Photo: Hugh Venables · CC BY-SA 2.0Parks and walks in Henham
No park or playing field is mapped within a 5-minute walk of homes in Henham. 25 km of footpaths run through the village and the kilometre around it, 3.0 for every square kilometre. Henham grades D for the outdoors. A character grade: it isn’t part of the overall grade.
Henham grades D for the outdoors
Each chart is every UK town of 1,000 or more on one measure: the green bar is Henham, 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.
How Henham compares with UK villages of 1,000 to 1,100
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.
Against villages its size, Henham stands out most for path per km²: only 16 of the other 59 have more. It falls furthest behind on homes near a park, where 51 of the others do better.
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 | Blagdon Somerset | A | 3.3 | 100% | 2.9 | 62% |
| 5 | Colney Heath Hertfordshire | A | 8.7 | 100% | 7.4 | 0% |
| 6 | Abingworth West Sussex | A | 6.1 | 100% | 2.7 | 27% |
| 7 | Newnham Gloucestershire | A | 4.2 | 100% | 3.2 | 0% |
| 8 | Aberaeron Dyfed | A | 6.1 | 100% | 2.1 | 0% |
| 9 | Shorne Kent | A | 28.3 | 23% | 3.4 | 24% |
| 10 | Silverdale Lancashire | A | 2.3 | 46% | 3.9 | 76% |
| 11 | Misterton Somerset | A | 2.5 | 100% | 2.9 | 35% |
| 12 | North Curry Somerset | A | 6.2 | 100% | 3.5 | 0% |
| 13 | Godshill Isle of Wight | A | 2.1 | 100% | 2.7 | 53% |
| 14 | Chedgrave Norfolk | A− | 3 | 100% | 1.7 | 26% |
| 15 | Plumpton Green East Sussex | A− | 4.6 | 54% | 3.6 | 37% |
| 16 | Ardleigh Essex | A− | 3.2 | 100% | 1.5 | 21% |
| 17 | Hyde Heath Buckinghamshire | B+ | 5.4 | 68% | 2.1 | 81% |
| 18 | Crowlas Cornwall | B+ | 3.3 | 73% | 1.1 | 23% |
| 19 | Llangynidr Powys | B+ | 2.4 | 65% | 3.2 | 100% |
| 20 | Loddiswell Devon | B+ | 2.1 | 100% | 1.3 | 53% |
| 21 | Five Ash Down East Sussex | B+ | 2.8 | 0% | 4.1 | 43% |
| 22 | Avening Gloucestershire | B | 0.9 | 100% | 2.3 | 97% |
| 23 | Morchard Bishop Devon | B | 2.6 | 100% | 2.8 | 0% |
| 24 | Flamstead Hertfordshire | B | 2.1 | 82% | 2.7 | 33% |
| 25 | Llanymynech Shropshire | B | 2 | 100% | 2.9 | 0% |
| 26 | Minley Hampshire | B− | 5.7 | 0% | 6.5 | 0% |
| 27 | High Shincliffe County Durham | B− | 0.5 | 100% | 4.6 | 0% |
| 28 | Carleton-in-Craven North Yorkshire | C+ | 0.4 | 100% | 2.3 | 10% |
| 29 | St Newlyn East Cornwall | C+ | 3 | 100% | 0.7 | 0% |
| 30 | Little Waltham Essex | C+ | 2.3 | 63% | 3.8 | 0% |
| 31 | Weston Staffordshire | C+ | 1.3 | 100% | 1 | 4% |
| 32 | Simister Greater Manchester | C | 16.6 | 0% | 2.7 | 0% |
| 33 | Warmington Northamptonshire | C | 1.6 | 100% | 2 | 0% |
| 34 | Little Melton Norfolk | C | 4.2 | 72% | 2 | 0% |
| 35 | Hilton Cambridgeshire | C | 6.8 | 70% | 1.8 | 0% |
| 36 | Huby (Hambleton) North Yorkshire | C | 2.4 | 75% | 1.5 | 2% |
| 37 | Upper Bucklebury Berkshire | C | 0.1 | 0% | 4 | 48% |
| 38 | Elswick Lancashire | C | 1.8 | 100% | 0.8 | 0% |
| 39 | Freethorpe Norfolk | C− | 2.3 | 26% | 0.7 | 61% |
| 40 | Kimbolton Cambridgeshire | C− | 2.4 | 50% | 2.8 | 0% |
| 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 | Stebbing Essex | C− | 2.4 | 70% | 2 | 0% |
| 45 | Marchwiel Clwyd | C− | 1.1 | 100% | 1 | 0% |
| 46 | Castle Hedingham Essex | C− | 1.7 | 52% | 3.1 | 0% |
| 47 | Tolleshunt Knights Essex | C− | 3.4 | 41% | 1.8 | 0% |
| 48 | Surfleet Lincolnshire | C− | 4.2 | 0% | 1.8 | 0% |
| 49 | Scole Norfolk | C− | 2.1 | 51% | 2.5 | 0% |
| 50 | New Quay Dyfed | D | 1.2 | 30% | 1.3 | 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 | Hevingham Norfolk | D | 1.8 | 0% | 2 | 0% |
| 54 | Waltham on the Wolds Leicestershire | D | 2 | 23% | 1.7 | 0% |
| 55 | Horsham St Faith Norfolk | D | 0.9 | 52% | 1.1 | 0% |
| 56 | Henham Essex | D | 0 | 0% | 3 | 0% |
| 57 | Methwold Norfolk | D− | 1.8 | 61% | 0.5 | 0% |
| 58 | Pencader Dyfed | D− | 1.2 | 30% | 0.1 | 0% |
| 59 | Wainfleet St Mary Lincolnshire | D− | 0.1 | 0% | 1.5 | 0% |
| 60 | Ranby Nottinghamshire | D− | 0 | 0% | 0.8 | 0% |
Parks, footpaths & countryside
Tap a number to zoom to a park. Tap a layer to hide it. The dashed line is Henham’s built-up area.
Few Henham 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 1,000 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 262 residents.
Footpaths in and around Henham
25 km of footpaths, bridleways and rights of way are mapped in Henham and the kilometre around it, 3.0 km for every square kilometre (the typical UK town has 3.0).
No named walking route is mapped within 2 km of Henham; its footpaths are on the map above.
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 Henham: 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) | 8.2 | 9.9 | 11.7 | 13.8 | 15.6 | 16.7 | 16.3 | 14.6 | 12.6 | 10.5 | 8.7 | 7.8 |
| High (°C) | 7 | 8 | 10 | 14 | 17 | 20 | 23 | 22 | 19 | 15 | 10 | 7 |
| Rain (mm) | 61 | 47 | 40 | 42 | 47 | 51 | 52 | 66 | 53 | 69 | 66 | 61 |
March is the driest month (40 mm) and July the warmest (highs of 23 °C). Winter days are short, about 8 hours of daylight in December, and 69 mm of rain falls in October, the wettest month. Frost comes on about 48 nights a year. The climate in Henham →
4 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
Henham is inland. These are the nearest named beaches, measured from the edge of the village.
Check the water before you swim. The Environment Agency tests designated bathing waters from May to September and publishes a rating for each beach.
Up high. Lovecotes Hill, at 123 m, is the highest named top within 2 km of Henham.
Every named place, with directions
Hills and peaks 1
Nature reserves 1
Plus 1 nature reserve without a name on the map.
Playgrounds 4
Plus 2 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Henham | D | 0.0 | 0% | 0% |
| Elsenham 1.3 mi | A− | 3.0 | 100% | 0% |
| Stansted Mountfitchet 2.9 mi | B− | 0.8 | 96% | 0% |
| Newport 4.0 mi | B | 2.5 | 100% | 0% |
| Takeley and Little Canfield 4.4 mi | D | 1.0 | 45% | 0% |
| Thaxted 4.6 mi | C | 0.8 | 91% | 0% |
| Bishop's Stortford 5.8 mi | B | 2.3 | 80% | 0% |
Elsenham, 1.3 miles away, grades A−, the best next door: every resident lives within 400 m of a park. Elsenham, Stansted Mountfitchet and Newport have at least twice Henham’s green space per resident. None of the neighbours has a protected landscape within 5 km either.
Questions about the outdoors in Henham
Is Henham near a National Park?
No National Park or National Landscape is within 30 km (about 19 miles) of Henham.
What is the nearest beach to Henham?
Stort Beach, 12 mi from the edge of the village, then Mill Beach (24 mi). Henham itself is inland.
How many people in Henham live near a park?
0% 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 Henham?
May to September: the longest days, the warmest afternoons and the least rain of the year, from the Met Office 1991–2020 averages.
Is Henham good for walking?
For paths, yes: 3.0 km of footpath and right of way per square kilometre, more than 61% of UK towns. For park space per person it beats 0% (0.0 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 Henham’s overall grade.
Where Henham’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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