Plan your visit
🛝Family🦅Birds🎠Play
Public accessFree entryDogs welcome0 ha
Getting here
51.40420, 0.41856
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Visiting this summer
Seasonal nature notes and what to look for now
- 🐦63+ species recorded in this area — summer evenings are best for activity; watch for Robin and Blue Tit
- ☀️Summer family visits work well here — arrive early and plan for a longer stay
- ☕Shorne Country Park Visitors Centre — makes this an easy full-day family visit without needing to pack food
🌤️ Visiting this summer
- 🐦63+ species recorded in this area — summer evenings are best for activity; watch for Robin and Blue Tit
- ☀️Summer family visits work well here — arrive early and plan for a longer stay
- ☕Shorne Country Park Visitors Centre — makes this an easy full-day family visit without needing to pack food
- £Free to visit — no entry charge
- 🐕Dogs welcome
☕Café🅿️Parking· Paid🛝Playground🚻Toilets
🛝Family friendly
Very strong match
playground, café, toilets; Urban park — family destination
Free
🦅Bird watching
Very strong match
Birds — Robin, Blue Tit, Magpie +60 more · last seen 2026; Deciduous woodland — woodpeckers, warblers and woodland birds
Free
🎠Playgrounds
Very strong match
playground, toilets, café, parking
Free
Birds — Robin, Blue Tit, Magpie +60 more · last seen 2026; Deciduous woodland priority habitat
Free
🧺Picnic day out
Strong match
café, toilets, car park; Urban park — open green space
Free
🦋Insect spotting
Strong match
Priority ponds — dragonflies, damselflies and aquatic invertebrates; Insects — Meadow Brown, Peacock, Buff-tailed Bumblebee +76 more · last seen 2025
Free
Trails nearby
Within roughly 5 km15 signed routes nearby · 1 public path nearby
Signed route nearbyPublic paths
1066 Harold's WayWalking route▾
Named routeRegional walking route
Purple Circular WalkWalking route▾
Red Circular WalkWalking route▾
Named routeRound trip
Medway Valley WalkWalking route45 km▾
Named routeLength 45 kmRegional walking route
Strood Community TrailWalking route▾
Named routeLocal walking route
118 signed routes nearby
Signed route nearby
Heron TrailCycling route▾
Named routeRef 179National Cycle Network
NCN National Route 17Cycling route▾
Named routeRef 17National Cycle Network
NCN National Route 177 (Proposed)Cycling route▾
Named routeRef 177National Cycle Network
NCN National Route 177Cycling route▾
Named routeRef 177National Cycle Network
NCN National Route 1Cycling route▾
Named routeRef 1National Cycle Network
Main RouteCycling route132 m▾
Named routeRef 177Length 132 mNational Cycle NetworkTraffic-freeSurface concrete
Photos
Sculpture in Shorne Wood Sensory Garden
Weather for this location
Next 14 daysNearby places
Useful places within 5 km
Wildlife to spot
27,756 records · National Biodiversity Network
Wildlife to spot
27,756 records · National Biodiversity Network🐦Birds48 species
summerautumnwinter
2026▾
Woodpigeon · Magpie · Carrion Crow · Robin · Blackbird +43
- WoodpigeonColumba palumbus2025
- MagpiePica pica2025
- Carrion CrowCorvus corone2025
- RobinErithacus rubecula2025
- BlackbirdTurdus merula2025
- JackdawColoeus monedula2025
- Blue TitCyanistes caeruleus2025
- WrenTroglodytes troglodytes2025
- JayGarrulus glandarius
- KestrelFalco tinnunculus2025
- Great TitParus major2025
- Long-tailed TitAegithalos caudatus2025
- Black-headed GullChroicocephalus ridibundus2025
- DunnockPrunella modularis2025
- Green WoodpeckerPicus viridis2025
- BlackcapSylvia atricapilla2025
- Great Spotted WoodpeckerDendrocopos major
- Song ThrushTurdus philomelos2025
- ChaffinchFringilla coelebs2025
- ChiffchaffPhylloscopus collybita2025
- WhitethroatCurruca communis2025
- RedwingTurdus iliacus2025
- Pied WagtailMotacilla alba yarrellii2025
- Herring GullLarus argentatus2025
- GoldcrestRegulus regulus2025
- Stock DoveColumba oenas2025
- NuthatchSitta europaea2025
- SwallowHirundo rustica2025
- Willow WarblerPhylloscopus trochilus2025
- MoorhenGallinula chloropus2025
- FieldfareTurdus pilaris2025
- PheasantPhasianus colchicus2025
- Coal TitPeriparus ater2025
- StarlingSturnus vulgaris2025
- SkylarkAlauda arvensis2025
- TreecreeperCerthia familiaris2025
- GoldfinchCarduelis carduelis2025
- Black RedstartPhoenicurus ochruros2025
- Yellow-browed WarblerPhylloscopus inornatus2025
- StonechatSaxicola rubicola2025
- Spotted FlycatcherMuscicapa striata2025
- RavenCorvus corax2025
- MallardAnas platyrhynchos2025
- Garden WarblerSylvia borin2025
- House SparrowPasser domesticus2025
- SwiftApus apus2025
- LinnetLinaria cannabina2025
- YellowhammerEmberiza citrinella2025
🦌Mammals3 species
summerautumn
2026▾
Hazel Dormouse · Grey Squirrel · Fallow Deer
- Hazel DormouseMuscardinus avellanarius
- Grey SquirrelSciurus carolinensis2025
- Fallow DeerDama dama2025
7-spot Ladybird · Marble Gall · Emperor Dragonfly · Harlequin Ladybird · 24-spot Ladybird +6
- 7-spot LadybirdCoccinella septempunctata
- Marble GallAndricus kollari
- Emperor DragonflyAnax imperator
- Harlequin LadybirdHarmonia axyridis
- 24-spot LadybirdSubcoccinella vigintiquattuorpunctata
- Field GrasshopperChorthippus brunneus
- Zig-zag Elm Sawfly
Species observations from the last 10 years via NBN Atlas
Wildlife to spot
27,756 records · National Biodiversity Network🐦Birds48 species
summerautumnwinter
2026▾
Woodpigeon · Magpie · Carrion Crow · Robin · Blackbird +43
- WoodpigeonColumba palumbus2025
- MagpiePica pica2025
- Carrion CrowCorvus corone2025
- RobinErithacus rubecula2025
- BlackbirdTurdus merula2025
- JackdawColoeus monedula2025
- Blue TitCyanistes caeruleus2025
- WrenTroglodytes troglodytes2025
- JayGarrulus glandarius
- KestrelFalco tinnunculus2025
- Great TitParus major2025
- Long-tailed TitAegithalos caudatus2025
- Black-headed GullChroicocephalus ridibundus2025
- DunnockPrunella modularis2025
- Green WoodpeckerPicus viridis2025
- BlackcapSylvia atricapilla2025
- Great Spotted WoodpeckerDendrocopos major
- Song ThrushTurdus philomelos2025
- ChaffinchFringilla coelebs2025
- ChiffchaffPhylloscopus collybita2025
- WhitethroatCurruca communis2025
- RedwingTurdus iliacus2025
- Pied WagtailMotacilla alba yarrellii2025
- Herring GullLarus argentatus2025
- GoldcrestRegulus regulus2025
- Stock DoveColumba oenas2025
- NuthatchSitta europaea2025
- SwallowHirundo rustica2025
- Willow WarblerPhylloscopus trochilus2025
- MoorhenGallinula chloropus2025
- FieldfareTurdus pilaris2025
- PheasantPhasianus colchicus2025
- Coal TitPeriparus ater2025
- StarlingSturnus vulgaris2025
- SkylarkAlauda arvensis2025
- TreecreeperCerthia familiaris2025
- GoldfinchCarduelis carduelis2025
- Black RedstartPhoenicurus ochruros2025
- Yellow-browed WarblerPhylloscopus inornatus2025
- StonechatSaxicola rubicola2025
- Spotted FlycatcherMuscicapa striata2025
- RavenCorvus corax2025
- MallardAnas platyrhynchos2025
- Garden WarblerSylvia borin2025
- House SparrowPasser domesticus2025
- SwiftApus apus2025
- LinnetLinaria cannabina2025
- YellowhammerEmberiza citrinella2025
🦌Mammals3 species
summerautumn
2026▾
Hazel Dormouse · Grey Squirrel · Fallow Deer
- Hazel DormouseMuscardinus avellanarius
- Grey SquirrelSciurus carolinensis2025
- Fallow DeerDama dama2025
7-spot Ladybird · Marble Gall · Emperor Dragonfly · Harlequin Ladybird · 24-spot Ladybird +6
- 7-spot LadybirdCoccinella septempunctata
- Marble GallAndricus kollari
- Emperor DragonflyAnax imperator
- Harlequin LadybirdHarmonia axyridis
- 24-spot LadybirdSubcoccinella vigintiquattuorpunctata
- Field GrasshopperChorthippus brunneus
- Zig-zag Elm Sawfly
Species observations from the last 10 years via NBN Atlas
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