Silver End’s biggest
Boars Tye Green
Park or garden
0.1 ha (0 acres)
Centralin the middle of Silver End
1 listed
Directionsto the nearest entrance
Craig Angus · Photo: Steve Knight · CC BY 4.0COutdoors Grade
Outdoors in Silver End · parks, paths & countryside
88% of Silver End’s residents live within a 5-minute walk of a park
18 km of footpaths run through the town and the kilometre around it, 2.1 for every square kilometre. Parks and playing fields in Silver End add up to 2.0 ha for every 1,000 residents; the typical UK town has 2.1. Silver End grades C for the outdoors: #67 of 81 in Essex. A character grade: it isn’t part of the overall grade.
Green space
2.0 ha
per 1,000 residents
Typical UK town 2.1
Near a park
88%
of residents within 400 m
Typical UK town 83%
Footpaths
18 km
2.1 km per km², town + 1 km
Typical UK town 3.0 per km²
Protected landscape
0%
of the land within 5 km
Nearest: Dedham Vale National Landscape
Outdoors grade
Silver End grades C for the outdoors
Each chart is every UK town of 1,000 or more on one measure: the green bar is Silver End, the dashed line the typical town. The number is the share of towns it beats; the five are averaged and the average ranked again.
C
Better than 29% of UK towns#67 of 81 in Essex · 40th of 60 UK towns its size
Public green space2.0 haper 1,000 residents: parks, gardens, playing fields, play spaces
44out of
100
100
A park within a walk88%of residents within 400 m (a 5-minute walk)
63out of
100
100
National Park or National Landscape0%of the land within 5 km · None within 5 km
31out of
100
100
Footpaths2.1 kmper km², the town and 1 km around it
32out 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
Silver End is 40th of 60 UK towns its size for the outdoors
The 60 UK towns and cities of 3,800 to 4,100 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
Silver End2.1
Towns its size2.5
Essex towns2.7
All UK towns3.0
Green space, ha per 1,000 residents
Silver End2.0
Towns its size2.0
Essex towns2.4
All UK towns2.1
Residents within 400 m of a park
Silver End88%
Towns its size83%
Essex towns84%
All UK towns83%
Silver End falls furthest behind on path per km², where 38 of the 59 others do better.
Show as a table
| Town | Outdoors | Green space | Near a park | Path per km² | Protected | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Darley Dale Derbyshire | A+ | 3.8 | 100% | 3.4 | 51% |
| 2 | Batheaston Somerset | A | 3 | 84% | 4.6 | 71% |
| 3 | Cranbrook Kent | A | 5.8 | 82% | 2.9 | 65% |
| 4 | Chickerell Dorset | A | 1.5 | 88% | 3 | 27% |
| 5 | Walter's Ash and Naphill Buckinghamshire | A | 3.7 | 50% | 5.3 | 79% |
| 6 | Holt Norfolk | A | 8.5 | 84% | 2.4 | 40% |
| 7 | Old Sarum Wiltshire | A | 4.6 | 100% | 3.7 | 0% |
| 8 | Disley Cheshire | A− | 1.2 | 100% | 4.6 | 22% |
| 9 | Bowerhill Wiltshire | A− | 7.4 | 100% | 3 | 0% |
| 10 | Mulbarton Norfolk | A− | 7 | 100% | 3 | 0% |
| 11 | Welwyn Hertfordshire | A− | 2.6 | 100% | 4 | 0% |
| 12 | Esh Winning County Durham | A− | 3.2 | 100% | 3.5 | 0% |
| 13 | Old Basing Hampshire | A− | 13.6 | 92% | 3.1 | 0% |
| 14 | Colden Common Hampshire | B+ | 2.7 | 82% | 2.8 | 35% |
| 15 | Barnt Green Worcestershire | B+ | 37.8 | 81% | 3.7 | 0% |
| 16 | Carbis Bay Cornwall | B+ | 0.5 | 88% | 2.8 | 20% |
| 17 | Long Melford Suffolk | B+ | 6.9 | 87% | 3.3 | 0% |
| 18 | Papworth Everard Cambridgeshire | B+ | 4.3 | 100% | 2.5 | 0% |
| 19 | Chirk Clwyd | B+ | 1.8 | 100% | 2.3 | 15% |
| 20 | Locking Somerset | B+ | 2.7 | 84% | 2.4 | 23% |
| 21 | Greasbrough South Yorkshire | B | 2.9 | 80% | 4.7 | 0% |
| 22 | Queenborough Kent | B | 1.6 | 100% | 2 | 0% |
| 23 | Tangmere West Sussex | B | 2.1 | 100% | 1.2 | 36% |
| 24 | Stoke Poges Buckinghamshire | B | 7.7 | 76% | 3.3 | 0% |
| 25 | Romanby North Yorkshire | B | 3.1 | 100% | 2.3 | 0% |
| 26 | Mytholmroyd West Yorkshire | B | 1.8 | 88% | 5.8 | 0% |
| 27 | Framlingham Suffolk | B | 3.7 | 73% | 4.2 | 0% |
| 28 | Pirbright Surrey | B | 2 | 84% | 5.7 | 0% |
| 29 | Calverley West Yorkshire | B | 1.5 | 92% | 6 | 0% |
| 30 | Glanaman Dyfed | B− | 3.3 | 83% | 0.8 | 29% |
| 31 | South Cerney Gloucestershire | B− | 2.5 | 77% | 2.4 | 7% |
| 32 | Alford Lincolnshire | B− | 2.1 | 85% | 1.5 | 26% |
| 33 | Lower Stondon Bedfordshire | B− | 2.7 | 73% | 2.2 | 5% |
| 34 | New Romney Kent | C+ | 2.5 | 79% | 1.6 | 0% |
| 35 | Chipping Ongar Essex | C+ | 2.5 | 83% | 2.9 | 0% |
| 36 | Bar Hill Cambridgeshire | C+ | 1.4 | 93% | 3.5 | 0% |
| 37 | Heacham Norfolk | C+ | 1.5 | 53% | 1.1 | 29% |
| 38 | Forest Row East Sussex | C+ | 0.3 | 51% | 3.4 | 94% |
| 39 | Shirland and Stonebroom Derbyshire | C | 3.7 | 43% | 3 | 0% |
| 40 | Silver End Essex | C | 2 | 88% | 2.1 | 0% |
| 41 | Cubbington Warwickshire | C | 1.5 | 100% | 1.7 | 0% |
| 42 | Tenbury Wells Worcestershire | C | 2.3 | 51% | 2.1 | 3% |
| 43 | Oaklands Hertfordshire | C | 2 | 7% | 4.3 | 0% |
| 44 | Bromyard Herefordshire | C | 0.9 | 100% | 2.1 | 0% |
| 45 | Whiston South Yorkshire | C− | 1 | 75% | 3.8 | 0% |
| 46 | Desford Leicestershire | C− | 1.6 | 90% | 2 | 0% |
| 47 | Holton le Clay Lincolnshire | C− | 2 | 59% | 1.4 | 8% |
| 48 | Lydd Kent | C− | 1.7 | 66% | 0.9 | 0% |
| 49 | Kingston Bagpuize Oxfordshire | C− | 0.8 | 100% | 1.3 | 0% |
| 50 | Swanland East Riding of Yorkshire | C− | 1.1 | 75% | 0.3 | 0% |
| 51 | Sutton Cambridgeshire | D | 1.9 | 82% | 1.1 | 0% |
| 52 | Glyn-neath West Glamorgan | D | 1.3 | 57% | 1.1 | 22% |
| 53 | Crowle Lincolnshire | D | 1.3 | 91% | 1 | 0% |
| 54 | Puckeridge and Standon Hertfordshire | D | 0.9 | 59% | 3.2 | 0% |
| 55 | Sutton Bridge Lincolnshire | D | 1.3 | 79% | 0.8 | 0% |
| 56 | North Ferriby East Riding of Yorkshire | D | 0.6 | 33% | 1 | 0% |
| 57 | Willingham Cambridgeshire | D | 1.4 | 73% | 0.8 | 0% |
| 58 | Long Buckby Northamptonshire | D− | 0.6 | 52% | 1.9 | 0% |
| 59 | Penyffordd Clwyd | D− | 0.7 | 36% | 1.6 | 0% |
| 60 | Indian Queens, Fraddon and St Columb Road Cornwall | D− | 0.7 | 27% | 1.6 | 0% |
The map
Parks, footpaths & countryside
Tap a number to zoom to a park. Tap a layer to hide it. The dashed line is Silver End’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 Silver End
The biggest is Boars Tye Green, 0.1 ha (0 acres). Directions go to the park’s nearest public entrance where Ordnance Survey maps one.
Silver Bowl
Play space
0.1 ha (0 acres)
Centralin the middle of Silver End
Directionsto the nearest entrance
Close to home
How close Silver End’s homes are to 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 (88%)Further (12%)
Silver End88%
Towns its size83%
Essex towns84%
All UK towns83%
About 500 people live further than that. Playing fields count, so a park within reach isn’t always one with paths or trees; 5 playgrounds are mapped in and around the town, about one for every 783 residents.
National Parks & National Landscapes
The Dedham Vale National Landscape is 10 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
Footpaths & waymarked walks
2 waymarked walks pass through or near Silver End
18 km of footpaths, bridleways and rights of way are mapped in Silver End and the kilometre around it, 2.1 km for every square kilometre (the typical UK town has 3.0). Bars show each route’s kilometres within 2 km of the town.
RegionalLocal
Essex Way (Epping to Stratford St Mary)6.9 km
John Ray Walk5.9 km
Close to home, the John Ray Walk has 6 km of local walk within 2 km of the town. The regional route here is the Essex Way (Epping to Stratford St Mary).
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 Silver End: 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) | 8.3 | 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 | 21 | 23 | 23 | 20 | 15 | 11 | 8 |
| Rain (mm) | 52 | 42 | 34 | 42 | 49 | 52 | 44 | 57 | 47 | 63 | 61 | 57 |
March is the driest month (34 mm) and July the warmest (highs of 23 °C). Winter days are short, about 8 hours of daylight in December, and 63 mm of rain falls in October, the wettest month. Frost comes on about 40 nights a year. The climate in Silver End →
Things to do
5 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
Silver End is inland. These are the nearest named beaches, measured from the edge of the town.
Mill Beach8.4 mi from Silver End’s edge
DirectionsEast Point Beach11 mi from Silver End’s edge
DirectionsWeymarks Beach14 mi from Silver End’s edge
DirectionsSt Osyth Naturist Beach19 mi from Silver End’s edge
DirectionsBrooklands Beach21 mi from Silver End’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
Next door
The outdoors in nearby towns
The nearest towns of 1,000+ within 12 miles. Tap a town for its outdoors page.
Tye GreenBlack NotleyCoggeshallWithamBraintreeKelvedon and FeeringSilver End
ABCDOutdoors Grade
| Town | Outdoors | Green space, ha per 1,000 | Near a park | Protected within 5 km |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Silver End | C | 2.0 | 88% | 0% |
| Tye Green 1.7 mi | B | 2.0 | 100% | 0% |
| Black Notley 2.4 mi | C− | 1.6 | 36% | 0% |
| Coggeshall 3.2 mi | C | 2.1 | 84% | 0% |
| Witham 3.4 mi | B | 1.9 | 94% | 0% |
| Braintree 3.4 mi | B− | 1.7 | 89% | 0% |
| Kelvedon and Feering 3.6 mi | B− | 3.5 | 94% | 0% |
Witham, 3.4 miles away, grades B, the best next door: 94% of its residents live within 400 m of a park. None of the neighbours has a protected landscape within 5 km either.
Questions about the outdoors in Silver End
What is the biggest park in Silver End?
Boars Tye Green, 0.1 ha (0 acres). Silver Bowl (0.1 ha) is second. 2 named parks, gardens and playing fields are in the town or within 400 m of it.
Is Silver End near a National Park?
The nearest protected landscape is the Dedham Vale National Landscape, 10 mi north-east of the town’s edge. It covers 91 km² and was designated in 1970.
What are the best walks near Silver End?
2 waymarked walking routes pass within 2 km of the town, including the Essex Way (Epping to Stratford St Mary) and John Ray Walk.
What is the nearest beach to Silver End?
Mill Beach, 8.4 mi from the edge of the town, then East Point Beach (11 mi). Silver End itself is inland.
How many people in Silver End live near a park?
88% 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 Silver End?
May to September: the longest days, the warmest afternoons and the least rain of the year, from the Met Office 1991–2020 averages.
Is Silver End good for walking?
Paths are thinner than most towns: 2.1 km of footpath and right of way per square kilometre, more than 32% of UK towns. For park space per person it beats 44% (2.0 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 Silver End’s overall grade.
Sources
Where Silver End’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.