United Kingdom arboretum
Lost Gardens of Heligan
Chris Wood ( User:chris_j_wood ). · CC BY-SA 3.0
23% trees around it and 700 species recorded.
- trees within 3 km23%
- wild within 10 km85%
- species recorded700
- Altitude99 m
The forest around
23% 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 km30%
- 1–3 km22%
- 3–6 km16%
- 6–10 km15%
What covers the land (1–3 km)
- Trees22%
- Grassland51%
- Water8%
- Cropland17%
- Built-up2%
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
700 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).
- 23%Treesof the land within 3 km
- 85%Wildno towns or farmland within 10 km
- 700Speciesrecorded more than once within 2 km
- 99 mAltitudeabove the sea
When to walk
Best for walking from July to September.
How good each month is for a walk: mild days and little rain make the bar taller.
- Jan7°118 mm
- Feb6°92 mm
- Mar6°83 mm
- Apr8°66 mm
- May10°67 mm
- Jun13°74 mm
- Jul15°88 mm
- Aug15°90 mm
- Sep14°68 mm
- Oct12°117 mm
- Nov10°128 mm
- Dec8°124 mm
- Bar: walking comfort; the number on top is the average maximum.
- Below: average minimum (NASA, 1991–2020).
- Rain: monthly total.
The place
Lost Gardens of Heligan.
Botanical garden in Cornwall, England, UK
Lost Gardens of Heligan is an arboretum in United Kingdom.
Seen from space, 23% of the land within 3 km is trees, and 85% of the land within 10 km has no towns or farmland.
700 species have been recorded around it: 430 plants, 203 fungi, 64 birds and 3 mammals.
The most recorded plants are: Chilean gunnera, Common Ivy and English holly.
The best time to walk is from July to September.
Get there and walk
- Visitingticket requiredOfficial site↗
- Pentewan Sandscampsite · 2.0 km · 37 within 10 km
- Tregorran Guest Houseplace to stay · 2.3 km · 69 within 10 km
- Mevagisseynearest town · 2.0 km in a straight line
- Cornwall Airport Newquay (NQY)nearest airport with scheduled flights · 22 km in a straight lineCar hire at NQY airport (Newquay)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
- 3marked trails within 5 kmSouth West Coast Path (Section 31: Portloe to Mevagissey), South West Coast Path (Section 32: Mevagissey to Par), South West Coast Path (Diversion West of Charlestown)
- 2named and notable trees within 6 kmHide Park Corner
- 6picnic sites within 4 km
- 12shelters and huts within 6 km
- 4viewpoints within 5 km
- 3visitor centres within 6 kmVisitor Information, St. Austell Bay Tourist Information Centre, Charlestown QAVS Visitor Centre
- 35car parks within 3 km
- 37campsites within 10 kmPentewan Sands, Pensagillas Farm, Meadow Lakes Holiday Park and 34 more
- 69places to stay within 10 kmTregorran Guest House, Trennicks, Corner House Loft and 66 more
- 23restaurants 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 Lost Gardens of Heligan.
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.
Peakyas6 mountains within 25 km
Darkskyas1 dark-sky places within 30 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.
Lost Gardens of Heligan
United Kingdom
- 55Forestyas Score
- 23%Trees
- 85%Wild
- 700Species
Where these figures come from
| Name and type | Wikidata (Q931457) · CC0 |
|---|---|
| Land cover | ESA WorldCover 10 m 2021 v200 · © ESA WorldCover project / Copernicus Sentinel data · CC BY 4.0 |
| Species | 5,508 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, Coastya, Darkskyas |
Every figure is an average, an estimate or a count from a public dataset. Licences and methods: data sources.
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