- Great Spotted WoodpeckerDendrocopos major
- Herring GullLarus argentatus
- Long-tailed TitAegithalos caudatus
- StarlingSturnus vulgaris
- JayGarrulus glandarius
- TreecreeperCerthia familiaris
- RedwingTurdus iliacus
- Stock DoveColumba oenas
- BullfinchPyrrhula pyrrhula
- BlackcapSylvia atricapilla
- Willow WarblerPhylloscopus trochilus
- SiskinSpinus spinus
- SwiftApus apus
- Green WoodpeckerPicus viridis
- RavenCorvus corax
- CrossbillLoxia curvirostra
- SkylarkAlauda arvensis
- Grey WagtailMotacilla cinerea
- Garden WarblerSylvia borin
- RookCorvus frugilegus
- Collared DoveStreptopelia decaocto2024
- Meadow PipitAnthus pratensis2024
Grey Squirrel · Water Shrew
- Grey SquirrelSciurus carolinensis
- Water ShrewNeomys fodiens
Common Lizard
- Common LizardZootoca vivipara
🐸Amphibians2 species
summerautumn
2025▾
Common Frog · Great Crested Newt
- Common FrogRana temporaria
- Great Crested NewtTriturus cristatus
🐝Insects14 species
springsummer
2025▾
Emperor Dragonfly · Anoplotrupes stercorosus · 7-spot Ladybird · 14-spot Ladybird · Orange Ladybird +9
- Emperor DragonflyAnax imperator
- Anoplotrupes stercorosusAnoplotrupes stercorosus
- 7-spot LadybirdCoccinella septempunctata
- 14-spot LadybirdPropylea quattuordecimpunctata
- Orange LadybirdHalyzia sedecimguttata
- Swollen-thighed BeetleOedemera nobilis
Species observations from the last 10 years via NBN Atlas
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