Farcet’s biggest
Crown Lakes
Park or garden
36 ha (88 acres)5.5 km of path
1 h 15 minto walk all 5.5 km of path
50 pitchesfootball pitches would fit
Centralin the middle of Farcet
Directionsto the nearest entrance
Photo: Tim Heaton · CC BY-SA 2.0B+Outdoors Grade
Outdoors in Farcet · parks, paths & countryside
Farcet has more park space per resident than 9 in 10 UK towns
Parks and playing fields in Farcet add up to 13.8 ha for every 1,000 residents; the typical UK town has 2.1. 27 km of footpaths run through the village and the kilometre around it, 3.5 for every square kilometre. A park or playing field is within a 5-minute walk for 77% of residents. Farcet grades B+ for the outdoors. A character grade: it isn’t part of the overall grade.
Green space
13.8 ha
per 1,000 residents
Typical UK town 2.1
Near a park
77%
of residents within 400 m
Typical UK town 83%
Footpaths
27 km
3.5 km per km², town + 1 km
Typical UK town 3.0 per km²
Protected landscape
0%
of the land within 5 km
Outdoors grade
Farcet grades B+ for the outdoors
Each chart is every UK town of 1,000 or more on one measure: the green bar is Farcet, 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 66% of UK towns27th of 60 UK villages its size
Public green space13.8 haper 1,000 residents: parks, gardens, playing fields, play spaces
98out of
100
100
A park within a walk77%of residents within 400 m (a 5-minute walk)
40out of
100
100
National Park or National Landscape0%of the land within 5 km · None within 5 km
31out of
100
100
Footpaths3.5 kmper km², the town and 1 km around it
71out 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.
Villages its size
Farcet is 27th of 60 UK villages its size for the outdoors
The 60 UK towns and cities of 1,500 to 1,700 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
Farcet3.5
Villages its size2.6
Cambridgeshire towns2.0
All UK towns3.0
Green space, ha per 1,000 residents
Farcet13.8
Villages its size2.2
Cambridgeshire towns1.9
All UK towns2.1
Residents within 400 m of a park
Farcet77%
Villages its size81%
Cambridgeshire towns79%
All UK towns83%
Against villages its size, Farcet stands out most for park space per resident: only 3 of the other 59 have more.
Show as a table
| Town | Outdoors | Green space | Near a park | Path per km² | Protected | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Portskewett Gwent | A+ | 10 | 100% | 2.9 | 3% |
| 2 | Stanhope County Durham | A+ | 7.7 | 100% | 3.5 | 86% |
| 3 | Melton Suffolk | A+ | 6.5 | 100% | 4.1 | 33% |
| 4 | Salcombe Devon | A+ | 2 | 100% | 3.3 | 65% |
| 5 | Finberry Kent | A+ | 4 | 100% | 5.1 | 2% |
| 6 | Dobcross Greater Manchester | A+ | 2.8 | 100% | 4.8 | 22% |
| 7 | Crockenhill Kent | A+ | 5.2 | 100% | 3.1 | 27% |
| 8 | Wood Street Village Surrey | A+ | 25.7 | 81% | 4.9 | 18% |
| 9 | Ducklington Oxfordshire | A | 10.1 | 79% | 4.8 | 4% |
| 10 | Roydon Essex | A | 3.5 | 100% | 4.9 | 0% |
| 11 | St Athan South Glamorgan | A | 2.2 | 100% | 3 | 0% |
| 12 | Sabden Lancashire | A− | 0.8 | 100% | 5 | 38% |
| 13 | Hale Bank Cheshire | A− | 9.1 | 100% | 1.4 | 0% |
| 14 | Oakenshaw West Yorkshire | A− | 7.4 | 100% | 3 | 0% |
| 15 | West Wellow Hampshire | A− | 3.6 | 82% | 2.7 | 51% |
| 16 | Woodhouse Eaves Leicestershire | A− | 35.7 | 85% | 3.8 | 0% |
| 17 | Kewstoke Somerset | A− | 1.3 | 74% | 4.3 | 1% |
| 18 | Sonning Berkshire | A− | 11.1 | 80% | 2.5 | 7% |
| 19 | Thorpe-le-Soken Essex | A− | 4.2 | 100% | 1.4 | 0% |
| 20 | East Dean and Friston East Sussex | B+ | 1.2 | 18% | 4.6 | 58% |
| 21 | Stithians Cornwall | B+ | 3.2 | 80% | 3.4 | 3% |
| 22 | Staining Lancashire | B+ | 2.6 | 100% | 1.9 | 0% |
| 23 | King's Cliffe Northamptonshire | B+ | 3.3 | 100% | 2.9 | 0% |
| 24 | Seal Kent | B+ | 3.3 | 78% | 2.1 | 77% |
| 25 | Littlebourne Kent | B+ | 1.6 | 100% | 3 | 9% |
| 26 | Ambergate Derbyshire | B+ | 2.4 | 100% | 3.4 | 0% |
| 27 | Farcet Cambridgeshire | B+ | 13.8 | 77% | 3.5 | 0% |
| 28 | Mount Hawke Cornwall | B | 1.4 | 85% | 2 | 6% |
| 29 | Fence Lancashire | B | 1.3 | 62% | 6.2 | 32% |
| 30 | Wick Gloucestershire | B− | 1.8 | 56% | 3.6 | 39% |
| 31 | Sibertswold Kent | B− | 1.9 | 79% | 2.2 | 38% |
| 32 | Gotham Nottinghamshire | B− | 3.9 | 83% | 2.4 | 0% |
| 33 | Whittington Shropshire | B− | 3.7 | 100% | 1 | 0% |
| 34 | South Witham Lincolnshire | B− | 2.5 | 100% | 1.9 | 0% |
| 35 | High Harrington Cumbria | C+ | 0.5 | 100% | 1.9 | 0% |
| 36 | Evenwood County Durham | C+ | 3.4 | 100% | 0.8 | 0% |
| 37 | Everton Hampshire | C+ | 1.3 | 58% | 1.5 | 37% |
| 38 | Norton (Norton Juxta Kempsey) Worcestershire | C+ | 0.9 | 100% | 3 | 0% |
| 39 | Bacton and Cotton Suffolk | C+ | 4.4 | 70% | 2.5 | 0% |
| 40 | Four Lanes Cornwall | C | 0.6 | 100% | 2.8 | 0% |
| 41 | Blisworth Northamptonshire | C | 2.2 | 81% | 2.4 | 0% |
| 42 | Buxted East Sussex | C | 1.1 | 63% | 2.4 | 52% |
| 43 | Stock Essex | C | 2.2 | 62% | 3.3 | 0% |
| 44 | Harden West Yorkshire | C | 1.8 | 40% | 5 | 0% |
| 45 | Scawby Lincolnshire | C− | 25.7 | 68% | 0.4 | 0% |
| 46 | Higher Walton Lancashire | C− | 2.2 | 61% | 2.7 | 0% |
| 47 | Arksey South Yorkshire | C− | 1.1 | 88% | 2.4 | 0% |
| 48 | Rawcliffe East Riding of Yorkshire | C− | 1 | 100% | 1.6 | 0% |
| 49 | Horsmonden Kent | C− | 0.5 | 79% | 0.9 | 50% |
| 50 | Baston Lincolnshire | C− | 2.3 | 78% | 1 | 0% |
| 51 | Ainsworth Greater Manchester | D | 0.4 | 64% | 3.2 | 0% |
| 52 | Whittlesford Cambridgeshire | D | 2.3 | 57% | 1.4 | 0% |
| 53 | Henstridge Somerset | D | 1.8 | 47% | 2 | 0% |
| 54 | Moulton Lincolnshire | D | 1.9 | 75% | 0.1 | 0% |
| 55 | Ketton Rutland | D | 2.1 | 56% | 1.4 | 0% |
| 56 | Balsham Cambridgeshire | D | 1.7 | 57% | 1.8 | 0% |
| 57 | St Erme and Trispen Cornwall | D | 0.3 | 69% | 1.2 | 2% |
| 58 | Findern Derbyshire | D | 1.8 | 40% | 1.9 | 0% |
| 59 | Walpole St Peter and Walpole St Andrew Norfolk | D− | 1.7 | 52% | 0.2 | 0% |
| 60 | School Aycliffe County Durham | D− | 0 | 0% | 2.5 | 0% |
The map
Parks, footpaths & countryside
Tap a number to zoom to a park. Tap a layer to hide it. The dashed line is Farcet’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 Farcet
The biggest is Crown Lakes, 36 ha (88 acres). Directions go to the park’s nearest public entrance where Ordnance Survey maps one.
Close to home
8 in 10 Farcet residents live within a 5-minute walk of 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 (77%)Further (23%)
Farcet77%
Villages its size81%
Cambridgeshire towns79%
All UK towns83%
About 400 people live further than that. Playing fields count, so a park within reach isn’t always one with paths or trees; 28 playgrounds are mapped in and around the village, about one for every 57 residents.
Footpaths & waymarked walks
Footpaths in and around Farcet
27 km of footpaths, bridleways and rights of way are mapped in Farcet and the kilometre around it, 3.5 km for every square kilometre (the typical UK town has 3.0).
No named walking route is mapped within 2 km of Farcet; its footpaths are on the map above.
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 Farcet: May to September
The village’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) | 8.2 | 9.8 | 11.7 | 13.9 | 15.7 | 16.8 | 16.4 | 14.7 | 12.6 | 10.5 | 8.6 | 7.7 |
| High (°C) | 8 | 9 | 11 | 14 | 18 | 20 | 23 | 23 | 20 | 15 | 11 | 8 |
| Rain (mm) | 50 | 38 | 36 | 42 | 48 | 50 | 56 | 60 | 53 | 59 | 54 | 51 |
March is the driest month (36 mm) and July the warmest (highs of 23 °C). Winter days are short, about 8 hours of daylight in December, and 60 mm of rain falls in August, the wettest month. Frost comes on about 43 nights a year. The climate in Farcet →
Things to do
28 playgrounds
Mapped within 2 km of the village in OpenStreetMap, against the typical UK village its size per resident. Named places are listed with directions; unnamed ones are only counted.
Every named place, with directions
Viewpoints 1
Plus 1 viewpoint without a name on the map.
Playgrounds 28
Plus 28 playgrounds without a name on the map.
Slipways 1
Plus 1 slipway 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.
YaxleyPeterboroughStiltonWhittleseyEyeCastor and AilsworthFarcet
ABCDOutdoors Grade
| Town | Outdoors | Green space, ha per 1,000 | Near a park | Protected within 5 km |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Farcet | B+ | 13.8 | 77% | 0% |
| Yaxley 1.8 mi | B− | 2.6 | 90% | 0% |
| Peterborough 3.0 mi | B+ | 3.7 | 96% | 0% |
| Stilton 4.2 mi | C− | 0.8 | 100% | 0% |
| Whittlesey 4.5 mi | D | 1.7 | 73% | 0% |
| Eye 5.3 mi | D | 1.4 | 77% | 0% |
| Castor and Ailsworth 5.6 mi | C | 3.4 | 41% | 0% |
Peterborough, 3 miles away, grades B+, the best next door: 96% of its residents live within 400 m of a park. None of the neighbours has a protected landscape within 5 km either.
Questions about the outdoors in Farcet
What is the biggest park in Farcet?
Crown Lakes, 36 ha (88 acres), with 5.5 km of path. 1 named park, garden or playing field is in the village or within 400 m of it.
Is Farcet near a National Park?
No National Park or National Landscape is within 30 km (about 19 miles) of Farcet.
How many people in Farcet live near a park?
77% 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 Farcet?
May to September: the longest days, the warmest afternoons and the least rain of the year, from the Met Office 1991–2020 averages.
Is Farcet good for walking?
For paths, yes: 3.5 km of footpath and right of way per square kilometre, more than 71% of UK towns. For park space per person it beats 98% (13.8 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 Farcet’s overall grade.
Sources
Where Farcet’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.
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