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Studley Royal Park

silver_doctor . Iain Gilmour - www.silverexpressions.co.uk · CC BY 2.0

24% trees around it and 1,169 species recorded.

  • trees within 3 km24%
  • wild within 10 km69%
  • species recorded1,169
  • Altitude68 m

The forest around

24% 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 34%Grassland 54%Water 1%Cropland 10%Built-up 0%Trees 22%Grassland 44%Water 0%Cropland 30%Built-up 3%Trees 21%Grassland 52%Water 1%Cropland 22%Built-up 4%Trees 16%Grassland 51%Water 0%Cropland 32%Built-up 1%24%trees · 3 km

Trees, ring by ring

  • 0–1 km34%
  • 1–3 km22%
  • 3–6 km21%
  • 6–10 km16%

What covers the land (1–3 km)

  • Trees22%
  • Grassland44%
  • Water0%
  • Cropland30%
  • Built-up3%

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

1,169 species recorded.

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

Himalayan Balsam
Himalayan BalsamImpatiens glandulifera132 recordsGuptaele · CC BY-SA 4.0
Cock's-foot
Cock's-footDactylis glomerata85 recordsAnRo0002 · CC0
Creeping buttercup
Creeping buttercupRanunculus repens83 recordsUnknown author · CC BY-SA 3.0
Creeping Thistle
Creeping ThistleCirsium arvense80 recordsAnRo0002 · CC0
Common Hawthorn
Common HawthornCrataegus monogyna78 recordsUnknown author · CC BY-SA 3.0
Broad-leaved dock
Broad-leaved dockRumex obtusifolius77 recordsAyotte, Gilles, 1948- · CC BY-SA 4.0
Stickywilly
StickywillyGalium aparine77 recordsAlvesgaspar · CC BY-SA 3.0
Timothy
TimothyPhleum pratense77 recordsBlokenearexeter · CC0
Queen of the meadow
Queen of the meadowFilipendula ulmaria76 recordsUnknown author · Public domain
Spear Thistle
Spear ThistleCirsium vulgare76 recordsSciadopitys from UK · CC BY-SA 2.0
Sycamore
SycamoreAcer pseudoplatanus76 recordsChristian Pirkl · CC BY-SA 3.0 at
Hogweed
HogweedHeracleum sphondylium75 recordsUnknown author · 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.

58out of 100

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

  • 24%Treesof the land within 3 km
  • 69%Wildno towns or farmland within 10 km
  • 1,169Speciesrecorded more than once within 5 km
  • 68 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.

  1. Jan5°1°86 mm
  2. Feb5°0°71 mm
  3. Mar7°1°67 mm
  4. Apr11°3°60 mm
  5. May14°6°70 mm
  6. Jun17°9°92 mm
  7. Jul19°11°97 mm
  8. Aug18°10°106 mm
  9. Sep16°8°77 mm
  10. Oct12°6°96 mm
  11. Nov8°3°93 mm
  12. Dec5°1°92 mm
  • Bar: walking comfort; the number on top is the average maximum.
  • Below: average minimum (NASA, 1991–2020).
  • Rain: monthly total.

The place

Studley Royal Park.

18th Century water garden in Yorkshire, England, UK

Studley Royal Park is a protected forest in United Kingdom.

Seen from space, 24% of the land within 3 km is trees, and 69% of the land within 10 km has no towns or farmland.

1,169 species have been recorded around it: 752 plants, 258 fungi, 135 birds and 24 mammals.

The most recorded plants are: Himalayan Balsam, Cock's-foot and Creeping buttercup.

The best time to walk is in July.

Studley Royal, Ripon
silver_doctor . Iain Gilmour - www.silverexpressions.co.uk · CC BY 2.0

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.

Studley Royal Park 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

  • 18marked trails within 5 kmRipon Rowel Walk, Ripon Sanctuary Way, Aislabie Walk and 15 more
  • 10picnic sites within 4 km
  • 13shelters and huts within 6 kmAnne Boleyn's Seat, Cabmen's Shelter, Fishing pavilion and 10 more
  • 2viewpoints within 5 kmSurprise View, Tent Hill
  • 1visitor centres within 6 km
  • 40car parks within 3 km
  • 21campsites within 10 kmRiver Laver Holiday Park Ltd., Copper Beech Glade, Woodhouse Farm and 18 more
  • 31places to stay within 10 kmThe Chorister's House, West Gate Lodge, Abbey Cottage and 28 more
  • 4restaurants and cafés within 3 km
  • named and notable trees within 6 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 Studley Royal Park.

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.

Peakyas5 mountains within 25 km
Great Alms Cliff20 kmSimon's Seat485 m · 22 kmGreat Haw22 kmMeugher575 m · 24 kmEarl Seat24 km
Lakeyas1 lakes within 15 km
Gouthwaite Reservoir1.0 km² · 14 km
Viewyas1 viewpoints within 15 kmComing soon
Azerley Tower5.4 km
Cavernyas4 caves within 20 km
Mother Shipton's Cave14 kmChapel of Our Lady of the Crag14 kmSt Robert's Cave and Chapel of the Holy Cross15 kmStump Cross Caverns20 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.

Weir walkway - Studley Royal Park - North Yorkshire, England - DSC00801
Daderot · Public domain
Water Garden and Tower
Unknown author · CC BY-SA 2.5
Exposed tree roots, Studley Royal, Ripon, England
Rosser1954 · CC BY-SA 4.0

Other forests nearby.

Studley Royal Park

United Kingdom

  • 58Forestyas Score
  • 24%Trees
  • 69%Wild
  • 1,169Species

Grizedale Forest

United Kingdom · 98 km

  • 84Forestyas Score
  • 75%Trees
  • 99%Wild
  • 1,093Species

See the guide

Dalby Forest

United Kingdom · 62 km

  • 72Forestyas Score
  • 75%Trees
  • 67%Wild
  • 1,180Species

See the guide

Kielder Forest

United Kingdom · 136 km

  • 77Forestyas Score
  • 63%Trees
  • 100%Wild
  • 832Species

See the guide

Where these figures come from

Name and typeWikidata (Q259173) · CC0
Land coverESA WorldCover 10 m 2021 v200 · © ESA WorldCover project / Copernicus Sentinel data · CC BY 4.0
Species26,147 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, Lakeyas, Viewyas, Canyonyas, Cavernyas

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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