Photo: Glyn Baker · CC BY-SA 2.0Point Clear is on the coast, on the King Charles III England Coast Path
The sea makes up 37% of the area within 5 km. Parks and playing fields in Point Clear add up to 0.1 ha for every 1,000 residents; the typical UK town has 2.1. 22 km of footpaths run through the village and the kilometre around it, 1.8 for every square kilometre. Point Clear grades D for the outdoors. A character grade: it isn’t part of the overall grade.
What kind of outdoors village is Point Clear?
Read from the data: what stands out first, good and bad.
Point Clear’s strongest suit is the sea, followed by the King Charles III England Coast Path. Where it falls short is how far some homes are from a park.
Point Clear grades D for the outdoors
Each chart is every UK town of 1,000 or more on one measure: the green bar is Point Clear, 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 Point Clear compares with UK villages of 1,600 to 1,800
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.
Point Clear falls furthest behind on homes near a park, where 55 of the 59 others do better.
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 | Guston Kent | A+ | 5.8 | 100% | 2.5 | 25% |
| 3 | Trimley St Martin Suffolk | A+ | 1.7 | 100% | 2.9 | 43% |
| 4 | Penwithick Cornwall | A | 15 | 100% | 2.8 | 0% |
| 5 | Wroxall Isle of Wight | A | 1.2 | 84% | 4.6 | 33% |
| 6 | Eccles Kent | A | 3.7 | 100% | 2.4 | 30% |
| 7 | Hutton Somerset | A | 1.8 | 100% | 2.2 | 22% |
| 8 | Flimby Cumbria | A | 1.7 | 100% | 2.3 | 2% |
| 9 | Grain Kent | A | 13 | 100% | 1.1 | 0% |
| 10 | Southwell Dorset | A | 0.7 | 100% | 5.4 | 0% |
| 11 | Upchurch Kent | A | 4 | 76% | 2.3 | 7% |
| 12 | Wickwar Gloucestershire | A− | 2 | 100% | 3.5 | 15% |
| 13 | Lynemouth Northumberland | A− | 3.5 | 100% | 1.7 | 0% |
| 14 | Seascale Cumbria | A− | 2.1 | 81% | 2.2 | 27% |
| 15 | Clayhanger West Midlands | A− | 17.4 | 100% | 2.6 | 0% |
| 16 | Bathampton Somerset | A− | 1 | 85% | 5.5 | 62% |
| 17 | Ripley Surrey | A− | 15 | 64% | 3.6 | 2% |
| 18 | Harthill South Yorkshire | B+ | 3.6 | 100% | 2.9 | 0% |
| 19 | Appledore Devon | B+ | 1.2 | 100% | 1.6 | 16% |
| 20 | Starcross Devon | B+ | 1.9 | 100% | 0.9 | 1% |
| 21 | Aldbourne Wiltshire | B+ | 3.2 | 84% | 1.8 | 100% |
| 22 | Kingsdown Kent | B+ | 1.1 | 67% | 3.4 | 12% |
| 23 | Blewbury Oxfordshire | B | 3.1 | 54% | 2.7 | 79% |
| 24 | Silkstone South Yorkshire | B | 1 | 100% | 5.2 | 0% |
| 25 | Bryn Dyfed | B− | 2.9 | 67% | 1.4 | 1% |
| 26 | Streethouse West Yorkshire | B− | 2.2 | 100% | 2.5 | 0% |
| 27 | Flockton West Yorkshire | B− | 2.4 | 100% | 2.2 | 0% |
| 28 | Shaldon Devon | B− | 1.7 | 85% | 2.2 | 0% |
| 29 | Woodsetts South Yorkshire | B− | 2 | 100% | 2.6 | 0% |
| 30 | Allhallows Kent | B− | 3.2 | 76% | 1.1 | 0% |
| 31 | Summit Greater Manchester | B− | 1.9 | 100% | 2.5 | 0% |
| 32 | Trethomas Gwent | B− | 6.9 | 48% | 3.4 | 0% |
| 33 | Feniton Devon | C+ | 1.3 | 100% | 1.4 | 17% |
| 34 | Dunvant West Glamorgan | C+ | 4.3 | 36% | 1.8 | 30% |
| 35 | Langho Lancashire | C+ | 1.6 | 74% | 3 | 7% |
| 36 | Pilling Lancashire | C+ | 4.2 | 46% | 1.8 | 0% |
| 37 | North Leigh Oxfordshire | C+ | 2.3 | 56% | 2.4 | 26% |
| 38 | Rocester Staffordshire | C+ | 15.2 | 58% | 2.5 | 0% |
| 39 | Harvington Worcestershire | C+ | 2.6 | 100% | 0.8 | 0% |
| 40 | Minsterley Shropshire | C+ | 1.1 | 77% | 2.4 | 38% |
| 41 | Leeming North Yorkshire | C− | 5 | 76% | 0.5 | 0% |
| 42 | West Thorney West Sussex | C− | 0.4 | 0% | 0.9 | 55% |
| 43 | Embsay North Yorkshire | C− | 0.9 | 38% | 2.5 | 47% |
| 44 | High Bentham North Yorkshire | C− | 0.1 | 0% | 2.9 | 45% |
| 45 | Lower Quinton Warwickshire | C− | 2 | 49% | 1.3 | 18% |
| 46 | Modbury Devon | C− | 1.7 | 39% | 1.2 | 41% |
| 47 | Higher Kinnerton Clwyd | C− | 0.7 | 100% | 1.2 | 0% |
| 48 | Whitehill County Durham | C− | 0.3 | 0% | 7.7 | 0% |
| 49 | Charminster Dorset | D | 0.3 | 0% | 2 | 56% |
| 50 | Holt Wiltshire | D | 1.1 | 45% | 2.1 | 2% |
| 51 | Shrewton Wiltshire | D | 1.4 | 42% | 1.8 | 0% |
| 52 | Leverington Cambridgeshire | D | 2.8 | 59% | 0.8 | 0% |
| 53 | Dobwalls Cornwall | D | 1.4 | 28% | 1.5 | 15% |
| 54 | Tiddington Warwickshire | D | 0.2 | 79% | 2.2 | 0% |
| 55 | Point Clear Essex | D | 0.1 | 0% | 1.8 | 0% |
| 56 | Soughton Clwyd | D | 0.4 | 67% | 1.3 | 3% |
| 57 | Monk Fryston and Hillam North Yorkshire | D | 2.7 | 40% | 0.7 | 0% |
| 58 | Welford-on-Avon Warwickshire | D− | 0.4 | 48% | 1.5 | 0% |
| 59 | Swffryd Gwent | D− | 1.4 | 17% | 0.4 | 0% |
| 60 | Hambleton North Yorkshire | D− | 0.1 | 52% | 1.1 | 0% |
Parks, footpaths & countryside
Tap a number to zoom to a park. Tap a layer to hide it. The dashed line is Point Clear’s built-up area.
Few Point Clear 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 1,700 people live further than that. Playing fields count, so a park within reach isn’t always one with paths or trees; 8 playgrounds are mapped in and around the village, about one for every 213 residents.
The Dedham Vale National Landscape is 9.3 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.
Point Clear is on the King Charles III England Coast Path
22 km of footpaths, bridleways and rights of way are mapped in Point Clear and the kilometre around it, 1.8 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 King Charles III England Coast Path, a national route, passes Point Clear.
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 Point Clear: 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) | 8.3 | 9.9 | 11.7 | 13.8 | 15.6 | 16.7 | 16.2 | 14.6 | 12.6 | 10.5 | 8.7 | 7.8 |
| High (°C) | 8 | 8 | 11 | 14 | 17 | 20 | 23 | 23 | 20 | 16 | 11 | 8 |
| Rain (mm) | 43 | 37 | 32 | 35 | 40 | 44 | 40 | 49 | 47 | 58 | 54 | 53 |
March is the driest month (32 mm) and July the warmest (highs of 23 °C). Winter days are short, about 8 hours of daylight in December, and 58 mm of rain falls in October, the wettest month. Frost comes on about 25 nights a year. The climate in Point Clear →
The coast and beaches near Point Clear
37% of the area within 5 km of Point Clear is sea. 12 beaches are mapped within 5 km, 3 with a name.
The King Charles III England Coast Path passes the town.
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.
8 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
Nature reserves 2
Plus 1 nature reserve without a name on the map.
Playgrounds 8
Plus 8 playgrounds without a name on the map.
Campsites 3
Plus 1 campsite without a name on the map.
Slipways 2
Plus 2 slipways 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.
| Town | Outdoors | Green space, ha per 1,000 | Near a park | Protected within 5 km |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Point Clear | D | 0.1 | 0% | 0% |
| Brightlingsea 1.6 mi | A− | 3.0 | 97% | 0% |
| St Osyth 1.9 mi | C− | 1.5 | 54% | 0% |
| Thorrington 3.3 mi | C− | 1.2 | 65% | 0% |
| Jaywick 3.4 mi | C− | 1.1 | 75% | 0% |
| Alresford 4.5 mi | B− | 1.3 | 100% | 0% |
| Great Bentley 4.5 mi | B− | 6.4 | 100% | 0% |
Brightlingsea, 1.6 miles away, grades A−, the best next door: 97% of its residents live within 400 m of a park. Brightlingsea, St Osyth and Thorrington have at least twice Point Clear’s green space per resident. None of the neighbours has a protected landscape within 5 km either.
Questions about the outdoors in Point Clear
Is Point Clear near a National Park?
The nearest protected landscape is the Dedham Vale National Landscape, 9.3 mi north of the village’s edge. It covers 91 km² and was designated in 1970.
What are the best walks near Point Clear?
1 waymarked walking route passes within 2 km of the village, including the King Charles III England Coast Path: Mersea Island.
How many people in Point Clear 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 Point Clear?
May to September: the longest days, the warmest afternoons and the least rain of the year, from the Met Office 1991–2020 averages.
Is Point Clear good for walking?
Paths are thinner than most towns: 1.8 km of footpath and right of way per square kilometre, more than 23% of UK towns. For park space per person it beats 1% (0.1 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 Point Clear’s overall grade.
Where Point Clear’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.