Photo: Lewis Clarke · CC BY-SA 2.0Parks and walks in Bampton
Exmoor National Park begins 2.4 mi from the village’s edge. 22% of residents live within a 5-minute walk of a park or playing field. Footpaths add up to 13 km in the village and the kilometre around it, 1.6 for every square kilometre. Bampton grades D for the outdoors. A character grade: it isn’t part of the overall grade.
What kind of outdoors village is Bampton?
Read from the data: what stands out first, good and bad.
Bampton’s strongest suit is Exmoor National Park close by. Where it falls short is footpaths.
Bampton grades D for the outdoors
Each chart is every UK town of 1,000 or more on one measure: the green bar is Bampton, 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.
Bampton is 47th of 60 UK villages its size for the outdoors
The 60 UK towns and cities of 1,200 to 1,400 people with an Outdoors Grade. Hover a dot for its figures; tap one for its page.
Bampton falls furthest behind on homes near a park, where 49 of the 59 others do better.
Show as a table
| Town | Outdoors | Green space | Near a park | Path per km² | Protected | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Hightown Hampshire | A+ | 15.7 | 100% | 3.5 | 58% |
| 2 | Rough Common Kent | A+ | 11 | 100% | 9.2 | 1% |
| 3 | Box Wiltshire | A+ | 3.8 | 100% | 3.9 | 56% |
| 4 | Aldington Kent | A+ | 4.6 | 100% | 3.8 | 11% |
| 5 | Holybourne Hampshire | A+ | 12.2 | 100% | 2.7 | 23% |
| 6 | Pwll Dyfed | A | 21.6 | 64% | 2.6 | 19% |
| 7 | Amberley Gloucestershire | A | 13.7 | 0% | 6.3 | 87% |
| 8 | Cliffs End Kent | A | 6.9 | 100% | 1.8 | 0% |
| 9 | Compton Hampshire | A− | 18.8 | 61% | 3.6 | 28% |
| 10 | Sherford Devon | A− | 3.2 | 100% | 1.5 | 28% |
| 11 | South Heath Buckinghamshire | A− | 20.4 | 0% | 3 | 85% |
| 12 | Exton Devon | A− | 2.2 | 100% | 0.6 | 7% |
| 13 | New Brancepeth County Durham | B+ | 2.6 | 100% | 3.5 | 0% |
| 14 | Baddesley Ensor Warwickshire | B+ | 18.3 | 100% | 2.1 | 0% |
| 15 | Marshfield Gloucestershire | B+ | 4.9 | 42% | 2.7 | 99% |
| 16 | Welland Worcestershire | B+ | 1.7 | 100% | 1.9 | 38% |
| 17 | Farningham Kent | B+ | 1.7 | 100% | 2 | 33% |
| 18 | Lidlington Bedfordshire | B | 1.9 | 100% | 3.3 | 0% |
| 19 | Beer Devon | B | 1.6 | 50% | 2.2 | 43% |
| 20 | Weir Lancashire | B | 0.6 | 100% | 6 | 0% |
| 21 | Codmore Hill West Sussex | B− | 3.5 | 0% | 2.7 | 46% |
| 22 | Blindley Heath Surrey | B− | 3.2 | 79% | 2.2 | 1% |
| 23 | Blakeney Gloucestershire | B− | 2.1 | 68% | 3.1 | 0% |
| 24 | Fowlmere Cambridgeshire | B− | 4.5 | 100% | 1.1 | 0% |
| 25 | Burham Kent | C+ | 1.4 | 77% | 2.8 | 35% |
| 26 | Belford Northumberland | C+ | 1.2 | 83% | 0.9 | 21% |
| 27 | Perranarworthal Cornwall | C+ | 2.5 | 76% | 1.6 | 19% |
| 28 | Gaerwen Gwynedd | C+ | 1.5 | 100% | 0.4 | 7% |
| 29 | Claverdon Warwickshire | C+ | 1.2 | 100% | 2.5 | 0% |
| 30 | Weobley Herefordshire | C+ | 1.6 | 100% | 2.1 | 0% |
| 31 | North Duffield North Yorkshire | C | 2.6 | 100% | 0.4 | 0% |
| 32 | Biddulph Moor Staffordshire | C | 8.4 | 43% | 2.4 | 0% |
| 33 | Silkstone Common South Yorkshire | C | 1.5 | 63% | 4.9 | 0% |
| 34 | Quainton Buckinghamshire | C | 3.8 | 69% | 2.1 | 0% |
| 35 | Nefyn Gwynedd | C | 0 | 0% | 2 | 24% |
| 36 | Foxton Cambridgeshire | C | 2.3 | 84% | 1.7 | 0% |
| 37 | Atworth Wiltshire | C− | 1.5 | 62% | 2.2 | 13% |
| 38 | Ninfield East Sussex | C− | 1.8 | 50% | 1.4 | 50% |
| 39 | Spratton Northamptonshire | C− | 2.3 | 85% | 0.4 | 0% |
| 40 | Weeley Essex | C− | 7.5 | 0% | 1.5 | 0% |
| 41 | Langthorpe North Yorkshire | C− | 0.3 | 100% | 1.6 | 0% |
| 42 | Wingham Kent | C− | 2.2 | 53% | 1.3 | 0% |
| 43 | Aldbrough East Riding of Yorkshire | C− | 2.1 | 26% | 0.8 | 0% |
| 44 | Wooden Dyfed | D | 0.1 | 0% | 0.4 | 18% |
| 45 | Yardley Gobion Northamptonshire | D | 1.2 | 47% | 3 | 0% |
| 46 | East Markham Nottinghamshire | D | 2.2 | 46% | 1.9 | 0% |
| 47 | Bampton Devon | D | 1.5 | 22% | 1.6 | 5% |
| 48 | Pagham West Sussex | D | 0.3 | 0% | 2 | 0% |
| 49 | Heddon-on-the-Wall Northumberland | D | 0.6 | 70% | 2.7 | 0% |
| 50 | Colsterworth Lincolnshire | D | 1.3 | 67% | 2.2 | 0% |
| 51 | Hockwold cum Wilton Norfolk | D | 1.6 | 75% | 1.4 | 0% |
| 52 | Garsington Oxfordshire | D | 0.4 | 65% | 2.6 | 0% |
| 53 | Appleby Magna Leicestershire | D | 1.7 | 46% | 2 | 0% |
| 54 | Saham Toney Norfolk | D | 3 | 18% | 0.7 | 0% |
| 55 | Croeserw West Glamorgan | D | 1.3 | 33% | 2.5 | 0% |
| 56 | Byfield Northamptonshire | D | 1.9 | 48% | 1.5 | 0% |
| 57 | Hadham Cross Hertfordshire | D | 0 | 0% | 3.3 | 0% |
| 58 | Deeping St Nicholas Lincolnshire | D− | 0.7 | 80% | 0 | 0% |
| 59 | Hunger Hill Greater Manchester | D− | 0 | 0% | 2.4 | 0% |
| 60 | Witheridge Devon | D− | 0.5 | 36% | 1 | 0% |
Parks, footpaths & countryside
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2 in 10 Bampton residents live within a 5-minute walk of 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 1,000 people live further than that. Playing fields count, so a park within reach isn’t always one with paths or trees; 3 playgrounds are mapped in and around the village, about one for every 431 residents.
Exmoor National Park 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.
5% of the land within 5 km of Bampton is National Park or National Landscape, more than 67% of UK towns. Exmoor National Park covers 693 km² and has been a National Park since 1954.
1 waymarked walk passes through or near Bampton
13 km of footpaths, bridleways and rights of way are mapped in Bampton and the kilometre around it, 1.6 km for every square kilometre (the typical UK town has 3.0). Bars show each route’s kilometres within 2 km of the village.
The regional route here is the Exe Valley Way.
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 Bampton: 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) | 8.4 | 9.9 | 11.7 | 13.8 | 15.5 | 16.5 | 16.1 | 14.5 | 12.5 | 10.6 | 8.8 | 7.9 |
| High (°C) | 8 | 8 | 10 | 13 | 16 | 19 | 21 | 20 | 18 | 14 | 11 | 8 |
| Rain (mm) | 128 | 101 | 89 | 77 | 70 | 76 | 81 | 88 | 85 | 128 | 140 | 149 |
May is the driest month (70 mm) and July the warmest (highs of 21 °C). Winter days are short, about 8 hours of daylight in December, and 149 mm of rain falls in December, the wettest month. Frost comes on about 32 nights a year. The climate in Bampton →
3 playgrounds and the nearest beaches
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
Bampton 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
Playgrounds 3
Plus 3 playgrounds without a name on the map.
Slipways 1
Plus 1 slipway 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bampton | D | 1.5 | 22% | 5% |
| Tiverton 5.7 mi | D | 1.5 | 59% | 0% |
| Sampford Peverell 6.8 mi | B− | 3.0 | 100% | 0% |
| Willand 8.6 mi | C− | 0.9 | 88% | 1% |
| Wiveliscombe 8.6 mi | B− | 2.3 | 100% | 0% |
| Uffculme 9.1 mi | B− | 2.8 | 86% | 14% |
| Cullompton 10.2 mi | B− | 3.2 | 100% | 0% |
Sampford Peverell, 6.8 miles away, grades B−, the best next door: every resident lives within 400 m of a park. Cullompton has at least twice Bampton’s green space per resident.
Questions about the outdoors in Bampton
Is Bampton near a National Park?
Yes. Exmoor National Park begins 2.4 mi north-west of the village’s edge. It covers 693 km² and has been a National Park since 1954.
What are the best walks near Bampton?
1 waymarked walking route passes within 2 km of the village, including the Exe Valley Way.
What is the nearest beach to Bampton?
Dunster Beach, 14 mi from the edge of the village, then Bossington Beach (16 mi). Bampton itself is inland.
How many people in Bampton live near a park?
22% 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 Bampton?
May to September: the longest days, the warmest afternoons and the least rain of the year, from the Met Office 1991–2020 averages.
Is Bampton good for walking?
Paths are thinner than most towns: 1.6 km of footpath and right of way per square kilometre, more than 19% of UK towns. For park space per person it beats 29% (1.5 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 Bampton’s overall grade.
Where Bampton’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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