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Forêt de la Double

Père Igor · CC BY-SA 3.0

79% trees around it and 673 species recorded.

  • trees within 3 km79%
  • wild within 10 km96%
  • species recorded673
  • Altitude101 m

The forest around

79% 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 61%Grassland 35%Water 0%Cropland 3%Built-up 0%Trees 82%Grassland 15%Water 1%Cropland 2%Trees 78%Grassland 18%Water 1%Cropland 3%Built-up 0%Trees 72%Grassland 21%Water 1%Cropland 5%Built-up 0%79%trees · 3 km

Trees, ring by ring

  • 0–1 km61%
  • 1–3 km82%
  • 3–6 km78%
  • 6–10 km72%

What covers the land (1–3 km)

  • Trees82%
  • Grassland15%
  • Water1%
  • Cropland2%
  • Built-up0%

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

673 species recorded.

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

Bracken
BrackenPteridium aquilinum107 recordsStefan.lefnaer · CC BY-SA 4.0
Pedunculate Oak
Pedunculate OakQuercus robur97 recordsAlgirdas at Lithuanian Wikipedia · Public domain
Purple moor-grass
Purple moor-grassMolinia caerulea95 recordsElke Freese · CC BY-SA 3.0
Alder Buckthorn
Alder BuckthornFrangula alnus86 recordsOldMuzzle · CC BY-SA 3.0
European honeysuckle
European honeysuckleLonicera periclymenum76 recordsLuc Viatour · CC BY-SA 3.0
Heather
HeatherCalluna vulgaris73 recordsUnknown author · Public domain
Ulex minor
Ulex minorUlex minor73 recordsRichard New Forest · CC BY-SA 3.0
Quercus pyrenaica
Quercus pyrenaicaQuercus pyrenaica69 recordsUnknown author · CC BY-SA 3.0
Maritime Pine
Maritime PinePinus pinaster68 recordsLivioandronico2013 · CC BY-SA 4.0
Erect cinquefoil
Erect cinquefoilPotentilla erecta68 recordsUser:Tigerente · CC BY 2.5
Common Ivy
Common IvyHedera helix65 recordskallerna · CC BY-SA 4.0
Sweet Chestnut
Sweet ChestnutCastanea sativa62 recordsJLPC · 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.

83out of 100

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

  • 79%Treesof the land within 3 km
  • 96%Wildno towns or farmland within 10 km
  • 673Speciesrecorded more than once within 5 km
  • 101 mAltitudeabove the sea

When to walk

Best for walking in April and in October.

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

  1. Jan8°2°78 mm
  2. Feb10°1°54 mm
  3. Mar14°4°63 mm
  4. Apr17°6°65 mm
  5. May21°10°74 mm
  6. Jun26°14°61 mm
  7. Jul28°15°47 mm
  8. Aug28°15°49 mm
  9. Sep25°12°47 mm
  10. Oct20°9°67 mm
  11. Nov13°5°77 mm
  12. Dec9°2°75 mm
  • Bar: walking comfort; the number on top is the average maximum.
  • Below: average minimum (NASA, 1991–2020).
  • Rain: monthly total.

The place

Forêt de la Double.

Forest in France

Forêt de la Double is a forest in France.

Seen from space, 79% of the land within 3 km is trees, and 96% of the land within 10 km has no towns or farmland.

673 species have been recorded around it: 492 plants, 3 fungi, 144 birds and 34 mammals.

The most recorded plants are: Bracken, Pedunculate Oak and Purple moor-grass.

The best time to walk is in April and in October.

Saint-Michel de Double forêt (4)
Père Igor · CC BY-SA 3.0

Get there and walk

  • Camping les renardscampsite · 8.2 km · 5 within 10 km
  • Hôtellerie de l'Abbayeplace to stay · 3.9 km · 8 within 10 km
  • Saint-Aulayenearest town · 9.9 km in a straight line
  • Bergerac Dordogne-Périgord airport (EGC)nearest airport with scheduled flights · 43 km in a straight lineCar hire at EGC airport (Bergerac)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.

Forêt de la Double 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

  • 4marked trails within 5 kmBoucle d'Echourgnac, Liaison, Liaison Echourgnac - Ferme du Parcot and 1 more
  • 3picnic sites within 4 km
  • 1shelters and huts within 6 km
  • 1viewpoints within 5 km
  • 5campsites within 10 kmCamping les renards, Camping du Lac, Aire de camping-car de Saint-Michel-de-Double and 2 more
  • 8places to stay within 10 kmHôtellerie de l'Abbaye, Domaine de l'Orchidée - Gîtes et loisirs, Hameau de Chabrouille and 5 more
  • named and notable trees within 6 km
  • visitor centres within 6 km
  • car parks within 3 km
  • restaurants 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 Forêt de la Double.

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.

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

Photographs

The forest, as people saw it.

Double St Martin-St Etienne Métairie est (1)
Père Igor · CC BY-SA 3.0
Route des doublauds, Forêt de la Double - panoramio
aoiaio · CC BY 3.0

Other forests nearby.

Forêt de la Double

France

  • 83Forestyas Score
  • 79%Trees
  • 96%Wild
  • 673Species

Forêt d'Horte

France · 51 km

  • 76Forestyas Score
  • 82%Trees
  • 74%Wild
  • 680Species

See the guide

Cognac Public Garden

France · 75 km

  • 54Forestyas Score
  • 35%Trees
  • 66%Wild
  • 736Species

See the guide

Landes forest

France · 120 km

  • 50Forestyas Score
  • 29%Trees
  • 85%Wild
  • 195Species

See the guide

Where these figures come from

Name and typeWikidata (Q3078995) · CC0
Land coverESA WorldCover 10 m 2021 v200 · © ESA WorldCover project / Copernicus Sentinel data · CC BY 4.0
Species11,983 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 atlasesCavernyas

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

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