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Wyre Forest

Loganberry at English Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0

73% trees around it and 1,920 species recorded.

  • trees within 3 km73%
  • wild within 10 km75%
  • species recorded1,920
  • Altitude83 m

The forest around

73% 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 98%Grassland 2%Built-up 0%Trees 70%Grassland 26%Water 0%Cropland 2%Built-up 2%Trees 38%Grassland 37%Water 0%Cropland 22%Built-up 2%Trees 32%Grassland 39%Water 0%Cropland 22%Built-up 7%73%trees · 3 km

Trees, ring by ring

  • 0–1 km98%
  • 1–3 km70%
  • 3–6 km38%
  • 6–10 km32%

What covers the land (1–3 km)

  • Trees70%
  • Grassland26%
  • Water0%
  • Cropland2%
  • Built-up2%

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

1,920 species recorded.

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

English holly
English hollyIlex aquifolium484 recordsUnknown author · Public domain
Bracken
BrackenPteridium aquilinum479 recordsStefan.lefnaer · CC BY-SA 4.0
Common Hawthorn
Common HawthornCrataegus monogyna340 recordsUnknown author · CC BY-SA 3.0
Cobnut
CobnutCorylus avellana335 recordsMPF · CC BY-SA 3.0
Whortleberry
WhortleberryVaccinium myrtillus326 recordsUnknown author · CC BY-SA 3.0
Male fern
Male fernDryopteris filix-mas326 recordsCarl Axel Magnus Lindman · Public domain
AshNT
AshFraxinus excelsior317 recordsWillow · CC BY 2.5
Hard Fern
Hard FernStruthiopteris spicant315 recordsSABENCIA Guillermo César Ruiz · CC BY-SA 4.0
Common Bluebell
Common BluebellHyacinthoides non-scripta306 recordsJackyM59 · CC BY-SA 4.0
European honeysuckle
European honeysuckleLonicera periclymenum303 recordsLuc Viatour · CC BY-SA 3.0
Heather
HeatherCalluna vulgaris296 recordsUnknown author · Public domain
Creeping buttercup
Creeping buttercupRanunculus repens292 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.

75out of 100

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

  • 73%Treesof the land within 3 km
  • 75%Wildno towns or farmland within 10 km
  • 1,920Speciesrecorded more than once within 5 km
  • 83 mAltitudeabove the sea

When to walk

Best for walking from June to September.

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

  1. Jan6°1°68 mm
  2. Feb7°1°55 mm
  3. Mar9°1°57 mm
  4. Apr13°4°51 mm
  5. May16°6°64 mm
  6. Jun19°10°70 mm
  7. Jul20°11°74 mm
  8. Aug20°11°74 mm
  9. Sep18°9°56 mm
  10. Oct14°6°82 mm
  11. Nov9°4°79 mm
  12. Dec6°2°76 mm
  • Bar: walking comfort; the number on top is the average maximum.
  • Below: average minimum (NASA, 1991–2020).
  • Rain: monthly total.

The place

Wyre Forest.

Large, semi-natural woodland in England

Wyre Forest is a forest in United Kingdom.

Seen from space, 73% of the land within 3 km is trees, and 75% of the land within 10 km has no towns or farmland.

1,920 species have been recorded around it: 1,000 plants, 732 fungi, 151 birds and 37 mammals.

The most recorded plants are: English holly, Bracken and Common Hawthorn.

The best time to walk is from June to September.

Wyre Forest
Loganberry at English Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0

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.

Wyre Forest 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

  • 8marked trails within 5 kmWorcestershire Way, Geopark Way, North Worcestershire Path and 5 more
  • 1named and notable trees within 6 kmThe Withy Pear
  • 17picnic sites within 4 km
  • 6shelters and huts within 6 km
  • 3viewpoints within 5 km
  • 1visitor centres within 6 kmHabberley Valley Tea Rooms
  • 14car parks within 3 km
  • 51campsites within 10 kmRiverside Caravan Park Bewdley, Butt Town, Severn Bank Park and 48 more
  • 29places to stay within 10 kmYe Olde New Inn, Crabmill Holiday Park, Welch Gate Guest House and 26 more
  • 3restaurants 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 Wyre Forest.

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.

Peakyas12 mountains within 25 km
Kinver Edge164 m · 11 kmTitterstone Clee Hill533 m · 16 kmWychbury Hill224 m · 18 kmBrown Clee Hill540 m · 19 kmWalton Hill316 m · 19 kmAnkerdine Hill149 m · 20 kmBilberry Hill244 m · 25 kmBeacon Hill237 m · 25 km
Lakeyas1 lakes within 15 km
Chelmarsh Reservoir0.4 km² · 11 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.

Knowles Mill 003
Bs0u10e01 · CC BY-SA 4.0

Other forests nearby.

Wyre Forest

United Kingdom

  • 75Forestyas Score
  • 73%Trees
  • 75%Wild
  • 1,920Species

Forest of Dean

United Kingdom · 67 km

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

See the guide

Cannock Chase

United Kingdom · 47 km

  • 69Forestyas Score
  • 69%Trees
  • 68%Wild
  • 1,108Species

See the guide

Puzzlewood

United Kingdom · 69 km

  • 69Forestyas Score
  • 49%Trees
  • 87%Wild
  • 2,112Species

See the guide

Where these figures come from

Name and typeWikidata (Q8040451) · CC0
Land coverESA WorldCover 10 m 2021 v200 · © ESA WorldCover project / Copernicus Sentinel data · CC BY 4.0
Species154,888 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

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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