Photo: Lewis Clarke · CC BY-SA 2.0Almost everyone in Shortlanesend lives within a 5-minute walk of a park
The Cornwall National Landscape begins 2.5 mi from the village’s edge. Parks and playing fields in Shortlanesend add up to 1.0 ha for every 1,000 residents; the typical UK town has 2.1. Footpaths add up to 9 km in the village and the kilometre around it, 1.7 for every square kilometre. Shortlanesend grades C+ for the outdoors. A character grade: it isn’t part of the overall grade.
What kind of outdoors village is Shortlanesend?
Read from the data: what stands out first, good and bad.
Shortlanesend’s strongest suit is parks close to every home, followed by the Cornwall National Landscape close by. Where it falls short is park space per person.
Shortlanesend grades C+ for the outdoors
Each chart is every UK town of 1,000 or more on one measure: the green bar is Shortlanesend, 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.
Shortlanesend is 37th of 60 UK villages its size for the outdoors
The 60 UK towns and cities of 1,400 to 1,500 people with an Outdoors Grade. Hover a dot for its figures; tap one for its page.
Against villages its size, Shortlanesend 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 54 of the others do better.
Show as a table
| Town | Outdoors | Green space | Near a park | Path per km² | Protected | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Trull Somerset | A+ | 5.9 | 100% | 3.9 | 20% |
| 2 | Kingswood Gloucestershire | A | 2.1 | 100% | 3.7 | 45% |
| 3 | Tir-y-berth and Glan-y-nant Gwent | A | 22.1 | 100% | 4.3 | 0% |
| 4 | Whiteshill and Randwick Gloucestershire | A | 4.5 | 60% | 7 | 64% |
| 5 | New Houghton Derbyshire | A | 33.8 | 100% | 3.9 | 0% |
| 6 | Balcombe West Sussex | A | 2.9 | 100% | 2.2 | 90% |
| 7 | Jump South Yorkshire | A | 5.1 | 100% | 4.2 | 0% |
| 8 | Sedbergh Cumbria | A | 1.9 | 83% | 5 | 92% |
| 9 | St Day Cornwall | A | 3.2 | 100% | 4.7 | 0% |
| 10 | Chaldon Surrey | A− | 7.4 | 50% | 4.9 | 24% |
| 11 | Heath and Reach Bedfordshire | A− | 3.3 | 100% | 4.1 | 0% |
| 12 | Five Oak Green Kent | A− | 3 | 100% | 2 | 30% |
| 13 | Hallow Worcestershire | A− | 3.7 | 100% | 3.5 | 0% |
| 14 | Wigginton North Yorkshire | A− | 4.1 | 100% | 2.9 | 0% |
| 15 | Shotley Gate Suffolk | A− | 1 | 100% | 1.5 | 34% |
| 16 | Grundisburgh Suffolk | B+ | 2.2 | 100% | 2.6 | 3% |
| 17 | Princetown Devon | B+ | 1.4 | 100% | 2.3 | 100% |
| 18 | Stanwell Moor Surrey | B+ | 2.4 | 100% | 3.4 | 0% |
| 19 | Brookwood Surrey | B+ | 8.5 | 59% | 6.2 | 0% |
| 20 | Emley West Yorkshire | B+ | 2.6 | 100% | 3 | 0% |
| 21 | Cowling North Yorkshire | B | 1.3 | 100% | 6 | 0% |
| 22 | Wedmore Somerset | B | 4.7 | 60% | 3.1 | 1% |
| 23 | Kelloe County Durham | B | 5.6 | 42% | 6 | 0% |
| 24 | Woolmer Green Hertfordshire | B | 1.3 | 100% | 4.3 | 0% |
| 25 | Tye Green Essex | B | 2 | 100% | 3 | 0% |
| 26 | Bentley Hampshire | B | 1.3 | 100% | 2.1 | 22% |
| 27 | Calvert Buckinghamshire | B | 3.3 | 100% | 1.9 | 0% |
| 28 | Abertysswg Gwent | B | 2.5 | 85% | 3.6 | 0% |
| 29 | Little Hallingbury Essex | B− | 1 | 100% | 4.2 | 0% |
| 30 | Brigstock Northamptonshire | B− | 8.2 | 84% | 2.1 | 0% |
| 31 | Warkworth Northumberland | B− | 1.8 | 76% | 1.3 | 9% |
| 32 | Bishop Sutton Somerset | B− | 2.3 | 64% | 2.5 | 36% |
| 33 | Orsett Essex | B− | 4.4 | 100% | 0.9 | 0% |
| 34 | Ashton Keynes Wiltshire | C+ | 1.7 | 100% | 2.6 | 0% |
| 35 | Robertsbridge East Sussex | C+ | 2 | 38% | 2.7 | 100% |
| 36 | Gelligaer Gwent | C+ | 2.3 | 100% | 1.4 | 0% |
| 37 | Shortlanesend Cornwall | C+ | 1 | 100% | 1.7 | 2% |
| 38 | Benenden Kent | C | 2 | 57% | 1.7 | 83% |
| 39 | Barlaston Staffordshire | C | 2.7 | 80% | 2.4 | 0% |
| 40 | Brailsford Derbyshire | C | 0.9 | 100% | 2.4 | 0% |
| 41 | Ryhall Rutland | C | 1.9 | 100% | 1.2 | 0% |
| 42 | Slip End Bedfordshire | C | 1.9 | 22% | 2.3 | 28% |
| 43 | Stewkley Buckinghamshire | C | 4.2 | 74% | 1.7 | 0% |
| 44 | Hurley Warwickshire | C | 2.8 | 75% | 2.2 | 0% |
| 45 | Salhouse Norfolk | C− | 1.9 | 71% | 1 | 17% |
| 46 | Blofield Heath Norfolk | C− | 2.5 | 43% | 0.9 | 17% |
| 47 | Mid Lavant West Sussex | C− | 1.3 | 33% | 1.8 | 62% |
| 48 | Newton Flotman Norfolk | C− | 2.5 | 78% | 1.2 | 0% |
| 49 | Thorrington Essex | C− | 1.2 | 65% | 1.5 | 0% |
| 50 | Shipton Bellinger Hampshire | D | 1.5 | 79% | 1.8 | 0% |
| 51 | Ranskill Nottinghamshire | D | 0.4 | 100% | 0.5 | 0% |
| 52 | Keadby Lincolnshire | D | 1.7 | 84% | 0.6 | 0% |
| 53 | Blakedown Worcestershire | D | 0.8 | 79% | 2 | 0% |
| 54 | Meon Vale Warwickshire | D | 0.4 | 50% | 1.4 | 19% |
| 55 | Byram North Yorkshire | D | 2.1 | 19% | 1.5 | 0% |
| 56 | Stillington County Durham | D | 1.4 | 77% | 0.8 | 0% |
| 57 | Barford Warwickshire | D | 2.1 | 58% | 0.5 | 0% |
| 58 | Friday Bridge Cambridgeshire | D− | 1 | 79% | 0.3 | 0% |
| 59 | Markham Gwent | D− | 0.1 | 0% | 2.6 | 0% |
| 60 | Easton Norfolk | D− | 1 | 0% | 1.2 | 0% |
Parks, footpaths & countryside
Tap a number to zoom to a park. Tap a layer to hide it. The dashed line is Shortlanesend’s built-up area.
How close Shortlanesend’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).
Playing fields count, so a park within reach isn’t always one with paths or trees.
The Cornwall National Landscape is 2.5 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.
2% of the land within 5 km of Shortlanesend is National Park or National Landscape, more than 64% of UK towns.
Footpaths in and around Shortlanesend
9 km of footpaths, bridleways and rights of way are mapped in Shortlanesend and the kilometre around it, 1.7 km for every square kilometre (the typical UK town has 3.0).
No named walking route is mapped within 2 km of Shortlanesend; 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 best walking months in Shortlanesend: 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 | 8.0 |
| High (°C) | 9 | 10 | 11 | 13 | 16 | 18 | 20 | 20 | 18 | 15 | 12 | 10 |
| Rain (mm) | 125 | 97 | 75 | 70 | 62 | 61 | 70 | 78 | 77 | 114 | 135 | 130 |
June is the driest month (61 mm) and August the warmest (highs of 20 °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 18 nights a year. The climate in Shortlanesend →
Viewpoints, hills and nature near Shortlanesend
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
Shortlanesend 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.
Every named place, with directions
Hills and peaks 1
Plus 1 peak without a name on the map.
Playgrounds 1
Plus 1 playground without a name on the map.
Campsites 1
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Shortlanesend | C+ | 1.0 | 100% | 2% |
| Truro 1.9 mi | B | 1.6 | 84% | 21% |
| Threemilestone 2.4 mi | A− | 3.1 | 100% | 1% |
| St Erme and Trispen 2.7 mi | D | 0.3 | 69% | 2% |
| Carnon Downs and Devoran 4.7 mi | B+ | 0.3 | 87% | 36% |
| Perranporth 5.2 mi | B+ | 1.3 | 75% | 4% |
| St Newlyn East 5.5 mi | C+ | 3.0 | 100% | 0% |
Threemilestone, 2.4 miles away, grades A−, the best next door: every resident lives within 400 m of a park. Threemilestone and St Newlyn East have at least twice Shortlanesend’s green space per resident.
Questions about the outdoors in Shortlanesend
Is Shortlanesend near a National Park?
The nearest protected landscape is the Cornwall National Landscape, 2.5 mi south-east of the village’s edge. It covers 964 km² and was designated in 1959.
What is the nearest beach to Shortlanesend?
Trevaunance Cove, 5.7 mi from the edge of the village, then Loe Beach (5.9 mi). Shortlanesend itself is inland.
How many people in Shortlanesend 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 Shortlanesend?
May to September: the longest days, the warmest afternoons and the least rain of the year, from the Met Office 1991–2020 averages.
Is Shortlanesend good for walking?
Paths are thinner than most towns: 1.7 km of footpath and right of way per square kilometre, more than 22% of UK towns. For park space per person it beats 12% (1.0 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 Shortlanesend’s overall grade.
Where Shortlanesend’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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