Tiverton’s biggest
Grand Western Canal Country Park
Park or garden
47 ha (116 acres)17.9 km of path
4 hto walk all 17.9 km of path
66 pitchesfootball pitches would fit
0.4 mi southfrom the centre
2 listed
Directionsto the nearest entrance
Photo: Lew747 · CC BY-SA 3.0DOutdoors Grade
Outdoors in Tiverton · parks, paths & countryside
Parks and walks in Tiverton
The Blackdown Hills National Landscape begins 5.9 mi from the town’s edge. A park or playing field is within a 5-minute walk for 59% of residents. Parks and playing fields in Tiverton add up to 1.5 ha for every 1,000 residents; the typical UK town has 2.1. Tiverton grades D for the outdoors. A character grade: it isn’t part of the overall grade.
Green space
1.5 ha
per 1,000 residents
Typical UK town 2.1
Near a park
59%
of residents within 400 m
Typical UK town 83%
Footpaths
71 km
2.6 km per km², town + 1 km
Typical UK town 3.0 per km²
Protected landscape
0%
of the land within 5 km
Blackdown Hills starts 5.9 mi out, past the 5 km
Character
What kind of outdoors town is Tiverton?
Read from the data: what stands out first, good and bad.
Countryside close byThe Blackdown Hills National Landscape starts 5.9 mi east.Less park per person1.5 ha of parks and playing fields per 1,000 residents; the typical UK town has 2.1.
Tiverton’s strongest suit is the Blackdown Hills National Landscape close by. Where it falls short is park space per person.
Outdoors grade
Tiverton grades D for the outdoors
Each chart is every UK town of 1,000 or more on one measure: the green bar is Tiverton, the dashed line the typical town. The number is the share of towns it beats; the five are averaged and the average ranked again.
D
Better than 12% of UK towns#47 of 47 in Devon
Public green space1.5 haper 1,000 residents: parks, gardens, playing fields, play spaces
26out of
100
100
A park within a walk59%of residents within 400 m (a 5-minute walk)
20out of
100
100
National Park or National Landscape0%of the land within 5 km · Blackdown Hills begins just past 5 km
31out of
100
100
Footpaths2.6 kmper km², the town and 1 km around it
47out 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.
Towns its size
How Tiverton compares with UK towns of 18,600 to 21,200
The 60 UK towns and cities of 18,600 to 21,200 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
Tiverton2.6
Towns its size3.7
Devon towns1.8
All UK towns3.0
Green space, ha per 1,000 residents
Tiverton1.5
Towns its size2.3
Devon towns1.9
All UK towns2.1
Residents within 400 m of a park
Tiverton59%
Towns its size86%
Devon towns84%
All UK towns83%
Tiverton falls furthest behind on park space per resident, where 52 of the 59 others do better.
Show as a table
| Town | Outdoors | Green space | Near a park | Path per km² | Protected | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Camborne Cornwall | A+ | 2.2 | 93% | 4 | 8% |
| 2 | Littlehampton West Sussex | A+ | 2.1 | 99% | 3.1 | 18% |
| 3 | Dronfield Derbyshire | A+ | 3.2 | 97% | 5.3 | 9% |
| 4 | Litherland Merseyside | A | 7.3 | 94% | 3.3 | 0% |
| 5 | Buxton Derbyshire | A | 3.5 | 86% | 3.8 | 61% |
| 6 | Faversham Kent | A | 2 | 88% | 3.5 | 24% |
| 7 | Houghton Regis Bedfordshire | A | 3.5 | 81% | 8 | 20% |
| 8 | Colne Lancashire | A | 3.2 | 86% | 5.3 | 8% |
| 9 | Waltham Abbey Essex | A | 11.9 | 92% | 6.7 | 0% |
| 10 | Quedgeley and Hardwicke Gloucestershire | A | 2.1 | 99% | 4.7 | 21% |
| 11 | Farnham Surrey | A | 5.1 | 73% | 4.3 | 35% |
| 12 | Hazlemere Buckinghamshire | A | 2.5 | 81% | 4.7 | 68% |
| 13 | Forest Town Nottinghamshire | A | 6.4 | 94% | 5.7 | 0% |
| 14 | Northwich Cheshire | A | 8.8 | 92% | 4.8 | 0% |
| 15 | Leek Staffordshire | A | 4.2 | 83% | 3.6 | 19% |
| 16 | Stratton St Margaret Wiltshire | A | 3.3 | 82% | 5.1 | 5% |
| 17 | Keynsham Somerset | A | 2.1 | 95% | 4.6 | 11% |
| 18 | Harwich Essex | A− | 1.7 | 95% | 2.1 | 20% |
| 19 | Peterlee County Durham | A− | 2.3 | 85% | 4.2 | 0% |
| 20 | Dukinfield Greater Manchester | A− | 4 | 95% | 3.9 | 0% |
| 21 | Ebbw Vale Gwent | A− | 2 | 92% | 3.3 | 29% |
| 22 | Rothwell West Yorkshire | A− | 3.4 | 91% | 4.7 | 0% |
| 23 | Mansfield Woodhouse Nottinghamshire | A− | 2.8 | 94% | 4.9 | 0% |
| 24 | Devizes Wiltshire | A− | 1.8 | 91% | 3.2 | 38% |
| 25 | Walkden Greater Manchester | B+ | 3.4 | 92% | 3.4 | 0% |
| 26 | Belper Derbyshire | B+ | 2.4 | 94% | 4.1 | 0% |
| 27 | Eastwood Nottinghamshire | B+ | 2.6 | 93% | 3.9 | 0% |
| 28 | Hythe and Dibden Purlieu Hampshire | B+ | 0.8 | 49% | 4.4 | 44% |
| 29 | Sandhurst Berkshire | B+ | 5.1 | 79% | 3.9 | 0% |
| 30 | Hazel Grove Greater Manchester | B+ | 2.9 | 62% | 4.2 | 3% |
| 31 | Mirfield West Yorkshire | B | 2.5 | 90% | 3.7 | 0% |
| 32 | Ripley Derbyshire | B | 2.4 | 91% | 3.7 | 0% |
| 33 | Irlam Greater Manchester | B | 3.1 | 95% | 2.8 | 0% |
| 34 | Cradley Heath West Midlands | B | 3.3 | 76% | 4.3 | 0% |
| 35 | Penwortham Lancashire | B | 2.9 | 91% | 3.1 | 0% |
| 36 | Ely Cambridgeshire | B | 2.7 | 88% | 3.3 | 0% |
| 37 | Stanley County Durham | B | 1.7 | 88% | 5.2 | 0% |
| 38 | Stourport-on-Severn Worcestershire | B | 3.1 | 79% | 3.8 | 0% |
| 39 | Romsey Hampshire | B− | 1.2 | 82% | 4.5 | 2% |
| 40 | Ware Hertfordshire | B− | 2 | 81% | 4.9 | 0% |
| 41 | Calne Wiltshire | B− | 1.3 | 88% | 2.4 | 33% |
| 42 | Wednesbury West Midlands | B− | 2.7 | 93% | 2.3 | 0% |
| 43 | Dereham Norfolk | B− | 1.8 | 90% | 3.4 | 0% |
| 44 | Failsworth Greater Manchester | C+ | 1.8 | 77% | 4.6 | 0% |
| 45 | Clevedon Somerset | C+ | 1.1 | 69% | 3.3 | 0% |
| 46 | Rawmarsh South Yorkshire | C+ | 2 | 84% | 3.2 | 0% |
| 47 | Bideford Devon | C+ | 0.9 | 83% | 1 | 11% |
| 48 | Newmarket Suffolk | C+ | 1.9 | 91% | 2.6 | 0% |
| 49 | Knowle and Dorridge West Midlands | C+ | 2.7 | 82% | 2.4 | 0% |
| 50 | Spennymoor County Durham | C+ | 2.1 | 84% | 2.7 | 0% |
| 51 | Thornton Lancashire | C | 2.1 | 71% | 1.6 | 0% |
| 52 | Nantwich Cheshire | C | 2.2 | 86% | 2.3 | 0% |
| 53 | Horwich Greater Manchester | C | 1.8 | 67% | 3.4 | 0% |
| 54 | Maghull Merseyside | C− | 1.6 | 86% | 2.2 | 0% |
| 55 | Skegness Lincolnshire | C− | 0.9 | 58% | 2.5 | 0% |
| 56 | Willerby and Anlaby East Riding of Yorkshire | C− | 1.6 | 46% | 1.7 | 0% |
| 57 | Selby North Yorkshire | C− | 1.6 | 81% | 1.9 | 0% |
| 58 | Goole East Riding of Yorkshire | D | 1.7 | 81% | 1.4 | 0% |
| 59 | Stamford Lincolnshire | D | 1.3 | 64% | 2.7 | 0% |
| 60 | Tiverton Devon | D | 1.5 | 59% | 2.6 | 0% |
The map
Parks, footpaths & countryside
Tap a number to zoom to a park. Tap a layer to hide it. The dashed line is Tiverton’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 Tiverton
The biggest is Grand Western Canal Country Park, 47 ha (116 acres). Directions go to the park’s nearest public entrance where Ordnance Survey maps one.
People's Park
Park or garden
2.5 ha (6 acres)0.8 km of path
10 minto walk all 0.8 km of path
3 pitchesfootball pitches would fit
Centralin the middle of Tiverton
Directionsto the nearest entrance
Tiverton Rugby Club
Playing field
2.6 ha (6 acres)
4 pitchesfootball pitches would fit
0.6 mi westfrom the centre
Directionsto the nearest entrance
Close to home
6 in 10 Tiverton 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 (59%)Further (41%)
Tiverton59%
Towns its size86%
Devon towns84%
All UK towns83%
About 8,000 people live further than that. Playing fields count, so a park within reach isn’t always one with paths or trees; 30 playgrounds are mapped in and around the town, about one for every 657 residents.
National Parks & National Landscapes
The Blackdown Hills National Landscape is 5.9 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 Tiverton scores 0% on it even though the Blackdown Hills National Landscape is 5.9 mi away. Exmoor National Park covers 693 km² and has been a National Park since 1954.
Footpaths & waymarked walks
6 waymarked walks pass through or near Tiverton
71 km of footpaths, bridleways and rights of way are mapped in Tiverton and the kilometre around it, 2.6 km for every square kilometre (the typical UK town has 3.0). Bars show each route’s kilometres within 2 km of the town.
RegionalLocalOther waymarked
Two Counties Way12.8 km
Tiverton & Cullompton Circular11.3 km
Exe Valley Way8.6 km
Swan's Neck3.8 km
Tiverton Tree Trail3.3 km
Impey Walk1.1 km
3 regional routes pass through, including the Two Counties Way, Tiverton & Cullompton Circular and Exe Valley 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 Tiverton: 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 | 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 | 20 | 21 | 21 | 19 | 15 | 11 | 8 |
| Rain (mm) | 109 | 85 | 78 | 68 | 60 | 70 | 68 | 79 | 71 | 110 | 123 | 126 |
May is the driest month (60 mm) and July the warmest (highs of 21 °C). Winter days are short, about 8 hours of daylight in December, and 126 mm of rain falls in December, the wettest month. Frost comes on about 30 nights a year. The climate in Tiverton →
Things to do
30 playgrounds and the nearest beaches
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.
The nearest beaches
Tiverton is inland. These are the nearest named beaches, measured from the edge of the town.
Jacobs Ladder Beach18 mi from Tiverton’s edge
DirectionsPirate Cove19 mi from Tiverton’s edge
DirectionsExmouth Beach19 mi from Tiverton’s edge
DirectionsDunster Beach19 mi from Tiverton’s edge
DirectionsBudleigh Salterton19 mi from Tiverton’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
Picnic sites 3
Plus 3 picnic sites without a name on the map.
Playgrounds 30
Enterprise playgroundin town
DirectionsTiverton Adventure Playgroundin town
DirectionsPlus 28 playgrounds without a name on the map.
Slipways 1
Plus 1 slipway 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.
Sampford PeverellWillandCullomptonBamptonBradninchSilvertonTiverton
ABCDOutdoors Grade
| Town | Outdoors | Green space, ha per 1,000 | Near a park | Protected within 5 km |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tiverton | D | 1.5 | 59% | 0% |
| Sampford Peverell 4.5 mi | B− | 3.0 | 100% | 0% |
| Willand 4.8 mi | C− | 0.9 | 88% | 1% |
| Cullompton 5.1 mi | B− | 3.2 | 100% | 0% |
| Bampton 5.7 mi | D | 1.5 | 22% | 5% |
| Bradninch 6.1 mi | D | 2.3 | 73% | 0% |
| Silverton 6.2 mi | C− | 1.0 | 100% | 0% |
Sampford Peverell, 4.5 miles away, grades B−, the best next door: every resident lives within 400 m of a park. Sampford Peverell and Cullompton have at least twice Tiverton’s green space per resident.
Questions about the outdoors in Tiverton
What is the biggest park in Tiverton?
Grand Western Canal Country Park, 47 ha (116 acres), with 17.9 km of path. People's Park (2.5 ha) is second. 3 named parks, gardens and playing fields are in the town or within 400 m of it.
Is Tiverton near a National Park?
Yes. Exmoor National Park begins 7.4 mi north of the town’s edge. It covers 693 km² and has been a National Park since 1954. The nearest protected landscape of any kind is the Blackdown Hills National Landscape, 5.9 mi away.
What are the best walks near Tiverton?
6 waymarked walking routes pass within 2 km of the town, including the Two Counties Way, Tiverton & Cullompton Circular and Exe Valley Way. Grand Western Canal Country Park alone has 17.9 km of path.
What is the nearest beach to Tiverton?
Jacobs Ladder Beach, 18 mi from the edge of the town, then Pirate Cove (19 mi). Tiverton itself is inland.
How many people in Tiverton live near a park?
59% 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 Tiverton?
May to September: the longest days, the warmest afternoons and the least rain of the year, from the Met Office 1991–2020 averages.
Is Tiverton good for walking?
About average for paths: 2.6 km of footpath and right of way per square kilometre, more than 47% of UK towns. For park space per person it beats 26% (1.5 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 Tiverton’s overall grade.
Sources
Where Tiverton’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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