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Valby Hegn

Jens Cederskjold · CC BY 3.0

41% trees around it and 1,003 species recorded.

58Forestyas Score

ForestFungiBirdsWildlife

  • trees within 3 km41%
  • wild within 10 km75%
  • species recorded1,003
  • Altitude52 m

The forest around

41% 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 60%Grassland 27%Cropland 12%Built-up 1%Trees 39%Grassland 27%Water 0%Cropland 31%Built-up 2%Trees 31%Grassland 30%Water 0%Cropland 33%Built-up 5%Trees 36%Grassland 21%Wetland 0%Water 24%Cropland 16%Built-up 2%41%trees · 3 km

Trees, ring by ring

  • 0–1 km60%
  • 1–3 km39%
  • 3–6 km31%
  • 6–10 km36%

What covers the land (1–3 km)

  • Trees39%
  • Grassland27%
  • Water0%
  • Cropland31%
  • Built-up2%

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

1,003 species recorded.

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

European Beech
European BeechFagus sylvatica1,506 recordsMalene Thyssen · CC BY-SA 3.0
Tufted Hair-grass
Tufted Hair-grassDeschampsia cespitosa789 recordsChristian Fischer · CC BY-SA 3.0
Soft Rush
Soft RushJuncus effusus551 recordsThe original uploader was Meggar at English Wikipedia . · CC BY-SA 3.0
Sycamore
SycamoreAcer pseudoplatanus536 recordsChristian Pirkl · CC BY-SA 3.0 at
Wood-sorrel
Wood-sorrelOxalis acetosella534 recordsJörg Hempel · CC BY-SA 3.0 de
AshNT
AshFraxinus excelsior445 recordsWillow · CC BY 2.5
Rabelera holostea
Rabelera holosteaRabelera holostea410 recordsiNaturalist.org (spoonbilling) · CC BY 4.0
American milletgrass
American milletgrassMilium effusum410 recordsJames K. Lindsey · CC BY-SA 3.0
Pedunculate Oak
Pedunculate OakQuercus robur405 recordsAlgirdas at Lithuanian Wikipedia · Public domain
European Alder
European AlderAlnus glutinosa397 recordsAEngelhardt · CC BY-SA 3.0
Norway Spruce
Norway SprucePicea abies390 recordsIvar Leidus · CC BY-SA 3.0 ee
Yellow Iris
Yellow IrisIris pseudacorus342 recordsJean-Jacques MILAN · 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.

58out of 100

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

  • 41%Treesof the land within 3 km
  • 75%Wildno towns or farmland within 10 km
  • 1,003Speciesrecorded more than once within 5 km
  • 52 mAltitudeabove the sea

When to walk

Best for walking in June and from August to September.

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

  1. Jan2°-1°67 mm
  2. Feb2°-1°54 mm
  3. Mar5°0°45 mm
  4. Apr10°3°37 mm
  5. May15°8°51 mm
  6. Jun18°12°73 mm
  7. Jul21°15°79 mm
  8. Aug20°15°88 mm
  9. Sep17°12°57 mm
  10. Oct12°7°77 mm
  11. Nov7°4°68 mm
  12. Dec4°1°70 mm
  • Bar: walking comfort; the number on top is the average maximum.
  • Below: average minimum (NASA, 1991–2020).
  • Rain: monthly total.

The place

Valby Hegn.

Valby Hegn is a forest in Denmark.

Seen from space, 41% of the land within 3 km is trees, and 75% of the land within 10 km has no towns or farmland.

1,003 species have been recorded around it: 716 plants, 121 fungi, 132 birds and 34 mammals.

The most recorded plants are: European Beech, Tufted Hair-grass and Soft Rush.

The best time to walk is in June and from August to September.

Edge of the wood - I skovbrynet - Valby Hegn i november - panoramio
Jens Cederskjold · 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.

Valby Hegn 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 kmSøborg Sø, Landevejen - Rød Kløversti Ramløse, Hvide- og Grønnekilder
  • 2named and notable trees within 6 kmTinghuslærken, Klinkeport Egene
  • 22picnic sites within 4 km
  • 41shelters and huts within 6 kmGrønnekilde and 40 more
  • 76car parks within 3 km
  • 26campsites within 10 kmBolandshus, Vejby Strand Camping, Bakkehus and 23 more
  • 14places to stay within 10 kmBymose Hegn Hotel og Kursuscenter, Mariegaarden, Refugium Smidstrup Strand and 11 more
  • 6restaurants and cafés within 3 km
  • viewpoints within 5 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 Valby Hegn.

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.

Peakyas10 mountains within 25 km
Stavnshøje6.1 kmStore Orebjerg23 m · 7.2 kmMultebjerg8.4 kmVittenbjerg10 kmStrø Bjerg19 kmOdinshøj41 m · 19 kmStrø Bjerge19 kmDanshøj23 km
Islandyasthe island
Zealand7,031 km²
Coastya2 beaches within 10 km
Vejby Strand7.6 kmSmidstrup Strand8.0 km
Lakeyas2 lakes within 15 km
Lake Esrum16 km² · 10 kmArresø38 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.

Autumn sun - Valby Hegn in November - panoramio
Jens Cederskjold · CC BY 3.0
Valby Hegn alte Buche 1+
Michael Fiegle · CC BY-SA 4.0
I skovens dybe stille ro - In the deep quiet of the forest - Flickr - Cederskjold - The Dane
Jens Cederskjold from København S, Danmark · CC BY-SA 2.0

Other forests nearby.

Valby Hegn

Denmark

  • 58Forestyas Score
  • 41%Trees
  • 75%Wild
  • 1,003Species

Gribskov

Denmark · 8 km

  • 83Forestyas Score
  • 74%Trees
  • 79%Wild
  • 1,880Species

See the guide

Store Dyrehave

Denmark · 17 km

  • 79Forestyas Score
  • 70%Trees
  • 74%Wild
  • 1,559Species

See the guide

Rude Skov

Denmark · 28 km

  • 72Forestyas Score
  • 60%Trees
  • 82%Wild
  • 1,811Species

See the guide

Where these figures come from

Name and typeWikidata (Q23734919) · CC0
Land coverESA WorldCover 10 m 2021 v200 · © ESA WorldCover project / Copernicus Sentinel data · CC BY 4.0
Species35,517 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, Coastya, Lakeyas

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

The family

Do you prefer beaches, lakes, mountains, waterfalls, islands, rivers, canyons, caves, dark skies, viewpoints, birdwatching or forests?

Same idea, other landscapes: field atlases built on open data, in seven languages.

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