Threemilestone’s biggest
Maiden Green
Park or garden · 230 m outside town
0.0 ha (0 acres)
0.5 mi north-eastfrom the centre
Directionsto the nearest entrance
Photo: Derek Harper · CC BY-SA 2.0A−Outdoors Grade
Outdoors in Threemilestone · parks, paths & countryside
Almost everyone in Threemilestone lives within a 5-minute walk of a park
The Cornwall National Landscape begins 2.4 mi from the town’s edge. Parks and playing fields in Threemilestone add up to 3.1 ha for every 1,000 residents; the typical UK town has 2.1. 28 km of footpaths run through the town and the kilometre around it, 2.6 for every square kilometre. Threemilestone grades A− for the outdoors: #11 of 35 in Cornwall. A character grade: it isn’t part of the overall grade.
Green space
3.1 ha
per 1,000 residents
Typical UK town 2.1
Near a park
100%
of residents within 400 m
Typical UK town 83%
Footpaths
28 km
2.6 km per km², town + 1 km
Typical UK town 3.0 per km²
Protected landscape
1%
of the land within 5 km
Nearest: Cornwall National Landscape
Character
What kind of outdoors town is Threemilestone?
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.Countryside close byThe Cornwall National Landscape starts 2.4 mi south-east.
Threemilestone’s strongest suit is parks close to every home, followed by the Cornwall National Landscape close by.
Outdoors grade
Threemilestone grades A− for the outdoors
Each chart is every UK town of 1,000 or more on one measure: the green bar is Threemilestone, the dashed line the typical town. The number is the share of towns it beats; the five are averaged and the average ranked again.
A−
Better than 81% of UK towns#11 of 35 in Cornwall · 9th of 60 UK towns its size
Public green space3.1 haper 1,000 residents: parks, gardens, playing fields, play spaces
71out 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 Landscape1%of the land within 5 km
63out of
100
100
Footpaths2.6 kmper km², the town and 1 km around it
48out 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.
Towns its size
Threemilestone is 9th of 60 UK towns its size for the outdoors
The 60 UK towns and cities of 2,700 to 3,000 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
Threemilestone2.6
Towns its size2.2
Cornwall towns2.3
All UK towns3.0
Green space, ha per 1,000 residents
Threemilestone3.1
Towns its size1.9
Cornwall towns1.6
All UK towns2.1
Residents within 400 m of a park
Threemilestone100%
Towns its size78%
Cornwall towns81%
All UK towns83%
Against towns its size, Threemilestone stands out most for park space per resident: only 16 of the other 59 have more.
Show as a table
| Town | Outdoors | Green space | Near a park | Path per km² | Protected | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Halling Kent | A+ | 3.8 | 100% | 4.6 | 54% |
| 2 | Rudloe Wiltshire | A+ | 7.3 | 91% | 4 | 45% |
| 3 | Bruton Somerset | A | 9.3 | 100% | 2.5 | 1% |
| 4 | Hartshill Warwickshire | A | 19 | 100% | 3.5 | 0% |
| 5 | Mortimer Berkshire | A | 2.4 | 100% | 3.8 | 0% |
| 6 | Stoke Mandeville Buckinghamshire | A− | 5.5 | 37% | 6.8 | 29% |
| 7 | Kingsclere Hampshire | A− | 2.2 | 100% | 2.5 | 50% |
| 8 | Wargrave Berkshire | A− | 4 | 100% | 2 | 11% |
| 9 | Threemilestone Cornwall | A− | 3.1 | 100% | 2.6 | 1% |
| 10 | Knighton Powys | A− | 2.7 | 81% | 3.4 | 34% |
| 11 | East Saltdean East Sussex | A− | 1.6 | 0% | 4.9 | 44% |
| 12 | Congresbury Somerset | A− | 8.5 | 67% | 3.5 | 10% |
| 13 | Holywell Green and Stainland West Yorkshire | A− | 4 | 89% | 4.1 | 0% |
| 14 | Charfield Gloucestershire | B+ | 1.3 | 100% | 3 | 22% |
| 15 | Almondsbury Gloucestershire | B+ | 7.9 | 77% | 4 | 0% |
| 16 | South Hetton County Durham | B+ | 3.4 | 100% | 2.5 | 0% |
| 17 | Hertford Heath Hertfordshire | B+ | 1.6 | 100% | 4.4 | 0% |
| 18 | Mundesley Norfolk | B | 1.8 | 79% | 1.5 | 24% |
| 19 | Charlbury Oxfordshire | B | 3.1 | 66% | 2.4 | 65% |
| 20 | Barlborough Derbyshire | B | 4.4 | 100% | 2 | 0% |
| 21 | Rockwell Green Somerset | B | 1 | 90% | 3.2 | 24% |
| 22 | Scholes (near Cleckheaton) West Yorkshire | B | 4 | 89% | 2.5 | 0% |
| 23 | Tollesbury Essex | B− | 2 | 85% | 2.2 | 0% |
| 24 | Chalgrove Oxfordshire | B− | 4.1 | 85% | 1.2 | 4% |
| 25 | Aston Clwyd | B− | 4.4 | 37% | 4.7 | 0% |
| 26 | Waltham Chase Hampshire | B− | 2 | 75% | 2.2 | 39% |
| 27 | Pimperne Dorset | C+ | 1.9 | 72% | 1.9 | 89% |
| 28 | Great Totham Essex | C+ | 2.8 | 100% | 1.3 | 0% |
| 29 | Over Cambridgeshire | C+ | 1.3 | 100% | 2.7 | 0% |
| 30 | Bluntisham and Colne Cambridgeshire | C+ | 2.3 | 88% | 2.2 | 0% |
| 31 | Rolleston on Dove Staffordshire | C+ | 3.8 | 84% | 1.7 | 0% |
| 32 | Alderholt Dorset | C | 1.9 | 43% | 2.3 | 31% |
| 33 | Collingham Nottinghamshire | C | 2.4 | 78% | 2.4 | 0% |
| 34 | Llanfair Pwllgwyngyll Gwynedd | C | 0.8 | 71% | 1.6 | 8% |
| 35 | Barrow upon Humber Lincolnshire | C | 1.5 | 88% | 0.3 | 0% |
| 36 | Trimdon County Durham | C | 1 | 100% | 2.2 | 0% |
| 37 | East Goscote Leicestershire | C | 2.9 | 75% | 1.8 | 0% |
| 38 | Corbridge Northumberland | C | 2.2 | 79% | 2.1 | 0% |
| 39 | Maerdy Mid Glamorgan | C− | 1.1 | 100% | 1.8 | 0% |
| 40 | Alrewas Staffordshire | C− | 1.5 | 66% | 3.6 | 0% |
| 41 | Tuxford Nottinghamshire | C− | 1.4 | 100% | 1 | 0% |
| 42 | Mere Wiltshire | C− | 1.6 | 34% | 1.5 | 54% |
| 43 | Clifton Bedfordshire | C− | 1.7 | 64% | 2.6 | 0% |
| 44 | Weedon Bec Northamptonshire | C− | 1.1 | 87% | 2 | 0% |
| 45 | Thorngumbald East Riding of Yorkshire | D | 1.3 | 69% | 0.5 | 0% |
| 46 | Catterall Lancashire | D | 1 | 47% | 1.9 | 9% |
| 47 | Croston Lancashire | D | 0.6 | 78% | 2.3 | 0% |
| 48 | Gamlingay Cambridgeshire | D | 2.1 | 32% | 2 | 0% |
| 49 | Sherburn County Durham | D | 0.2 | 0% | 4.1 | 0% |
| 50 | Berinsfield Oxfordshire | D | 0.1 | 0% | 2.1 | 11% |
| 51 | Terrington St Clement Norfolk | D | 1.5 | 53% | 0.4 | 0% |
| 52 | Seghill Northumberland | D | 0.2 | 41% | 3.1 | 0% |
| 53 | Pevensey Bay East Sussex | D | 0.5 | 0% | 1.1 | 0% |
| 54 | East Ayton and West Ayton North Yorkshire | D | 0.1 | 0% | 1.2 | 33% |
| 55 | West Winch Norfolk | D | 1.5 | 73% | 0.7 | 0% |
| 56 | Hunmanby North Yorkshire | D | 0.3 | 33% | 1.2 | 0% |
| 57 | Pickmere Cheshire | D− | 0.4 | 71% | 1.6 | 0% |
| 58 | Langstone Gwent | D− | 0.1 | 46% | 1.9 | 0% |
| 59 | Feltwell Norfolk | D− | 1.1 | 63% | 0.4 | 0% |
| 60 | Greetham Rutland | D− | 0.9 | 30% | 0.8 | 0% |
The map
Parks, footpaths & countryside
Tap a number to zoom to a park. Tap a layer to hide it. The dashed line is Threemilestone’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 Threemilestone
The biggest is Maiden Green, 0.0 ha (0 acres). Directions go to the park’s nearest public entrance where Ordnance Survey maps one.
Close to home
How close Threemilestone’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%)
Threemilestone100%
Towns its size78%
Cornwall towns81%
All UK towns83%
Playing fields count, so a park within reach isn’t always one with paths or trees; 11 playgrounds are mapped in and around the town, about one for every 259 residents.
National Parks & National Landscapes
The Cornwall National Landscape is 2.4 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
Footpaths & waymarked walks
3 waymarked walks pass through or near Threemilestone
28 km of footpaths, bridleways and rights of way are mapped in Threemilestone and the kilometre around it, 2.6 km for every square kilometre (the typical UK town has 3.0). Bars show each route’s kilometres within 2 km of the town.
Local
Chacewater Trail 2 - The Agriculture, Conservation & Heritage Loop2.5 km
Chacewater Trail 1 - The Main Settlement Loop2.0 km
Chacewater Trail 3 - The Todpool, Poldice Valley, Twelveheads Loop1.5 km
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 Threemilestone: 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 | 8.1 |
| High (°C) | 9 | 9 | 11 | 13 | 15 | 18 | 19 | 19 | 18 | 15 | 12 | 10 |
| Rain (mm) | 133 | 108 | 84 | 76 | 63 | 65 | 71 | 84 | 83 | 121 | 151 | 155 |
May is the driest month (63 mm) and July the warmest (highs of 19 °C). Winter days are short, about 8 hours of daylight in December, and 155 mm of rain falls in December, the wettest month. Frost comes on about 18 nights a year. The climate in Threemilestone →
Things to do
11 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
Threemilestone is inland. These are the nearest named beaches, measured from the edge of the town.
Loe Beach4.6 mi from Threemilestone’s edge
DirectionsTrevaunance Cove4.9 mi from Threemilestone’s edge
DirectionsPorthtowan Beach5.0 mi from Threemilestone’s edge
DirectionsChapel Porth Beach5.0 mi from Threemilestone’s edge
DirectionsPortreath Beach7.1 mi from Threemilestone’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
Nature reserves 1
Halbullock Nature Reserve7.5 ha · 0.6 mi from town
DirectionsPlaygrounds 11
Chacewater Play Park1.0 mi from town
DirectionsPlus 10 playgrounds without a name on the map.
Campsites 1
Tomperrow Scout Campsitein town
DirectionsNext door
The outdoors in nearby towns
The nearest towns of 1,000+ within 12 miles. Tap a town for its outdoors page.
ShortlanesendTruroCarnon Downs and DevoranPerranarworthalSt DayCarharrackThreemilestone
ABCDOutdoors Grade
| Town | Outdoors | Green space, ha per 1,000 | Near a park | Protected within 5 km |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Threemilestone | A− | 3.1 | 100% | 1% |
| Shortlanesend 2.4 mi | C+ | 1.0 | 100% | 2% |
| Truro 2.4 mi | B | 1.6 | 84% | 21% |
| Carnon Downs and Devoran 3.0 mi | B+ | 0.3 | 87% | 36% |
| Perranarworthal 3.5 mi | C+ | 2.5 | 76% | 19% |
| St Day 3.6 mi | A | 3.2 | 100% | 0% |
| Carharrack 3.7 mi | C+ | 0.7 | 80% | 2% |
St Day, 3.6 miles away, grades A, the best next door: every resident lives within 400 m of a park.
Questions about the outdoors in Threemilestone
What is the biggest park in Threemilestone?
Maiden Green, 0.0 ha (0 acres), just outside the built-up area. 1 named park, garden or playing field is in the town or within 400 m of it.
Is Threemilestone near a National Park?
The nearest protected landscape is the Cornwall National Landscape, 2.4 mi south-east of the town’s edge. It covers 964 km² and was designated in 1959.
What are the best walks near Threemilestone?
3 waymarked walking routes pass within 2 km of the town, including the Chacewater Trail 2 - The Agriculture, Conservation & Heritage Loop, Chacewater Trail 1 - The Main Settlement Loop and Chacewater Trail 3 - The Todpool, Poldice Valley, Twelveheads Loop.
What is the nearest beach to Threemilestone?
Loe Beach, 4.6 mi from the edge of the town, then Trevaunance Cove (4.9 mi). Threemilestone itself is inland.
How many people in Threemilestone 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 Threemilestone?
May to September: the longest days, the warmest afternoons and the least rain of the year, from the Met Office 1991–2020 averages.
Is Threemilestone good for walking?
About average for paths: 2.6 km of footpath and right of way per square kilometre, more than 48% of UK towns. For park space per person it beats 71% (3.1 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 Threemilestone’s overall grade.
Sources
Where Threemilestone’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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