Manningtree’s biggest
Mistley Place Park
Park or garden · 50 m outside town
0.9 ha (2 acres)
Centralin the middle of Manningtree
Directionsto the nearest entrance
Photo: Deben Dave at English Wikipedia · Public domainA+Outdoors Grade
Outdoors in Manningtree · parks, paths & countryside
Manningtree is on the coast
The sea makes up 9% of the area within 5 km. The Suffolk Coast & Heaths National Landscape and the Dedham Vale National Landscape both begin about a mile from the village’s edge. Parks and playing fields in Manningtree add up to 5.6 ha for every 1,000 residents; the typical UK town has 2.1. Manningtree grades A+ for the outdoors. A character grade: it isn’t part of the overall grade.
Green space
5.6 ha
per 1,000 residents
Typical UK town 2.1
Near a park
100%
of residents within 400 m
Typical UK town 83%
Footpaths
17 km
2.5 km per km², town + 1 km
Typical UK town 3.0 per km²
Protected landscape
43%
of the land within 5 km
Nearest: Suffolk Coast & Heaths National Landscape
The sea
9%
of the area within 5 km
A coastal town
Character
What kind of outdoors village is Manningtree?
Read from the data: what stands out first, good and bad.
On the coast9% of the area within 5 km is sea; 1 beach mapped.A park on every doorstep100% of residents live within 400 m of a park or playing field.Room to roam5.6 ha of parks and playing fields per 1,000 residents, more than 89% of UK towns.Protected countryside43% of the land within 5 km is Suffolk Coast & Heaths National Landscape.
Manningtree’s strongest suit is the sea, followed by parks close to every home.
Outdoors grade
Manningtree grades A+ for the outdoors
Each chart is every UK town of 1,000 or more on one measure: the green bar is Manningtree, 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 almost every UK town2nd of 60 UK villages its size
Public green space5.6 haper 1,000 residents: parks, gardens, playing fields, play spaces
89out of
100
100
A park within a walk100%of residents within 400 m (a 5-minute walk)
89out of
100
100
National Park or National Landscape43%of the land within 5 km
89out of
100
100
Footpaths2.5 kmper km², the town and 1 km around it
46out of
100
100
The sea9%of the area within 5 km
86out 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.
Villages its size
Manningtree is 2nd of 60 UK villages its size for the outdoors
The 60 UK towns and cities of 1,600 to 1,800 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
Manningtree2.5
Villages its size2.1
Essex towns2.7
All UK towns3.0
Green space, ha per 1,000 residents
Manningtree5.6
Villages its size2.0
Essex towns2.4
All UK towns2.1
Residents within 400 m of a park
Manningtree100%
Villages its size80%
Essex towns84%
All UK towns83%
Against villages its size, Manningtree stands out most for park space per resident: only 6 of the other 59 have more.
Show as a table
| Town | Outdoors | Green space | Near a park | Path per km² | Protected | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Pease Pottage West Sussex | A+ | 4.1 | 100% | 7.4 | 65% |
| 2 | Manningtree Essex | A+ | 5.6 | 100% | 2.5 | 43% |
| 3 | Guston Kent | A+ | 5.8 | 100% | 2.5 | 25% |
| 4 | Llansanffraid Glan Conwy Clwyd | A+ | 10.8 | 100% | 1.6 | 8% |
| 5 | Pen-clawdd West Glamorgan | A | 4 | 100% | 0.5 | 42% |
| 6 | Penwithick Cornwall | A | 15 | 100% | 2.8 | 0% |
| 7 | Eccles Kent | A | 3.7 | 100% | 2.4 | 30% |
| 8 | Hutton Somerset | A | 1.8 | 100% | 2.2 | 22% |
| 9 | Southwell Dorset | A | 0.7 | 100% | 5.4 | 0% |
| 10 | Wickwar Gloucestershire | A− | 2 | 100% | 3.5 | 15% |
| 11 | Lynemouth Northumberland | A− | 3.5 | 100% | 1.7 | 0% |
| 12 | Hemyock Devon | A− | 3.2 | 100% | 1.3 | 82% |
| 13 | Clayhanger West Midlands | A− | 17.4 | 100% | 2.6 | 0% |
| 14 | Harrold Bedfordshire | A− | 19.1 | 100% | 2.5 | 0% |
| 15 | Bathampton Somerset | A− | 1 | 85% | 5.5 | 62% |
| 16 | Starcross Devon | B+ | 1.9 | 100% | 0.9 | 1% |
| 17 | Aldbourne Wiltshire | B+ | 3.2 | 84% | 1.8 | 100% |
| 18 | Kingsdown Kent | B+ | 1.1 | 67% | 3.4 | 12% |
| 19 | Great Kingshill Buckinghamshire | B | 2.7 | 55% | 2.9 | 84% |
| 20 | Abridge Essex | B | 3 | 100% | 2.4 | 0% |
| 21 | Ardingly West Sussex | B | 1.7 | 53% | 4.1 | 83% |
| 22 | Silkstone South Yorkshire | B | 1 | 100% | 5.2 | 0% |
| 23 | Edgworth Lancashire | B | 3.2 | 100% | 2.1 | 0% |
| 24 | Normandy Surrey | B− | 3.2 | 23% | 3.1 | 26% |
| 25 | Streethouse West Yorkshire | B− | 2.2 | 100% | 2.5 | 0% |
| 26 | Eynsford Kent | B− | 2.1 | 81% | 1.9 | 46% |
| 27 | Woodsetts South Yorkshire | B− | 2 | 100% | 2.6 | 0% |
| 28 | Allhallows Kent | B− | 3.2 | 76% | 1.1 | 0% |
| 29 | Onley Northamptonshire | B− | 2.3 | 100% | 2.2 | 0% |
| 30 | West Horndon Essex | C+ | 2.2 | 100% | 1.9 | 0% |
| 31 | Pilling Lancashire | C+ | 4.2 | 46% | 1.8 | 0% |
| 32 | Seahouses and North Sunderland Northumberland | C+ | 1.6 | 17% | 1.7 | 21% |
| 33 | Chipperfield Hertfordshire | C+ | 2.4 | 37% | 2.8 | 17% |
| 34 | Rocester Staffordshire | C+ | 15.2 | 58% | 2.5 | 0% |
| 35 | Bartestree Herefordshire | C+ | 2.1 | 81% | 1.9 | 10% |
| 36 | Templecombe Somerset | C+ | 2 | 100% | 1.7 | 0% |
| 37 | New Arley Warwickshire | C+ | 2.4 | 100% | 1.1 | 0% |
| 38 | High Littleton Somerset | C+ | 1 | 58% | 4.9 | 1% |
| 39 | Acton Suffolk | C | 1.6 | 100% | 1.8 | 0% |
| 40 | Stonesfield Oxfordshire | C | 1.9 | 60% | 1.8 | 38% |
| 41 | Earith Cambridgeshire | C | 1.2 | 78% | 3.6 | 0% |
| 42 | Wylam Northumberland | C− | 1.1 | 74% | 3.8 | 0% |
| 43 | High Bentham North Yorkshire | C− | 0.1 | 0% | 2.9 | 45% |
| 44 | Thorney Cambridgeshire | C− | 3.4 | 74% | 0.7 | 0% |
| 45 | Lower Quinton Warwickshire | C− | 2 | 49% | 1.3 | 18% |
| 46 | Modbury Devon | C− | 1.7 | 39% | 1.2 | 41% |
| 47 | Creunant West Glamorgan | C− | 1.7 | 79% | 0.3 | 0% |
| 48 | Pensilva Cornwall | C− | 1.6 | 60% | 1.3 | 15% |
| 49 | Whitehill County Durham | C− | 0.3 | 0% | 7.7 | 0% |
| 50 | Upper Arncott Oxfordshire | D | 3.1 | 59% | 1.2 | 0% |
| 51 | Thurcaston Leicestershire | D | 1.1 | 33% | 3.6 | 0% |
| 52 | Holt Wiltshire | D | 1.1 | 45% | 2.1 | 2% |
| 53 | Leverington Cambridgeshire | D | 2.8 | 59% | 0.8 | 0% |
| 54 | Dobwalls Cornwall | D | 1.4 | 28% | 1.5 | 15% |
| 55 | Tiddington Warwickshire | D | 0.2 | 79% | 2.2 | 0% |
| 56 | Soughton Clwyd | D | 0.4 | 67% | 1.3 | 3% |
| 57 | Skirlaugh East Riding of Yorkshire | D | 1 | 85% | 0.7 | 0% |
| 58 | Woodborough Nottinghamshire | D− | 1 | 45% | 2 | 0% |
| 59 | Ulceby Lincolnshire | D− | 1.2 | 72% | 0.5 | 0% |
| 60 | Welford-on-Avon Warwickshire | D− | 0.4 | 48% | 1.5 | 0% |
The map
Parks, footpaths & countryside
Tap a number to zoom to a park. Tap a layer to hide it. The dashed line is Manningtree’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 Manningtree
The biggest is Mistley Place Park, 0.9 ha (2 acres). Directions go to the park’s nearest public entrance where Ordnance Survey maps one.
Close to home
Everyone in Manningtree 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).
Within 400 m (100%)Further (0%)
Manningtree100%
Villages its size80%
Essex towns84%
All UK towns83%
Playing fields count, so a park within reach isn’t always one with paths or trees; 10 playgrounds are mapped in and around the village, about one for every 168 residents.
National Parks & National Landscapes
Suffolk Coast & Heaths and Dedham Vale both start about a mile from Manningtree
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
Suffolk Coast & Heaths
At the edge north443 km²since 197027% of the land within 5 km
Official site43% of the land within 5 km of Manningtree is National Park or National Landscape, more than 89% of UK towns.
Footpaths & waymarked walks
5 waymarked walks pass through or near Manningtree
17 km of footpaths, bridleways and rights of way are mapped in Manningtree 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 village.
RegionalLocal
Essex Way (Stratford St Mary to Ramsey)6.4 km
Stour & Orwell Walk3.1 km
Flatford and Constable Country Walk, Flatford2.2 km
Stour Valley Path part 31.1 km
St Edmund Way1.1 km
4 regional routes pass through, including the Essex Way (Stratford St Mary to Ramsey), Stour & Orwell Walk, Stour Valley Path part 3 and St Edmund 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 Manningtree: 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 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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) | 8 | 8 | 11 | 14 | 18 | 21 | 23 | 23 | 20 | 15 | 11 | 8 |
| Rain (mm) | 49 | 41 | 33 | 35 | 43 | 51 | 40 | 55 | 47 | 59 | 58 | 53 |
March is the driest month (33 mm) and July the warmest (highs of 23 °C). Winter days are short, about 8 hours of daylight in December, and 59 mm of rain falls in October, the wettest month. Frost comes on about 51 nights a year. The climate in Manningtree →
The coast
The coast and beaches near Manningtree
9% of the area within 5 km of Manningtree is sea. 1 beach is mapped within 5 km, 0 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.
Things to do
10 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
Picnic sites 2
Plus 2 picnic sites without a name on the map.
Playgrounds 10
Plus 10 playgrounds without a name on the map.
Slipways 3
Cattawade Tidal Slipway0.7 mi from town
DirectionsCattawade Slipway0.7 mi from town
DirectionsPlus 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.
LawfordMistleyBranthamBradfieldEast BergholtArdleighManningtree
ABCDOutdoors Grade
Manningtree grades higher for the outdoors than every neighbour in the table.
Questions about the outdoors in Manningtree
What is the biggest park in Manningtree?
Mistley Place Park, 0.9 ha (2 acres), just outside the built-up area. 1 named park, garden or playing field is in the village or within 400 m of it.
Is Manningtree near a National Park?
The Suffolk Coast & Heaths National Landscape reaches the edge of Manningtree. It covers 443 km² and was designated in 1970.
What are the best walks near Manningtree?
5 waymarked walking routes pass within 2 km of the village, including the Essex Way (Stratford St Mary to Ramsey), Stour & Orwell Walk and Flatford and Constable Country Walk, Flatford.
How many people in Manningtree 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 Manningtree?
May to September: the longest days, the warmest afternoons and the least rain of the year, from the Met Office 1991–2020 averages.
Is Manningtree 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 89% (5.6 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 Manningtree’s overall grade.
Sources
Where Manningtree’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.