Plan your visit
🦅Birds✦Heritage🦉Wildlife
Public accessFree entryDogs welcome
Getting here
51.36266, 0.60864
Open directionsv
Visiting this summer
Seasonal nature notes and what to look for now
- 🐦61+ species recorded in this area — summer evenings are best for activity; watch for Black-headed Gull and Carrion Crow
- ✦Historic character is a year-round quality here — summer brings its own atmosphere to the setting
- ☕Costa — makes this an easy full-day family visit without needing to pack food
🌤️ Visiting this summer
- 🐦61+ species recorded in this area — summer evenings are best for activity; watch for Black-headed Gull and Carrion Crow
- ✦Historic character is a year-round quality here — summer brings its own atmosphere to the setting
- ☕Costa — makes this an easy full-day family visit without needing to pack food
- £Free to visit — no entry charge
- 🐕Dogs welcome
🦅Bird watching
Very strong match
Birds — Black-headed Gull, Carrion Crow, Woodpigeon +58 more · last seen 2026
Free
✦Heritage
Very strong match
Grade I listed building: CHURCH OF ST MARGARET; Religious grounds — local heritage
Free
Birds — Black-headed Gull, Carrion Crow, Woodpigeon +58 more · last seen 2026
Free
🧺Picnic day out
Strong match
café, toilets, car park
Free
🛝Family friendly
Strong match
café, toilets
Free
Dogs allowed with public access
Free
Trails nearby
Within roughly 5 km2 signed routes nearby · 2 public paths nearby
Signed route nearbyPublic paths
Saxon Shore WayWalking route262 km▾
Named routeLength 262 kmRegional walking route
King Charles III England Coast Path: Iwade to GrainWalking route▾
Named routeRef ECPNational walking route
88 signed routes nearby
Signed route nearby
NCN National Route 1Cycling route▾
Named routeRef 1National Cycle Network
(A2)<>(NCN1)Cycling route▾
Gillingham<>Rainham Cycle PathCycling route▾
Named routeLocal cycle route
Alternative RouteCycling route▾
Main RouteCycling route214 m▾
Named routeRef 1Length 214 mNational Cycle NetworkTraffic-freeSurface asphalt
Main RouteCycling route460 m▾
Named routeRef 1Length 460 mNational Cycle NetworkOn-roadSurface asphalt
1 signed route nearby
Signed route nearby
Capstone Mountain bike trailMountain bike route▾
Photos
St Margaret's Church, Rainham
Weather for this location
Next 14 daysNearby places
Useful places within 5 km
Wildlife to spot
84,703 records · National Biodiversity Network
Wildlife to spot
84,703 records · National Biodiversity NetworkRobin · Herring Gull · Blue Tit · Woodpigeon · Black-headed Gull +20
- RobinErithacus rubecula
- Herring GullLarus argentatus2025
- Blue TitCyanistes caeruleus2025
- WoodpigeonColumba palumbus2025
- Black-headed GullChroicocephalus ridibundus2025
- MagpiePica pica2025
- Rock DoveColumba livia2025
- Carrion CrowCorvus corone2025
- StarlingSturnus vulgaris2025
- DunnockPrunella modularis2025
- House SparrowPasser domesticus2025
- Great TitParus major2025
- GoldfinchCarduelis carduelis2025
- BlackbirdTurdus merula2025
- Collared DoveStreptopelia decaocto2025
- JackdawColoeus monedula2025
- WrenTroglodytes troglodytes2025
- Long-tailed TitAegithalos caudatus
- Great Crested GrebePodiceps cristatus
- RedwingTurdus iliacus
- JayGarrulus glandarius
- ChiffchaffPhylloscopus collybita2025
- ChaffinchFringilla coelebs2025
- BlackcapSylvia atricapilla2025
- FieldfareTurdus pilaris2025
Grey Squirrel · Red Fox · Feral Cat · Wood Mouse · Mole
- Grey SquirrelSciurus carolinensis2025
- Red FoxVulpes vulpes2025
- Feral CatFelis catus2025
- Wood MouseApodemus sylvaticus
- MoleTalpa europaea2025
Dark-edged Bee-fly · Eupeodes · 7-spot Ladybird · Marmalade Hoverfly · Green Shieldbug +5
- Dark-edged Bee-flyBombylius major
- EupeodesEupeodes
- 7-spot LadybirdCoccinella septempunctata
- Marmalade HoverflyEpisyrphus balteatus
- Green ShieldbugPalomena prasina
- FirebugPyrrhocoris apterus
- Meliscaeva auricollisMeliscaeva auricollis
Species observations from the last 10 years via NBN Atlas
Wildlife to spot
84,703 records · National Biodiversity NetworkRobin · Herring Gull · Blue Tit · Woodpigeon · Black-headed Gull +20
- RobinErithacus rubecula
- Herring GullLarus argentatus2025
- Blue TitCyanistes caeruleus2025
- WoodpigeonColumba palumbus2025
- Black-headed GullChroicocephalus ridibundus2025
- MagpiePica pica2025
- Rock DoveColumba livia2025
- Carrion CrowCorvus corone2025
- StarlingSturnus vulgaris2025
- DunnockPrunella modularis2025
- House SparrowPasser domesticus2025
- Great TitParus major2025
- GoldfinchCarduelis carduelis2025
- BlackbirdTurdus merula2025
- Collared DoveStreptopelia decaocto2025
- JackdawColoeus monedula2025
- WrenTroglodytes troglodytes2025
- Long-tailed TitAegithalos caudatus
- Great Crested GrebePodiceps cristatus
- RedwingTurdus iliacus
- JayGarrulus glandarius
- ChiffchaffPhylloscopus collybita2025
- ChaffinchFringilla coelebs2025
- BlackcapSylvia atricapilla2025
- FieldfareTurdus pilaris2025
Grey Squirrel · Red Fox · Feral Cat · Wood Mouse · Mole
- Grey SquirrelSciurus carolinensis2025
- Red FoxVulpes vulpes2025
- Feral CatFelis catus2025
- Wood MouseApodemus sylvaticus
- MoleTalpa europaea2025
Dark-edged Bee-fly · Eupeodes · 7-spot Ladybird · Marmalade Hoverfly · Green Shieldbug +5
- Dark-edged Bee-flyBombylius major
- EupeodesEupeodes
- 7-spot LadybirdCoccinella septempunctata
- Marmalade HoverflyEpisyrphus balteatus
- Green ShieldbugPalomena prasina
- FirebugPyrrhocoris apterus
- Meliscaeva auricollisMeliscaeva auricollis
Species observations from the last 10 years via NBN Atlas
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