Lanner’s biggest
Lanner Moor
Playing field
0.7 ha (2 acres)
Centralin the middle of Lanner
Directionsto the nearest entrance
Photo: Tony Atkin · CC BY-SA 2.0C−Outdoors Grade
Outdoors in Lanner · parks, paths & countryside
Parks and walks in Lanner
The Cornwall National Landscape begins 3.1 mi from the village’s edge. 31 km of footpaths run through the village and the kilometre around it, 3.6 for every square kilometre. Parks and playing fields in Lanner add up to 1.3 ha for every 1,000 residents; the typical UK town has 2.1. Lanner grades C− 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
65%
of residents within 400 m
Typical UK town 83%
Footpaths
31 km
3.6 km per km², town + 1 km
Typical UK town 3.0 per km²
Protected landscape
0%
of the land within 5 km
Cornwall starts 3.1 mi out, past the 5 km
Character
What kind of outdoors village is Lanner?
Read from the data: what stands out first, good and bad.
Countryside close byThe Cornwall National Landscape starts 3.1 mi east.Less park per person1.3 ha of parks and playing fields per 1,000 residents; the typical UK town has 2.1.
Lanner’s strongest suit is the Cornwall National Landscape close by. Where it falls short is park space per person.
Outdoors grade
Lanner grades C− for the outdoors
Each chart is every UK town of 1,000 or more on one measure: the green bar is Lanner, the dashed line the typical town. The number is the share of towns it beats; the five are averaged and the average ranked again.
C−
Better than 19% of UK towns47th of 60 UK villages its size
Public green space1.3 haper 1,000 residents: parks, gardens, playing fields, play spaces
20out of
100
100
A park within a walk65%of residents within 400 m (a 5-minute walk)
24out of
100
100
National Park or National Landscape0%of the land within 5 km · Cornwall begins just past 5 km
31out of
100
100
Footpaths3.6 kmper km², the town and 1 km around it
72out 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
Lanner is 47th of 60 UK villages its size for the outdoors
The 60 UK towns and cities of 2,100 to 2,300 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
Lanner3.6
Villages its size2.2
Cornwall towns2.3
All UK towns3.0
Green space, ha per 1,000 residents
Lanner1.3
Villages its size2.3
Cornwall towns1.6
All UK towns2.1
Residents within 400 m of a park
Lanner65%
Villages its size83%
Cornwall towns81%
All UK towns83%
Against villages its size, Lanner stands out most for path per km²: only 13 of the other 59 have more. It falls furthest behind on park space per resident, where 50 of the others do better.
Show as a table
| Town | Outdoors | Green space | Near a park | Path per km² | Protected | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mullion Cornwall | A+ | 3.7 | 100% | 2.5 | 64% |
| 2 | Broughton Buckinghamshire | A+ | 8 | 100% | 6.5 | 0% |
| 3 | Bestwood Village Nottinghamshire | A | 43.8 | 100% | 5.2 | 0% |
| 4 | Deepcut Surrey | A | 8.4 | 100% | 6.8 | 0% |
| 5 | Springwell Tyne and Wear | A | 5 | 100% | 6.7 | 0% |
| 6 | Carlton South Yorkshire | A | 23.1 | 87% | 4.7 | 0% |
| 7 | Smalley Derbyshire | A− | 2.9 | 100% | 4.1 | 0% |
| 8 | Streethay Staffordshire | A− | 10.1 | 100% | 2.6 | 0% |
| 9 | Gilwern Gwent | A− | 1.9 | 100% | 2 | 83% |
| 10 | Woodcote Oxfordshire | B+ | 1.6 | 84% | 3.5 | 99% |
| 11 | Hanslope Buckinghamshire | B+ | 1.9 | 100% | 4.9 | 0% |
| 12 | Church Warsop Nottinghamshire | B+ | 4.1 | 85% | 4.2 | 0% |
| 13 | Chiddingfold Surrey | B+ | 2.2 | 87% | 2.5 | 68% |
| 14 | Wells-next-the-Sea Norfolk | B+ | 2 | 70% | 1.9 | 65% |
| 15 | Charing Kent | B+ | 2.7 | 85% | 2.1 | 56% |
| 16 | Brimscombe and Thrupp Gloucestershire | B+ | 2.1 | 12% | 5.9 | 89% |
| 17 | Sharlston West Yorkshire | B+ | 4.9 | 93% | 3 | 0% |
| 18 | Gamston (Rushcliffe) Nottinghamshire | B+ | 2.7 | 86% | 4.7 | 0% |
| 19 | Holbrook Suffolk | B+ | 1.1 | 74% | 2.7 | 52% |
| 20 | Banwell Somerset | B+ | 1.7 | 100% | 2 | 38% |
| 21 | Carnon Downs and Devoran Cornwall | B+ | 0.3 | 87% | 2.5 | 36% |
| 22 | Yarnfield Staffordshire | B | 6.6 | 100% | 1.8 | 0% |
| 23 | Longtown Cumbria | B | 4.3 | 100% | 0.1 | 0% |
| 24 | Wheelock Cheshire | B | 2.4 | 100% | 2.8 | 0% |
| 25 | Ellington Northumberland | B | 2.5 | 86% | 2 | 0% |
| 26 | Trowell Nottinghamshire | B | 7.7 | 56% | 4.5 | 0% |
| 27 | Evercreech Somerset | B | 3.5 | 100% | 2 | 0% |
| 28 | Rayne Essex | B− | 4.3 | 64% | 4 | 0% |
| 29 | Resolven West Glamorgan | B− | 2.4 | 100% | 2.3 | 0% |
| 30 | East Peckham Kent | B− | 14.5 | 66% | 2 | 1% |
| 31 | Hutton Lancashire | B− | 6.6 | 90% | 1.8 | 0% |
| 32 | Swanton Morley Norfolk | C+ | 3.5 | 94% | 1.6 | 0% |
| 33 | Burgh le Marsh Lincolnshire | C+ | 3.2 | 74% | 1.3 | 7% |
| 34 | Hook Norton Oxfordshire | C+ | 2 | 70% | 2 | 28% |
| 35 | Luddenden Foot West Yorkshire | C+ | 2.2 | 68% | 3.9 | 0% |
| 36 | Machynlleth Powys | C+ | 2.6 | 45% | 2 | 29% |
| 37 | Huncote Leicestershire | C+ | 0.8 | 100% | 2.9 | 0% |
| 38 | Trimsaran Dyfed | C | 2.4 | 31% | 1 | 2% |
| 39 | Linton Derbyshire | C | 1.8 | 76% | 3.2 | 0% |
| 40 | Mitcheldean Gloucestershire | C | 1.5 | 80% | 1.9 | 1% |
| 41 | Barwick in Elmet West Yorkshire | C | 1.5 | 87% | 2.5 | 0% |
| 42 | Llanidloes Powys | C | 2.4 | 89% | 1.3 | 0% |
| 43 | Aspatria Cumbria | C− | 3.1 | 60% | 0.8 | 1% |
| 44 | Great Blakenham Suffolk | C− | 3.6 | 70% | 1.5 | 0% |
| 45 | Rudgwick West Sussex | C− | 2.5 | 16% | 3.1 | 0% |
| 46 | Meriden West Midlands | C− | 1.8 | 70% | 2.6 | 0% |
| 47 | Lanner Cornwall | C− | 1.3 | 65% | 3.6 | 0% |
| 48 | Long Bennington Lincolnshire | C− | 1.6 | 82% | 1.9 | 0% |
| 49 | Underwood Gwent | C− | 1.9 | 87% | 1 | 0% |
| 50 | Wickham Hampshire | D | 0.8 | 26% | 2 | 13% |
| 51 | Thurlby Lincolnshire | D | 1.3 | 54% | 2.2 | 0% |
| 52 | Morton Lincolnshire | D | 0.2 | 28% | 3 | 0% |
| 53 | Mattishall Norfolk | D− | 1.4 | 58% | 1.5 | 0% |
| 54 | Misterton Nottinghamshire | D− | 1.4 | 47% | 1.7 | 0% |
| 55 | Billinghay Lincolnshire | D− | 1.8 | 41% | 0.7 | 0% |
| 56 | Bozeat Northamptonshire | D− | 1.3 | 13% | 1.3 | 0% |
| 57 | Shenstone Staffordshire | D− | 1 | 55% | 1 | 0% |
| 58 | Cilfrew West Glamorgan | D− | 0.8 | 44% | 1.3 | 0% |
| 59 | Aslockton Nottinghamshire | D− | 1 | 11% | 1.4 | 0% |
| 60 | Ipplepen Devon | D− | 0.8 | 42% | 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 Lanner’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 Lanner
The biggest is Lanner Moor, 0.7 ha (2 acres). Directions go to the park’s nearest public entrance where Ordnance Survey maps one.
Close to home
6 in 10 Lanner 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 (65%)Further (36%)
Lanner65%
Villages its size83%
Cornwall towns81%
All UK towns83%
About 800 people live further than that. Playing fields count, so a park within reach isn’t always one with paths or trees; 13 playgrounds are mapped in and around the village, about one for every 166 residents.
National Parks & National Landscapes
The Cornwall National Landscape is 3.1 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 Lanner scores 0% on it even though the Cornwall National Landscape is 3.1 mi away.
Footpaths & waymarked walks
3 waymarked walks pass through or near Lanner
31 km of footpaths, bridleways and rights of way are mapped in Lanner and the kilometre around it, 3.6 km for every square kilometre (the typical UK town has 3.0). Bars show each route’s kilometres within 2 km of the village.
Local
Redruth FP 36 Ground Truth0.7 km
Redruth BR 41 Ground Truth0.5 km
Carn Brea BR 24 Ground Truth0.4 km
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 Lanner: 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) | 8.5 | 10.0 | 11.7 | 13.7 | 15.4 | 16.4 | 16.0 | 14.5 | 12.5 | 10.6 | 8.9 | 8.1 |
| High (°C) | 9 | 9 | 10 | 12 | 15 | 18 | 19 | 19 | 17 | 15 | 12 | 10 |
| Rain (mm) | 147 | 114 | 88 | 82 | 68 | 73 | 76 | 92 | 86 | 130 | 158 | 160 |
May is the driest month (68 mm) and August the warmest (highs of 19 °C). Winter days are short, about 8 hours of daylight in December, and 160 mm of rain falls in December, the wettest month. Frost comes on about 19 nights a year. The climate in Lanner →
Things to do
13 playgrounds and the nearest beaches
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.
The nearest beaches
Lanner is inland. These are the nearest named beaches, measured from the edge of the village.
Porthtowan Beach4.8 mi from Lanner’s edge
DirectionsAmy's Cove4.8 mi from Lanner’s edge
DirectionsPortreath Beach4.8 mi from Lanner’s edge
DirectionsGreenbank Cove5.4 mi from Lanner’s edge
DirectionsChapel Porth Beach5.5 mi from Lanner’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.
Up high. Carn Marth, at 235 m, is the highest named top within 2 km of Lanner.
Every named place, with directions
Viewpoints 1
Plus 1 viewpoint without a name on the map.
Hills and peaks 1
Carn Marth235 m (771 ft) · 0.1 mi from town
DirectionsPlaygrounds 13
Victoria Park Play Area0.8 mi from town
DirectionsPlus 12 playgrounds without a name on the map.
Campsites 1
Pottery Campsite1.1 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.
CarharrackSt DayRedruthFour LanesStithiansPool and IlloganLanner
ABCDOutdoors Grade
| Town | Outdoors | Green space, ha per 1,000 | Near a park | Protected within 5 km |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lanner | C− | 1.3 | 65% | 0% |
| Carharrack 1.3 mi | C+ | 0.7 | 80% | 2% |
| St Day 1.7 mi | A | 3.2 | 100% | 0% |
| Redruth 1.7 mi | B− | 1.5 | 78% | 3% |
| Four Lanes 2.0 mi | C | 0.6 | 100% | 0% |
| Stithians 2.3 mi | B+ | 3.2 | 80% | 3% |
| Pool and Illogan 3.1 mi | A+ | 3.7 | 81% | 5% |
Pool and Illogan, 3.1 miles away, grades A+, the best next door: 81% of its residents live within 400 m of a park. St Day, Stithians and Pool and Illogan have at least twice Lanner’s green space per resident.
Questions about the outdoors in Lanner
What is the biggest park in Lanner?
Lanner Moor, 0.7 ha (2 acres). 1 named park, garden or playing field is in the village or within 400 m of it.
Is Lanner near a National Park?
The nearest protected landscape is the Cornwall National Landscape, 3.1 mi east of the village’s edge. It covers 964 km² and was designated in 1959.
What are the best walks near Lanner?
3 waymarked walking routes pass within 2 km of the village, including the Redruth FP 36 Ground Truth, Redruth BR 41 Ground Truth and Carn Brea BR 24 Ground Truth.
What is the nearest beach to Lanner?
Porthtowan Beach, 4.8 mi from the edge of the village, then Amy's Cove (4.8 mi). Lanner itself is inland.
How many people in Lanner live near a park?
65% 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 Lanner?
May to September: the longest days, the warmest afternoons and the least rain of the year, from the Met Office 1991–2020 averages.
Is Lanner good for walking?
For paths, yes: 3.6 km of footpath and right of way per square kilometre, more than 72% 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 Lanner’s overall grade.
Sources
Where Lanner’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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