Photo: Strider52 · CC0Stoke Gabriel is inside the South Devon National Landscape
9 km of footpaths run through the village and the kilometre around it, 1.2 for every square kilometre. Parks and playing fields in Stoke Gabriel add up to 1.2 ha for every 1,000 residents; the typical UK town has 2.1. Stoke Gabriel grades C+ for the outdoors. A character grade: it isn’t part of the overall grade.
What kind of outdoors village is Stoke Gabriel?
Read from the data: what stands out first, good and bad.
Stoke Gabriel’s strongest suit is a protected landscape all round, followed by the sea. Where it falls short is footpaths.
Stoke Gabriel grades C+ for the outdoors
Each chart is every UK town of 1,000 or more on one measure: the green bar is Stoke Gabriel, 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.
Stoke Gabriel is 40th of 60 UK villages its size for the outdoors
The 60 UK towns and cities of 1,300 to 1,400 people with an Outdoors Grade. Hover a dot for its figures; tap one for its page.
Stoke Gabriel falls furthest behind on park space per resident, where 51 of the 59 others do better.
Show as a table
| Town | Outdoors | Green space | Near a park | Path per km² | Protected | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Worrall South Yorkshire | A+ | 3.7 | 100% | 5.4 | 21% |
| 2 | St Davids Dyfed | A+ | 5.2 | 84% | 2.5 | 47% |
| 3 | Pateley Bridge North Yorkshire | A+ | 2.4 | 100% | 3.4 | 100% |
| 4 | Wolvercote Oxfordshire | A | 32 | 100% | 5.5 | 0% |
| 5 | Crowmarsh Gifford Oxfordshire | A | 8 | 77% | 3.6 | 60% |
| 6 | Goldsithney Cornwall | A | 1.4 | 100% | 3.1 | 10% |
| 7 | Charmouth Dorset | A | 2.5 | 82% | 2.3 | 63% |
| 8 | Bere Regis Dorset | A | 39.2 | 100% | 3.5 | 0% |
| 9 | Brinscall Lancashire | A | 3.5 | 100% | 4.6 | 0% |
| 10 | Burbage Wiltshire | A | 2.7 | 100% | 1.9 | 100% |
| 11 | Biddenden Kent | A− | 4.2 | 100% | 1.9 | 20% |
| 12 | Cwmfelinfach Gwent | A− | 24.6 | 100% | 2.7 | 0% |
| 13 | Stoke sub Hamdon Somerset | A− | 25.1 | 81% | 4.7 | 0% |
| 14 | Upper Caldecote Bedfordshire | A− | 3.7 | 100% | 3.4 | 0% |
| 15 | Blean Kent | A− | 5.9 | 80% | 6.5 | 0% |
| 16 | Govilon Gwent | A− | 2.1 | 80% | 3.4 | 69% |
| 17 | Auckley South Yorkshire | B+ | 4.9 | 100% | 2.6 | 0% |
| 18 | Riseley Bedfordshire | B+ | 2.4 | 100% | 3.9 | 0% |
| 19 | Layer-de-la-Haye Essex | B+ | 9.5 | 79% | 4.2 | 0% |
| 20 | Mynydd Marian Clwyd | B+ | 1.7 | 100% | 2.3 | 0% |
| 21 | Quintrell Downs Cornwall | B+ | 3.3 | 100% | 0.9 | 0% |
| 22 | Barleythorpe Rutland | B+ | 3.7 | 100% | 2.4 | 0% |
| 23 | Abbots Bromley Staffordshire | B | 6.9 | 100% | 1.6 | 0% |
| 24 | Marazion Cornwall | B | 1.4 | 80% | 2 | 14% |
| 25 | Seven Sisters West Glamorgan | B | 7 | 82% | 0.5 | 19% |
| 26 | Cwmllynfell and Ystradowen West Glamorgan | B | 4.1 | 79% | 1 | 40% |
| 27 | Lingdale North Yorkshire | B− | 1.4 | 100% | 1.7 | 31% |
| 28 | Holymoorside Derbyshire | B− | 1.1 | 82% | 3.8 | 14% |
| 29 | Burton-in-Kendal Cumbria | B− | 0.6 | 100% | 2.4 | 23% |
| 30 | Narborough Norfolk | B− | 3.8 | 100% | 1.5 | 0% |
| 31 | Cockfield County Durham | B− | 2.3 | 81% | 3.9 | 0% |
| 32 | Burwash East Sussex | B− | 1.5 | 76% | 2.5 | 100% |
| 33 | St Merryn Cornwall | B− | 1.9 | 47% | 1.7 | 29% |
| 34 | Helmsley North Yorkshire | B− | 2.4 | 44% | 2.5 | 73% |
| 35 | Mobberley Cheshire | C+ | 1.4 | 100% | 2.9 | 0% |
| 36 | Pensarn Clwyd | C+ | 13.1 | 45% | 1.1 | 0% |
| 37 | Morton Derbyshire | C+ | 18.3 | 66% | 2.5 | 0% |
| 38 | Littleton Panell Wiltshire | C+ | 5.3 | 39% | 3.3 | 0% |
| 39 | Stonnall Staffordshire | C+ | 11.5 | 82% | 1.1 | 0% |
| 40 | Stoke Gabriel Devon | C+ | 1.2 | 70% | 1.2 | 30% |
| 41 | Harpole Northamptonshire | C | 2.3 | 81% | 2.3 | 0% |
| 42 | Kislingbury Northamptonshire | C | 8.4 | 26% | 2.3 | 0% |
| 43 | Moretonhampstead Devon | C | 0.6 | 81% | 1.2 | 100% |
| 44 | Seaton Burn Tyne and Wear | C | 3.3 | 36% | 2.6 | 0% |
| 45 | Winkleigh Devon | C | 1.9 | 100% | 0.2 | 0% |
| 46 | Northborough Cambridgeshire | C− | 1.7 | 68% | 2.5 | 0% |
| 47 | Llandysul Dyfed | C− | 5.2 | 47% | 1 | 0% |
| 48 | Ogmore-by-Sea South Glamorgan | C− | 0 | 0% | 2.6 | 0% |
| 49 | Butterwick Lincolnshire | D | 1.8 | 40% | 0.3 | 0% |
| 50 | Todwick South Yorkshire | D | 2 | 51% | 1.9 | 0% |
| 51 | Malpas Cheshire | D | 1.6 | 61% | 2.2 | 0% |
| 52 | North Cave East Riding of Yorkshire | D | 2.5 | 47% | 1.4 | 0% |
| 53 | Staindrop County Durham | D | 1.4 | 82% | 1.1 | 0% |
| 54 | Longframlington Northumberland | D | 1.3 | 78% | 1.3 | 0% |
| 55 | Hauxton Cambridgeshire | D− | 1.3 | 55% | 1.8 | 0% |
| 56 | Brandesburton East Riding of Yorkshire | D− | 2.2 | 0% | 0.5 | 0% |
| 57 | Claypole Lincolnshire | D− | 0.7 | 0% | 1.6 | 0% |
| 58 | Kilsby Northamptonshire | D− | 0.5 | 50% | 0.5 | 0% |
| 59 | Griston Norfolk | D− | 0.8 | 15% | 0.5 | 0% |
| 60 | Cock and End Suffolk | D− | 0 | 0% | 0.9 | 0% |
Parks, footpaths & countryside
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7 in 10 Stoke Gabriel 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).
About 400 people live further than that. Playing fields count, so a park within reach isn’t always one with paths or trees; 4 playgrounds are mapped in and around the village, about one for every 335 residents.
National Parks and National Landscapes around Stoke Gabriel
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.
South Devon
30% of the land within 5 km of Stoke Gabriel is National Park or National Landscape, more than 83% of UK towns. Dartmoor National Park covers 956 km² and has been a National Park since 1951.
3 waymarked walks pass through or near Stoke Gabriel
9 km of footpaths, bridleways and rights of way are mapped in Stoke Gabriel 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 village.
3 regional routes pass through, including the Orange Way, Dart Valley Trail and John Musgrave Heritage Trail.
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 Stoke Gabriel: 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 | |
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| 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 | 9 | 11 | 14 | 17 | 19 | 22 | 21 | 19 | 15 | 12 | 10 |
| Rain (mm) | 134 | 97 | 83 | 70 | 60 | 64 | 58 | 82 | 73 | 124 | 128 | 138 |
July is the driest month (58 mm) and the warmest (highs of 22 °C). Winter days are short, about 8 hours of daylight in December, and 138 mm of rain falls in December, the wettest month. Frost comes on about 20 nights a year. The climate in Stoke Gabriel →
Stoke Gabriel is a coastal town
7% of the area within 5 km of Stoke Gabriel is sea. 15 beaches are mapped within 5 km, 3 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.
4 playgrounds
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.
Every named place, with directions
Hills and peaks 2
Plus 2 hills and peaks without a name on the map.
Playgrounds 4
Plus 4 playgrounds without a name on the map.
Campsites 4
Slipways 1
Plus 1 slipway 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.
Brixham, 4.7 miles away, grades A, the best next door: 76% of its residents live within 400 m of a park. Marldon and Brixham have at least twice Stoke Gabriel’s green space per resident.
Questions about the outdoors in Stoke Gabriel
Is Stoke Gabriel near a National Park?
Yes. Dartmoor National Park begins 7.7 mi west of the village’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 village.
What are the best walks near Stoke Gabriel?
3 waymarked walking routes pass within 2 km of the village, including the Orange Way, Dart Valley Trail and John Musgrave Heritage Trail.
How many people in Stoke Gabriel live near a park?
70% 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 Stoke Gabriel?
May to September: the longest days, the warmest afternoons and the least rain of the year, from the Met Office 1991–2020 averages.
Is Stoke Gabriel good for walking?
Paths are thinner than most towns: 1.2 km of footpath and right of way per square kilometre, more than 10% of UK towns. For park space per person it beats 18% (1.2 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 Stoke Gabriel’s overall grade.
Where Stoke Gabriel’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.