Hedgehog sightings around the villages

HIGS is collaborating with Histon & Impington Hedgehog Champions to try to understand the population of hedgehogs that currently live in the villages. Together we are collecting information on sightings of hedgehogs – an ongoing process.

This interactive map shows the data gathered up to March 2026. Click on any symbol on the map to find out more. You can zoom in and out for more detail and choose which layers to display.

Hedgehogs face a lot of threats, largely due to a loss of suitable habitat. This loss in the wider countryside is one reason why more are now being seen in gardens.

HI Hedgehog Champions also promote hedgehog highways and can provide help, if you need it, to make a hole in your fence. As well as allowing hedgehogs access to the large area they need to roam every night in order to find all the food they need, and of course a mate, these highways could help hedgehogs to move away if they sense a badger is nearby. The HIGS survey therefore also tries to map hedgehog highway friendly features.

You too can help with this valuable work by using our online survey form to let us know about your sightings of hedgehogs.

So please keep helping the local hedgehogs and badgers by making sure your garden is safe and accessible for hedgehogs and by providing great habitats for the earthworms, beetles and other grubs that both these mammals love to eat.

Enter your hedgehog information here; you can also upload a photograph as evidence if you would like to. If you would be interested in getting involved in a subsequent stage of this survey please email hello@higreenspaces.org with the subject 'Helping with hedgehog and badger surveys'.

Acknowledgements

If you want to reuse or copy this application : it is licensed using the APACHE 2 licence and uses the Leafletjs library which is licenced under the BSD 2 licence. TL;DR : "OK to copy and reuse"

Local data and pictures owned on behalf of the community by Histon and Impington Green Spaces (HIGS)

Icons used for the map are from the SVGrepo under the following licences:

Circle : PD licence
Hedgehog : MIT licence

Data and pictures submitted by members of Histon and Impington community, and collated, cleaned, analysed etc by HIGS using other freely available data or software from :

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Hedgehog Sighting:
Dead Hedgehog:
Garden accessible to Hedgehogs: