Seaton’s biggest
Cliff Field Gardens
Park or garden
1.1 ha (3 acres)0.8 km of path
10 minto walk all 0.8 km of path
2 pitchesfootball pitches would fit
0.5 mi southfrom the centre
Directionsto the nearest entrance
Photo: Colin Smith · CC BY-SA 2.0A−Outdoors Grade
Outdoors in Seaton · parks, paths & countryside
Seaton is on the coast, on the South West Coast Path
The sea makes up 35% of the area within 5 km. The East Devon National Landscape reaches the edge of Seaton. Parks and playing fields in Seaton add up to 1.1 ha for every 1,000 residents; the typical UK town has 2.1. Seaton grades A− for the outdoors: #10 of 47 in Devon. A character grade: it isn’t part of the overall grade.
Green space
1.1 ha
per 1,000 residents
Typical UK town 2.1
Near a park
84%
of residents within 400 m
Typical UK town 83%
Footpaths
35 km
2.5 km per km², town + 1 km
Typical UK town 3.0 per km²
Protected landscape
55%
of the land within 5 km
Nearest: East Devon National Landscape
The sea
35%
of the area within 5 km
A coastal town
Character
What kind of outdoors town is Seaton?
Read from the data: what stands out first, good and bad.
On the coast35% of the area within 5 km is sea; 10 beaches mapped.Protected countryside55% of the land within 5 km is East Devon National Landscape.On a National TrailThe South West Coast Path passes through.Less park per person1.1 ha of parks and playing fields per 1,000 residents; the typical UK town has 2.1.
Seaton’s strongest suit is the sea, followed by protected countryside on the doorstep. Where it falls short is park space per person.
Outdoors grade
Seaton grades A− for the outdoors
Each chart is every UK town of 1,000 or more on one measure: the green bar is Seaton, the dashed line the typical town. The number is the share of towns it beats; the five are averaged and the average ranked again.
A−
Better than 78% of UK towns#10 of 47 in Devon · 9th of 60 UK towns its size
Public green space1.1 haper 1,000 residents: parks, gardens, playing fields, play spaces
16out of
100
100
A park within a walk84%of residents within 400 m (a 5-minute walk)
56out of
100
100
National Park or National Landscape55%of the land within 5 km
93out of
100
100
Footpaths2.5 kmper km², the town and 1 km around it
46out of
100
100
The sea35%of the area within 5 km
94out 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
Seaton is 9th of 60 UK towns its size for the outdoors
The 60 UK towns and cities of 7,100 to 7,700 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
Seaton2.5
Towns its size3.0
Devon towns1.8
All UK towns3.0
Green space, ha per 1,000 residents
Seaton1.1
Towns its size1.8
Devon towns1.9
All UK towns2.1
Residents within 400 m of a park
Seaton84%
Towns its size78%
Devon towns84%
All UK towns83%
Seaton falls furthest behind on park space per resident, where 46 of the 59 others do better.
Show as a table
| Town | Outdoors | Green space | Near a park | Path per km² | Protected | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Freshwater and Totland Isle of Wight | A+ | 5 | 89% | 3.9 | 20% |
| 2 | Holbury Hampshire | A+ | 5.5 | 89% | 3.1 | 42% |
| 3 | Stocksbridge South Yorkshire | A | 2.2 | 100% | 4.4 | 30% |
| 4 | Ruddington Nottinghamshire | A | 9.7 | 100% | 5.1 | 0% |
| 5 | Bude Cornwall | A | 3.1 | 78% | 3.3 | 9% |
| 6 | Bolton upon Dearne South Yorkshire | A | 5.6 | 100% | 3.9 | 0% |
| 7 | Darfield South Yorkshire | A | 4 | 100% | 3.9 | 0% |
| 8 | Prestwood and Great Missenden Buckinghamshire | A− | 5.5 | 65% | 3.2 | 94% |
| 9 | Seaton Devon | A− | 1.1 | 84% | 2.5 | 55% |
| 10 | Otford and Kemsing Kent | A− | 3.3 | 53% | 3.6 | 73% |
| 11 | Goldthorpe South Yorkshire | A− | 8.4 | 84% | 3.8 | 0% |
| 12 | Chinnor Oxfordshire | B+ | 1.5 | 88% | 3.7 | 37% |
| 13 | Great Notley Essex | B+ | 6.4 | 79% | 4.1 | 0% |
| 14 | Cromer Norfolk | B+ | 1.4 | 74% | 2.5 | 36% |
| 15 | Gowerton West Glamorgan | B+ | 3.2 | 79% | 1.2 | 14% |
| 16 | Barugh Green and Redbrook South Yorkshire | B | 2.1 | 94% | 4 | 0% |
| 17 | Malmesbury Wiltshire | B | 2 | 86% | 2.5 | 26% |
| 18 | Wroughton Wiltshire | B | 1.1 | 78% | 3.9 | 52% |
| 19 | Princes Risborough Buckinghamshire | B | 1.4 | 78% | 3.2 | 57% |
| 20 | Chapel-en-le-Frith Derbyshire | B− | 1 | 75% | 3.8 | 58% |
| 21 | Woodville Derbyshire | B− | 3.7 | 78% | 3.4 | 0% |
| 22 | Wootton Bedfordshire | B− | 2.5 | 79% | 3.8 | 0% |
| 23 | Rogerstone Gwent | B− | 3.1 | 60% | 4.7 | 0% |
| 24 | Eckington Derbyshire | B− | 1.8 | 80% | 6 | 0% |
| 25 | Crawcrook and Greenside Tyne and Wear | B− | 3.2 | 86% | 2.4 | 0% |
| 26 | Bollington Cheshire | B− | 1.3 | 56% | 4.1 | 31% |
| 27 | Abersychan Gwent | B− | 2.8 | 83% | 1.1 | 17% |
| 28 | Wrecclesham Surrey | C+ | 1.2 | 50% | 3.8 | 37% |
| 29 | Paddock Wood Kent | C+ | 1.7 | 78% | 2.1 | 28% |
| 30 | Pelton and Ouston County Durham | C+ | 2 | 64% | 4.7 | 0% |
| 31 | Countesthorpe Leicestershire | C+ | 1.7 | 100% | 2.1 | 0% |
| 32 | Murton County Durham | C+ | 2.1 | 54% | 2.6 | 0% |
| 33 | Sprotbrough South Yorkshire | C+ | 1.8 | 79% | 3.5 | 0% |
| 34 | Thrapston Northamptonshire | C | 1.2 | 100% | 2.4 | 0% |
| 35 | Caerleon Gwent | C | 1.9 | 64% | 4.2 | 0% |
| 36 | Horncastle Lincolnshire | C | 0.6 | 60% | 3.9 | 10% |
| 37 | Mablethorpe Lincolnshire | C | 2.1 | 66% | 1.5 | 0% |
| 38 | Radcliffe on Trent Nottinghamshire | C | 2.5 | 76% | 2.6 | 0% |
| 39 | Elworth Cheshire | C | 1.8 | 83% | 2.6 | 0% |
| 40 | Sawston Cambridgeshire | C | 1.4 | 97% | 2.3 | 0% |
| 41 | Castle Donington Leicestershire | C | 1.8 | 85% | 2.4 | 0% |
| 42 | Newbridge Gwent | C | 2.2 | 94% | 1.3 | 0% |
| 43 | Fazeley Staffordshire | C | 3.2 | 35% | 2.9 | 0% |
| 44 | Marske-by-the-Sea North Yorkshire | C | 1.6 | 66% | 1.8 | 0% |
| 45 | Dalton-in-Furness Cumbria | C | 0.9 | 74% | 2.4 | 0% |
| 46 | Heathfield East Sussex | C | 0.9 | 53% | 2.3 | 79% |
| 47 | Aylsham Norfolk | C | 2.6 | 74% | 2 | 0% |
| 48 | Wivenhoe Essex | C− | 0.9 | 65% | 5.1 | 0% |
| 49 | Kibworth Beauchamp and Kibworth Harcourt Leicestershire | C− | 2.1 | 82% | 2 | 0% |
| 50 | Southwell Nottinghamshire | C− | 1.7 | 59% | 3.5 | 0% |
| 51 | Calverton Nottinghamshire | C− | 1.7 | 62% | 3 | 0% |
| 52 | Breaston and Draycott Derbyshire | C− | 1.1 | 73% | 3.2 | 0% |
| 53 | Pickering North Yorkshire | C− | 1.7 | 39% | 1.7 | 19% |
| 54 | Shefford Bedfordshire | D | 1.1 | 67% | 3 | 0% |
| 55 | Spencers Wood and Three Mile Cross Berkshire | D | 0.7 | 78% | 2.7 | 0% |
| 56 | Deeping St James Lincolnshire | D | 0.5 | 73% | 2.4 | 0% |
| 57 | Polesworth and Dordon Warwickshire | D | 1.6 | 68% | 1.8 | 0% |
| 58 | Beddau Mid Glamorgan | D | 1 | 77% | 1.2 | 0% |
| 59 | Market Weighton East Riding of Yorkshire | D− | 0.7 | 79% | 1 | 0% |
| 60 | Treorchy Mid Glamorgan | D− | 1 | 57% | 1.6 | 0% |
The map
Parks, footpaths & countryside
Tap a number to zoom to a park. Tap a layer to hide it. The dashed line is Seaton’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 Seaton
The biggest is Cliff Field Gardens, 1.1 ha (3 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 2.4 haPlaying fields 0.7 ha
The two biggest, Cliff Field Gardens and Seafield and Festival Gardens, are 72% of the named green space. 4 of the 4 are under 2 ha: small gardens, play spaces and pitches.
Seafield and Festival Gardens
Park or garden
1.1 ha (3 acres)
2 pitchesfootball pitches would fit
0.4 mi southfrom the centre
Directionsto the nearest entrance
Elizabeth Road Playing Field
Playing field
0.7 ha (2 acres)0.2 km of path
Centralin the middle of Seaton
Directionsto the nearest entrance
Windsor Gardens
Park or garden
0.1 ha (0 acres)
Centralin the middle of Seaton
Directionsto the nearest entrance
Close to home
8 in 10 Seaton 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 (84%)Further (16%)
Seaton84%
Towns its size78%
Devon towns84%
All UK towns83%
About 1,200 people live further than that. Playing fields count, so a park within reach isn’t always one with paths or trees; 21 playgrounds are mapped in and around the town, about one for every 354 residents.
National Parks & National Landscapes
East Devon and Blackdown Hills both start about 4 miles from Seaton
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
East Devon
At the edge east269 km²since 196355% of the land within 5 km
Official site55% of the land within 5 km of Seaton is National Park or National Landscape, more than 93% of UK towns.
Footpaths & waymarked walks
Seaton is on the South West Coast Path
35 km of footpaths, bridleways and rights of way are mapped in Seaton and the kilometre around it, 2.5 km for every square kilometre (the typical UK town has 3.0). Bars show each route’s kilometres within 2 km of the town.
NationalRegionalOther waymarked
Monmouth Rebellion Walk10.1 km
Channel to Channel7.2 km
South West Coast Path (Section 45: Sidmouth to Seaton)6.7 km
Seaton Tramway Walk5.1 km
South West Coast Path (Section 46: Seaton to Seatown)2.9 km
East Devon Way1.4 km
The South West Coast Path, a national route, passes Seaton. 3 regional routes pass through, including the Monmouth Rebellion Walk, Channel to Channel and East Devon 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 Seaton: 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) | 8.4 | 10.0 | 11.7 | 13.7 | 15.5 | 16.5 | 16.1 | 14.5 | 12.5 | 10.6 | 8.9 | 8.0 |
| High (°C) | 9 | 9 | 11 | 13 | 17 | 19 | 21 | 21 | 19 | 15 | 11 | 9 |
| Rain (mm) | 90 | 85 | 81 | 76 | 64 | 70 | 69 | 93 | 80 | 120 | 130 | 119 |
May is the driest month (64 mm) and July the warmest (highs of 21 °C). Winter days are short, about 8 hours of daylight in December, and 130 mm of rain falls in November, the wettest month. Frost comes on about 21 nights a year. The climate in Seaton →
The coast
The coast and beaches near Seaton
35% of the area within 5 km of Seaton is sea. 10 beaches are mapped within 5 km, 6 with a name.
Seaton Beach0.0 mi from town
DirectionsBeer Roads0.4 mi from town
DirectionsLittle Beach1.2 mi from town
DirectionsHooken Beach1.4 mi from town
DirectionsBranscombe Beach1.9 mi from town
DirectionsThe South West Coast Path passes the town.
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.
Things to do
6 viewpoints and 21 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
Viewpoints 6
Viewing Platform0.1 mi from town
DirectionsViewing Point0.3 mi from town
DirectionsPlus 4 viewpoints without a name on the map.
Playgrounds 21
Elizabeth Road Playgroundin town
DirectionsPlaystation0.7 mi from town
DirectionsPearl Pirate Ship0.7 mi from town
DirectionsPlus 18 playgrounds without a name on the map.
Campsites 3
Axe Vale Caravan Parkin town
DirectionsBeer YHA0.6 mi from town
DirectionsPlus 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.
BeerColytonUplymeLyme RegisAxminsterSidmouthSeaton
ABCDOutdoors Grade
Uplyme, 5.4 miles away, grades A+, the best next door: every resident lives within 400 m of a park. Colyton, Uplyme and Sidmouth have at least twice Seaton’s green space per resident.
Questions about the outdoors in Seaton
What is the biggest park in Seaton?
Cliff Field Gardens, 1.1 ha (3 acres), with 0.8 km of path. Seafield and Festival Gardens (1.1 ha) is second. 4 named parks, gardens and playing fields are in the town or within 400 m of it.
Is Seaton near a National Park?
It covers 269 km² and was designated in 1963.
What are the best walks near Seaton?
6 waymarked walking routes pass within 2 km of the town, including the Monmouth Rebellion Walk, Channel to Channel and South West Coast Path (Section 45: Sidmouth to Seaton).
How many people in Seaton live near a park?
84% 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 Seaton?
May to September: the longest days, the warmest afternoons and the least rain of the year, from the Met Office 1991–2020 averages.
Is Seaton good for walking?
About average for paths: 2.5 km of footpath and right of way per square kilometre, more than 46% of UK towns. For park space per person it beats 16% (1.1 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 Seaton’s overall grade.
Sources
Where Seaton’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.