Ivybridge’s biggest
Filham Park
Playing field · 110 m outside town
9.9 ha (24 acres)2.8 km of path
35 minto walk all 2.8 km of path
14 pitchesfootball pitches would fit
0.9 mi south-eastfrom the centre
Filham
Directionsto the nearest entrance
Photo: Ruth Sharville · CC BY-SA 2.0B+Outdoors Grade
Outdoors in Ivybridge · parks, paths & countryside
38% of the land within 5 km of Ivybridge is National Park or National Landscape
Dartmoor National Park reaches the edge of Ivybridge. Footpaths add up to 53 km in the town and the kilometre around it, 3.4 for every square kilometre. Parks and playing fields in Ivybridge add up to 1.8 ha for every 1,000 residents; the typical UK town has 2.1. Ivybridge grades B+ for the outdoors: #16 of 47 in Devon. A character grade: it isn’t part of the overall grade.
Green space
1.8 ha
per 1,000 residents
Typical UK town 2.1
Near a park
86%
of residents within 400 m
Typical UK town 83%
Footpaths
53 km
3.4 km per km², town + 1 km
Typical UK town 3.0 per km²
Protected landscape
38%
of the land within 5 km
Nearest: Dartmoor National Park
Character
What kind of outdoors town is Ivybridge?
Read from the data: what stands out first, good and bad.
Protected countryside38% of the land within 5 km is Dartmoor National Park.Less park per person1.8 ha of parks and playing fields per 1,000 residents; the typical UK town has 2.1.
Ivybridge’s strongest suit is protected countryside on the doorstep. Where it falls short is park space per person.
Outdoors grade
Ivybridge grades B+ for the outdoors
Each chart is every UK town of 1,000 or more on one measure: the green bar is Ivybridge, 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 72% of UK towns#16 of 47 in Devon · 21st of 60 UK towns its size
Public green space1.8 haper 1,000 residents: parks, gardens, playing fields, play spaces
38out of
100
100
A park within a walk86%of residents within 400 m (a 5-minute walk)
59out of
100
100
National Park or National Landscape38%of the land within 5 km
87out of
100
100
Footpaths3.4 kmper km², the town and 1 km around it
68out 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
Ivybridge is 21st of 60 UK towns its size for the outdoors
The 60 UK towns and cities of 11,800 to 13,100 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
Ivybridge3.4
Towns its size3.1
Devon towns1.8
All UK towns3.0
Green space, ha per 1,000 residents
Ivybridge1.8
Towns its size2.2
Devon towns1.9
All UK towns2.1
Residents within 400 m of a park
Ivybridge86%
Towns its size85%
Devon towns84%
All UK towns83%
Ivybridge falls furthest behind on park space per resident, where 40 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 | Chepstow Gwent | A+ | 1.9 | 100% | 3.3 | 30% |
| 4 | Brockworth Gloucestershire | A+ | 2.5 | 95% | 5.1 | 46% |
| 5 | Waltham Cross Hertfordshire | A | 10.6 | 100% | 5.6 | 0% |
| 6 | Newhaven East Sussex | A | 1.9 | 84% | 2.9 | 50% |
| 7 | Rhosllannerchrugog Clwyd | A | 3.5 | 98% | 2.8 | 31% |
| 8 | Southwick West Sussex | A | 1.1 | 100% | 2.6 | 34% |
| 9 | Houghton-le-Spring Tyne and Wear | A | 4.8 | 100% | 4.2 | 0% |
| 10 | Killingworth Tyne and Wear | A | 4.7 | 97% | 4.5 | 0% |
| 11 | Little Lever Greater Manchester | A | 4.5 | 97% | 4.5 | 0% |
| 12 | Matlock Derbyshire | A− | 2.9 | 76% | 4.7 | 20% |
| 13 | Blackwood Gwent | A− | 3.6 | 97% | 4.4 | 0% |
| 14 | Bridport Dorset | A− | 0.9 | 75% | 3.7 | 71% |
| 15 | Flackwell Heath and Wooburn Green Buckinghamshire | A− | 1.7 | 90% | 3.9 | 30% |
| 16 | Guiseley West Yorkshire | A− | 2.5 | 75% | 5.7 | 6% |
| 17 | Wantage Oxfordshire | A− | 2.5 | 71% | 3.9 | 47% |
| 18 | Lees Greater Manchester | A− | 2.5 | 80% | 4.4 | 4% |
| 19 | Barton-upon-Humber Lincolnshire | A− | 5.9 | 97% | 1.3 | 0% |
| 20 | Tavistock Devon | A− | 5.9 | 83% | 1.6 | 72% |
| 21 | Ivybridge Devon | B+ | 1.8 | 86% | 3.4 | 38% |
| 22 | Ringwood Hampshire | B+ | 2.3 | 78% | 3.2 | 43% |
| 23 | Chorleywood Hertfordshire | B+ | 2.7 | 37% | 5.7 | 22% |
| 24 | Poulton-le-Fylde Lancashire | B+ | 3.6 | 85% | 2.2 | 0% |
| 25 | Bentley South Yorkshire | B+ | 3.4 | 100% | 2.7 | 0% |
| 26 | Marple Greater Manchester | B+ | 3.4 | 64% | 3.8 | 5% |
| 27 | Poynton Cheshire | B+ | 2.2 | 79% | 3.7 | 14% |
| 28 | Worsley Greater Manchester | B+ | 4.7 | 86% | 3.4 | 0% |
| 29 | Royal Wootton Bassett Wiltshire | B+ | 1.6 | 98% | 3.1 | 10% |
| 30 | Cudworth and Shafton South Yorkshire | B | 3.1 | 88% | 3.7 | 0% |
| 31 | Littleborough Greater Manchester | B | 5 | 85% | 3 | 0% |
| 32 | Stotfold Bedfordshire | B | 2.1 | 96% | 3.5 | 0% |
| 33 | Rushall and Shelfield West Midlands | B | 4.3 | 88% | 2.5 | 0% |
| 34 | Honiton Devon | B− | 1.3 | 90% | 2 | 73% |
| 35 | Scawthorpe and Cusworth South Yorkshire | B− | 3.1 | 88% | 2.5 | 0% |
| 36 | Standish Greater Manchester | B− | 2.6 | 84% | 3.1 | 0% |
| 37 | Chigwell Essex | B− | 2.9 | 64% | 4.5 | 0% |
| 38 | Wells Somerset | B− | 1.7 | 65% | 3.4 | 26% |
| 39 | Ince-in-Makerfield Greater Manchester | B− | 2 | 74% | 5.1 | 0% |
| 40 | Rochford Essex | B− | 2 | 71% | 2.7 | 0% |
| 41 | Kingsteignton Devon | B− | 1.9 | 95% | 1.8 | 0% |
| 42 | Thame Oxfordshire | C+ | 2.9 | 91% | 1.8 | 0% |
| 43 | Huntington North Yorkshire | C+ | 2 | 72% | 3.9 | 0% |
| 44 | Street Somerset | C+ | 0.7 | 96% | 3.5 | 0% |
| 45 | Todmorden West Yorkshire | C | 0.8 | 72% | 6.8 | 0% |
| 46 | Hersham Surrey | C | 2.5 | 73% | 2.4 | 0% |
| 47 | Bridgnorth Shropshire | C− | 2.4 | 66% | 2.4 | 0% |
| 48 | Haverfordwest Dyfed | C− | 1 | 85% | 1.4 | 8% |
| 49 | Oakham Rutland | C− | 1.8 | 86% | 1.8 | 0% |
| 50 | North Walsham Norfolk | C− | 1.3 | 69% | 2 | 10% |
| 51 | Market Drayton Shropshire | C− | 1.5 | 88% | 1.5 | 0% |
| 52 | Kirk Sandall and Edenthorpe South Yorkshire | D | 2 | 75% | 1.4 | 0% |
| 53 | Amesbury Wiltshire | D | 1.8 | 73% | 1.6 | 0% |
| 54 | Mountsorrel Leicestershire | D | 0.9 | 56% | 3.1 | 0% |
| 55 | Flint Clwyd | D | 1 | 56% | 1.2 | 0% |
| 56 | Desborough Northamptonshire | D | 0.6 | 69% | 2.7 | 0% |
| 57 | Mountain Ash Mid Glamorgan | D | 1.4 | 56% | 2.3 | 0% |
| 58 | Wombourne Staffordshire | D | 0.8 | 78% | 1.8 | 0% |
| 59 | Balderton Nottinghamshire | D | 1.4 | 64% | 1.7 | 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 Ivybridge’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 Ivybridge
The biggest is Filham Park, 9.9 ha (24 acres). Directions go to the park’s nearest public entrance where Ordnance Survey maps one.
All 4 named parks by size: 14 ha (35 acres) and 3 km of path
Parks & gardens 1.5 haPlaying fields 12 haPlay spaces 0.6 ha
The two biggest, Filham Park and Victoria Park, are 82% of the named green space and carry 3 km of path between them. 3 of the 4 are under 2 ha: small gardens, play spaces and pitches.
Victoria Park
Park or garden
1.5 ha (4 acres)0.2 km of path
2 pitchesfootball pitches would fit
Centralin the middle of Ivybridge
Directionsto the nearest entrance
Rutt Playing Fields
Playing field
2.0 ha (5 acres)
3 pitchesfootball pitches would fit
0.8 mi eastfrom the centre
Directionsto the nearest entrance
Woodlands Park Play Space
Play space
0.6 ha (1 acres)0.2 km of path
0.7 mi westfrom the centre
Directionsto the nearest entrance
Close to home
9 in 10 Ivybridge 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 (86%)Further (14%)
Ivybridge86%
Towns its size85%
Devon towns84%
All UK towns83%
About 1,800 people live further than that. Playing fields count, so a park within reach isn’t always one with paths or trees; 18 playgrounds are mapped in and around the town, about one for every 694 residents.
National Parks & National Landscapes
National Parks and National Landscapes around Ivybridge
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 Park
Dartmoor
At the edge north-west956 km²since 195131% of the land within 5 km
Official site38% of the land within 5 km of Ivybridge is National Park or National Landscape, more than 87% of UK towns. Dartmoor National Park covers 956 km² and has been a National Park since 1951.
Footpaths & waymarked walks
2 waymarked walks pass through or near Ivybridge
53 km of footpaths, bridleways and rights of way are mapped in Ivybridge and the kilometre around it, 3.4 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
Erme-Plym Trail4.0 km
Two Moors Way3.2 km
2 regional routes pass through, including the Erme-Plym Trail and Two Moors 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 Ivybridge: 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) | 8.5 | 10.0 | 11.7 | 13.7 | 15.4 | 16.4 | 16.0 | 14.5 | 12.5 | 10.6 | 8.9 | 8.0 |
| High (°C) | 9 | 9 | 11 | 13 | 16 | 19 | 21 | 20 | 18 | 15 | 11 | 9 |
| Rain (mm) | 157 | 119 | 100 | 86 | 75 | 86 | 89 | 103 | 96 | 146 | 157 | 165 |
May is the driest month (75 mm) and July the warmest (highs of 21 °C). Winter days are short, about 8 hours of daylight in December, and 165 mm of rain falls in December, the wettest month. Frost comes on about 28 nights a year. The climate in Ivybridge →
Things to do
18 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
Ivybridge is inland. These are the nearest named beaches, measured from the edge of the town.
Pamflete Beach4.7 mi from Ivybridge’s edge
DirectionsMeadowsfoot Beach5.2 mi from Ivybridge’s edge
DirectionsMothecombe Beach5.3 mi from Ivybridge’s edge
DirectionsWadham Beach6.0 mi from Ivybridge’s edge
DirectionsSandy Cove6.4 mi from Ivybridge’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
Hills and peaks 1
Western Beacon0.7 mi from town
DirectionsPlaygrounds 18
Plus 18 playgrounds without a name on the map.
Dog parks 1
Plus 1 dog park without a name on the map.
Campsites 1
Harford Camp0.9 mi from town
DirectionsNext door
The outdoors in nearby towns
The nearest towns of 1,000+ within 12 miles. Tap a town for its outdoors page.
ModburyYealmptonSouth BrentSherfordLoddiswellWemburyIvybridge
ABCDOutdoors Grade
| Town | Outdoors | Green space, ha per 1,000 | Near a park | Protected within 5 km |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ivybridge | B+ | 1.8 | 86% | 38% |
| Modbury 3.2 mi | C− | 1.7 | 39% | 41% |
| Yealmpton 4.7 mi | B+ | 1.8 | 87% | 50% |
| South Brent 4.7 mi | C | 1.5 | 79% | 64% |
| Sherford 6.0 mi | A− | 3.2 | 100% | 28% |
| Loddiswell 7.1 mi | B+ | 2.1 | 100% | 53% |
| Wembury 8.0 mi | A− | 2.4 | 53% | 41% |
Wembury, 8 miles away, grades A−, the best next door: 53% of its residents live within 400 m of a park.
Questions about the outdoors in Ivybridge
What is the biggest park in Ivybridge?
Filham Park, 9.9 ha (24 acres), with 2.8 km of path, just outside the built-up area. Victoria Park (1.5 ha) is second. 4 named parks, gardens and playing fields are in the town or within 400 m of it.
Is Ivybridge near a National Park?
It covers 956 km² and has been a National Park since 1951.
What are the best walks near Ivybridge?
2 waymarked walking routes pass within 2 km of the town, including the Erme-Plym Trail and Two Moors Way. Filham Park alone has 2.8 km of path.
What is the nearest beach to Ivybridge?
Pamflete Beach, 4.7 mi from the edge of the town, then Meadowsfoot Beach (5.2 mi). Ivybridge itself is inland.
How many people in Ivybridge live near a park?
86% 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 Ivybridge?
May to September: the longest days, the warmest afternoons and the least rain of the year, from the Met Office 1991–2020 averages.
Is Ivybridge good for walking?
For paths, yes: 3.4 km of footpath and right of way per square kilometre, more than 68% of UK towns. For park space per person it beats 38% (1.8 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 Ivybridge’s overall grade.
Sources
Where Ivybridge’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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