Nanpean’s biggest
Victoria Bottoms Playing Field
Playing field
1.9 ha (5 acres)
3 pitchesfootball pitches would fit
Centralin the middle of Nanpean
Directionsto the nearest entrance
Photo: Tony Atkin · CC BY-SA 2.0BOutdoors Grade
Outdoors in Nanpean · parks, paths & countryside
Almost everyone in Nanpean lives within a 5-minute walk of a park
The Cornwall National Landscape begins 4.2 mi from the village’s edge. Parks and playing fields in Nanpean add up to 4.4 ha for every 1,000 residents; the typical UK town has 2.1. 13 km of footpaths run through the village and the kilometre around it, 1.5 for every square kilometre. Nanpean grades B for the outdoors. A character grade: it isn’t part of the overall grade.
Green space
4.4 ha
per 1,000 residents
Typical UK town 2.1
Near a park
100%
of residents within 400 m
Typical UK town 83%
Footpaths
13 km
1.5 km per km², town + 1 km
Typical UK town 3.0 per km²
Protected landscape
0%
of the land within 5 km
Cornwall starts 4.2 mi out, past the 5 km
Character
What kind of outdoors village is Nanpean?
Read from the data: what stands out first, good and bad.
A park on every doorstep100% of residents live within 400 m of a park or playing field.Room to roam4.4 ha of parks and playing fields per 1,000 residents, more than 84% of UK towns.Countryside close byThe Cornwall National Landscape starts 4.2 mi south-east.Few mapped footpaths1.5 km of path per km²; the typical UK town has 3.0.
Nanpean’s strongest suit is parks close to every home, followed by plenty of park space. Where it falls short is footpaths.
Outdoors grade
Nanpean grades B for the outdoors
Each chart is every UK town of 1,000 or more on one measure: the green bar is Nanpean, 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 55% of UK towns26th of 60 UK villages its size
Public green space4.4 haper 1,000 residents: parks, gardens, playing fields, play spaces
84out of
100
100
A park within a walk100%of residents within 400 m (a 5-minute walk)
89out of
100
100
National Park or National Landscape0%of the land within 5 km · Cornwall begins just past 5 km
31out of
100
100
Footpaths1.5 kmper km², the town and 1 km around it
17out 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
Nanpean is 26th of 60 UK villages its size for the outdoors
The 60 UK towns and cities of 1,000 to 1,100 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
Nanpean1.5
Villages its size2.2
Cornwall towns2.3
All UK towns3.0
Green space, ha per 1,000 residents
Nanpean4.4
Villages its size2.4
Cornwall towns1.6
All UK towns2.1
Residents within 400 m of a park
Nanpean100%
Villages its size76%
Cornwall towns81%
All UK towns83%
Against villages its size, Nanpean stands out most for park space per resident: only 11 of the other 59 have more. It falls furthest behind on path per km², where 45 of the others do better.
Show as a table
| Town | Outdoors | Green space | Near a park | Path per km² | Protected | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Giggleswick North Yorkshire | A+ | 14.2 | 100% | 4.1 | 75% |
| 2 | Lympne Kent | A+ | 4 | 100% | 2.7 | 34% |
| 3 | Frampton on Severn Gloucestershire | A+ | 11 | 100% | 3.6 | 0% |
| 4 | Bromham Wiltshire | A+ | 5.8 | 100% | 3.3 | 13% |
| 5 | Colney Heath Hertfordshire | A | 8.7 | 100% | 7.4 | 0% |
| 6 | Alston Cumbria | A | 5.8 | 100% | 2.1 | 100% |
| 7 | Heather Leicestershire | A | 16.9 | 100% | 4.7 | 0% |
| 8 | Blockley Gloucestershire | A | 2.9 | 100% | 2.5 | 86% |
| 9 | Furness Vale Derbyshire | A− | 2 | 78% | 5 | 36% |
| 10 | Old Langho Lancashire | A− | 7.6 | 73% | 2.9 | 20% |
| 11 | Plumpton Green East Sussex | A− | 4.6 | 54% | 3.6 | 37% |
| 12 | Winford Isle of Wight | A− | 1.7 | 0% | 4.4 | 39% |
| 13 | Cwmgwrach West Glamorgan | B+ | 3.2 | 100% | 1.7 | 6% |
| 14 | Calver Derbyshire | B+ | 2.2 | 44% | 4.8 | 99% |
| 15 | North Thoresby Lincolnshire | B+ | 3.7 | 100% | 0.8 | 21% |
| 16 | Bethel Gwynedd | B+ | 1.6 | 100% | 1.4 | 10% |
| 17 | Groombridge East Sussex | B+ | 2.3 | 77% | 2.8 | 92% |
| 18 | Blackfordby Leicestershire | B+ | 3.5 | 100% | 2.6 | 0% |
| 19 | Five Ash Down East Sussex | B+ | 2.8 | 0% | 4.1 | 43% |
| 20 | Upperthong West Yorkshire | B | 1.7 | 65% | 4.7 | 26% |
| 21 | Fishtoft Lincolnshire | B | 2.3 | 100% | 1.1 | 0% |
| 22 | Barwick and Stoford Somerset | B | 6.4 | 71% | 2.2 | 5% |
| 23 | Holt Clwyd | B | 0.9 | 100% | 5.1 | 0% |
| 24 | Milborne St Andrew Dorset | B | 3.3 | 71% | 2.1 | 33% |
| 25 | Pentre Halkyn Clwyd | B | 1.3 | 59% | 3.6 | 3% |
| 26 | Nanpean Cornwall | B | 4.4 | 100% | 1.5 | 0% |
| 27 | Sharnford Leicestershire | B− | 1.9 | 100% | 2.9 | 0% |
| 28 | Challock Kent | B− | 3 | 62% | 2 | 88% |
| 29 | Tackley Oxfordshire | B− | 1.9 | 100% | 2.8 | 0% |
| 30 | Twyning Gloucestershire | B− | 1 | 100% | 2.5 | 10% |
| 31 | Ettington Warwickshire | B− | 3.3 | 100% | 1.6 | 0% |
| 32 | South Wingfield Derbyshire | B− | 5.4 | 75% | 2.8 | 0% |
| 33 | Coopersale Essex | B− | 1.1 | 100% | 3.5 | 0% |
| 34 | Beeford East Riding of Yorkshire | C+ | 3.9 | 100% | 0.4 | 0% |
| 35 | Carleton-in-Craven North Yorkshire | C+ | 0.4 | 100% | 2.3 | 10% |
| 36 | Chillington Devon | C+ | 0.6 | 78% | 1.3 | 55% |
| 37 | Milford Derbyshire | C+ | 1.4 | 100% | 2.8 | 0% |
| 38 | Easton on the Hill Northamptonshire | C+ | 2.5 | 100% | 1.7 | 0% |
| 39 | Draycott Somerset | C+ | 2.1 | 68% | 2.1 | 46% |
| 40 | Sutterton Lincolnshire | C+ | 2.8 | 100% | 0.4 | 0% |
| 41 | Upper Basildon Berkshire | C+ | 2.3 | 0% | 2 | 97% |
| 42 | Lower Shiplake Oxfordshire | C+ | 3 | 0% | 2 | 28% |
| 43 | Woodhouses Greater Manchester | C | 2.6 | 40% | 3.5 | 0% |
| 44 | Charlton Marshall Dorset | C | 0.5 | 78% | 2 | 50% |
| 45 | Glazebury Cheshire | C− | 5.1 | 58% | 1.5 | 0% |
| 46 | Pattishall and Astcote Northamptonshire | C− | 2.9 | 39% | 2.4 | 0% |
| 47 | Stebbing Essex | C− | 2.4 | 70% | 2 | 0% |
| 48 | North Leverton with Habblesthorpe Nottinghamshire | C− | 0.5 | 100% | 1.4 | 0% |
| 49 | Tolleshunt Knights Essex | C− | 3.4 | 41% | 1.8 | 0% |
| 50 | Gorefield Cambridgeshire | D | 2.9 | 67% | 0.5 | 0% |
| 51 | Crundale Dyfed | D | 1.5 | 57% | 0.5 | 5% |
| 52 | Napton on the Hill Warwickshire | D | 0.4 | 69% | 2.5 | 0% |
| 53 | Aberporth Dyfed | D | 0.6 | 38% | 0.8 | 0% |
| 54 | Wisbech St Mary Cambridgeshire | D | 1.8 | 69% | 0.2 | 0% |
| 55 | Hockliffe Bedfordshire | D− | 1.2 | 49% | 1.8 | 0% |
| 56 | Berryfield Wiltshire | D− | 0.4 | 53% | 2.1 | 0% |
| 57 | South Hykeham Lincolnshire | D− | 0.2 | 0% | 2.3 | 0% |
| 58 | Pencader Dyfed | D− | 1.2 | 30% | 0.1 | 0% |
| 59 | Netheravon Wiltshire | D− | 0.4 | 0% | 1.3 | 0% |
| 60 | Leeming Bar North Yorkshire | D− | 0.7 | 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 Nanpean’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 Nanpean
The biggest is Victoria Bottoms Playing Field, 1.9 ha (5 acres). Directions go to the park’s nearest public entrance where Ordnance Survey maps one.
Close to home
How close Nanpean’s homes are to 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 (100%)Further (0%)
Nanpean100%
Villages its size76%
Cornwall towns81%
All UK towns83%
Playing fields count, so a park within reach isn’t always one with paths or trees; 10 playgrounds are mapped in and around the village, about one for every 108 residents.
National Parks & National Landscapes
The Cornwall National Landscape is 4.2 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 Nanpean scores 0% on it even though the Cornwall National Landscape is 4.2 mi away.
Footpaths & waymarked walks
Footpaths in and around Nanpean
13 km of footpaths, bridleways and rights of way are mapped in Nanpean and the kilometre around it, 1.5 km for every square kilometre (the typical UK town has 3.0).
No named walking route is mapped within 2 km of Nanpean; 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 Nanpean: June 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 | 8.0 |
| High (°C) | 8 | 8 | 10 | 12 | 15 | 18 | 20 | 19 | 17 | 14 | 11 | 9 |
| Rain (mm) | 146 | 120 | 96 | 81 | 78 | 86 | 88 | 103 | 97 | 152 | 164 | 159 |
May is the driest month (78 mm) and July the warmest (highs of 20 °C). Winter days are short, about 8 hours of daylight in December, and 164 mm of rain falls in November, the wettest month. Frost comes on about 21 nights a year. The climate in Nanpean →
Things to do
10 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
Nanpean is inland. These are the nearest named beaches, measured from the edge of the village.
Porthpean Beach5.2 mi from Nanpean’s edge
DirectionsDuporth Beach5.2 mi from Nanpean’s edge
DirectionsSilvermine Beach5.6 mi from Nanpean’s edge
DirectionsCrinnis Beach6.1 mi from Nanpean’s edge
DirectionsPentewan Beach6.4 mi from Nanpean’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
Playgrounds 10
Play Park at The Queens Head Inn1.2 mi from town
DirectionsPlus 9 playgrounds 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.
FoxholeSt DennisSt StephenTrewoonRocheIndian Queens, Fraddon and St Columb RoadNanpean
ABCDOutdoors Grade
| Town | Outdoors | Green space, ha per 1,000 | Near a park | Protected within 5 km |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nanpean | B | 4.4 | 100% | 0% |
| Foxhole 0.7 mi | B− | 2.9 | 100% | 0% |
| St Dennis 1.0 mi | C+ | 2.4 | 100% | 0% |
| St Stephen 1.9 mi | D | 1.2 | 88% | 0% |
| Trewoon 2.8 mi | D | 0.9 | 71% | 6% |
| Roche 3.2 mi | C− | 2.8 | 81% | 0% |
| Indian Queens, Fraddon and St Columb Road 3.3 mi | D− | 0.7 | 27% | 0% |
Nanpean grades higher for the outdoors than every neighbour in the table.
Questions about the outdoors in Nanpean
What is the biggest park in Nanpean?
Victoria Bottoms Playing Field, 1.9 ha (5 acres). 1 named park, garden or playing field is in the village or within 400 m of it.
Is Nanpean near a National Park?
The nearest protected landscape is the Cornwall National Landscape, 4.2 mi south-east of the village’s edge. It covers 964 km² and was designated in 1959.
What is the nearest beach to Nanpean?
Porthpean Beach, 5.2 mi from the edge of the village, then Duporth Beach (5.2 mi). Nanpean itself is inland.
How many people in Nanpean live near a park?
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%.
When is the best time of year for walking in Nanpean?
June to September: the longest days, the warmest afternoons and the least rain of the year, from the Met Office 1991–2020 averages.
Is Nanpean good for walking?
Paths are thinner than most towns: 1.5 km of footpath and right of way per square kilometre, more than 17% of UK towns. For park space per person it beats 84% (4.4 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 Nanpean’s overall grade.
Sources
Where Nanpean’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.