Marazion’s biggest
Maypole Garden
Park or garden
0.0 ha (0 acres)
Centralin the middle of Marazion
Directionsto the nearest entrance
Photo: Lewis Clarke · CC BY-SA 2.0BOutdoors Grade
Outdoors in Marazion · parks, paths & countryside
Marazion is on the coast, on the South West Coast Path
The sea makes up 36% of the area within 5 km. The Cornwall National Landscape reaches the edge of Marazion. Parks and playing fields in Marazion add up to 1.4 ha for every 1,000 residents; the typical UK town has 2.1. Marazion grades B for the outdoors. A character grade: it isn’t part of the overall grade.
Green space
1.4 ha
per 1,000 residents
Typical UK town 2.1
Near a park
80%
of residents within 400 m
Typical UK town 83%
Footpaths
20 km
2.0 km per km², town + 1 km
Typical UK town 3.0 per km²
Protected landscape
14%
of the land within 5 km
Nearest: Cornwall National Landscape
The sea
36%
of the area within 5 km
A coastal town
Character
What kind of outdoors village is Marazion?
Read from the data: what stands out first, good and bad.
On the coast36% of the area within 5 km is sea; 12 beaches mapped.Countryside close byThe Cornwall National Landscape starts 0.0 mi north.On a National TrailThe South West Coast Path passes through.Less park per person1.4 ha of parks and playing fields per 1,000 residents; the typical UK town has 2.1.
Marazion’s strongest suit is the sea, followed by the Cornwall National Landscape close by. Where it falls short is park space per person.
Outdoors grade
Marazion grades B for the outdoors
Each chart is every UK town of 1,000 or more on one measure: the green bar is Marazion, 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 60% of UK towns22nd of 60 UK villages its size
Public green space1.4 haper 1,000 residents: parks, gardens, playing fields, play spaces
25out of
100
100
A park within a walk80%of residents within 400 m (a 5-minute walk)
46out of
100
100
National Park or National Landscape14%of the land within 5 km
74out of
100
100
Footpaths2.0 kmper km², the town and 1 km around it
32out of
100
100
The sea36%of the area within 5 km
94out 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
Marazion is 22nd of 60 UK villages its size for the outdoors
The 60 UK towns and cities of 1,300 to 1,400 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
Marazion2.0
Villages its size2.3
Cornwall towns2.3
All UK towns3.0
Green space, ha per 1,000 residents
Marazion1.4
Villages its size2.3
Cornwall towns1.6
All UK towns2.1
Residents within 400 m of a park
Marazion80%
Villages its size81%
Cornwall towns81%
All UK towns83%
Marazion falls furthest behind on park space per resident, where 44 of the 59 others do better.
Show as a table
| Town | Outdoors | Green space | Near a park | Path per km² | Protected | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | St Davids Dyfed | A+ | 5.2 | 84% | 2.5 | 47% |
| 2 | Pateley Bridge North Yorkshire | A+ | 2.4 | 100% | 3.4 | 100% |
| 3 | Winsley Wiltshire | A | 12.4 | 79% | 4.2 | 38% |
| 4 | Goldsithney Cornwall | A | 1.4 | 100% | 3.1 | 10% |
| 5 | Charmouth Dorset | A | 2.5 | 82% | 2.3 | 63% |
| 6 | Brinscall Lancashire | A | 3.5 | 100% | 4.6 | 0% |
| 7 | Maresfield East Sussex | A | 2.3 | 100% | 2.7 | 44% |
| 8 | Biddenden Kent | A− | 4.2 | 100% | 1.9 | 20% |
| 9 | Cwmfelinfach Gwent | A− | 24.6 | 100% | 2.7 | 0% |
| 10 | Stoke sub Hamdon Somerset | A− | 25.1 | 81% | 4.7 | 0% |
| 11 | Upper Caldecote Bedfordshire | A− | 3.7 | 100% | 3.4 | 0% |
| 12 | Bradwell Derbyshire | A− | 1.2 | 100% | 2.9 | 100% |
| 13 | Govilon Gwent | A− | 2.1 | 80% | 3.4 | 69% |
| 14 | Auckley South Yorkshire | B+ | 4.9 | 100% | 2.6 | 0% |
| 15 | Layer-de-la-Haye Essex | B+ | 9.5 | 79% | 4.2 | 0% |
| 16 | Mynydd Marian Clwyd | B+ | 1.7 | 100% | 2.3 | 0% |
| 17 | Quintrell Downs Cornwall | B+ | 3.3 | 100% | 0.9 | 0% |
| 18 | Barleythorpe Rutland | B+ | 3.7 | 100% | 2.4 | 0% |
| 19 | Abbots Bromley Staffordshire | B | 6.9 | 100% | 1.6 | 0% |
| 20 | Wymeswold Leicestershire | B | 2.9 | 100% | 2.4 | 0% |
| 21 | Motcombe Dorset | B | 9.5 | 74% | 1.5 | 25% |
| 22 | Marazion Cornwall | B | 1.4 | 80% | 2 | 14% |
| 23 | Seven Sisters West Glamorgan | B | 7 | 82% | 0.5 | 19% |
| 24 | Cwmllynfell and Ystradowen West Glamorgan | B | 4.1 | 79% | 1 | 40% |
| 25 | Holymoorside Derbyshire | B− | 1.1 | 82% | 3.8 | 14% |
| 26 | Burton-in-Kendal Cumbria | B− | 0.6 | 100% | 2.4 | 23% |
| 27 | Narborough Norfolk | B− | 3.8 | 100% | 1.5 | 0% |
| 28 | Cockfield County Durham | B− | 2.3 | 81% | 3.9 | 0% |
| 29 | Burwash East Sussex | B− | 1.5 | 76% | 2.5 | 100% |
| 30 | St Merryn Cornwall | B− | 1.9 | 47% | 1.7 | 29% |
| 31 | Helmsley North Yorkshire | B− | 2.4 | 44% | 2.5 | 73% |
| 32 | Mobberley Cheshire | C+ | 1.4 | 100% | 2.9 | 0% |
| 33 | Morton Derbyshire | C+ | 18.3 | 66% | 2.5 | 0% |
| 34 | Houghton Cambridgeshire | C+ | 2.2 | 81% | 3.4 | 0% |
| 35 | Littleton Panell Wiltshire | C+ | 5.3 | 39% | 3.3 | 0% |
| 36 | Stonnall Staffordshire | C+ | 11.5 | 82% | 1.1 | 0% |
| 37 | Stoke Gabriel Devon | C+ | 1.2 | 70% | 1.2 | 30% |
| 38 | East Hendred Oxfordshire | C | 1.4 | 29% | 2.8 | 47% |
| 39 | Harpole Northamptonshire | C | 2.3 | 81% | 2.3 | 0% |
| 40 | Ringstead Northamptonshire | C | 1.8 | 100% | 1.3 | 0% |
| 41 | Moretonhampstead Devon | C | 0.6 | 81% | 1.2 | 100% |
| 42 | Seaton Burn Tyne and Wear | C | 3.3 | 36% | 2.6 | 0% |
| 43 | Winkleigh Devon | C | 1.9 | 100% | 0.2 | 0% |
| 44 | Walkern Hertfordshire | C− | 2.4 | 52% | 2.7 | 0% |
| 45 | Cottingham and Middleton Northamptonshire | C− | 12.1 | 53% | 1.1 | 0% |
| 46 | Cowbit Lincolnshire | C− | 0.9 | 100% | 1.1 | 0% |
| 47 | Northborough Cambridgeshire | C− | 1.7 | 68% | 2.5 | 0% |
| 48 | Ogmore-by-Sea South Glamorgan | C− | 0 | 0% | 2.6 | 0% |
| 49 | Butterwick Lincolnshire | D | 1.8 | 40% | 0.3 | 0% |
| 50 | Todwick South Yorkshire | D | 2 | 51% | 1.9 | 0% |
| 51 | Malpas Cheshire | D | 1.6 | 61% | 2.2 | 0% |
| 52 | North Cave East Riding of Yorkshire | D | 2.5 | 47% | 1.4 | 0% |
| 53 | Staindrop County Durham | D | 1.4 | 82% | 1.1 | 0% |
| 54 | Longframlington Northumberland | D | 1.3 | 78% | 1.3 | 0% |
| 55 | Bomere Heath Shropshire | D− | 1.8 | 0% | 1.7 | 0% |
| 56 | Brandesburton East Riding of Yorkshire | D− | 2.2 | 0% | 0.5 | 0% |
| 57 | Claypole Lincolnshire | D− | 0.7 | 0% | 1.6 | 0% |
| 58 | Kilsby Northamptonshire | D− | 0.5 | 50% | 0.5 | 0% |
| 59 | Griston Norfolk | D− | 0.8 | 15% | 0.5 | 0% |
| 60 | Cock and End Suffolk | D− | 0 | 0% | 0.9 | 0% |
The map
Parks, footpaths & countryside
Tap a number to zoom to a park. Tap a layer to hide it. The dashed line is Marazion’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 Marazion
The biggest is Maypole Garden, 0.0 ha (0 acres). Directions go to the park’s nearest public entrance where Ordnance Survey maps one.
Close to home
8 in 10 Marazion 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 (80%)Further (20%)
Marazion80%
Villages its size81%
Cornwall towns81%
All UK towns83%
About 300 people live further than that. Playing fields count, so a park within reach isn’t always one with paths or trees; 4 playgrounds are mapped in and around the village, about one for every 338 residents.
National Parks & National Landscapes
National Parks and National Landscapes around Marazion
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
National Landscape
Cornwall
At the edge north964 km²since 195914% of the land within 5 km
Official site14% of the land within 5 km of Marazion is National Park or National Landscape, more than 73% of UK towns.
Footpaths & waymarked walks
Marazion is on the South West Coast Path
20 km of footpaths, bridleways and rights of way are mapped in Marazion and the kilometre around it, 2.0 km for every square kilometre (the typical UK town has 3.0). Bars show each route’s kilometres within 2 km of the village.
NationalRegional
St Michael's Way8.4 km
South West Coast Path (Section 24: Lamorna to Marazion)4.1 km
South West Coast Path (Section 25: Marazion to Porthleven)3.4 km
The South West Coast Path, a national route, passes Marazion. The regional route here is the St Michael's Way.
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 Marazion: 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) | 10 | 10 | 11 | 13 | 15 | 18 | 19 | 19 | 18 | 15 | 12 | 11 |
| Rain (mm) | 120 | 95 | 78 | 68 | 58 | 64 | 69 | 84 | 80 | 115 | 135 | 130 |
May is the driest month (58 mm) and July the warmest (highs of 19 °C). Winter days are short, about 8 hours of daylight in December, and 135 mm of rain falls in November, the wettest month. Frost comes on about 7 nights a year. The climate in Marazion →
The coast
The coast and beaches near Marazion
36% of the area within 5 km of Marazion is sea. 12 beaches are mapped within 5 km, 4 with a name.
Perranuthnoe Beach0.9 mi from town
DirectionsPiskies Cove2.1 mi from town
DirectionsKing's Cove2.3 mi from town
DirectionsKenneggy Cove2.3 mi from town
DirectionsThe South West Coast Path passes the town.
Sea: the area outside the ONS coastline (mean high water). Bathing water quality is published by the Environment Agency (England) and Natural Resources Wales; check it before swimming.
Things to do
4 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.
Hills and peaks 1
Rose Hill0.0 mi from town
DirectionsPicnic sites 2
Plus 2 picnic sites without a name on the map.
Playgrounds 4
Plus 4 playgrounds without a name on the map.
Campsites 3
Dove Meadows0.0 mi from town
DirectionsWheal Rodney0.2 mi from town
DirectionsPlus 1 campsite 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.
GoldsithneyCrowlasLongrockPenzanceSt ErthNewlynMarazion
ABCDOutdoors Grade
Goldsithney, 1.4 miles away, grades A, the best next door: every resident lives within 400 m of a park. Crowlas has at least twice Marazion’s green space per resident.
Questions about the outdoors in Marazion
What is the biggest park in Marazion?
Maypole Garden, 0.0 ha (0 acres). 1 named park, garden or playing field is in the village or within 400 m of it.
Is Marazion near a National Park?
It covers 964 km² and was designated in 1959.
What are the best walks near Marazion?
3 waymarked walking routes pass within 2 km of the village, including the St Michael's Way, South West Coast Path (Section 24: Lamorna to Marazion) and South West Coast Path (Section 25: Marazion to Porthleven).
How many people in Marazion live near a park?
80% 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 Marazion?
May to September: the longest days, the warmest afternoons and the least rain of the year, from the Met Office 1991–2020 averages.
Is Marazion good for walking?
Paths are thinner than most towns: 2.0 km of footpath and right of way per square kilometre, more than 32% of UK towns. For park space per person it beats 25% (1.4 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 Marazion’s overall grade.
Sources
Where Marazion’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.