Plan your visit
🦅Birds✦Heritage🦉Wildlife
Dogs welcome108 ha
Getting here
54.64020, -3.53030
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Visiting this summer
Seasonal nature notes and what to look for now
- 🐦75+ species recorded in this area — summer evenings are best for activity; watch for Grey Heron and Woodpigeon
- ✦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
- 🐦75+ species recorded in this area — summer evenings are best for activity; watch for Grey Heron and Woodpigeon
- ✦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
🦅Bird watching
Very strong match
Birds — Grey Heron, Woodpigeon, Mute Swan +72 more · last seen 2026; Deciduous woodland — woodpeckers, warblers and woodland birds
Free
✦Heritage
Very strong match
Grade I listed building: WORKINGTON HALL; Historic site
Free
Birds — Grey Heron, Woodpigeon, Mute Swan +72 more · last seen 2026; Deciduous woodland priority habitat
Free
🦋Insect spotting
Strong match
Insects — Black Snipefly, Volucella pellucens, 7-spot Ladybird +98 more · last seen 2024
Free
🍂Seasonal nature
Strong match
Plants — Himalayan Balsam, Bramble, Sycamore +105 more · last seen 2022
Free
Deciduous woodland — fungi, berries and wild garlic
Varies
Trails nearby
Within roughly 5 km1 signed route nearby · 6 public paths nearby
Signed route nearbyPublic paths
King Charles III England Coast Path: Allonby to WhitehavenWalking route▾
Named routeRef ECPNational walking route
Fernbank Lanepublic footpath · 267 m▾
Public pathpublic footpathLength 267 mPath type: track
50 signed routes nearby
Signed route nearby
Hadrian's CyclewayCycling route▾
Named routeRef 72National Cycle Network
Reivers' RouteCycling route▾
Named routeRef 10National Cycle Network
Cockermouth<>DistingtionCycling route▾
Main RouteCycling route87 m▾
Named routeRef 10Length 87 mNational Cycle NetworkOn-roadSurface asphalt
Main RouteCycling route205 m▾
Named routeRef 72Length 205 mNational Cycle NetworkOn-roadSurface asphalt
N/ACycling route320 m▾
Named routeLength 320 mNational Cycle NetworkTraffic-freeSurface asphalt
Photos
An audience in the grounds of Workington Hall
Weather for this location
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Wildlife to spot
4,574 records · National Biodiversity Network
Wildlife to spot
4,574 records · National Biodiversity Network🐦Birds57 species
winterspringautumn
2026▾
Grey Heron · Mallard · Blackbird · Mute Swan · Magpie +52
- Grey HeronArdea cinerea
- MallardAnas platyrhynchos2025
- BlackbirdTurdus merula2025
- Mute SwanCygnus olor2025
- MagpiePica pica2025
- GoldfinchCarduelis carduelis
- WoodpigeonColumba palumbus
- OystercatcherHaematopus ostralegus
- Herring GullLarus argentatus2025
- RobinErithacus rubecula2025
- Black-headed GullChroicocephalus ridibundus2025
- ChiffchaffPhylloscopus collybita2025
- WrenTroglodytes troglodytes2025
- GoosanderMergus merganser2025
- Blue TitCyanistes caeruleus2025
- Carrion CrowCorvus corone2025
- ChaffinchFringilla coelebs2025
- Grey WagtailMotacilla cinerea2025
- DipperCinclus cinclus2025
- Little EgretEgretta garzetta2025
- Sand MartinRiparia riparia2025
- StarlingSturnus vulgaris2025
- DunnockPrunella modularis2025
- JackdawColoeus monedula2025
- Lesser Black-backed GullLarus fuscus2025
- Little GrebeTachybaptus ruficollis2025
- TealAnas crecca2025
- Pink-footed GooseAnser brachyrhynchus2025
- Rock DoveColumba livia2025
- MoorhenGallinula chloropus2025
- SwallowHirundo rustica2025
- House SparrowPasser domesticus2025
- SkylarkAlauda arvensis2025
- Great Spotted WoodpeckerDendrocopos major2025
- Great TitParus major2024
- Greylag GooseAnser anser2024
- RedshankTringa totanus2024
- NuthatchSitta europaea
- SnipeGallinago gallinago2025
- Great Black-backed GullLarus marinus2025
- Song ThrushTurdus philomelos2025
- BlackcapSylvia atricapilla2025
- SwiftApus apus2025
- Garden WarblerSylvia borin2025
- StonechatSaxicola rubicola2025
- KingfisherAlcedo atthis2025
- Cetti's WarblerCettia cetti2024
- Long-tailed TitAegithalos caudatus2024
- Meadow PipitAnthus pratensis2024
- CootFulica atra2024
- CormorantPhalacrocorax carbo2024
- LinnetLinaria cannabina2024
- Great Northern DiverGavia immer2024
- Pied WagtailMotacilla alba yarrellii2023
- Slavonian GrebePodiceps auritus2023
- Coal TitPeriparus ater2022
- Tree SparrowPasser montanus2022
🦌Mammals6 species
springsummerautumn
2025▾
Hedgehog · Grey Squirrel · Rabbit · Brown Rat · Red Squirrel +1
- HedgehogErinaceus europaeus
- Grey SquirrelSciurus carolinensis2024
- RabbitOryctolagus cuniculus2022
- Brown RatRattus norvegicus
- Red SquirrelSciurus vulgaris2024
🐸Amphibians1 species
summer
2025▾
Salamanders, Sirens and Newts
- Salamanders, Sirens and NewtsCaudata
🐝Insects19 species
summerautumn
2024▾
Harlequin Ladybird · Common Carder Bee · Red-tailed Bumblebee · Buff-tailed Bumblebee · Migrant Hawker +14
- Harlequin LadybirdHarmonia axyridis
- Common Carder BeeBombus pascuorum2022
- Red-tailed BumblebeeBombus lapidarius2022
- Buff-tailed BumblebeeBombus terrestris2022
- Migrant HawkerAeshna mixta
- Scathophaga stercoraria
🌿Plants2 species
springautumn
2022▾
Himalayan Balsam · Primrose
- Himalayan BalsamImpatiens glandulifera
- PrimrosePrimula vulgaris
Species observations from the last 10 years via NBN Atlas
Wildlife to spot
4,574 records · National Biodiversity Network🐦Birds57 species
winterspringautumn
2026▾
Grey Heron · Mallard · Blackbird · Mute Swan · Magpie +52
- Grey HeronArdea cinerea
- MallardAnas platyrhynchos2025
- BlackbirdTurdus merula2025
- Mute SwanCygnus olor2025
- MagpiePica pica2025
- GoldfinchCarduelis carduelis
- WoodpigeonColumba palumbus
- OystercatcherHaematopus ostralegus
- Herring GullLarus argentatus2025
- RobinErithacus rubecula2025
- Black-headed GullChroicocephalus ridibundus2025
- ChiffchaffPhylloscopus collybita2025
- WrenTroglodytes troglodytes2025
- GoosanderMergus merganser2025
- Blue TitCyanistes caeruleus2025
- Carrion CrowCorvus corone2025
- ChaffinchFringilla coelebs2025
- Grey WagtailMotacilla cinerea2025
- DipperCinclus cinclus2025
- Little EgretEgretta garzetta2025
- Sand MartinRiparia riparia2025
- StarlingSturnus vulgaris2025
- DunnockPrunella modularis2025
- JackdawColoeus monedula2025
- Lesser Black-backed GullLarus fuscus2025
- Little GrebeTachybaptus ruficollis2025
- TealAnas crecca2025
- Pink-footed GooseAnser brachyrhynchus2025
- Rock DoveColumba livia2025
- MoorhenGallinula chloropus2025
- SwallowHirundo rustica2025
- House SparrowPasser domesticus2025
- SkylarkAlauda arvensis2025
- Great Spotted WoodpeckerDendrocopos major2025
- Great TitParus major2024
- Greylag GooseAnser anser2024
- RedshankTringa totanus2024
- NuthatchSitta europaea
- SnipeGallinago gallinago2025
- Great Black-backed GullLarus marinus2025
- Song ThrushTurdus philomelos2025
- BlackcapSylvia atricapilla2025
- SwiftApus apus2025
- Garden WarblerSylvia borin2025
- StonechatSaxicola rubicola2025
- KingfisherAlcedo atthis2025
- Cetti's WarblerCettia cetti2024
- Long-tailed TitAegithalos caudatus2024
- Meadow PipitAnthus pratensis2024
- CootFulica atra2024
- CormorantPhalacrocorax carbo2024
- LinnetLinaria cannabina2024
- Great Northern DiverGavia immer2024
- Pied WagtailMotacilla alba yarrellii2023
- Slavonian GrebePodiceps auritus2023
- Coal TitPeriparus ater2022
- Tree SparrowPasser montanus2022
🦌Mammals6 species
springsummerautumn
2025▾
Hedgehog · Grey Squirrel · Rabbit · Brown Rat · Red Squirrel +1
- HedgehogErinaceus europaeus
- Grey SquirrelSciurus carolinensis2024
- RabbitOryctolagus cuniculus2022
- Brown RatRattus norvegicus
- Red SquirrelSciurus vulgaris2024
🐸Amphibians1 species
summer
2025▾
Salamanders, Sirens and Newts
- Salamanders, Sirens and NewtsCaudata
🐝Insects19 species
summerautumn
2024▾
Harlequin Ladybird · Common Carder Bee · Red-tailed Bumblebee · Buff-tailed Bumblebee · Migrant Hawker +14
- Harlequin LadybirdHarmonia axyridis
- Common Carder BeeBombus pascuorum2022
- Red-tailed BumblebeeBombus lapidarius2022
- Buff-tailed BumblebeeBombus terrestris2022
- Migrant HawkerAeshna mixta
- Scathophaga stercoraria
🌿Plants2 species
springautumn
2022▾
Himalayan Balsam · Primrose
- Himalayan BalsamImpatiens glandulifera
- PrimrosePrimula vulgaris
Species observations from the last 10 years via NBN Atlas
Roe Deer
Roe Deer
Capreolus capreolus2022
Capreolus capreolus2022
Scathophaga stercoraria
Scathophaga stercoraria
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