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🦅Birds✦Heritage🦉Wildlife
Public accessFree entryDogs welcome
Getting here
52.62997, 0.49269
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Visiting this summer
Seasonal nature notes and what to look for now
- 🐦81+ species recorded in this area — summer evenings are best for activity; watch for Stock Dove and Woodpigeon
- ✦Historic character is a year-round quality here — summer brings its own atmosphere to the setting
- 🛝Playground 187m away — built-in entertainment for younger visitors alongside the wider site
🌤️ Visiting this summer
- 🐦81+ species recorded in this area — summer evenings are best for activity; watch for Stock Dove and Woodpigeon
- ✦Historic character is a year-round quality here — summer brings its own atmosphere to the setting
- 🛝Playground 187m away — 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 — Stock Dove, Woodpigeon, Blackbird +78 more · last seen 2025
Free
✦Heritage
Very strong match
Grade I listed building: CHURCH OF ST MARTIN; Religious grounds — local heritage
Free
Birds — Stock Dove, Woodpigeon, Blackbird +78 more · last seen 2025
Free
🍂Seasonal nature
Strong match
Plants — Silky Wall Feather-moss, Wall Screw-moss, Hornschuch's Beard-moss +40 more · last seen 2022
Free
🛝Family friendly
Strong match
playground
Free
Trails nearby
Within roughly 5 km3 signed routes nearby · 13 public paths nearby
Signed route nearbyPublic paths
Boughton Fen Wildlife WalkWalking route▾
Narborough Circular WalkWalking route3.8 km▾
Named routeLength 3.8 kmRound tripLocal walking route
Pentney and Shouldham Warren via Pentney AbbeyWalking route10.5 km▾
Named routeLength 10.5 kmRound tripLocal walking route
California Roadpublic footpath · 72 m▾
Public pathpublic footpathLength 72 mSurface groundPath type: service
3 signed routes nearby
Signed route nearby
Regional Route 30 (alternative)Cycling route▾
Named routeRef (30)Regional cycle route
Brecks Cycling Discovery RouteCycling route▾
Named routeRegional cycle route
N/ACycling route5.8 km▾
Named routeLength 5.8 kmNational Cycle NetworkOn-roadSurface asphalt
1 public path nearby
Public paths
The Hillbridleway · 66 m▾
Public pathbridlewayLength 66 mPath type: service
Photos
View towards St Martin's church
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Wildlife to spot
1,933 records · National Biodiversity Network
Wildlife to spot
1,933 records · National Biodiversity NetworkGreat Grey Shrike · Stock Dove · Kestrel · Woodpigeon · Lapwing +40
- Great Grey ShrikeLanius excubitor2020
- Stock DoveColumba oenas2022
- KestrelFalco tinnunculus2024
- WoodpigeonColumba palumbus2021
- LapwingVanellus vanellus2024
- SkylarkAlauda arvensis2024
- PheasantPhasianus colchicus2024
- Red-legged PartridgeAlectoris rufa2024
- YellowhammerEmberiza citrinella2022
- Black-headed GullChroicocephalus ridibundus2020
- Carrion CrowCorvus corone2024
- BlackbirdTurdus merula2024
- Grey PartridgePerdix perdix2022
- Long-tailed TitAegithalos caudatus2024
- RobinErithacus rubecula2024
- GoldfinchCarduelis carduelis2022
- Common GullLarus canus2022
- RookCorvus frugilegus2022
- JackdawColoeus monedula2024
- MagpiePica pica2024
- Pied WagtailMotacilla alba yarrellii2022
- ChaffinchFringilla coelebs2020
- Egyptian GooseAlopochen aegyptiaca
- Lesser Black-backed GullLarus fuscus2024
- StarlingSturnus vulgaris2024
- Great Spotted WoodpeckerDendrocopos major2024
- MallardAnas platyrhynchos2024
- Barn OwlTyto alba2023
- WrenTroglodytes troglodytes2022
- DunnockPrunella modularis2020
- LinnetLinaria cannabina2020
- Herring GullLarus argentatus2020
- House SparrowPasser domesticus2020
- RedwingTurdus iliacus2024
- Blue TitCyanistes caeruleus2024
- Collared DoveStreptopelia decaocto2022
- SwiftApus apus2021
- Little OwlAthene noctua2020
- Rock DoveColumba livia2020
- GreenfinchChloris chloris2020
- Song ThrushTurdus philomelos2020
- Reed BuntingEmberiza schoeniclus2020
- JayGarrulus glandarius2020
- Meadow PipitAnthus pratensis2020
- MoorhenGallinula chloropus2020
Hedgehog · Roe Deer · Brown Hare · Chinese Water Deer · Badger +3
- HedgehogErinaceus europaeus2022
- Roe DeerCapreolus capreolus2020
- Brown HareLepus europaeus2020
- Chinese Water DeerHydropotes inermis
- BadgerMeles meles2021
- Grey SquirrelSciurus carolinensis2021
7-spot Ladybird
- 7-spot LadybirdCoccinella septempunctata
Star Sedge
Species observations from the last 10 years via NBN Atlas
Wildlife to spot
1,933 records · National Biodiversity NetworkGreat Grey Shrike · Stock Dove · Kestrel · Woodpigeon · Lapwing +40
- Great Grey ShrikeLanius excubitor2020
- Stock DoveColumba oenas2022
- KestrelFalco tinnunculus2024
- WoodpigeonColumba palumbus2021
- LapwingVanellus vanellus2024
- SkylarkAlauda arvensis2024
- PheasantPhasianus colchicus2024
- Red-legged PartridgeAlectoris rufa2024
- YellowhammerEmberiza citrinella2022
- Black-headed GullChroicocephalus ridibundus2020
- Carrion CrowCorvus corone2024
- BlackbirdTurdus merula2024
- Grey PartridgePerdix perdix2022
- Long-tailed TitAegithalos caudatus2024
- RobinErithacus rubecula2024
- GoldfinchCarduelis carduelis2022
- Common GullLarus canus2022
- RookCorvus frugilegus2022
- JackdawColoeus monedula2024
- MagpiePica pica2024
- Pied WagtailMotacilla alba yarrellii2022
- ChaffinchFringilla coelebs2020
- Egyptian GooseAlopochen aegyptiaca
- Lesser Black-backed GullLarus fuscus2024
- StarlingSturnus vulgaris2024
- Great Spotted WoodpeckerDendrocopos major2024
- MallardAnas platyrhynchos2024
- Barn OwlTyto alba2023
- WrenTroglodytes troglodytes2022
- DunnockPrunella modularis2020
- LinnetLinaria cannabina2020
- Herring GullLarus argentatus2020
- House SparrowPasser domesticus2020
- RedwingTurdus iliacus2024
- Blue TitCyanistes caeruleus2024
- Collared DoveStreptopelia decaocto2022
- SwiftApus apus2021
- Little OwlAthene noctua2020
- Rock DoveColumba livia2020
- GreenfinchChloris chloris2020
- Song ThrushTurdus philomelos2020
- Reed BuntingEmberiza schoeniclus2020
- JayGarrulus glandarius2020
- Meadow PipitAnthus pratensis2020
- MoorhenGallinula chloropus2020
Hedgehog · Roe Deer · Brown Hare · Chinese Water Deer · Badger +3
- HedgehogErinaceus europaeus2022
- Roe DeerCapreolus capreolus2020
- Brown HareLepus europaeus2020
- Chinese Water DeerHydropotes inermis
- BadgerMeles meles2021
- Grey SquirrelSciurus carolinensis2021
7-spot Ladybird
- 7-spot LadybirdCoccinella septempunctata
Star Sedge
Species observations from the last 10 years via NBN Atlas