Manea’s biggest
S M Guy Memorial Playing Field
Playing field
2.6 ha (6 acres)
4 pitchesfootball pitches would fit
Centralin the middle of Manea
Directionsto the nearest entrance
Photo: Derek Harper · CC BY-SA 2.0D−Outdoors Grade
Outdoors in Manea · parks, paths & countryside
Parks and walks in Manea
Footpaths add up to 12 km in the town and the kilometre around it, 1.0 for every square kilometre. Parks and playing fields in Manea add up to 1.3 ha for every 1,000 residents; the typical UK town has 2.1. A park or playing field is within a 5-minute walk for 63% of residents. Manea grades D− for the outdoors. A character grade: it isn’t part of the overall grade.
Green space
1.3 ha
per 1,000 residents
Typical UK town 2.1
Near a park
63%
of residents within 400 m
Typical UK town 83%
Footpaths
12 km
1.0 km per km², town + 1 km
Typical UK town 3.0 per km²
Protected landscape
0%
of the land within 5 km
Outdoors grade
Manea grades D− for the outdoors
Each chart is every UK town of 1,000 or more on one measure: the green bar is Manea, the dashed line the typical town. The number is the share of towns it beats; the five are averaged and the average ranked again.
D−
Better than 3% of UK towns#49 of 50 in Cambridgeshire
Public green space1.3 haper 1,000 residents: parks, gardens, playing fields, play spaces
20out of
100
100
A park within a walk63%of residents within 400 m (a 5-minute walk)
23out of
100
100
National Park or National Landscape0%of the land within 5 km · None within 5 km
31out of
100
100
Footpaths1.0 kmper km², the town and 1 km around it
7out 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
How Manea compares with UK towns of 2,500 to 2,800
The 60 UK towns and cities of 2,500 to 2,800 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
Manea1.0
Towns its size2.3
Cambridgeshire towns2.0
All UK towns3.0
Green space, ha per 1,000 residents
Manea1.3
Towns its size2.0
Cambridgeshire towns1.9
All UK towns2.1
Residents within 400 m of a park
Manea63%
Towns its size83%
Cambridgeshire towns79%
All UK towns83%
Manea falls furthest behind on path per km², where 53 of the 59 others do better.
Show as a table
| Town | Outdoors | Green space | Near a park | Path per km² | Protected | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Petworth West Sussex | A+ | 29.6 | 100% | 4.1 | 93% |
| 2 | Ambleside Cumbria | A+ | 6.9 | 92% | 4.6 | 100% |
| 3 | Tywardreath Cornwall | A+ | 4.6 | 100% | 2.5 | 26% |
| 4 | Downley Buckinghamshire | A+ | 9.5 | 76% | 7.6 | 71% |
| 5 | Hopton on Sea Norfolk | A+ | 6.7 | 100% | 1.6 | 2% |
| 6 | Yorkley and Whitecroft Gloucestershire | A | 3.3 | 74% | 6.4 | 1% |
| 7 | Hellingly East Sussex | A | 6.9 | 90% | 3.7 | 11% |
| 8 | Dolgellau Gwynedd | A | 3.6 | 100% | 1.9 | 100% |
| 9 | Hawley Hampshire | A | 6.9 | 92% | 5.8 | 0% |
| 10 | Maple Cross Hertfordshire | A | 3.1 | 100% | 2.9 | 14% |
| 11 | Darenth Kent | A− | 1.8 | 100% | 4.3 | 1% |
| 12 | Drybrook Gloucestershire | A− | 3.9 | 83% | 3.4 | 10% |
| 13 | Newington Kent | A− | 2.3 | 78% | 2.3 | 21% |
| 14 | Combe Martin Devon | A− | 1.8 | 88% | 1.5 | 37% |
| 15 | Avonmouth Bristol | B+ | 2.5 | 100% | 1.8 | 0% |
| 16 | Langold Nottinghamshire | B+ | 13 | 100% | 2.3 | 0% |
| 17 | Porthmadog Gwynedd | B+ | 0.9 | 94% | 2 | 41% |
| 18 | Blofield Norfolk | B+ | 2.9 | 100% | 1.5 | 17% |
| 19 | Dipton County Durham | B | 3.2 | 87% | 3.5 | 0% |
| 20 | Farington Moss Lancashire | B | 5.9 | 93% | 2.4 | 0% |
| 21 | Prestbury Cheshire | B | 5.6 | 42% | 3.2 | 6% |
| 22 | Builth Wells Powys | B | 4.9 | 100% | 1.6 | 0% |
| 23 | Brynamman Dyfed | B | 1.7 | 100% | 1 | 51% |
| 24 | Mancetter and Witherley Warwickshire | B− | 3.1 | 88% | 2.7 | 0% |
| 25 | Cliffe Woods Kent | B− | 1.7 | 62% | 2.5 | 1% |
| 26 | Halton Lancashire | B− | 0.9 | 100% | 1.7 | 35% |
| 27 | Seer Green Buckinghamshire | B− | 1.7 | 38% | 3.8 | 35% |
| 28 | Grimsargh Lancashire | B− | 2.6 | 67% | 2.8 | 2% |
| 29 | Pucklechurch Gloucestershire | C+ | 1.2 | 64% | 4.2 | 20% |
| 30 | Godstone Surrey | C+ | 1.7 | 52% | 3.7 | 18% |
| 31 | Ashington West Sussex | C+ | 1.3 | 86% | 2.3 | 21% |
| 32 | Hurworth-on-Tees County Durham | C+ | 4.5 | 93% | 1.2 | 0% |
| 33 | Endon Staffordshire | C+ | 3 | 89% | 1.9 | 0% |
| 34 | Little Dunmow Essex | C+ | 1.1 | 89% | 3.8 | 0% |
| 35 | Dunchurch Warwickshire | C+ | 7.8 | 68% | 2.2 | 0% |
| 36 | Bosham West Sussex | C+ | 1.2 | 48% | 1.4 | 58% |
| 37 | Heage Derbyshire | C | 1.9 | 78% | 3.1 | 0% |
| 38 | Watlington Norfolk | C | 2.3 | 100% | 0.6 | 0% |
| 39 | South Brent Devon | C | 1.5 | 79% | 0.8 | 64% |
| 40 | Smallfield Surrey | C | 1.6 | 70% | 2.4 | 1% |
| 41 | Marham Norfolk | C | 3.5 | 85% | 0.4 | 0% |
| 42 | Shelley West Yorkshire | C− | 1.2 | 81% | 3.2 | 0% |
| 43 | Wittering Cambridgeshire | C− | 3.1 | 83% | 0.6 | 0% |
| 44 | South Wonston Hampshire | C− | 1.6 | 42% | 2.6 | 7% |
| 45 | Wolston Warwickshire | C− | 1.6 | 89% | 1.9 | 0% |
| 46 | Higham Kent | C− | 0.5 | 0% | 1.8 | 18% |
| 47 | Codicote Hertfordshire | C− | 0.4 | 90% | 2.6 | 0% |
| 48 | Newick East Sussex | C− | 1.7 | 35% | 2.1 | 16% |
| 49 | Hardwick Cambridgeshire | C− | 1.5 | 82% | 2.3 | 0% |
| 50 | Costessey Norfolk | C− | 1.8 | 12% | 3.5 | 0% |
| 51 | West Clyst Devon | C− | 0.6 | 59% | 4.2 | 0% |
| 52 | Saughall Cheshire | D | 2.5 | 27% | 2.3 | 0% |
| 53 | Christleton and Waverton Cheshire | D | 2.4 | 55% | 1.9 | 0% |
| 54 | Tonna West Glamorgan | D | 2.1 | 36% | 2.3 | 0% |
| 55 | Keele Staffordshire | D | 1.1 | 0% | 3.6 | 0% |
| 56 | Watton at Stone Hertfordshire | D | 0.8 | 61% | 2.3 | 0% |
| 57 | St Martins Shropshire | D | 0.6 | 59% | 0.8 | 2% |
| 58 | Swineshead Lincolnshire | D− | 1.2 | 73% | 0.7 | 0% |
| 59 | Manea Cambridgeshire | D− | 1.3 | 63% | 1 | 0% |
| 60 | Cranwell Lincolnshire | D− | 0.5 | 57% | 1.1 | 0% |
The map
Parks, footpaths & countryside
Tap a number to zoom to a park. Tap a layer to hide it. The dashed line is Manea’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 Manea
The biggest is S M Guy Memorial Playing Field, 2.6 ha (6 acres). Directions go to the park’s nearest public entrance where Ordnance Survey maps one.
Close to home
6 in 10 Manea 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 (63%)Further (37%)
Manea63%
Towns its size83%
Cambridgeshire towns79%
All UK towns83%
About 1,000 people live further than that. Playing fields count, so a park within reach isn’t always one with paths or trees.
Footpaths & waymarked walks
Footpaths in and around Manea
12 km of footpaths, bridleways and rights of way are mapped in Manea and the kilometre around it, 1.0 km for every square kilometre (the typical UK town has 3.0).
No named walking route is mapped within 2 km of Manea; 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 Manea: 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) | 8.2 | 9.8 | 11.7 | 13.9 | 15.7 | 16.8 | 16.3 | 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) | 46 | 34 | 33 | 38 | 43 | 52 | 56 | 56 | 46 | 63 | 56 | 55 |
March is the driest month (33 mm) and July the warmest (highs of 23 °C). Winter days are short, about 8 hours of daylight in December, and 63 mm of rain falls in October, the wettest month. Frost comes on about 44 nights a year. The climate in Manea →
Things to do
2 playgrounds and the nearest beaches
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
Manea is inland. These are the nearest named beaches, measured from the edge of the town.
The Beach20 mi from Manea’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
Nature reserves 1
Manea Pit Nature Reserve5.5 ha · 0.0 mi from town
DirectionsPlaygrounds 2
Plus 2 playgrounds without a name on the map.
Dog parks 1
Fallow Corner0.0 mi from town
DirectionsNext door
The outdoors in nearby towns
The nearest towns of 1,000+ within 12 miles. Tap a town for its outdoors page.
Doddington and WimblingtonLittle DownhamLittleportChatterisMarchElyManea
ABCDOutdoors Grade
| Town | Outdoors | Green space, ha per 1,000 | Near a park | Protected within 5 km |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Manea | D− | 1.3 | 63% | 0% |
| Doddington and Wimblington 4.2 mi | C− | 2.5 | 73% | 0% |
| Little Downham 4.5 mi | C− | 2.8 | 61% | 0% |
| Littleport 5.6 mi | D | 1.0 | 71% | 0% |
| Chatteris 5.7 mi | C− | 1.4 | 94% | 0% |
| March 5.8 mi | C− | 1.7 | 87% | 0% |
| Ely 6.7 mi | B | 2.7 | 88% | 0% |
Ely, 6.7 miles away, grades B, the best next door: 88% of its residents live within 400 m of a park. Little Downham and Ely have at least twice Manea’s green space per resident. None of the neighbours has a protected landscape within 5 km either.
Questions about the outdoors in Manea
What is the biggest park in Manea?
S M Guy Memorial Playing Field, 2.6 ha (6 acres). 1 named park, garden or playing field is in the town or within 400 m of it.
Is Manea near a National Park?
No National Park or National Landscape is within 30 km (about 19 miles) of Manea.
What is the nearest beach to Manea?
The Beach, 20 mi from the edge of the town. Manea itself is inland.
How many people in Manea live near a park?
63% 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 Manea?
May to September: the longest days, the warmest afternoons and the least rain of the year, from the Met Office 1991–2020 averages.
Is Manea good for walking?
Paths are thinner than most towns: 1.0 km of footpath and right of way per square kilometre, more than 7% of UK towns. For park space per person it beats 20% (1.3 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 Manea’s overall grade.
Sources
Where Manea’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.