Natural History
Site: The site consists of the upper mixed woodland at the rear of the hotel, the drive area and lower meadow in front of the hotel. There is a summer breeding colony of Lesser Horseshoe Bats in the loft of the main building.
Bird Species Recorded:
- Blackbird
- Blue Tit
- Bullfinch
- Buzzard
- Chaffinch
- Coal Tit
- Gold Crest
- Great Spotted Woodpecker
- Great Tit
- Jackdaw
- Jay
- Long-tailed Tit
- Nuthatch
- Song Thrush
- Spotted Flycatcher
- Swallow
- Treecreeper
- Wren
Ground Flora: Upper Woodland Area
- Bird's Foot Trefoil
- Broadleaved Willow Herb
- Black Knapweed
- Bluebell Bramble
- Common Sorrel Crane's Bill
- Creeping Buttercup
- Dogs Wood Mercury
- Enchanters Nightshade
- Foxglove
- Greater Plantain
- Green Alkanet
- Ground Elder
- Hart's Tongue Fern
- Heath Bedstraw
- Hedge Woundwort
- Herb Robert
- Hogweed
- Ivy
- Lady Fern
- Lords and Ladies (Cuckoo Pint)
- Male Fern Nettle
- Nipple-wort
- Polypody Fern
- Primrose
- Red Campion
- Self-heal
- Sow Thistle
- Speedwell
- Violet
- White Clover
- Wild Strawberry
- Wood Avens
- Yarrow
- Yellow Pimpernel
Meadow Flora
- Black Knapweed
- Bird's Foot Trefoil
- Camomile
- Dock
- Ribwort Plantain
- Thistle
- Yarrow
Ground Flora - Drive area
- Black Spleenwort
- Common Cowheat
- Hard Fern
- Hart's Tongue Fern
- Lady Fern
- Maiden Hair Fern
- Polypody Fern
- Perforate St. John's Wort
- Wood Sage
Trees
- Ash
- Beech
- Elder
- Hawthorn
- Holly
- Hornbeam
- Pine
- Sweet Chestnut
(There are a number of cultivated species also present in the Upper Woodland.)
Butterflies
- Brimstone
- Large White
- Gatekeeper
- Meadow Brown
- Peacock
- Red Admiral
- Small Copper
- Speckled Wood
Other insect species
- Southern Hawker Dragonfly
- Grasshopper spp.