Plan your visit
🦅Birds🦉Wildlife🦋Insects
Public accessFree entryDogs welcome
Getting here
51.00278, -2.41647
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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 Blackbird and Starling
- ✦Historic character is a year-round quality here — summer brings its own atmosphere to the setting
- ☕Jasmine & Bay — makes this an easy full-day family visit without needing to pack food
🌤️ Visiting this summer
- 🐦71+ species recorded in this area — summer evenings are best for activity; watch for Blackbird and Starling
- ✦Historic character is a year-round quality here — summer brings its own atmosphere to the setting
- ☕Jasmine & Bay — 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 — Blackbird, Starling, Carrion Crow +68 more · last seen 2025
Free
Birds — Blackbird, Starling, Carrion Crow +68 more · last seen 2025
Free
🦋Insect spotting
Strong match
Insects — Small White, Red Admiral, Large White +29 more · last seen 2024
Free
Grade II* listed building: CHURCH OF ST MARY; Religious grounds — local heritage
Free
🍂Seasonal nature
Strong match
Plants — Rough-stalked Feather-moss, Common Feather-moss, Silky Wall Feather-moss +68 more · last seen 2020
Free
🛝Family friendly
Good match
café
Free
Trails nearby
Within roughly 5 km1 signed route nearby · 5 public paths nearby
Signed route nearbyPublic paths
Monarch's WayWalking route990 km▾
approximate route of Charles II's escape
Named routeRef MWLength 990 kmRegional walking route
3 signed routes nearby
Signed route nearby
National BywayCycling route▾
Named routeRef NBRegional cycle route
National Byway (Somerset Loop)Cycling route▾
Named routeRef NBRound tripRegional cycle route
North Dorset Cycle WayCycling route▾
Named routeRegional cycle route
Photos
St Mary's church in Abbas Combe
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Wildlife to spot
3,534 records · National Biodiversity Network
Wildlife to spot
3,534 records · National Biodiversity Network🐦Birds2 species
springautumn
2025▾
House Martin · Starling
- House MartinDelichon urbicum
- StarlingSturnus vulgaris
Hogweed · Groundsel · Red Dead-nettle · Shepherd's-purse · Daisy +170
- HogweedHeracleum sphondylium
- GroundselSenecio vulgaris
- Red Dead-nettleLamium purpureum
- Shepherd's-purseCapsella bursa-pastoris
- DaisyBellis perennis
- DandelionTaraxacum
- Herb-RobertGeranium robertianum
Species observations from the last 10 years via NBN Atlas
Wildlife to spot
3,534 records · National Biodiversity Network🐦Birds2 species
springautumn
2025▾
House Martin · Starling
- House MartinDelichon urbicum
- StarlingSturnus vulgaris
Hogweed · Groundsel · Red Dead-nettle · Shepherd's-purse · Daisy +170
- HogweedHeracleum sphondylium
- GroundselSenecio vulgaris
- Red Dead-nettleLamium purpureum
- Shepherd's-purseCapsella bursa-pastoris
- DaisyBellis perennis
- DandelionTaraxacum
- Herb-RobertGeranium robertianum
Species observations from the last 10 years via NBN Atlas