United Kingdom notable tree
Sycamore Gap Tree
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6% trees around it and 618 species recorded.
- trees within 3 km6%
- wild within 10 km98%
- species recorded618
- Altitude255 m
The forest around
6% 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 km2%
- 1–3 km6%
- 3–6 km23%
- 6–10 km22%
What covers the land (1–3 km)
- Trees6%
- Grassland92%
- Water2%
- Cropland0%
- 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
618 species recorded.
The plants, fungi, birds and mammals people have recorded here most often.
VU
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).
- 6%Treesof the land within 3 km
- 98%Wildno towns or farmland within 10 km
- 618Speciesrecorded more than once within 2 km
- 255 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.
- Jan0°90 mm
- Feb0°74 mm
- Mar1°70 mm
- Apr3°61 mm
- May5°72 mm
- Jun8°94 mm
- Jul10°108 mm
- Aug10°118 mm
- Sep8°82 mm
- Oct6°106 mm
- Nov3°96 mm
- Dec1°95 mm
- Bar: walking comfort; the number on top is the average maximum.
- Below: average minimum (NASA, 1991–2020).
- Rain: monthly total.
The place
Sycamore Gap Tree.
Photogenic tree located in Northumberland, England, felled 28 September 2023
Sycamore Gap Tree is a notable tree in United Kingdom, 255 m above the sea.
Seen from space, 6% of the land within 3 km is trees, and 98% of the land within 10 km has no towns or farmland.
618 species have been recorded around it: 367 plants, 166 fungi, 84 birds and 1 mammals.
The most recorded plants are: American Waterweed, Heather and Queen of the meadow.
The best time to walk is in July.
Get there and walk
- Winshields Farm Campsitecampsite · 1.9 km · 9 within 10 km
- Peel Cottageplace to stay · 0.9 km · 26 within 10 km
- Bardon Millnearest town · 3.7 km in a straight line
- Newcastle International Airport (NCL)nearest airport with scheduled flights · 44 km in a straight lineCar hire at NCL airport (Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear)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
- 5marked trails within 5 kmHadrian's Wall Path, Pennine Way (Middleton in Teesdale to Kirk Yetholm), Steel Rigg & Hadrians Wall Walk and 2 more
- 122named and notable trees within 6 km
- 7picnic sites within 4 kmBardon Mill Village Green and 6 more
- 7shelters and huts within 6 kmHaughtongreen and 6 more
- 4viewpoints within 5 kmviewpoint near Steel Rigg, Steel Rigg, Greenlee Meadows and 1 more
- 1visitor centres within 6 kmHousesteads Visitor Centre
- 14car parks within 3 km
- 9campsites within 10 kmWinshields Farm Campsite, Hadrian's Wall Campsite, Herding Hill Farm Camping and 6 more
- 26places to stay within 10 kmPeel Cottage, Spingwell Cottage, YHA The Sill and 23 more
- 2restaurants 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 Sycamore Gap Tree.
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.
Peakyas7 mountains within 25 km
Lakeyas2 lakes within 15 km
Darkskyas2 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.
Sycamore Gap Tree
United Kingdom
- 49Forestyas Score
- 6%Trees
- 98%Wild
- 618Species
Where these figures come from
| Name and type | Wikidata (Q55885851) · CC0 |
|---|---|
| Land cover | ESA WorldCover 10 m 2021 v200 · © ESA WorldCover project / Copernicus Sentinel data · CC BY 4.0 |
| Species | 5,598 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, Darkskyas |
Every figure is an average, an estimate or a count from a public dataset. Licences and methods: data sources.
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