Photo: Xfigpower · CC BY-SA 4.0Parks, woods and footpaths in Bricquebec-en-Cotentin
32 km of footpaths cross Bricquebec-en-Cotentin (0.4 km per km²). No protected area reaches Bricquebec-en-Cotentin; the nearest, Marais du Cotentin et du Bessin Regional Nature Park, is 4.3 km from the town center. Mapped woodland covers 13% of Bricquebec-en-Cotentin. France has no Outdoors Grade yet: these are the figures, each beside the compared towns’ median.
Throughout this page, the Manche median and the France median are the median of compared communes (those with an overall grade), each figure its own median.
What kind of outdoors place is Bricquebec-en-Cotentin?
Read from the data: what stands out first, good and less good.
What sets Bricquebec-en-Cotentin apart: protected land close by. It is shorter on footpaths.
How Bricquebec-en-Cotentin compares with French towns
Each figure against the 3,798 compared French towns (communes with an overall grade): the marked bar is the town’s, the line the median. Described, not graded.
Percentiles among compared French towns; ties count half.
Bricquebec-en-Cotentin has the 6th fewest footpaths per km² of 41 towns its size
The 40 compared French towns nearest in population (5,835 to 5,951 residents), by km of footpath per km². Hover for each one’s protected land and woods; click for its page.
From Grand-Charmont (5.8 km per km²) to Lesparre-Médoc (0.1 km per km²).
Every town in the comparison
| Town | Paths (km/km²) | Woodland | Protected | Coast | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Grand-Charmont Doubs | 5.8 | 39% | 0% | 420 km |
| 2 | Chambourcy Yvelines | 4.7 | 37% | 0% | 133 km |
| 3 | Saint-Arnoult-en-Yvelines Yvelines | 3.7 | 50% | 0.1% | 150 km |
| 4 | Fleury-sur-Orne Calvados | 3.6 | 3.3% | 0% | 17 km |
| 5 | Boé Lot-et-Garonne | 3.2 | 2.6% | 4.3% | 135 km |
| 6 | Saintry-sur-Seine Essonne | 3.1 | 21% | 0% | 180 km |
| 7 | Oberhausbergen Bas-Rhin | 3.1 | 6.2% | 0% | 446 km |
| 8 | Douvrin Pas-de-Calais | 3.1 | 8.1% | 0% | 67 km |
| 9 | Tain-l'Hermitage Drôme | 3.1 | 0.9% | 0% | 179 km |
| 10 | Ludres Meurthe-et-Moselle | 2.9 | 24% | 0% | 369 km |
| 11 | Seloncourt Doubs | 2.8 | 36% | 0% | 412 km |
| 12 | Saint-Zacharie Var | 2.7 | 42% | 100% | 22 km |
| 13 | Riantec Morbihan | 2.6 | 27% | 7% | On it |
| 14 | Quiévrechain Nord | 2.5 | 13% | 97% | 107 km |
| 15 | Raon-l'Étape Vosges | 2.4 | 69% | 2% | 421 km |
| 16 | Garéoult Var | 2.2 | 30% | 51% | 26 km |
| 17 | Saint-Pierre-d'Irube Pyrénées-Atlantiques | 2 | 27% | 13% | 8.6 km |
| 18 | Eschau Bas-Rhin | 2 | 11% | 19% | 457 km |
| 19 | Ventabren Bouches-du-Rhône | 1.9 | 8% | 45% | 20 km |
| 20 | Arradon Morbihan | 1.8 | 16% | 100% | On it |
| 21 | Ciboure Pyrénées-Atlantiques | 1.8 | 30% | 16% | On it |
| 22 | Sains-en-Gohelle Pas-de-Calais | 1.7 | 1.5% | 0% | 70 km |
| 23 | Le Puy-Sainte-Réparade Bouches-du-Rhône | 1.7 | 26% | 5.4% | 34 km |
| 24 | Port-la-Nouvelle Aude | 1.6 | 5.2% | 82% | On it |
| 25 | Saint-André-de-la-Roche Alpes-Maritimes | 1.6 | 28% | 0% | 4.4 km |
| 26 | La Wantzenau Bas-Rhin | 1.5 | 27% | 41% | 449 km |
| 27 | Gond-Pontouvre Charente | 1.4 | 15% | 16% | 77 km |
| 28 | Fontenilles Haute-Garonne | 1.4 | 13% | 0% | 163 km |
| 29 | Aixe-sur-Vienne Haute-Vienne | 1 | 12% | 0% | 153 km |
| 30 | Grand-Champ Morbihan | 0.9 | 17% | 0% | 11 km |
| 31 | Montdidier Somme | 0.8 | 5.3% | 0% | 87 km |
| 32 | Saint-Martin-lez-Tatinghem Pas-de-Calais | 0.7 | 0.3% | 100% | 27 km |
| 33 | Bessan Hérault | 0.6 | 3.4% | 39% | 8.1 km |
| 34 | Le Poinçonnet Indre | 0.5 | 66% | 0% | 224 km |
| 35 | Bellevigne-en-Layon Maine-et-Loire | 0.4 | 14% | 0.1% | 113 km |
| 36 | Bricquebec-en-Cotentin Manche | 0.4 | 13% | 0% | 13 km |
| 37 | Fismes Marne | 0.4 | 21% | 0% | 174 km |
| 38 | Nègrepelisse Tarn-et-Garonne | 0.2 | 13% | 1% | 167 km |
| 39 | Montpon-Ménestérol Dordogne | 0.2 | 37% | 12% | 59 km |
| 40 | Rabastens Tarn | 0.2 | 4.3% | 0.1% | 139 km |
| 41 | Lesparre-Médoc Gironde | 0.1 | 58% | 100% | 11 km |
Parks, woods, footpaths & countryside
Tap a number to zoom to a park or wood. Tap a layer to hide it. The dashed line is the commune’s boundary.
Parks and woods to walk in, in and around Bricquebec-en-Cotentin
Named parks, gardens and woods in the commune or within 400 m, the biggest and best-pathed first: Bois de Brémont leads, at 69 ha. Directions go to a point inside.
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL): named parks, gardens and woods; sizes are the whole site.
9 in 10 residents of Bricquebec-en-Cotentin live within 800 m of a park or wood
Each square is 1 resident in 100: in green, those within 800 m, as the crow flies, of a mapped park, garden or woodland edge (INSEE’s 200 m population grid against OpenStreetMap).
Residents within 800 m of green space · share of residents
About 300 residents live further away. The distance is a straight line to the edge of a mapped park or wood, not a walk to a gate, and a wood can be private.
Marais du Cotentin et du Bessin Regional Nature Park is the nearest protected area, 4.3 km away
The protected areas reaching the commune, and the nearest: national parks, regional nature parks, nature reserves and Natura 2000 sites.
Marais du Cotentin et du Bessin Regional Nature Park
Share of the commune’s land
Designations overlap (a regional park can hold a Natura 2000 site), so the rows don’t add up; the first counts each piece of land once.
A regional nature park is a charter between communes to look after a landscape: farming, building and hunting go on inside it.
Source: INPN / PatriNat, protected areas July 2026, Natura 2000 December 2024; shares of IGN’s commune boundary.
32 km of footpaths cross Bricquebec-en-Cotentin
Paths, bridleways, steps and tracks open on foot, and waymarked hiking routes, mapped on OpenStreetMap inside the commune; woods are mapped forest and woodland, private woods included.
Km per km² of the commune · mapped on OpenStreetMap
Share of the land · mapped woods and forest
That is less than in 89% of compared French towns for footpaths per km², and for woodland less than in 51% of compared French towns. Hiking routes often follow paths and lanes already counted, so the two lengths overlap: don’t add them.
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), extracts of October 25, 2026 (Geofabrik).
The best walking months in Bricquebec-en-Cotentin: May to September
Météo-France’s 1991–2020 normals at Cherbourg-Homet, 21 km away, and the daylight at the town’s latitude. Outlined months have long days, highs of 15 to 30 °C and little rain for the place.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Daylight (h) | 8.6 | 10.0 | 11.7 | 13.7 | 15.3 | 16.3 | 15.9 | 14.4 | 12.5 | 10.7 | 9.0 | 8.2 |
| High (°C) | 9 | 9 | 11 | 13 | 15 | 18 | 20 | 21 | 19 | 16 | 13 | 10 |
| Rain (mm) | 105 | 81 | 66 | 63 | 55 | 52 | 48 | 52 | 67 | 115 | 122 | 139 |
July is the driest month (48 mm) and August the warmest (highs of 21 °C). 139 mm of rain falls in December, the wettest month. Frost comes on about 5 nights a year. The climate in Bricquebec-en-Cotentin →
Next to Bricquebec-en-Cotentin
The nearest towns of 2,500 or more, colored by the share of their land in protected areas.
| Town | Protected | Woodland | Paths (km/km²) | Coast |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bricquebec-en-Cotentin | 0% | 13% | 0.4 | 13 km |
| Les Pieux 3,249 · 13 km | 0% | 2.6% | 1 | On it |
| Valognes 6,969 · 13 km | 0% | 4.7% | 0.5 | 12 km |
| Port-Bail-sur-Mer 2,520 · 16 km | 5.8% | 0.3% | 0.8 | On it |
| Cherbourg-en-Cotentin 78,258 · 19 km | 0% | 10% | 3.1 | On it |
| Picauville 3,228 · 20 km | 100% | 2.9% | 0.2 | 15 km |
| La Haye 4,029 · 21 km | 51% | 3.6% | 0.7 | On it |
Picauville and La Haye have at least twice as much protected land.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Protected areas. National-park cores, national parks’ outer areas, regional nature parks, nature reserves and Natura 2000 sites, from INPN. A national park’s core is strictly protected; its outer area and a regional park are charters between communes, not bans. Designations overlap, so the total counts each piece of land once.
- Woodland. Forest and woods as OpenStreetMap maps them, private woods included: woods nobody has mapped are missing, and a mapped wood isn’t necessarily open to walkers.
- Footpaths and hiking routes. Footpaths, bridleways, steps and tracks open on foot, then waymarked hiking routes (GR and others) measured apart. A route often follows a path or lane already counted: the two overlap. Paths nobody has mapped are missing.
- Green space nearby. The share of residents (INSEE’s 200 m grid) within 800 m, as the crow flies, of a mapped park, garden or wood edge. It measures nearness, not a way in. Guadeloupe and French Guiana have no grid: their pages say whether the town center is within 800 m.
- The coast. The straight-line distance from the town center to OpenStreetMap’s coastline, which follows the tide line into estuaries. A commune is on the coast when the coastline crosses its boundary.
- No grade yet. U.S. and UK towns have an Outdoors Grade; French towns don’t yet. Each figure is set beside the median of compared communes (those with an overall grade) in the département and in France, each figure its own median.
Questions about the outdoors in Bricquebec-en-Cotentin
Is Bricquebec-en-Cotentin in a national or regional nature park?
No. The nearest protected area is Marais du Cotentin et du Bessin Regional Nature Park, 4.3 km from the town center.
Are there good walks in Bricquebec-en-Cotentin?
OpenStreetMap maps 32 km of footpaths and tracks open on foot in the commune, 0.4 km per km² (the median compared town: 1.7 km per km²).
How much of Bricquebec-en-Cotentin is woodland?
13% of the commune is mapped woodland, private woods included; the median compared French town has 13%.
Is Bricquebec-en-Cotentin near the sea?
No: the coast is 13 km from the town center, as the crow flies.
When is the best time for walking in Bricquebec-en-Cotentin?
May to September: long days, mild highs and little rain, from Météo-France’s 1991–2020 normals at the nearest suitable station.
Why is there no Outdoors Grade for French towns?
TownRatings grades the outdoors in the U.S. and the UK; the French figures are new and not graded yet. This page sets each one beside the median compared French town instead.
Sources: INPN / PatriNat (protected areas 2026, Natura 2000 2024) · © OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL (paths, hiking routes, woods, coast, gardens) · INSEE, Filosofi 2021 200 m grid (residents) · IGN Admin Express (boundaries) · Météo-France normals 1991–2020 · Medians and percentiles: TownRatings, over compared French towns, updated November 4, 2026. Under the Licence Ouverte / Open Licence 2.0 (Etalab).
Contains public sector information under the Licence Ouverte / Open Licence 2.0 (Etalab): INSEE, DGFiP, the Interior Ministry’s statistics service (SSMSI), the Ministry of Education (DEPP), the Health Ministry’s statistics service (DREES) and the Housing Ministry (Carte des loyers). Commune boundaries: IGN Admin Express.