Plan your visit
🦉Wildlife🦅Birds🚲Cycling
Public accessDogs welcome
Getting here
52.02714, -0.72364
Open directionsv
Visiting this summer
Seasonal nature notes and what to look for now
- 🌞Midsummer — early morning visits most comfortable; look for deer fawns in quieter clearings
- 🚴Start cycling visits early on summer days — trails are best before the heat builds via Route 6
- 🐕Dogs welcome — bring water in summer; the site has enough space to find shade on hot days
🌤️ Visiting this summer
- 🌞Midsummer — early morning visits most comfortable; look for deer fawns in quieter clearings
- 🚴Start cycling visits early on summer days — trails are best before the heat builds via Route 6
- 🐕Dogs welcome — bring water in summer; the site has enough space to find shade on hot days
Deciduous woodland priority habitat
Free
🦅Bird watching
Strong match
Deciduous woodland — woodpeckers, warblers and woodland birds
Free
Named cycling route nearby: Route 6
Varies
Dogs allowed with public access
Free
Deciduous woodland — fungi, berries and wild garlic
Varies
Named hiking route nearby: Grand Union Canal Walk
Free
Trails nearby
Within roughly 5 km6 signed routes nearby · 14 public paths nearby
Signed route nearbyPublic paths
Midshires WayWalking route370 km▾
Multi-use trail links the Ridgeway National Trail with the Trans Pennine Trail
Named routeLength 370 kmRegional walking route
Grand Union Canal WalkWalking route▾
Napton to Coy Carp section
Named routeRegional walking route
Milton Keynes Boundary WalkWalking route▾
Named routeRound tripRegional walking route
Seven Parishes Millennium Circular WalkWalking route21.6 km▾
Named routeLength 21.6 kmRound tripLocal walking route
Hanslope Circular RideWalking route▾
Named routeRegional walking route
185 signed routes nearby
Signed route nearby
NCN 51Cycling route▾
Named routeRef 51National Cycle Network
Greensand CyclewayCycling route59 km▾
Named routeLength 59 kmRegional cycle route
(6)Cycling route▾
National Cycle Network link route
Named routeLocal cycle route
MK Redway Super Route V10Cycling route▾
Named routeRef V10Local cycle route
MK Redway Super Route H6Cycling route▾
Named routeRef H6Local cycle route
MK Redway Super Route H5Cycling route▾
Named routeRef H5Local cycle route
1 signed route nearby
Signed route nearby
Longslade TrailMountain bike route▾
9 public paths nearby
Public paths
Bridge 88bridleway · 38 m▾
Public pathbridlewayLength 38 m
Photos
Bridge No 90 crossing the Grand Union Canal
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Wildlife to spot
15,704 records · National Biodiversity Network
Wildlife to spot
15,704 records · National Biodiversity Network🐦Birds45 species
winterspringautumn
2026▾
Woodpigeon · Robin · Mute Swan · Mallard · Magpie +40
- WoodpigeonColumba palumbus
- RobinErithacus rubecula
- Mute SwanCygnus olor
- MallardAnas platyrhynchos
- MagpiePica pica
- Blue TitCyanistes caeruleus
- WrenTroglodytes troglodytes
- Long-tailed TitAegithalos caudatus
- JackdawColoeus monedula
- Black-headed GullChroicocephalus ridibundus
- Greylag GooseAnser anser
- MoorhenGallinula chloropus
- Carrion CrowCorvus corone2025
- Canada GooseBranta canadensis
- DunnockPrunella modularis
- GoldfinchCarduelis carduelis
- Great Crested GrebePodiceps cristatus
- Great TitParus major
- Pied WagtailMotacilla alba
- Grey HeronArdea cinerea
- RedwingTurdus iliacus
- Rock DoveColumba livia2025
- Lesser Black-backed GullLarus fuscus2025
- BlackbirdTurdus merula2025
- ChaffinchFringilla coelebs
- StarlingSturnus vulgaris
- House SparrowPasser domesticus
- KingfisherAlcedo atthis
- Little EgretEgretta garzetta2025
- Herring GullLarus argentatus2025
- Little GrebeTachybaptus ruficollis2025
- GadwallMareca strepera2025
- CormorantPhalacrocorax carbo2025
- Great Spotted WoodpeckerDendrocopos major
- Grey WagtailMotacilla cinerea2025
- SiskinSpinus spinus2025
- Collared DoveStreptopelia decaocto2025
- KestrelFalco tinnunculus2025
- Mandarin DuckAix galericulata2025
- ChiffchaffPhylloscopus collybita2025
- JayGarrulus glandarius2025
- Tufted DuckAythya fuligula2025
- SwallowHirundo rustica2025
- Sedge WarblerAcrocephalus schoenobaenus2025
- House MartinDelichon urbicum2025
Grey Squirrel
- Grey SquirrelSciurus carolinensis
White Dead-nettle · Cow Parsley · Cleavers · Lords-and-Ladies · Daisy +4
- White Dead-nettleLamium album
- Cow ParsleyAnthriscus sylvestris
- CleaversGalium aparine
- Lords-and-LadiesArum maculatum
- DaisyBellis perennis
- Lesser CelandineFicaria verna
- Common ChickweedStellaria media
Species observations from the last 10 years via NBN Atlas
Wildlife to spot
15,704 records · National Biodiversity Network🐦Birds45 species
winterspringautumn
2026▾
Woodpigeon · Robin · Mute Swan · Mallard · Magpie +40
- WoodpigeonColumba palumbus
- RobinErithacus rubecula
- Mute SwanCygnus olor
- MallardAnas platyrhynchos
- MagpiePica pica
- Blue TitCyanistes caeruleus
- WrenTroglodytes troglodytes
- Long-tailed TitAegithalos caudatus
- JackdawColoeus monedula
- Black-headed GullChroicocephalus ridibundus
- Greylag GooseAnser anser
- MoorhenGallinula chloropus
- Carrion CrowCorvus corone2025
- Canada GooseBranta canadensis
- DunnockPrunella modularis
- GoldfinchCarduelis carduelis
- Great Crested GrebePodiceps cristatus
- Great TitParus major
- Pied WagtailMotacilla alba
- Grey HeronArdea cinerea
- RedwingTurdus iliacus
- Rock DoveColumba livia2025
- Lesser Black-backed GullLarus fuscus2025
- BlackbirdTurdus merula2025
- ChaffinchFringilla coelebs
- StarlingSturnus vulgaris
- House SparrowPasser domesticus
- KingfisherAlcedo atthis
- Little EgretEgretta garzetta2025
- Herring GullLarus argentatus2025
- Little GrebeTachybaptus ruficollis2025
- GadwallMareca strepera2025
- CormorantPhalacrocorax carbo2025
- Great Spotted WoodpeckerDendrocopos major
- Grey WagtailMotacilla cinerea2025
- SiskinSpinus spinus2025
- Collared DoveStreptopelia decaocto2025
- KestrelFalco tinnunculus2025
- Mandarin DuckAix galericulata2025
- ChiffchaffPhylloscopus collybita2025
- JayGarrulus glandarius2025
- Tufted DuckAythya fuligula2025
- SwallowHirundo rustica2025
- Sedge WarblerAcrocephalus schoenobaenus2025
- House MartinDelichon urbicum2025
Grey Squirrel
- Grey SquirrelSciurus carolinensis
White Dead-nettle · Cow Parsley · Cleavers · Lords-and-Ladies · Daisy +4
- White Dead-nettleLamium album
- Cow ParsleyAnthriscus sylvestris
- CleaversGalium aparine
- Lords-and-LadiesArum maculatum
- DaisyBellis perennis
- Lesser CelandineFicaria verna
- Common ChickweedStellaria media
Species observations from the last 10 years via NBN Atlas