Plan your visit
🦅Birds✦Heritage🦉Wildlife
Public accessFree entryDogs welcome
Getting here
50.82734, -3.91659
Open directionsv
Visiting this summer
Seasonal nature notes and what to look for now
- 🐦71+ species recorded in this area — summer evenings are best for activity; watch for Blue Tit and Woodpigeon
- ✦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
- 🐦71+ species recorded in this area — summer evenings are best for activity; watch for Blue Tit and Woodpigeon
- ✦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 — Blue Tit, Woodpigeon, Raven +68 more · last seen 2025
Free
✦Heritage
Very strong match
Grade I listed building: CHURCH OF ST JAMES; Religious grounds — local heritage
Free
Birds — Blue Tit, Woodpigeon, Raven +68 more · last seen 2025
Free
🦋Insect spotting
Strong match
Insects — Gatekeeper, Red Admiral, Meadow Brown +24 more · last seen 2022
Free
🍂Seasonal nature
Strong match
Plants — Bluebell, English Elm, Devon Whitebeam +207 more · last seen 2017
Free
Dogs allowed with public access
Free
Trails nearby
Within roughly 5 km2 signed routes nearby
Signed route nearby
Tarka TrailWalking route▾
Named routeRef TTRegional walking route
Devonshire Heartland WayWalking route▾
Named routeRef DHWRegional walking route
Weather for this location
Next 14 daysNearby places
Useful places within 5 km
Wildlife to spot
2,157 records · National Biodiversity Network
Wildlife to spot
2,157 records · National Biodiversity Network🐦Birds51 species
springsummer
2025▾
Robin · Wren · Jackdaw · Blue Tit · Woodpigeon +46
- RobinErithacus rubecula
- WrenTroglodytes troglodytes
- JackdawColoeus monedula
- Blue TitCyanistes caeruleus
- WoodpigeonColumba palumbus
- ChaffinchFringilla coelebs
- Stock DoveColumba oenas
- DunnockPrunella modularis
- Carrion CrowCorvus corone
- BlackbirdTurdus merula
- BlackcapSylvia atricapilla
- SwallowHirundo rustica
- MoorhenGallinula chloropus2021
- Great TitParus major
- ChiffchaffPhylloscopus collybita
- Song ThrushTurdus philomelos
- GoldfinchCarduelis carduelis
- MagpiePica pica
- House SparrowPasser domesticus
- Coal TitPeriparus ater
- PheasantPhasianus colchicus2021
- House MartinDelichon urbicum
- NuthatchSitta europaea
- Great Spotted WoodpeckerDendrocopos major
- Grey WagtailMotacilla cinerea
- GoldcrestRegulus regulus2021
- RookCorvus frugilegus2021
- JayGarrulus glandarius
- Pied WagtailMotacilla alba yarrellii
- YellowhammerEmberiza citrinella
- SwiftApus apus
- Garden WarblerSylvia borin2021
- StarlingSturnus vulgaris2020
- Long-tailed TitAegithalos caudatus
- Herring GullLarus argentatus
- Collared DoveStreptopelia decaocto
- Lesser Black-backed GullLarus fuscus
- LinnetLinaria cannabina
- SkylarkAlauda arvensis
- GreenfinchChloris chloris
- Barn OwlTyto alba2024
- Lesser Spotted WoodpeckerDryobates minor2022
- Canada GooseBranta canadensis2022
- Tawny OwlStrix aluco2021
- WoodcockScolopax rusticola2021
- BullfinchPyrrhula pyrrhula2021
- Little GrebeTachybaptus ruficollis2021
- MallardAnas platyrhynchos2020
- Green WoodpeckerPicus viridis2020
- SiskinSpinus spinus2020
- Marsh TitPoecile palustris2020
🦌Mammals3 species
springsummerautumn
2025▾
Hazel Dormouse · Grey Squirrel · Otter
- Hazel DormouseMuscardinus avellanarius
- Grey SquirrelSciurus carolinensis
- OtterLutra lutra2022
Golden-ringed Dragonfly · Oil Beetle · Anoplotrupes stercorosus · Speckled Bush-cricket · Batman Hoverfly +2
- Golden-ringed DragonflyCordulegaster boltonii
- Oil BeetleMeloe
- Anoplotrupes stercorosusAnoplotrupes stercorosus2020
- Speckled Bush-cricketLeptophyes punctatissima2020
- Batman HoverflyMyathropa florea2020
- Eristalis pertinaxEristalis pertinax
Species observations from the last 10 years via NBN Atlas
Wildlife to spot
2,157 records · National Biodiversity Network🐦Birds51 species
springsummer
2025▾
Robin · Wren · Jackdaw · Blue Tit · Woodpigeon +46
- RobinErithacus rubecula
- WrenTroglodytes troglodytes
- JackdawColoeus monedula
- Blue TitCyanistes caeruleus
- WoodpigeonColumba palumbus
- ChaffinchFringilla coelebs
- Stock DoveColumba oenas
- DunnockPrunella modularis
- Carrion CrowCorvus corone
- BlackbirdTurdus merula
- BlackcapSylvia atricapilla
- SwallowHirundo rustica
- MoorhenGallinula chloropus2021
- Great TitParus major
- ChiffchaffPhylloscopus collybita
- Song ThrushTurdus philomelos
- GoldfinchCarduelis carduelis
- MagpiePica pica
- House SparrowPasser domesticus
- Coal TitPeriparus ater
- PheasantPhasianus colchicus2021
- House MartinDelichon urbicum
- NuthatchSitta europaea
- Great Spotted WoodpeckerDendrocopos major
- Grey WagtailMotacilla cinerea
- GoldcrestRegulus regulus2021
- RookCorvus frugilegus2021
- JayGarrulus glandarius
- Pied WagtailMotacilla alba yarrellii
- YellowhammerEmberiza citrinella
- SwiftApus apus
- Garden WarblerSylvia borin2021
- StarlingSturnus vulgaris2020
- Long-tailed TitAegithalos caudatus
- Herring GullLarus argentatus
- Collared DoveStreptopelia decaocto
- Lesser Black-backed GullLarus fuscus
- LinnetLinaria cannabina
- SkylarkAlauda arvensis
- GreenfinchChloris chloris
- Barn OwlTyto alba2024
- Lesser Spotted WoodpeckerDryobates minor2022
- Canada GooseBranta canadensis2022
- Tawny OwlStrix aluco2021
- WoodcockScolopax rusticola2021
- BullfinchPyrrhula pyrrhula2021
- Little GrebeTachybaptus ruficollis2021
- MallardAnas platyrhynchos2020
- Green WoodpeckerPicus viridis2020
- SiskinSpinus spinus2020
- Marsh TitPoecile palustris2020
🦌Mammals3 species
springsummerautumn
2025▾
Hazel Dormouse · Grey Squirrel · Otter
- Hazel DormouseMuscardinus avellanarius
- Grey SquirrelSciurus carolinensis
- OtterLutra lutra2022
Golden-ringed Dragonfly · Oil Beetle · Anoplotrupes stercorosus · Speckled Bush-cricket · Batman Hoverfly +2
- Golden-ringed DragonflyCordulegaster boltonii
- Oil BeetleMeloe
- Anoplotrupes stercorosusAnoplotrupes stercorosus2020
- Speckled Bush-cricketLeptophyes punctatissima2020
- Batman HoverflyMyathropa florea2020
- Eristalis pertinaxEristalis pertinax
Species observations from the last 10 years via NBN Atlas
2020
2020
Syritta pipiensSyritta pipiens2020Syritta pipiensSyritta pipiens2020Events & activities nearby
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