Wing’s biggest
Jubilee Green
Playing field
1.5 ha (4 acres)0.2 km of path
2 pitchesfootball pitches would fit
Centralin the middle of Wing
Directionsto the nearest entrance
Photo: Dorothea Witter-Rieder · CC BY-SA 3.0BOutdoors Grade
Outdoors in Wing · parks, paths & countryside
Almost everyone in Wing lives within a 5-minute walk of a park
The Chilterns National Landscape begins 5.2 mi from the town’s edge. Footpaths add up to 28 km in the town and the kilometre around it, 3.0 for every square kilometre. Parks and playing fields in Wing add up to 2.4 ha for every 1,000 residents; the typical UK town has 2.1. Wing grades B for the outdoors: #23 of 39 in Buckinghamshire. A character grade: it isn’t part of the overall grade.
Green space
2.4 ha
per 1,000 residents
Typical UK town 2.1
Near a park
100%
of residents within 400 m
Typical UK town 83%
Footpaths
28 km
3.0 km per km², town + 1 km
Typical UK town 3.0 per km²
Protected landscape
0%
of the land within 5 km
Chilterns starts 5.2 mi out, past the 5 km
Character
What kind of outdoors town is Wing?
Read from the data: what stands out first, good and bad.
A park on every doorstep100% of residents live within 400 m of a park or playing field.Countryside close byThe Chilterns National Landscape starts 5.2 mi south-east.
Wing’s strongest suit is parks close to every home, followed by the Chilterns National Landscape close by.
Outdoors grade
Wing grades B for the outdoors
Each chart is every UK town of 1,000 or more on one measure: the green bar is Wing, the dashed line the typical town. The number is the share of towns it beats; the five are averaged and the average ranked again.
B
Better than 65% of UK towns#23 of 39 in Buckinghamshire · 23rd of 60 UK towns its size
Public green space2.4 haper 1,000 residents: parks, gardens, playing fields, play spaces
57out of
100
100
A park within a walk100%of residents within 400 m (a 5-minute walk)
89out of
100
100
National Park or National Landscape0%of the land within 5 km · Chilterns begins just past 5 km
31out of
100
100
Footpaths3.0 kmper km², the town and 1 km around it
61out of
100
100
The sea0%of the area within 5 km · Inland
42out of
100
100
Graded, never part of the overall grade (like History and Civic life). It measures what is mapped: OS Open Greenspace leaves out woodland and open-access land that isn’t a park, and OpenStreetMap’s rural paths are more complete in some places than others.
Towns its size
Wing is 23rd of 60 UK towns its size for the outdoors
The 60 UK towns and cities of 2,800 to 3,100 people with an Outdoors Grade. Hover a dot for its figures; tap one for its page.
Outdoors score: the share of UK towns each one beats
Footpath, km per km²
Wing3.0
Towns its size2.4
Buckinghamshire towns3.2
All UK towns3.0
Green space, ha per 1,000 residents
Wing2.4
Towns its size2.3
Buckinghamshire towns2.4
All UK towns2.1
Residents within 400 m of a park
Wing100%
Towns its size87%
Buckinghamshire towns74%
All UK towns83%
Against towns its size, Wing stands out most for path per km²: only 22 of the other 59 have more.
Show as a table
| Town | Outdoors | Green space | Near a park | Path per km² | Protected | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Rowlands Castle Hampshire | A+ | 26.1 | 100% | 5 | 48% |
| 2 | Halling Kent | A+ | 3.8 | 100% | 4.6 | 54% |
| 3 | Arundel West Sussex | A+ | 4.4 | 100% | 3.8 | 56% |
| 4 | Theale Berkshire | A+ | 5 | 100% | 3.8 | 39% |
| 5 | Cuxton Kent | A+ | 25.2 | 90% | 4 | 44% |
| 6 | Horton Heath Hampshire | A+ | 10 | 100% | 3.3 | 13% |
| 7 | Beaminster Dorset | A | 4.1 | 89% | 3.4 | 100% |
| 8 | Ebbsfleet Valley Kent | A | 9 | 77% | 8.3 | 0% |
| 9 | Downton Wiltshire | A | 4.3 | 100% | 2 | 59% |
| 10 | Langwith Derbyshire | A | 19.6 | 100% | 3.7 | 0% |
| 11 | Ellistown Leicestershire | A | 7.5 | 100% | 3.8 | 0% |
| 12 | Llangollen Clwyd | A | 3.5 | 91% | 2.5 | 76% |
| 13 | Mortimer Berkshire | A | 2.4 | 100% | 3.8 | 0% |
| 14 | Menai Bridge Gwynedd | A | 1.8 | 100% | 2.4 | 7% |
| 15 | New Marske North Yorkshire | A− | 4.4 | 90% | 1.3 | 0% |
| 16 | Wargrave Berkshire | A− | 4 | 100% | 2 | 11% |
| 17 | Knighton Powys | A− | 2.7 | 81% | 3.4 | 34% |
| 18 | Seaton Sluice Northumberland | A− | 2.2 | 100% | 2 | 0% |
| 19 | Rhodes Greater Manchester | B+ | 16.6 | 78% | 4.2 | 0% |
| 20 | Milton-under-Wychwood and Shipton-under-Wychwood Oxfordshire | B+ | 4.1 | 87% | 1.3 | 100% |
| 21 | Welham Green Hertfordshire | B+ | 2.5 | 93% | 4.4 | 0% |
| 22 | Almondsbury Gloucestershire | B+ | 7.9 | 77% | 4 | 0% |
| 23 | Wing Buckinghamshire | B | 2.4 | 100% | 3 | 0% |
| 24 | Newton and Blackwell Derbyshire | B | 2.6 | 91% | 3.7 | 0% |
| 25 | Camelford Cornwall | B | 2 | 100% | 1.5 | 33% |
| 26 | Newport Essex | B | 2.5 | 100% | 2.8 | 0% |
| 27 | Denholme West Yorkshire | B | 1.6 | 100% | 3.6 | 0% |
| 28 | Scholes (near Cleckheaton) West Yorkshire | B | 4 | 89% | 2.5 | 0% |
| 29 | Weldon Northamptonshire | B | 8.2 | 100% | 1.1 | 0% |
| 30 | Bugbrooke Northamptonshire | B− | 3.7 | 80% | 3 | 0% |
| 31 | Long Hanborough Oxfordshire | B− | 1.3 | 89% | 2.7 | 18% |
| 32 | Harwell Oxfordshire | B− | 1.4 | 85% | 2.3 | 42% |
| 33 | Crumbles East Sussex | B− | 0.3 | 44% | 3.6 | 0% |
| 34 | Henley-in-Arden Warwickshire | C+ | 4.6 | 58% | 3.1 | 0% |
| 35 | Over Cambridgeshire | C+ | 1.3 | 100% | 2.7 | 0% |
| 36 | Capel St Mary Suffolk | C+ | 1.5 | 59% | 3 | 24% |
| 37 | Rolleston on Dove Staffordshire | C+ | 3.8 | 84% | 1.7 | 0% |
| 38 | Hendy and Fforest Dyfed | C | 2.1 | 100% | 0.8 | 0% |
| 39 | Sutton Courtenay Oxfordshire | C | 1.2 | 23% | 4 | 6% |
| 40 | Llanfair Pwllgwyngyll Gwynedd | C | 0.8 | 71% | 1.6 | 8% |
| 41 | Bottesford Leicestershire | C | 3.9 | 69% | 1.9 | 0% |
| 42 | Haddenham Cambridgeshire | C | 2.2 | 86% | 1.9 | 0% |
| 43 | Fenstanton Cambridgeshire | C− | 0.8 | 100% | 2 | 0% |
| 44 | Great Leighs Essex | C− | 1.5 | 87% | 2.2 | 0% |
| 45 | Lostwithiel Cornwall | C− | 1.6 | 67% | 1.5 | 11% |
| 46 | Burnopfield County Durham | C− | 1.5 | 50% | 3.3 | 0% |
| 47 | St Mary's Bay Kent | D | 0 | 0% | 1.3 | 0% |
| 48 | Cleobury Mortimer Shropshire | D | 0.8 | 64% | 2 | 2% |
| 49 | Kelsall Cheshire | D | 1 | 57% | 3.1 | 0% |
| 50 | Gamlingay Cambridgeshire | D | 2.1 | 32% | 2 | 0% |
| 51 | Scotter Lincolnshire | D | 2.6 | 61% | 0.5 | 0% |
| 52 | Gobowen Shropshire | D | 1.2 | 50% | 1.2 | 2% |
| 53 | Gilberdyke East Riding of Yorkshire | D | 0.7 | 90% | 0.3 | 0% |
| 54 | Thurston Suffolk | D | 1.6 | 39% | 2.1 | 0% |
| 55 | Bampton Oxfordshire | D | 1.1 | 63% | 2 | 0% |
| 56 | Hunmanby North Yorkshire | D | 0.3 | 33% | 1.2 | 0% |
| 57 | Kirton in Lindsey Lincolnshire | D− | 1.7 | 57% | 0.8 | 0% |
| 58 | Boroughbridge North Yorkshire | D− | 0.4 | 60% | 1.6 | 0% |
| 59 | Langstone Gwent | D− | 0.1 | 46% | 1.9 | 0% |
| 60 | Feltwell Norfolk | D− | 1.1 | 63% | 0.4 | 0% |
The map
Parks, footpaths & countryside
Tap a number to zoom to a park. Tap a layer to hide it. The dashed line is Wing’s built-up area.
Green space: parks, gardens, playing fields and play spaces, named or not.© OpenStreetMap contributors · Contains OS data © Crown copyright · Natural England / NRW
Places to walk
Parks to walk in, in and around Wing
The biggest is Jubilee Green, 1.5 ha (4 acres). Directions go to the park’s nearest public entrance where Ordnance Survey maps one.
Close to home
How close Wing’s homes are to a park
Each square is 1 in 100 residents: green lives within 400 m of a public park, garden or playing field (Census 2021 output areas against OS Open Greenspace).
Within 400 m (100%)Further (0%)
Wing100%
Towns its size87%
Buckinghamshire towns74%
All UK towns83%
Playing fields count, so a park within reach isn’t always one with paths or trees.
National Parks & National Landscapes
The Chilterns National Landscape is 5.2 mi away
Protected landscapes within 30 km, by direction and distance from the edge of the built-up area; circle size shows each one’s area. National Landscapes were called Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty until 2023.
National ParkNational LandscapeThe 5 km the grade counts
Protected landscape begins just outside the 5 km ring the Outdoors Grade measures, so Wing scores 0% on it even though the Chilterns National Landscape is 5.2 mi away.
Footpaths & waymarked walks
1 waymarked walk passes through or near Wing
28 km of footpaths, bridleways and rights of way are mapped in Wing and the kilometre around it, 3.0 km for every square kilometre (the typical UK town has 3.0). Bars show each route’s kilometres within 2 km of the town.
Regional
Outer Aylesbury Ring5.8 km
The regional route here is the Outer Aylesbury Ring.
Waymarked walks are OpenStreetMap walking routes. Public rights of way are only as complete as the map in each area.
When to get out
The best walking months in Wing: May to September
The town’s 1991–2020 averages (Met Office HadUK-Grid) and the daylight at its latitude. Outlined months have 12½+ hours of daylight, highs of 15 °C or more and little rain for the town.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Daylight (h) | 8.3 | 9.9 | 11.7 | 13.8 | 15.6 | 16.7 | 16.2 | 14.6 | 12.6 | 10.5 | 8.7 | 7.8 |
| High (°C) | 7 | 8 | 10 | 14 | 17 | 20 | 22 | 22 | 19 | 14 | 10 | 8 |
| Rain (mm) | 63 | 49 | 43 | 52 | 57 | 57 | 53 | 62 | 60 | 77 | 74 | 66 |
March is the driest month (43 mm) and July the warmest (highs of 22 °C). Winter days are short, about 8 hours of daylight in December, and 77 mm of rain falls in October, the wettest month. Frost comes on about 48 nights a year. The climate in Wing →
Things to do
Viewpoints, hills and nature near Wing
Mapped within 2 km of the town in OpenStreetMap, against the typical UK town its size per resident. Named places are listed with directions; unnamed ones are only counted.
The nearest beaches
Wing is inland. These are the nearest named beaches, measured from the edge of the town.
The Beach11 mi from Wing’s edge
DirectionsGood to know
Check the water before you swim. The Environment Agency tests designated bathing waters from May to September and publishes a rating for each beach.
Every named place, with directions
Playgrounds 1
Plus 1 playground without a name on the map.
Next door
The outdoors in nearby towns
The nearest towns of 1,000+ within 12 miles. Tap a town for its outdoors page.
WingraveLeighton BuzzardStewkleyStoke HammondHeath and ReachCheddingtonWing
ABCDOutdoors Grade
| Town | Outdoors | Green space, ha per 1,000 | Near a park | Protected within 5 km |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wing | B | 2.4 | 100% | 0% |
| Wingrave 2.5 mi | B− | 3.7 | 100% | 0% |
| Leighton Buzzard 2.9 mi | C+ | 1.5 | 85% | 0% |
| Stewkley 2.9 mi | C | 4.2 | 74% | 0% |
| Stoke Hammond 4.0 mi | C | 1.8 | 100% | 0% |
| Heath and Reach 4.2 mi | A− | 3.3 | 100% | 0% |
| Cheddington 4.3 mi | C+ | 2.2 | 35% | 16% |
Heath and Reach, 4.2 miles away, grades A−, the best next door: every resident lives within 400 m of a park.
Questions about the outdoors in Wing
What is the biggest park in Wing?
Jubilee Green, 1.5 ha (4 acres). 1 named park, garden or playing field is in the town or within 400 m of it.
Is Wing near a National Park?
The nearest protected landscape is the Chilterns National Landscape, 5.2 mi south-east of the town’s edge. It covers 838 km² and was designated in 1990.
What are the best walks near Wing?
1 waymarked walking route passes within 2 km of the town, including the Outer Aylesbury Ring.
What is the nearest beach to Wing?
The Beach, 11 mi from the edge of the town. Wing itself is inland.
How many people in Wing live near a park?
100% of residents live within 400 m, about a 5-minute walk, of a public park, garden or playing field (Census 2021 output areas against OS Open Greenspace). The typical UK town is 83%.
When is the best time of year for walking in Wing?
May to September: the longest days, the warmest afternoons and the least rain of the year, from the Met Office 1991–2020 averages.
Is Wing good for walking?
For paths, yes: 3.0 km of footpath and right of way per square kilometre, more than 61% of UK towns. For park space per person it beats 57% (2.4 ha per 1,000 residents).
How is the Outdoors Grade worked out?
From five measures, each placed among UK towns of 1,000 or more: public green space per resident, the share living near a park, National Park or National Landscape within 5 km, footpaths per square kilometre, and the sea within 5 km. It is a character grade and isn’t part of Wing’s overall grade.
Sources
Where Wing’s outdoors figures come from
- Parks and green space: Ordnance Survey OS Open Greenspace (parks and gardens, playing fields, play spaces, and their access points). Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0.
- National Parks and National Landscapes: Natural England and Natural Resources Wales boundaries, areas and designation dates, Open Government Licence v3.0.
- Footpaths, walking routes, beaches and things to do: © OpenStreetMap contributors, Open Database License (ODbL), via Geofabrik, 16 October 2026.
- Historic parks, listed buildings and monuments: Historic England, National Heritage List for England, Open Government Licence v3.0.
- Rain and temperature: Met Office HadUK-Grid 1991–2020 averages for the town; daylight calculated from its latitude.
- The sea: ONS Countries (December 2024) boundaries clipped to mean high water. Residents near a park: ONS Census 2021 output areas.
- Grade: TownRatings’ Outdoors Grade, ranked against UK towns only.
Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026 (ONS boundaries). Northern Ireland: Source: NISRA; contains Land & Property Services data and Ordnance Survey of Northern Ireland information, © Crown copyright, licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Scotland: contains National Records of Scotland data, Registers of Scotland data and SEPA data, © Crown copyright / © SEPA 2025, licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.