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Tillegembos

Hans Hillewaert · CC BY-SA 4.0

55% trees around it and 1,303 species recorded.

59Forestyas Score

ForestFungiBirdsWildlife

  • trees within 3 km55%
  • wild within 10 km60%
  • species recorded1,303

The forest around

55% 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 86%Grassland 10%Cropland 0%Built-up 3%Trees 51%Grassland 17%Water 1%Cropland 6%Built-up 25%Trees 29%Grassland 29%Wetland 0%Water 1%Cropland 18%Built-up 23%Trees 18%Grassland 39%Wetland 0%Water 1%Cropland 31%Built-up 10%55%trees · 3 km

Trees, ring by ring

  • 0–1 km86%
  • 1–3 km51%
  • 3–6 km29%
  • 6–10 km18%

What covers the land (1–3 km)

  • Trees51%
  • Grassland17%
  • Wetland0%
  • Water1%
  • Cropland6%
  • Built-up25%

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

1,303 species recorded.

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

Common buttercup
Common buttercupRanunculus acris639 recordsAlinja · CC BY-SA 4.0
Silverweed
SilverweedArgentina anserina633 recordsKyle Nessen · CC0
Creeping buttercup
Creeping buttercupRanunculus repens600 recordsUnknown author · CC BY-SA 3.0
Brown sedge
Brown sedgeCarex disticha586 recordsKristian Peters -- Fabelfroh 09:37, 23 July 2006 (UTC) · CC BY-SA 3.0
Ribwort plantain
Ribwort plantainPlantago lanceolata567 recordssannse · CC BY-SA 3.0
Cuckoo flower
Cuckoo flowerCardamine pratensis562 recordsUnknown author · CC BY-SA 3.0
Yorkshire-fog
Yorkshire-fogHolcus lanatus553 recordsRasbak · CC BY-SA 3.0
Common Sorrel
Common SorrelRumex acetosa541 recordsAnRo0002 · CC0
Marsh thistle
Marsh thistleCirsium palustre528 recordsEpgrande · CC BY 4.0
White Clover
White CloverTrifolium repens523 recordsEpgrande · CC BY 4.0
Common yarrow
Common yarrowAchillea millefolium516 recordsEpgrande · CC BY 4.0
Crested dogstail grass
Crested dogstail grassCynosurus cristatus512 recordsRasbak · 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.

59out of 100

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

  • 55%Treesof the land within 3 km
  • 60%Wildno towns or farmland within 10 km
  • 1,303Speciesrecorded more than once within 5 km

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. Jan6°1°67 mm
  2. Feb7°1°59 mm
  3. Mar10°2°54 mm
  4. Apr14°5°39 mm
  5. May17°8°58 mm
  6. Jun20°11°62 mm
  7. Jul22°13°74 mm
  8. Aug22°13°80 mm
  9. Sep19°11°58 mm
  10. Oct15°8°71 mm
  11. Nov10°5°77 mm
  12. Dec7°2°79 mm
  • Bar: walking comfort; the number on top is the average maximum.
  • Below: average minimum (NASA, 1991–2020).
  • Rain: monthly total.

The place

Tillegembos.

Park in Bruges, Belgium

Tillegembos is a forest in Belgium.

Seen from space, 55% of the land within 3 km is trees, and 60% of the land within 10 km has no towns or farmland.

1,303 species have been recorded around it: 1,000 plants, 44 fungi, 232 birds and 27 mammals.

The most recorded plants are: Common buttercup, Silverweed and Creeping buttercup.

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

Trametes versicolor
Hans Hillewaert · CC BY-SA 4.0

Get there and walk

  • Kampeerautoterrein (Brugge)campsite · 3.4 km · 9 within 10 km
  • B&B Maison Printanièreplace to stay · 1.3 km · 195 within 10 km
  • Sint-Michielsnearest town · 2.1 km in a straight line
  • Ostend-Bruges International Airport (OST)nearest airport with scheduled flights · 22 km in a straight lineCar hire at LIL airport (Lesquin)Discover Cars · sponsored link

Plan the visit

A guided walk, a bed nearby, a car.

Car hire at LIL airport (Lesquin)Discover CarsSee prices 

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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.

Tillegembos 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

  • 108marked trails within 5 kmGR 5A Wandelronde van Vlaanderen (Noord), GR 129 Dwars door België | Vlaanderen, Doeveren wandelroute and 105 more
  • 9named and notable trees within 6 kmHouthakstoof, Den Olifant, Levina Teerlinc-Boom and 6 more
  • 137picnic sites within 4 km
  • 207shelters and huts within 6 kmDaele and 206 more
  • 11viewpoints within 5 kmRozenhoedkaai, Uitzichtpunt Meebrug, Augustijnenbrug and 8 more
  • 4visitor centres within 6 kmTourist Info, Touristische-informatiekantoor and 2 more
  • 553car parks within 3 km
  • 9campsites within 10 kmKampeerautoterrein (Brugge), Klein Strand, Camping Memling and 6 more
  • 195places to stay within 10 kmB&B Maison Printanière, Aquarius B&B, Salvators and 192 more
  • 88restaurants 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 Tillegembos.

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.

Peakyas4 mountains within 25 km
Oedelemberg9.5 kmLookhuisstraat14 kmKeiberg15 kmPoelberg25 km
Lakeyas1 lakes within 15 km
De Hoge Dijken0.3 km² · 9.3 km
Birdyas1 birding sites within 25 km
Zwin317 species · 25 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.

Blechnum spicant (fertile and sterile fronts)
Hans Hillewaert · CC BY-SA 4.0
Provinciedomein Tillegembos
FrDr · CC BY-SA 4.0
Kasteelbossen Brugge
FrDr · CC BY-SA 4.0

Other forests nearby.

Tillegembos

Belgium

  • 59Forestyas Score
  • 55%Trees
  • 60%Wild
  • 1,303Species

Sonian Forest

Belgium · 99 km

  • 76Forestyas Score
  • 80%Trees
  • 71%Wild
  • 1,917Species

See the guide

Forêt de Mormal

France · 115 km

  • 80Forestyas Score
  • 91%Trees
  • 76%Wild
  • 1,164Species

See the guide

Peerdsbos

Belgium · 91 km

  • 71Forestyas Score
  • 72%Trees
  • 68%Wild
  • 1,466Species

See the guide

Where these figures come from

Name and typeWikidata (Q2378158) · CC0
Land coverESA WorldCover 10 m 2021 v200 · © ESA WorldCover project / Copernicus Sentinel data · CC BY 4.0
Species279,800 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, Lakeyas, Birdyas

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

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