Landkey’s biggest
Millennium Green
Park or garden
3.6 ha (9 acres)0.8 km of path
10 minto walk all 0.8 km of path
5 pitchesfootball pitches would fit
Centralin the middle of Landkey
Directionsto the nearest entrance
Photo: Roger A Smith · CC BY-SA 2.0C+Outdoors Grade
Outdoors in Landkey · parks, paths & countryside
Almost everyone in Landkey lives within a 5-minute walk of a park
Exmoor National Park begins 6.0 mi from the village’s edge. 12 km of footpaths run through the village and the kilometre around it, 1.4 for every square kilometre. Parks and playing fields in Landkey add up to 2.5 ha for every 1,000 residents; the typical UK town has 2.1. Landkey grades C+ for the outdoors. A character grade: it isn’t part of the overall grade.
Green space
2.5 ha
per 1,000 residents
Typical UK town 2.1
Near a park
100%
of residents within 400 m
Typical UK town 83%
Footpaths
12 km
1.4 km per km², town + 1 km
Typical UK town 3.0 per km²
Protected landscape
0%
of the land within 5 km
Exmoor starts 6.0 mi out, past the 5 km
Character
What kind of outdoors village is Landkey?
Read from the data: what stands out first, good and bad.
A park on every doorstep100% of residents live within 400 m of a park or playing field.Countryside close byExmoor National Park starts 6.0 mi east.Few mapped footpaths1.4 km of path per km²; the typical UK town has 3.0.
Landkey’s strongest suit is parks close to every home, followed by Exmoor National Park close by. Where it falls short is footpaths.
Outdoors grade
Landkey grades C+ for the outdoors
Each chart is every UK town of 1,000 or more on one measure: the green bar is Landkey, 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 40% of UK towns32nd of 60 UK villages its size
Public green space2.5 haper 1,000 residents: parks, gardens, playing fields, play spaces
60out of
100
100
A park within a walk100%of residents within 400 m (a 5-minute walk)
89out of
100
100
National Park or National Landscape0%of the land within 5 km · Exmoor begins just past 5 km
31out of
100
100
Footpaths1.4 kmper km², the town and 1 km around it
14out of
100
100
The sea0%of the area within 5 km · Inland: 0.8% sea, under the 5% that counts
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.
Villages its size
Landkey is 32nd of 60 UK villages its size for the outdoors
The 60 UK towns and cities of 1,900 to 2,100 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
Landkey1.4
Villages its size2.0
Devon towns1.8
All UK towns3.0
Green space, ha per 1,000 residents
Landkey2.5
Villages its size2.3
Devon towns1.9
All UK towns2.1
Residents within 400 m of a park
Landkey100%
Villages its size79%
Devon towns84%
All UK towns83%
Against villages its size, Landkey stands out most for homes near a park: none of the other 59 has more. It falls furthest behind on path per km², where 43 of the others do better.
Show as a table
| Town | Outdoors | Green space | Near a park | Path per km² | Protected | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Meliden Clwyd | A+ | 4.2 | 100% | 4.2 | 21% |
| 2 | Vigo Village Kent | A+ | 33.3 | 100% | 2.9 | 44% |
| 3 | Llanfoist Gwent | A+ | 10.7 | 86% | 4.2 | 57% |
| 4 | Ditchingham Norfolk | A+ | 17.2 | 100% | 2.9 | 13% |
| 5 | Fowey Cornwall | A | 3.2 | 91% | 2.1 | 32% |
| 6 | Lower Kingswood Surrey | A | 4.7 | 75% | 6.6 | 22% |
| 7 | Bournmoor County Durham | A | 11 | 100% | 4 | 0% |
| 8 | Chiseldon Wiltshire | A | 1.8 | 100% | 3.4 | 69% |
| 9 | Upper Rissington Gloucestershire | A | 6.2 | 100% | 1.2 | 100% |
| 10 | Churchill Somerset | A | 2.8 | 84% | 3.9 | 39% |
| 11 | Wrington Somerset | A | 3.2 | 100% | 2.6 | 20% |
| 12 | Machen Gwent | A | 3.5 | 100% | 4.4 | 0% |
| 13 | Y Bala Gwynedd | A | 4 | 100% | 1.4 | 67% |
| 14 | Great Haywood Staffordshire | A− | 7.1 | 27% | 4.1 | 29% |
| 15 | Little Haywood Staffordshire | A− | 1.3 | 100% | 3.3 | 34% |
| 16 | Stowupland Suffolk | A− | 5.3 | 83% | 4.6 | 0% |
| 17 | Yealmpton Devon | B+ | 1.8 | 87% | 1.8 | 50% |
| 18 | Pontesbury Shropshire | B+ | 3.1 | 63% | 3.8 | 28% |
| 19 | Brompton North Yorkshire | B+ | 4.7 | 100% | 2.4 | 0% |
| 20 | Valley Gwynedd | B+ | 5 | 33% | 1.2 | 37% |
| 21 | Martlesham Suffolk | B | 2.1 | 69% | 3.8 | 24% |
| 22 | Sandford Dorset | B | 0.3 | 43% | 4.7 | 41% |
| 23 | Welsh Bicknor Gloucestershire | B | 2.7 | 31% | 3.3 | 45% |
| 24 | Wheaton Aston Staffordshire | B− | 2.6 | 100% | 2 | 0% |
| 25 | Felbridge Surrey | B− | 2 | 80% | 2.4 | 25% |
| 26 | Trelewis Mid Glamorgan | B− | 2.6 | 100% | 1.9 | 0% |
| 27 | Rothbury Northumberland | B− | 1 | 76% | 3.8 | 21% |
| 28 | Barmouth Gwynedd | B− | 0.5 | 60% | 2 | 53% |
| 29 | Northleach Gloucestershire | B− | 1.5 | 68% | 2.6 | 100% |
| 30 | Audley Staffordshire | C+ | 3.4 | 83% | 2.3 | 0% |
| 31 | Axbridge Somerset | C+ | 1.3 | 72% | 2.8 | 51% |
| 32 | Landkey Devon | C+ | 2.5 | 100% | 1.4 | 0% |
| 33 | Langtoft Lincolnshire | C+ | 2.8 | 100% | 1 | 0% |
| 34 | Whitchurch Somerset | C+ | 2.3 | 47% | 4.4 | 0% |
| 35 | Wychbold Worcestershire | C | 2.1 | 100% | 1.4 | 0% |
| 36 | Clenchwarton Norfolk | C | 2.2 | 87% | 0.3 | 3% |
| 37 | West Haddon Northamptonshire | C | 2.3 | 100% | 0.8 | 0% |
| 38 | Goodwick Dyfed | C | 0.2 | 47% | 1.9 | 25% |
| 39 | Marcham Oxfordshire | C | 1.2 | 100% | 2.2 | 0% |
| 40 | Hightown Merseyside | C | 1.7 | 44% | 2.5 | 0% |
| 41 | Longrock Cornwall | C | 0.7 | 60% | 1.2 | 26% |
| 42 | Keyingham East Riding of Yorkshire | C− | 1.7 | 100% | 0.5 | 0% |
| 43 | Cadnam and Bartley Hampshire | C− | 0.9 | 30% | 2.4 | 79% |
| 44 | Pool-in-Wharfedale West Yorkshire | C− | 2.1 | 44% | 1.6 | 7% |
| 45 | Ashwell Hertfordshire | C− | 3 | 52% | 1.8 | 0% |
| 46 | Stoke Golding Leicestershire | C− | 1.4 | 85% | 1.8 | 0% |
| 47 | Hibaldstow Lincolnshire | C− | 1.7 | 89% | 0.7 | 0% |
| 48 | Bishop Burton and Cherry Burton East Riding of Yorkshire | C− | 2.5 | 78% | 0.3 | 0% |
| 49 | Briston Norfolk | D | 2.7 | 69% | 1.2 | 0% |
| 50 | Broughton Northamptonshire | D | 2.7 | 70% | 0.9 | 0% |
| 51 | Baschurch Shropshire | D | 2.3 | 72% | 1.1 | 0% |
| 52 | Cookley Worcestershire | D | 2.3 | 52% | 1.8 | 0% |
| 53 | Morda Shropshire | D | 0.7 | 84% | 1.9 | 0% |
| 54 | Curry Rivel Somerset | D | 1.9 | 33% | 2.1 | 0% |
| 55 | Greylees Lincolnshire | D | 1.5 | 79% | 1.1 | 0% |
| 56 | Westwoodside Lincolnshire | D− | 1.2 | 33% | 1.6 | 0% |
| 57 | Tollerton Nottinghamshire | D− | 0.6 | 19% | 1.9 | 0% |
| 58 | Rossett Clwyd | D− | 0.3 | 55% | 1.5 | 0% |
| 59 | Wilberfoss East Riding of Yorkshire | D− | 0.7 | 69% | 0.3 | 0% |
| 60 | Bottisham Cambridgeshire | D− | 0 | 0% | 1.3 | 0% |
The map
Parks, footpaths & countryside
Tap a number to zoom to a park. Tap a layer to hide it. The dashed line is Landkey’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 Landkey
The biggest is Millennium Green, 3.6 ha (9 acres). Directions go to the park’s nearest public entrance where Ordnance Survey maps one.
Close to home
How close Landkey’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 (100%)Further (0%)
Landkey100%
Villages its size79%
Devon towns84%
All UK towns83%
Playing fields count, so a park within reach isn’t always one with paths or trees; 9 playgrounds are mapped in and around the village, about one for every 222 residents.
National Parks & National Landscapes
Exmoor National Park is 6.0 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
Protected landscape begins just outside the 5 km ring the Outdoors Grade measures, so Landkey scores 0% on it even though Exmoor National Park is 6.0 mi away. Exmoor National Park covers 693 km² and has been a National Park since 1954.
Footpaths & waymarked walks
2 waymarked walks pass through or near Landkey
12 km of footpaths, bridleways and rights of way are mapped in Landkey and the kilometre around it, 1.4 km for every square kilometre (the typical UK town has 3.0). Bars show each route’s kilometres within 2 km of the village.
Regional
Tarka Trail6.8 km
Macmillan Way West6.8 km
2 regional routes pass through, including the Tarka Trail and Macmillan Way West.
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 Landkey: May to September
The village’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 | 13.8 | 15.5 | 16.5 | 16.1 | 14.5 | 12.5 | 10.6 | 8.8 | 7.9 |
| High (°C) | 8 | 9 | 11 | 14 | 17 | 19 | 21 | 21 | 19 | 15 | 12 | 9 |
| Rain (mm) | 113 | 86 | 73 | 62 | 62 | 74 | 81 | 96 | 83 | 123 | 126 | 128 |
April is the driest month (62 mm) and July the warmest (highs of 21 °C). Winter days are short, about 8 hours of daylight in December, and 128 mm of rain falls in December, the wettest month. Frost comes on about 30 nights a year. The climate in Landkey →
Things to do
9 playgrounds and the nearest beaches
Mapped within 2 km of the village in OpenStreetMap, against the typical UK village its size per resident. Named places are listed with directions; unnamed ones are only counted.
The nearest beaches
Landkey is inland. These are the nearest named beaches, measured from the edge of the village.
Basett's Ridge4.9 mi from Landkey’s edge
DirectionsInstow Beach7.1 mi from Landkey’s edge
DirectionsWest Appledore7.6 mi from Landkey’s edge
DirectionsPulley Ridge8.6 mi from Landkey’s edge
DirectionsNortham Beach9.0 mi from Landkey’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.
Picnic sites 1
Plus 1 picnic site without a name on the map.
Playgrounds 9
Plus 9 playgrounds without a name on the map.
Campsites 1
Plus 1 campsite 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.
BarnstapleBickingtonFremingtonChivenor and WraftonBrauntonSouth MoltonLandkey
ABCDOutdoors Grade
| Town | Outdoors | Green space, ha per 1,000 | Near a park | Protected within 5 km |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Landkey | C+ | 2.5 | 100% | 0% |
| Barnstaple 2.5 mi | C | 1.6 | 92% | 0% |
| Bickington 4.1 mi | B | 1.4 | 100% | 0% |
| Fremington 5.7 mi | B+ | 1.4 | 88% | 10% |
| Chivenor and Wrafton 6.4 mi | C− | 0.6 | 0% | 17% |
| Braunton 7.7 mi | B | 1.6 | 78% | 24% |
| South Molton 7.9 mi | C+ | 2.2 | 96% | 0% |
Fremington, 5.7 miles away, grades B+, the best next door: 88% of its residents live within 400 m of a park.
Questions about the outdoors in Landkey
What is the biggest park in Landkey?
Millennium Green, 3.6 ha (9 acres), with 0.8 km of path. 1 named park, garden or playing field is in the village or within 400 m of it.
Is Landkey near a National Park?
Yes. Exmoor National Park begins 6.0 mi east of the village’s edge. It covers 693 km² and has been a National Park since 1954.
What are the best walks near Landkey?
2 waymarked walking routes pass within 2 km of the village, including the Tarka Trail and Macmillan Way West.
What is the nearest beach to Landkey?
Basett's Ridge, 4.9 mi from the edge of the village, then Instow Beach (7.1 mi). Landkey itself is inland.
How many people in Landkey live near a park?
100% 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 Landkey?
May to September: the longest days, the warmest afternoons and the least rain of the year, from the Met Office 1991–2020 averages.
Is Landkey good for walking?
Paths are thinner than most towns: 1.4 km of footpath and right of way per square kilometre, more than 14% of UK towns. For park space per person it beats 60% (2.5 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 Landkey’s overall grade.
Sources
Where Landkey’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.