Plan your visit
🦅Birds🦉Wildlife✦Heritage
Public accessFree entryDogs welcome
Getting here
52.39708, -0.80403
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Visiting this summer
Seasonal nature notes and what to look for now
- 🐦79+ species recorded in this area — summer evenings are best for activity; watch for Mute Swan and Moorhen
- ✦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
- 🐦79+ species recorded in this area — summer evenings are best for activity; watch for Mute Swan and Moorhen
- ✦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 — Mute Swan, Moorhen, Jackdaw +76 more · last seen 2025
Free
Birds — Mute Swan, Moorhen, Jackdaw +76 more · last seen 2025
Free
Grade II* listed building: CHURCH OF ST LEONARD; Religious grounds — local heritage
Free
Dogs allowed with public access
Free
⛪Churchyard walks
Good match
Churchyard or religious grounds — wildlife sanctuary and quiet reflection
Free
🦋Insect spotting
Good match
Insects — Chartoscirta cincta, Callicorixa praeusta, Microvelia (Microvelia) reticulata +6 more · last seen 2025
Free
Trails nearby
Within roughly 5 km1 signed route nearby · 3 public paths nearby
Signed route nearbyPublic paths
Midshires WayWalking route370 km▾
Multi-use trail links the Ridgeway National Trail with the Trans Pennine Trail
Named routeLength 370 kmRegional walking route
Weather for this location
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Wildlife to spot
14,059 records · National Biodiversity Network
Wildlife to spot
14,059 records · National Biodiversity NetworkGrey Heron · Woodpigeon · Great Tit · Jackdaw · Blue Tit +17
- Grey HeronArdea cinerea
- WoodpigeonColumba palumbus
- Great TitParus major
- JackdawColoeus monedula
- Blue TitCyanistes caeruleus
- MoorhenGallinula chloropus
- MallardAnas platyrhynchos
- LapwingVanellus vanellus
- Little EgretEgretta garzetta
- RobinErithacus rubecula
- CormorantPhalacrocorax carbo
- Mute SwanCygnus olor
- WrenTroglodytes troglodytes
- ChaffinchFringilla coelebs
- ChiffchaffPhylloscopus collybita
- GadwallMareca strepera
- Lesser Black-backed GullLarus fuscus
- Common GullLarus canus
- Black-headed GullChroicocephalus ridibundus
- Greylag GooseAnser anser
- JayGarrulus glandarius
- House MartinDelichon urbicum
Elder · Nipplewort · Common Nettle · Blackthorn · False Oat-grass +88
- ElderSambucus nigra
- NipplewortLapsana communis
- Common NettleUrtica dioica
- BlackthornPrunus spinosa
- False Oat-grassArrhenatherum elatius
- Cow ParsleyAnthriscus sylvestris
- White Dead-nettleLamium album
Species observations from the last 10 years via NBN Atlas
Wildlife to spot
14,059 records · National Biodiversity NetworkGrey Heron · Woodpigeon · Great Tit · Jackdaw · Blue Tit +17
- Grey HeronArdea cinerea
- WoodpigeonColumba palumbus
- Great TitParus major
- JackdawColoeus monedula
- Blue TitCyanistes caeruleus
- MoorhenGallinula chloropus
- MallardAnas platyrhynchos
- LapwingVanellus vanellus
- Little EgretEgretta garzetta
- RobinErithacus rubecula
- CormorantPhalacrocorax carbo
- Mute SwanCygnus olor
- WrenTroglodytes troglodytes
- ChaffinchFringilla coelebs
- ChiffchaffPhylloscopus collybita
- GadwallMareca strepera
- Lesser Black-backed GullLarus fuscus
- Common GullLarus canus
- Black-headed GullChroicocephalus ridibundus
- Greylag GooseAnser anser
- JayGarrulus glandarius
- House MartinDelichon urbicum
Elder · Nipplewort · Common Nettle · Blackthorn · False Oat-grass +88
- ElderSambucus nigra
- NipplewortLapsana communis
- Common NettleUrtica dioica
- BlackthornPrunus spinosa
- False Oat-grassArrhenatherum elatius
- Cow ParsleyAnthriscus sylvestris
- White Dead-nettleLamium album
Species observations from the last 10 years via NBN Atlas
