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Paimpont forest

Suzelfe · CC BY-SA 3.0

82% trees around it and 855 species recorded.

78Forestyas Score

ForestBirdsWildlife

  • trees within 3 km82%
  • wild within 10 km77%
  • species recorded855
  • Altitude158 m

The forest around

82% 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 73%Grassland 9%Water 9%Cropland 3%Built-up 6%Trees 84%Grassland 8%Water 1%Cropland 7%Built-up 0%Trees 65%Grassland 17%Water 1%Cropland 15%Built-up 2%Trees 53%Grassland 19%Water 0%Cropland 26%Built-up 2%82%trees · 3 km

Trees, ring by ring

  • 0–1 km73%
  • 1–3 km84%
  • 3–6 km65%
  • 6–10 km53%

What covers the land (1–3 km)

  • Trees84%
  • Grassland8%
  • Water1%
  • Cropland7%
  • 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

855 species recorded.

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

Lathraea clandestina
Lathraea clandestinaLathraea clandestina237 recordsMeneerke bloem · CC BY-SA 3.0
European Beech
European BeechFagus sylvatica170 recordsMalene Thyssen · CC BY-SA 3.0
Gorse
GorseUlex europaeus154 recordsForest & Kim Starr · CC BY 3.0
English holly
English hollyIlex aquifolium142 recordsUnknown author · Public domain
Whortleberry
WhortleberryVaccinium myrtillus141 recordsUnknown author · CC BY-SA 3.0
Hard Fern
Hard FernStruthiopteris spicant138 recordsSABENCIA Guillermo César Ruiz · CC BY-SA 4.0
Purple moor-grass
Purple moor-grassMolinia caerulea137 recordsElke Freese · CC BY-SA 3.0
Bracken
BrackenPteridium aquilinum124 recordsStefan.lefnaer · CC BY-SA 4.0
Common Broom
Common BroomCytisus scoparius118 recordsUnknown author · Public domain
Pedunculate Oak
Pedunculate OakQuercus robur117 recordsAlgirdas at Lithuanian Wikipedia · Public domain
Alder Buckthorn
Alder BuckthornFrangula alnus116 recordsOldMuzzle · CC BY-SA 3.0
Woodland germander
Woodland germanderTeucrium scorodonia114 recordsFrank Vincentz · CC BY-SA 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.

78out of 100

Our own rating, from open data only: tree cover (40 points), wildness (20), species recorded (30) and protection or heritage (10).

  • 82%Treesof the land within 3 km
  • 77%Wildno towns or farmland within 10 km
  • 855Speciesrecorded more than once within 5 km
  • 158 mAltitudeabove the sea

When to walk

Best for walking in May.

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

  1. Jan8°2°69 mm
  2. Feb9°2°58 mm
  3. Mar12°3°57 mm
  4. Apr16°5°46 mm
  5. May19°8°58 mm
  6. Jun22°12°50 mm
  7. Jul24°13°48 mm
  8. Aug24°13°47 mm
  9. Sep22°11°42 mm
  10. Oct17°8°75 mm
  11. Nov12°5°77 mm
  12. Dec8°3°80 mm
  • Bar: walking comfort; the number on top is the average maximum.
  • Below: average minimum (NASA, 1991–2020).
  • Rain: monthly total.

The place

Paimpont forest.

Forest in the French commune of Paimpont, Brittany

Paimpont forest is a forest in France.

Seen from space, 82% of the land within 3 km is trees, and 77% of the land within 10 km has no towns or farmland.

855 species have been recorded around it: 667 plants, 10 fungi, 140 birds and 38 mammals.

The most recorded plants are: Lathraea clandestina, European Beech and Gorse.

The best time to walk is in May.

Forêt de brocéliande
Suzelfe · 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.

Paimpont 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

  • 9marked trails within 5 kmLa Clairière de Saint-Péran (ouest), Tour de Brocéliande, partie nord, Tour de Brocéliande, variante 7 Chemins - Marette and 6 more
  • 5named and notable trees within 6 kmHêtre des Voyageurs, Chêne à Guillotin, Chêne des Hindrés and 2 more
  • 9picnic sites within 4 km
  • 4shelters and huts within 6 kmThelhouët, Petite Chenaie, Préau and 2 more
  • 1visitor centres within 6 kmOffice de tourisme de Paimpont
  • 22car parks within 3 km
  • 11campsites within 10 kmAire de services de Paimpont, Camping municipal Paimpont, Aire de camping-car de Beignon and 8 more
  • 13places to stay within 10 kmLe Relais de Brocéliande, Gîte L’Orée, Le Manoir du Tertre and 10 more
  • 8restaurants and cafés within 3 km
  • viewpoints within 5 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 Paimpont 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.

Lakeyas1 lakes within 15 km
Étang de Trémelin0.3 km² · 14 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.

La Voie Royale (58407064)
Philippe Manguin · CC BY 3.0
Forges de Paimpont04
Raphodon · CC BY-SA 3.0
La forêt de Brocéliande en automne - 01
Thérèse Gaigé · CC BY-SA 4.0

Other forests nearby.

Paimpont forest

France

  • 78Forestyas Score
  • 82%Trees
  • 77%Wild
  • 855Species

Fougères Forest

France · 85 km

  • 63Forestyas Score
  • 67%Trees
  • 59%Wild
  • 765Species

See the guide

Forêt d'Écouves

France · 175 km

  • 78Forestyas Score
  • 96%Trees
  • 75%Wild
  • 771Species

See the guide

Forêt du Cranou

France · 147 km

  • 65Forestyas Score
  • 61%Trees
  • 73%Wild
  • 651Species

See the guide

Where these figures come from

Name and typeWikidata (Q924045) · CC0
Land coverESA WorldCover 10 m 2021 v200 · © ESA WorldCover project / Copernicus Sentinel data · CC BY 4.0
Species24,083 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 atlasesLakeyas

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

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