Kingsbridge’s biggest
Belle Hill Playing Fields
Playing field · 200 m outside town
2.6 ha (6 acres)
4 pitchesfootball pitches would fit
0.7 mi north-eastfrom the centre
Directionsto the nearest entrance
Photo: Stephen McKay · CC BY-SA 2.0B+Outdoors Grade
Outdoors in Kingsbridge · parks, paths & countryside
67% of the land within 5 km of Kingsbridge is National Park or National Landscape
The South Devon National Landscape reaches the edge of Kingsbridge. A park or playing field is within a 5-minute walk for 91% of residents. Footpaths add up to 21 km in the town and the kilometre around it, 1.6 for every square kilometre. Kingsbridge grades B+ for the outdoors: #15 of 47 in Devon. A character grade: it isn’t part of the overall grade.
Green space
1.5 ha
per 1,000 residents
Typical UK town 2.1
Near a park
91%
of residents within 400 m
Typical UK town 83%
Footpaths
21 km
1.6 km per km², town + 1 km
Typical UK town 3.0 per km²
Protected landscape
67%
of the land within 5 km
Nearest: South Devon National Landscape
The sea
5%
of the area within 5 km
Character
What kind of outdoors town is Kingsbridge?
Read from the data: what stands out first, good and bad.
Protected countryside67% of the land within 5 km is South Devon National Landscape.Few mapped footpaths1.6 km of path per km²; the typical UK town has 3.0.
Kingsbridge’s strongest suit is protected countryside on the doorstep. Where it falls short is footpaths.
Outdoors grade
Kingsbridge grades B+ for the outdoors
Each chart is every UK town of 1,000 or more on one measure: the green bar is Kingsbridge, 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 73% of UK towns#15 of 47 in Devon · 16th of 60 UK towns its size
Public green space1.5 haper 1,000 residents: parks, gardens, playing fields, play spaces
26out of
100
100
A park within a walk91%of residents within 400 m (a 5-minute walk)
70out of
100
100
National Park or National Landscape67%of the land within 5 km
96out of
100
100
Footpaths1.6 kmper km², the town and 1 km around it
20out of
100
100
The sea5%of the area within 5 km
84out 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
Kingsbridge is 16th of 60 UK towns its size for the outdoors
The 60 UK towns and cities of 5,500 to 5,900 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
Kingsbridge1.6
Towns its size2.5
Devon towns1.8
All UK towns3.0
Green space, ha per 1,000 residents
Kingsbridge1.5
Towns its size2.0
Devon towns1.9
All UK towns2.1
Residents within 400 m of a park
Kingsbridge91%
Towns its size81%
Devon towns84%
All UK towns83%
Against towns its size, Kingsbridge stands out most for homes near a park: only 17 of the other 59 have more. It falls furthest behind on path per km², where 47 of the others do better.
Show as a table
| Town | Outdoors | Green space | Near a park | Path per km² | Protected | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Blackfield and Langley Hampshire | A+ | 28.1 | 95% | 4.2 | 48% |
| 2 | Ventnor Isle of Wight | A+ | 4.5 | 61% | 3.7 | 25% |
| 3 | Saltburn-by-the-Sea North Yorkshire | A | 4.7 | 92% | 2.5 | 0% |
| 4 | Deepcar South Yorkshire | A | 1.8 | 100% | 6.4 | 21% |
| 5 | Wareham Dorset | A | 1.9 | 83% | 3.4 | 56% |
| 6 | Amble Northumberland | A | 2 | 100% | 2.2 | 5% |
| 7 | Haworth West Yorkshire | A | 4.1 | 100% | 4.3 | 0% |
| 8 | Millom Cumbria | A | 2 | 82% | 3.2 | 13% |
| 9 | Carnforth Lancashire | A− | 1.2 | 89% | 3 | 39% |
| 10 | Nailsworth Gloucestershire | A− | 1.3 | 86% | 5.9 | 88% |
| 11 | Barnard Castle County Durham | A− | 2.2 | 100% | 3.4 | 1% |
| 12 | East Horsley Surrey | A− | 3.5 | 55% | 4.5 | 33% |
| 13 | Steyning West Sussex | A− | 1.6 | 86% | 3.7 | 58% |
| 14 | Blaenavon Gwent | A− | 1.8 | 100% | 2.3 | 39% |
| 15 | Henfield West Sussex | A− | 3.8 | 51% | 4.4 | 17% |
| 16 | Kingsbridge Devon | B+ | 1.5 | 91% | 1.6 | 67% |
| 17 | Aston Clinton Buckinghamshire | B+ | 3.1 | 61% | 3.8 | 29% |
| 18 | Marchwood Hampshire | B+ | 2 | 87% | 1.3 | 38% |
| 19 | Cottam Lancashire | B+ | 6.4 | 92% | 2.8 | 0% |
| 20 | Creswell Derbyshire | B+ | 2.7 | 100% | 3.2 | 0% |
| 21 | Moor Park Hertfordshire | B+ | 4.5 | 46% | 4.5 | 1% |
| 22 | Thrybergh and Dalton South Yorkshire | B+ | 2.6 | 95% | 4 | 0% |
| 23 | Willington County Durham | B+ | 4.7 | 95% | 2.8 | 0% |
| 24 | Garstang Lancashire | B | 2.4 | 89% | 2.3 | 15% |
| 25 | East Tilbury Essex | B | 2.3 | 92% | 2 | 0% |
| 26 | Shipston-on-Stour Warwickshire | B | 2.3 | 94% | 1.6 | 20% |
| 27 | Brixworth Northamptonshire | B | 3.8 | 94% | 2.3 | 0% |
| 28 | Hemsby Norfolk | B | 2.5 | 51% | 1.4 | 22% |
| 29 | Bidford-on-Avon Warwickshire | B | 3.4 | 100% | 1.9 | 0% |
| 30 | Cheddar Somerset | B− | 2.3 | 41% | 3 | 56% |
| 31 | Haddenham Buckinghamshire | B− | 3.1 | 86% | 2.7 | 0% |
| 32 | Hullbridge Essex | C+ | 5.7 | 59% | 3 | 0% |
| 33 | Aylesham Kent | C+ | 0.3 | 76% | 3.4 | 33% |
| 34 | Broseley Shropshire | C+ | 1.2 | 74% | 3.4 | 8% |
| 35 | Quorndon Leicestershire | C+ | 2.7 | 81% | 2.5 | 0% |
| 36 | Rainford Merseyside | C+ | 2.3 | 100% | 1.4 | 0% |
| 37 | Crawley Down West Sussex | C+ | 1.2 | 80% | 2.2 | 40% |
| 38 | Pontyclun Mid Glamorgan | C | 2.4 | 79% | 2.6 | 0% |
| 39 | Ruthin Clwyd | C | 2.7 | 51% | 1.5 | 31% |
| 40 | Egremont Cumbria | C | 1.1 | 63% | 1.8 | 11% |
| 41 | Wadebridge Cornwall | C | 1.8 | 74% | 1.8 | 17% |
| 42 | Bracebridge Heath Lincolnshire | C | 1.1 | 81% | 3.7 | 0% |
| 43 | Four Marks Hampshire | C | 0.9 | 46% | 3 | 31% |
| 44 | Coningsby and Tattershall Lincolnshire | C | 2.7 | 79% | 1.9 | 0% |
| 45 | Durrington Wiltshire | C | 1.1 | 90% | 2.7 | 0% |
| 46 | Undy and Magor Gwent | C | 0.9 | 86% | 1.4 | 0% |
| 47 | Red Lodge Suffolk | C | 1.5 | 100% | 1.5 | 0% |
| 48 | Ramsey Cambridgeshire | C | 2.5 | 72% | 2.3 | 0% |
| 49 | Pembury Kent | C− | 1.1 | 45% | 2 | 58% |
| 50 | Abertridwr and Senghenydd Gwent | C− | 1.8 | 87% | 1 | 0% |
| 51 | Purfleet-on-Thames Essex | C− | 0.9 | 64% | 1.9 | 0% |
| 52 | Cuddington Cheshire | C− | 1.5 | 66% | 2.6 | 0% |
| 53 | Takeley and Little Canfield Essex | D | 1 | 45% | 3.5 | 0% |
| 54 | Withernsea East Riding of Yorkshire | D | 0.9 | 60% | 1.1 | 0% |
| 55 | Pontardawe West Glamorgan | D | 2.3 | 60% | 0.8 | 0% |
| 56 | Brigg Lincolnshire | D | 1.7 | 65% | 1.4 | 0% |
| 57 | Ruskington Lincolnshire | D | 1.3 | 70% | 1.7 | 0% |
| 58 | Bulkington Warwickshire | D | 0.9 | 76% | 1.5 | 0% |
| 59 | Sawtry Cambridgeshire | D | 1.3 | 40% | 2.2 | 0% |
| 60 | Kirton Lincolnshire | D− | 0.6 | 58% | 0.5 | 0% |
The map
Parks, footpaths & countryside
Tap a number to zoom to a park. Tap a layer to hide it. The dashed line is Kingsbridge’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 Kingsbridge
The biggest is Belle Hill Playing Fields, 2.6 ha (6 acres). Directions go to the park’s nearest public entrance where Ordnance Survey maps one.
All 4 named parks by size: 3 ha (8 acres)
Parks & gardens 0.7 haPlaying fields 2.6 ha
The two biggest, Belle Hill Playing Fields and Duncombe Park, are 96% of the named green space. 3 of the 4 are under 2 ha: small gardens, play spaces and pitches.
Duncombe Park
Park or garden
0.6 ha (1 acres)0.3 km of path
Centralin the middle of Kingsbridge
Directionsto the nearest entrance
Brittons Field
Park or garden
0.1 ha (0 acres)
0.8 mi southfrom the centre
Directionsto the nearest entrance
Cattle Market Garden
Park or garden
0.0 ha (0 acres)
Centralin the middle of Kingsbridge
Directionsto the nearest entrance
Close to home
9 in 10 Kingsbridge 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 (91%)Further (9%)
Kingsbridge91%
Towns its size81%
Devon towns84%
All UK towns83%
About 500 people live further than that. Playing fields count, so a park within reach isn’t always one with paths or trees; 8 playgrounds are mapped in and around the town, about one for every 710 residents.
National Parks & National Landscapes
National Parks and National Landscapes around Kingsbridge
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
South Devon
At the edge south-west340 km²since 196067% of the land within 5 km
Official site67% of the land within 5 km of Kingsbridge is National Park or National Landscape, more than 95% of UK towns. Dartmoor National Park covers 956 km² and has been a National Park since 1951.
Footpaths & waymarked walks
Footpaths in and around Kingsbridge
21 km of footpaths, bridleways and rights of way are mapped in Kingsbridge and the kilometre around it, 1.6 km for every square kilometre (the typical UK town has 3.0).
No named walking route is mapped within 2 km of Kingsbridge; 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 Kingsbridge: 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 | 10 | 11 | 13 | 16 | 19 | 21 | 21 | 19 | 16 | 12 | 10 |
| Rain (mm) | 143 | 92 | 81 | 72 | 58 | 63 | 69 | 79 | 71 | 113 | 123 | 129 |
May is the driest month (58 mm) and July the warmest (highs of 21 °C). Winter days are short, about 8 hours of daylight in December, and 143 mm of rain falls in January, the wettest month. Frost comes on about 18 nights a year. The climate in Kingsbridge →
The coast
Kingsbridge is near the sea
5% of the area within 5 km of Kingsbridge is sea. 6 beaches are mapped within 5 km, 5 with a name.
Fisherman's Cove2.5 mi from town
DirectionsSmall's Cove2.7 mi from town
DirectionsMill Bay2.9 mi from town
DirectionsNorth Sands3.0 mi from town
DirectionsSunny Cove3.0 mi from town
DirectionsSea: the area outside the ONS coastline (mean high water). Bathing water quality is published by the Environment Agency (England) and Natural Resources Wales; check it before swimming.
Things to do
8 playgrounds
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.
Every named place, with directions
Campsites 1
Parkland Caravan and Camping Site0.7 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.
LoddiswellSalcombeChillingtonModburyDartmouthIvybridgeKingsbridge
ABCDOutdoors Grade
| Town | Outdoors | Green space, ha per 1,000 | Near a park | Protected within 5 km |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kingsbridge | B+ | 1.5 | 91% | 67% |
| Loddiswell 2.9 mi | B+ | 2.1 | 100% | 53% |
| Salcombe 3.4 mi | A+ | 2.0 | 100% | 65% |
| Chillington 3.7 mi | C+ | 0.6 | 78% | 55% |
| Modbury 6.6 mi | C− | 1.7 | 39% | 41% |
| Dartmouth 9.3 mi | B+ | 2.1 | 71% | 45% |
| Ivybridge 9.7 mi | B+ | 1.8 | 86% | 38% |
Salcombe, 3.4 miles away, grades A+, the best next door: every resident lives within 400 m of a park.
Questions about the outdoors in Kingsbridge
What is the biggest park in Kingsbridge?
Belle Hill Playing Fields, 2.6 ha (6 acres), just outside the built-up area. Duncombe Park (0.6 ha) is second. 4 named parks, gardens and playing fields are in the town or within 400 m of it.
Is Kingsbridge near a National Park?
Yes. Dartmoor National Park begins 8.2 mi north-west 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 South Devon National Landscape, at the edge of the town.
How many people in Kingsbridge live near a park?
91% 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 Kingsbridge?
May to September: the longest days, the warmest afternoons and the least rain of the year, from the Met Office 1991–2020 averages.
Is Kingsbridge good for walking?
Paths are thinner than most towns: 1.6 km of footpath and right of way per square kilometre, more than 20% of UK towns. For park space per person it beats 26% (1.5 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 Kingsbridge’s overall grade.
Sources
Where Kingsbridge’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.