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Claremont

Heathermitch · CC BY-SA 3.0

57% trees around it and 2,213 species recorded.

  • trees within 3 km57%
  • wild within 10 km75%
  • species recorded2,213

The forest around

57% 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 73%Grassland 20%Water 0%Built-up 7%Trees 55%Grassland 28%Water 0%Cropland 3%Built-up 14%Trees 46%Grassland 27%Water 4%Cropland 4%Built-up 19%Trees 42%Grassland 29%Water 2%Cropland 2%Built-up 25%57%trees · 3 km

Trees, ring by ring

  • 0–1 km73%
  • 1–3 km55%
  • 3–6 km46%
  • 6–10 km42%

What covers the land (1–3 km)

  • Trees55%
  • Grassland28%
  • Water0%
  • Cropland3%
  • Built-up14%

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

2,213 species recorded.

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

Green alkanet
Green alkanetPentaglottis sempervirens329 recordsLuis Fernández García · CC BY-SA 3.0
English holly
English hollyIlex aquifolium235 recordsUnknown author · Public domain
Sycamore
SycamoreAcer pseudoplatanus221 recordsChristian Pirkl · CC BY-SA 3.0 at
AshNT
AshFraxinus excelsior217 recordsWillow · CC BY 2.5
Pedunculate Oak
Pedunculate OakQuercus robur213 recordsAlgirdas at Lithuanian Wikipedia · Public domain
Common Hawthorn
Common HawthornCrataegus monogyna212 recordsUnknown author · CC BY-SA 3.0
Cobnut
CobnutCorylus avellana197 recordsMPF · CC BY-SA 3.0
Stickywilly
StickywillyGalium aparine191 recordsAlvesgaspar · CC BY-SA 3.0
Cherry laurel
Cherry laurelPrunus laurocerasus191 recordsKarduelis · Public domain
Groundsel
GroundselSenecio vulgaris184 recordsStefan.lefnaer · CC BY-SA 4.0
Garlic Mustard
Garlic MustardAlliaria petiolata176 recordsO. Pichard · CC BY-SA 3.0
Herb bennet
Herb bennetGeum urbanum168 recordsDidier Descouens · 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.

72out of 100

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

  • 57%Treesof the land within 3 km
  • 75%Wildno towns or farmland within 10 km
  • 2,213Speciesrecorded more than once within 5 km

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. Jan7°1°68 mm
  2. Feb7°1°56 mm
  3. Mar10°2°52 mm
  4. Apr14°4°44 mm
  5. May17°7°57 mm
  6. Jun21°10°58 mm
  7. Jul23°12°60 mm
  8. Aug22°12°67 mm
  9. Sep20°10°46 mm
  10. Oct15°7°77 mm
  11. Nov10°4°77 mm
  12. Dec7°2°74 mm
  • Bar: walking comfort; the number on top is the average maximum.
  • Below: average minimum (NASA, 1991–2020).
  • Rain: monthly total.

The place

Claremont.

Country house and gardens in Esher, Surrey, England, UK

Claremont is a protected forest in United Kingdom.

Seen from space, 57% of the land within 3 km is trees, and 75% of the land within 10 km has no towns or farmland.

2,213 species have been recorded around it: 1,000 plants, 1,000 fungi, 187 birds and 26 mammals.

The most recorded plants are: Green alkanet, English holly and Sycamore.

The best time to walk is in September.

Claremont House, Esher
Heathermitch · CC BY-SA 3.0

Get there and walk

  • Walton-on-Thames Camping and Caravanning Club Sitecampsite · 3.1 km · 15 within 10 km
  • Travelodgeplace to stay · 3.6 km · 71 within 10 km
  • Eshernearest town · 1.1 km in a straight line
  • London Heathrow Airport (LHR)nearest airport with scheduled flights · 14 km in a straight lineCar hire at LHR airport (London)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.

Claremont 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 kmThames Down Link, Hogsmill Valley Walk, Chessington Countryside Walk and 5 more
  • 39named and notable trees within 6 kmKingston Weeping Silver Lime, wishing tree, Great Cedar and 36 more
  • 16picnic sites within 4 km
  • 37shelters and huts within 6 kmDriving Range and 36 more
  • 4viewpoints within 5 km
  • 1visitor centres within 6 km
  • 193car parks within 3 km
  • 15campsites within 10 kmWalton-on-Thames Camping and Caravanning Club Site, Polyapes Scout Camp, Camp HaHa! and 12 more
  • 71places to stay within 10 kmTravelodge, Woodlands Park Hotel, Yew Lodge and 68 more
  • 34restaurants 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 Claremont.

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.

Peakyas16 mountains within 25 km
Richmond Hill11 kmBox Hill224 m · 12 kmColley Hill220 m · 16 kmDuppas Hill18 kmCampden Hill20 kmNorthala Fields20 kmLeith Hill294 m · 20 kmPrimrose Hill65 m · 25 km
Lakeyas9 lakes within 15 km
Island Barn Reservoir0.6 km² · 3.5 kmQueen Elizabeth II Reservoir1.5 km² · 3.9 kmKnight Reservoir0.6 km² · 5.0 kmQueen Mary Reservoir3.1 km² · 9.0 kmAbbey Lake0.3 km² · 11 kmSt Ann's Lake0.4 km² · 11 kmStaines Reservoirs1.0 km² · 12 kmKing George VI Reservoir1.6 km² · 14 km
Darkskyas7 dark-sky places within 30 km
Kew ObservatoryBortle 9 · 13 kmNortholt Branch ObservatoriesBortle 9 · 22 kmObservatory HouseBortle 8 · 23 kmBishop ObservatoryBortle 9 · 24 kmRoyal ObservatoryBortle 9 · 29 kmAldershot ObservatoryBortle 7 · 30 kmUCL ObservatoryBortle 9 · 30 km
Riveryasthe river nearby
River Mole80 km · 6.6 m³/s

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

Photographs

The forest, as people saw it.

Cadbury factory clock
jacobharrisau · CC BY-SA 2.0
Cadbury factory entrance
jacobharrisau · CC BY-SA 2.0
At Claremont Landscape Garden 2025 039
Photograph by Mike Peel ( www.mikepeel.net ). · CC BY-SA 4.0

Other forests nearby.

Claremont

United Kingdom

  • 72Forestyas Score
  • 57%Trees
  • 75%Wild
  • 2,213Species

Painshill

United Kingdom · 5 km

  • 72Forestyas Score
  • 52%Trees
  • 83%Wild
  • 2,181Species

See the guide

Ashdown Forest

United Kingdom · 43 km

  • 78Forestyas Score
  • 66%Trees
  • 92%Wild
  • 1,460Species

See the guide

New Forest

United Kingdom · 103 km

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

See the guide

Where these figures come from

Name and typeWikidata (Q1095337) · CC0
Land coverESA WorldCover 10 m 2021 v200 · © ESA WorldCover project / Copernicus Sentinel data · CC BY 4.0
Species186,854 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, Darkskyas, Riveryas

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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