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Cranborne Chase

HecubaCapulet · CC BY-SA 4.0

31% trees around it and 1,097 species recorded.

44Forestyas Score

ForestFungiWildlife

  • trees within 3 km31%
  • wild within 10 km52%
  • species recorded1,097
  • Altitude123 m

The forest around

31% 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 51%Grassland 22%Cropland 27%Trees 28%Grassland 28%Cropland 43%Built-up 1%Trees 14%Grassland 32%Cropland 53%Built-up 0%Trees 19%Grassland 35%Cropland 45%Built-up 0%31%trees · 3 km

Trees, ring by ring

  • 0–1 km51%
  • 1–3 km28%
  • 3–6 km14%
  • 6–10 km19%

What covers the land (1–3 km)

  • Trees28%
  • Grassland28%
  • Cropland43%
  • 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

1,097 species recorded.

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

Cock's-foot
Cock's-footDactylis glomerata162 recordsAnRo0002 · CC0
Ribwort plantain
Ribwort plantainPlantago lanceolata160 recordssannse · CC BY-SA 3.0
Common Bird's-foot-trefoil
Common Bird's-foot-trefoilLotus corniculatus150 recordsDidier Descouens · CC BY-SA 4.0
Heal-all
Heal-allPrunella vulgaris146 recordsIvar Leidus · CC BY-SA 3.0
Common Hawthorn
Common HawthornCrataegus monogyna144 recordsUnknown author · CC BY-SA 3.0
Yorkshire-fog
Yorkshire-fogHolcus lanatus142 recordsRasbak · CC BY-SA 3.0
Timothy
TimothyPhleum pratense142 recordsBlokenearexeter · CC0
Red Clover
Red CloverTrifolium pratense141 recordsIvar Leidus · CC BY-SA 4.0
Bristly hawkbit
Bristly hawkbitLeontodon hispidus140 recordsUser:Tigerente · CC BY 2.5
Glaucous sedge
Glaucous sedgeCarex flacca139 recordsKristian Peters -- Fabelfroh 09:16, 13 July 2006 (UTC) · CC BY-SA 3.0
Hoary plantain
Hoary plantainPlantago media131 recordsW. Bulach · CC BY-SA 4.0
Dog's mercury
Dog's mercuryMercurialis perennis129 recordsEpgrande · CC BY 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.

44out of 100

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

  • 31%Treesof the land within 3 km
  • 52%Wildno towns or farmland within 10 km
  • 1,097Speciesrecorded more than once within 5 km
  • 123 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. Jan7°2°84 mm
  2. Feb7°2°65 mm
  3. Mar10°2°61 mm
  4. Apr13°4°52 mm
  5. May17°7°58 mm
  6. Jun20°10°59 mm
  7. Jul22°12°64 mm
  8. Aug22°12°70 mm
  9. Sep19°10°49 mm
  10. Oct15°8°92 mm
  11. Nov10°5°92 mm
  12. Dec8°3°90 mm
  • Bar: walking comfort; the number on top is the average maximum.
  • Below: average minimum (NASA, 1991–2020).
  • Rain: monthly total.

The place

Cranborne Chase.

Plateau in southern England

Cranborne Chase is a forest in United Kingdom.

Seen from space, 31% of the land within 3 km is trees, and 52% of the land within 10 km has no towns or farmland.

1,097 species have been recorded around it: 708 plants, 253 fungi, 119 birds and 17 mammals.

The most recorded plants are: Cock's-foot, Ribwort plantain and Common Bird's-foot-trefoil.

The best time to walk is in September.

On the road to Semely
HecubaCapulet · CC BY-SA 4.0

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.

Cranborne Chase 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 kmWessex Ridgeway, Jubilee Trail (Dorset), The Hardy Way and 2 more
  • 3shelters and huts within 6 kmBand View
  • 1viewpoints within 5 km
  • 9car parks within 3 km
  • 28campsites within 10 kmChurch Farm Campsite, Green 1 Camping, Staff Campsite and 25 more
  • 7places to stay within 10 kmLodge Farmhouse, Pink Tower Cottage, The Royal Oak and 4 more
  • 2restaurants and cafés within 3 km
  • named and notable trees within 6 km
  • picnic sites within 4 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 Cranborne Chase.

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.

Peakyas14 mountains within 25 km
Breeze Hill262 m · 7.5 kmMelbury Hill263 m · 9.8 kmHod Hill143 m · 14 kmHambledon Hill192 m · 14 kmDuncliffe Hill210 m · 15 kmBell Hill258 m · 20 kmWhite Sheet Hill245 m · 23 kmBulbarrow Hill274 m · 24 km
Islandyasthe island
Great Britain228,938 km²
Darkskyas1 dark-sky places within 30 km
Cranborne ChaseBortle 4 · this place

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

Other forests nearby.

Cranborne Chase

United Kingdom

  • 44Forestyas Score
  • 31%Trees
  • 52%Wild
  • 1,097Species

New Forest

United Kingdom · 32 km

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

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Forest of Dean

United Kingdom · 98 km

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

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Prior Park Landscape Garden

United Kingdom · 50 km

  • 68Forestyas Score
  • 50%Trees
  • 74%Wild
  • 1,514Species

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Where these figures come from

Name and typeWikidata (Q5181922) · CC0
Land coverESA WorldCover 10 m 2021 v200 · © ESA WorldCover project / Copernicus Sentinel data · CC BY 4.0
Species36,325 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, Darkskyas

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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