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New Forest

Nigel Brown · CC BY 3.0

83% trees around it and 2,114 species recorded.

89Forestyas Score

ForestWildFungiBirdsWildlife

  • trees within 3 km83%
  • wild within 10 km98%
  • species recorded2,114

The forest around

83% 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 85%Grassland 14%Wetland 0%Built-up 0%Trees 83%Grassland 16%Cropland 1%Built-up 0%Trees 57%Grassland 42%Built-up 1%Trees 50%Grassland 48%Wetland 0%Cropland 0%Built-up 2%83%trees · 3 km

Trees, ring by ring

  • 0–1 km85%
  • 1–3 km83%
  • 3–6 km57%
  • 6–10 km50%

What covers the land (1–3 km)

  • Trees83%
  • Grassland16%
  • Wetland0%
  • Cropland1%
  • 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

2,114 species recorded.

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

Greater creeping spearwort
Greater creeping spearwortRanunculus flammula153 recordsChristian Fischer · CC BY-SA 3.0
Erect cinquefoil
Erect cinquefoilPotentilla erecta139 recordsUser:Tigerente · CC BY 2.5
Heather
HeatherCalluna vulgaris127 recordsUnknown author · Public domain
Marsh pennywort
Marsh pennywortHydrocotyle vulgaris127 recordsUnknown author · CC BY-SA 3.0
Water Mint
Water MintMentha aquatica125 recordsBurschik at English Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0
Hypericum elodes
Hypericum elodesHypericum elodes122 recordsGhislain118 (AD) http://www.fleurs-des-montagnes.net · CC BY-SA 3.0
European Beech
European BeechFagus sylvatica121 recordsMalene Thyssen · CC BY-SA 3.0
Bog Heather
Bog HeatherErica tetralix115 recordsChristian Fischer · CC BY-SA 3.0
Bracken
BrackenPteridium aquilinum114 recordsStefan.lefnaer · CC BY-SA 4.0
Sharpflower rush
Sharpflower rushJuncus acutiflorus112 recordsJames K. Lindsey · CC BY-SA 3.0
Bulbous rush
Bulbous rushJuncus bulbosus108 recordsJan Kops · Public domain
Purple moor-grass
Purple moor-grassMolinia caerulea106 recordsElke Freese · 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.

89out of 100

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

  • 83%Treesof the land within 3 km
  • 98%Wildno towns or farmland within 10 km
  • 2,114Speciesrecorded 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°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

New Forest.

National park in southern England

New Forest is a forest in United Kingdom.

Seen from space, 83% of the land within 3 km is trees, and 98% of the land within 10 km has no towns or farmland.

2,114 species have been recorded around it: 933 plants, 1,000 fungi, 148 birds and 33 mammals.

The most recorded plants are: Greater creeping spearwort, Erect cinquefoil and Heather.

The best time to walk is in September.

Beaulieu Mill Pond, New Forest, UK - panoramio
Nigel Brown · CC BY 3.0

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.

New 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

  • 3marked trails within 5 kmThe Deer Watch Trail, The Jubilee Trail, The Radnor Trail
  • 7named and notable trees within 6 kmKnightwood Oak, Deputy Surveyors Oak, 'Goliath' Giant Sequoia and 4 more
  • 8picnic sites within 4 km
  • 2shelters and huts within 6 km
  • 4viewpoints within 5 kmAcres Down South, Boltons Bench, Bolderwood Deer Sanctuary and 1 more
  • 2visitor centres within 6 kmNew Forest Centre
  • 37car parks within 3 km
  • 46campsites within 10 kmAcres Down Farm, Aldridge Hill Camp Site, Pondhead Farm Camping and 43 more
  • 79places to stay within 10 kmAngels Farmhouse Bed & Breakfast, Acorns of Lyndhurst B&B, Rosedale Bed and Breakfast and 76 more
  • 9restaurants 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 New 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.

Peakyas4 mountains within 25 km
St Catherine's Hill17 kmTennyson Down147 m · 22 kmAfton Down23 kmCompton Down24 km
Islandyasthe island
Great Britain228,938 km²
Lakeyas1 lakes within 15 km
Linbrook Lake0.5 km² · 11 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.

Alder trees beaulieu river fawley ford
Jim Champion · CC BY-SA 3.0
New Forest Cycle path
User:Paste · Public domain
Beaulieu, New Forest, UK - panoramio
Nigel Brown · CC BY 3.0

Other forests nearby.

New Forest

United Kingdom

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

Forest of Dean

United Kingdom · 121 km

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

See the guide

Prior Park Landscape Garden

United Kingdom · 76 km

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

See the guide

Stourhead

United Kingdom · 56 km

  • 58Forestyas Score
  • 28%Trees
  • 78%Wild
  • 1,269Species

See the guide

Where these figures come from

Name and typeWikidata (Q277755) · CC0
Land coverESA WorldCover 10 m 2021 v200 · © ESA WorldCover project / Copernicus Sentinel data · CC BY 4.0
Species93,273 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.

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