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🦅Birds🦉Wildlife✦Heritage
Public accessFree entryDogs welcome3 ha
Getting here
51.80924, -1.73829
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Visiting this summer
Seasonal nature notes and what to look for now
- 🐦65+ species recorded in this area — summer evenings are best for activity; watch for Skylark and Linnet
- ✦Historic character is a year-round quality here — summer brings its own atmosphere to the setting
- 🐕Dogs welcome — bring water in summer; the site has enough space to find shade on hot days
🌤️ Visiting this summer
- 🐦65+ species recorded in this area — summer evenings are best for activity; watch for Skylark and Linnet
- ✦Historic character is a year-round quality here — summer brings its own atmosphere to the setting
- 🐕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
🦅Bird watching
Very strong match
Birds — Skylark, Linnet, Chaffinch +62 more · last seen 2025
Free
Birds — Skylark, Linnet, Chaffinch +62 more · last seen 2025; Lowland calcareous grassland priority habitat
Free
Historic site with public access
Free
🦋Insect spotting
Strong match
Chalk and limestone grassland — chalkhill blue, adonis blue and rare moths; Insects — Small White, Large White, Meadow Brown +21 more · last seen 2019
Free
Dogs allowed with public access
Free
🏡Historic gardens
Good match
Historic site with public access
Varies
Trails nearby
Within roughly 5 km13 signed routes nearby
Signed route nearby
Monarch's WayWalking route990 km▾
approximate route of Charles II's escape
Named routeRef MWLength 990 kmRegional walking route
Diamond WayWalking route106 km▾
Named routeRef DIALength 106 kmRegional walking route
D'Arcy Dalton WayWalking route107 km▾
Follows roughly the western boundary of Oxfordshire in unspoilt countryside.
Named routeLength 107 kmRegional walking route
Donnington WayWalking route100 km▾
Named routeLength 100 kmLocal walking route
The Roman WayWalking route274.5 km▾
Named routeLength 274.5 kmRegional walking route
9 signed routes nearby
Signed route nearby
Fosse2Cycling route▾
Named routeRef 48National Cycle Network
Fosse2Cycling route▾
Named routeRef 48National Cycle Network
NCN National Route 57Cycling route▾
Named routeRef 57National Cycle Network
National Byway (Oxon and Glos)Cycling route▾
Named routeRef NBRegional cycle route
Main RouteCycling route3.2 km▾
Named routeRef 57Length 3.2 kmNational Cycle NetworkOn-roadSurface asphalt
Main RouteCycling route1.5 km▾
Named routeRef 48Length 1.5 kmNational Cycle NetworkOn-roadSurface asphalt
5 public paths nearby
Public paths
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Wildlife to spot
3,788 records · National Biodiversity Network
Wildlife to spot
3,788 records · National Biodiversity Network🐦Birds54 species
winterspringautumn
2025▾
Skylark · Blue Tit · Carrion Crow · Woodpigeon · Pheasant +49
- SkylarkAlauda arvensis
- Blue TitCyanistes caeruleus
- Carrion CrowCorvus corone
- WoodpigeonColumba palumbus2024
- PheasantPhasianus colchicus2024
- Stock DoveColumba oenas
- WrenTroglodytes troglodytes
- BlackbirdTurdus merula
- RookCorvus frugilegus
- JackdawColoeus monedula
- RobinErithacus rubecula
- FieldfareTurdus pilaris2024
- Great TitParus major2024
- RedwingTurdus iliacus
- Barn OwlTyto alba
- DunnockPrunella modularis
- KestrelFalco tinnunculus
- Red-legged PartridgeAlectoris rufa2024
- ChaffinchFringilla coelebs2024
- YellowhammerEmberiza citrinella2023
- LinnetLinaria cannabina
- Long-tailed TitAegithalos caudatus2024
- Great Spotted WoodpeckerDendrocopos major2024
- Corn BuntingEmberiza calandra
- Lesser Black-backed GullLarus fuscus
- Song ThrushTurdus philomelos
- StarlingSturnus vulgaris
- Meadow PipitAnthus pratensis
- MagpiePica pica
- Tawny OwlStrix aluco2024
- MallardAnas platyrhynchos2024
- House SparrowPasser domesticus2024
- GreenfinchChloris chloris2024
- Pied WagtailMotacilla alba yarrellii2023
- BlackcapSylvia atricapilla2021
- Yellow WagtailMotacilla flava2021
- RedstartPhoenicurus phoenicurus
- GoldcrestRegulus regulus
- Rock DoveColumba livia
- MoorhenGallinula chloropus2024
- Coal TitPeriparus ater2024
- Mistle ThrushTurdus viscivorus2024
- GoldfinchCarduelis carduelis2024
- Collared DoveStreptopelia decaocto2024
- StonechatSaxicola rubicola2023
- Grey PartridgePerdix perdix2023
- Tree SparrowPasser montanus2023
- WoodcockScolopax rusticola2021
- LapwingVanellus vanellus2021
- Willow WarblerPhylloscopus trochilus2021
- SwiftApus apus2021
- RavenCorvus corax2021
- WhitethroatCurruca communis2021
- SwallowHirundo rustica2021
🦌Mammals9 species
summerautumn
2022▾
Noctule · Brown Long-eared Bat · Common Pipistrelle · Hedgehog · Eurasian Serotine +4
- NoctuleNyctalus noctula2021
- Brown Long-eared BatPlecotus auritus2021
- Common PipistrellePipistrellus pipistrellus2021
- HedgehogErinaceus europaeus
- Eurasian SerotineCnephaeus serotinus2021
Red Admiral · Peacock
- Red AdmiralVanessa atalanta
- PeacockAglais io
Species observations from the last 10 years via NBN Atlas
Wildlife to spot
3,788 records · National Biodiversity Network🐦Birds54 species
winterspringautumn
2025▾
Skylark · Blue Tit · Carrion Crow · Woodpigeon · Pheasant +49
- SkylarkAlauda arvensis
- Blue TitCyanistes caeruleus
- Carrion CrowCorvus corone
- WoodpigeonColumba palumbus2024
- PheasantPhasianus colchicus2024
- Stock DoveColumba oenas
- WrenTroglodytes troglodytes
- BlackbirdTurdus merula
- RookCorvus frugilegus
- JackdawColoeus monedula
- RobinErithacus rubecula
- FieldfareTurdus pilaris2024
- Great TitParus major2024
- RedwingTurdus iliacus
- Barn OwlTyto alba
- DunnockPrunella modularis
- KestrelFalco tinnunculus
- Red-legged PartridgeAlectoris rufa2024
- ChaffinchFringilla coelebs2024
- YellowhammerEmberiza citrinella2023
- LinnetLinaria cannabina
- Long-tailed TitAegithalos caudatus2024
- Great Spotted WoodpeckerDendrocopos major2024
- Corn BuntingEmberiza calandra
- Lesser Black-backed GullLarus fuscus
- Song ThrushTurdus philomelos
- StarlingSturnus vulgaris
- Meadow PipitAnthus pratensis
- MagpiePica pica
- Tawny OwlStrix aluco2024
- MallardAnas platyrhynchos2024
- House SparrowPasser domesticus2024
- GreenfinchChloris chloris2024
- Pied WagtailMotacilla alba yarrellii2023
- BlackcapSylvia atricapilla2021
- Yellow WagtailMotacilla flava2021
- RedstartPhoenicurus phoenicurus
- GoldcrestRegulus regulus
- Rock DoveColumba livia
- MoorhenGallinula chloropus2024
- Coal TitPeriparus ater2024
- Mistle ThrushTurdus viscivorus2024
- GoldfinchCarduelis carduelis2024
- Collared DoveStreptopelia decaocto2024
- StonechatSaxicola rubicola2023
- Grey PartridgePerdix perdix2023
- Tree SparrowPasser montanus2023
- WoodcockScolopax rusticola2021
- LapwingVanellus vanellus2021
- Willow WarblerPhylloscopus trochilus2021
- SwiftApus apus2021
- RavenCorvus corax2021
- WhitethroatCurruca communis2021
- SwallowHirundo rustica2021
🦌Mammals9 species
summerautumn
2022▾
Noctule · Brown Long-eared Bat · Common Pipistrelle · Hedgehog · Eurasian Serotine +4
- NoctuleNyctalus noctula2021
- Brown Long-eared BatPlecotus auritus2021
- Common PipistrellePipistrellus pipistrellus2021
- HedgehogErinaceus europaeus
- Eurasian SerotineCnephaeus serotinus2021
Red Admiral · Peacock
- Red AdmiralVanessa atalanta
- PeacockAglais io
Species observations from the last 10 years via NBN Atlas
Soprano Pipistrelle
Soprano Pipistrelle
Pipistrellus pygmaeus2021
Pipistrellus pygmaeus2021
Red FoxVulpes vulpes2020Red FoxVulpes vulpes2020Myotis Bat speciesMyotis2021Myotis Bat speciesMyotis2021Brown RatRattus norvegicus2019Brown RatRattus norvegicus2019