Plan your visit
🦅Birds✦Heritage🦉Wildlife
Public accessFree entryDogs welcome
Getting here
50.70554, -4.17746
Open directionsv
Visiting this summer
Seasonal nature notes and what to look for now
- 🐦59+ species recorded in this area — summer evenings are best for activity; watch for Pied Wagtail and Pheasant
- ✦Historic character is a year-round quality here — summer brings its own atmosphere to the setting
- 🛝Playground 135m away — built-in entertainment for younger visitors alongside the wider site
🌤️ Visiting this summer
- 🐦59+ species recorded in this area — summer evenings are best for activity; watch for Pied Wagtail and Pheasant
- ✦Historic character is a year-round quality here — summer brings its own atmosphere to the setting
- 🛝Playground 135m 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 — Pied Wagtail, Pheasant, Nuthatch +56 more · last seen 2025
Free
✦Heritage
Very strong match
Grade I listed building: CHURCH OF ST MARY; Religious grounds — local heritage
Free
Birds — Pied Wagtail, Pheasant, Nuthatch +56 more · last seen 2025
Free
🦋Insect spotting
Strong match
Insects — Red Admiral, Speckled Wood, Small White +58 more · last seen 2022
Free
🍂Seasonal nature
Strong match
Plants — Hazel, Greater Bird's-foot-trefoil, Dog's Mercury +174 more · last seen 2019
Free
Trails nearby
Within roughly 5 km2 signed routes nearby
Signed route nearby
Two Castles TrailWalking route▾
Named routeRef TCTRegional walking route
The Packhorse TrailWalking route▾
Named routeRef BCPLocal walking route
1 signed route nearby
Signed route nearby
Pegasus TrailMountain bike route▾
Photos
Bratton Clovelly, St. Mary's Church: South porch roof 3, boss detail
Weather for this location
Next 14 daysNearby places
Useful places within 5 km
Wildlife to spot
1,572 records · National Biodiversity Network
Wildlife to spot
1,572 records · National Biodiversity NetworkHouse Sparrow · Pheasant · Siskin · Swallow · Chaffinch +1
- House SparrowPasser domesticus
- PheasantPhasianus colchicus2023
- SiskinSpinus spinus2022
- SwallowHirundo rustica2021
- ChaffinchFringilla coelebs2021
- RobinErithacus rubecula2021
🦌Mammals2 species
springautumn
2022▾
Otter · Hedgehog
- OtterLutra lutra
- HedgehogErinaceus europaeus2021
Southern Hawker · Small White · Brimstone · Green-veined White · Small Copper +8
- Southern HawkerAeshna cyanea
- Small WhitePieris rapae2019
- BrimstoneGonepteryx rhamni2019
- Green-veined WhitePieris napi2019
- Small CopperLycaena phlaeas2019
- Small TortoiseshellAglais urticae2019
Himalayan Balsam · Hedge Bedstraw · English Elm · Maidenhair Spleenwort · Cat's-ear +149
- Himalayan BalsamImpatiens glandulifera
- Hedge BedstrawGalium album
- English ElmUlmus procera
- Maidenhair SpleenwortAsplenium trichomanes
- Cat's-earHypochaeris radicata
- Meadow VetchlingLathyrus pratensis
- Sherard's Downy-roseRosa sherardii
Species observations from the last 10 years via NBN Atlas
Wildlife to spot
1,572 records · National Biodiversity NetworkHouse Sparrow · Pheasant · Siskin · Swallow · Chaffinch +1
- House SparrowPasser domesticus
- PheasantPhasianus colchicus2023
- SiskinSpinus spinus2022
- SwallowHirundo rustica2021
- ChaffinchFringilla coelebs2021
- RobinErithacus rubecula2021
🦌Mammals2 species
springautumn
2022▾
Otter · Hedgehog
- OtterLutra lutra
- HedgehogErinaceus europaeus2021
Southern Hawker · Small White · Brimstone · Green-veined White · Small Copper +8
- Southern HawkerAeshna cyanea
- Small WhitePieris rapae2019
- BrimstoneGonepteryx rhamni2019
- Green-veined WhitePieris napi2019
- Small CopperLycaena phlaeas2019
- Small TortoiseshellAglais urticae2019
Himalayan Balsam · Hedge Bedstraw · English Elm · Maidenhair Spleenwort · Cat's-ear +149
- Himalayan BalsamImpatiens glandulifera
- Hedge BedstrawGalium album
- English ElmUlmus procera
- Maidenhair SpleenwortAsplenium trichomanes
- Cat's-earHypochaeris radicata
- Meadow VetchlingLathyrus pratensis
- Sherard's Downy-roseRosa sherardii
Species observations from the last 10 years via NBN Atlas
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