Photo: Totnesmartin · Public domain76% of Kingskerswell’s residents live within a 5-minute walk of a park
Parks and playing fields in Kingskerswell add up to 3.5 ha for every 1,000 residents; the typical UK town has 2.1. Footpaths add up to 14 km in the town and the kilometre around it, 1.2 for every square kilometre. The sea makes up 7% of the area within 5 km. Kingskerswell grades C+ for the outdoors: #32 of 47 in Devon. A character grade: it isn’t part of the overall grade.
What kind of outdoors town is Kingskerswell?
Read from the data: what stands out first, good and bad.
Kingskerswell’s strongest suit is two protected landscapes close by, followed by plenty of park space. Where it falls short is footpaths.
Kingskerswell grades C+ for the outdoors
Each chart is every UK town of 1,000 or more on one measure: the green bar is Kingskerswell, the dashed line the typical town. The number is the share of towns it beats; the five are averaged and the average ranked again.
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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.
Kingskerswell is 27th of 60 UK towns its size for the outdoors
The 60 UK towns and cities of 3,600 to 3,900 people with an Outdoors Grade. Hover a dot for its figures; tap one for its page.
Against towns its size, Kingskerswell stands out most for park space per resident: only 7 of the other 59 have more. It falls furthest behind on path per km², where 53 of the others do better.
Show as a table
| Town | Outdoors | Green space | Near a park | Path per km² | Protected | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Trimley St Mary Suffolk | A+ | 2.3 | 100% | 3.8 | 34% |
| 2 | Marsden West Yorkshire | A | 1.9 | 100% | 6.5 | 33% |
| 3 | Cuckfield West Sussex | A | 6.7 | 70% | 4.9 | 49% |
| 4 | Bethesda Gwynedd | A | 2.5 | 90% | 3.2 | 49% |
| 5 | Mulbarton Norfolk | A− | 7 | 100% | 3 | 0% |
| 6 | Kingswood Surrey | A− | 4.6 | 27% | 6.3 | 17% |
| 7 | Esh Winning County Durham | A− | 3.2 | 100% | 3.5 | 0% |
| 8 | Old Basing Hampshire | A− | 13.6 | 92% | 3.1 | 0% |
| 9 | Barnt Green Worcestershire | B+ | 37.8 | 81% | 3.7 | 0% |
| 10 | Colden Common Hampshire | B+ | 2.7 | 82% | 2.8 | 35% |
| 11 | Stanstead Abbotts Hertfordshire | B+ | 2.5 | 92% | 4.9 | 0% |
| 12 | Papworth Everard Cambridgeshire | B+ | 4.3 | 100% | 2.5 | 0% |
| 13 | Locking Somerset | B+ | 2.7 | 84% | 2.4 | 23% |
| 14 | Lyme Regis Dorset | B | 1.4 | 60% | 2.5 | 56% |
| 15 | Greasbrough South Yorkshire | B | 2.9 | 80% | 4.7 | 0% |
| 16 | Mayland Essex | B | 2.6 | 91% | 1.8 | 0% |
| 17 | Romanby North Yorkshire | B | 3.1 | 100% | 2.3 | 0% |
| 18 | Framlingham Suffolk | B | 3.7 | 73% | 4.2 | 0% |
| 19 | Mytholmroyd West Yorkshire | B | 1.8 | 88% | 5.8 | 0% |
| 20 | Whitwell Derbyshire | B− | 1.7 | 100% | 3 | 0% |
| 21 | Rhuddlan Clwyd | B− | 1.8 | 85% | 0.9 | 8% |
| 22 | Glanaman Dyfed | B− | 3.3 | 83% | 0.8 | 29% |
| 23 | Cholsey Oxfordshire | B− | 2.3 | 55% | 2.5 | 81% |
| 24 | Pulborough West Sussex | B− | 1.4 | 77% | 2.7 | 50% |
| 25 | Alford Lincolnshire | B− | 2.1 | 85% | 1.5 | 26% |
| 26 | Cardigan Dyfed | B− | 1.9 | 69% | 1.4 | 13% |
| 27 | Kingskerswell Devon | C+ | 3.5 | 76% | 1.2 | 0% |
| 28 | New Romney Kent | C+ | 2.5 | 79% | 1.6 | 0% |
| 29 | Oakworth West Yorkshire | C+ | 2.3 | 84% | 3.1 | 0% |
| 30 | Tutbury Staffordshire | C+ | 2.5 | 90% | 2.2 | 0% |
| 31 | Pewsey Wiltshire | C+ | 1 | 64% | 3 | 91% |
| 32 | Troedyrhiw and Pentrebach Mid Glamorgan | C+ | 2.5 | 84% | 1.5 | 0% |
| 33 | Norton Fitzwarren Somerset | C+ | 1.3 | 35% | 5.2 | 6% |
| 34 | Coggeshall Essex | C | 2.1 | 84% | 2.5 | 0% |
| 35 | Bransgore Hampshire | C | 1.9 | 71% | 1.2 | 49% |
| 36 | Cowbridge South Glamorgan | C | 1.2 | 86% | 3.1 | 0% |
| 37 | Bromyard Herefordshire | C | 0.9 | 100% | 2.1 | 0% |
| 38 | Glemsford Suffolk | C− | 1.1 | 84% | 3 | 0% |
| 39 | Desford Leicestershire | C− | 1.6 | 90% | 2 | 0% |
| 40 | Hawkhurst Kent | C− | 1.1 | 60% | 1.4 | 100% |
| 41 | Holton le Clay Lincolnshire | C− | 2 | 59% | 1.4 | 8% |
| 42 | Fulbourn Cambridgeshire | C− | 1.7 | 74% | 2.4 | 0% |
| 43 | West Parley Dorset | C− | 1.6 | 20% | 3.5 | 0% |
| 44 | Bloxham Oxfordshire | C− | 2.6 | 71% | 1.2 | 0% |
| 45 | Kempsey Worcestershire | D | 0.9 | 40% | 3.9 | 0% |
| 46 | Windlesham Surrey | D | 2 | 57% | 2.2 | 0% |
| 47 | Pen-pedair-heol Gwent | D | 0.9 | 80% | 2.3 | 0% |
| 48 | Puckeridge and Standon Hertfordshire | D | 0.9 | 59% | 3.2 | 0% |
| 49 | Langford Bedfordshire | D | 1.4 | 63% | 2.6 | 0% |
| 50 | Spilsby Lincolnshire | D | 0 | 0% | 2.2 | 23% |
| 51 | Wilsden West Yorkshire | D | 0.6 | 61% | 3 | 0% |
| 52 | St Columb Major Cornwall | D | 1 | 89% | 1 | 0% |
| 53 | Willaston (Cheshire East) Cheshire | D | 1 | 82% | 1.5 | 0% |
| 54 | Bilton East Riding of Yorkshire | D | 1.3 | 66% | 1.5 | 0% |
| 55 | Llanbradach Gwent | D− | 1.2 | 52% | 1.9 | 0% |
| 56 | Upwell and Outwell Norfolk | D− | 1.8 | 43% | 0.4 | 0% |
| 57 | Long Buckby Northamptonshire | D− | 0.6 | 52% | 1.9 | 0% |
| 58 | Penyffordd Clwyd | D− | 0.7 | 36% | 1.6 | 0% |
| 59 | Llanharry Mid Glamorgan | D− | 0.6 | 50% | 1.3 | 0% |
| 60 | Copmanthorpe North Yorkshire | D− | 0.7 | 38% | 1.4 | 0% |
Parks, footpaths & countryside
Tap a number to zoom to a park. Tap a layer to hide it. The dashed line is Kingskerswell’s built-up area.
How close Kingskerswell’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).
About 900 people live further than that. Playing fields count, so a park within reach isn’t always one with paths or trees; 19 playgrounds are mapped in and around the town, about one for every 198 residents.
Dartmoor and South Devon both start about 5 miles from Kingskerswell
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.
Protected landscape begins just outside the 5 km ring the Outdoors Grade measures, so Kingskerswell scores 0% on it even though Dartmoor National Park is 5.0 mi away. Dartmoor National Park covers 956 km² and has been a National Park since 1951.
2 waymarked walks pass through or near Kingskerswell
14 km of footpaths, bridleways and rights of way are mapped in Kingskerswell and the kilometre around it, 1.2 km for every square kilometre (the typical UK town has 3.0). Bars show each route’s kilometres within 2 km of the town.
2 regional routes pass through, including the John Musgrave Heritage Trail and Orange Way.
Waymarked walks are OpenStreetMap walking routes. Public rights of way are only as complete as the map in each area.
The best walking months in Kingskerswell: 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 | 15.5 | 16.4 | 16.0 | 14.5 | 12.5 | 10.6 | 8.9 | 8.0 |
| High (°C) | 9 | 9 | 11 | 14 | 17 | 19 | 21 | 21 | 19 | 15 | 12 | 10 |
| Rain (mm) | 125 | 91 | 84 | 73 | 62 | 66 | 59 | 77 | 71 | 124 | 123 | 124 |
July is the driest month (59 mm) and the warmest (highs of 21 °C). Winter days are short, about 8 hours of daylight in December, and 125 mm of rain falls in January, the wettest month. Frost comes on about 18 nights a year. The climate in Kingskerswell →
Kingskerswell is near the sea
7% of the area within 5 km of Kingskerswell is sea. 20 beaches are mapped within 5 km, 12 with a name.
Sea: 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.
19 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
Nature reserves 1
Picnic sites 1
Plus 1 picnic site without a name on the map.
Playgrounds 19
Plus 19 playgrounds without a name on the map.
The outdoors in nearby towns
The nearest towns of 1,000+ within 12 miles. Tap a town for its outdoors page.
| Town | Outdoors | Green space, ha per 1,000 | Near a park | Protected within 5 km |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kingskerswell | C+ | 3.5 | 76% | 0% |
| Abbotskerswell 1.6 mi | C− | 4.2 | 49% | 0% |
| Newton Abbot 2.4 mi | C+ | 2.6 | 62% | 6% |
| Ipplepen 2.8 mi | D− | 0.8 | 42% | 0% |
| Torquay 2.8 mi | B+ | 1.8 | 87% | 0% |
| Marldon 3.2 mi | A− | 4.1 | 70% | 3% |
| Kingsteignton 3.5 mi | B− | 1.9 | 95% | 0% |
Marldon, 3.2 miles away, grades A−, the best next door: 70% of its residents live within 400 m of a park.
Questions about the outdoors in Kingskerswell
Is Kingskerswell near a National Park?
Yes. Dartmoor National Park begins 5.0 mi north-west of the town’s edge. It covers 956 km² and has been a National Park since 1951.
What are the best walks near Kingskerswell?
2 waymarked walking routes pass within 2 km of the town, including the John Musgrave Heritage Trail and Orange Way.
How many people in Kingskerswell live near a park?
76% 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 Kingskerswell?
May to September: the longest days, the warmest afternoons and the least rain of the year, from the Met Office 1991–2020 averages.
Is Kingskerswell good for walking?
Paths are thinner than most towns: 1.2 km of footpath and right of way per square kilometre, more than 11% of UK towns. For park space per person it beats 76% (3.5 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 Kingskerswell’s overall grade.
Where Kingskerswell’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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