Plan your visit
🦅Birds✦Heritage🦉Wildlife
Public accessFree entryDogs welcome
Getting here
50.56408, -4.44166
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 Chaffinch and Blackbird
- ✦Historic character is a year-round quality here — summer brings its own atmosphere to the setting
- 🛝Playground on site — 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 Chaffinch and Blackbird
- ✦Historic character is a year-round quality here — summer brings its own atmosphere to the setting
- 🛝Playground on site — built-in entertainment for younger visitors alongside the wider site
- £Free to visit — no entry charge
- 🐕Dogs welcome
🦅Bird watching
Very strong match
Birds — Chaffinch, Blackbird, Song Thrush +56 more · last seen 2025
Free
✦Heritage
Very strong match
Grade I listed building: CHURCH OF ST TORNEY; Religious grounds — local heritage
Free
Birds — Chaffinch, Blackbird, Song Thrush +56 more · last seen 2025
Free
🦋Insect spotting
Strong match
Insects — Southern Hawker, Red Admiral, Beautiful Demoiselle +79 more · last seen 2025
Free
🍂Seasonal nature
Strong match
Plants — Many-leaved Pocket-moss, Holt's Mouse-tail Moss, Common Tamarisk-moss +184 more · last seen 2023
Free
Trails nearby
Within roughly 5 km8 public paths nearby
Public paths
Lynher Closepublic footpath · 43 m▾
Public pathpublic footpathLength 43 mPath type: residential
Photos
North Hill - St Torney's Church
Weather for this location
Next 14 daysNearby places
Useful places within 5 km
Wildlife to spot
14,327 records · National Biodiversity Network
Wildlife to spot
14,327 records · National Biodiversity NetworkSiskin · Little Grebe · Canada Goose · Robin · Grey Wagtail +19
- SiskinSpinus spinus
- Little GrebeTachybaptus ruficollis
- Canada GooseBranta canadensis
- RobinErithacus rubecula
- Grey WagtailMotacilla cinerea
- Song ThrushTurdus philomelos
- ChaffinchFringilla coelebs
- Blue TitCyanistes caeruleus
- MoorhenGallinula chloropus
- GoldcrestRegulus regulus
- Marsh TitPoecile palustris
- Carrion CrowCorvus corone
- WoodpigeonColumba palumbus
- BlackbirdTurdus merula
- JackdawColoeus monedula
- Long-tailed TitAegithalos caudatus
- Stock DoveColumba oenas
- Great Spotted WoodpeckerDendrocopos major
- RavenCorvus corax
- Coal TitPeriparus ater
- WrenTroglodytes troglodytes
- TreecreeperCerthia familiaris
- NuthatchSitta europaea
- Great TitParus major
🦌Mammals4 species
springsummerautumn
2025▾
Hazel Dormouse · Wood Mouse · Red Fox · Pygmy Shrew
- Hazel DormouseMuscardinus avellanarius
- Wood MouseApodemus sylvaticus2023
- Red FoxVulpes vulpes
- Pygmy ShrewSorex minutus2023
🐸Amphibians2 species
winterspringsummer
2025▾
Common Toad · Common Frog
- Common ToadBufo bufo
- Common FrogRana temporaria
Volucella pellucens · Meliscaeva cinctella · Southern Hawker · 7-spot Ladybird · Violet Ground Beetle +1
- Volucella pellucensVolucella pellucens
- Meliscaeva cinctellaMeliscaeva cinctella
- Southern HawkerAeshna cyanea
- 7-spot LadybirdCoccinella septempunctata
- Violet Ground BeetleCarabus violaceus2024
- Broad-bodied ChaserLibellula depressa2023
Rusty Willow · White Clover · Mousetailplant · Gorse · Green-ribbed Sedge +102
- Rusty WillowSalix cinerea subsp. oleifolia
- White CloverTrifolium repens
- MousetailplantArisarum proboscideum
- GorseUlex europaeus
- Green-ribbed SedgeCarex binervis
- Common Water-starwortCallitriche stagnalis
- MoschatelAdoxa moschatellina
Species observations from the last 10 years via NBN Atlas
Wildlife to spot
14,327 records · National Biodiversity NetworkSiskin · Little Grebe · Canada Goose · Robin · Grey Wagtail +19
- SiskinSpinus spinus
- Little GrebeTachybaptus ruficollis
- Canada GooseBranta canadensis
- RobinErithacus rubecula
- Grey WagtailMotacilla cinerea
- Song ThrushTurdus philomelos
- ChaffinchFringilla coelebs
- Blue TitCyanistes caeruleus
- MoorhenGallinula chloropus
- GoldcrestRegulus regulus
- Marsh TitPoecile palustris
- Carrion CrowCorvus corone
- WoodpigeonColumba palumbus
- BlackbirdTurdus merula
- JackdawColoeus monedula
- Long-tailed TitAegithalos caudatus
- Stock DoveColumba oenas
- Great Spotted WoodpeckerDendrocopos major
- RavenCorvus corax
- Coal TitPeriparus ater
- WrenTroglodytes troglodytes
- TreecreeperCerthia familiaris
- NuthatchSitta europaea
- Great TitParus major
🦌Mammals4 species
springsummerautumn
2025▾
Hazel Dormouse · Wood Mouse · Red Fox · Pygmy Shrew
- Hazel DormouseMuscardinus avellanarius
- Wood MouseApodemus sylvaticus2023
- Red FoxVulpes vulpes
- Pygmy ShrewSorex minutus2023
🐸Amphibians2 species
winterspringsummer
2025▾
Common Toad · Common Frog
- Common ToadBufo bufo
- Common FrogRana temporaria
Volucella pellucens · Meliscaeva cinctella · Southern Hawker · 7-spot Ladybird · Violet Ground Beetle +1
- Volucella pellucensVolucella pellucens
- Meliscaeva cinctellaMeliscaeva cinctella
- Southern HawkerAeshna cyanea
- 7-spot LadybirdCoccinella septempunctata
- Violet Ground BeetleCarabus violaceus2024
- Broad-bodied ChaserLibellula depressa2023
Rusty Willow · White Clover · Mousetailplant · Gorse · Green-ribbed Sedge +102
- Rusty WillowSalix cinerea subsp. oleifolia
- White CloverTrifolium repens
- MousetailplantArisarum proboscideum
- GorseUlex europaeus
- Green-ribbed SedgeCarex binervis
- Common Water-starwortCallitriche stagnalis
- MoschatelAdoxa moschatellina
Species observations from the last 10 years via NBN Atlas
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