Explore the beautiful Blackwater Estuary
Our gardens, parks, cafés, shops, countryside locations and many houses are open. You no longer need to pre-book at many places. Some still require booking ahead, so please check the property webpage before you travel.
Under leaden skies with a face full of wind there's nowhere like Copt Hall for refreshing the mind and blowing away the cobwebs.
As a working farm on the remote and beautiful Blackwater Estuary Copt Hall balances arable crop production and access with coastal nature conservation. Our work involves creating and maintaining a variety of wildlife rich habitats including nectar-rich areas for insects; field margins, scrub and hedgerows for farmland birds; and wet grassland and scrapes for waders and wildfowl.
Copt Hall is a really important area for breeding birds such as Lapwing and Barn owl, which have been encouraged by this work. The site is noted for overwintering wildfowl and waders including Brent Geese, Curlew and Golden Plover. These can be viewed on the fields and saltmarsh whilst enjoying a bracing walk around the farm trails and along the sea wall to our bird hide overlooking the scrapes.
Most of our places run the Gift Aid on Entry scheme at their admission points.
Under this scheme, if you're not a member you have the choice of two entry tickets:
If the place runs Gift Aid on Entry, we'll offer you a clear choice between the Gift Aid Admission prices and the Standard Admission prices at the admission point. It's entirely up to you which ticket you choose.
Gift Aid Admission includes a 10 per cent or more voluntary donation. Gift Aid Admissions let us reclaim tax on the whole amount paid - an extra 25 per cent - potentially a very significant boost to our places' funds.
An extra £1 paid under the scheme can be worth over £3 to the National Trust as shown below:
| Gift Aid | Standard | |
|---|---|---|
| Amount paid by visitor | £11.00 | £10.00 |
| Tax refund from Government* | £2.75 | £0.00 |
| Total received by the National Trust | £13.75 | £10.00 |
*Gift Aid Admissions let us reclaim tax on the whole amount paid - an extra 25 per cent - potentially a very significant boost to our places' funds.
Our small car park at Copt Hall Marshes is open 8am-6pm Spring to Autumn. You don't need to book, but spaces are limited, so if the car park is full, please come back another time.
