Plan your visit
🦅Birds✦Heritage🦉Wildlife
Public accessFree entryDogs welcome
Getting here
55.05104, -1.74185
Open directionsv
Visiting this summer
Seasonal nature notes and what to look for now
- 🐦51+ 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
- ☕Café on site — makes this an easy full-day family visit without needing to pack food
🌤️ Visiting this summer
- 🐦51+ 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
- ☕Café on site — 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 — Blue Tit, Woodpigeon, Dunnock +48 more · last seen 2025
Free
✦Heritage
Very strong match
Grade I listed building: CHURCH OF ST MARY; Religious grounds — local heritage
Free
Birds — Blue Tit, Woodpigeon, Dunnock +48 more · last seen 2025
Free
🦋Insect spotting
Strong match
Insects — 7-spot Ladybird, Orange Ladybird, 2-spot Ladybird +27 more · last seen 2026
Free
🛝Family friendly
Good match
café
Free
⛪Churchyard walks
Good match
Churchyard or religious grounds — wildlife sanctuary and quiet reflection
Free
Trails nearby
Within roughly 5 km23 signed routes nearby
Signed route nearby
Reivers' RouteCycling route▾
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Main RouteCycling route1.6 km▾
Named routeRef 10Length 1.6 kmNational Cycle NetworkTraffic-freeSurface unsealedloose
Main RouteCycling route1.5 km▾
Named routeRef 10Length 1.5 kmNational Cycle NetworkOn-roadSurface asphalt
1 signed route nearby
Signed route nearby
Reivers Off Road Cycle RouteMountain bike route▾
Photos
Churchyard, St Mary's Church, Ponteland
Weather for this location
Next 14 daysNearby places
Useful places within 5 km
Wildlife to spot
20,928 records · National Biodiversity Network
Wildlife to spot
20,928 records · National Biodiversity NetworkBlue Tit · Blackbird · Woodpigeon · Dunnock · Magpie +21
- Blue TitCyanistes caeruleus
- BlackbirdTurdus merula
- WoodpigeonColumba palumbus
- DunnockPrunella modularis
- MagpiePica pica
- RobinErithacus rubecula
- GoldfinchCarduelis carduelis
- JackdawColoeus monedula
- Great TitParus major
- RookCorvus frugilegus
- Coal TitPeriparus ater
- Collared DoveStreptopelia decaocto
- StarlingSturnus vulgaris
- Carrion CrowCorvus corone
- House SparrowPasser domesticus
- ChaffinchFringilla coelebs
- BullfinchPyrrhula pyrrhula
- Herring GullLarus argentatus
- WrenTroglodytes troglodytes
- Song ThrushTurdus philomelos
- Long-tailed TitAegithalos caudatus
- GoldcrestRegulus regulus
- GreenfinchChloris chloris
- SiskinSpinus spinus
- Great Spotted WoodpeckerDendrocopos major
- Black-headed GullChroicocephalus ridibundus
7-spot Ladybird · 10-spot Ladybird · Orange Ladybird · Harlequin Ladybird · Hawthorn Shieldbug +3
- 7-spot LadybirdCoccinella septempunctata
- 10-spot LadybirdAdalia decempunctata
- Orange LadybirdHalyzia sedecimguttata
- Harlequin LadybirdHarmonia axyridis
- Hawthorn ShieldbugAcanthosoma haemorrhoidale
- Cream-spot LadybirdCalvia quattuordecimguttata2025
Sessile Oak · Great Scented Liverwort · Least Yellow-sorrel
- Sessile OakQuercus petraea
- Great Scented LiverwortConocephalum conicum
- Least Yellow-sorrelOxalis exilis
Species observations from the last 10 years via NBN Atlas
Wildlife to spot
20,928 records · National Biodiversity NetworkBlue Tit · Blackbird · Woodpigeon · Dunnock · Magpie +21
- Blue TitCyanistes caeruleus
- BlackbirdTurdus merula
- WoodpigeonColumba palumbus
- DunnockPrunella modularis
- MagpiePica pica
- RobinErithacus rubecula
- GoldfinchCarduelis carduelis
- JackdawColoeus monedula
- Great TitParus major
- RookCorvus frugilegus
- Coal TitPeriparus ater
- Collared DoveStreptopelia decaocto
- StarlingSturnus vulgaris
- Carrion CrowCorvus corone
- House SparrowPasser domesticus
- ChaffinchFringilla coelebs
- BullfinchPyrrhula pyrrhula
- Herring GullLarus argentatus
- WrenTroglodytes troglodytes
- Song ThrushTurdus philomelos
- Long-tailed TitAegithalos caudatus
- GoldcrestRegulus regulus
- GreenfinchChloris chloris
- SiskinSpinus spinus
- Great Spotted WoodpeckerDendrocopos major
- Black-headed GullChroicocephalus ridibundus
7-spot Ladybird · 10-spot Ladybird · Orange Ladybird · Harlequin Ladybird · Hawthorn Shieldbug +3
- 7-spot LadybirdCoccinella septempunctata
- 10-spot LadybirdAdalia decempunctata
- Orange LadybirdHalyzia sedecimguttata
- Harlequin LadybirdHarmonia axyridis
- Hawthorn ShieldbugAcanthosoma haemorrhoidale
- Cream-spot LadybirdCalvia quattuordecimguttata2025
Sessile Oak · Great Scented Liverwort · Least Yellow-sorrel
- Sessile OakQuercus petraea
- Great Scented LiverwortConocephalum conicum
- Least Yellow-sorrelOxalis exilis
Species observations from the last 10 years via NBN Atlas
2-spot Ladybird
2-spot Ladybird
Adalia bipunctata2025
Adalia bipunctata2025
11-spot LadybirdCoccinella undecimpunctata202511-spot LadybirdCoccinella undecimpunctata2025Events & activities nearby
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