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Wirral Peninsula

Rosser1954 · CC BY 4.0

32% trees around it and 1,600 species recorded.

55Forestyas Score

ForestFungiBirdsWildlife

  • trees within 3 km32%
  • wild within 10 km74%
  • species recorded1,600

The forest around

32% 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 41%Grassland 52%Cropland 4%Built-up 3%Trees 31%Grassland 41%Cropland 19%Built-up 9%Trees 28%Grassland 30%Wetland 1%Water 10%Bare ground 0%Cropland 15%Built-up 15%Trees 17%Grassland 26%Wetland 5%Water 28%Cropland 6%Built-up 18%32%trees · 3 km

Trees, ring by ring

  • 0–1 km41%
  • 1–3 km31%
  • 3–6 km28%
  • 6–10 km17%

What covers the land (1–3 km)

  • Trees31%
  • Grassland41%
  • Wetland0%
  • Water0%
  • Cropland19%
  • Built-up9%

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

1,600 species recorded.

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

Hogweed
HogweedHeracleum sphondylium147 recordsUnknown author · CC BY-SA 3.0
Lesser Celandine
Lesser CelandineFicaria verna138 recordsAnRo0002 · CC0
Cow Parsley
Cow ParsleyAnthriscus sylvestris131 recordsEpgrande · CC BY 4.0
Common Ivy
Common IvyHedera helix127 recordskallerna · CC BY-SA 4.0
Garlic Mustard
Garlic MustardAlliaria petiolata126 recordsO. Pichard · CC BY-SA 3.0
Green alkanet
Green alkanetPentaglottis sempervirens124 recordsLuis Fernández García · CC BY-SA 3.0
Herb bennet
Herb bennetGeum urbanum124 recordsDidier Descouens · CC BY-SA 4.0
English holly
English hollyIlex aquifolium117 recordsUnknown author · Public domain
Sycamore
SycamoreAcer pseudoplatanus113 recordsChristian Pirkl · CC BY-SA 3.0 at
Common Hawthorn
Common HawthornCrataegus monogyna106 recordsUnknown author · CC BY-SA 3.0
Cobnut
CobnutCorylus avellana92 recordsMPF · CC BY-SA 3.0
Herb-robert
Herb-robertGeranium robertianum92 recordsEpgrande · CC BY 4.0

Open records within 5 km (GBIF, licensed for any use). Busy places are better recorded than remote ones.

In numbers

The forest, measured.

55out of 100

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

  • 32%Treesof the land within 3 km
  • 74%Wildno towns or farmland within 10 km
  • 1,600Speciesrecorded more than once within 5 km

When to walk

Best for walking from July to August.

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

  1. Jan7°3°87 mm
  2. Feb7°3°72 mm
  3. Mar8°3°66 mm
  4. Apr11°5°56 mm
  5. May14°8°64 mm
  6. Jun17°11°78 mm
  7. Jul19°13°86 mm
  8. Aug18°13°91 mm
  9. Sep17°11°80 mm
  10. Oct13°9°98 mm
  11. Nov10°6°100 mm
  12. Dec7°4°102 mm
  • Bar: walking comfort; the number on top is the average maximum.
  • Below: average minimum (NASA, 1991–2020).
  • Rain: monthly total.

The place

Wirral Peninsula.

Peninsula in North West England

Wirral Peninsula is a forest in United Kingdom.

Seen from space, 32% of the land within 3 km is trees, and 74% of the land within 10 km has no towns or farmland.

1,600 species have been recorded around it: 944 plants, 431 fungi, 199 birds and 26 mammals.

The most recorded plants are: Hogweed, Lesser Celandine and Cow Parsley.

The best time to walk is from July to August.

The Hoylake seafront, the Wirral. View north
Rosser1954 · CC BY 4.0

Get there and walk

Plan the visit

A guided walk, a bed nearby, a car.

Guided forest walks and tours near Wirral PeninsulaGetYourGuideSee prices Cabins and stays near Wirral PeninsulaBooking.comSee prices Car hire at LPL airport (Liverpool)Discover CarsSee prices 

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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.

Wirral Peninsula 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 kmNorth Cheshire Way, Wirral Way, Wirral Circular Trail and 1 more
  • 1named and notable trees within 6 km
  • 18picnic sites within 4 km
  • 11shelters and huts within 6 km
  • 2viewpoints within 5 km
  • 66car parks within 3 km
  • 8campsites within 10 kmFiveways Caravan Park, Oakwood Farm Touring Park, Burton’s Acre and 5 more
  • 42places to stay within 10 kmWoodcote House, Mercure Chester North Woodhey House Hotel, Premier Inn and 39 more
  • 10restaurants and cafés within 3 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 Wirral Peninsula.

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.

Peakyas46 mountains within 25 km
Moel Plas-yw420 m · 22 kmMoel Llys-y-coed465 m · 22 kmMoel Arthur456 m · 22 kmMoel y Parc398 m · 23 kmPenycloddiau440 m · 23 kmMoel Famau555 m · 24 kmMoel Dywyll475 m · 24 kmBryn Alyn408 m · 24 km
Islandyasthe island
Great Britain228,938 km²
Viewyas1 viewpoints within 15 km
The Wheel of Liverpool11 km
Cavernyas2 caves within 20 km
Ogof Hesp Alyn19 kmOgof Nadolig19 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.

Thurstaston beach - IMG 0859
Rept0n1x · CC BY-SA 3.0

Other forests nearby.

Wirral Peninsula

United Kingdom

  • 55Forestyas Score
  • 32%Trees
  • 74%Wild
  • 1,600Species

Gwydir Forest

United Kingdom · 58 km

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

See the guide

Delamere Forest

United Kingdom · 23 km

  • 63Forestyas Score
  • 49%Trees
  • 77%Wild
  • 1,108Species

See the guide

Grizedale Forest

United Kingdom · 116 km

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

See the guide

Where these figures come from

Name and typeWikidata (Q1191558) · CC0
Land coverESA WorldCover 10 m 2021 v200 · © ESA WorldCover project / Copernicus Sentinel data · CC BY 4.0
Species61,491 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, Viewyas, Cavernyas

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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