Plan your visit
🦅Birds✦Heritage🦉Wildlife
Public accessFree entryDogs welcome
Getting here
51.02200, -0.45089
Open directionsv
Visiting this summer
Seasonal nature notes and what to look for now
- 🐦45+ species recorded in this area — summer evenings are best for activity; watch for Blue Tit and Woodpigeon
- ✦Historic character is a year-round quality here — summer brings its own atmosphere to the setting
- ☕Whispers — makes this an easy full-day family visit without needing to pack food
🌤️ Visiting this summer
- 🐦45+ species recorded in this area — summer evenings are best for activity; watch for Blue Tit and Woodpigeon
- ✦Historic character is a year-round quality here — summer brings its own atmosphere to the setting
- ☕Whispers — makes this an easy full-day family visit without needing to pack food
- £Free to visit — no entry charge
- 🐕Dogs welcome
☕Café🅿️Parking· Paid🚻Toilets
🦅Bird watching
Very strong match
Birds — Blue Tit, Woodpigeon, Carrion Crow +42 more · last seen 2025
Free
✦Heritage
Very strong match
Grade I listed building: THE PARISH CHURCH OF ST MARY; Religious grounds — local heritage
Free
Birds — Blue Tit, Woodpigeon, Carrion Crow +42 more · last seen 2025
Free
🧺Picnic day out
Strong match
café, toilets, car park
Free
🦋Insect spotting
Strong match
Insects — Meadow Brown, Gatekeeper, Large White +39 more · last seen 2025
Free
🛝Family friendly
Strong match
café, toilets
Free
Trails nearby
Within roughly 5 km5 signed routes nearby · 5 public paths nearby
Signed route nearbyPublic paths
Knepp Wildland Blue RouteWalking route▾
West Sussex Literary TrailWalking route▾
Named routeRegional walking route
Wey-South PathWalking route▾
follows the river Wey and the (partly disused) Wey & Arun canal
Named routeRegional walking route
Downs LinkWalking route59 km▾
A 37 mile shared route for walkers, horse riders and cyclists linking the North Downs Way with the South Downs Way
Named routeLength 59 kmRegional walking route
Sussex Diamond WayWalking route97 km▾
Named routeLength 97 kmRegional walking route
Little Daux Farmpublic footpath · 427 m▾
Public pathpublic footpathLength 427 mPath type: service
5 signed routes nearby
Signed route nearby
National Cycle Route 228 Crawley to Pulborough (proposed)Cycling route▾
Named routeRef 228National Cycle Network
Route 223Cycling route▾
Named routeRef 223National Cycle Network
Main RouteCycling route1.8 km▾
Named routeRef 223Length 1.8 kmNational Cycle NetworkTraffic-freeSurface unsealedfirm
Main RouteCycling route466 m▾
Named routeRef 223Length 466 mNational Cycle NetworkTraffic-freeSurface unsealedfirm
Main RouteCycling route677 m▾
Named routeRef 223Length 677 mNational Cycle NetworkTraffic-freeSurface bareearth
Photos
St Mary’s Church, Billingshurst
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Wildlife to spot
7,324 records · National Biodiversity Network
Wildlife to spot
7,324 records · National Biodiversity NetworkStarling · Goldfinch · House Sparrow · Blue Tit · Carrion Crow +2
- StarlingSturnus vulgaris
- GoldfinchCarduelis carduelis
- House SparrowPasser domesticus
- Blue TitCyanistes caeruleus
- Carrion CrowCorvus corone
- Common GullLarus canus
- WoodpigeonColumba palumbus
Primrose · Hawthorn · Cleavers · Red Dead-nettle · Common Sallow +132
- PrimrosePrimula vulgaris
- HawthornCrataegus monogyna2025
- CleaversGalium aparine2025
- Red Dead-nettleLamium purpureum2025
- Common SallowSalix cinerea2025
- Creeping CinquefoilPotentilla reptans2025
Species observations from the last 10 years via NBN Atlas
Wildlife to spot
7,324 records · National Biodiversity NetworkStarling · Goldfinch · House Sparrow · Blue Tit · Carrion Crow +2
- StarlingSturnus vulgaris
- GoldfinchCarduelis carduelis
- House SparrowPasser domesticus
- Blue TitCyanistes caeruleus
- Carrion CrowCorvus corone
- Common GullLarus canus
- WoodpigeonColumba palumbus
Primrose · Hawthorn · Cleavers · Red Dead-nettle · Common Sallow +132
- PrimrosePrimula vulgaris
- HawthornCrataegus monogyna2025
- CleaversGalium aparine2025
- Red Dead-nettleLamium purpureum2025
- Common SallowSalix cinerea2025
- Creeping CinquefoilPotentilla reptans2025
Species observations from the last 10 years via NBN Atlas