Photo: Sarah Charlesworth · CC BY-SA 2.0Almost everyone in Feniton lives within a 5-minute walk of a park
The East Devon National Landscape and the Blackdown Hills National Landscape both begin about 2 miles from the village’s edge. 10 km of footpaths run through the village and the kilometre around it, 1.4 for every square kilometre. Parks and playing fields in Feniton add up to 1.3 ha for every 1,000 residents; the typical UK town has 2.1. Feniton grades C+ for the outdoors. A character grade: it isn’t part of the overall grade.
What kind of outdoors village is Feniton?
Read from the data: what stands out first, good and bad.
Feniton’s strongest suit is parks close to every home, followed by two protected landscapes close by. Where it falls short is footpaths.
Feniton grades C+ for the outdoors
Each chart is every UK town of 1,000 or more on one measure: the green bar is Feniton, 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.
Feniton is 31st of 60 UK villages its size for the outdoors
The 60 UK towns and cities of 1,600 to 1,800 people with an Outdoors Grade. Hover a dot for its figures; tap one for its page.
Against villages its size, Feniton stands out most for homes near a park: none of the other 59 has more. It falls furthest behind on path per km², where 44 of the others do better.
Show as a table
| Town | Outdoors | Green space | Near a park | Path per km² | Protected | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Wanborough Wiltshire | A+ | 6 | 100% | 2.7 | 45% |
| 2 | Trimley St Martin Suffolk | A+ | 1.7 | 100% | 2.9 | 43% |
| 3 | Penwithick Cornwall | A | 15 | 100% | 2.8 | 0% |
| 4 | Wroxall Isle of Wight | A | 1.2 | 84% | 4.6 | 33% |
| 5 | Woodbury Devon | A | 3.3 | 100% | 0.9 | 26% |
| 6 | Eccles Kent | A | 3.7 | 100% | 2.4 | 30% |
| 7 | Elstree Hertfordshire | A | 22 | 100% | 3.5 | 0% |
| 8 | Flimby Cumbria | A | 1.7 | 100% | 2.3 | 2% |
| 9 | Grain Kent | A | 13 | 100% | 1.1 | 0% |
| 10 | Southwell Dorset | A | 0.7 | 100% | 5.4 | 0% |
| 11 | Upchurch Kent | A | 4 | 76% | 2.3 | 7% |
| 12 | Wickwar Gloucestershire | A− | 2 | 100% | 3.5 | 15% |
| 13 | Hamstreet Kent | A− | 2.3 | 100% | 3.4 | 0% |
| 14 | Seascale Cumbria | A− | 2.1 | 81% | 2.2 | 27% |
| 15 | Clayhanger West Midlands | A− | 17.4 | 100% | 2.6 | 0% |
| 16 | Bathampton Somerset | A− | 1 | 85% | 5.5 | 62% |
| 17 | Ripley Surrey | A− | 15 | 64% | 3.6 | 2% |
| 18 | Ingleton North Yorkshire | B+ | 1.5 | 100% | 2.5 | 54% |
| 19 | Harthill South Yorkshire | B+ | 3.6 | 100% | 2.9 | 0% |
| 20 | Appledore Devon | B+ | 1.2 | 100% | 1.6 | 16% |
| 21 | Criccieth Gwynedd | B | 2.9 | 75% | 1.3 | 4% |
| 22 | Blewbury Oxfordshire | B | 3.1 | 54% | 2.7 | 79% |
| 23 | South Hiendley West Yorkshire | B | 13.4 | 87% | 2.4 | 0% |
| 24 | Great Bentley Essex | B− | 6.4 | 100% | 1.1 | 0% |
| 25 | Bryn Dyfed | B− | 2.9 | 67% | 1.4 | 1% |
| 26 | Flockton West Yorkshire | B− | 2.4 | 100% | 2.2 | 0% |
| 27 | Shaldon Devon | B− | 1.7 | 85% | 2.2 | 0% |
| 28 | Woodsetts South Yorkshire | B− | 2 | 100% | 2.6 | 0% |
| 29 | Summit Greater Manchester | B− | 1.9 | 100% | 2.5 | 0% |
| 30 | Trethomas Gwent | B− | 6.9 | 48% | 3.4 | 0% |
| 31 | Feniton Devon | C+ | 1.3 | 100% | 1.4 | 17% |
| 32 | Dunvant West Glamorgan | C+ | 4.3 | 36% | 1.8 | 30% |
| 33 | Langho Lancashire | C+ | 1.6 | 74% | 3 | 7% |
| 34 | Pilling Lancashire | C+ | 4.2 | 46% | 1.8 | 0% |
| 35 | North Leigh Oxfordshire | C+ | 2.3 | 56% | 2.4 | 26% |
| 36 | Sharnbrook Bedfordshire | C+ | 1.6 | 100% | 2.3 | 0% |
| 37 | Harvington Worcestershire | C+ | 2.6 | 100% | 0.8 | 0% |
| 38 | Minsterley Shropshire | C+ | 1.1 | 77% | 2.4 | 38% |
| 39 | Bury Cambridgeshire | C+ | 1.1 | 100% | 2.7 | 0% |
| 40 | Billington Lancashire | C− | 0.5 | 0% | 3.9 | 14% |
| 41 | Poyle Berkshire | C− | 0.7 | 100% | 2 | 0% |
| 42 | Leeming North Yorkshire | C− | 5 | 76% | 0.5 | 0% |
| 43 | West Thorney West Sussex | C− | 0.4 | 0% | 0.9 | 55% |
| 44 | Embsay North Yorkshire | C− | 0.9 | 38% | 2.5 | 47% |
| 45 | High Bentham North Yorkshire | C− | 0.1 | 0% | 2.9 | 45% |
| 46 | Higher Kinnerton Clwyd | C− | 0.7 | 100% | 1.2 | 0% |
| 47 | Sudbrooke Lincolnshire | C− | 1.5 | 82% | 1.8 | 0% |
| 48 | Croft Leicestershire | C− | 1.4 | 84% | 1.8 | 0% |
| 49 | Charminster Dorset | D | 0.3 | 0% | 2 | 56% |
| 50 | Holt Wiltshire | D | 1.1 | 45% | 2.1 | 2% |
| 51 | Shrewton Wiltshire | D | 1.4 | 42% | 1.8 | 0% |
| 52 | Glinton Cambridgeshire | D | 1.3 | 79% | 1.8 | 0% |
| 53 | Frizington Cumbria | D | 1.4 | 52% | 0.9 | 15% |
| 54 | Houghton on the Hill Leicestershire | D | 1.8 | 60% | 1.7 | 0% |
| 55 | Point Clear Essex | D | 0.1 | 0% | 1.8 | 0% |
| 56 | Soughton Clwyd | D | 0.4 | 67% | 1.3 | 3% |
| 57 | Monk Fryston and Hillam North Yorkshire | D | 2.7 | 40% | 0.7 | 0% |
| 58 | Necton Norfolk | D− | 1.5 | 17% | 0.5 | 0% |
| 59 | Swffryd Gwent | D− | 1.4 | 17% | 0.4 | 0% |
| 60 | Hambleton North Yorkshire | D− | 0.1 | 52% | 1.1 | 0% |
Parks, footpaths & countryside
Tap a number to zoom to a park. Tap a layer to hide it. The dashed line is Feniton’s built-up area.
How close Feniton’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).
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 575 residents.
East Devon and Blackdown Hills both start about 2 miles from Feniton
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.
Blackdown Hills
17% of the land within 5 km of Feniton is National Park or National Landscape, more than 75% of UK towns. Dartmoor National Park covers 956 km² and has been a National Park since 1951.
3 waymarked walks pass through or near Feniton
10 km of footpaths, bridleways and rights of way are mapped in Feniton 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.
3 regional routes pass through, including the Exeter to Honiton Way, Cullompton Honiton Walk and Otter Valley Walk.
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 Feniton: 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 | 13.7 | 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) | 98 | 73 | 71 | 67 | 55 | 62 | 55 | 75 | 69 | 105 | 112 | 105 |
May is the driest month (55 mm) and July the warmest (highs of 21 °C). Winter days are short, about 8 hours of daylight in December, and 112 mm of rain falls in November, the wettest month. Frost comes on about 34 nights a year. The climate in Feniton →
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
Feniton 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 1 playground without a name on the map.
Campsites 1
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feniton | C+ | 1.3 | 100% | 17% |
| Ottery St Mary 2.5 mi | C− | 1.2 | 71% | 34% |
| Whimple 3.6 mi | C+ | 5.2 | 70% | 1% |
| Honiton 3.8 mi | B− | 1.3 | 90% | 73% |
| West Hill 4.0 mi | D | 0.0 | 0% | 27% |
| Dunkeswell 5.3 mi | C | 1.4 | 83% | 87% |
| Newton Poppleford 6.2 mi | C | 1.4 | 44% | 60% |
Honiton, 3.8 miles away, grades B−, the best next door: 90% of its residents live within 400 m of a park. Whimple has at least twice Feniton’s green space per resident.
Questions about the outdoors in Feniton
Is Feniton near a National Park?
Yes. Dartmoor National Park begins 18 mi south-west of the village’s edge. It covers 956 km² and has been a National Park since 1951. The nearest protected landscape of any kind is the East Devon National Landscape, 1.4 mi away.
What are the best walks near Feniton?
3 waymarked walking routes pass within 2 km of the village, including the Exeter to Honiton Way, Cullompton Honiton Walk and Otter Valley Walk.
What is the nearest beach to Feniton?
Jacobs Ladder Beach, 7.6 mi from the edge of the village, then Branscombe Beach (9.4 mi). Feniton itself is inland.
How many people in Feniton live near a park?
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%.
When is the best time of year for walking in Feniton?
May to September: the longest days, the warmest afternoons and the least rain of the year, from the Met Office 1991–2020 averages.
Is Feniton good for walking?
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 22% (1.3 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 Feniton’s overall grade.
Where Feniton’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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