Morchard Bishop’s biggest
Morchard Bishop Playing Field
Playing field
2.7 ha (7 acres)
4 pitchesfootball pitches would fit
Centralin the middle of Morchard Bishop
Directionsto the nearest entrance
Photo: Dr Duncan Pepper · CC BY-SA 2.0BOutdoors Grade
Outdoors in Morchard Bishop · parks, paths & countryside
Almost everyone in Morchard Bishop lives within a 5-minute walk of a park
Parks and playing fields in Morchard Bishop add up to 2.6 ha for every 1,000 residents; the typical UK town has 2.1. 21 km of footpaths run through the village and the kilometre around it, 2.8 for every square kilometre. Morchard Bishop grades B for the outdoors. A character grade: it isn’t part of the overall grade.
Green space
2.6 ha
per 1,000 residents
Typical UK town 2.1
Near a park
100%
of residents within 400 m
Typical UK town 83%
Footpaths
21 km
2.8 km per km², town + 1 km
Typical UK town 3.0 per km²
Protected landscape
0%
of the land within 5 km
Nearest: Dartmoor National Park
Outdoors grade
Morchard Bishop grades B for the outdoors
Each chart is every UK town of 1,000 or more on one measure: the green bar is Morchard Bishop, 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 64% of UK towns23rd of 60 UK villages its size
Public green space2.6 haper 1,000 residents: parks, gardens, playing fields, play spaces
62out 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 · None within 5 km
31out of
100
100
Footpaths2.8 kmper km², the town and 1 km around it
54out 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.
Villages its size
Morchard Bishop is 23rd of 60 UK villages its size for the outdoors
The 60 UK towns and cities of 1,000 to 1,100 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
Morchard Bishop2.8
Villages its size2.0
Devon towns1.8
All UK towns3.0
Green space, ha per 1,000 residents
Morchard Bishop2.6
Villages its size2.3
Devon towns1.9
All UK towns2.1
Residents within 400 m of a park
Morchard Bishop100%
Villages its size74%
Devon towns84%
All UK towns83%
Against villages its size, Morchard Bishop stands out most for path per km²: only 21 of the other 59 have more.
Show as a table
| Town | Outdoors | Green space | Near a park | Path per km² | Protected | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Grove Dorset | A+ | 6 | 100% | 8.7 | 0% |
| 2 | Lizard Cornwall | A+ | 2.3 | 100% | 3.3 | 30% |
| 3 | Uplyme Devon | A+ | 2.4 | 100% | 3 | 61% |
| 4 | Winchelsea Beach East Sussex | A+ | 4.9 | 100% | 1.9 | 45% |
| 5 | East Challow Oxfordshire | A+ | 4.9 | 100% | 3.6 | 44% |
| 6 | Abingworth West Sussex | A | 6.1 | 100% | 2.7 | 27% |
| 7 | Newnham Gloucestershire | A | 4.2 | 100% | 3.2 | 0% |
| 8 | Bellingham Northumberland | A | 8.6 | 100% | 1.8 | 57% |
| 9 | Aberaeron Dyfed | A | 6.1 | 100% | 2.1 | 0% |
| 10 | Shorne Kent | A | 28.3 | 23% | 3.4 | 24% |
| 11 | Silverdale Lancashire | A | 2.3 | 46% | 3.9 | 76% |
| 12 | Misterton Somerset | A | 2.5 | 100% | 2.9 | 35% |
| 13 | Godshill Isle of Wight | A | 2.1 | 100% | 2.7 | 53% |
| 14 | Chedgrave Norfolk | A− | 3 | 100% | 1.7 | 26% |
| 15 | Ardleigh Essex | A− | 3.2 | 100% | 1.5 | 21% |
| 16 | Hyde Heath Buckinghamshire | B+ | 5.4 | 68% | 2.1 | 81% |
| 17 | Llangynidr Powys | B+ | 2.4 | 65% | 3.2 | 100% |
| 18 | Crowlas Cornwall | B+ | 3.3 | 73% | 1.1 | 23% |
| 19 | Loddiswell Devon | B+ | 2.1 | 100% | 1.3 | 53% |
| 20 | Thornwood Common Essex | B+ | 6.1 | 100% | 1.9 | 0% |
| 21 | Clyst Honiton Devon | B+ | 8 | 83% | 3.1 | 0% |
| 22 | Avening Gloucestershire | B | 0.9 | 100% | 2.3 | 97% |
| 23 | Morchard Bishop Devon | B | 2.6 | 100% | 2.8 | 0% |
| 24 | Thornton Leicestershire | B | 13.7 | 50% | 4.9 | 0% |
| 25 | Flamstead Hertfordshire | B | 2.1 | 82% | 2.7 | 33% |
| 26 | Llanymynech Shropshire | B | 2 | 100% | 2.9 | 0% |
| 27 | Minley Hampshire | B− | 5.7 | 0% | 6.5 | 0% |
| 28 | High Shincliffe County Durham | B− | 0.5 | 100% | 4.6 | 0% |
| 29 | King's Bromley Staffordshire | B− | 3.4 | 100% | 1.2 | 0% |
| 30 | Derry Hill and Studley Wiltshire | C+ | 1.2 | 100% | 1.7 | 1% |
| 31 | St Newlyn East Cornwall | C+ | 3 | 100% | 0.7 | 0% |
| 32 | Little Waltham Essex | C+ | 2.3 | 63% | 3.8 | 0% |
| 33 | Simister Greater Manchester | C | 16.6 | 0% | 2.7 | 0% |
| 34 | Warmington Northamptonshire | C | 1.6 | 100% | 2 | 0% |
| 35 | Little Melton Norfolk | C | 4.2 | 72% | 2 | 0% |
| 36 | Hilton Cambridgeshire | C | 6.8 | 70% | 1.8 | 0% |
| 37 | Huby (Hambleton) North Yorkshire | C | 2.4 | 75% | 1.5 | 2% |
| 38 | Upper Bucklebury Berkshire | C | 0.1 | 0% | 4 | 48% |
| 39 | Elswick Lancashire | C | 1.8 | 100% | 0.8 | 0% |
| 40 | Freethorpe Norfolk | C− | 2.3 | 26% | 0.7 | 61% |
| 41 | Ansley Warwickshire | C− | 1.8 | 64% | 2.8 | 0% |
| 42 | Ewyas Harold Herefordshire | C− | 2.1 | 55% | 2.8 | 0% |
| 43 | Hoylandswaine South Yorkshire | C− | 1.4 | 60% | 3.6 | 0% |
| 44 | Marchwiel Clwyd | C− | 1.1 | 100% | 1 | 0% |
| 45 | Castle Hedingham Essex | C− | 1.7 | 52% | 3.1 | 0% |
| 46 | Swarthmoor Cumbria | C− | 0.2 | 79% | 1.5 | 0% |
| 47 | Surfleet Lincolnshire | C− | 4.2 | 0% | 1.8 | 0% |
| 48 | Scole Norfolk | C− | 2.1 | 51% | 2.5 | 0% |
| 49 | New Quay Dyfed | D | 1.2 | 30% | 1.3 | 0% |
| 50 | Sutton St James Lincolnshire | D | 0.1 | 100% | 0.6 | 0% |
| 51 | Skidby East Riding of Yorkshire | D | 2.8 | 56% | 0.9 | 0% |
| 52 | Snitterfield Warwickshire | D | 2.4 | 63% | 0.8 | 0% |
| 53 | Northop Clwyd | D | 1.6 | 70% | 1.3 | 0% |
| 54 | Hevingham Norfolk | D | 1.8 | 0% | 2 | 0% |
| 55 | Waltham on the Wolds Leicestershire | D | 2 | 23% | 1.7 | 0% |
| 56 | Horsham St Faith Norfolk | D | 0.9 | 52% | 1.1 | 0% |
| 57 | Henham Essex | D | 0 | 0% | 3 | 0% |
| 58 | Methwold Norfolk | D− | 1.8 | 61% | 0.5 | 0% |
| 59 | Wainfleet St Mary Lincolnshire | D− | 0.1 | 0% | 1.5 | 0% |
| 60 | Ranby Nottinghamshire | D− | 0 | 0% | 0.8 | 0% |
The map
Parks, footpaths & countryside
Tap a number to zoom to a park. Tap a layer to hide it. The dashed line is Morchard Bishop’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 Morchard Bishop
The biggest is Morchard Bishop Playing Field, 2.7 ha (7 acres). Directions go to the park’s nearest public entrance where Ordnance Survey maps one.
The Green
Park or garden
0.0 ha (0 acres)
Centralin the middle of Morchard Bishop
Directionsto the nearest entrance
Close to home
How close Morchard Bishop’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%)
Morchard Bishop100%
Villages its size74%
Devon towns84%
All UK towns83%
Playing fields count, so a park within reach isn’t always one with paths or trees.
National Parks & National Landscapes
Dartmoor National Park is 8.4 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
Dartmoor National Park covers 956 km² and has been a National Park since 1951.
Footpaths & waymarked walks
1 waymarked walk passes through or near Morchard Bishop
21 km of footpaths, bridleways and rights of way are mapped in Morchard Bishop and the kilometre around it, 2.8 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
Two Moors Way6.2 km
The regional route here is the 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 Morchard Bishop: 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 | 13.7 | 15.5 | 16.5 | 16.1 | 14.5 | 12.5 | 10.6 | 8.8 | 8.0 |
| High (°C) | 8 | 9 | 11 | 13 | 16 | 19 | 21 | 21 | 18 | 15 | 11 | 9 |
| Rain (mm) | 91 | 87 | 71 | 61 | 61 | 67 | 75 | 76 | 73 | 107 | 110 | 121 |
April is the driest month (61 mm) and July the warmest (highs of 21 °C). Winter days are short, about 8 hours of daylight in December, and 121 mm of rain falls in December, the wettest month. Frost comes on about 32 nights a year. The climate in Morchard Bishop →
Things to do
2 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
Morchard Bishop is inland. These are the nearest named beaches, measured from the edge of the village.
Pirate Cove21 mi from Morchard Bishop’s edge
DirectionsExmouth Beach22 mi from Morchard Bishop’s edge
DirectionsRed Rock Beach22 mi from Morchard Bishop’s edge
DirectionsDawlish Town Beach22 mi from Morchard Bishop’s edge
DirectionsCoryton's Cove Beach22 mi from Morchard Bishop’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.
Playgrounds 2
Plus 2 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.
CopplestoneWitheridgeBowCreditonChulmleighNorth TawtonMorchard Bishop
ABCDOutdoors Grade
| Town | Outdoors | Green space, ha per 1,000 | Near a park | Protected within 5 km |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Morchard Bishop | B | 2.6 | 100% | 0% |
| Copplestone 3.0 mi | D | 1.1 | 88% | 0% |
| Witheridge 4.6 mi | D− | 0.5 | 36% | 0% |
| Bow 4.8 mi | C | 1.9 | 100% | 0% |
| Crediton 5.9 mi | C+ | 2.4 | 89% | 0% |
| Chulmleigh 6.7 mi | C+ | 3.5 | 100% | 0% |
| North Tawton 7.5 mi | B− | 2.9 | 100% | 0% |
Morchard Bishop grades higher for the outdoors than every neighbour in the table. None of the neighbours has a protected landscape within 5 km either.
Questions about the outdoors in Morchard Bishop
What is the biggest park in Morchard Bishop?
Morchard Bishop Playing Field, 2.7 ha (7 acres). The Green (0.0 ha) is second. 2 named parks, gardens and playing fields are in the village or within 400 m of it.
Is Morchard Bishop near a National Park?
Yes. Dartmoor National Park begins 8.4 mi south of the village’s edge. It covers 956 km² and has been a National Park since 1951.
What are the best walks near Morchard Bishop?
1 waymarked walking route passes within 2 km of the village, including the Two Moors Way.
What is the nearest beach to Morchard Bishop?
Pirate Cove, 21 mi from the edge of the village, then Exmouth Beach (22 mi). Morchard Bishop itself is inland.
How many people in Morchard Bishop 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 Morchard Bishop?
May to September: the longest days, the warmest afternoons and the least rain of the year, from the Met Office 1991–2020 averages.
Is Morchard Bishop good for walking?
About average for paths: 2.8 km of footpath and right of way per square kilometre, more than 54% of UK towns. For park space per person it beats 62% (2.6 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 Morchard Bishop’s overall grade.
Sources
Where Morchard Bishop’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.