Crediton’s biggest
Newcombes Meadow
Park or garden
2.5 ha (6 acres)0.7 km of path
10 minto walk all 0.7 km of path
3 pitchesfootball pitches would fit
Centralin the middle of Crediton
4 listed
Directionsto the nearest entrance
Photo: Lewis Clarke · CC BY-SA 2.0C+Outdoors Grade
Outdoors in Crediton · parks, paths & countryside
89% of Crediton’s residents live within a 5-minute walk of a park
Dartmoor National Park begins 5.2 mi from the town’s edge. 38 km of footpaths run through the town and the kilometre around it, 2.4 for every square kilometre. Parks and playing fields in Crediton add up to 2.4 ha for every 1,000 residents; the typical UK town has 2.1. Crediton grades C+ for the outdoors: #34 of 47 in Devon. A character grade: it isn’t part of the overall grade.
Green space
2.4 ha
per 1,000 residents
Typical UK town 2.1
Near a park
89%
of residents within 400 m
Typical UK town 83%
Footpaths
38 km
2.4 km per km², town + 1 km
Typical UK town 3.0 per km²
Protected landscape
0%
of the land within 5 km
Dartmoor starts 5.2 mi out, past the 5 km
Outdoors grade
Crediton grades C+ for the outdoors
Each chart is every UK town of 1,000 or more on one measure: the green bar is Crediton, the dashed line the typical town. The number is the share of towns it beats; the five are averaged and the average ranked again.
C+
Better than 41% of UK towns#34 of 47 in Devon · 36th of 60 UK towns its size
Public green space2.4 haper 1,000 residents: parks, gardens, playing fields, play spaces
55out of
100
100
A park within a walk89%of residents within 400 m (a 5-minute walk)
65out of
100
100
National Park or National Landscape0%of the land within 5 km · Dartmoor begins just past 5 km
31out of
100
100
Footpaths2.4 kmper km², the town and 1 km around it
43out 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
Crediton is 36th of 60 UK towns its size for the outdoors
The 60 UK towns and cities of 7,600 to 8,400 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
Crediton2.4
Towns its size2.9
Devon towns1.8
All UK towns3.0
Green space, ha per 1,000 residents
Crediton2.4
Towns its size2.1
Devon towns1.9
All UK towns2.1
Residents within 400 m of a park
Crediton89%
Towns its size84%
Devon towns84%
All UK towns83%
Against towns its size, Crediton stands out most for park space per resident: only 23 of the other 59 have more. It falls furthest behind on path per km², where 41 of the others do better.
Show as a table
| Town | Outdoors | Green space | Near a park | Path per km² | Protected | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Chipping Sodbury Gloucestershire | A+ | 5.2 | 93% | 8.2 | 29% |
| 2 | Ecclesfield and Grenoside South Yorkshire | A+ | 5.1 | 94% | 5.2 | 2% |
| 3 | Stakeford Northumberland | A+ | 10 | 100% | 2.9 | 0% |
| 4 | Bargod Gwent | A | 13.6 | 100% | 5.5 | 0% |
| 5 | Dursley Gloucestershire | A | 1.8 | 90% | 7.2 | 52% |
| 6 | Grove Oxfordshire | A | 2.2 | 92% | 4.7 | 27% |
| 7 | Brecon Powys | A | 3.2 | 86% | 3.2 | 61% |
| 8 | Stonehouse Gloucestershire | A | 1.8 | 94% | 4.6 | 36% |
| 9 | Bursledon Hampshire | A | 2.6 | 90% | 3.8 | 0% |
| 10 | Richmond North Yorkshire | A | 2.4 | 96% | 3.9 | 7% |
| 11 | Norton Canes Staffordshire | A− | 13.3 | 97% | 1.9 | 10% |
| 12 | Dinas Powis South Glamorgan | A− | 3 | 73% | 4.5 | 0% |
| 13 | London Colney Hertfordshire | A− | 3.7 | 96% | 4.3 | 0% |
| 14 | Burnham-on-Crouch Essex | A− | 5.3 | 86% | 2.5 | 0% |
| 15 | City of London London | A− | 2 | 100% | 11 | 0% |
| 16 | Cam Gloucestershire | A− | 2.8 | 57% | 5 | 34% |
| 17 | Pembroke Dyfed | B+ | 2.2 | 91% | 1 | 31% |
| 18 | Annfield Plain County Durham | B+ | 3.4 | 93% | 3.7 | 0% |
| 19 | Great Notley Essex | B+ | 6.4 | 79% | 4.1 | 0% |
| 20 | Coppull Lancashire | B+ | 4.6 | 85% | 3.7 | 0% |
| 21 | Runwell Essex | B+ | 5.1 | 92% | 2.8 | 0% |
| 22 | Pershore Worcestershire | B | 2.7 | 76% | 3.2 | 7% |
| 23 | Partington Greater Manchester | B | 2.8 | 100% | 2.7 | 0% |
| 24 | Edenbridge Kent | B | 2.6 | 64% | 3 | 42% |
| 25 | Rusthall and Langton Green Kent | B | 2.1 | 69% | 2.7 | 79% |
| 26 | Clayton-le-Moors Lancashire | B | 1.1 | 86% | 4.2 | 2% |
| 27 | Ashley Hampshire | B | 2.2 | 53% | 1.7 | 47% |
| 28 | Twyford Berkshire | B− | 2.4 | 86% | 2.1 | 5% |
| 29 | Berechurch Essex | B− | 2.1 | 72% | 10.4 | 0% |
| 30 | Meltham West Yorkshire | B− | 1 | 63% | 5.3 | 27% |
| 31 | Yatton Somerset | B− | 3.7 | 40% | 2.5 | 0% |
| 32 | Denbigh Clwyd | B− | 1.3 | 96% | 2.3 | 5% |
| 33 | Buntingford Hertfordshire | C+ | 1.5 | 95% | 3.2 | 0% |
| 34 | Ystalyfera West Glamorgan | C+ | 2.6 | 84% | 0.8 | 15% |
| 35 | Bewdley Worcestershire | C+ | 1.7 | 88% | 3.3 | 0% |
| 36 | Crediton Devon | C+ | 2.4 | 89% | 2.4 | 0% |
| 37 | Countesthorpe Leicestershire | C+ | 1.7 | 100% | 2.1 | 0% |
| 38 | Seaton Delaval Northumberland | C+ | 0.5 | 66% | 4 | 0% |
| 39 | Ammanford Dyfed | C+ | 2.8 | 70% | 1.5 | 9% |
| 40 | Holywell Clwyd | C | 0.9 | 68% | 3 | 0% |
| 41 | Mablethorpe Lincolnshire | C | 2.1 | 66% | 1.5 | 0% |
| 42 | Elworth Cheshire | C | 1.8 | 83% | 2.6 | 0% |
| 43 | Norton-on-Derwent North Yorkshire | C | 1.6 | 58% | 2.4 | 16% |
| 44 | Southam Warwickshire | C | 2.3 | 86% | 1.7 | 0% |
| 45 | Histon and Impington Cambridgeshire | C | 1.5 | 66% | 3.9 | 0% |
| 46 | Gerrards Cross Buckinghamshire | C | 2.1 | 38% | 2.3 | 2% |
| 47 | Heathfield East Sussex | C | 0.9 | 53% | 2.3 | 79% |
| 48 | Hedon East Riding of Yorkshire | C− | 0.9 | 74% | 2.1 | 0% |
| 49 | Glastonbury Somerset | C− | 2 | 69% | 2.6 | 0% |
| 50 | Llanharan and Brynna Mid Glamorgan | C− | 1.7 | 97% | 1.2 | 0% |
| 51 | Hilton Derbyshire | C− | 1.1 | 89% | 2.4 | 0% |
| 52 | Radlett Hertfordshire | C− | 2.1 | 60% | 2.7 | 0% |
| 53 | Rainworth Nottinghamshire | C− | 0.5 | 65% | 4.6 | 0% |
| 54 | Tenterden Kent | C− | 0.8 | 58% | 1.8 | 48% |
| 55 | Cotgrave Nottinghamshire | C− | 1 | 47% | 4.1 | 0% |
| 56 | Godmanchester Cambridgeshire | C− | 1.6 | 66% | 2.7 | 0% |
| 57 | Highworth Wiltshire | C− | 0.4 | 59% | 4.1 | 0% |
| 58 | Clowne Derbyshire | C− | 1.4 | 67% | 2.8 | 0% |
| 59 | Old Windsor and Wraysbury Berkshire | D | 1.2 | 52% | 2.5 | 0% |
| 60 | Treorchy Mid Glamorgan | D− | 1 | 57% | 1.6 | 0% |
The map
Parks, footpaths & countryside
Tap a number to zoom to a park. Tap a layer to hide it. The dashed line is Crediton’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 Crediton
The biggest is Newcombes Meadow, 2.5 ha (6 acres). Directions go to the park’s nearest public entrance where Ordnance Survey maps one.
All 4 named parks by size: 7 ha (17 acres) and 1 km of path
Parks & gardens 3.8 haPlaying fields 2.9 ha
The two biggest, Newcombes Meadow and Peoples Park, are 56% of the named green space.
Peoples Park
Park or garden
1.3 ha (3 acres)0.6 km of path
10 minto walk all 0.6 km of path
2 pitchesfootball pitches would fit
Centralin the middle of Crediton
Directionsto the nearest entrance
Sandford Cricket Club
Playing field · 380 m outside town
2.9 ha (7 acres)
4 pitchesfootball pitches would fit
0.7 mi north-westfrom the centre
Directionsto the nearest entrance
Upper Deck
Park or garden · 0 m outside town
0.0 ha (0 acres)
0.6 mi north-westfrom the centre
Directionsto the nearest entrance
Close to home
How close Crediton’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 (89%)Further (11%)
Crediton89%
Towns its size84%
Devon towns84%
All UK towns83%
About 900 people live further than that. Playing fields count, so a park within reach isn’t always one with paths or trees; 15 playgrounds are mapped in and around the town, about one for every 531 residents.
National Parks & National Landscapes
Dartmoor National Park is 5.2 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
Protected landscape begins just outside the 5 km ring the Outdoors Grade measures, so Crediton scores 0% on it even though Dartmoor National Park is 5.2 mi away. Dartmoor National Park covers 956 km² and has been a National Park since 1951.
Footpaths & waymarked walks
4 waymarked walks pass through or near Crediton
38 km of footpaths, bridleways and rights of way are mapped in Crediton and the kilometre around it, 2.4 km for every square kilometre (the typical UK town has 3.0). Bars show each route’s kilometres within 2 km of the town.
RegionalOther waymarked
Mary Michael Pilgrims Way11.3 km
Devonshire Heartland Way10.0 km
Crediton History Trail4.1 km
Redvers Ramble4.0 km
2 regional routes pass through, including the Mary Michael Pilgrims Way and Devonshire Heartland Way.
Waymarked walks are OpenStreetMap walking routes. Public rights of way are only as complete as the map in each area.
History along the way
History inside Crediton’s parks
Historic England’s register of parks and gardens, and the listed buildings and scheduled monuments that stand inside Crediton’s named parks.
Park with listed buildings
Newcombes Meadow
2.5 ha. 4 listed structures and monuments stand inside it or at its edge.
IICrediton War MemorialIIPriory Cottage Including Garden Wall to the South EastIIWall to Garden South of the White House and Warboro (Not Included)IIWinfrith's Well
Heritage walks
Crediton History Trail 4.1 km
A listed building or monument counts when it sits inside the park’s OS Open Greenspace outline (to about 15 m), so a few at the boundary are included. Historic England, National Heritage List for England.
When to get out
The best walking months in Crediton: 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) | 8.4 | 9.9 | 11.7 | 13.7 | 15.5 | 16.5 | 16.1 | 14.5 | 12.5 | 10.6 | 8.8 | 8.0 |
| High (°C) | 8 | 9 | 11 | 14 | 16 | 19 | 21 | 21 | 19 | 15 | 11 | 9 |
| Rain (mm) | 86 | 71 | 65 | 59 | 54 | 53 | 54 | 70 | 60 | 99 | 102 | 96 |
June is the driest month (53 mm) and July the warmest (highs of 21 °C). Winter days are short, about 8 hours of daylight in December, and 102 mm of rain falls in November, the wettest month. Frost comes on about 30 nights a year. The climate in Crediton →
Things to do
15 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
Crediton is inland. These are the nearest named beaches, measured from the edge of the town.
Pirate Cove15 mi from Crediton’s edge
DirectionsExmouth Beach15 mi from Crediton’s edge
DirectionsRed Rock Beach16 mi from Crediton’s edge
DirectionsDawlish Town Beach16 mi from Crediton’s edge
DirectionsCoryton's Cove Beach16 mi from Crediton’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
Viewpoints 1
Plus 1 viewpoint without a name on the map.
Picnic sites 1
Plus 1 picnic site without a name on the map.
Playgrounds 15
Plus 15 playgrounds without a name on the map.
Next door
The outdoors in nearby towns
The nearest towns of 1,000+ within 12 miles. Tap a town for its outdoors page.
CopplestoneMorchard BishopBowSilvertonExeterWitheridgeCrediton
ABCDOutdoors Grade
| Town | Outdoors | Green space, ha per 1,000 | Near a park | Protected within 5 km |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Crediton | C+ | 2.4 | 89% | 0% |
| Copplestone 4.2 mi | D | 1.1 | 88% | 0% |
| Morchard Bishop 5.9 mi | B | 2.6 | 100% | 0% |
| Bow 7.0 mi | C | 1.9 | 100% | 0% |
| Silverton 7.9 mi | C− | 1.0 | 100% | 0% |
| Exeter 7.9 mi | B− | 1.8 | 81% | 0% |
| Witheridge 8.8 mi | D− | 0.5 | 36% | 0% |
Morchard Bishop, 5.9 miles away, grades B, the best next door: every resident lives within 400 m of a park. None of the neighbours has a protected landscape within 5 km either.
Questions about the outdoors in Crediton
What is the biggest park in Crediton?
Newcombes Meadow, 2.5 ha (6 acres), with 0.7 km of path. Peoples Park (1.3 ha) is second. 4 named parks, gardens and playing fields are in the town or within 400 m of it.
Is Crediton near a National Park?
Yes. Dartmoor National Park begins 5.2 mi south-west of the town’s edge. It covers 956 km² and has been a National Park since 1951.
What are the best walks near Crediton?
4 waymarked walking routes pass within 2 km of the town, including the Mary Michael Pilgrims Way, Devonshire Heartland Way and Crediton History Trail.
What is the nearest beach to Crediton?
Pirate Cove, 15 mi from the edge of the town, then Exmouth Beach (15 mi). Crediton itself is inland.
How many people in Crediton live near a park?
89% 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 Crediton?
May to September: the longest days, the warmest afternoons and the least rain of the year, from the Met Office 1991–2020 averages.
Is Crediton good for walking?
About average for paths: 2.4 km of footpath and right of way per square kilometre, more than 43% of UK towns. For park space per person it beats 55% (2.4 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 Crediton’s overall grade.
Sources
Where Crediton’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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