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🦅Birds✦Heritage🦉Wildlife
Public accessFree entryDogs welcome
Getting here
52.39888, 0.15180
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Visiting this summer
Seasonal nature notes and what to look for now
- 🐦60+ species recorded in this area — summer evenings are best for activity; watch for Woodpigeon and Blackbird
- ✦Historic character is a year-round quality here — summer brings its own atmosphere to the setting
- 🛝Playground 115m away — built-in entertainment for younger visitors alongside the wider site
🌤️ Visiting this summer
- 🐦60+ species recorded in this area — summer evenings are best for activity; watch for Woodpigeon and Blackbird
- ✦Historic character is a year-round quality here — summer brings its own atmosphere to the setting
- 🛝Playground 115m away — built-in entertainment for younger visitors alongside the wider site
- £Free to visit — no entry charge
- 🐕Dogs welcome
🦅Bird watching
Very strong match
Birds — Woodpigeon, Blackbird, Swift +57 more · last seen 2025
Free
✦Heritage
Very strong match
Grade I listed building: CHURCH OF ST MARTIN; Religious grounds — local heritage
Free
🦉Wildlife
Very strong match
Mammals — Noctule, Muntjac, Rabbit +16 more · last seen 2025
Free
🦋Insect spotting
Strong match
Insects — Small White, Peacock, Large White +213 more · last seen 2025
Free
🍂Seasonal nature
Strong match
Plants — Marchantia polymorpha subsp. ruderalis, Silky Wall Feather-moss, Wood Bristle-moss +49 more · last seen 2025
Free
Trails nearby
Within roughly 5 km1 signed route nearby
Signed route nearby
National Byway (through Ely)Cycling route▾
Named routeRef NBRegional cycle route
5 public paths nearby
Public paths
Market Way (TROd byway)byway open to all traffic · 1.4 km▾
Public pathbyway open to all trafficLength 1.4 kmSurface grassPath type: track
Back Lanebyway open to all traffic · 100 m▾
Public pathbyway open to all trafficLength 100 mPath type: residential
Bury Roadbyway open to all traffic · 398 m▾
Public pathbyway open to all trafficLength 398 mPath type: residential
Back Lane (TROd byway)byway open to all traffic · 306 m▾
Public pathbyway open to all trafficLength 306 mSurface grassPath type: track
Wardy Hill Road (TROd byway)byway open to all traffic · 1.2 km▾
Public pathbyway open to all trafficLength 1.2 kmSurface grassPath type: track
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St Martin's Church, Canterbury
Weather for this location
Next 14 daysNearby places
Useful places within 5 km
Wildlife to spot
9,340 records · National Biodiversity Network
Wildlife to spot
9,340 records · National Biodiversity Network🐦Birds40 species
wintersummer
2025▾
Carrion Crow · Swift · Magpie · Woodpigeon · Kestrel +35
- Carrion CrowCorvus corone
- SwiftApus apus2023
- MagpiePica pica
- WoodpigeonColumba palumbus
- KestrelFalco tinnunculus
- Whooper SwanCygnus cygnus
- PheasantPhasianus colchicus
- RookCorvus frugilegus
- Green WoodpeckerPicus viridis
- BlackcapSylvia atricapilla
- Stock DoveColumba oenas
- WrenTroglodytes troglodytes
- Common GullLarus canus
- Black-headed GullChroicocephalus ridibundus
- SkylarkAlauda arvensis
- JackdawColoeus monedula
- Mute SwanCygnus olor
- ChaffinchFringilla coelebs
- Canada GooseBranta canadensis2024
- BlackbirdTurdus merula2024
- Herring GullLarus argentatus
- StarlingSturnus vulgaris
- Little EgretEgretta garzetta
- CootFulica atra2024
- LapwingVanellus vanellus2024
- Greylag GooseAnser anser2024
- CormorantPhalacrocorax carbo2024
- MoorhenGallinula chloropus2024
- RedshankTringa totanus2024
- MallardAnas platyrhynchos2024
- Tufted DuckAythya fuligula2024
- LinnetLinaria cannabina2024
- WhitethroatCurruca communis2024
- House SparrowPasser domesticus2024
- GoldfinchCarduelis carduelis2024
- RobinErithacus rubecula2024
- Collared DoveStreptopelia decaocto2024
- DunnockPrunella modularis2024
- Barn OwlTyto alba2023
- KingfisherAlcedo atthis2022
🦌Mammals14 species
springsummer
2025▾
Noctule · Muntjac · Roe Deer · Rabbit · Hedgehog +9
- NoctuleNyctalus noctula2021
- MuntjacMuntiacus reevesi
- Roe DeerCapreolus capreolus
- RabbitOryctolagus cuniculus
- HedgehogErinaceus europaeus2022
- Common PipistrellePipistrellus pipistrellus
Grass Snake
- Grass SnakeNatrix helvetica
🐝Insects11 species
springsummer
2025▾
7-spot Ladybird · Green Shieldbug · Sicus ferrugineus · Pied Shieldbug · Varied Carpet Beetle +6
- 7-spot LadybirdCoccinella septempunctata
- Green ShieldbugPalomena prasina
- Sicus ferrugineusSicus ferrugineus
- Pied ShieldbugTritomegas bicolor
- Varied Carpet BeetleAnthrenus verbasci
- Common Blue DamselflyEnallagma cyathigerum
Red Dead-nettle · Sweet Violet · Hemlock · White Clover · Shepherd's-purse +58
- Red Dead-nettleLamium purpureum2024
- Sweet VioletViola odorata2024
- HemlockConium maculatum2023
- White CloverTrifolium repens2020
- Shepherd's-purseCapsella bursa-pastoris2020
- Rosa caninaRosa canina
Species observations from the last 10 years via NBN Atlas
Wildlife to spot
9,340 records · National Biodiversity Network🐦Birds40 species
wintersummer
2025▾
Carrion Crow · Swift · Magpie · Woodpigeon · Kestrel +35
- Carrion CrowCorvus corone
- SwiftApus apus2023
- MagpiePica pica
- WoodpigeonColumba palumbus
- KestrelFalco tinnunculus
- Whooper SwanCygnus cygnus
- PheasantPhasianus colchicus
- RookCorvus frugilegus
- Green WoodpeckerPicus viridis
- BlackcapSylvia atricapilla
- Stock DoveColumba oenas
- WrenTroglodytes troglodytes
- Common GullLarus canus
- Black-headed GullChroicocephalus ridibundus
- SkylarkAlauda arvensis
- JackdawColoeus monedula
- Mute SwanCygnus olor
- ChaffinchFringilla coelebs
- Canada GooseBranta canadensis2024
- BlackbirdTurdus merula2024
- Herring GullLarus argentatus
- StarlingSturnus vulgaris
- Little EgretEgretta garzetta
- CootFulica atra2024
- LapwingVanellus vanellus2024
- Greylag GooseAnser anser2024
- CormorantPhalacrocorax carbo2024
- MoorhenGallinula chloropus2024
- RedshankTringa totanus2024
- MallardAnas platyrhynchos2024
- Tufted DuckAythya fuligula2024
- LinnetLinaria cannabina2024
- WhitethroatCurruca communis2024
- House SparrowPasser domesticus2024
- GoldfinchCarduelis carduelis2024
- RobinErithacus rubecula2024
- Collared DoveStreptopelia decaocto2024
- DunnockPrunella modularis2024
- Barn OwlTyto alba2023
- KingfisherAlcedo atthis2022
🦌Mammals14 species
springsummer
2025▾
Noctule · Muntjac · Roe Deer · Rabbit · Hedgehog +9
- NoctuleNyctalus noctula2021
- MuntjacMuntiacus reevesi
- Roe DeerCapreolus capreolus
- RabbitOryctolagus cuniculus
- HedgehogErinaceus europaeus2022
- Common PipistrellePipistrellus pipistrellus
Grass Snake
- Grass SnakeNatrix helvetica
🐝Insects11 species
springsummer
2025▾
7-spot Ladybird · Green Shieldbug · Sicus ferrugineus · Pied Shieldbug · Varied Carpet Beetle +6
- 7-spot LadybirdCoccinella septempunctata
- Green ShieldbugPalomena prasina
- Sicus ferrugineusSicus ferrugineus
- Pied ShieldbugTritomegas bicolor
- Varied Carpet BeetleAnthrenus verbasci
- Common Blue DamselflyEnallagma cyathigerum
Red Dead-nettle · Sweet Violet · Hemlock · White Clover · Shepherd's-purse +58
- Red Dead-nettleLamium purpureum2024
- Sweet VioletViola odorata2024
- HemlockConium maculatum2023
- White CloverTrifolium repens2020
- Shepherd's-purseCapsella bursa-pastoris2020
- Rosa caninaRosa canina
Species observations from the last 10 years via NBN Atlas
2023
2023
BadgerMeles meles2022BadgerMeles meles2022Common ShrewSorex araneusCommon ShrewSorex araneusRed FoxVulpes vulpes2023Red FoxVulpes vulpes2023Natterer's BatMyotis nattereri2022Natterer's BatMyotis nattereri2022BatChiroptera2021BatChiroptera2021Water VoleArvicola amphibius2021Water VoleArvicola amphibius2021Grey SquirrelSciurus carolinensis2021Grey SquirrelSciurus carolinensis2021PolecatMustela putorius2021PolecatMustela putorius20212023
2023
Southern HawkerAeshna cyanea2023Southern HawkerAeshna cyanea2023Large Red DamselflyPyrrhosoma nymphula2022Large Red DamselflyPyrrhosoma nymphula2022Hairy DragonflyBrachytron pratense2022Hairy DragonflyBrachytron pratense2022Roesel's Bush-cricketRoeseliana roeselii2021Roesel's Bush-cricketRoeseliana roeselii2021Rosemary BeetleChrysolina americana2021Rosemary BeetleChrysolina americana20212020
2020
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