Bankfield Plantation - Urban woodland
1 ha
🦉Wildlife🦅Birds🌿Foraging
Free entryDogs welcome1 ha
Getting here
53.66270, -2.95811
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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
- ☕Botanic Gardens Cafe — a good base for a longer summer day out
🌤️ Visiting this summer
- 🌞Midsummer — early morning visits most comfortable; look for deer fawns in quieter clearings
- 🌿Foraging is at its best in summer here
- ☕Botanic Gardens Cafe — a good base for a longer summer day out
- £Free to visit — no entry charge
- 🐕Dogs welcome
☕Café🅿️Parking· Free🛝Playground🚻Toilets
Deciduous woodland priority habitat
Free
🦅Bird watching
Strong match
Deciduous woodland — woodpeckers, warblers and woodland birds
Free
Deciduous woodland — fungi, berries and wild garlic
Varies
Trails nearby
Within roughly 5 km1 signed route nearby
Signed route nearby
King Charles III England Coast Path: Cleveleys to LiverpoolWalking route▾
Named routeRef ECPNational walking route
57 signed routes nearby
Signed route nearby
Pier to Pier cycle routeCycling route▾
Named routeRef 562National Cycle Network
Trans Pennine TrailCycling route▾
Named routeRef 62National Cycle Network
Route 62Cycling route▾
Named routeRef 62National Cycle Network
ShrimpCycling route▾
Named routeLocal cycle route
N/ACycling route63 m▾
Named routeLength 63 mNational Cycle NetworkOn-roadSurface asphalt
Main RouteCycling route147 m▾
Named routeRef 562Length 147 mNational Cycle NetworkTraffic-freeSurface asphalt
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Botanic Gardens, Churchtown, Southport
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Wildlife to spot
30,026 records · National Biodiversity Network
Wildlife to spot
30,026 records · National Biodiversity NetworkWoodpigeon · Magpie · Mallard · Herring Gull · Jackdaw +43
- WoodpigeonColumba palumbus
- MagpiePica pica
- MallardAnas platyrhynchos
- Herring GullLarus argentatus2025
- JackdawColoeus monedula2025
- Greylag GooseAnser anser
- RobinErithacus rubecula
- Carrion CrowCorvus corone2025
- Black-headed GullChroicocephalus ridibundus2025
- LapwingVanellus vanellus2025
- Canada GooseBranta canadensis2025
- Mute SwanCygnus olor
- TealAnas crecca2025
- BlackbirdTurdus merula2025
- Tufted DuckAythya fuligula2025
- Great TitParus major
- Long-tailed TitAegithalos caudatus
- CootFulica atra
- GoldfinchCarduelis carduelis
- Blue TitCyanistes caeruleus
- KestrelFalco tinnunculus2025
- ShelduckTadorna tadorna2025
- Lesser Black-backed GullLarus fuscus2025
- House SparrowPasser domesticus2025
- Rock DoveColumba livia2025
- Pied WagtailMotacilla alba
- Coal TitPeriparus ater
- Golden PloverPluvialis apricaria2025
- Little EgretEgretta garzetta2025
- Pink-footed GooseAnser brachyrhynchus2025
- GadwallMareca strepera2025
- Common GullLarus canus2025
- RedshankTringa totanus2025
- MoorhenGallinula chloropus2025
- Snow GooseAnser caerulescens2025
- CurlewNumenius arquata2025
- StarlingSturnus vulgaris2025
- Red-legged PartridgeAlectoris rufa
- ChaffinchFringilla coelebs
- AvocetRecurvirostra avosetta
- RavenCorvus corax2025
- DunlinCalidris alpina2025
- Green-winged TealAnas carolinensis2025
- GreenfinchChloris chloris2025
- Grey HeronArdea cinerea2025
- OystercatcherHaematopus ostralegus2025
- Great Black-backed GullLarus marinus2025
- Stock DoveColumba oenas2025
Mole · Brown Hare · Grey Squirrel
- MoleTalpa europaea2025
- Brown HareLepus europaeus
- Grey SquirrelSciurus carolinensis2025
🐸Amphibians1 species
spring
2026▾
Smooth Newt
- Smooth NewtLissotriton vulgaris
Maidenhair Spleenwort · Wall-rue · Red Campion · Pellitory-of-the-wall · Taxus baccata f. baccata +17
- Maidenhair SpleenwortAsplenium trichomanes
- Wall-rueAsplenium ruta-muraria
- Red CampionSilene dioica
- Pellitory-of-the-wallParietaria judaica
- Taxus baccata f. baccataTaxus baccata f. baccata
- Black SpleenwortAsplenium adiantum-nigrum
- Hart's-Tongue
Species observations from the last 10 years via NBN Atlas
Wildlife to spot
30,026 records · National Biodiversity NetworkWoodpigeon · Magpie · Mallard · Herring Gull · Jackdaw +43
- WoodpigeonColumba palumbus
- MagpiePica pica
- MallardAnas platyrhynchos
- Herring GullLarus argentatus2025
- JackdawColoeus monedula2025
- Greylag GooseAnser anser
- RobinErithacus rubecula
- Carrion CrowCorvus corone2025
- Black-headed GullChroicocephalus ridibundus2025
- LapwingVanellus vanellus2025
- Canada GooseBranta canadensis2025
- Mute SwanCygnus olor
- TealAnas crecca2025
- BlackbirdTurdus merula2025
- Tufted DuckAythya fuligula2025
- Great TitParus major
- Long-tailed TitAegithalos caudatus
- CootFulica atra
- GoldfinchCarduelis carduelis
- Blue TitCyanistes caeruleus
- KestrelFalco tinnunculus2025
- ShelduckTadorna tadorna2025
- Lesser Black-backed GullLarus fuscus2025
- House SparrowPasser domesticus2025
- Rock DoveColumba livia2025
- Pied WagtailMotacilla alba
- Coal TitPeriparus ater
- Golden PloverPluvialis apricaria2025
- Little EgretEgretta garzetta2025
- Pink-footed GooseAnser brachyrhynchus2025
- GadwallMareca strepera2025
- Common GullLarus canus2025
- RedshankTringa totanus2025
- MoorhenGallinula chloropus2025
- Snow GooseAnser caerulescens2025
- CurlewNumenius arquata2025
- StarlingSturnus vulgaris2025
- Red-legged PartridgeAlectoris rufa
- ChaffinchFringilla coelebs
- AvocetRecurvirostra avosetta
- RavenCorvus corax2025
- DunlinCalidris alpina2025
- Green-winged TealAnas carolinensis2025
- GreenfinchChloris chloris2025
- Grey HeronArdea cinerea2025
- OystercatcherHaematopus ostralegus2025
- Great Black-backed GullLarus marinus2025
- Stock DoveColumba oenas2025
Mole · Brown Hare · Grey Squirrel
- MoleTalpa europaea2025
- Brown HareLepus europaeus
- Grey SquirrelSciurus carolinensis2025
🐸Amphibians1 species
spring
2026▾
Smooth Newt
- Smooth NewtLissotriton vulgaris
Maidenhair Spleenwort · Wall-rue · Red Campion · Pellitory-of-the-wall · Taxus baccata f. baccata +17
- Maidenhair SpleenwortAsplenium trichomanes
- Wall-rueAsplenium ruta-muraria
- Red CampionSilene dioica
- Pellitory-of-the-wallParietaria judaica
- Taxus baccata f. baccataTaxus baccata f. baccata
- Black SpleenwortAsplenium adiantum-nigrum
- Hart's-Tongue
Species observations from the last 10 years via NBN Atlas
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