Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
Photo: David Medcalf · CC BY-SA 2.0Parks and playing fields in Tolvaddon add up to 11.9 ha for every 1,000 residents; the typical UK town has 2.1. Footpaths add up to 39 km in the village and the kilometre around it, 4.5 for every square kilometre. The Cornwall National Landscape begins 0.3 mi from the village’s edge. Tolvaddon grades A for the outdoors. A character grade: it isn’t part of the overall grade.
Read from the data: what stands out first, good and bad.
Tolvaddon’s strongest suit is plenty of park space, followed by dense footpaths. Where it falls short is how far some homes are from a park.
Each chart is every UK town of 1,000 or more on one measure: the green bar is Tolvaddon, the dashed line the typical town. The number is the share of towns it beats; the five are averaged and the average ranked again.
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.
The 60 UK towns and cities of 1,000 to 1,200 people with an Outdoors Grade. Hover a dot for its figures; tap one for its page.
Against villages its size, Tolvaddon stands out most for park space per resident: only 1 of the other 59 has more. It falls furthest behind on homes near a park, where 50 of the others do better.
| Town | Outdoors | Green space | Near a park | Path per km² | Protected | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Illogan Cornwall | A+ | 3 | 100% | 3.2 | 7% |
| 2 | Polgooth Cornwall | A+ | 7 | 100% | 2 | 13% |
| 3 | Fairlands Surrey | A+ | 2.8 | 100% | 5 | 11% |
| 4 | Chagford Devon | A+ | 4.7 | 100% | 2.5 | 98% |
| 5 | Masham North Yorkshire | A+ | 3.7 | 100% | 3 | 44% |
| 6 | Tolvaddon Cornwall | A | 11.9 | 24% | 4.5 | 9% |
| 7 | Ditchling East Sussex | A | 7.4 | 77% | 4 | 57% |
| 8 | Leigh Kent | A | 3 | 100% | 2.6 | 49% |
| 9 | Moston Cheshire | A | 7.8 | 100% | 3.8 | 0% |
| 10 | Charnock Richard Lancashire | A | 29.8 | 100% | 3.3 | 0% |
| 11 | Barns Green West Sussex | A | 6.6 | 100% | 3.5 | 0% |
| 12 | Horsted Keynes West Sussex | A− | 2.2 | 100% | 2.3 | 83% |
| 13 | Mayfield Staffordshire | A− | 1.9 | 100% | 3.3 | 14% |
| 14 | Boosbeck North Yorkshire | A− | 2.9 | 100% | 1.9 | 22% |
| 15 | Grange Moor West Yorkshire | A− | 4.3 | 100% | 2.8 | 0% |
| 16 | Llanddulas Clwyd | B+ | 1.7 | 100% | 2.4 | 0% |
| 17 | North Thoresby Lincolnshire | B+ | 3.7 | 100% | 0.8 | 21% |
| 18 | Bethel Gwynedd | B+ | 1.6 | 100% | 1.4 | 10% |
| 19 | Grassington North Yorkshire | B+ | 1.3 | 79% | 4.1 | 100% |
| 20 | South Bents Tyne and Wear | B+ | 4.9 | 62% | 2.6 | 0% |
| 21 | Borth Dyfed | B | 3.1 | 74% | 1.2 | 0% |
| 22 | Upperthong West Yorkshire | B | 1.7 | 65% | 4.7 | 26% |
| 23 | Cropston Leicestershire | B | 3.1 | 100% | 2.2 | 0% |
| 24 | Barwick and Stoford Somerset | B | 6.4 | 71% | 2.2 | 5% |
| 25 | Jacobs Well Surrey | B | 1.4 | 77% | 4.7 | 8% |
| 26 | Milborne St Andrew Dorset | B | 3.3 | 71% | 2.1 | 33% |
| 27 | Bedlinog Mid Glamorgan | B | 4.1 | 100% | 1.6 | 0% |
| 28 | Goudhurst Kent | B | 1.5 | 100% | 1.2 | 65% |
| 29 | Shipham Somerset | B− | 1.2 | 63% | 4 | 55% |
| 30 | Harpur Hill Derbyshire | B− | 3.1 | 31% | 2.3 | 60% |
| 31 | Roydon (South Norfolk) Norfolk | B− | 4.3 | 50% | 4 | 0% |
| 32 | Beaumaris Gwynedd | B− | 2.7 | 30% | 0.8 | 18% |
| 33 | Beeford East Riding of Yorkshire | C+ | 3.9 | 100% | 0.4 | 0% |
| 34 | Easton on the Hill Northamptonshire | C+ | 2.5 | 100% | 1.7 | 0% |
| 35 | Castlethorpe Buckinghamshire | C+ | 3.5 | 72% | 2.9 | 0% |
| 36 | Whimple Devon | C+ | 5.2 | 70% | 0.9 | 1% |
| 37 | Brinklow Warwickshire | C+ | 1.7 | 100% | 2 | 0% |
| 38 | Ashchurch Gloucestershire | C | 2 | 59% | 2.2 | 21% |
| 39 | Bow Street Dyfed | C | 3.1 | 33% | 1.6 | 0% |
| 40 | Woodhouses Greater Manchester | C | 2.6 | 40% | 3.5 | 0% |
| 41 | Bow Devon | C | 1.9 | 100% | 1.1 | 0% |
| 42 | Baldwin's Gate Staffordshire | C− | 1.3 | 100% | 1.5 | 0% |
| 43 | Glazebury Cheshire | C− | 5.1 | 58% | 1.5 | 0% |
| 44 | Milverton Somerset | C− | 2.1 | 70% | 2.4 | 0% |
| 45 | Beachley Gloucestershire | C− | 0.3 | 0% | 1.2 | 14% |
| 46 | Bildeston Suffolk | C− | 0.5 | 100% | 1.3 | 0% |
| 47 | Farmborough Somerset | C− | 2 | 38% | 2.6 | 0% |
| 48 | Cawston Norfolk | D | 2.7 | 71% | 0.8 | 0% |
| 49 | Broad Oak (Wealden) East Sussex | D | 0.1 | 0% | 1.4 | 96% |
| 50 | Wattstown Mid Glamorgan | D | 3.1 | 26% | 0.8 | 0% |
| 51 | Landrake Cornwall | D | 0.9 | 0% | 0.6 | 38% |
| 52 | Reawla Cornwall | D | 0.2 | 0% | 2 | 3% |
| 53 | Stickney Lincolnshire | D | 2.4 | 0% | 1 | 0% |
| 54 | Berryfield Wiltshire | D− | 0.4 | 53% | 2.1 | 0% |
| 55 | Pilton Somerset | D− | 1.2 | 28% | 1.9 | 0% |
| 56 | Moulton Chapel Lincolnshire | D− | 1.5 | 60% | 0 | 0% |
| 57 | Kentford Suffolk | D− | 1.9 | 0% | 0.5 | 0% |
| 58 | Llanfyllin Powys | D− | 0 | 0% | 1.6 | 0% |
| 59 | Great Horwood Buckinghamshire | D− | 0.8 | 0% | 1 | 0% |
| 60 | Whaplode Lincolnshire | D− | 0.4 | 0% | 0.2 | 0% |
Tap a number to zoom to a park. Tap a layer to hide it. The dashed line is Tolvaddon’s built-up area.
The biggest is Tehidy Country Park, 105 ha (259 acres). Directions go to the park’s nearest public entrance where Ordnance Survey maps one.
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 800 people live further than that. Playing fields count, so a park within reach isn’t always one with paths or trees; 18 playgrounds are mapped in and around the village, about one for every 62 residents.
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.
9% of the land within 5 km of Tolvaddon is National Park or National Landscape, more than 70% of UK towns.
39 km of footpaths, bridleways and rights of way are mapped in Tolvaddon and the kilometre around it, 4.5 km for every square kilometre (the typical UK town has 3.0). Bars show each route’s kilometres within 2 km of the village.
Plus 1 more waymarked walk on the map.
The South West Coast Path, a national route, passes Tolvaddon.
Waymarked walks are OpenStreetMap walking routes. Public rights of way are only as complete as the map in each area.
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 | 8.1 |
| High (°C) | 9 | 9 | 11 | 12 | 15 | 17 | 19 | 19 | 18 | 15 | 12 | 10 |
| Rain (mm) | 123 | 96 | 74 | 71 | 61 | 64 | 71 | 80 | 77 | 115 | 134 | 131 |
May is the driest month (61 mm) and August the warmest (highs of 19 °C). Winter days are short, about 8 hours of daylight in December, and 134 mm of rain falls in November, the wettest month. Frost comes on about 8 nights a year. The climate in Tolvaddon →
20% of the area within 5 km of Tolvaddon is sea. 19 beaches are mapped within 5 km, 3 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.
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.
Plus 1 waterfall without a name on the map.
Plus 1 picnic site without a name on the map.
Plus 15 playgrounds without a name on the map.
The nearest towns of 1,000+ within 12 miles. Tap a town for its outdoors page.
Illogan, 0.8 miles away, grades A+, the best next door: every resident lives within 400 m of a park.
Tehidy Country Park, 105 ha (259 acres), with 18.9 km of path, just outside the built-up area. Tuckingmill Valley Park (13 ha) is second. 3 named parks, gardens and playing fields are in the village or within 400 m of it.
The nearest protected landscape is the Cornwall National Landscape, 0.3 mi north-west of the village’s edge. It covers 964 km² and was designated in 1959.
17 waymarked walking routes pass within 2 km of the village, including the Illogan BR 2, South West Coast Path (Section 19: Portreath to Hayle) and Carn Brea BR 19. Tehidy Country Park alone has 18.9 km of path.
24% 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%.
June to September: the longest days, the warmest afternoons and the least rain of the year, from the Met Office 1991–2020 averages.
For paths, yes: 4.5 km of footpath and right of way per square kilometre, more than 88% of UK towns. For park space per person it beats 97% (11.9 ha per 1,000 residents).
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 Tolvaddon’s overall grade.
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