United Kingdom notable tree
Llangernyw Yew
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17% trees around it and 179 species recorded.
- trees within 3 km17%
- wild within 10 km98%
- species recorded179
- Altitude150 m
The forest around
17% 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 km16%
- 1–3 km18%
- 3–6 km14%
- 6–10 km16%
What covers the land (1–3 km)
- Trees18%
- Grassland82%
- Water0%
- Cropland1%
- 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
179 species recorded.
The plants, fungi, birds and mammals people have recorded here most often.
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).
- 17%Treesof the land within 3 km
- 98%Wildno towns or farmland within 10 km
- 179Speciesrecorded more than once within 2 km
- 150 mAltitudeabove the sea
When to walk
Best for walking in July.
How good each month is for a walk: mild days and little rain make the bar taller.
- Jan2°126 mm
- Feb2°104 mm
- Mar2°94 mm
- Apr4°77 mm
- May7°87 mm
- Jun10°99 mm
- Jul11°112 mm
- Aug11°119 mm
- Sep10°108 mm
- Oct8°135 mm
- Nov5°142 mm
- Dec3°148 mm
- Bar: walking comfort; the number on top is the average maximum.
- Below: average minimum (NASA, 1991–2020).
- Rain: monthly total.
The place
Llangernyw Yew.
Yew in Wales; one of the world's oldest known European Yews
Llangernyw Yew is a notable tree in United Kingdom.
Seen from space, 17% of the land within 3 km is trees, and 98% of the land within 10 km has no towns or farmland.
179 species have been recorded around it: 173 plants, 0 fungi, 2 birds and 4 mammals.
The most recorded plants are: Spreading Bent, Hemlock Water-dropwort and Climbing Nightshade.
The best time to walk is in July.
Get there and walk
- Glan y Gorscampsite · 3.8 km · 49 within 10 km
- Ffarm Country Houseplace to stay · 6.7 km · 31 within 10 km
- Llanrwstnearest town · 9.4 km in a straight line
- Liverpool John Lennon Airport (LPL)nearest airport with scheduled flights · 58 km in a straight lineCar hire at LPL airport (Liverpool)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
- 1named and notable trees within 6 kmLangernyw Yew
- 1shelters and huts within 6 km
- 2car parks within 3 km
- 49campsites within 10 kmGlan y Gors, Maes-y-Bryn, Tan Rallt Caravan Park and 46 more
- 31places to stay within 10 kmFfarm Country House, Maenan Abbey, Plas Maenan and 28 more
- marked trails within 5 km
- picnic sites within 4 km
- viewpoints within 5 km
- 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.
In our other atlases
Around Llangernyw Yew.
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.
Peakyas246 mountains within 25 km
Lakeyas4 lakes within 15 km
Cascadyas6 waterfalls within 15 kmFigures 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.
Llangernyw Yew
United Kingdom
- 50Forestyas Score
- 17%Trees
- 98%Wild
- 179Species
Where these figures come from
| Name and type | Wikidata (Q4463960) · CC0 |
|---|---|
| Land cover | ESA WorldCover 10 m 2021 v200 · © ESA WorldCover project / Copernicus Sentinel data · CC BY 4.0 |
| Species | 617 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, Birdyas, Cavernyas, Cascadyas |
Every figure is an average, an estimate or a count from a public dataset. Licences and methods: data sources.
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