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Chiswick House

Michael Coppins · CC BY-SA 4.0

32% trees around it and 2,185 species recorded.

  • trees within 3 km32%
  • wild within 10 km45%
  • species recorded2,185

The forest around

32% 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 38%Grassland 15%Water 7%Built-up 40%Trees 31%Grassland 11%Wetland 0%Water 5%Built-up 53%Trees 33%Grassland 14%Water 2%Built-up 51%Trees 29%Grassland 13%Water 1%Cropland 0%Built-up 56%32%trees · 3 km

Trees, ring by ring

  • 0–1 km38%
  • 1–3 km31%
  • 3–6 km33%
  • 6–10 km29%

What covers the land (1–3 km)

  • Trees31%
  • Grassland11%
  • Water5%
  • Cropland0%
  • Built-up53%

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

2,185 species recorded.

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

Green alkanet
Green alkanetPentaglottis sempervirens865 recordsLuis Fernández García · CC BY-SA 3.0
Sycamore
SycamoreAcer pseudoplatanus665 recordsChristian Pirkl · CC BY-SA 3.0 at
AshNT
AshFraxinus excelsior564 recordsWillow · CC BY 2.5
Common Hawthorn
Common HawthornCrataegus monogyna523 recordsUnknown author · CC BY-SA 3.0
English holly
English hollyIlex aquifolium500 recordsUnknown author · Public domain
Horse-chestnutVU
Horse-chestnutAesculus hippocastanum452 recordsStephan van Helden · CC BY-SA 4.0
Pedunculate Oak
Pedunculate OakQuercus robur391 recordsAlgirdas at Lithuanian Wikipedia · Public domain
Silver Birch
Silver BirchBetula pendula329 recordsUnknown author · Public domain
Yew
YewTaxus baccata306 recordsSitomon · CC BY-SA 2.0
Cherry laurel
Cherry laurelPrunus laurocerasus300 recordsKarduelis · Public domain
Red Dead-nettle
Red Dead-nettleLamium purpureum291 recordsDaniel J. Layton · CC BY-SA 4.0
False Acacia
False AcaciaRobinia pseudoacacia287 recordsThis Photo was taken by Wolfgang Moroder . Feel free to use my photos, but please mention · CC BY-SA 3.0

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

In numbers

The forest, measured.

49out of 100

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

  • 32%Treesof the land within 3 km
  • 45%Wildno towns or farmland within 10 km
  • 2,185Speciesrecorded more than once within 5 km

When to walk

Best for walking in June and in September.

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

  1. Jan7°2°65 mm
  2. Feb7°1°54 mm
  3. Mar10°2°50 mm
  4. Apr14°4°42 mm
  5. May17°7°55 mm
  6. Jun20°10°56 mm
  7. Jul23°13°60 mm
  8. Aug22°12°66 mm
  9. Sep20°10°44 mm
  10. Oct15°8°74 mm
  11. Nov10°4°74 mm
  12. Dec7°2°71 mm
  • Bar: walking comfort; the number on top is the average maximum.
  • Below: average minimum (NASA, 1991–2020).
  • Rain: monthly total.

The place

Chiswick House.

Neo-Palladian villa in the Chiswick district of London, England, UK

Chiswick House is a protected forest in United Kingdom.

Seen from space, 32% of the land within 3 km is trees, and 45% of the land within 10 km has no towns or farmland.

2,185 species have been recorded around it: 1,000 plants, 926 fungi, 225 birds and 34 mammals.

The most recorded plants are: Green alkanet, Sycamore and Ash.

The best time to walk is in June and in September.

Chiswick House from SE
Michael Coppins · CC BY-SA 4.0

Get there and walk

  • Official informationAccess, hours and rules from those who manage the place.Official site
  • 1st Malden Scout Group Groundscampsite · 9.5 km · 2 within 10 km
  • Best Westernplace to stay · 1.1 km · 1,203 within 10 km
  • Chiswicknearest town · 1.0 km in a straight line
  • London Heathrow Airport (LHR)nearest airport with scheduled flights · 14 km in a straight lineCar hire at LHR airport (London)Discover Cars · sponsored link

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.

Chiswick House 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

  • 25marked trails within 5 kmWandle Trail, Diana Princess of Wales Memorial Walk, Beverley Brook Walk and 22 more
  • 123named and notable trees within 6 kmRavenscourt Park Tree of Heaven, Fulham Palace Oak, Marble Hill Black Walnut and 120 more
  • 134picnic sites within 4 km
  • 124shelters and huts within 6 km
  • 13viewpoints within 5 kmKing Henry VIII's Mound, Meridian Line Marker, Aussichtspunkt H&MV Office and 10 more
  • 4visitor centres within 6 kmVisitor Information Centre, Holland Park Reception, The River Thames Visitor Centre and 1 more
  • 368car parks within 3 km
  • 2campsites within 10 km1st Malden Scout Group Grounds, Girl Guides Marion Hill House Group Grounds
  • 1,203places to stay within 10 kmBest Western, Best Western Hotel, DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel London - Marble Arch and 1,200 more
  • 674restaurants and cafés within 3 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 Chiswick House.

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.

Peakyas17 mountains within 25 km
Richmond Hill4.4 kmCampden Hill4.8 kmPrimrose Hill65 m · 9.2 kmNorthala Fields10 kmParliament Hill95 m · 11 kmLudgate Hill18 m · 11 kmTower Hill14 m · 13 kmDuppas Hill17 km
Lakeyas5 lakes within 15 km
Lonsdale Road Reservoir0.3 km² · 1.9 kmBrent Reservoir0.6 km² · 9.6 kmIsland Barn Reservoir0.6 km² · 13 kmKnight Reservoir0.6 km² · 13 kmQueen Elizabeth II Reservoir1.5 km² · 14 km
Darkskyas6 dark-sky places within 30 km
Kew ObservatoryBortle 9 · 4.2 kmBishop ObservatoryBortle 9 · 8.5 kmNortholt Branch ObservatoriesBortle 9 · 11 kmUCL ObservatoryBortle 9 · 14 kmRoyal ObservatoryBortle 9 · 18 kmObservatory HouseBortle 8 · 24 km
Viewyas6 viewpoints within 15 kmComing soon
Queen's Tower5.9 kmWatkin's Tower8.1 kmPrimrose Hill65 m · 9.2 kmLondon Eye9.9 kmThe View from The Shard12 kmTower Hill14 m · 13 km
Cascadyas1 waterfalls within 15 km
Waterfall in Queen Mary's Gardens in London8.7 km
Riveryasthe river nearby
River Thames334 km · 66 m³/sRiver Brent29 kmWestbourneTyburnRiver IngrebourneChannelsea RiverRiver RomRiver Shuttle

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

Photographs

The forest, as people saw it.

Archeological dig at Chiswick House uncovering the remains of the old Jacobean House
Chivalrick1 · CC BY-SA 3.0
Across the bridge (24541226313)
Winniepix · CC BY 2.0
Artisan Market at Chiswick House
Ian Alexander · CC BY-SA 4.0

Other forests nearby.

Chiswick House

United Kingdom

  • 49Forestyas Score
  • 32%Trees
  • 45%Wild
  • 2,185Species

Claremont

United Kingdom · 16 km

  • 72Forestyas Score
  • 57%Trees
  • 75%Wild
  • 2,213Species

See the guide

Painshill

United Kingdom · 21 km

  • 72Forestyas Score
  • 52%Trees
  • 83%Wild
  • 2,181Species

See the guide

Ashdown Forest

United Kingdom · 50 km

  • 78Forestyas Score
  • 66%Trees
  • 92%Wild
  • 1,460Species

See the guide

Where these figures come from

Name and typeWikidata (Q1074877) · CC0
Land coverESA WorldCover 10 m 2021 v200 · © ESA WorldCover project / Copernicus Sentinel data · CC BY 4.0
Species440,568 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, Lakeyas, Darkskyas, Viewyas, Cavernyas, Cascadyas, Riveryas

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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