Plan your visit
🦅Birds✦Heritage🦉Wildlife
Public accessFree entryDogs welcome
Getting here
52.55603, 1.21376
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Visiting this summer
Seasonal nature notes and what to look for now
- 🐦42+ species recorded in this area — summer evenings are best for activity; watch for Blue Tit and Goldfinch
- ✦Historic character is a year-round quality here — summer brings its own atmosphere to the setting
- 🧺Picnic area on site — summer afternoons here are an easy, low-cost day out
🌤️ Visiting this summer
- 🐦42+ species recorded in this area — summer evenings are best for activity; watch for Blue Tit and Goldfinch
- ✦Historic character is a year-round quality here — summer brings its own atmosphere to the setting
- 🧺Picnic area on site — summer afternoons here are an easy, low-cost day out
- £Free to visit — no entry charge
- 🐕Dogs welcome
🅿️Parking· Free🧺Picnic spot🛝Playground
🦅Bird watching
Very strong match
Birds — Blue Tit, Goldfinch, Woodpigeon +39 more · last seen 2026
Free
✦Heritage
Very strong match
Grade I listed building: CHURCH OF ST NICHOLAS; Religious grounds — local heritage
Free
Birds — Blue Tit, Goldfinch, Woodpigeon +39 more · last seen 2026
Free
🧺Picnic day out
Strong match
picnic area, car park
Free
🛝Family friendly
Strong match
playground, picnic area
Free
Trails nearby
Within roughly 5 km10 signed routes nearby · 5 public paths nearby
Signed route nearbyPublic paths
Boudicca WayWalking route60 km▾
Norwich to Diss
Named routeLength 60 kmRegional walking route
Kett's Country WalkWalking route18 km▾
Wymondham to Norwich
Named routeLength 18 kmPoint-to-pointRegional walking route
Tas Valley WayWalking route42 km▾
Norwich to Attleborough
Named routeLength 42 kmRegional walking route
Edith Cavell PilgrimageWalking route11 km▾
Named routeLength 11 kmLocal walking route
Yare Valley WalkWalking route9.7 km▾
Named routeLength 9.7 kmPoint-to-pointLocal walking route
Laws Lanepublic footpath · 137 m▾
Public pathpublic footpathLength 137 mSurface groundPath type: track
Laws Lanepublic footpath · 257 m▾
Public pathpublic footpathLength 257 mSurface grassPath type: path
4 signed routes nearby
Signed route nearby
Blue PedalwayCycling route▾
Named routeRef BluePoint-to-pointLocal cycle route
Edith Cavell PilgrimageCycling route22.5 km▾
Named routeRef ECPLength 22.5 kmRound tripLocal cycle route
Rebellion WayCycling route373 km▾
Named routeRef RebelLength 373 kmRound tripRegional cycle route
Yellow PedalwayCycling route▾
Named routeRef YellowPoint-to-pointLocal cycle route
Photos
St Nicholas' church, Bracon Ash
Weather for this location
Next 14 daysNearby places
Useful places within 5 km
Wildlife to spot
29,868 records · National Biodiversity Network
Wildlife to spot
29,868 records · National Biodiversity NetworkBlue Tit · Blackbird · Woodpigeon · Collared Dove · Goldfinch +26
- Blue TitCyanistes caeruleus2025
- BlackbirdTurdus merula2025
- WoodpigeonColumba palumbus2025
- Collared DoveStreptopelia decaocto2025
- GoldfinchCarduelis carduelis2025
- RookCorvus frugilegus2025
- GreenfinchChloris chloris2025
- Carrion CrowCorvus corone2025
- RobinErithacus rubecula2025
- Black-headed GullChroicocephalus ridibundus2025
- Great TitParus major2025
- JackdawColoeus monedula2025
- WrenTroglodytes troglodytes2025
- Song ThrushTurdus philomelos2025
- DunnockPrunella modularis2025
- MallardAnas platyrhynchos2025
- Lesser Black-backed GullLarus fuscus2025
- MagpiePica pica2025
- ChaffinchFringilla coelebs2025
- StarlingSturnus vulgaris2025
- Common GullLarus canus2025
- Herring GullLarus argentatus2025
- Barn OwlTyto alba
- Stock DoveColumba oenas2025
- House SparrowPasser domesticus2025
- RedwingTurdus iliacus2025
- FieldfareTurdus pilaris2025
- GoldcrestRegulus regulus2025
- RavenCorvus corax2025
- Great Spotted WoodpeckerDendrocopos major2025
- BlackcapSylvia atricapilla2025
🌿Plants7 species
winterspring
2026▾
Hazel · Yew · Herb-Robert · Greater Periwinkle · Snowdrop +2
- HazelCorylus avellana
- YewTaxus baccata
- Herb-RobertGeranium robertianum
- Greater PeriwinkleVinca major
- SnowdropGalanthus nivalis
- Lesser CelandineFicaria verna
- Daffodil
Species observations from the last 10 years via NBN Atlas
Wildlife to spot
29,868 records · National Biodiversity NetworkBlue Tit · Blackbird · Woodpigeon · Collared Dove · Goldfinch +26
- Blue TitCyanistes caeruleus2025
- BlackbirdTurdus merula2025
- WoodpigeonColumba palumbus2025
- Collared DoveStreptopelia decaocto2025
- GoldfinchCarduelis carduelis2025
- RookCorvus frugilegus2025
- GreenfinchChloris chloris2025
- Carrion CrowCorvus corone2025
- RobinErithacus rubecula2025
- Black-headed GullChroicocephalus ridibundus2025
- Great TitParus major2025
- JackdawColoeus monedula2025
- WrenTroglodytes troglodytes2025
- Song ThrushTurdus philomelos2025
- DunnockPrunella modularis2025
- MallardAnas platyrhynchos2025
- Lesser Black-backed GullLarus fuscus2025
- MagpiePica pica2025
- ChaffinchFringilla coelebs2025
- StarlingSturnus vulgaris2025
- Common GullLarus canus2025
- Herring GullLarus argentatus2025
- Barn OwlTyto alba
- Stock DoveColumba oenas2025
- House SparrowPasser domesticus2025
- RedwingTurdus iliacus2025
- FieldfareTurdus pilaris2025
- GoldcrestRegulus regulus2025
- RavenCorvus corax2025
- Great Spotted WoodpeckerDendrocopos major2025
- BlackcapSylvia atricapilla2025
🌿Plants7 species
winterspring
2026▾
Hazel · Yew · Herb-Robert · Greater Periwinkle · Snowdrop +2
- HazelCorylus avellana
- YewTaxus baccata
- Herb-RobertGeranium robertianum
- Greater PeriwinkleVinca major
- SnowdropGalanthus nivalis
- Lesser CelandineFicaria verna
- Daffodil
Species observations from the last 10 years via NBN Atlas
Narcissus pseudonarcissus
Narcissus pseudonarcissus
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