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Eawy Forest

Eponimm · CC BY-SA 4.0

64% trees around it and 750 species recorded.

  • trees within 3 km64%
  • wild within 10 km60%
  • species recorded750
  • Altitude158 m

The forest around

64% 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 91%Grassland 6%Cropland 3%Built-up 0%Trees 60%Grassland 10%Cropland 29%Built-up 0%Trees 51%Grassland 23%Water 0%Cropland 25%Built-up 1%Trees 26%Grassland 26%Cropland 47%Built-up 2%64%trees · 3 km

Trees, ring by ring

  • 0–1 km91%
  • 1–3 km60%
  • 3–6 km51%
  • 6–10 km26%

What covers the land (1–3 km)

  • Trees60%
  • Grassland10%
  • Cropland29%
  • Built-up0%

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

750 species recorded.

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

European Beech
European BeechFagus sylvatica144 recordsMalene Thyssen · CC BY-SA 3.0
Marsh grass of Parnassus
Marsh grass of ParnassusParnassia palustris143 recordsGiuseppe Frizzi · Public domain
English holly
English hollyIlex aquifolium81 recordsUnknown author · Public domain
Bracken
BrackenPteridium aquilinum80 recordsStefan.lefnaer · CC BY-SA 4.0
European woodland sedge
European woodland sedgeCarex sylvatica72 recordsFranz Xaver · CC BY-SA 3.0
Wood Spurge
Wood SpurgeEuphorbia amygdaloides71 recordsRobert Flogaus-Faust · CC BY 4.0
Common Bluebell
Common BluebellHyacinthoides non-scripta67 recordsJackyM59 · CC BY-SA 4.0
European honeysuckle
European honeysuckleLonicera periclymenum66 recordsLuc Viatour · CC BY-SA 3.0
Lemon-scented fern
Lemon-scented fernOreopteris limbosperma62 recordsJames K. Lindsey · CC BY-SA 3.0
Narrow buckler-fern
Narrow buckler-fernDryopteris carthusiana62 recordsFranz Xaver · CC BY-SA 3.0
Remote sedge
Remote sedgeCarex remota60 recordsKristian Peters -- Fabelfroh 09:56, 23 July 2006 (UTC) · CC BY-SA 3.0
Wood melick
Wood melickMelica uniflora59 recordsKenraiz , Krzysztof Ziarnek · 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.

61out of 100

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

  • 64%Treesof the land within 3 km
  • 60%Wildno towns or farmland within 10 km
  • 750Speciesrecorded more than once within 5 km
  • 158 mAltitudeabove the sea

When to walk

Best for walking in May and in September.

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

  1. Jan6°1°67 mm
  2. Feb7°0°58 mm
  3. Mar11°2°58 mm
  4. Apr14°4°44 mm
  5. May18°8°62 mm
  6. Jun21°11°56 mm
  7. Jul23°13°60 mm
  8. Aug22°13°66 mm
  9. Sep20°10°48 mm
  10. Oct15°8°72 mm
  11. Nov10°4°76 mm
  12. Dec7°2°82 mm
  • Bar: walking comfort; the number on top is the average maximum.
  • Below: average minimum (NASA, 1991–2020).
  • Rain: monthly total.

The place

Eawy Forest.

Forest in France

Eawy Forest is a forest in France.

Seen from space, 64% of the land within 3 km is trees, and 60% of the land within 10 km has no towns or farmland.

750 species have been recorded around it: 527 plants, 45 fungi, 135 birds and 43 mammals.

The most recorded plants are: European Beech, Marsh grass of Parnassus and English holly.

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

Forêt d'Eawy hêtres01
Eponimm · CC BY-SA 4.0

Get there and walk

  • Ferme équestre de Pommerévalcampsite · 3.5 km · 8 within 10 km
  • Les Écuries du Vaudichonplace to stay · 5.2 km · 4 within 10 km
  • Orivalnearest town · 3.4 km in a straight line
  • Beauvais-Tillé airport (BVA)nearest airport with scheduled flights · 69 km in a straight lineCar hire at BVA airport (Beauvais)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.

Eawy 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

  • 12marked trails within 5 kmChemin des Écoliers, Le Puits Merveilleux, A la découverte du Val Ygot and 9 more
  • 7named and notable trees within 6 kmHêtre le Père Antoine, Hêtre Rudi, Frêne les Jumeaux and 4 more
  • 2picnic sites within 4 km
  • 3shelters and huts within 6 km
  • 1viewpoints within 5 km
  • 6car parks within 3 km
  • 8campsites within 10 kmFerme équestre de Pommeréval, Rêve de Bisons, Camping de l'Orival and 5 more
  • 4places to stay within 10 kmLes Écuries du Vaudichon, Le Relais des Hayons and 2 more
  • visitor centres within 6 km
  • restaurants and cafés within 3 km

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

Photographs

The forest, as people saw it.

Forêt d'Eawy hêtres02
Eponimm · CC BY-SA 4.0
Golf-Hôtel de St-Saëns
Golf St Saens · CC BY-SA 4.0

Other forests nearby.

Eawy Forest

France

  • 61Forestyas Score
  • 64%Trees
  • 60%Wild
  • 750Species

Forêt de Brotonne

France · 50 km

  • 76Forestyas Score
  • 95%Trees
  • 71%Wild
  • 878Species

See the guide

Chantilly Forest

France · 110 km

  • 80Forestyas Score
  • 83%Trees
  • 77%Wild
  • 1,387Species

See the guide

Forest of Halatte

France · 110 km

  • 76Forestyas Score
  • 82%Trees
  • 68%Wild
  • 1,559Species

See the guide

Where these figures come from

Name and typeWikidata (Q3078764) · CC0
Land coverESA WorldCover 10 m 2021 v200 · © ESA WorldCover project / Copernicus Sentinel data · CC BY 4.0
Species15,381 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

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

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