Plan your visit
🦅Birds✦Heritage🦉Wildlife
Public accessFree entryDogs welcome0 ha
Getting here
51.77440, -1.35925
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Visiting this summer
Seasonal nature notes and what to look for now
- 🐦78+ species recorded in this area — summer evenings are best for activity; watch for Moorhen and Woodpigeon
- ✦Historic character is a year-round quality here — summer brings its own atmosphere to the setting
- ⛺Camping available here — summer nights at this site are worth planning around
🌤️ Visiting this summer
- 🐦78+ species recorded in this area — summer evenings are best for activity; watch for Moorhen and Woodpigeon
- ✦Historic character is a year-round quality here — summer brings its own atmosphere to the setting
- ⛺Camping available here — summer nights at this site are worth planning around
- £Free to visit — no entry charge
- 🐕Dogs welcome
🦅Bird watching
Very strong match
Birds — Moorhen, Woodpigeon, Mallard +75 more · last seen 2026; Grazing marsh — lapwing, redshank, snipe and wintering wildfowl
Free
Historic site with public access; Grade II* listed building: SWINFORD BRIDGE (THAT PART IN CUMNOR)
Free
Birds — Moorhen, Woodpigeon, Mallard +75 more · last seen 2026; Coastal and floodplain grazing marsh priority habitat
Free
🦋Insect spotting
Strong match
Insects — 7-spot Ladybird, Marmalade Hoverfly, Harlequin Ladybird +236 more · last seen 2026
Free
Named hiking route nearby: Thames Path; Named hiking route nearby: Thames Path
Free
〰Waterside walks
Good match
Grazing marsh and ditches — waterside walking
Varies
Trails nearby
Within roughly 5 km12 signed routes nearby · 8 public paths nearby
Signed route nearbyPublic paths
Oxford Green Belt WayWalking route87 km▾
Named routeLength 87 kmRegional walking route
Shakespeare's WayWalking route235 km▾
Named routeLength 235 kmRegional walking route
Oxford Canal WalkWalking route▾
Named routeRegional walking route
Ramblers Jubilee Circular WalkWalking route▾
Named routeLocal walking route
Hinksey Heights Nature TrailWalking route▾
Named routeLocal walking route
36 signed routes nearby
Signed route nearby
National Cycle Network Route 5Cycling route▾
Named routeRef 5National Cycle Network
Cotswold Line Cycle Route (under development)Cycling route▾
Named routeRef 442National Cycle Network
Route 8Cycling route▾
Named routeRef 8Local cycle route
Route 8aCycling route▾
Named routeRef 8aLocal cycle route
Route 9Cycling route▾
Named routeRef 9Local cycle route
A40 Cycle PathCycling route▾
Named routeLocal cycle route
3 public paths nearby
Public paths
Wharf Roadbridleway · 13 m▾
Public pathbridlewayLength 13 mPath type: service
Wharf Roadbridleway · 172 m▾
Public pathbridlewayLength 172 mPath type: service
Weather for this location
Next 14 daysNearby places
Useful places within 5 km
Wildlife to spot
34,192 records · National Biodiversity Network
Wildlife to spot
34,192 records · National Biodiversity NetworkBlue Tit · Woodpigeon · Magpie · Gadwall · Robin +44
- Blue TitCyanistes caeruleus
- WoodpigeonColumba palumbus
- MagpiePica pica
- GadwallMareca strepera
- RobinErithacus rubecula
- CootFulica atra
- MallardAnas platyrhynchos
- Mute SwanCygnus olor
- BlackbirdTurdus merula
- ChaffinchFringilla coelebs
- MoorhenGallinula chloropus
- SiskinSpinus spinus2025
- JackdawColoeus monedula2025
- Great TitParus major
- Canada GooseBranta canadensis
- GoldcrestRegulus regulus
- DunnockPrunella modularis
- ChiffchaffPhylloscopus collybita2025
- Green SandpiperTringa ochropus2025
- Black-headed GullChroicocephalus ridibundus2025
- Long-tailed TitAegithalos caudatus2025
- RedwingTurdus iliacus2025
- Grey HeronArdea cinerea
- Greylag GooseAnser anser
- House SparrowPasser domesticus
- KestrelFalco tinnunculus
- SnipeGallinago gallinago2025
- WrenTroglodytes troglodytes2025
- Herring GullLarus argentatus2025
- Great Crested GrebePodiceps cristatus2025
- BlackcapSylvia atricapilla2025
- Carrion CrowCorvus corone2025
- CormorantPhalacrocorax carbo2025
- Pied WagtailMotacilla alba yarrellii2025
- Tufted DuckAythya fuligula2025
- WoodcockScolopax rusticola2025
- StarlingSturnus vulgaris
- GoosanderMergus merganser2025
- KingfisherAlcedo atthis2025
- LinnetLinaria cannabina2025
- Cetti's WarblerCettia cetti2025
- GoldfinchCarduelis carduelis2025
- Little GrebeTachybaptus ruficollis2025
- Grey WagtailMotacilla cinerea2025
- Lesser Black-backed GullLarus fuscus2025
- Great Black-backed GullLarus marinus2025
- Song ThrushTurdus philomelos2025
- RookCorvus frugilegus2025
- BullfinchPyrrhula pyrrhula2025
🦌Mammals4 species
winterspringautumn
2026▾
Grey Squirrel · Harvest Mouse · Rabbit · Otter
- Grey SquirrelSciurus carolinensis
- Harvest MouseMicromys minutus2025
- RabbitOryctolagus cuniculus
- OtterLutra lutra2025
🐝Insects30 species
winterspring
2026▾
7-spot Ladybird · Juniper Shieldbug · 24-spot Ladybird · Eremocoris podagricus · Red-legged Shieldbug +25
- 7-spot LadybirdCoccinella septempunctata
- Juniper ShieldbugCyphostethus tristriatus
- 24-spot LadybirdSubcoccinella vigintiquattuorpunctata
- Eremocoris podagricusEremocoris podagricus
- Red-legged ShieldbugPentatoma rufipes
- Hairy ShieldbugDolycoris baccarum
Great Hairy Screw-moss · Grey-cushioned Grimmia
- Great Hairy Screw-mossSyntrichia ruralis
- Grey-cushioned GrimmiaGrimmia pulvinata
Species observations from the last 10 years via NBN Atlas
Wildlife to spot
34,192 records · National Biodiversity NetworkBlue Tit · Woodpigeon · Magpie · Gadwall · Robin +44
- Blue TitCyanistes caeruleus
- WoodpigeonColumba palumbus
- MagpiePica pica
- GadwallMareca strepera
- RobinErithacus rubecula
- CootFulica atra
- MallardAnas platyrhynchos
- Mute SwanCygnus olor
- BlackbirdTurdus merula
- ChaffinchFringilla coelebs
- MoorhenGallinula chloropus
- SiskinSpinus spinus2025
- JackdawColoeus monedula2025
- Great TitParus major
- Canada GooseBranta canadensis
- GoldcrestRegulus regulus
- DunnockPrunella modularis
- ChiffchaffPhylloscopus collybita2025
- Green SandpiperTringa ochropus2025
- Black-headed GullChroicocephalus ridibundus2025
- Long-tailed TitAegithalos caudatus2025
- RedwingTurdus iliacus2025
- Grey HeronArdea cinerea
- Greylag GooseAnser anser
- House SparrowPasser domesticus
- KestrelFalco tinnunculus
- SnipeGallinago gallinago2025
- WrenTroglodytes troglodytes2025
- Herring GullLarus argentatus2025
- Great Crested GrebePodiceps cristatus2025
- BlackcapSylvia atricapilla2025
- Carrion CrowCorvus corone2025
- CormorantPhalacrocorax carbo2025
- Pied WagtailMotacilla alba yarrellii2025
- Tufted DuckAythya fuligula2025
- WoodcockScolopax rusticola2025
- StarlingSturnus vulgaris
- GoosanderMergus merganser2025
- KingfisherAlcedo atthis2025
- LinnetLinaria cannabina2025
- Cetti's WarblerCettia cetti2025
- GoldfinchCarduelis carduelis2025
- Little GrebeTachybaptus ruficollis2025
- Grey WagtailMotacilla cinerea2025
- Lesser Black-backed GullLarus fuscus2025
- Great Black-backed GullLarus marinus2025
- Song ThrushTurdus philomelos2025
- RookCorvus frugilegus2025
- BullfinchPyrrhula pyrrhula2025
🦌Mammals4 species
winterspringautumn
2026▾
Grey Squirrel · Harvest Mouse · Rabbit · Otter
- Grey SquirrelSciurus carolinensis
- Harvest MouseMicromys minutus2025
- RabbitOryctolagus cuniculus
- OtterLutra lutra2025
🐝Insects30 species
winterspring
2026▾
7-spot Ladybird · Juniper Shieldbug · 24-spot Ladybird · Eremocoris podagricus · Red-legged Shieldbug +25
- 7-spot LadybirdCoccinella septempunctata
- Juniper ShieldbugCyphostethus tristriatus
- 24-spot LadybirdSubcoccinella vigintiquattuorpunctata
- Eremocoris podagricusEremocoris podagricus
- Red-legged ShieldbugPentatoma rufipes
- Hairy ShieldbugDolycoris baccarum
Great Hairy Screw-moss · Grey-cushioned Grimmia
- Great Hairy Screw-mossSyntrichia ruralis
- Grey-cushioned GrimmiaGrimmia pulvinata
Species observations from the last 10 years via NBN Atlas
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