Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
Photo: Lewis Clarke · CC BY-SA 2.0The Blackdown Hills National Landscape begins 3.4 mi from the town’s edge. Parks and playing fields in Cullompton add up to 3.2 ha for every 1,000 residents; the typical UK town has 2.1. Footpaths add up to 24 km in the town and the kilometre around it, 1.8 for every square kilometre. Cullompton grades B− for the outdoors: #25 of 47 in Devon. A character grade: it isn’t part of the overall grade.
Read from the data: what stands out first, good and bad.
Cullompton’s strongest suit is parks close to every home, followed by the Blackdown Hills National Landscape close by.
Each chart is every UK town of 1,000 or more on one measure: the green bar is Cullompton, 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 8,600 to 9,200 people with an Outdoors Grade. Hover a dot for its figures; tap one for its page.
Against towns its size, Cullompton stands out most for park space per resident: only 17 of the other 59 have more. It falls furthest behind on path per km², where 50 of the others do better.
| Town | Outdoors | Green space | Near a park | Path per km² | Protected | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Swanage Dorset | A+ | 6.9 | 95% | 4.2 | 47% |
| 2 | Worsbrough South Yorkshire | A | 10.1 | 100% | 6 | 0% |
| 3 | Storrington West Sussex | A | 5.5 | 85% | 3.2 | 54% |
| 4 | Killamarsh Derbyshire | A | 10.6 | 97% | 5.5 | 0% |
| 5 | New Mills Derbyshire | A | 2.4 | 84% | 5.1 | 34% |
| 6 | Warlingham Surrey | A | 4.2 | 81% | 4.3 | 13% |
| 7 | Greasby Merseyside | A | 5.9 | 74% | 3.6 | 0% |
| 8 | Hetton-le-Hole Tyne and Wear | A− | 7.8 | 95% | 3.7 | 0% |
| 9 | Shelf and Northowram West Yorkshire | A− | 5.3 | 88% | 4.7 | 0% |
| 10 | Billingshurst West Sussex | A− | 2.9 | 95% | 3.1 | 3% |
| 11 | Ryton Tyne and Wear | A− | 5.5 | 85% | 5.1 | 0% |
| 12 | Brightlingsea Essex | A− | 3 | 97% | 2.4 | 0% |
| 13 | Thurnscoe South Yorkshire | A− | 9.4 | 100% | 2.7 | 0% |
| 14 | Shaftesbury Dorset | A− | 2.8 | 92% | 2.3 | 44% |
| 15 | Shanklin Isle of Wight | A− | 1.4 | 33% | 4.5 | 29% |
| 16 | Alfreton Derbyshire | B+ | 4.3 | 100% | 2.7 | 0% |
| 17 | Longridge Lancashire | B+ | 1.9 | 89% | 3 | 32% |
| 18 | Winnersh Berkshire | B+ | 9.6 | 80% | 3.9 | 0% |
| 19 | Frodsham Cheshire | B+ | 2.5 | 67% | 4.4 | 0% |
| 20 | Hadleigh Suffolk | B+ | 2.6 | 87% | 2.7 | 10% |
| 21 | Higham Ferrers Northamptonshire | B+ | 3.5 | 93% | 3.3 | 0% |
| 22 | Hayle Cornwall | B+ | 1.4 | 72% | 3.4 | 6% |
| 23 | Banstead Surrey | B+ | 2.4 | 66% | 5.2 | 3% |
| 24 | Cinderford Gloucestershire | B+ | 1.7 | 80% | 4.7 | 4% |
| 25 | Ashbourne Derbyshire | B | 1.9 | 92% | 2.7 | 14% |
| 26 | Cockermouth Cumbria | B | 2.6 | 81% | 2.2 | 42% |
| 27 | Ampthill Bedfordshire | B | 6.8 | 71% | 3.9 | 0% |
| 28 | Hemsworth West Yorkshire | B | 3.6 | 100% | 2.2 | 0% |
| 29 | Clay Cross Derbyshire | B | 2.6 | 88% | 3.7 | 0% |
| 30 | Gatley Greater Manchester | B | 5.7 | 66% | 4.2 | 0% |
| 31 | South Kirkby West Yorkshire | B | 3 | 97% | 2.7 | 0% |
| 32 | Marlborough Wiltshire | B | 1.2 | 72% | 3.8 | 100% |
| 33 | Wendover Buckinghamshire | B | 1 | 58% | 5.6 | 60% |
| 34 | Hornsea East Riding of Yorkshire | B− | 2.7 | 90% | 0.6 | 0% |
| 35 | Whitnash Warwickshire | B− | 2 | 95% | 3.3 | 0% |
| 36 | Cullompton Devon | B− | 3.2 | 100% | 1.8 | 0% |
| 37 | Stansted Mountfitchet Essex | B− | 0.8 | 96% | 4.7 | 0% |
| 38 | Hook Hampshire | B− | 2.4 | 80% | 3.4 | 0% |
| 39 | West End and Chobham Surrey | B− | 3.3 | 65% | 3.6 | 0% |
| 40 | Caister-on-Sea Norfolk | C+ | 1.1 | 58% | 2.1 | 21% |
| 41 | Hoo St Werburgh Kent | C+ | 1.4 | 92% | 1.9 | 0% |
| 42 | Wideopen Tyne and Wear | C+ | 2.1 | 75% | 4.2 | 0% |
| 43 | Okehampton Devon | C+ | 0.9 | 85% | 2.2 | 37% |
| 44 | Atherstone Warwickshire | C+ | 2.7 | 88% | 2 | 0% |
| 45 | Brinsworth South Yorkshire | C | 1.3 | 76% | 4.5 | 0% |
| 46 | Barwell Leicestershire | C | 1.7 | 90% | 2.6 | 0% |
| 47 | Faringdon Oxfordshire | C | 1.3 | 94% | 2.5 | 0% |
| 48 | Kinmel Bay Clwyd | C | 1.8 | 76% | 0.9 | 0% |
| 49 | Rothwell Northamptonshire | C | 2.2 | 91% | 1.5 | 0% |
| 50 | Burscough Lancashire | C | 2.6 | 76% | 2.1 | 0% |
| 51 | Ferryhill County Durham | C− | 1.5 | 94% | 1.7 | 0% |
| 52 | Pencoed Mid Glamorgan | C− | 2.8 | 52% | 2.1 | 0% |
| 53 | Sileby Leicestershire | C− | 1 | 80% | 2.6 | 0% |
| 54 | Adlington Lancashire | C− | 1.3 | 64% | 3.1 | 0% |
| 55 | Shifnal Shropshire | D | 1 | 89% | 1.6 | 0% |
| 56 | Littleport Cambridgeshire | D | 1 | 71% | 2.4 | 0% |
| 57 | Harworth and Bircotes Nottinghamshire | D | 1.9 | 64% | 1.5 | 0% |
| 58 | Holbeach Lincolnshire | D | 1 | 91% | 0.5 | 0% |
| 59 | Tarleton and Hesketh Bank Lancashire | D | 1.5 | 63% | 1.7 | 0% |
| 60 | Kirkham Lancashire | D− | 1.3 | 66% | 1.3 | 0% |
Tap a number to zoom to a park. Tap a layer to hide it. The dashed line is Cullompton’s built-up area.
The biggest is Cullompton Community Association Fields, 17 ha (43 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).
Playing fields count, so a park within reach isn’t always one with paths or trees; 31 playgrounds are mapped in and around the town, about one for every 287 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 Cullompton scores 0% on it even though the Blackdown Hills National Landscape is 3.4 mi away. Exmoor National Park covers 693 km² and has been a National Park since 1954.
24 km of footpaths, bridleways and rights of way are mapped in Cullompton and the kilometre around it, 1.8 km for every square kilometre (the typical UK town has 3.0). Bars show each route’s kilometres within 2 km of the town.
2 regional routes pass through, including the Tiverton & Cullompton Circular and Cullompton Honiton Walk.
Waymarked walks are OpenStreetMap walking routes. Public rights of way are only as complete as the map in each area.
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 | 17 | 19 | 21 | 21 | 19 | 15 | 11 | 9 |
| Rain (mm) | 102 | 73 | 68 | 66 | 57 | 63 | 62 | 74 | 66 | 101 | 108 | 108 |
May is the driest month (57 mm) and July the warmest (highs of 21 °C). Winter days are short, about 8 hours of daylight in December, and 108 mm of rain falls in December, the wettest month. Frost comes on about 32 nights a year. The climate in Cullompton →
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.
Cullompton is inland. These are the nearest named beaches, measured from the edge of the town.
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 23 playgrounds without a name on the map.
Plus 1 dog park without a name on the map.
The nearest towns of 1,000+ within 12 miles. Tap a town for its outdoors page.
Sampford Peverell, 4.6 miles away, grades B−, the best next door: every resident lives within 400 m of a park.
Cullompton Community Association Fields, 17 ha (43 acres), with 2.7 km of path. Linear Park (1.3 ha) is second. 2 named parks, gardens and playing fields are in the town or within 400 m of it.
Yes. Exmoor National Park begins 12 mi north of the town’s edge. It covers 693 km² and has been a National Park since 1954. The nearest protected landscape of any kind is the Blackdown Hills National Landscape, 3.4 mi away.
3 waymarked walking routes pass within 2 km of the town, including the Tiverton & Cullompton Circular, Cullompton Honiton Walk and Cullompton Cloth Trail. Cullompton Community Association Fields alone has 2.7 km of path.
Jacobs Ladder Beach, 13 mi from the edge of the town, then Budleigh Salterton (16 mi). Cullompton itself is inland.
100% 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: 1.8 km of footpath and right of way per square kilometre, more than 23% of UK towns. For park space per person it beats 73% (3.2 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 Cullompton’s overall grade.
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