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Upper Ball Grove Lodge
Ball Grove Park is an excellent area for wildlife Colne Water provides habitats for fish species such as trout. This provides a valuable food source for predatory birds such as kingfishers änd herons. The small dipper can be seen also on this stretch of river – you can see its bright white breast and bobbing motion as it hunts in the shallows for insects.
The old mill lodge provides a home for many species of wild birds. The ever present mallards and black-headed gulis can be seen. And in winter transient species such as the beautiful and colourful goosanders and tufted ducks can be found. During spring the lodge becomes a hive of activity as frogs, toads and news return to the water to mate
The woodland areas surrounding the picnic site also turn up their own delights and surprises Many common species of woodland and garden birds can be seen here, along with larger species such as Kestrels.
Sparrowhawks and tawny owls If you visit the site early in the morning or late evening you can often be rewarded with glimpse of a fox or the very shy roe deer.
Local History
Historic monuments near Upper Ball Grove Lodge
- Stock medieval settlement and part of its associated medieval open field system – 9.93 km away
- Burwains Camp prehistoric defended settlement west of Broad Bank Hill – 5.49 km away
- Twist Castle Romano-British farmstead – 7.33 km away
- Two Romano-British farmsteads known as Ring Stones – 7.99 km away
- Beadle Hill Romano-British farmstead – 6.88 km away
- Ring cairn 25m east of Ell Clough – 6.55 km away
- Saucer barrow 90m east of Ell Clough – 6.56 km away
- Bowl barrow 140m east of Beadle Hill – 6.86 km away
- Bowl barrow 155m east of Beadle Hill – 6.83 km away
- Bowl barrow 90m east of Twist Castle – 7.27 km away
- Ring cairn on Slipper Hill – 8.35 km away
- Round cairn on Hameldon Pasture – 8.29 km away
- Bowl barrow on Hameldon Pasture – 8.26 km away
- Pike Low bowl barrow and site of beacon, Bonfire Hill – 6.64 km away
- Small stone circle on Delf Hill – 6.96 km away
- Round cairn 230m west of Bleara Lowe – 4.92 km away
- Castercliff small multivallate hillfort – 3.73 km away
- Bank House Bridge, Wycoller – 2.68 km away
- The Hall Bridge, Wycoller – 2.23 km away
- Wycoller packhorse bridge – 2.20 km away
- Higherford Old Bridge – 5.21 km away
- Wycoller Hall – 2.23 km away