Honiton’s biggest
Mount Batten Mews
Play space
0.0 ha (0 acres)
0.4 mi north-westfrom the centre
Directionsto the nearest entrance
Photo: John H Darch · CC BY-SA 2.0B−Outdoors Grade
Outdoors in Honiton · parks, paths & countryside
73% of the land within 5 km of Honiton is National Park or National Landscape
The Blackdown Hills National Landscape and the East Devon National Landscape both begin about a mile from the town’s edge. Parks and playing fields in Honiton add up to 1.3 ha for every 1,000 residents; the typical UK town has 2.1. A park or playing field is within a 5-minute walk for 90% of residents. Honiton grades B− for the outdoors: #26 of 47 in Devon. A character grade: it isn’t part of the overall grade.
Green space
1.3 ha
per 1,000 residents
Typical UK town 2.1
Near a park
90%
of residents within 400 m
Typical UK town 83%
Footpaths
36 km
2.0 km per km², town + 1 km
Typical UK town 3.0 per km²
Protected landscape
73%
of the land within 5 km
Nearest: Blackdown Hills National Landscape
Character
What kind of outdoors town is Honiton?
Read from the data: what stands out first, good and bad.
Protected countryside73% of the land within 5 km is Blackdown Hills National Landscape.Less park per person1.3 ha of parks and playing fields per 1,000 residents; the typical UK town has 2.1.
Honiton’s strongest suit is protected countryside on the doorstep. Where it falls short is park space per person.
Outdoors grade
Honiton grades B− for the outdoors
Each chart is every UK town of 1,000 or more on one measure: the green bar is Honiton, the dashed line the typical town. The number is the share of towns it beats; the five are averaged and the average ranked again.
B−
Better than 52% of UK towns#26 of 47 in Devon · 39th of 60 UK towns its size
Public green space1.3 haper 1,000 residents: parks, gardens, playing fields, play spaces
20out of
100
100
A park within a walk90%of residents within 400 m (a 5-minute walk)
67out of
100
100
National Park or National Landscape73%of the land within 5 km
96out of
100
100
Footpaths2.0 kmper km², the town and 1 km around it
32out 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
Honiton is 39th of 60 UK towns its size for the outdoors
The 60 UK towns and cities of 11,500 to 12,800 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
Honiton2.0
Towns its size3.2
Devon towns1.8
All UK towns3.0
Green space, ha per 1,000 residents
Honiton1.3
Towns its size2.1
Devon towns1.9
All UK towns2.1
Residents within 400 m of a park
Honiton90%
Towns its size85%
Devon towns84%
All UK towns83%
Honiton falls furthest behind on park space per resident, where 51 of the 59 others do better.
Show as a table
| Town | Outdoors | Green space | Near a park | Path per km² | Protected | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Whitby North Yorkshire | A+ | 4 | 100% | 2.9 | 53% |
| 2 | Tring Hertfordshire | A+ | 5.7 | 95% | 4.8 | 57% |
| 3 | Snodland Kent | A+ | 7.7 | 97% | 4.4 | 44% |
| 4 | Chepstow Gwent | A+ | 1.9 | 100% | 3.3 | 30% |
| 5 | Minehead Somerset | A+ | 1.4 | 95% | 4.3 | 47% |
| 6 | Brockworth Gloucestershire | A+ | 2.5 | 95% | 5.1 | 46% |
| 7 | Waltham Cross Hertfordshire | A | 10.6 | 100% | 5.6 | 0% |
| 8 | Holyhead Gwynedd | A | 3.4 | 78% | 2.3 | 31% |
| 9 | Southwick West Sussex | A | 1.1 | 100% | 2.6 | 34% |
| 10 | Houghton-le-Spring Tyne and Wear | A | 4.8 | 100% | 4.2 | 0% |
| 11 | Sandown Isle of Wight | A | 1.4 | 74% | 4.5 | 28% |
| 12 | Killingworth Tyne and Wear | A | 4.7 | 97% | 4.5 | 0% |
| 13 | Little Lever Greater Manchester | A | 4.5 | 97% | 4.5 | 0% |
| 14 | Dawlish Devon | A | 2.1 | 93% | 2.4 | 0% |
| 15 | Bradwell Norfolk | A− | 2 | 80% | 2.7 | 31% |
| 16 | Matlock Derbyshire | A− | 2.9 | 76% | 4.7 | 20% |
| 17 | Blackwood Gwent | A− | 3.6 | 97% | 4.4 | 0% |
| 18 | Bridport Dorset | A− | 0.9 | 75% | 3.7 | 71% |
| 19 | Flackwell Heath and Wooburn Green Buckinghamshire | A− | 1.7 | 90% | 3.9 | 30% |
| 20 | Guiseley West Yorkshire | A− | 2.5 | 75% | 5.7 | 6% |
| 21 | Lees Greater Manchester | A− | 2.5 | 80% | 4.4 | 4% |
| 22 | Barton-upon-Humber Lincolnshire | A− | 5.9 | 97% | 1.3 | 0% |
| 23 | Tavistock Devon | A− | 5.9 | 83% | 1.6 | 72% |
| 24 | Cleckheaton West Yorkshire | B+ | 3.3 | 98% | 3.7 | 0% |
| 25 | New Milton Hampshire | B+ | 2.3 | 75% | 1.9 | 38% |
| 26 | Ivybridge Devon | B+ | 1.8 | 86% | 3.4 | 38% |
| 27 | Blandford Forum Dorset | B+ | 2.1 | 90% | 2.2 | 72% |
| 28 | Chorleywood Hertfordshire | B+ | 2.7 | 37% | 5.7 | 22% |
| 29 | Haslemere Surrey | B+ | 1 | 78% | 5.1 | 80% |
| 30 | Bentley South Yorkshire | B+ | 3.4 | 100% | 2.7 | 0% |
| 31 | Worsley Greater Manchester | B+ | 4.7 | 86% | 3.4 | 0% |
| 32 | Cudworth and Shafton South Yorkshire | B | 3.1 | 88% | 3.7 | 0% |
| 33 | Henley-on-Thames Oxfordshire | B | 2.4 | 70% | 2.9 | 53% |
| 34 | Buckhurst Hill Essex | B | 4.5 | 64% | 6.3 | 0% |
| 35 | Littleborough Greater Manchester | B | 5 | 85% | 3 | 0% |
| 36 | Stotfold Bedfordshire | B | 2.1 | 96% | 3.5 | 0% |
| 37 | Shirebrook Derbyshire | B | 1.8 | 100% | 3.3 | 0% |
| 38 | Ystrad Mynach Gwent | B− | 5.4 | 85% | 2.3 | 0% |
| 39 | Honiton Devon | B− | 1.3 | 90% | 2 | 73% |
| 40 | Chigwell Essex | B− | 2.9 | 64% | 4.5 | 0% |
| 41 | Wells Somerset | B− | 1.7 | 65% | 3.4 | 26% |
| 42 | Ince-in-Makerfield Greater Manchester | B− | 2 | 74% | 5.1 | 0% |
| 43 | Rochford Essex | B− | 2 | 71% | 2.7 | 0% |
| 44 | Kingsteignton Devon | B− | 1.9 | 95% | 1.8 | 0% |
| 45 | Huntington North Yorkshire | C+ | 2 | 72% | 3.9 | 0% |
| 46 | Street Somerset | C+ | 0.7 | 96% | 3.5 | 0% |
| 47 | Stanwell Surrey | C+ | 1.4 | 93% | 2.9 | 0% |
| 48 | Hersham Surrey | C | 2.5 | 73% | 2.4 | 0% |
| 49 | Featherstone West Yorkshire | C | 2 | 77% | 2.4 | 0% |
| 50 | Bridgnorth Shropshire | C− | 2.4 | 66% | 2.4 | 0% |
| 51 | Haverfordwest Dyfed | C− | 1 | 85% | 1.4 | 8% |
| 52 | Oakham Rutland | C− | 1.8 | 86% | 1.8 | 0% |
| 53 | Market Drayton Shropshire | C− | 1.5 | 88% | 1.5 | 0% |
| 54 | Codsall Staffordshire | C− | 1.4 | 84% | 1.8 | 0% |
| 55 | Sarn Mid Glamorgan | D | 1.8 | 75% | 1.6 | 0% |
| 56 | Amesbury Wiltshire | D | 1.8 | 73% | 1.6 | 0% |
| 57 | Flint Clwyd | D | 1 | 56% | 1.2 | 0% |
| 58 | Desborough Northamptonshire | D | 0.6 | 69% | 2.7 | 0% |
| 59 | Wetherby West Yorkshire | D | 0.5 | 14% | 3 | 0% |
| 60 | Thorne South Yorkshire | D− | 1.6 | 65% | 0.6 | 0% |
The map
Parks, footpaths & countryside
Tap a number to zoom to a park. Tap a layer to hide it. The dashed line is Honiton’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 Honiton
The biggest is Mount Batten Mews, 0.0 ha (0 acres). Directions go to the park’s nearest public entrance where Ordnance Survey maps one.
Close to home
9 in 10 Honiton residents live 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 (90%)Further (10%)
Honiton90%
Towns its size85%
Devon towns84%
All UK towns83%
About 1,200 people live further than that. Playing fields count, so a park within reach isn’t always one with paths or trees; 22 playgrounds are mapped in and around the town, about one for every 553 residents.
National Parks & National Landscapes
National Parks and National Landscapes around Honiton
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
At the edge south-east370 km²since 199139% of the land within 5 km
Official siteNational Landscape
East Devon
At the edge south269 km²since 196334% of the land within 5 km
Official site73% of the land within 5 km of Honiton is National Park or National Landscape, more than 96% of UK towns.
Footpaths & waymarked walks
3 waymarked walks pass through or near Honiton
36 km of footpaths, bridleways and rights of way are mapped in Honiton and the kilometre around it, 2.0 km for every square kilometre (the typical UK town has 3.0). Bars show each route’s kilometres within 2 km of the town.
Regional
Orange Way10.2 km
Cullompton Honiton Walk7.0 km
Exeter to Honiton Way6.7 km
3 regional routes pass through, including the Orange Way, Cullompton Honiton Walk and Exeter to Honiton Way.
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 Honiton: 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 | 8 | 10 | 13 | 16 | 19 | 21 | 21 | 18 | 15 | 11 | 8 |
| Rain (mm) | 108 | 79 | 76 | 72 | 59 | 68 | 60 | 82 | 76 | 114 | 124 | 113 |
May is the driest month (59 mm) and July the warmest (highs of 21 °C). Winter days are short, about 8 hours of daylight in December, and 124 mm of rain falls in November, the wettest month. Frost comes on about 34 nights a year. The climate in Honiton →
Things to do
22 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
Honiton is inland. These are the nearest named beaches, measured from the edge of the town.
Branscombe Beach7.5 mi from Honiton’s edge
DirectionsBeer Roads7.6 mi from Honiton’s edge
DirectionsHooken Beach7.8 mi from Honiton’s edge
DirectionsJacobs Ladder Beach7.8 mi from Honiton’s edge
DirectionsSeaton Beach7.9 mi from Honiton’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.
Hills and peaks 3
St. Cyres' Hill0.8 mi from town
DirectionsBuckerell Knap152 m (499 ft) · 1.0 mi from town
DirectionsPlus 1 peak without a name on the map.
Nature reserves 2
Honiton Bottom Community1.4 ha · 0.0 mi from town
DirectionsThe Woodland Education Centre1.2 mi from town
DirectionsPlaygrounds 22
Cherry Close Playgroundin town
DirectionsSt Mark's Playgroundin town
DirectionsPlus 20 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.
FenitonDunkeswellOttery St MaryColytonWest HillWhimpleHoniton
ABCDOutdoors Grade
| Town | Outdoors | Green space, ha per 1,000 | Near a park | Protected within 5 km |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Honiton | B− | 1.3 | 90% | 73% |
| Feniton 3.8 mi | C+ | 1.3 | 100% | 17% |
| Dunkeswell 4.3 mi | C | 1.4 | 83% | 87% |
| Ottery St Mary 4.7 mi | C− | 1.2 | 71% | 34% |
| Colyton 6.7 mi | A+ | 3.5 | 100% | 79% |
| West Hill 6.9 mi | D | 0.0 | 0% | 27% |
| Whimple 7.3 mi | C+ | 5.2 | 70% | 1% |
Colyton, 6.7 miles away, grades A+, the best next door: every resident lives within 400 m of a park. Colyton and Whimple have at least twice Honiton’s green space per resident.
Questions about the outdoors in Honiton
What is the biggest park in Honiton?
Mount Batten Mews, 0.0 ha (0 acres). 1 named park, garden or playing field is in the town or within 400 m of it.
Is Honiton near a National Park?
The Blackdown Hills National Landscape reaches the edge of Honiton. It covers 370 km² and was designated in 1991.
What are the best walks near Honiton?
3 waymarked walking routes pass within 2 km of the town, including the Orange Way, Cullompton Honiton Walk and Exeter to Honiton Way.
What is the nearest beach to Honiton?
Branscombe Beach, 7.5 mi from the edge of the town, then Beer Roads (7.6 mi). Honiton itself is inland.
How many people in Honiton live near a park?
90% 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 Honiton?
May to September: the longest days, the warmest afternoons and the least rain of the year, from the Met Office 1991–2020 averages.
Is Honiton good for walking?
Paths are thinner than most towns: 2.0 km of footpath and right of way per square kilometre, more than 32% of UK towns. For park space per person it beats 20% (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 Honiton’s overall grade.
Sources
Where Honiton’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.