Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
Photo: Derek Harper · CC BY-SA 2.0Parks and playing fields in Abbotskerswell add up to 4.2 ha for every 1,000 residents; the typical UK town has 2.1. Dartmoor National Park begins 3.8 mi from the village’s edge. 49% of residents live within a 5-minute walk of a park or playing field. Abbotskerswell grades C− 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.
Abbotskerswell’s strongest suit is plenty of park space, followed by two protected landscapes close by. Where it falls short is footpaths.
Each chart is every UK town of 1,000 or more on one measure: the green bar is Abbotskerswell, 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 1,100 to 1,200 people with an Outdoors Grade. Hover a dot for its figures; tap one for its page.
Against villages its size, Abbotskerswell stands out most for park space per resident: only 11 of the other 59 have more. It falls furthest behind on homes near a park, where 44 of the others do better.
| Town | Outdoors | Green space | Near a park | Path per km² | Protected | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Porlock Somerset | A+ | 2.9 | 75% | 5.2 | 71% |
| 2 | Carlin How North Yorkshire | A+ | 3.1 | 100% | 2.3 | 13% |
| 3 | Sundridge Kent | A+ | 9.1 | 100% | 2.3 | 73% |
| 4 | Longhoughton Northumberland | A+ | 4.7 | 100% | 1.2 | 27% |
| 5 | Dawlish Warren Devon | A | 21.1 | 73% | 2.9 | 1% |
| 6 | Egloshayle Cornwall | A | 7.3 | 100% | 2.6 | 12% |
| 7 | Bures Suffolk | A | 5.4 | 100% | 2.5 | 14% |
| 8 | Ruardean Gloucestershire | A | 4.5 | 100% | 2.2 | 29% |
| 9 | Great Bedwyn Wiltshire | A | 3 | 76% | 3.7 | 100% |
| 10 | Brighstone Isle of Wight | A | 2.2 | 55% | 3.4 | 56% |
| 11 | Hampsthwaite North Yorkshire | A− | 2 | 100% | 2.6 | 23% |
| 12 | Hurst Green East Sussex | B+ | 2.3 | 100% | 1.1 | 100% |
| 13 | Oxspring South Yorkshire | B+ | 2.7 | 77% | 4 | 1% |
| 14 | Stallingborough Lincolnshire | B+ | 2.3 | 100% | 1.8 | 0% |
| 15 | St Bees Cumbria | B | 8.5 | 78% | 1.2 | 0% |
| 16 | Gislingham Suffolk | B | 3.1 | 100% | 2.3 | 0% |
| 17 | Clyst St Mary Devon | B | 5.8 | 100% | 1.6 | 0% |
| 18 | Bodedern Gwynedd | B | 1.2 | 100% | 0 | 16% |
| 19 | Moresby Parks Cumbria | B− | 1.2 | 100% | 2 | 0% |
| 20 | Stradbroke Suffolk | B− | 3 | 100% | 1.8 | 0% |
| 21 | Thorpe End Norfolk | B− | 0.7 | 100% | 2.5 | 10% |
| 22 | Stretton-on-Dunsmore Warwickshire | B− | 2.9 | 100% | 1.7 | 0% |
| 23 | Rushwick Worcestershire | B− | 5 | 71% | 2.8 | 0% |
| 24 | Datchworth Hertfordshire | C+ | 10.8 | 76% | 2.2 | 0% |
| 25 | Tansley Derbyshire | C+ | 1.6 | 73% | 3.4 | 4% |
| 26 | Coldeast Devon | C+ | 1.6 | 47% | 3.6 | 30% |
| 27 | Haswell County Durham | C+ | 3.2 | 100% | 0.9 | 0% |
| 28 | Allithwaite Cumbria | C+ | 1.9 | 60% | 1 | 17% |
| 29 | Baslow Derbyshire | C+ | 1.6 | 45% | 2.8 | 98% |
| 30 | Chesterton Oxfordshire | C+ | 1.8 | 100% | 2.2 | 0% |
| 31 | Bottom Boat West Yorkshire | C | 0.8 | 100% | 2.6 | 0% |
| 32 | Stalmine Lancashire | C | 3.1 | 67% | 0.8 | 0% |
| 33 | Carlyon Bay Cornwall | C | 0.7 | 0% | 2.4 | 12% |
| 34 | Rearsby Leicestershire | C | 1.5 | 100% | 1.9 | 0% |
| 35 | Yoxall Staffordshire | C | 1.9 | 100% | 0.9 | 0% |
| 36 | Barrington Cambridgeshire | C | 3.6 | 69% | 1.9 | 0% |
| 37 | Raglan Gwent | C− | 3.9 | 0% | 1.2 | 1% |
| 38 | North Elmham Norfolk | C− | 4.7 | 71% | 1 | 0% |
| 39 | Old Leake Lincolnshire | C− | 3.6 | 75% | 0.3 | 0% |
| 40 | Chilworth Hampshire | C− | 1.1 | 24% | 5.4 | 0% |
| 41 | Chudleigh Knighton Devon | C− | 1 | 46% | 2.5 | 16% |
| 42 | Methley West Yorkshire | C− | 0.2 | 100% | 1.6 | 0% |
| 43 | Abbotskerswell Devon | C− | 4.2 | 49% | 1.4 | 0% |
| 44 | Spofforth North Yorkshire | C− | 1.7 | 78% | 1.8 | 0% |
| 45 | Bratton Wiltshire | C− | 1.9 | 25% | 2.8 | 0% |
| 46 | Parson Drove Cambridgeshire | D | 3.5 | 60% | 0.9 | 0% |
| 47 | Shardlow Derbyshire | D | 1.5 | 73% | 2.3 | 0% |
| 48 | Kingswood Warwickshire | D | 1.7 | 42% | 2.7 | 0% |
| 49 | Pant Shropshire | D | 0.3 | 0% | 4.1 | 0% |
| 50 | Puddletown Dorset | D | 0.2 | 0% | 2.1 | 15% |
| 51 | Outlane West Yorkshire | D | 0.5 | 0% | 3.5 | 0% |
| 52 | Aston Oxfordshire | D | 2.2 | 62% | 0.6 | 0% |
| 53 | Llanybydder Dyfed | D | 2.2 | 60% | 0.3 | 0% |
| 54 | Melton Constable Norfolk | D | 1.6 | 76% | 0.7 | 0% |
| 55 | Stoke Ferry Norfolk | D | 1.1 | 73% | 1.6 | 0% |
| 56 | Bretforton Worcestershire | D− | 0.2 | 0% | 1.4 | 9% |
| 57 | Standlake Oxfordshire | D− | 1.7 | 42% | 1.3 | 0% |
| 58 | Wrawby Lincolnshire | D− | 1.8 | 26% | 0.8 | 0% |
| 59 | Darrington West Yorkshire | D− | 0.5 | 72% | 0.8 | 0% |
| 60 | Moor End Gloucestershire | D− | 0 | 0% | 1.9 | 0% |
Tap a number to zoom to a park. Tap a layer to hide it. The dashed line is Abbotskerswell’s built-up area.
The biggest is Decoy Country Park, 54 ha (134 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 600 people live further than that. Playing fields count, so a park within reach isn’t always one with paths or trees; 7 playgrounds are mapped in and around the village, about one for every 169 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.
Protected landscape begins just outside the 5 km ring the Outdoors Grade measures, so Abbotskerswell scores 0% on it even though Dartmoor National Park is 3.8 mi away. Dartmoor National Park covers 956 km² and has been a National Park since 1951.
10 km of footpaths, bridleways and rights of way are mapped in Abbotskerswell and the kilometre around it, 1.4 km for every square kilometre (the typical UK town has 3.0). Bars show each route’s kilometres within 2 km of the village.
2 regional routes pass through, including the Orange Way and John Musgrave Heritage Trail.
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 | 15.5 | 16.4 | 16.0 | 14.5 | 12.5 | 10.6 | 8.9 | 8.0 |
| High (°C) | 9 | 9 | 11 | 14 | 17 | 19 | 21 | 21 | 19 | 15 | 12 | 10 |
| Rain (mm) | 134 | 102 | 84 | 72 | 63 | 69 | 61 | 75 | 73 | 126 | 125 | 136 |
July is the driest month (61 mm) and the warmest (highs of 21 °C). Winter days are short, about 8 hours of daylight in December, and 136 mm of rain falls in December, the wettest month. Frost comes on about 21 nights a year. The climate in Abbotskerswell →
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.
Abbotskerswell 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.
Plus 1 viewpoint without a name on the map.
Plus 7 playgrounds without a name on the map.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Abbotskerswell | C− | 4.2 | 49% | 0% |
| Kingskerswell 1.6 mi | C+ | 3.5 | 76% | 0% |
| Newton Abbot 1.6 mi | C+ | 2.6 | 62% | 6% |
| Ipplepen 1.8 mi | D− | 0.8 | 42% | 0% |
| Denbury 2.0 mi | C− | 2.8 | 24% | 3% |
| Kingsteignton 3.2 mi | B− | 1.9 | 95% | 0% |
| Marldon 3.6 mi | A− | 4.1 | 70% | 3% |
Marldon, 3.6 miles away, grades A−, the best next door: 70% of its residents live within 400 m of a park.
Decoy Country Park, 54 ha (134 acres), with 4.8 km of path, just outside the built-up area. 1 named park, garden or playing field is in the village or within 400 m of it.
Yes. Dartmoor National Park begins 3.8 mi north-west of the village’s edge. It covers 956 km² and has been a National Park since 1951.
3 waymarked walking routes pass within 2 km of the village, including the Orange Way, Newton Abbot Circular and John Musgrave Heritage Trail. Decoy Country Park alone has 4.8 km of path.
Watcombe Beach, 4.2 mi from the edge of the village, then Maidencombe Beach (4.2 mi). Abbotskerswell itself is inland.
49% 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%.
May to September: the longest days, the warmest afternoons and the least rain of the year, from the Met Office 1991–2020 averages.
Paths are thinner than most towns: 1.4 km of footpath and right of way per square kilometre, more than 15% of UK towns. For park space per person it beats 83% (4.2 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 Abbotskerswell’s overall grade.
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