Photo: Derek Harper · CC BY-SA 2.030% of the land within 5 km of Coldeast is National Park or National Landscape
Dartmoor National Park reaches the edge of Coldeast. Footpaths add up to 31 km in the village and the kilometre around it, 3.6 for every square kilometre. A park or playing field is within a 5-minute walk for 47% of residents. Coldeast grades C+ for the outdoors. A character grade: it isn’t part of the overall grade.
What kind of outdoors village is Coldeast?
Read from the data: what stands out first, good and bad.
Coldeast’s strongest suit is protected countryside on the doorstep. Where it falls short is park space per person.
Coldeast grades C+ for the outdoors
Each chart is every UK town of 1,000 or more on one measure: the green bar is Coldeast, 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.
Coldeast is 28th of 60 UK villages its size for the outdoors
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, Coldeast stands out most for path per km²: only 4 of the other 59 have more. It falls furthest behind on homes near a park, where 47 of the others do better.
Show as a table
| 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 | Shamley Green Surrey | A | 2.9 | 100% | 3 | 69% |
| 6 | Dawlish Warren Devon | A | 21.1 | 73% | 2.9 | 1% |
| 7 | Niton Isle of Wight | A | 2.6 | 76% | 3.1 | 37% |
| 8 | Egloshayle Cornwall | A | 7.3 | 100% | 2.6 | 12% |
| 9 | Bures Suffolk | A | 5.4 | 100% | 2.5 | 14% |
| 10 | Ruardean Gloucestershire | A | 4.5 | 100% | 2.2 | 29% |
| 11 | Great Bedwyn Wiltshire | A | 3 | 76% | 3.7 | 100% |
| 12 | Brighstone Isle of Wight | A | 2.2 | 55% | 3.4 | 56% |
| 13 | Hurst Green East Sussex | B+ | 2.3 | 100% | 1.1 | 100% |
| 14 | Oxspring South Yorkshire | B+ | 2.7 | 77% | 4 | 1% |
| 15 | Stallingborough Lincolnshire | B+ | 2.3 | 100% | 1.8 | 0% |
| 16 | St Bees Cumbria | B | 8.5 | 78% | 1.2 | 0% |
| 17 | Gislingham Suffolk | B | 3.1 | 100% | 2.3 | 0% |
| 18 | Clyst St Mary Devon | B | 5.8 | 100% | 1.6 | 0% |
| 19 | Bodedern Gwynedd | B | 1.2 | 100% | 0 | 16% |
| 20 | Moresby Parks Cumbria | B− | 1.2 | 100% | 2 | 0% |
| 21 | Stradbroke Suffolk | B− | 3 | 100% | 1.8 | 0% |
| 22 | Thorpe End Norfolk | B− | 0.7 | 100% | 2.5 | 10% |
| 23 | Stretton-on-Dunsmore Warwickshire | B− | 2.9 | 100% | 1.7 | 0% |
| 24 | Welford Northamptonshire | B− | 3.5 | 100% | 1.4 | 0% |
| 25 | Rushwick Worcestershire | B− | 5 | 71% | 2.8 | 0% |
| 26 | Datchworth Hertfordshire | C+ | 10.8 | 76% | 2.2 | 0% |
| 27 | Tansley Derbyshire | C+ | 1.6 | 73% | 3.4 | 4% |
| 28 | Coldeast Devon | C+ | 1.6 | 47% | 3.6 | 30% |
| 29 | Haswell County Durham | C+ | 3.2 | 100% | 0.9 | 0% |
| 30 | Baslow Derbyshire | C+ | 1.6 | 45% | 2.8 | 98% |
| 31 | Chesterton Oxfordshire | C+ | 1.8 | 100% | 2.2 | 0% |
| 32 | Bottom Boat West Yorkshire | C | 0.8 | 100% | 2.6 | 0% |
| 33 | Stalmine Lancashire | C | 3.1 | 67% | 0.8 | 0% |
| 34 | Carlyon Bay Cornwall | C | 0.7 | 0% | 2.4 | 12% |
| 35 | Rearsby Leicestershire | C | 1.5 | 100% | 1.9 | 0% |
| 36 | Yoxall Staffordshire | C | 1.9 | 100% | 0.9 | 0% |
| 37 | Barrington Cambridgeshire | C | 3.6 | 69% | 1.9 | 0% |
| 38 | Croughton Northamptonshire | C | 3.6 | 73% | 1.6 | 0% |
| 39 | Raglan Gwent | C− | 3.9 | 0% | 1.2 | 1% |
| 40 | Hill Brow and Rake Hampshire | C− | 0 | 0% | 2.9 | 97% |
| 41 | North Elmham Norfolk | C− | 4.7 | 71% | 1 | 0% |
| 42 | Old Leake Lincolnshire | C− | 3.6 | 75% | 0.3 | 0% |
| 43 | Methley West Yorkshire | C− | 0.2 | 100% | 1.6 | 0% |
| 44 | Abbotskerswell Devon | C− | 4.2 | 49% | 1.4 | 0% |
| 45 | Spofforth North Yorkshire | C− | 1.7 | 78% | 1.8 | 0% |
| 46 | Bratton Wiltshire | C− | 1.9 | 25% | 2.8 | 0% |
| 47 | Parson Drove Cambridgeshire | D | 3.5 | 60% | 0.9 | 0% |
| 48 | Shardlow Derbyshire | D | 1.5 | 73% | 2.3 | 0% |
| 49 | Kingswood Warwickshire | D | 1.7 | 42% | 2.7 | 0% |
| 50 | Pant Shropshire | D | 0.3 | 0% | 4.1 | 0% |
| 51 | Puddletown Dorset | D | 0.2 | 0% | 2.1 | 15% |
| 52 | Outlane West Yorkshire | D | 0.5 | 0% | 3.5 | 0% |
| 53 | Aston Oxfordshire | D | 2.2 | 62% | 0.6 | 0% |
| 54 | Llanybydder Dyfed | D | 2.2 | 60% | 0.3 | 0% |
| 55 | Melton Constable Norfolk | D | 1.6 | 76% | 0.7 | 0% |
| 56 | Stoke Ferry Norfolk | D | 1.1 | 73% | 1.6 | 0% |
| 57 | Bretforton Worcestershire | D− | 0.2 | 0% | 1.4 | 9% |
| 58 | Standlake Oxfordshire | D− | 1.7 | 42% | 1.3 | 0% |
| 59 | Wrawby Lincolnshire | D− | 1.8 | 26% | 0.8 | 0% |
| 60 | Darrington West Yorkshire | D− | 0.5 | 72% | 0.8 | 0% |
Parks, footpaths & countryside
Tap a number to zoom to a park. Tap a layer to hide it. The dashed line is Coldeast’s built-up area.
5 in 10 Coldeast 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 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.
National Parks and National Landscapes around Coldeast
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.
30% of the land within 5 km of Coldeast is National Park or National Landscape, more than 83% of UK towns. Dartmoor National Park covers 956 km² and has been a National Park since 1951.
6 waymarked walks pass through or near Coldeast
31 km of footpaths, bridleways and rights of way are mapped in Coldeast and the kilometre around it, 3.6 km for every square kilometre (the typical UK town has 3.0). Bars show each route’s kilometres within 2 km of the village.
Close to home, the Great Plantation Loop has 5 km of local walk within 2 km of the village. 2 regional routes pass through, including the Dartmoor Way and Templer 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 Coldeast: 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 | 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 | 16 | 19 | 21 | 21 | 19 | 15 | 12 | 9 |
| Rain (mm) | 150 | 98 | 77 | 68 | 61 | 63 | 59 | 67 | 64 | 113 | 114 | 125 |
July is the driest month (59 mm) and the warmest (highs of 21 °C). Winter days are short, about 8 hours of daylight in December, and 150 mm of rain falls in January, the wettest month. Frost comes on about 23 nights a year. The climate in Coldeast →
3 viewpoints, 7 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
Coldeast 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
Viewpoints 3
Plus 3 viewpoints without a name on the map.
Hills and peaks 2
Nature reserves 3
Plus 2 nature reserves without a name on the map.
Campsites 1
Plus 1 campsite 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Coldeast | C+ | 1.6 | 47% | 30% |
| Heathfield 1.0 mi | A+ | 20.4 | 100% | 30% |
| Bovey Tracey 2.1 mi | B− | 2.2 | 66% | 55% |
| Chudleigh Knighton 2.5 mi | C− | 1.0 | 46% | 16% |
| Newton Abbot 3.4 mi | C+ | 2.6 | 62% | 6% |
| Kingsteignton 3.5 mi | B− | 1.9 | 95% | 0% |
| Denbury 3.7 mi | C− | 2.8 | 24% | 3% |
Heathfield, 1 miles away, grades A+, the best next door: every resident lives within 400 m of a park. Heathfield has at least twice Coldeast’s green space per resident.
Questions about the outdoors in Coldeast
Is Coldeast near a National Park?
It covers 956 km² and has been a National Park since 1951.
What are the best walks near Coldeast?
6 waymarked walking routes pass within 2 km of the village, including the Great Plantation Loop, Dartmoor Way and Templer Way.
What is the nearest beach to Coldeast?
Shaldon Beach, 7.0 mi from the edge of the village, then Gales Hill (7.1 mi). Coldeast itself is inland.
How many people in Coldeast live near a park?
47% 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 Coldeast?
May to September: the longest days, the warmest afternoons and the least rain of the year, from the Met Office 1991–2020 averages.
Is Coldeast good for walking?
For paths, yes: 3.6 km of footpath and right of way per square kilometre, more than 74% of UK towns. For park space per person it beats 31% (1.6 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 Coldeast’s overall grade.
Where Coldeast’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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