Photo: Roger Templeman · CC BY-SA 2.0Bradpole is inside the Dorset National Landscape
A park or playing field is within a 5-minute walk for 100% of residents. Parks and playing fields in Bradpole add up to 0.9 ha for every 1,000 residents; the typical UK town has 2.1. Bradpole grades A− for the outdoors. A character grade: it isn’t part of the overall grade.
What kind of outdoors village is Bradpole?
Read from the data: what stands out first, good and bad.
Bradpole’s strongest suit is a protected landscape all round, followed by parks close to every home. Where it falls short is park space per person.
Bradpole grades A− for the outdoors
Each chart is every UK town of 1,000 or more on one measure: the green bar is Bradpole, 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.
Bradpole is 12th of 60 UK villages its size for the outdoors
The 60 UK towns and cities of 1,200 to 1,300 people with an Outdoors Grade. Hover a dot for its figures; tap one for its page.
Against villages its size, Bradpole stands out most for path per km²: only 12 of the other 59 have more. It falls furthest behind on park space per resident, where 52 of the others do better.
Show as a table
| Town | Outdoors | Green space | Near a park | Path per km² | Protected | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Huncoat Lancashire | A+ | 10.1 | 100% | 4.9 | 1% |
| 2 | Clanfield Hampshire | A+ | 6.1 | 100% | 2.9 | 78% |
| 3 | Kirton Suffolk | A+ | 2.5 | 100% | 2.3 | 50% |
| 4 | Aldington Kent | A+ | 4.6 | 100% | 3.8 | 11% |
| 5 | Otterbourne Hampshire | A | 2.9 | 100% | 3.2 | 25% |
| 6 | Thurgoland South Yorkshire | A | 2.5 | 100% | 4.1 | 1% |
| 7 | Box Hill Surrey | A | 35.9 | 12% | 6 | 39% |
| 8 | Chew Magna Somerset | A | 2.4 | 100% | 3 | 15% |
| 9 | Millhouse Green South Yorkshire | A | 1.9 | 100% | 3.6 | 18% |
| 10 | Harlech Gwynedd | A− | 1.9 | 36% | 3.5 | 67% |
| 11 | Bonds Lancashire | A− | 1.7 | 100% | 3.5 | 16% |
| 12 | Bradpole Dorset | A− | 0.9 | 100% | 3.3 | 95% |
| 13 | South Heath Buckinghamshire | A− | 20.4 | 0% | 3 | 85% |
| 14 | Westfield East Sussex | B+ | 1.9 | 100% | 1.9 | 83% |
| 15 | Tregarth Gwynedd | B+ | 1.5 | 100% | 2.9 | 23% |
| 16 | New Brancepeth County Durham | B+ | 2.6 | 100% | 3.5 | 0% |
| 17 | Bierton Buckinghamshire | B+ | 5.8 | 70% | 7.7 | 0% |
| 18 | Walberton West Sussex | B+ | 1.8 | 100% | 1.9 | 39% |
| 19 | Farningham Kent | B+ | 1.7 | 100% | 2 | 33% |
| 20 | Sharpness Gloucestershire | B+ | 2.1 | 100% | 1.8 | 0% |
| 21 | Billy Row County Durham | B | 2.3 | 100% | 3.1 | 0% |
| 22 | Stoke Holy Cross Norfolk | B | 2.2 | 100% | 2.1 | 0% |
| 23 | Horton Kirby Kent | B | 5.9 | 78% | 1.7 | 21% |
| 24 | Bunbury Cheshire | B | 2.6 | 100% | 2.7 | 0% |
| 25 | Talgarth Powys | B | 5.7 | 71% | 1.5 | 52% |
| 26 | Kilgetty Dyfed | B | 1 | 100% | 0.9 | 18% |
| 27 | Minster Lovell Oxfordshire | B | 3.6 | 79% | 1.5 | 37% |
| 28 | Sutton Benger Wiltshire | B | 2.7 | 100% | 2.4 | 0% |
| 29 | Eckington Worcestershire | B | 4.1 | 72% | 1.9 | 23% |
| 30 | Potten End Hertfordshire | B− | 2.4 | 73% | 2.2 | 44% |
| 31 | Brightwell-cum-Sotwell Oxfordshire | B− | 2.5 | 72% | 2.2 | 40% |
| 32 | Wyton Cambridgeshire | B− | 4.9 | 100% | 0.8 | 0% |
| 33 | Gilmorton Leicestershire | B− | 3.3 | 100% | 1.4 | 0% |
| 34 | Marlpit Hill Kent | B− | 2.5 | 0% | 2.9 | 35% |
| 35 | Sutton Common Suffolk | C+ | 0.8 | 51% | 3.9 | 85% |
| 36 | Gaerwen Gwynedd | C+ | 1.5 | 100% | 0.4 | 7% |
| 37 | Weobley Herefordshire | C+ | 1.6 | 100% | 2.1 | 0% |
| 38 | Ashill Norfolk | C+ | 3.7 | 82% | 1.7 | 0% |
| 39 | Westhampnett West Sussex | C | 0.2 | 79% | 2.6 | 33% |
| 40 | Ampleforth North Yorkshire | C | 2.3 | 27% | 1.7 | 95% |
| 41 | Bradfield Essex | C | 1.4 | 27% | 1.5 | 35% |
| 42 | Stoke Hampshire | C | 0.3 | 0% | 2 | 32% |
| 43 | Silkstone Common South Yorkshire | C | 1.5 | 63% | 4.9 | 0% |
| 44 | Ponthir Gwent | C | 2.9 | 78% | 1.8 | 0% |
| 45 | Coedhirwaun West Glamorgan | C | 2 | 100% | 0.4 | 0% |
| 46 | Foxton Cambridgeshire | C | 2.3 | 84% | 1.7 | 0% |
| 47 | Hanwood Shropshire | C− | 1.9 | 19% | 2.6 | 3% |
| 48 | Trewoon Cornwall | D | 0.9 | 71% | 1.7 | 6% |
| 49 | Blyth Nottinghamshire | D | 2.5 | 76% | 0.3 | 0% |
| 50 | Burton on the Wolds Leicestershire | D | 2.5 | 31% | 2 | 0% |
| 51 | East Markham Nottinghamshire | D | 2.2 | 46% | 1.9 | 0% |
| 52 | Southery Norfolk | D | 2 | 61% | 1.7 | 0% |
| 53 | Dishforth North Yorkshire | D | 2.3 | 68% | 0.7 | 0% |
| 54 | Fleet Hargate Lincolnshire | D | 1.7 | 76% | 0.7 | 0% |
| 55 | Hadham Cross Hertfordshire | D | 0 | 0% | 3.3 | 0% |
| 56 | Elvington North Yorkshire | D | 2.1 | 0% | 1.5 | 0% |
| 57 | Felton Northumberland | D− | 1.7 | 50% | 1.4 | 0% |
| 58 | Sutton on Trent Nottinghamshire | D− | 0.5 | 39% | 1.9 | 0% |
| 59 | Walsham le Willows Suffolk | D− | 0.4 | 0% | 2 | 0% |
| 60 | Helpston Cambridgeshire | D− | 0 | 0% | 1.7 | 0% |
Parks, footpaths & countryside
Tap a number to zoom to a park. Tap a layer to hide it. The dashed line is Bradpole’s built-up area.
Everyone in Bradpole lives 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).
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 140 residents.
National Parks and National Landscapes around Bradpole
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.
Dorset
95% of the land within 5 km of Bradpole is National Park or National Landscape, more than 98% of UK towns.
1 waymarked walk passes through or near Bradpole
24 km of footpaths, bridleways and rights of way are mapped in Bradpole and the kilometre around it, 3.3 km for every square kilometre (the typical UK town has 3.0). Bars show each route’s kilometres within 2 km of the village.
The regional route here is the Monarch's Way.
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 Bradpole: 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) | 8.4 | 9.9 | 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 | 14 | 16 | 19 | 21 | 21 | 19 | 15 | 12 | 9 |
| Rain (mm) | 95 | 66 | 62 | 63 | 55 | 53 | 54 | 70 | 68 | 103 | 109 | 99 |
June is the driest month (53 mm) and July the warmest (highs of 21 °C). Winter days are short, about 8 hours of daylight in December, and 109 mm of rain falls in November, the wettest month. Frost comes on about 31 nights a year. The climate in Bradpole →
Beaches near Bradpole
5% of the area within 5 km of Bradpole is sea, so the Outdoors Grade counts it as inland. 7 beaches are mapped within 5 km, 1 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.
9 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 12
Plus 4 hills and peaks more.
Playgrounds 9
Plus 9 playgrounds without a name on the map.
Campsites 1
The outdoors in nearby towns
The nearest towns of 1,000+ within 12 miles. Tap a town for its outdoors page.
| Town | Outdoors | Green space, ha per 1,000 | Near a park | Protected within 5 km |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bradpole | A− | 0.9 | 100% | 95% |
| Bridport 1.3 mi | A− | 0.9 | 75% | 71% |
| Beaminster 4.3 mi | A | 4.1 | 89% | 100% |
| Charmouth 7.1 mi | A | 2.5 | 82% | 63% |
| Maiden Newton 7.7 mi | C− | 1.1 | 27% | 100% |
| Misterton 8.7 mi | A | 2.5 | 100% | 35% |
| Lyme Regis 8.8 mi | B | 1.4 | 60% | 56% |
Beaminster, 4.3 miles away, grades A, the best next door: 89% of its residents live within 400 m of a park. Beaminster, Charmouth and Misterton have at least twice Bradpole’s green space per resident.
Questions about the outdoors in Bradpole
What are the best walks near Bradpole?
1 waymarked walking route passes within 2 km of the village, including the Monarch's Way.
How many people in Bradpole 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 Bradpole?
May to September: the longest days, the warmest afternoons and the least rain of the year, from the Met Office 1991–2020 averages.
Is Bradpole good for walking?
For paths, yes: 3.3 km of footpath and right of way per square kilometre, more than 67% of UK towns. For park space per person it beats 10% (0.9 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 Bradpole’s overall grade.
Where Bradpole’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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