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Bernwood Forest

Sentinel-2 cloudless 2016 by EOX IT Services GmbH (contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data), CC BY 4.0, with relief shading from Copernicus WorldDEM-30

27% trees around it and 1,722 species recorded.

50Forestyas Score

ForestFungiBirdsWildlife

  • trees within 3 km27%
  • wild within 10 km66%
  • species recorded1,722
  • Altitude83 m

The forest around

27% trees.

Read like the rings of a cut trunk: from the centre out, the land within 1, 3, 6 and 10 km, coloured by what covers it.

Trees 76%Grassland 17%Cropland 7%Trees 21%Grassland 40%Cropland 36%Built-up 3%Trees 17%Grassland 56%Cropland 25%Built-up 2%Trees 17%Grassland 47%Water 0%Cropland 30%Built-up 6%27%trees · 3 km

Trees, ring by ring

  • 0–1 km76%
  • 1–3 km21%
  • 3–6 km17%
  • 6–10 km17%

What covers the land (1–3 km)

  • Trees21%
  • Grassland40%
  • Cropland36%
  • Built-up3%

ESA WorldCover 2021 (10 m, from Sentinel satellites), sampled every 120 m. A clearing, a road or a lake counts as what it is.

Who lives here

1,722 species recorded.

The plants, fungi, birds and mammals people have recorded here most often.

Timothy
TimothyPhleum pratense159 recordsBlokenearexeter · CC0
Garden vetch
Garden vetchVicia sativa145 recordsDidier Descouens · CC BY-SA 4.0
Smooth meadow-grass
Smooth meadow-grassPoa pratensis134 recordsRasbak 08:35, 1 May 2007 (UTC) · CC BY-SA 3.0
Creeping Thistle
Creeping ThistleCirsium arvense124 recordsAnRo0002 · CC0
Red Clover
Red CloverTrifolium pratense120 recordsIvar Leidus · CC BY-SA 4.0
Creeping buttercup
Creeping buttercupRanunculus repens119 recordsUnknown author · CC BY-SA 3.0
White Clover
White CloverTrifolium repens118 recordsEpgrande · CC BY 4.0
Ground-ivy
Ground-ivyGlechoma hederacea116 recordsAnRo0002 · CC0
Common Hawthorn
Common HawthornCrataegus monogyna113 recordsUnknown author · CC BY-SA 3.0
Queen of the meadow
Queen of the meadowFilipendula ulmaria112 recordsUnknown author · Public domain
Hogweed
HogweedHeracleum sphondylium112 recordsUnknown author · CC BY-SA 3.0
Blackthorn
BlackthornPrunus spinosa108 recordsSphingonotus · CC BY-SA 4.0

Open records within 5 km (GBIF, licensed for any use). Busy places are better recorded than remote ones.

In numbers

The forest, measured.

50out of 100

Our own rating, from open data only: tree cover (40 points), wildness (20), species recorded (30) and protection or heritage (10).

  • 27%Treesof the land within 3 km
  • 66%Wildno towns or farmland within 10 km
  • 1,722Speciesrecorded more than once within 5 km
  • 83 mAltitudeabove the sea

When to walk

Best for walking in September.

How good each month is for a walk: mild days and little rain make the bar taller.

  1. Jan6°1°64 mm
  2. Feb7°1°52 mm
  3. Mar10°2°52 mm
  4. Apr13°4°46 mm
  5. May16°7°60 mm
  6. Jun20°10°60 mm
  7. Jul22°12°65 mm
  8. Aug22°12°69 mm
  9. Sep19°9°48 mm
  10. Oct14°7°75 mm
  11. Nov10°4°73 mm
  12. Dec7°2°69 mm
  • Bar: walking comfort; the number on top is the average maximum.
  • Below: average minimum (NASA, 1991–2020).
  • Rain: monthly total.

The place

Bernwood Forest.

Forest in Buckinghamshire, England

Bernwood Forest is a forest in United Kingdom.

Seen from space, 27% of the land within 3 km is trees, and 66% of the land within 10 km has no towns or farmland.

1,722 species have been recorded around it: 836 plants, 688 fungi, 170 birds and 28 mammals.

The most recorded plants are: Timothy, Garden vetch and Smooth meadow-grass.

The best time to walk is in September.

Bernwood Forest seen from above (Sentinel-2)
Sentinel-2 cloudless 2016 by EOX IT Services GmbH (contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data), CC BY 4.0, with relief shading from Copernicus WorldDEM-30

Get there and walk

Plan the visit

A guided walk, a bed nearby, a car.

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From above

The forest and its surroundings.

The satellite image of the 6 × 6 km around the place, with the trails, notable trees, picnic sites and huts that OpenStreetMap shows.

Bernwood Forest seen from above (Sentinel-2)
Seen from above: Sentinel-2 cloudless 2016 (EOX, CC BY 4.0), 6 × 6 km, north up. Points © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Around, in OpenStreetMap

  • 6marked trails within 5 kmOxford Green Belt Way, Oxfordshire Way, Boundary Patrol and 3 more
  • 4shelters and huts within 6 kmWalter's Coaches, J Coates (HGV Services) Ltd and 2 more
  • 1viewpoints within 5 kmWet Phone Crossing
  • 8car parks within 3 km
  • 9campsites within 10 kmCommon Leys Farm, Folly Farm, Green Acres Farm Camp Site and 6 more
  • 43places to stay within 10 kmCommon Leys Farm, Lower Brook Farm Bed & Breakfast, Travelodge and 40 more
  • 2restaurants and cafés within 3 km
  • named and notable trees within 6 km
  • picnic sites within 4 km
  • visitor centres within 6 km

Counted in OpenStreetMap, the map anyone can edit. A low number may just mean nobody has mapped it yet.

In our other atlases

Around Bernwood Forest.

The mountains, lakes, rivers, waterfalls and canyons around this forest, the viewpoints above it, the birds and the night sky, in the family's atlases.

Peakyas9 mountains within 25 km
Shotover7.3 kmHeadington Hill9.3 kmGraven Hill10 kmHarcourt Hill14 kmCumnor Hill16 kmBald Hill19 kmWittenham Clumps19 kmCoombe Hill260 m · 23 km
Islandyasthe island
Great Britain228,938 km²

Figures from the sister sites' databases (Wikidata, HydroATLAS, GeoNames, OpenStreetMap). Links open when each site is online.

Other forests nearby.

Bernwood Forest

United Kingdom

  • 50Forestyas Score
  • 27%Trees
  • 66%Wild
  • 1,722Species

Forest of Dean

United Kingdom · 99 km

  • 86Forestyas Score
  • 96%Trees
  • 87%Wild
  • 2,082Species

See the guide

University of Oxford Botanic Garden

United Kingdom · 11 km

  • 56Forestyas Score
  • 41%Trees
  • 62%Wild
  • 1,215Species

See the guide

New Forest

United Kingdom · 110 km

  • 89Forestyas Score
  • 83%Trees
  • 98%Wild
  • 2,114Species

See the guide

Where these figures come from

Name and typeWikidata (Q4894620) · CC0
Land coverESA WorldCover 10 m 2021 v200 · © ESA WorldCover project / Copernicus Sentinel data · CC BY 4.0
Species55,592 open records within 5 km (GBIF, CC0 and CC BY 4.0 only)
See these recordsgbif.org
Names and photosWikidata (CC0); GBIF Backbone Taxonomy · CC BY 4.0; Wikimedia Commons
AltitudeCopernicus DEM GLO-30 · © DLR e.V., © Airbus Defence and Space GmbH, Copernicus/ESA
Temperature and rainNASA POWER (CERES SYN1deg, 2001–2020; MERRA-2)
What is around© OpenStreetMap contributors · ODbL
ImagesEOX Sentinel-2 cloudless 2016 · CC BY 4.0; Wikimedia Commons
Sister atlasesPeakyas, Islandyas

Every figure is an average, an estimate or a count from a public dataset. Licences and methods: data sources.

The family

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