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Grizedale Forest

James Burke · CC BY 2.0

75% trees around it and 1,093 species recorded.

84Forestyas Score

ForestWildFungiBirdsWildlife

  • trees within 3 km75%
  • wild within 10 km99%
  • species recorded1,093
  • Altitude108 m

The forest around

75% 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 76%Grassland 24%Built-up 0%Trees 75%Grassland 22%Water 2%Trees 41%Grassland 48%Water 11%Built-up 0%Trees 33%Grassland 60%Water 6%Built-up 1%75%trees · 3 km

Trees, ring by ring

  • 0–1 km76%
  • 1–3 km75%
  • 3–6 km41%
  • 6–10 km33%

What covers the land (1–3 km)

  • Trees75%
  • Grassland22%
  • Water2%
  • 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

1,093 species recorded.

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

Greater creeping spearwort
Greater creeping spearwortRanunculus flammula85 recordsChristian Fischer · CC BY-SA 3.0
Soft Rush
Soft RushJuncus effusus84 recordsThe original uploader was Meggar at English Wikipedia . · CC BY-SA 3.0
Common polypody
Common polypodyPolypodium vulgare74 records4028mdk09 · CC BY-SA 3.0
Erect cinquefoil
Erect cinquefoilPotentilla erecta74 recordsUser:Tigerente · CC BY 2.5
Queen of the meadow
Queen of the meadowFilipendula ulmaria72 recordsUnknown author · Public domain
Marsh pennywort
Marsh pennywortHydrocotyle vulgaris67 recordsUnknown author · CC BY-SA 3.0
Western waterweed
Western waterweedElodea nuttallii65 recordsChristian Fischer · CC BY-SA 3.0
Common Marsh-bedstraw
Common Marsh-bedstrawGalium palustre60 recordsKristian Peters -- Fabelfroh 08:10, 20 September 2006 (UTC) · CC BY-SA 3.0
AshNT
AshFraxinus excelsior59 recordsWillow · CC BY 2.5
English holly
English hollyIlex aquifolium59 recordsUnknown author · Public domain
Bulbous rush
Bulbous rushJuncus bulbosus58 recordsJan Kops · Public domain
Common Knapweed
Common KnapweedCentaurea nigra58 recordsJulie Anne Workman · 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.

84out of 100

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

  • 75%Treesof the land within 3 km
  • 99%Wildno towns or farmland within 10 km
  • 1,093Speciesrecorded more than once within 5 km
  • 108 mAltitudeabove the sea

When to walk

Best for walking from June to August.

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

  1. Jan6°2°125 mm
  2. Feb6°2°100 mm
  3. Mar7°2°87 mm
  4. Apr10°4°67 mm
  5. May13°7°80 mm
  6. Jun16°10°96 mm
  7. Jul17°12°114 mm
  8. Aug17°12°128 mm
  9. Sep15°10°100 mm
  10. Oct12°8°130 mm
  11. Nov9°5°129 mm
  12. Dec6°3°135 mm
  • Bar: walking comfort; the number on top is the average maximum.
  • Below: average minimum (NASA, 1991–2020).
  • Rain: monthly total.

The place

Grizedale Forest.

Forest in Cumbria, England, UK

Grizedale Forest is a forest in United Kingdom.

Seen from space, 75% of the land within 3 km is trees, and 99% of the land within 10 km has no towns or farmland.

1,093 species have been recorded around it: 668 plants, 275 fungi, 129 birds and 21 mammals.

The most recorded plants are: Greater creeping spearwort, Soft Rush and Common polypody.

The best time to walk is from June to August.

Autumn colours and cloud shadows at Grizedale Forest
James Burke · CC BY 2.0

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.

Grizedale 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

  • 23marked trails within 5 kmCumbria Way, Grizedale Tarn Trail, Silurian Way and 20 more
  • 27picnic sites within 4 kmMoor Top and 26 more
  • 7shelters and huts within 6 kmCoppermines Cottage, Low House and 5 more
  • 3viewpoints within 5 km
  • 4visitor centres within 6 kmGrizedale Forest Visitors Centre, Hawkshead Tourist Information, Coniston Tourist Information and 1 more
  • 28car parks within 3 km
  • 44campsites within 10 kmConiston Hall Campsite, Hoathwaite Campsite, Pier Cottage Caravan Park and 41 more
  • 360places to stay within 10 kmGrizedale Lodge, Buckle Yeat Guest House, Bluebird Lodge and 357 more
  • 5restaurants and cafés within 3 km
  • named and notable trees 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 Grizedale 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.

Peakyas178 mountains within 25 km
Bowfell902 m · 15 kmFairfield873 m · 18 kmScafell Pike978 m · 18 kmGreat End910 m · 18 kmSca Fell964 m · 18 kmGreat Gable899 m · 20 kmHelvellyn950 m · 21 kmPillar892 m · 24 km
Islandyasthe island
Great Britain228,938 km²
Lakeyas6 lakes within 15 km
Coniston Water4.3 km² · 3.1 kmEsthwaite Water0.7 km² · 3.5 kmWindermere13 km² · 7.1 kmSeathwaite Tarn0.2 km² · 9.3 kmRydal Water0.3 km² · 12 kmGrasmere0.5 km² · 12 km
Darkskyas2 dark-sky places within 30 km
Coniston WaterBortle 3 · 3.0 kmDerwentwaterBortle 3 · 28 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.

Grizedale light column
Russ McGinn · CC BY-SA 2.5
Lady of the water1
Russ McGinn · CC BY-SA 2.5
Grizedale Tarn
Dave&Lynne Slater from Cumbria, United kingdom · CC BY 2.0

Other forests nearby.

Grizedale Forest

United Kingdom

  • 84Forestyas Score
  • 75%Trees
  • 99%Wild
  • 1,093Species

Kielder Forest

United Kingdom · 102 km

  • 77Forestyas Score
  • 63%Trees
  • 100%Wild
  • 832Species

See the guide

Gwydir Forest

United Kingdom · 145 km

  • 80Forestyas Score
  • 65%Trees
  • 99%Wild
  • 1,334Species

See the guide

Studley Royal Park

United Kingdom · 98 km

  • 58Forestyas Score
  • 24%Trees
  • 69%Wild
  • 1,169Species

See the guide

Where these figures come from

Name and typeWikidata (Q908996) · CC0
Land coverESA WorldCover 10 m 2021 v200 · © ESA WorldCover project / Copernicus Sentinel data · CC BY 4.0
Species22,776 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

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

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