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Howe Park Wood

Sentinel-2 cloudless 2016 by EOX IT Services GmbH (contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data), CC BY 4.0, with relief shading from Copernicus WorldDEM-30

34% trees around it and 1,229 species recorded.

50Forestyas Score

ForestFungiBirds

  • trees within 3 km34%
  • wild within 10 km62%
  • species recorded1,229
  • Altitude116 m

The forest around

34% 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 39%Grassland 22%Built-up 38%Trees 33%Grassland 28%Water 1%Bare ground 0%Cropland 13%Built-up 25%Trees 22%Grassland 38%Water 1%Bare ground 0%Cropland 20%Built-up 18%Trees 21%Grassland 40%Water 1%Cropland 27%Built-up 10%34%trees · 3 km

Trees, ring by ring

  • 0–1 km39%
  • 1–3 km33%
  • 3–6 km22%
  • 6–10 km21%

What covers the land (1–3 km)

  • Trees33%
  • Grassland28%
  • Water1%
  • Bare ground0%
  • Cropland13%
  • Built-up25%

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

1,229 species recorded.

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

Garden vetch
Garden vetchVicia sativa188 recordsDidier Descouens · CC BY-SA 4.0
Timothy
TimothyPhleum pratense162 recordsBlokenearexeter · CC0
Blackthorn
BlackthornPrunus spinosa129 recordsSphingonotus · CC BY-SA 4.0
Field Maple
Field MapleAcer campestre121 recordsWillow · CC BY-SA 2.5
Garlic Mustard
Garlic MustardAlliaria petiolata121 recordsO. Pichard · CC BY-SA 3.0
Ground-ivy
Ground-ivyGlechoma hederacea118 recordsAnRo0002 · CC0
Heal-all
Heal-allPrunella vulgaris117 recordsIvar Leidus · CC BY-SA 3.0
Creeping buttercup
Creeping buttercupRanunculus repens114 recordsUnknown author · CC BY-SA 3.0
AshNT
AshFraxinus excelsior113 recordsWillow · CC BY 2.5
Common Hawthorn
Common HawthornCrataegus monogyna113 recordsUnknown author · CC BY-SA 3.0
Elder
ElderSambucus nigra111 recordsW. Bulach · CC BY-SA 4.0
Stickywilly
StickywillyGalium aparine111 recordsAlvesgaspar · 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.

50out of 100

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

  • 34%Treesof the land within 3 km
  • 62%Wildno towns or farmland within 10 km
  • 1,229Speciesrecorded more than once within 5 km
  • 116 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. Jan6°1°61 mm
  2. Feb7°1°51 mm
  3. Mar10°2°50 mm
  4. Apr14°4°44 mm
  5. May17°7°59 mm
  6. Jun20°10°60 mm
  7. Jul22°12°64 mm
  8. Aug22°12°69 mm
  9. Sep19°9°46 mm
  10. Oct15°7°72 mm
  11. Nov10°4°69 mm
  12. Dec7°2°66 mm
  • Bar: walking comfort; the number on top is the average maximum.
  • Below: average minimum (NASA, 1991–2020).
  • Rain: monthly total.

The place

Howe Park Wood.

Woodland in Tattenhoe, Buckinghamshire, England, UK

Howe Park Wood is a forest in United Kingdom.

Seen from space, 34% of the land within 3 km is trees, and 62% of the land within 10 km has no towns or farmland.

1,229 species have been recorded around it: 907 plants, 166 fungi, 144 birds and 12 mammals.

The most recorded plants are: Garden vetch, Timothy and Blackthorn.

The best time to walk is in September.

Howe Park Wood seen from above (Sentinel-2)
Sentinel-2 cloudless 2016 by EOX IT Services GmbH (contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data), CC BY 4.0, with relief shading from Copernicus WorldDEM-30

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.

Howe Park Wood 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 kmMidshires Way, Grand Union Canal Walk, North Bucks Way and 2 more
  • 37picnic sites within 4 km
  • 17shelters and huts within 6 kmPagoda, Waiting Room and 15 more
  • 5viewpoints within 5 km
  • 1visitor centres within 6 kmCanal & River Trust
  • 385car parks within 3 km
  • 8campsites within 10 kmThe Old Dairy Farm, Gulliver's Meadow Camp Site, Cranley Barn Camping and 5 more
  • 48places to stay within 10 kmYew Tree Farm B&B, Travelodge Milton Keynes Central, Travelodge Milton Keynes at The Hub and 45 more
  • 20restaurants 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 Howe Park Wood.

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.

Peakyas4 mountains within 25 km
Heydon Hill17 kmIvinghoe Beacon233 m · 22 kmSmithcombe Hill24 kmEast Hill25 km
Islandyasthe island
Great Britain228,938 km²
Lakeyas3 lakes within 15 km
Furzton Lake0.2 km² · 2.1 kmCaldecotte Lake0.3 km² · 5.7 kmWillen Lake0.5 km² · 7.1 km

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

Other forests nearby.

Howe Park Wood

United Kingdom

  • 50Forestyas Score
  • 34%Trees
  • 62%Wild
  • 1,229Species

Claremont

United Kingdom · 77 km

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

See the guide

Painshill

United Kingdom · 79 km

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

See the guide

Forest of Dean

United Kingdom · 123 km

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

See the guide

Where these figures come from

Name and typeWikidata (Q21131840) · CC0
Land coverESA WorldCover 10 m 2021 v200 · © ESA WorldCover project / Copernicus Sentinel data · CC BY 4.0
Species148,360 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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