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Wychwood

ColinofOxfordshire · CC BY-SA 3.0

36% trees around it and 1,235 species recorded.

47Forestyas Score

ForestFungiWildlife

  • trees within 3 km36%
  • wild within 10 km53%
  • species recorded1,235
  • Altitude136 m

The forest around

36% 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 89%Grassland 8%Cropland 3%Trees 29%Grassland 29%Cropland 40%Built-up 1%Trees 18%Grassland 31%Cropland 50%Built-up 1%Trees 22%Grassland 31%Water 0%Bare ground 0%Cropland 42%Built-up 4%36%trees · 3 km

Trees, ring by ring

  • 0–1 km89%
  • 1–3 km29%
  • 3–6 km18%
  • 6–10 km22%

What covers the land (1–3 km)

  • Trees29%
  • Grassland29%
  • Cropland40%
  • Built-up1%

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

1,235 species recorded.

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

Timothy
TimothyPhleum pratense138 recordsBlokenearexeter · CC0
Smooth meadow-grass
Smooth meadow-grassPoa pratensis124 recordsRasbak 08:35, 1 May 2007 (UTC) · CC BY-SA 3.0
Garden vetch
Garden vetchVicia sativa118 recordsDidier Descouens · CC BY-SA 4.0
Hogweed
HogweedHeracleum sphondylium115 recordsUnknown author · CC BY-SA 3.0
Ground-ivy
Ground-ivyGlechoma hederacea113 recordsAnRo0002 · CC0
White Clover
White CloverTrifolium repens113 recordsEpgrande · CC BY 4.0
Stickywilly
StickywillyGalium aparine111 recordsAlvesgaspar · CC BY-SA 3.0
Blackthorn
BlackthornPrunus spinosa111 recordsSphingonotus · CC BY-SA 4.0
Common Hawthorn
Common HawthornCrataegus monogyna111 recordsUnknown author · CC BY-SA 3.0
Creeping Thistle
Creeping ThistleCirsium arvense110 recordsAnRo0002 · CC0
Whitespot
WhitespotStachys sylvatica109 recordsEpgrande · CC BY 4.0
Elder
ElderSambucus nigra108 recordsW. Bulach · 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.

47out of 100

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

  • 36%Treesof the land within 3 km
  • 53%Wildno towns or farmland within 10 km
  • 1,235Speciesrecorded more than once within 5 km
  • 136 mAltitudeabove the sea

When to walk

Best for walking in September.

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

  1. Jan6°1°64 mm
  2. Feb7°1°52 mm
  3. Mar10°2°52 mm
  4. Apr13°4°46 mm
  5. May16°7°60 mm
  6. Jun20°10°60 mm
  7. Jul22°12°65 mm
  8. Aug22°12°69 mm
  9. Sep19°9°48 mm
  10. Oct14°7°75 mm
  11. Nov10°4°73 mm
  12. Dec7°2°69 mm
  • Bar: walking comfort; the number on top is the average maximum.
  • Below: average minimum (NASA, 1991–2020).
  • Rain: monthly total.

The place

Wychwood.

Forest in Oxfordshire, England, UK

Wychwood is a forest in United Kingdom.

Seen from space, 36% of the land within 3 km is trees, and 53% of the land within 10 km has no towns or farmland.

1,235 species have been recorded around it: 861 plants, 262 fungi, 85 birds and 27 mammals.

The most recorded plants are: Timothy, Smooth meadow-grass and Garden vetch.

The best time to walk is in September.

Wychwood Fair Panorama Cornbury Park 2009
ColinofOxfordshire · CC BY-SA 3.0

Get there and walk

Plan the visit

A guided walk, a bed nearby, a car.

Guided forest walks and tours near WychwoodGetYourGuideSee prices Cabins and stays near WychwoodBooking.comSee prices Car hire at GLO airport (Staverton, Gloucestershire)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.

Wychwood 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

  • 5marked trails within 5 kmOxfordshire Way, Wychwood Way, D'Arcy Dalton Way and 2 more
  • 1named and notable trees within 6 km
  • 1picnic sites within 4 km
  • 5shelters and huts within 6 km
  • 12car parks within 3 km
  • 7campsites within 10 kmCotswold View, Grove Farm Caravan Club, Chipping Norton Camp Site and 4 more
  • 52places to stay within 10 kmThe Bird In Hand, The Lamb Inn, The Minster Mill and 49 more
  • 7restaurants and cafés within 3 km
  • viewpoints within 5 km
  • visitor centres 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 Wychwood.

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.

Peakyas6 mountains within 25 km
Cumnor Hill18 kmHarcourt Hill20 kmHeadington Hill22 kmCastle Hill23 kmBadbury Hill24 kmCrouch Hill24 km
Islandyasthe island
Great Britain228,938 km²

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

Other forests nearby.

Wychwood

United Kingdom

  • 47Forestyas Score
  • 36%Trees
  • 53%Wild
  • 1,235Species

Forest of Dean

United Kingdom · 71 km

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

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New Forest

United Kingdom · 110 km

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

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University of Oxford Botanic Garden

United Kingdom · 21 km

  • 56Forestyas Score
  • 41%Trees
  • 62%Wild
  • 1,215Species

See the guide

Where these figures come from

Name and typeWikidata (Q8039567) · CC0
Land coverESA WorldCover 10 m 2021 v200 · © ESA WorldCover project / Copernicus Sentinel data · CC BY 4.0
Species26,788 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

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

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