Upper Pool Coppice
✦ Ancient woodland7 ha
🦉Wildlife🦅Birds🌿Foraging
Free entryDogs welcome7 ha
Getting here
52.33846, -2.53775
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
- 🌿Foraging is at its best in summer here
- 🐕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
- 🌿Foraging is at its best in summer here
- 🐕Dogs welcome — bring water in summer; the site has enough space to find shade on hot days
- £Free to visit — no entry charge
- 🐕Dogs welcome
- 🌿Ancient woodland — rare wildlife habitat
🦉Wildlife
Very strong match
Multi-group wildlife — Birds, Mammals, Reptiles; Multi-group wildlife — Birds, Mammals, Reptiles
Free
🦅Bird watching
Very strong match
Birds — Tawny Owl, Robin, Blue Tit +58 more · last seen 2025; Birds — Tawny Owl, Robin, Blue Tit +58 more · last seen 2025
Free
Plants — Hazel, Dandelion, Bramble +28 more foraging species; Deciduous woodland — fungi, berries and wild garlic
Varies
🍂Seasonal nature
Strong match
Ancient woodland — bluebells, fungi and autumn colour; Plants — Wood-sedge, Dog's Mercury, Wild Cherry +189 more · last seen 2017
Free
🦋Insect spotting
Strong match
Insects — Small White, Gatekeeper, Meadow Brown +83 more · last seen 2025; Lowland meadows — marbled white, meadow brown and pollinating insects
Free
Ancient woodland — historic landscape
Free
Trails nearby
Within roughly 5 km3 signed routes nearby
Signed route nearby
Shropshire Way - stage 06Walking route17.1 km▾
Named routeRef ShW06Length 17.1 kmLocal walking route
Simon Evans WayWalking route▾
Named routeRegional walking route
Shropshire Way (Route 11, Link to Severn Way)Walking route14 km▾
Named routeLength 14 kmRegional walking route
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Wildlife to spot
3,981 records · National Biodiversity Network
Wildlife to spot
3,981 records · National Biodiversity NetworkTawny Owl · Swift · Kestrel · Wren · Nuthatch +22
- Tawny OwlStrix aluco2019
- SwiftApus apus
- KestrelFalco tinnunculus
- WrenTroglodytes troglodytes
- NuthatchSitta europaea
- RobinErithacus rubecula
- House SparrowPasser domesticus
- Blue TitCyanistes caeruleus
- DunnockPrunella modularis
- BlackbirdTurdus merula
- Great Spotted WoodpeckerDendrocopos major2020
- GoldcrestRegulus regulus
- MagpiePica pica
- WoodpigeonColumba palumbus
- WhitethroatCurruca communis
- House MartinDelichon urbicum
- Long-tailed TitAegithalos caudatus
- ChiffchaffPhylloscopus collybita
- BlackcapSylvia atricapilla
- GreenfinchChloris chloris
- MoorhenGallinula chloropus
- Song ThrushTurdus philomelos
- SwallowHirundo rustica
- Carrion CrowCorvus corone
- Great TitParus major2020
- ChaffinchFringilla coelebs2020
- Coal TitPeriparus ater2020
🦌Mammals3 species
summerautumn
2023▾
Hedgehog · Feral Ferret · Soprano Pipistrelle
- HedgehogErinaceus europaeus
- Feral FerretMustela putorius subsp. furo2021
- Soprano PipistrellePipistrellus pygmaeus2017
Slow-worm
Red Admiral · Small White · Meadow Brown · Gatekeeper · Peacock +42
- Red AdmiralVanessa atalanta2019
- Small WhitePieris rapae2019
- Meadow BrownManiola jurtina2019
- GatekeeperPyronia tithonus2019
- PeacockAglais io2019
- CommaPolygonia c-album
Red Campion · Rough Meadow-grass · Hard Shield-fern · Opposite-leaved Golden-saxifrage · Yellow Archangel
- Red CampionSilene dioica
- Rough Meadow-grassPoa trivialis
- Hard Shield-fernPolystichum aculeatum
- Opposite-leaved Golden-saxifrageChrysosplenium oppositifolium
- Yellow ArchangelLamiastrum galeobdolon
Species observations from the last 10 years via NBN Atlas
Wildlife to spot
3,981 records · National Biodiversity NetworkTawny Owl · Swift · Kestrel · Wren · Nuthatch +22
- Tawny OwlStrix aluco2019
- SwiftApus apus
- KestrelFalco tinnunculus
- WrenTroglodytes troglodytes
- NuthatchSitta europaea
- RobinErithacus rubecula
- House SparrowPasser domesticus
- Blue TitCyanistes caeruleus
- DunnockPrunella modularis
- BlackbirdTurdus merula
- Great Spotted WoodpeckerDendrocopos major2020
- GoldcrestRegulus regulus
- MagpiePica pica
- WoodpigeonColumba palumbus
- WhitethroatCurruca communis
- House MartinDelichon urbicum
- Long-tailed TitAegithalos caudatus
- ChiffchaffPhylloscopus collybita
- BlackcapSylvia atricapilla
- GreenfinchChloris chloris
- MoorhenGallinula chloropus
- Song ThrushTurdus philomelos
- SwallowHirundo rustica
- Carrion CrowCorvus corone
- Great TitParus major2020
- ChaffinchFringilla coelebs2020
- Coal TitPeriparus ater2020
🦌Mammals3 species
summerautumn
2023▾
Hedgehog · Feral Ferret · Soprano Pipistrelle
- HedgehogErinaceus europaeus
- Feral FerretMustela putorius subsp. furo2021
- Soprano PipistrellePipistrellus pygmaeus2017
Slow-worm
Red Admiral · Small White · Meadow Brown · Gatekeeper · Peacock +42
- Red AdmiralVanessa atalanta2019
- Small WhitePieris rapae2019
- Meadow BrownManiola jurtina2019
- GatekeeperPyronia tithonus2019
- PeacockAglais io2019
- CommaPolygonia c-album
Red Campion · Rough Meadow-grass · Hard Shield-fern · Opposite-leaved Golden-saxifrage · Yellow Archangel
- Red CampionSilene dioica
- Rough Meadow-grassPoa trivialis
- Hard Shield-fernPolystichum aculeatum
- Opposite-leaved Golden-saxifrageChrysosplenium oppositifolium
- Yellow ArchangelLamiastrum galeobdolon
Species observations from the last 10 years via NBN Atlas
2019
2019
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