Photo: Unknown author · Public domainMevagissey is inside the Cornwall National Landscape
The sea makes up 45% of the area within 5 km. Parks and playing fields in Mevagissey add up to 1.3 ha for every 1,000 residents; the typical UK town has 2.1. Mevagissey grades B+ for the outdoors. A character grade: it isn’t part of the overall grade.
What kind of outdoors village is Mevagissey?
Read from the data: what stands out first, good and bad.
Mevagissey’s strongest suit is a protected landscape all round, followed by the sea. Where it falls short is park space per person.
Mevagissey grades B+ for the outdoors
Each chart is every UK town of 1,000 or more on one measure: the green bar is Mevagissey, the dashed line the typical town. The number is the share of towns it beats; the five are averaged and the average ranked again.
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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.
Mevagissey is 15th of 60 UK villages its size for the outdoors
The 60 UK towns and cities of 1,800 to 2,000 people with an Outdoors Grade. Hover a dot for its figures; tap one for its page.
Mevagissey falls furthest behind on park space per resident, where 46 of the 59 others do better.
Show as a table
| Town | Outdoors | Green space | Near a park | Path per km² | Protected | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Badshot Lea Surrey | A+ | 25.9 | 100% | 5.2 | 25% |
| 2 | Kirkby Stephen Cumbria | A+ | 4.9 | 100% | 3.7 | 65% |
| 3 | Southwick Wiltshire | A+ | 22.2 | 100% | 5.2 | 1% |
| 4 | Brading Isle of Wight | A+ | 2.9 | 84% | 4.2 | 21% |
| 5 | Scholes (near Hade Edge) West Yorkshire | A+ | 3.8 | 100% | 4.7 | 16% |
| 6 | Hayfield Derbyshire | A+ | 2.2 | 100% | 4.1 | 62% |
| 7 | Colwall Stone Herefordshire | A | 4.5 | 67% | 5.5 | 64% |
| 8 | Bagworth Leicestershire | A | 11 | 100% | 4.3 | 0% |
| 9 | Newell Green Berkshire | A | 22.6 | 100% | 3.7 | 0% |
| 10 | Ravenstone Leicestershire | A− | 5.3 | 100% | 3.4 | 0% |
| 11 | Lower Broadheath Worcestershire | A− | 6 | 100% | 2.9 | 0% |
| 12 | Goosnargh Lancashire | A− | 2.4 | 100% | 2.5 | 6% |
| 13 | Flamborough East Riding of Yorkshire | A− | 1.9 | 100% | 2.3 | 0% |
| 14 | Waddesdon Buckinghamshire | B+ | 3 | 100% | 3 | 0% |
| 15 | Mevagissey Cornwall | B+ | 1.3 | 87% | 1.9 | 29% |
| 16 | Tongwynlais South Glamorgan | B+ | 8.6 | 65% | 5.8 | 0% |
| 17 | Bishop's Castle Shropshire | B+ | 2 | 100% | 1.3 | 53% |
| 18 | Chinley Derbyshire | B+ | 1.2 | 78% | 4.4 | 53% |
| 19 | Hathersage Derbyshire | B | 1.6 | 58% | 4.5 | 100% |
| 20 | Partridge Green West Sussex | B | 2.1 | 100% | 3.3 | 0% |
| 21 | Westham East Sussex | B | 3.8 | 18% | 2.3 | 0% |
| 22 | Little Eaton Derbyshire | B | 4.6 | 85% | 3 | 0% |
| 23 | Shurdington Gloucestershire | B | 2.7 | 47% | 3.3 | 42% |
| 24 | Horrabridge Devon | B | 1.4 | 83% | 2.7 | 92% |
| 25 | Campsall South Yorkshire | B | 14.8 | 100% | 0.8 | 0% |
| 26 | Chilcompton Somerset | B− | 6.5 | 40% | 2.9 | 1% |
| 27 | Yelverton Devon | B− | 3.6 | 72% | 1.1 | 85% |
| 28 | Stanwick Northamptonshire | B− | 7.9 | 82% | 2.3 | 0% |
| 29 | Ingrave and Herongate Essex | B− | 5 | 51% | 4 | 0% |
| 30 | Newcastle Emlyn Dyfed | B− | 5.9 | 100% | 0.4 | 0% |
| 31 | Wrea Green Lancashire | B− | 3.5 | 100% | 1.3 | 0% |
| 32 | Whitland Dyfed | B− | 4.4 | 100% | 0.8 | 0% |
| 33 | Stow-on-the-Wold Gloucestershire | B− | 3.4 | 64% | 1.2 | 88% |
| 34 | Oxenhope West Yorkshire | B− | 1.8 | 80% | 4.5 | 0% |
| 35 | Barnburgh and Harlington South Yorkshire | B− | 1.8 | 100% | 2.5 | 0% |
| 36 | Houghton Conquest Bedfordshire | C+ | 1.8 | 100% | 2.3 | 0% |
| 37 | Hockley Heath West Midlands | C+ | 2.6 | 86% | 2.5 | 0% |
| 38 | Northiam East Sussex | C+ | 2.2 | 76% | 0.8 | 100% |
| 39 | Lowdham Nottinghamshire | C+ | 3.7 | 85% | 1.8 | 0% |
| 40 | Milnthorpe Cumbria | C | 2.2 | 49% | 2 | 39% |
| 41 | Rode Heath Cheshire | C | 0.9 | 100% | 2.4 | 0% |
| 42 | Toft Hill and High Etherley County Durham | C− | 2.5 | 83% | 1.2 | 0% |
| 43 | Hemingbrough North Yorkshire | C− | 1.3 | 100% | 1.1 | 0% |
| 44 | Thornton-le-Dale North Yorkshire | D | 1.1 | 58% | 1.1 | 29% |
| 45 | Brompton-on-Swale North Yorkshire | D | 2.1 | 71% | 1.4 | 0% |
| 46 | Manby Lincolnshire | D | 1.4 | 68% | 0.8 | 2% |
| 47 | Cropwell Bishop Nottinghamshire | D | 0.7 | 45% | 3.5 | 0% |
| 48 | Newton Longville Buckinghamshire | D | 2.9 | 18% | 1.5 | 0% |
| 49 | Dunholme Lincolnshire | D | 1.8 | 52% | 2.1 | 0% |
| 50 | Salfords Surrey | D | 1.3 | 12% | 3 | 0% |
| 51 | Rickinghall and Botesdale Suffolk | D | 1.7 | 61% | 1.9 | 0% |
| 52 | Little Plumstead Norfolk | D | 0.6 | 64% | 1 | 16% |
| 53 | Wragby Lincolnshire | D | 1.3 | 69% | 1.4 | 0% |
| 54 | Hampton in Arden West Midlands | D− | 0.1 | 44% | 2.7 | 0% |
| 55 | Weeting Norfolk | D− | 1.2 | 68% | 1.1 | 0% |
| 56 | Colnbrook Berkshire | D− | 0.6 | 68% | 1.7 | 0% |
| 57 | Great Gonerby Lincolnshire | D− | 0.7 | 56% | 1.4 | 0% |
| 58 | Great Barton Suffolk | D− | 1.6 | 19% | 0.5 | 0% |
| 59 | Shippon Oxfordshire | D− | 0.4 | 0% | 2 | 0% |
| 60 | Burstwick East Riding of Yorkshire | D− | 0 | 0% | 1 | 0% |
Parks, footpaths & countryside
Tap a number to zoom to a park. Tap a layer to hide it. The dashed line is Mevagissey’s built-up area.
9 in 10 Mevagissey 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).
About 200 people live further than that. Playing fields count, so a park within reach isn’t always one with paths or trees; 6 playgrounds are mapped in and around the village, about one for every 313 residents.
National Parks and National Landscapes around Mevagissey
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.
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29% of the land within 5 km of Mevagissey is National Park or National Landscape, more than 83% of UK towns.
Mevagissey is on the South West Coast Path
20 km of footpaths, bridleways and rights of way are mapped in Mevagissey and the kilometre around it, 1.9 km for every square kilometre (the typical UK town has 3.0). Bars show each route’s kilometres within 2 km of the village.
The South West Coast Path, a national route, passes Mevagissey.
Waymarked walks are OpenStreetMap walking routes. Public rights of way are only as complete as the map in each area.
The best walking months in Mevagissey: 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 | |
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| 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 | 16 | 18 | 20 | 20 | 19 | 15 | 12 | 10 |
| Rain (mm) | 148 | 101 | 83 | 83 | 67 | 66 | 70 | 92 | 82 | 125 | 141 | 137 |
June is the driest month (66 mm) and July the warmest (highs of 20 °C). Winter days are short, about 8 hours of daylight in December, and 148 mm of rain falls in January, the wettest month. Frost comes on about 8 nights a year. The climate in Mevagissey →
Mevagissey is a coastal town
45% of the area within 5 km of Mevagissey is sea. 34 beaches are mapped within 5 km, 14 with a name.
The 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.
6 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.
Nature reserves 3
Plus 2 nature reserves without a name on the map.
Playgrounds 6
Plus 6 playgrounds without a name on the map.
Campsites 3
The outdoors in nearby towns
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 |
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| Mevagissey | B+ | 1.3 | 87% | 29% |
| Polgooth 3.8 mi | A+ | 7.0 | 100% | 13% |
| Carlyon Bay 5.0 mi | C | 0.7 | 0% | 12% |
| St Austell 5.0 mi | B− | 1.2 | 71% | 7% |
| Trewoon 5.2 mi | D | 0.9 | 71% | 6% |
| St Blazey 6.3 mi | A− | 2.4 | 78% | 17% |
| St Stephen 6.9 mi | D | 1.2 | 88% | 0% |
Polgooth, 3.8 miles away, grades A+, the best next door: every resident lives within 400 m of a park. Polgooth has at least twice Mevagissey’s green space per resident.
Questions about the outdoors in Mevagissey
What are the best walks near Mevagissey?
2 waymarked walking routes pass within 2 km of the village, including the South West Coast Path (Section 31: Portloe to Mevagissey) and South West Coast Path (Section 32: Mevagissey to Par).
How many people in Mevagissey live near a park?
87% 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 Mevagissey?
May to September: the longest days, the warmest afternoons and the least rain of the year, from the Met Office 1991–2020 averages.
Is Mevagissey good for walking?
Paths are thinner than most towns: 1.9 km of footpath and right of way per square kilometre, more than 27% of UK towns. For park space per person it beats 21% (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 Mevagissey’s overall grade.
Where Mevagissey’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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