Plan your visit
🦅Birds✦Heritage🎠Play
Public accessFree entryDogs welcome
Getting here
50.79976, -3.89644
Open directionsv
Visiting this summer
Seasonal nature notes and what to look for now
- 🐦69+ species recorded in this area — summer evenings are best for activity; watch for Woodpigeon and Blue Tit
- ✦Historic character is a year-round quality here — summer brings its own atmosphere to the setting
- 🛝Playground 224m away — built-in entertainment for younger visitors alongside the wider site
🌤️ Visiting this summer
- 🐦69+ species recorded in this area — summer evenings are best for activity; watch for Woodpigeon and Blue Tit
- ✦Historic character is a year-round quality here — summer brings its own atmosphere to the setting
- 🛝Playground 224m away — built-in entertainment for younger visitors alongside the wider site
- £Free to visit — no entry charge
- 🐕Dogs welcome
🅿️Parking· Free🛝Playground🚻Toilets
🦅Bird watching
Very strong match
Birds — Woodpigeon, Blue Tit, Carrion Crow +66 more · last seen 2022
Free
✦Heritage
Very strong match
Grade I listed building: CHURCH OF ST PETER; Religious grounds — local heritage
Free
playground, toilets, parking
Free
🛝Family friendly
Strong match
playground, toilets
Free
Birds — Woodpigeon, Blue Tit, Carrion Crow +66 more · last seen 2022
Free
🦋Insect spotting
Strong match
Insects — Small White, Peacock, Gatekeeper +51 more · last seen 2023
Free
Trails nearby
Within roughly 5 km2 signed routes nearby · 9 public paths nearby
Signed route nearbyPublic paths
Tarka TrailWalking route▾
Named routeRef TTRegional walking route
Devonshire Heartland WayWalking route▾
Named routeRef DHWRegional walking route
Letheren's Lanepublic footpath · 120 m▾
Public pathpublic footpathLength 120 mPath type: track
Bouchers Hillpublic footpath · 14 m▾
Public pathpublic footpathLength 14 mPath type: residential
Photos
Lych Gate, St Peter's Church, North Tawton, Devon
Weather for this location
Next 14 daysNearby places
Useful places within 5 km
Wildlife to spot
1,936 records · National Biodiversity Network
Wildlife to spot
1,936 records · National Biodiversity Network🐦Birds38 species
springsummer
2022▾
Blackcap · Blackbird · Robin · Dunnock · Moorhen +33
- BlackcapSylvia atricapilla2021
- BlackbirdTurdus merula2021
- RobinErithacus rubecula2021
- DunnockPrunella modularis2021
- MoorhenGallinula chloropus2021
- JackdawColoeus monedula2021
- Blue TitCyanistes caeruleus2021
- WrenTroglodytes troglodytes2021
- ChaffinchFringilla coelebs2021
- WoodpigeonColumba palumbus2021
- Stock DoveColumba oenas2021
- Carrion CrowCorvus corone2021
- SwallowHirundo rustica2021
- Song ThrushTurdus philomelos2021
- ChiffchaffPhylloscopus collybita2021
- GoldcrestRegulus regulus2021
- GoldfinchCarduelis carduelis2021
- Great TitParus major2021
- PheasantPhasianus colchicus2021
- Great Spotted WoodpeckerDendrocopos major2021
- Garden WarblerSylvia borin2021
- MagpiePica pica2021
- RookCorvus frugilegus2021
- Coal TitPeriparus ater2021
- House MartinDelichon urbicum2021
- NuthatchSitta europaea2021
- StarlingSturnus vulgaris2020
- SwiftApus apus
- Canada GooseBranta canadensis
- Tawny OwlStrix aluco2021
- WoodcockScolopax rusticola2021
- BullfinchPyrrhula pyrrhula2021
- JayGarrulus glandarius2021
- Little GrebeTachybaptus ruficollis2021
- House SparrowPasser domesticus2020
- MallardAnas platyrhynchos2020
- Green WoodpeckerPicus viridis2020
- YellowhammerEmberiza citrinella2020
🦌Mammals2 species
springsummer
2022▾
Hedgehog · Otter
- HedgehogErinaceus europaeus2021
- OtterLutra lutra
Grass Snake · Common Lizard
- Grass SnakeNatrix helvetica
- Common LizardZootoca vivipara2021
Carabus problematicus · Oil Beetle · Red Admiral · Small Tortoiseshell · Small White +5
- Carabus problematicusCarabus problematicus
- Oil BeetleMeloe2022
- Red AdmiralVanessa atalanta2019
- Small TortoiseshellAglais urticae2019
- Small WhitePieris rapae2019
- BrimstoneGonepteryx rhamni
Date Waxcap
- Date WaxcapHygrocybe spadicea
🌿Plants65 species
summerautumn
2021▾
Common Chickweed · Red Dead-nettle · Dandelion · Himalayan Balsam · Common Blue-sow-thistle +60
- Common ChickweedStellaria media2020
- Red Dead-nettleLamium purpureum2020
- DandelionTaraxacum2020
- Himalayan BalsamImpatiens glandulifera
- Common Blue-sow-thistleCicerbita macrophylla
- Scarlet Pimpernel
Species observations from the last 10 years via NBN Atlas
Wildlife to spot
1,936 records · National Biodiversity Network🐦Birds38 species
springsummer
2022▾
Blackcap · Blackbird · Robin · Dunnock · Moorhen +33
- BlackcapSylvia atricapilla2021
- BlackbirdTurdus merula2021
- RobinErithacus rubecula2021
- DunnockPrunella modularis2021
- MoorhenGallinula chloropus2021
- JackdawColoeus monedula2021
- Blue TitCyanistes caeruleus2021
- WrenTroglodytes troglodytes2021
- ChaffinchFringilla coelebs2021
- WoodpigeonColumba palumbus2021
- Stock DoveColumba oenas2021
- Carrion CrowCorvus corone2021
- SwallowHirundo rustica2021
- Song ThrushTurdus philomelos2021
- ChiffchaffPhylloscopus collybita2021
- GoldcrestRegulus regulus2021
- GoldfinchCarduelis carduelis2021
- Great TitParus major2021
- PheasantPhasianus colchicus2021
- Great Spotted WoodpeckerDendrocopos major2021
- Garden WarblerSylvia borin2021
- MagpiePica pica2021
- RookCorvus frugilegus2021
- Coal TitPeriparus ater2021
- House MartinDelichon urbicum2021
- NuthatchSitta europaea2021
- StarlingSturnus vulgaris2020
- SwiftApus apus
- Canada GooseBranta canadensis
- Tawny OwlStrix aluco2021
- WoodcockScolopax rusticola2021
- BullfinchPyrrhula pyrrhula2021
- JayGarrulus glandarius2021
- Little GrebeTachybaptus ruficollis2021
- House SparrowPasser domesticus2020
- MallardAnas platyrhynchos2020
- Green WoodpeckerPicus viridis2020
- YellowhammerEmberiza citrinella2020
🦌Mammals2 species
springsummer
2022▾
Hedgehog · Otter
- HedgehogErinaceus europaeus2021
- OtterLutra lutra
Grass Snake · Common Lizard
- Grass SnakeNatrix helvetica
- Common LizardZootoca vivipara2021
Carabus problematicus · Oil Beetle · Red Admiral · Small Tortoiseshell · Small White +5
- Carabus problematicusCarabus problematicus
- Oil BeetleMeloe2022
- Red AdmiralVanessa atalanta2019
- Small TortoiseshellAglais urticae2019
- Small WhitePieris rapae2019
- BrimstoneGonepteryx rhamni
Date Waxcap
- Date WaxcapHygrocybe spadicea
🌿Plants65 species
summerautumn
2021▾
Common Chickweed · Red Dead-nettle · Dandelion · Himalayan Balsam · Common Blue-sow-thistle +60
- Common ChickweedStellaria media2020
- Red Dead-nettleLamium purpureum2020
- DandelionTaraxacum2020
- Himalayan BalsamImpatiens glandulifera
- Common Blue-sow-thistleCicerbita macrophylla
- Scarlet Pimpernel
Species observations from the last 10 years via NBN Atlas
2019
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