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Prior Park Landscape Garden

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50% trees around it and 1,514 species recorded.

68Forestyas Score

ProtectedFungiBirdsWildlife

  • trees within 3 km50%
  • wild within 10 km74%
  • species recorded1,514
  • Altitude89 m

The forest around

50% 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 61%Grassland 28%Built-up 11%Trees 49%Grassland 30%Water 0%Cropland 2%Built-up 19%Trees 34%Grassland 43%Cropland 17%Built-up 6%Trees 21%Grassland 51%Cropland 26%Built-up 3%50%trees · 3 km

Trees, ring by ring

  • 0–1 km61%
  • 1–3 km49%
  • 3–6 km34%
  • 6–10 km21%

What covers the land (1–3 km)

  • Trees49%
  • Grassland30%
  • Water0%
  • Cropland2%
  • Built-up19%

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

1,514 species recorded.

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

Green alkanet
Green alkanetPentaglottis sempervirens216 recordsLuis Fernández García · CC BY-SA 3.0
Pedunculate Oak
Pedunculate OakQuercus robur194 recordsAlgirdas at Lithuanian Wikipedia · Public domain
Hart's-tongue
Hart's-tongueAsplenium scolopendrium162 recordsErwin Gruber from Frohnleiten, Österreich, Steiermark · CC BY-SA 2.0
Ground-ivy
Ground-ivyGlechoma hederacea139 recordsAnRo0002 · CC0
Garlic Mustard
Garlic MustardAlliaria petiolata136 recordsO. Pichard · CC BY-SA 3.0
Traveller's-joy
Traveller's-joyClematis vitalba130 recordsMichael Gasperl ( Migas ) · CC BY-SA 3.0
Himalayan Balsam
Himalayan BalsamImpatiens glandulifera128 recordsGuptaele · CC BY-SA 4.0
Lesser Celandine
Lesser CelandineFicaria verna128 recordsAnRo0002 · CC0
Ramsons
RamsonsAllium ursinum127 recordsAgnes Monkelbaan · CC BY-SA 4.0
European Beech
European BeechFagus sylvatica123 recordsMalene Thyssen · CC BY-SA 3.0
Cobnut
CobnutCorylus avellana118 recordsMPF · CC BY-SA 3.0
Pyramidal orchid
Pyramidal orchidAnacamptis pyramidalis117 recordsDidier Descouens · 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.

68out of 100

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

  • 50%Treesof the land within 3 km
  • 74%Wildno towns or farmland within 10 km
  • 1,514Speciesrecorded more than once within 5 km
  • 89 mAltitudeabove the sea

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.

  1. Jan7°2°76 mm
  2. Feb7°2°60 mm
  3. Mar10°2°60 mm
  4. Apr13°4°50 mm
  5. May16°8°60 mm
  6. Jun19°11°62 mm
  7. Jul22°12°68 mm
  8. Aug21°12°72 mm
  9. Sep19°10°50 mm
  10. Oct15°8°83 mm
  11. Nov10°5°86 mm
  12. Dec8°3°84 mm
  • Bar: walking comfort; the number on top is the average maximum.
  • Below: average minimum (NASA, 1991–2020).
  • Rain: monthly total.

The place

Prior Park Landscape Garden.

Grade I listed garden in Bath, United Kingdom

Prior Park Landscape Garden is a protected forest in United Kingdom.

Seen from space, 50% of the land within 3 km is trees, and 74% of the land within 10 km has no towns or farmland.

1,514 species have been recorded around it: 1,000 plants, 354 fungi, 127 birds and 33 mammals.

The most recorded plants are: Green alkanet, Pedunculate Oak and Hart's-tongue.

The best time to walk is in June and in September.

Prior Park Bath Palladian Bridge
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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.

Prior Park Landscape Garden 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

  • 6marked trails within 5 kmCotswold Way, Macmillan Way, Bath Skyline Walk and 3 more
  • 6named and notable trees within 6 kmJubilee Oak and 5 more
  • 127picnic sites within 4 km
  • 19shelters and huts within 6 km
  • 16viewpoints within 5 kmSouth Stoke Millenium Viewpoint and 15 more
  • 1visitor centres within 6 kmBath Climate Hub
  • 305car parks within 3 km
  • 15campsites within 10 kmBath Marina & Caravan Park, The Blackberries Camping Park, Penn Hill CL Site and 12 more
  • 143places to stay within 10 kmWhite Guest House, Brindleys, Appletree Guest House and 140 more
  • 296restaurants 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 Prior Park Landscape Garden.

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.

Peakyas8 mountains within 25 km
Lodge Hill16 kmKnowle Hill112 m · 18 kmCley Hill20 kmPurdown20 kmBrandon Hill76 m · 21 kmDundry Hill223 m · 21 kmPen Hill305 m · 24 kmKing's Play Hill24 km
Islandyasthe island
Great Britain228,938 km²
Viewyas1 viewpoints within 15 kmComing soon
Beckford's Tower and Museum5.0 km
Cavernyas2 caves within 20 km
Stoke Lane Slocker18 kmShatter Cave19 km
Riveryasthe river nearby
River TrymNew Cut

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

Photographs

The forest, as people saw it.

Cascade - Prior Park - Bath, England - DSC09735
Daderot · Public domain
Grotto ruins - Prior Park - Bath, England - DSC09723
Daderot · Public domain
Palladian Wide Swan
Saffron Blaze · CC BY-SA 3.0

Other forests nearby.

Prior Park Landscape Garden

United Kingdom

  • 68Forestyas Score
  • 50%Trees
  • 74%Wild
  • 1,514Species

Forest of Dean

United Kingdom · 49 km

  • 86Forestyas Score
  • 96%Trees
  • 87%Wild
  • 2,082Species

See the guide

New Forest

United Kingdom · 76 km

  • 89Forestyas Score
  • 83%Trees
  • 98%Wild
  • 2,114Species

See the guide

Wentwood

United Kingdom · 45 km

  • 67Forestyas Score
  • 50%Trees
  • 85%Wild
  • 1,163Species

See the guide

Where these figures come from

Name and typeWikidata (Q2743722) · CC0
Land coverESA WorldCover 10 m 2021 v200 · © ESA WorldCover project / Copernicus Sentinel data · CC BY 4.0
Species111,171 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, Islandyas, Viewyas, Cavernyas, Riveryas

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

The family

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