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Halle Forest

David Edgar · CC BY-SA 3.0

60% trees around it and 1,163 species recorded.

61Forestyas Score

ForestBirdsWildlife

  • trees within 3 km60%
  • wild within 10 km59%
  • species recorded1,163
  • Altitude133 m

The forest around

60% 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 90%Grassland 8%Cropland 2%Trees 56%Grassland 20%Water 0%Bare ground 0%Cropland 14%Built-up 9%Trees 44%Grassland 18%Water 0%Cropland 21%Built-up 16%Trees 35%Grassland 20%Water 0%Cropland 33%Built-up 12%60%trees · 3 km

Trees, ring by ring

  • 0–1 km90%
  • 1–3 km56%
  • 3–6 km44%
  • 6–10 km35%

What covers the land (1–3 km)

  • Trees56%
  • Grassland20%
  • Water0%
  • Cropland14%
  • Built-up9%

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

1,163 species recorded.

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

Common Bluebell
Common BluebellHyacinthoides non-scripta1,795 recordsJackyM59 · CC BY-SA 4.0
Wood Anemone
Wood AnemoneAnemone nemorosa1,120 recordsEpgrande · CC BY 4.0
Yellow Archangel
Yellow ArchangelLamium galeobdolon1,095 recordsTeun Spaans · CC BY 2.5
Ramsons
RamsonsAllium ursinum966 recordsAgnes Monkelbaan · CC BY-SA 4.0
Snakeshead
SnakesheadArum maculatum873 recordsUnknown author · CC BY-SA 3.0
David’s-harp
David’s-harpPolygonatum multiflorum749 recordsUnknown author · CC BY-SA 3.0
European honeysuckle
European honeysuckleLonicera periclymenum678 recordsLuc Viatour · CC BY-SA 3.0
Garlic Mustard
Garlic MustardAlliaria petiolata644 recordsO. Pichard · CC BY-SA 3.0
English holly
English hollyIlex aquifolium610 recordsUnknown author · Public domain
Lily-of-the-valley
Lily-of-the-valleyConvallaria majalis596 recordsIvar Leidus · CC BY-SA 4.0
Hairy woodrush
Hairy woodrushLuzula pilosa577 recordsDaderot · Public domain
Common Ivy
Common IvyHedera helix569 recordskallerna · 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).

  • 60%Treesof the land within 3 km
  • 59%Wildno towns or farmland within 10 km
  • 1,163Speciesrecorded more than once within 5 km
  • 133 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. Jan5°-1°70 mm
  2. Feb6°-1°63 mm
  3. Mar10°1°59 mm
  4. Apr14°4°42 mm
  5. May18°8°61 mm
  6. Jun21°11°65 mm
  7. Jul23°13°72 mm
  8. Aug22°13°78 mm
  9. Sep19°10°53 mm
  10. Oct15°7°62 mm
  11. Nov9°3°70 mm
  12. Dec5°0°79 mm
  • Bar: walking comfort; the number on top is the average maximum.
  • Below: average minimum (NASA, 1991–2020).
  • Rain: monthly total.

The place

Halle Forest.

Forest in Belgium

Halle Forest is a forest in Belgium.

Seen from space, 60% of the land within 3 km is trees, and 59% of the land within 10 km has no towns or farmland.

1,163 species have been recorded around it: 968 plants, 10 fungi, 164 birds and 21 mammals.

The most recorded plants are: Common Bluebell, Wood Anemone and Yellow Archangel.

The best time to walk is in September.

Hallerbos20070421
David Edgar · 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.

Halle 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

  • 36marked trails within 5 kmGRP 127 Tour du Brabant Wallon, Vieux Chemin de Nivelles, GR 12 Connection GR 512 and 33 more
  • 6named and notable trees within 6 kmIf de la décapitation, Hoed van Napoleon, Arbre du 30e anniversaire de la libération des camps and 3 more
  • 85picnic sites within 4 km
  • 116shelters and huts within 6 kmDuivelsbrug and 115 more
  • 13viewpoints within 5 kmZicht op Brussel, Malakofftoren and 11 more
  • 3visitor centres within 6 kmOffice du Tourisme de Braine-le-Château, Toerisme Halle
  • 108car parks within 3 km
  • 3campsites within 10 kmCamping Oasis, Parking Suikerkaai, Camping des Acacias
  • 47places to stay within 10 kmB&B De Notelaar, B&B Hof ter Kouter, B&B Plattestien and 44 more
  • 22restaurants 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 Halle 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.

Peakyas24 mountains within 25 km
Bruine Put120 m · 3.2 kmFlotsenberg102 m · 12 kmMont aux Potences - Galgenberg81 m · 15 kmIJzeren Man112 m · 15 kmCoudenberg - Koudenberg16 kmKoekelberg70 m · 18 kmCongoberg21 kmKorenberg35 m · 24 km
Darkskyas4 dark-sky places within 30 km
Beersel Hills ObservatoryBortle 8 · 5.9 kmRoyal Observatory of BelgiumBortle 8 · 11 kmformer observatory of BrusselsBortle 9 · 17 kmBrussels PlanetariumBortle 9 · 21 km

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

Photographs

The forest, as people saw it.

Anemones in Hallerbos Belgium
Sally V · CC BY-SA 4.0
Halle - Hallerbos
Maaike · CC BY 4.0
Hallerbos2
JhowieNitnek · CC BY-SA 4.0

Other forests nearby.

Halle Forest

Belgium

  • 61Forestyas Score
  • 60%Trees
  • 59%Wild
  • 1,163Species

Sonian Forest

Belgium · 13 km

  • 76Forestyas Score
  • 80%Trees
  • 71%Wild
  • 1,917Species

See the guide

Forêt de Mormal

France · 69 km

  • 80Forestyas Score
  • 91%Trees
  • 76%Wild
  • 1,164Species

See the guide

Meerdaal

Belgium · 30 km

  • 66Forestyas Score
  • 72%Trees
  • 55%Wild
  • 1,500Species

See the guide

Where these figures come from

Name and typeWikidata (Q1338732) · CC0
Land coverESA WorldCover 10 m 2021 v200 · © ESA WorldCover project / Copernicus Sentinel data · CC BY 4.0
Species111,953 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, Darkskyas

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

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