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🦅Birds✦Heritage🦉Wildlife
Public accessFree entryDogs welcome
Getting here
52.70093, -0.95553
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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 Jackdaw and House Sparrow
- ✦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
- 🐦60+ species recorded in this area — summer evenings are best for activity; watch for Jackdaw and House Sparrow
- ✦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 — Jackdaw, House Sparrow, Carrion Crow +57 more · last seen 2025
Free
✦Heritage
Very strong match
Grade I listed building: CHURCH OF ST MARY; Religious grounds — local heritage
Free
Birds — Jackdaw, House Sparrow, Carrion Crow +57 more · last seen 2025
Free
🍂Seasonal nature
Strong match
Plants — Ash, Hawthorn, Blackthorn +183 more · last seen 2023
Free
🦋Insect spotting
Strong match
Insects — Horse-Chestnut Leaf-miner, Red Admiral, Brimstone +12 more · last seen 2023
Free
Dogs allowed with public access
Free
Trails nearby
Within roughly 5 km2 signed routes nearby
Signed route nearby
Midshires WayWalking route370 km▾
Multi-use trail links the Ridgeway National Trail with the Trans Pennine Trail
Named routeLength 370 kmRegional walking route
Leicestershire RoundWalking route▾
Named routeRegional walking route
3 signed routes nearby
Signed route nearby
Route 64Cycling route▾
Named routeRef 64National Cycle Network
Fosse2Cycling route▾
Named routeRef 48National Cycle Network
Main RouteCycling route2 km▾
Named routeRef 48Length 2 kmNational Cycle NetworkOn-roadSurface asphalt
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St Mary's Church, Ashby Folville
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Wildlife to spot
8,133 records · National Biodiversity Network
Wildlife to spot
8,133 records · National Biodiversity Network🐦Birds49 species
winterspringsummer
2025▾
Jackdaw · Robin · Carrion Crow · Magpie · Blackbird +44
- JackdawColoeus monedula
- RobinErithacus rubecula
- Carrion CrowCorvus corone
- MagpiePica pica
- BlackbirdTurdus merula
- WoodpigeonColumba palumbus
- Long-tailed TitAegithalos caudatus
- Blue TitCyanistes caeruleus
- House SparrowPasser domesticus
- StarlingSturnus vulgaris
- MoorhenGallinula chloropus
- WrenTroglodytes troglodytes
- GoldfinchCarduelis carduelis
- ChiffchaffPhylloscopus collybita
- KestrelFalco tinnunculus
- Great Spotted WoodpeckerDendrocopos major2024
- Song ThrushTurdus philomelos
- ChaffinchFringilla coelebs
- PheasantPhasianus colchicus
- Collared DoveStreptopelia decaocto
- Stock DoveColumba oenas2024
- RookCorvus frugilegus2024
- DunnockPrunella modularis2024
- FieldfareTurdus pilaris
- Pied WagtailMotacilla alba
- BlackcapSylvia atricapilla
- MallardAnas platyrhynchos2024
- JayGarrulus glandarius2024
- Great TitParus major2024
- SkylarkAlauda arvensis2024
- GreenfinchChloris chloris
- Reed BuntingEmberiza schoeniclus
- RedwingTurdus iliacus
- Mute SwanCygnus olor
- WhitethroatCurruca communis
- RedstartPhoenicurus phoenicurus
- RavenCorvus corax2024
- SwallowHirundo rustica2024
- Coal TitPeriparus ater2024
- Green WoodpeckerPicus viridis2024
- YellowhammerEmberiza citrinella2024
- Mistle ThrushTurdus viscivorus2024
- Willow WarblerPhylloscopus trochilus2024
- TreecreeperCerthia familiaris2024
- Canada GooseBranta canadensis2024
- KingfisherAlcedo atthis2024
- Barn OwlTyto alba2024
- LinnetLinaria cannabina2024
- GoldcrestRegulus regulus2024
Badger
🐸Amphibians1 species
spring
2024▾
Great Crested Newt
- Great Crested NewtTriturus cristatus
Horse-Chestnut Leaf-miner
- Horse-Chestnut Leaf-minerCameraria ohridella
Horse-chestnut · Elm · Field Bindweed · Rosebay Willowherb · Tufted Hair-grass +31
- Horse-chestnutAesculus hippocastanum
- ElmUlmus
- Field BindweedConvolvulus arvensis
- Rosebay WillowherbChamaenerion angustifolium
- Tufted Hair-grassDeschampsia cespitosa
- Wood AvensGeum urbanum
- Great WillowherbEpilobium hirsutum
Species observations from the last 10 years via NBN Atlas
Wildlife to spot
8,133 records · National Biodiversity Network🐦Birds49 species
winterspringsummer
2025▾
Jackdaw · Robin · Carrion Crow · Magpie · Blackbird +44
- JackdawColoeus monedula
- RobinErithacus rubecula
- Carrion CrowCorvus corone
- MagpiePica pica
- BlackbirdTurdus merula
- WoodpigeonColumba palumbus
- Long-tailed TitAegithalos caudatus
- Blue TitCyanistes caeruleus
- House SparrowPasser domesticus
- StarlingSturnus vulgaris
- MoorhenGallinula chloropus
- WrenTroglodytes troglodytes
- GoldfinchCarduelis carduelis
- ChiffchaffPhylloscopus collybita
- KestrelFalco tinnunculus
- Great Spotted WoodpeckerDendrocopos major2024
- Song ThrushTurdus philomelos
- ChaffinchFringilla coelebs
- PheasantPhasianus colchicus
- Collared DoveStreptopelia decaocto
- Stock DoveColumba oenas2024
- RookCorvus frugilegus2024
- DunnockPrunella modularis2024
- FieldfareTurdus pilaris
- Pied WagtailMotacilla alba
- BlackcapSylvia atricapilla
- MallardAnas platyrhynchos2024
- JayGarrulus glandarius2024
- Great TitParus major2024
- SkylarkAlauda arvensis2024
- GreenfinchChloris chloris
- Reed BuntingEmberiza schoeniclus
- RedwingTurdus iliacus
- Mute SwanCygnus olor
- WhitethroatCurruca communis
- RedstartPhoenicurus phoenicurus
- RavenCorvus corax2024
- SwallowHirundo rustica2024
- Coal TitPeriparus ater2024
- Green WoodpeckerPicus viridis2024
- YellowhammerEmberiza citrinella2024
- Mistle ThrushTurdus viscivorus2024
- Willow WarblerPhylloscopus trochilus2024
- TreecreeperCerthia familiaris2024
- Canada GooseBranta canadensis2024
- KingfisherAlcedo atthis2024
- Barn OwlTyto alba2024
- LinnetLinaria cannabina2024
- GoldcrestRegulus regulus2024
Badger
🐸Amphibians1 species
spring
2024▾
Great Crested Newt
- Great Crested NewtTriturus cristatus
Horse-Chestnut Leaf-miner
- Horse-Chestnut Leaf-minerCameraria ohridella
Horse-chestnut · Elm · Field Bindweed · Rosebay Willowherb · Tufted Hair-grass +31
- Horse-chestnutAesculus hippocastanum
- ElmUlmus
- Field BindweedConvolvulus arvensis
- Rosebay WillowherbChamaenerion angustifolium
- Tufted Hair-grassDeschampsia cespitosa
- Wood AvensGeum urbanum
- Great WillowherbEpilobium hirsutum
Species observations from the last 10 years via NBN Atlas