Oakwood and Blacklow Spinney

A small, mature, mixed broadleaf and conifer woodland oasis in the northern residential suburbs of Warwick, probably originally planted as a shooting wood in the 1920s. Tree species include sweet chestnut, oak, Scots pine and larch with some holly, ash, beech, silver birch and younger elm trees. Planting of hawthorn, hazel, crab apple, rowan, field maple, whitebeam, aspen and hornbeam has taken place more recently.

Bird species recorded within the Spinney include  resident nuthatches and tree creepers, with sparrowhawks, tawny owls and chiff chaffs being regular visitors