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Eu Forest

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44% trees around it and 1,036 species recorded.

  • trees within 3 km44%
  • wild within 10 km48%
  • species recorded1,036
  • Altitude97 m

The forest around

44% 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 83%Grassland 12%Water 3%Cropland 1%Built-up 0%Trees 40%Grassland 23%Water 3%Cropland 30%Built-up 4%Trees 22%Grassland 19%Water 1%Cropland 51%Built-up 7%Trees 18%Grassland 16%Water 14%Cropland 48%Built-up 5%44%trees · 3 km

Trees, ring by ring

  • 0–1 km83%
  • 1–3 km40%
  • 3–6 km22%
  • 6–10 km18%

What covers the land (1–3 km)

  • Trees40%
  • Grassland23%
  • Water3%
  • Cropland30%
  • Built-up4%

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

1,036 species recorded.

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

Marsh Fern
Marsh FernThelypteris palustris390 recordsAgnieszka Kwiecień, Nova · CC BY-SA 3.0
Water Avens
Water AvensGeum rivale129 recordsDidier Descouens · CC BY-SA 4.0
Hemp-agrimony
Hemp-agrimonyEupatorium cannabinum118 recordsBurkhard Mücke · CC BY-SA 4.0
European Beech
European BeechFagus sylvatica117 recordsMalene Thyssen · CC BY-SA 3.0
Consound
ConsoundSymphytum officinale101 recordsAgnieszka Kwiecień ( Nova ) · CC BY 2.5
Common Hawthorn
Common HawthornCrataegus monogyna101 recordsUnknown author · CC BY-SA 3.0
AshNT
AshFraxinus excelsior90 recordsWillow · CC BY 2.5
Cobnut
CobnutCorylus avellana82 recordsMPF · CC BY-SA 3.0
Herb-robert
Herb-robertGeranium robertianum82 recordsEpgrande · CC BY 4.0
Autumn Lady's-tresses
Autumn Lady's-tressesSpiranthes spiralis81 recordsBernd Haynold · CC BY 2.5
Sycamore
SycamoreAcer pseudoplatanus80 recordsChristian Pirkl · CC BY-SA 3.0 at
False Oat-grass
False Oat-grassArrhenatherum elatius78 recordsForest & Kim Starr · CC BY 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).

  • 44%Treesof the land within 3 km
  • 48%Wildno towns or farmland within 10 km
  • 1,036Speciesrecorded more than once within 5 km
  • 97 mAltitudeabove the sea

When to walk

Best for walking from June to September.

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

  1. Jan7°3°76 mm
  2. Feb7°3°64 mm
  3. Mar10°4°57 mm
  4. Apr13°6°43 mm
  5. May15°9°60 mm
  6. Jun18°12°52 mm
  7. Jul20°14°60 mm
  8. Aug20°14°70 mm
  9. Sep18°12°53 mm
  10. Oct15°10°82 mm
  11. Nov11°7°90 mm
  12. Dec8°4°92 mm
  • Bar: walking comfort; the number on top is the average maximum.
  • Below: average minimum (NASA, 1991–2020).
  • Rain: monthly total.

The place

Eu Forest.

Forest in France

Eu Forest is a forest in France.

Seen from space, 44% of the land within 3 km is trees, and 48% of the land within 10 km has no towns or farmland.

1,036 species have been recorded around it: 776 plants, 27 fungi, 185 birds and 48 mammals.

The most recorded plants are: Marsh Fern, Water Avens and Hemp-agrimony.

The best time to walk is from June to September.

29 - Haute Forêt d'Eu, route de Soreng
Antonov14 · CC BY-SA 3.0

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.

Eu 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 kmSentier du Littoral, Chemin des Étangs, La Falaise and 9 more
  • 13picnic sites within 4 km
  • 20shelters and huts within 6 km
  • 7viewpoints within 5 kmPerspective Guizot and 6 more
  • 3visitor centres within 6 kmO.T.S.I, Office du Tourisme, Office de tourisme Mers-les-Bains
  • 58car parks within 3 km
  • 29campsites within 10 kmLes Grands Près, Aire de Camping-Car Park Incheville, Camping Municipal de l'Étang and 26 more
  • 51places to stay within 10 kmLe Relais, Ibis budget Le Tréport Mers les Bains, Le Clos des Roses and 48 more
  • 6restaurants and cafés within 3 km
  • named and notable trees 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 Eu 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.

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

Photographs

The forest, as people saw it.

Campneuseville-FR-76-panneau forestier ONF-1
François GOGLINS · CC BY-SA 4.0

Other forests nearby.

Eu Forest

France

  • 49Forestyas Score
  • 44%Trees
  • 48%Wild
  • 1,036Species

Eawy Forest

France · 36 km

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

See the guide

Forêt de Brotonne

France · 83 km

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

See the guide

Chantilly Forest

France · 121 km

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

See the guide

Where these figures come from

Name and typeWikidata (Q3078775) · CC0
Land coverESA WorldCover 10 m 2021 v200 · © ESA WorldCover project / Copernicus Sentinel data · CC BY 4.0
Species27,365 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 atlasesIslandyas, Birdyas, 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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