Hemyock’s biggest
Longmead Field
Playing field
3.7 ha (9 acres)0.7 km of path
10 minto walk all 0.7 km of path
5 pitchesfootball pitches would fit
Centralin the middle of Hemyock
Directionsto the nearest entrance
Photo: Lewis Clarke · CC BY-SA 2.0A−Outdoors Grade
Outdoors in Hemyock · parks, paths & countryside
Hemyock is inside the Blackdown Hills National Landscape
A park or playing field is within a 5-minute walk for 100% of residents. Parks and playing fields in Hemyock add up to 3.2 ha for every 1,000 residents; the typical UK town has 2.1. Hemyock grades A− for the outdoors. A character grade: it isn’t part of the overall grade.
Green space
3.2 ha
per 1,000 residents
Typical UK town 2.1
Near a park
100%
of residents within 400 m
Typical UK town 83%
Footpaths
10 km
1.3 km per km², town + 1 km
Typical UK town 3.0 per km²
Protected landscape
82%
of the land within 5 km
Nearest: Blackdown Hills National Landscape
Character
What kind of outdoors village is Hemyock?
Read from the data: what stands out first, good and bad.
Inside the Blackdown Hills National LandscapeHemyock sits inside it: 370 km² of protected landscape.A park on every doorstep100% of residents live within 400 m of a park or playing field.Few mapped footpaths1.3 km of path per km²; the typical UK town has 3.0.
Hemyock’s strongest suit is a protected landscape all round, followed by parks close to every home. Where it falls short is footpaths.
Outdoors grade
Hemyock grades A− for the outdoors
Each chart is every UK town of 1,000 or more on one measure: the green bar is Hemyock, the dashed line the typical town. The number is the share of towns it beats; the five are averaged and the average ranked again.
A−
Better than 82% of UK towns11th of 60 UK villages its size
Public green space3.2 haper 1,000 residents: parks, gardens, playing fields, play spaces
73out of
100
100
A park within a walk100%of residents within 400 m (a 5-minute walk)
89out of
100
100
National Park or National Landscape82%of the land within 5 km
97out of
100
100
Footpaths1.3 kmper km², the town and 1 km around it
13out 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.
Villages its size
Hemyock is 11th 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.
Outdoors score: the share of UK towns each one beats
Footpath, km per km²
Hemyock1.3
Villages its size2.1
Devon towns1.8
All UK towns3.0
Green space, ha per 1,000 residents
Hemyock3.2
Villages its size2.0
Devon towns1.9
All UK towns2.1
Residents within 400 m of a park
Hemyock100%
Villages its size79%
Devon towns84%
All UK towns83%
Against villages its size, Hemyock stands out most for park space per resident: only 12 of the other 59 have 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 | Pease Pottage West Sussex | A+ | 4.1 | 100% | 7.4 | 65% |
| 2 | Manningtree Essex | A+ | 5.6 | 100% | 2.5 | 43% |
| 3 | Guston Kent | A+ | 5.8 | 100% | 2.5 | 25% |
| 4 | Llansanffraid Glan Conwy Clwyd | A+ | 10.8 | 100% | 1.6 | 8% |
| 5 | Pen-clawdd West Glamorgan | A | 4 | 100% | 0.5 | 42% |
| 6 | Eccles Kent | A | 3.7 | 100% | 2.4 | 30% |
| 7 | Hutton Somerset | A | 1.8 | 100% | 2.2 | 22% |
| 8 | Southwell Dorset | A | 0.7 | 100% | 5.4 | 0% |
| 9 | Wickwar Gloucestershire | A− | 2 | 100% | 3.5 | 15% |
| 10 | Lynemouth Northumberland | A− | 3.5 | 100% | 1.7 | 0% |
| 11 | Hemyock Devon | A− | 3.2 | 100% | 1.3 | 82% |
| 12 | Clayhanger West Midlands | A− | 17.4 | 100% | 2.6 | 0% |
| 13 | Harrold Bedfordshire | A− | 19.1 | 100% | 2.5 | 0% |
| 14 | Bathampton Somerset | A− | 1 | 85% | 5.5 | 62% |
| 15 | Starcross Devon | B+ | 1.9 | 100% | 0.9 | 1% |
| 16 | Aldbourne Wiltshire | B+ | 3.2 | 84% | 1.8 | 100% |
| 17 | Kingsdown Kent | B+ | 1.1 | 67% | 3.4 | 12% |
| 18 | Great Kingshill Buckinghamshire | B | 2.7 | 55% | 2.9 | 84% |
| 19 | Abridge Essex | B | 3 | 100% | 2.4 | 0% |
| 20 | Ardingly West Sussex | B | 1.7 | 53% | 4.1 | 83% |
| 21 | Silkstone South Yorkshire | B | 1 | 100% | 5.2 | 0% |
| 22 | Edgworth Lancashire | B | 3.2 | 100% | 2.1 | 0% |
| 23 | Normandy Surrey | B− | 3.2 | 23% | 3.1 | 26% |
| 24 | Streethouse West Yorkshire | B− | 2.2 | 100% | 2.5 | 0% |
| 25 | Eynsford Kent | B− | 2.1 | 81% | 1.9 | 46% |
| 26 | Woodsetts South Yorkshire | B− | 2 | 100% | 2.6 | 0% |
| 27 | Allhallows Kent | B− | 3.2 | 76% | 1.1 | 0% |
| 28 | Onley Northamptonshire | B− | 2.3 | 100% | 2.2 | 0% |
| 29 | West Horndon Essex | C+ | 2.2 | 100% | 1.9 | 0% |
| 30 | Pilling Lancashire | C+ | 4.2 | 46% | 1.8 | 0% |
| 31 | Seahouses and North Sunderland Northumberland | C+ | 1.6 | 17% | 1.7 | 21% |
| 32 | Chipperfield Hertfordshire | C+ | 2.4 | 37% | 2.8 | 17% |
| 33 | Rocester Staffordshire | C+ | 15.2 | 58% | 2.5 | 0% |
| 34 | Bartestree Herefordshire | C+ | 2.1 | 81% | 1.9 | 10% |
| 35 | Templecombe Somerset | C+ | 2 | 100% | 1.7 | 0% |
| 36 | New Arley Warwickshire | C+ | 2.4 | 100% | 1.1 | 0% |
| 37 | High Littleton Somerset | C+ | 1 | 58% | 4.9 | 1% |
| 38 | Acton Suffolk | C | 1.6 | 100% | 1.8 | 0% |
| 39 | Stonesfield Oxfordshire | C | 1.9 | 60% | 1.8 | 38% |
| 40 | Earith Cambridgeshire | C | 1.2 | 78% | 3.6 | 0% |
| 41 | Wylam Northumberland | C− | 1.1 | 74% | 3.8 | 0% |
| 42 | High Bentham North Yorkshire | C− | 0.1 | 0% | 2.9 | 45% |
| 43 | Thorney Cambridgeshire | C− | 3.4 | 74% | 0.7 | 0% |
| 44 | Lower Quinton Warwickshire | C− | 2 | 49% | 1.3 | 18% |
| 45 | Modbury Devon | C− | 1.7 | 39% | 1.2 | 41% |
| 46 | Creunant West Glamorgan | C− | 1.7 | 79% | 0.3 | 0% |
| 47 | Pensilva Cornwall | C− | 1.6 | 60% | 1.3 | 15% |
| 48 | Whitehill County Durham | C− | 0.3 | 0% | 7.7 | 0% |
| 49 | Upper Arncott Oxfordshire | D | 3.1 | 59% | 1.2 | 0% |
| 50 | Thurcaston Leicestershire | D | 1.1 | 33% | 3.6 | 0% |
| 51 | Holt Wiltshire | D | 1.1 | 45% | 2.1 | 2% |
| 52 | Leverington Cambridgeshire | D | 2.8 | 59% | 0.8 | 0% |
| 53 | Dobwalls Cornwall | D | 1.4 | 28% | 1.5 | 15% |
| 54 | Tiddington Warwickshire | D | 0.2 | 79% | 2.2 | 0% |
| 55 | Soughton Clwyd | D | 0.4 | 67% | 1.3 | 3% |
| 56 | Skirlaugh East Riding of Yorkshire | D | 1 | 85% | 0.7 | 0% |
| 57 | Woodborough Nottinghamshire | D− | 1 | 45% | 2 | 0% |
| 58 | Ulceby Lincolnshire | D− | 1.2 | 72% | 0.5 | 0% |
| 59 | Welford-on-Avon Warwickshire | D− | 0.4 | 48% | 1.5 | 0% |
| 60 | Church Fenton North Yorkshire | D− | 0.3 | 50% | 0.7 | 0% |
The map
Parks, footpaths & countryside
Tap a number to zoom to a park. Tap a layer to hide it. The dashed line is Hemyock’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 Hemyock
The biggest is Longmead Field, 3.7 ha (9 acres). Directions go to the park’s nearest public entrance where Ordnance Survey maps one.
Close to home
Everyone in Hemyock lives 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).
Within 400 m (100%)Further (0%)
Hemyock100%
Villages its size79%
Devon towns84%
All UK towns83%
Playing fields count, so a park within reach isn’t always one with paths or trees; 6 playgrounds are mapped in and around the village, about one for every 279 residents.
National Parks & National Landscapes
National Parks and National Landscapes around Hemyock
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
National Landscape
Blackdown Hills
Hemyock is inside it370 km²since 199182% of the land within 5 km
Official site82% of the land within 5 km of Hemyock is National Park or National Landscape, more than 97% of UK towns. Exmoor National Park covers 693 km² and has been a National Park since 1954.
Footpaths & waymarked walks
Footpaths in and around Hemyock
10 km of footpaths, bridleways and rights of way are mapped in Hemyock and the kilometre around it, 1.3 km for every square kilometre (the typical UK town has 3.0).
No named walking route is mapped within 2 km of Hemyock; its footpaths are on the map above.
Waymarked walks are OpenStreetMap walking routes. Public rights of way are only as complete as the map in each area.
When to get out
The best walking months in Hemyock: 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 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | 20 | 20 | 18 | 14 | 10 | 8 |
| Rain (mm) | 105 | 83 | 76 | 75 | 66 | 72 | 68 | 83 | 77 | 117 | 122 | 119 |
May is the driest month (66 mm) and July the warmest (highs of 20 °C). Winter days are short, about 8 hours of daylight in December, and 122 mm of rain falls in November, the wettest month. Frost comes on about 34 nights a year. The climate in Hemyock →
Things to do
6 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
Hemyock is inland. These are the nearest named beaches, measured from the edge of the village.
Beer Roads16 mi from Hemyock’s edge
DirectionsSeaton Beach16 mi from Hemyock’s edge
DirectionsBranscombe Beach16 mi from Hemyock’s edge
DirectionsJacobs Ladder Beach16 mi from Hemyock’s edge
DirectionsHooken Beach16 mi from Hemyock’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
Playgrounds 6
Plus 6 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.
Rockwell GreenDunkeswellUffculmeWellingtonWillandSampford PeverellHemyock
ABCDOutdoors Grade
| Town | Outdoors | Green space, ha per 1,000 | Near a park | Protected within 5 km |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hemyock | A− | 3.2 | 100% | 82% |
| Rockwell Green 4.1 mi | B | 1.0 | 90% | 24% |
| Dunkeswell 4.1 mi | C | 1.4 | 83% | 87% |
| Uffculme 4.4 mi | B− | 2.8 | 86% | 14% |
| Wellington 4.5 mi | A | 2.2 | 99% | 24% |
| Willand 6.4 mi | C− | 0.9 | 88% | 1% |
| Sampford Peverell 6.5 mi | B− | 3.0 | 100% | 0% |
Wellington, 4.5 miles away, grades A, the best next door: 99% of its residents live within 400 m of a park.
Questions about the outdoors in Hemyock
What is the biggest park in Hemyock?
Longmead Field, 3.7 ha (9 acres), with 0.7 km of path. 1 named park, garden or playing field is in the village or within 400 m of it.
Is Hemyock near a National Park?
Yes. Exmoor National Park begins 13 mi north-west of the village’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, at the edge of the village.
What is the nearest beach to Hemyock?
Beer Roads, 16 mi from the edge of the village, then Seaton Beach (16 mi). Hemyock itself is inland.
How many people in Hemyock 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 Hemyock?
May to September: the longest days, the warmest afternoons and the least rain of the year, from the Met Office 1991–2020 averages.
Is Hemyock good for walking?
Paths are thinner than most towns: 1.3 km of footpath and right of way per square kilometre, more than 13% of UK towns. For park space per person it beats 73% (3.2 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 Hemyock’s overall grade.
Sources
Where Hemyock’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.
Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026 (ONS boundaries). Northern Ireland: Source: NISRA; contains Land & Property Services data and Ordnance Survey of Northern Ireland information, © Crown copyright, licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Scotland: contains National Records of Scotland data, Registers of Scotland data and SEPA data, © Crown copyright / © SEPA 2025, licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.