Photo: David Gearing · CC BY-SA 2.089% of St Columb Major’s residents live within a 5-minute walk of a park
The Cornwall National Landscape begins 4.3 mi from the town’s edge. Footpaths add up to 11 km in the town and the kilometre around it, 1.0 for every square kilometre. Parks and playing fields in St Columb Major add up to 1.0 ha for every 1,000 residents; the typical UK town has 2.1. St Columb Major grades D for the outdoors. A character grade: it isn’t part of the overall grade.
What kind of outdoors town is St Columb Major?
Read from the data: what stands out first, good and bad.
St Columb Major’s strongest suit is the Cornwall National Landscape close by. Where it falls short is footpaths.
St Columb Major grades D for the outdoors
Each chart is every UK town of 1,000 or more on one measure: the green bar is St Columb Major, 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.
St Columb Major is 53rd of 60 UK towns its size for the outdoors
The 60 UK towns and cities of 3,500 to 3,800 people with an Outdoors Grade. Hover a dot for its figures; tap one for its page.
Against towns its size, St Columb Major stands out most for homes near a park: only 14 of the other 59 have more. It falls furthest behind on path per km², where 57 of the others do better.
Show as a table
| Town | Outdoors | Green space | Near a park | Path per km² | Protected | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Trimley St Mary Suffolk | A+ | 2.3 | 100% | 3.8 | 34% |
| 2 | Tutshill and Sedbury Gloucestershire | A+ | 2.5 | 87% | 4.5 | 32% |
| 3 | Marsden West Yorkshire | A | 1.9 | 100% | 6.5 | 33% |
| 4 | Leonard Stanley and King's Stanley Gloucestershire | A | 2 | 100% | 4.6 | 51% |
| 5 | Cuckfield West Sussex | A | 6.7 | 70% | 4.9 | 49% |
| 6 | Lingfield Surrey | A | 3.5 | 100% | 2.8 | 16% |
| 7 | Bethesda Gwynedd | A | 2.5 | 90% | 3.2 | 49% |
| 8 | Church Stretton Shropshire | A− | 2.2 | 68% | 4.7 | 92% |
| 9 | Kingswood Surrey | A− | 4.6 | 27% | 6.3 | 17% |
| 10 | Stanstead Abbotts Hertfordshire | B+ | 2.5 | 92% | 4.9 | 0% |
| 11 | Keresley Newlands Warwickshire | B+ | 4.4 | 89% | 3.5 | 0% |
| 12 | Harriseahead, Mow Cop and Newchapel Staffordshire | B+ | 4.2 | 86% | 3.7 | 0% |
| 13 | Watchet Somerset | B+ | 1.3 | 86% | 2 | 18% |
| 14 | Chartham Kent | B | 2.3 | 67% | 3.3 | 44% |
| 15 | Lyme Regis Dorset | B | 1.4 | 60% | 2.5 | 56% |
| 16 | Roade Northamptonshire | B | 2.6 | 100% | 2.7 | 0% |
| 17 | Mayland Essex | B | 2.6 | 91% | 1.8 | 0% |
| 18 | Martham Norfolk | B | 1.7 | 74% | 1.8 | 45% |
| 19 | Sturminster Newton Dorset | B | 1.4 | 85% | 3.6 | 5% |
| 20 | Belton Norfolk | B− | 1.5 | 77% | 1.5 | 48% |
| 21 | Whitwell Derbyshire | B− | 1.7 | 100% | 3 | 0% |
| 22 | Lower Nazeing Essex | B− | 23.8 | 58% | 3.2 | 0% |
| 23 | Worlingham Suffolk | B− | 1.5 | 100% | 1.4 | 24% |
| 24 | Pulborough West Sussex | B− | 1.4 | 77% | 2.7 | 50% |
| 25 | Bembridge Isle of Wight | B− | 1.5 | 50% | 2.3 | 7% |
| 26 | Penllergaer West Glamorgan | B− | 21 | 83% | 1.7 | 0% |
| 27 | Langport Somerset | B− | 2.3 | 94% | 2.5 | 0% |
| 28 | Cardigan Dyfed | B− | 1.9 | 69% | 1.4 | 13% |
| 29 | Kingskerswell Devon | C+ | 3.5 | 76% | 1.2 | 0% |
| 30 | Oakworth West Yorkshire | C+ | 2.3 | 84% | 3.1 | 0% |
| 31 | Fradley Staffordshire | C+ | 2.7 | 82% | 2.7 | 0% |
| 32 | Tutbury Staffordshire | C+ | 2.5 | 90% | 2.2 | 0% |
| 33 | Great Lumley County Durham | C+ | 1.4 | 88% | 3.6 | 0% |
| 34 | Boreham Essex | C+ | 1.1 | 100% | 2.8 | 0% |
| 35 | Hatfield Peverel Essex | C | 2 | 84% | 2.7 | 0% |
| 36 | Coggeshall Essex | C | 2.1 | 84% | 2.5 | 0% |
| 37 | Bransgore Hampshire | C | 1.9 | 71% | 1.2 | 49% |
| 38 | Cowbridge South Glamorgan | C | 1.2 | 86% | 3.1 | 0% |
| 39 | Haltwhistle Northumberland | C | 1.5 | 59% | 2.3 | 31% |
| 40 | Glemsford Suffolk | C− | 1.1 | 84% | 3 | 0% |
| 41 | Bramhope West Yorkshire | C− | 1.8 | 0% | 2.7 | 2% |
| 42 | Hawkhurst Kent | C− | 1.1 | 60% | 1.4 | 100% |
| 43 | Fulbourn Cambridgeshire | C− | 1.7 | 74% | 2.4 | 0% |
| 44 | Pwllheli Gwynedd | C− | 0.1 | 23% | 1.3 | 2% |
| 45 | West Parley Dorset | C− | 1.6 | 20% | 3.5 | 0% |
| 46 | Bloxham Oxfordshire | C− | 2.6 | 71% | 1.2 | 0% |
| 47 | Kempsey Worcestershire | D | 0.9 | 40% | 3.9 | 0% |
| 48 | Windlesham Surrey | D | 2 | 57% | 2.2 | 0% |
| 49 | Hoveton and Wroxham Norfolk | D | 1.4 | 65% | 0.8 | 18% |
| 50 | Langford Bedfordshire | D | 1.4 | 63% | 2.6 | 0% |
| 51 | Spilsby Lincolnshire | D | 0 | 0% | 2.2 | 23% |
| 52 | Wilsden West Yorkshire | D | 0.6 | 61% | 3 | 0% |
| 53 | St Columb Major Cornwall | D | 1 | 89% | 1 | 0% |
| 54 | Willaston (Cheshire East) Cheshire | D | 1 | 82% | 1.5 | 0% |
| 55 | Bilton East Riding of Yorkshire | D | 1.3 | 66% | 1.5 | 0% |
| 56 | Llanbradach Gwent | D− | 1.2 | 52% | 1.9 | 0% |
| 57 | Upwell and Outwell Norfolk | D− | 1.8 | 43% | 0.4 | 0% |
| 58 | Wollaston Northamptonshire | D− | 1.2 | 11% | 1.2 | 0% |
| 59 | Llanharry Mid Glamorgan | D− | 0.6 | 50% | 1.3 | 0% |
| 60 | Copmanthorpe North Yorkshire | D− | 0.7 | 38% | 1.4 | 0% |
Parks, footpaths & countryside
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How close St Columb Major’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).
About 400 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 town, about one for every 611 residents.
The Cornwall National Landscape is 4.3 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.
Protected landscape begins just outside the 5 km ring the Outdoors Grade measures, so St Columb Major scores 0% on it even though the Cornwall National Landscape is 4.3 mi away.
Footpaths in and around St Columb Major
11 km of footpaths, bridleways and rights of way are mapped in St Columb Major and the kilometre around it, 1.0 km for every square kilometre (the typical UK town has 3.0).
No named walking route is mapped within 2 km of St Columb Major; 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 St Columb Major: May to September
The town’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) | 9 | 9 | 10 | 13 | 15 | 18 | 19 | 19 | 18 | 15 | 11 | 9 |
| Rain (mm) | 129 | 96 | 77 | 79 | 68 | 70 | 78 | 83 | 83 | 123 | 139 | 130 |
May is the driest month (68 mm) and July the warmest (highs of 19 °C). Winter days are short, about 8 hours of daylight in December, and 139 mm of rain falls in November, the wettest month. Frost comes on about 16 nights a year. The climate in St Columb Major →
6 playgrounds and the nearest beaches
Mapped within 2 km of the town in OpenStreetMap, against the typical UK town its size per resident. Named places are listed with directions; unnamed ones are only counted.
The nearest beaches
St Columb Major is inland. These are the nearest named beaches, measured from the edge of the town.
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 6
Plus 4 playgrounds without a name on the map.
Campsites 6
Plus 2 campsites without a name on the map.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| St Columb Major | D | 1.0 | 89% | 0% |
| Indian Queens, Fraddon and St Columb Road 2.8 mi | D− | 0.7 | 27% | 0% |
| Quintrell Downs 4.1 mi | B+ | 3.3 | 100% | 0% |
| St Dennis 4.3 mi | C+ | 2.4 | 100% | 0% |
| Roche 5.1 mi | C− | 2.8 | 81% | 0% |
| Nanpean 5.4 mi | B | 4.4 | 100% | 0% |
| Newquay 5.6 mi | C+ | 1.6 | 75% | 0% |
Quintrell Downs, 4.1 miles away, grades B+, the best next door: every resident lives within 400 m of a park. Quintrell Downs, St Dennis and Roche have at least twice St Columb Major’s green space per resident. None of the neighbours has a protected landscape within 5 km either.
Questions about the outdoors in St Columb Major
Is St Columb Major near a National Park?
The nearest protected landscape is the Cornwall National Landscape, 4.3 mi north-west of the town’s edge. It covers 964 km² and was designated in 1959.
What is the nearest beach to St Columb Major?
Stem, 4.2 mi from the edge of the town, then Dunes (4.2 mi). St Columb Major itself is inland.
How many people in St Columb Major live near a park?
89% 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 St Columb Major?
May to September: the longest days, the warmest afternoons and the least rain of the year, from the Met Office 1991–2020 averages.
Is St Columb Major good for walking?
Paths are thinner than most towns: 1.0 km of footpath and right of way per square kilometre, more than 7% of UK towns. For park space per person it beats 13% (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 St Columb Major’s overall grade.
Where St Columb Major’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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