Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
Photo: Tony Atkin · CC BY-SA 2.0The Tamar Valley National Landscape reaches the edge of Kelly Bray. Parks and playing fields in Kelly Bray add up to 1.2 ha for every 1,000 residents; the typical UK town has 2.1. Footpaths add up to 13 km in the village and the kilometre around it, 1.8 for every square kilometre. Kelly Bray grades B− for the outdoors. A character grade: it isn’t part of the overall grade.
Read from the data: what stands out first, good and bad.
Kelly Bray’s strongest suit is parks close to every home, followed by two protected landscapes close by. Where it falls short is park space per person.
Each chart is every UK town of 1,000 or more on one measure: the green bar is Kelly Bray, the dashed line the typical town. The number is the share of towns it beats; the five are averaged and the average ranked again.
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.
The 60 UK towns and cities of 1,100 to 1,200 people with an Outdoors Grade. Hover a dot for its figures; tap one for its page.
Against villages its size, Kelly Bray stands out most for homes near a park: none of the other 59 has more. It falls furthest behind on park space per resident, where 46 of the others do better.
| Town | Outdoors | Green space | Near a park | Path per km² | Protected | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Corton Suffolk | A+ | 4.4 | 100% | 3 | 5% |
| 2 | Bathford Somerset | A+ | 4.8 | 100% | 3.7 | 64% |
| 3 | Upton St Leonards Gloucestershire | A+ | 5.2 | 80% | 7.5 | 43% |
| 4 | Ditchling East Sussex | A | 7.4 | 77% | 4 | 57% |
| 5 | Ovingham Northumberland | A | 6.5 | 100% | 4.8 | 0% |
| 6 | Horsted Keynes West Sussex | A− | 2.2 | 100% | 2.3 | 83% |
| 7 | Wenvoe South Glamorgan | A− | 5.9 | 100% | 2.9 | 0% |
| 8 | Chatburn Lancashire | A− | 1.7 | 100% | 2.6 | 59% |
| 9 | Boosbeck North Yorkshire | A− | 2.9 | 100% | 1.9 | 22% |
| 10 | Camber East Sussex | A− | 0.9 | 100% | 2.4 | 5% |
| 11 | Gotherington Gloucestershire | B+ | 2.7 | 72% | 3.7 | 33% |
| 12 | St Erth Cornwall | B+ | 0.9 | 100% | 2.5 | 4% |
| 13 | Walton Somerset | B+ | 3 | 100% | 3.2 | 0% |
| 14 | Oakley Buckinghamshire | B | 2.9 | 100% | 2.5 | 0% |
| 15 | High Pittington County Durham | B | 1.6 | 100% | 3.9 | 0% |
| 16 | Cropston Leicestershire | B | 3.1 | 100% | 2.2 | 0% |
| 17 | Huntley Gloucestershire | B | 2.9 | 100% | 2.3 | 0% |
| 18 | Acomb Northumberland | B | 2 | 100% | 2 | 0% |
| 19 | Jacobs Well Surrey | B | 1.4 | 77% | 4.7 | 8% |
| 20 | Curdworth Warwickshire | B− | 2.9 | 100% | 2.1 | 0% |
| 21 | Bishop Middleham County Durham | B− | 2.6 | 100% | 2.2 | 0% |
| 22 | Plaxtol Kent | B− | 2.6 | 57% | 2.5 | 40% |
| 23 | Harpur Hill Derbyshire | B− | 3.1 | 31% | 2.3 | 60% |
| 24 | Kelly Bray Cornwall | B− | 1.2 | 100% | 1.8 | 22% |
| 25 | Thurlton Norfolk | B− | 1.5 | 100% | 0.7 | 39% |
| 26 | Beaumaris Gwynedd | B− | 2.7 | 30% | 0.8 | 18% |
| 27 | Romsley Worcestershire | B− | 1.4 | 100% | 3 | 0% |
| 28 | Latchingdon Essex | B− | 1.7 | 100% | 0.9 | 0% |
| 29 | Grovesend West Glamorgan | C+ | 3.5 | 100% | 0.9 | 0% |
| 30 | Gainford County Durham | C+ | 2.6 | 100% | 1.4 | 0% |
| 31 | Lacey Green and Loosley Row Buckinghamshire | C+ | 2.1 | 27% | 2.4 | 82% |
| 32 | Whimple Devon | C+ | 5.2 | 70% | 0.9 | 1% |
| 33 | Brinklow Warwickshire | C+ | 1.7 | 100% | 2 | 0% |
| 34 | St Cleer Cornwall | C | 3 | 29% | 1.6 | 32% |
| 35 | Hunston West Sussex | C | 1.8 | 65% | 2.4 | 17% |
| 36 | Three Legged Cross Dorset | C | 1.5 | 77% | 2.6 | 1% |
| 37 | Bow Devon | C | 1.9 | 100% | 1.1 | 0% |
| 38 | Swindon Staffordshire | C | 2.5 | 67% | 2.6 | 0% |
| 39 | Mannings Heath West Sussex | C | 1 | 71% | 1.9 | 44% |
| 40 | Baldwin's Gate Staffordshire | C− | 1.3 | 100% | 1.5 | 0% |
| 41 | North Newbald East Riding of Yorkshire | C− | 1.7 | 100% | 0.4 | 0% |
| 42 | Maiden Newton Dorset | C− | 1.1 | 27% | 2 | 100% |
| 43 | Wetheral Cumbria | C− | 3.8 | 51% | 1.9 | 0% |
| 44 | Crowle Worcestershire | C− | 2.4 | 34% | 2.8 | 0% |
| 45 | Eastrington East Riding of Yorkshire | C− | 3 | 65% | 1.5 | 0% |
| 46 | Beachley Gloucestershire | C− | 0.3 | 0% | 1.2 | 14% |
| 47 | Fochriw Gwent | C− | 1 | 73% | 2.9 | 0% |
| 48 | Capel Hendre Dyfed | D | 0.8 | 100% | 0.9 | 0% |
| 49 | Benwick Cambridgeshire | D | 0.3 | 100% | 0.2 | 0% |
| 50 | Orwell Cambridgeshire | D | 1.2 | 78% | 2 | 0% |
| 51 | Ramsey Island Essex | D | 1.4 | 39% | 1.1 | 0% |
| 52 | Pelynt Cornwall | D | 0 | 0% | 0.6 | 13% |
| 53 | Chawley Oxfordshire | D | 0.3 | 0% | 3.8 | 0% |
| 54 | Great Doddington Northamptonshire | D | 1.3 | 69% | 1.7 | 0% |
| 55 | High Legh Cheshire | D− | 1.9 | 50% | 0.8 | 0% |
| 56 | Moulton Chapel Lincolnshire | D− | 1.5 | 60% | 0 | 0% |
| 57 | Kentford Suffolk | D− | 1.9 | 0% | 0.5 | 0% |
| 58 | Austrey Warwickshire | D− | 1.7 | 0% | 0.7 | 0% |
| 59 | East Keswick West Yorkshire | D− | 0.2 | 0% | 1.7 | 0% |
| 60 | Clipsham Rutland | D− | 0 | 0% | 1.7 | 0% |
Tap a number to zoom to a park. Tap a layer to hide it. The dashed line is Kelly Bray’s built-up area.
The biggest is Kit Hill Country Park, 159 ha (393 acres). Directions go to the park’s nearest public entrance where Ordnance Survey maps one.
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).
Playing fields count, so a park within reach isn’t always one with paths or trees; 14 playgrounds are mapped in and around the village, about one for every 81 residents.
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.
22% of the land within 5 km of Kelly Bray is National Park or National Landscape, more than 79% of UK towns. Dartmoor National Park covers 956 km² and has been a National Park since 1951.
13 km of footpaths, bridleways and rights of way are mapped in Kelly Bray and the kilometre around it, 1.8 km for every square kilometre (the typical UK town has 3.0).
No named walking route is mapped within 2 km of Kelly Bray; 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.
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) | 8.5 | 10.0 | 11.7 | 13.7 | 15.5 | 16.4 | 16.0 | 14.5 | 12.5 | 10.6 | 8.9 | 8.0 |
| High (°C) | 8 | 9 | 10 | 13 | 16 | 18 | 20 | 20 | 18 | 14 | 11 | 9 |
| Rain (mm) | 162 | 131 | 101 | 84 | 88 | 75 | 98 | 105 | 105 | 162 | 164 | 170 |
June is the driest month (75 mm) and July the warmest (highs of 20 °C). Winter days are short, about 8 hours of daylight in December, and 170 mm of rain falls in December, the wettest month. Frost comes on about 34 nights a year. The climate in Kelly Bray →
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.
Kelly Bray is inland. These are the nearest named beaches, measured from the edge of the village.
Check the water before you swim. The Environment Agency tests designated bathing waters from May to September and publishes a rating for each beach.
Up high. Kit Hill, at 334 m, is the highest named top within 2 km of Kelly Bray.
Plus 1 viewpoint without a name on the map.
Plus 13 playgrounds without a name on the map.
The nearest towns of 1,000+ within 12 miles. Tap a town for its outdoors page.
| Town | Outdoors | Green space, ha per 1,000 | Near a park | Protected within 5 km |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kelly Bray | B− | 1.2 | 100% | 22% |
| Callington 1.1 mi | B | 2.1 | 100% | 21% |
| Gunnislake and St Ann's Chapel 4.0 mi | B− | 2.5 | 64% | 66% |
| Pensilva 4.4 mi | C− | 1.6 | 60% | 15% |
| Bere Alston 6.1 mi | C+ | 1.4 | 64% | 93% |
| Landrake 6.7 mi | D | 0.9 | 0% | 38% |
| St Cleer 7.2 mi | C | 3.0 | 29% | 32% |
Callington, 1.1 miles away, grades B, the best next door: every resident lives within 400 m of a park. Gunnislake and St Ann's Chapel and St Cleer have at least twice Kelly Bray’s green space per resident.
Kit Hill Country Park, 159 ha (393 acres), with 11.6 km of path, just outside the built-up area. 1 named park, garden or playing field is in the village or within 400 m of it.
Yes. Dartmoor National Park begins 6.7 mi east of the village’s edge. It covers 956 km² and has been a National Park since 1951. The nearest protected landscape of any kind is the Tamar Valley National Landscape, at the edge of the village.
Seaton Beach, 11 mi from the edge of the village, then Downderry Beach (11 mi). Kelly Bray itself is inland.
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%.
May to September: the longest days, the warmest afternoons and the least rain of the year, from the Met Office 1991–2020 averages.
Paths are thinner than most towns: 1.8 km of footpath and right of way per square kilometre, more than 24% of UK towns. For park space per person it beats 18% (1.2 ha per 1,000 residents).
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 Kelly Bray’s overall grade.
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