United Kingdom arboretum
Kew Gardens
Eddie Johnston · CC BY-SA 4.0
36% trees around it and 1,712 species recorded.
- trees within 3 km36%
- wild within 10 km49%
- species recorded1,712
The forest around
36% 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, ring by ring
- 0–1 km52%
- 1–3 km34%
- 3–6 km34%
- 6–10 km28%
What covers the land (1–3 km)
- Trees34%
- Grassland15%
- Water3%
- Cropland0%
- Built-up48%
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
1,712 species recorded.
The plants, fungi, birds and mammals people have recorded here most often.
NT
VU
Open records within 2 km (GBIF, licensed for any use). Busy places are better recorded than remote ones.
In numbers
The forest, measured.
Our own rating, from open data only: tree cover (40 points), wildness (20), species recorded (30) and protection or heritage (10).
- 36%Treesof the land within 3 km
- 49%Wildno towns or farmland within 10 km
- 1,712Speciesrecorded more than once within 2 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.
- Jan2°65 mm
- Feb1°54 mm
- Mar2°50 mm
- Apr4°42 mm
- May7°55 mm
- Jun10°56 mm
- Jul13°60 mm
- Aug12°66 mm
- Sep10°44 mm
- Oct8°74 mm
- Nov4°74 mm
- Dec2°71 mm
- Bar: walking comfort; the number on top is the average maximum.
- Below: average minimum (NASA, 1991–2020).
- Rain: monthly total.
The place
Kew Gardens.
Botanical garden and world's largest collection of living plants in the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames
Kew Gardens is an arboretum in United Kingdom.
Seen from space, 36% of the land within 3 km is trees, and 49% of the land within 10 km has no towns or farmland.
1,712 species have been recorded around it: 976 plants, 595 fungi, 127 birds and 14 mammals.
The most recorded plants are: Green alkanet, Smyrnium perfoliatum and Sycamore.
The best time to walk is in June and in September.
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 · 4 within 10 km
- Ealing Guest Houseplace to stay · 2.8 km · 834 within 10 km
- Kewnearest town · 0.5 km in a straight line
- London Heathrow Airport (LHR)nearest airport with scheduled flights · 12 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.
Around, in OpenStreetMap
- 28marked trails within 5 kmBeverley Brook Walk, London LOOP (Section 9), Hanwell & Norwood Green Orchard Trail and 25 more
- 196named and notable trees within 6 kmRavenscourt Park Tree of Heaven, The Crane Park Crack Willow, Fulham Palace Oak and 193 more
- 96picnic sites within 4 km
- 125shelters and huts within 6 km
- 13viewpoints within 5 kmKing Henry VIII's Mound, Meridian Line Marker, Syon Outlook and 10 more
- 2visitor centres within 6 kmVisitor Information Centre, The River Thames Visitor Centre
- 407car parks within 3 km
- 4campsites within 10 km1st Malden Scout Group Grounds, Girl Guides Marion Hill House Group Grounds, Apps Court Camping and 1 more
- 834places to stay within 10 kmEaling Guest House, Chiswick Lodge Hotel, Best Western and 831 more
- 445restaurants 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 Kew Gardens.
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.
Peakyas16 mountains within 25 kmRichmond Hill2.9 kmCampden Hill7.2 kmPrimrose Hill65 m · 11 kmParliament Hill95 m · 13 kmLudgate Hill18 m · 14 kmTower Hill14 m · 15 kmDuppas Hill18 kmBox Hill224 m · 25 km
Lakeyas8 lakes within 15 kmLonsdale Road Reservoir0.3 km² · 4.2 kmBrent Reservoir0.6 km² · 11 kmKnight Reservoir0.6 km² · 11 kmIsland Barn Reservoir0.6 km² · 11 kmQueen Elizabeth II Reservoir1.5 km² · 12 kmQueen Mary Reservoir3.1 km² · 14 kmStaines Reservoirs1.0 km² · 14 kmKing George VI Reservoir1.6 km² · 15 km
Darkskyas6 dark-sky places within 30 kmKew ObservatoryBortle 9 · 1.8 kmNortholt Branch ObservatoriesBortle 9 · 10 kmBishop ObservatoryBortle 9 · 11 kmUCL ObservatoryBortle 9 · 15 kmRoyal ObservatoryBortle 9 · 20 km↗Observatory HouseBortle 8 · 21 km
Viewyas5 viewpoints within 15 kmComing soonQueen's Tower8.4 km↗Watkin's Tower8.6 km↗Primrose Hill65 m · 11 kmLondon Eye12 km↗The View from The Shard15 km↗
Cascadyas1 waterfalls within 15 kmWaterfall in Queen Mary's Gardens in London11 km
Riveryasthe river nearbyRiver Thames334 km · 66 m³/s↗River 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.
Other forests nearby.
Kew Gardens
United Kingdom
- 56Forestyas Score
- 36%Trees
- 49%Wild
- 1,712Species
Where these figures come from
| Name and type | Wikidata (Q188617) · CC0 |
|---|---|
| Land cover | ESA WorldCover 10 m 2021 v200 · © ESA WorldCover project / Copernicus Sentinel data · CC BY 4.0 |
| Species | 49,960 open records within 2 km (GBIF, CC0 and CC BY 4.0 only) |
| See these records | gbif.org |
| Names and photos | Wikidata (CC0); GBIF Backbone Taxonomy · CC BY 4.0; Wikimedia Commons |
| Altitude | Copernicus DEM GLO-30 · © DLR e.V., © Airbus Defence and Space GmbH, Copernicus/ESA |
| Temperature and rain | NASA POWER (CERES SYN1deg, 2001–2020; MERRA-2) |
| What is around | © OpenStreetMap contributors · ODbL |
| Images | EOX Sentinel-2 cloudless 2016 · CC BY 4.0; Wikimedia Commons |
| Sister atlases | Peakyas, 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.
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