Holsworthy’s biggest
Stanhope Park
Playing field
3.5 ha (9 acres)0.9 km of path
10 minto walk all 0.9 km of path
5 pitchesfootball pitches would fit
Centralin the middle of Holsworthy
Directionsto the nearest entrance
Photo: SequenceDancer · CC BY-SA 3.0C−Outdoors Grade
Outdoors in Holsworthy · parks, paths & countryside
84% of Holsworthy’s residents live within a 5-minute walk of a park
8 km of footpaths run through the town and the kilometre around it, 0.8 for every square kilometre. Parks and playing fields in Holsworthy add up to 2.7 ha for every 1,000 residents; the typical UK town has 2.1. Holsworthy grades C− for the outdoors: #43 of 47 in Devon. A character grade: it isn’t part of the overall grade.
Green space
2.7 ha
per 1,000 residents
Typical UK town 2.1
Near a park
84%
of residents within 400 m
Typical UK town 83%
Footpaths
8 km
0.8 km per km², town + 1 km
Typical UK town 3.0 per km²
Protected landscape
0%
of the land within 5 km
Nearest: Cornwall National Landscape
Outdoors grade
Holsworthy grades C− for the outdoors
Each chart is every UK town of 1,000 or more on one measure: the green bar is Holsworthy, 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 23% of UK towns#43 of 47 in Devon · 45th of 60 UK towns its size
Public green space2.7 haper 1,000 residents: parks, gardens, playing fields, play spaces
65out of
100
100
A park within a walk84%of residents within 400 m (a 5-minute walk)
55out of
100
100
National Park or National Landscape0%of the land within 5 km · None within 5 km
31out of
100
100
Footpaths0.8 kmper km², the town and 1 km around it
5out 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
Holsworthy is 45th of 60 UK towns its size for the outdoors
The 60 UK towns and cities of 3,300 to 3,600 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
Holsworthy0.8
Towns its size2.6
Devon towns1.8
All UK towns3.0
Green space, ha per 1,000 residents
Holsworthy2.7
Towns its size2.0
Devon towns1.9
All UK towns2.1
Residents within 400 m of a park
Holsworthy84%
Towns its size83%
Devon towns84%
All UK towns83%
Against towns its size, Holsworthy stands out most for park space per resident: only 20 of the other 59 have more. It falls furthest behind on path per km², where 58 of the others do better.
Show as a table
| Town | Outdoors | Green space | Near a park | Path per km² | Protected | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Minchinhampton Gloucestershire | A+ | 5.6 | 91% | 5.3 | 90% |
| 2 | Lane End Buckinghamshire | A+ | 3.1 | 92% | 4.7 | 90% |
| 3 | Silsoe Bedfordshire | A+ | 6.6 | 100% | 3.8 | 2% |
| 4 | Goring Oxfordshire | A+ | 3 | 100% | 3.2 | 98% |
| 5 | Talke and Talke Pits Staffordshire | A | 16.6 | 100% | 3.5 | 0% |
| 6 | Bishopston West Glamorgan | A | 3 | 47% | 3.1 | 41% |
| 7 | Kingsbury Warwickshire | A− | 17.2 | 100% | 2.9 | 0% |
| 8 | Shenley Hertfordshire | A− | 6.1 | 100% | 3.2 | 0% |
| 9 | Elsenham Essex | A− | 3 | 100% | 4.3 | 0% |
| 10 | Westward Ho! Devon | A− | 12.3 | 63% | 1.7 | 18% |
| 11 | Taff's Well Mid Glamorgan | A− | 2.3 | 100% | 6.2 | 0% |
| 12 | Grassmoor Derbyshire | A− | 6.8 | 85% | 4.7 | 0% |
| 13 | Essington Staffordshire | B+ | 6.8 | 100% | 2.4 | 0% |
| 14 | Blaenau Ffestiniog Gwynedd | B+ | 3.6 | 70% | 2.5 | 78% |
| 15 | St Asaph Clwyd | B+ | 3.2 | 100% | 1.6 | 9% |
| 16 | Water Orton Warwickshire | B+ | 5.3 | 82% | 3.4 | 0% |
| 17 | Hartley Wintney Hampshire | B+ | 6.1 | 82% | 3.3 | 0% |
| 18 | Whalley Lancashire | B | 1.2 | 88% | 3.5 | 23% |
| 19 | Westerham Kent | B | 1.9 | 61% | 3.5 | 66% |
| 20 | Brockenhurst Hampshire | B | 1.8 | 63% | 3.3 | 98% |
| 21 | Llanfairfechan Clwyd | B | 1 | 48% | 2.9 | 38% |
| 22 | Sturminster Newton Dorset | B | 1.4 | 85% | 3.6 | 5% |
| 23 | Sunniside Tyne and Wear | B | 2.1 | 87% | 4 | 0% |
| 24 | Gunnislake and St Ann's Chapel Cornwall | B− | 2.5 | 64% | 2.3 | 66% |
| 25 | Istead Rise Kent | B− | 1.9 | 82% | 2.7 | 15% |
| 26 | Ruabon Clwyd | B− | 3.8 | 69% | 1.9 | 20% |
| 27 | Burtonwood Cheshire | B− | 3.3 | 93% | 2.2 | 0% |
| 28 | Theydon Bois Essex | B− | 2.4 | 70% | 5.1 | 0% |
| 29 | Castle Cary Somerset | B− | 2.2 | 91% | 3 | 0% |
| 30 | Stalham Norfolk | B− | 1.9 | 85% | 2 | 23% |
| 31 | Pilsley and Lower Pilsley Derbyshire | B− | 1.9 | 91% | 3.3 | 0% |
| 32 | Bembridge Isle of Wight | B− | 1.5 | 50% | 2.3 | 7% |
| 33 | Kirkheaton West Yorkshire | C+ | 1.8 | 92% | 3 | 0% |
| 34 | Broomfield Essex | C+ | 2.7 | 45% | 5 | 0% |
| 35 | Fishguard Dyfed | C+ | 0.8 | 64% | 2.1 | 23% |
| 36 | Woodstock Oxfordshire | C+ | 1 | 80% | 3 | 11% |
| 37 | Boreham Essex | C+ | 1.1 | 100% | 2.8 | 0% |
| 38 | Thorpe Willoughby North Yorkshire | C | 0.4 | 92% | 3.5 | 0% |
| 39 | Cosby Leicestershire | C | 1.6 | 93% | 2.2 | 0% |
| 40 | Marden Kent | C | 1.8 | 71% | 2.1 | 3% |
| 41 | Upper Poppleton North Yorkshire | C | 2.9 | 82% | 1.7 | 0% |
| 42 | Alvechurch Worcestershire | C | 2.2 | 84% | 1.9 | 0% |
| 43 | Nettleham Lincolnshire | C | 4.2 | 74% | 1.3 | 0% |
| 44 | Goff's Oak Hertfordshire | C− | 2.4 | 41% | 3.1 | 0% |
| 45 | Holsworthy Devon | C− | 2.7 | 84% | 0.8 | 0% |
| 46 | Lytchett Matravers Dorset | C− | 1.2 | 83% | 1.2 | 5% |
| 47 | Tylorstown and Pontygwaith Mid Glamorgan | C− | 2.3 | 63% | 2.2 | 0% |
| 48 | Willand Devon | C− | 0.9 | 88% | 0.6 | 1% |
| 49 | Snaith East Riding of Yorkshire | D | 0.2 | 89% | 2 | 0% |
| 50 | Witham St Hughs Lincolnshire | D | 0.7 | 91% | 1.7 | 0% |
| 51 | Wadhurst East Sussex | D | 0.9 | 19% | 1.2 | 100% |
| 52 | Chapel St Leonards Lincolnshire | D | 0.4 | 53% | 1.5 | 0% |
| 53 | Lanchester County Durham | D | 1.4 | 70% | 2.1 | 0% |
| 54 | Bilsthorpe Nottinghamshire | D | 0.7 | 88% | 1.2 | 0% |
| 55 | Metheringham Lincolnshire | D | 0.8 | 44% | 3 | 0% |
| 56 | Cherry Willingham Lincolnshire | D | 1 | 79% | 1.6 | 0% |
| 57 | Spixworth Norfolk | D | 0.6 | 59% | 1.2 | 5% |
| 58 | Wollaston Northamptonshire | D− | 1.2 | 11% | 1.2 | 0% |
| 59 | Barlby North Yorkshire | D− | 0.2 | 0% | 1.8 | 0% |
| 60 | Bawtry South Yorkshire | D− | 0.5 | 49% | 1 | 0% |
The map
Parks, footpaths & countryside
Tap a number to zoom to a park. Tap a layer to hide it. The dashed line is Holsworthy’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 Holsworthy
The biggest is Stanhope Park, 3.5 ha (9 acres). Directions go to the park’s nearest public entrance where Ordnance Survey maps one.
Pins Park
Playing field
3.5 ha (9 acres)0.1 km of path
5 pitchesfootball pitches would fit
Centralin the middle of Holsworthy
Directionsto the nearest entrance
Close to home
How close Holsworthy’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 (84%)Further (16%)
Holsworthy84%
Towns its size83%
Devon towns84%
All UK towns83%
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 town, about one for every 496 residents.
National Parks & National Landscapes
The Cornwall National Landscape is 7.4 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
Dartmoor National Park covers 956 km² and has been a National Park since 1951.
Footpaths & waymarked walks
Footpaths in and around Holsworthy
8 km of footpaths, bridleways and rights of way are mapped in Holsworthy and the kilometre around it, 0.8 km for every square kilometre (the typical UK town has 3.0).
No named walking route is mapped within 2 km of Holsworthy; 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 Holsworthy: 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 | 13 | 16 | 18 | 20 | 20 | 18 | 15 | 11 | 9 |
| Rain (mm) | 130 | 97 | 77 | 69 | 65 | 72 | 84 | 94 | 82 | 123 | 136 | 143 |
May is the driest month (65 mm) and July the warmest (highs of 20 °C). Winter days are short, about 8 hours of daylight in December, and 143 mm of rain falls in December, the wettest month. Frost comes on about 37 nights a year. The climate in Holsworthy →
Things to do
7 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
Holsworthy is inland. These are the nearest named beaches, measured from the edge of the town.
Summerleaze Beach8.3 mi from Holsworthy’s edge
DirectionsMiddle Beach8.4 mi from Holsworthy’s edge
DirectionsCrooklets Beach8.5 mi from Holsworthy’s edge
DirectionsCompass Cove8.5 mi from Holsworthy’s edge
DirectionsFirst Cove8.5 mi from Holsworthy’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 7
Plus 7 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.
StrattonBudeHolsworthy
ABCDOutdoors Grade
Bude, 8 miles away, grades A, the best next door: 78% of its residents live within 400 m of a park.
Questions about the outdoors in Holsworthy
What is the biggest park in Holsworthy?
Stanhope Park, 3.5 ha (9 acres), with 0.9 km of path. Pins Park (3.5 ha) is second. 2 named parks, gardens and playing fields are in the town or within 400 m of it.
Is Holsworthy near a National Park?
Yes. Dartmoor National Park begins 14 mi south-east of the town’s edge. It covers 956 km² and has been a National Park since 1951. The nearest protected landscape of any kind is the Cornwall National Landscape, 7.4 mi away.
What is the nearest beach to Holsworthy?
Summerleaze Beach, 8.3 mi from the edge of the town, then Middle Beach (8.4 mi). Holsworthy itself is inland.
How many people in Holsworthy live near a park?
84% 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 Holsworthy?
May to September: the longest days, the warmest afternoons and the least rain of the year, from the Met Office 1991–2020 averages.
Is Holsworthy good for walking?
Paths are thinner than most towns: 0.8 km of footpath and right of way per square kilometre, more than 5% of UK towns. For park space per person it beats 65% (2.7 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 Holsworthy’s overall grade.
Sources
Where Holsworthy’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.