Capability Brown at Coombe Abbey Park

Biodiversity at Coombe

Grey Heron and juvenile in tree near Top Pool
Grey Heron and juvenile in tree near Top Pool

At Coombe, the parkland features support a variety of habitats including wood pasture and parkland, ancient woodland, deciduous woodland, good quality semi-improved grazing marsh and habitats associated with the lake.

Within the site is Coombe Pool Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI). The 36 hectare pool created by Brown, has supported a heronry for 200 years on a small island, and is one of the most important ornithological sites in Warwickshire, due to its herons, overwintering fowl and other breeding birds including tufted duck, shoveler (a county rarity), water rail and kingfisher.

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Coombe Abbey Park

Address: Coombe Abbey Park
Brinklow Road
Binley
Coventry
CV3 2AB

Telephone: 024 7645 3720

Portrait of Lancelot ' Capability Brown, c 1770-75 by Richard Cosway

Portrait of Lancelot ' Capability Brown, c 1770-75 by Richard Cosway, 917421821/Private Collection/Bridgeman Images.

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