Tiptree’s biggest
Tiptree Heath
Park or garden
21 ha (52 acres)7.2 km of path
1 h 35 minto walk all 7.2 km of path
29 pitchesfootball pitches would fit
1.2 mi south-westfrom the centre
Directionsto the nearest entrance
Photo: Robert Edwards · CC BY-SA 2.0BOutdoors Grade
Outdoors in Tiptree · parks, paths & countryside
90% of Tiptree’s residents live within a 5-minute walk of a park
Parks and playing fields in Tiptree add up to 2.7 ha for every 1,000 residents; the typical UK town has 2.1. 59 km of footpaths run through the town and the kilometre around it, 3.2 for every square kilometre. Tiptree grades B for the outdoors: #32 of 81 in Essex. A character grade: it isn’t part of the overall grade.
Green space
2.7 ha
per 1,000 residents
Typical UK town 2.1
Near a park
90%
of residents within 400 m
Typical UK town 83%
Footpaths
59 km
3.2 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
Tiptree grades B for the outdoors
Each chart is every UK town of 1,000 or more on one measure: the green bar is Tiptree, the dashed line the typical town. The number is the share of towns it beats; the five are averaged and the average ranked again.
B
Better than 58% of UK towns#32 of 81 in Essex · 34th of 60 UK towns its size
Public green space2.7 haper 1,000 residents: parks, gardens, playing fields, play spaces
65out of
100
100
A park within a walk90%of residents within 400 m (a 5-minute walk)
66out of
100
100
National Park or National Landscape0%of the land within 5 km · None within 5 km
31out of
100
100
Footpaths3.2 kmper km², the town and 1 km around it
64out 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
Tiptree is 34th of 60 UK towns its size for the outdoors
The 60 UK towns and cities of 8,900 to 9,700 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
Tiptree3.2
Towns its size3.3
Essex towns2.7
All UK towns3.0
Green space, ha per 1,000 residents
Tiptree2.7
Towns its size2.6
Essex towns2.4
All UK towns2.1
Residents within 400 m of a park
Tiptree90%
Towns its size85%
Essex towns84%
All UK towns83%
Show as a table
| Town | Outdoors | Green space | Near a park | Path per km² | Protected | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Swanage Dorset | A+ | 6.9 | 95% | 4.2 | 47% |
| 2 | Brynteg Clwyd | A | 8.5 | 100% | 2.8 | 7% |
| 3 | Ilfracombe Devon | A | 2 | 86% | 3 | 28% |
| 4 | Bordon Hampshire | A | 8.6 | 54% | 6.7 | 49% |
| 5 | Killamarsh Derbyshire | A | 10.6 | 97% | 5.5 | 0% |
| 6 | Linthwaite and Slaithwaite West Yorkshire | A | 2.2 | 97% | 4.8 | 12% |
| 7 | New Mills Derbyshire | A | 2.4 | 84% | 5.1 | 34% |
| 8 | Warlingham Surrey | A | 4.2 | 81% | 4.3 | 13% |
| 9 | Nuthall and Watnall Nottinghamshire | A | 6.3 | 97% | 4.3 | 0% |
| 10 | Greasby Merseyside | A | 5.9 | 74% | 3.6 | 0% |
| 11 | Southborough Kent | A− | 2.8 | 94% | 2.5 | 57% |
| 12 | Whiteley Hampshire | A− | 3 | 52% | 4.4 | 2% |
| 13 | Thurmaston Leicestershire | A− | 10.4 | 89% | 4.2 | 0% |
| 14 | Hetton-le-Hole Tyne and Wear | A− | 7.8 | 95% | 3.7 | 0% |
| 15 | Esher Surrey | A− | 6.9 | 86% | 4.8 | 0% |
| 16 | Shelf and Northowram West Yorkshire | A− | 5.3 | 88% | 4.7 | 0% |
| 17 | Billingshurst West Sussex | A− | 2.9 | 95% | 3.1 | 3% |
| 18 | Thurnscoe South Yorkshire | A− | 9.4 | 100% | 2.7 | 0% |
| 19 | Shaftesbury Dorset | A− | 2.8 | 92% | 2.3 | 44% |
| 20 | Aveley Essex | A− | 3.4 | 84% | 2.9 | 0% |
| 21 | Shanklin Isle of Wight | A− | 1.4 | 33% | 4.5 | 29% |
| 22 | Irthlingborough Northamptonshire | A− | 4.7 | 94% | 3.4 | 0% |
| 23 | Yarm North Yorkshire | A− | 3.3 | 96% | 3.8 | 0% |
| 24 | Frodsham Cheshire | B+ | 2.5 | 67% | 4.4 | 0% |
| 25 | Sandiacre Derbyshire | B+ | 2.6 | 94% | 3.8 | 0% |
| 26 | Hayle Cornwall | B+ | 1.4 | 72% | 3.4 | 6% |
| 27 | Banstead Surrey | B+ | 2.4 | 66% | 5.2 | 3% |
| 28 | Pontllanfraith Gwent | B | 3.7 | 93% | 2.7 | 0% |
| 29 | Shildon County Durham | B | 2.8 | 93% | 3.3 | 0% |
| 30 | Hemsworth West Yorkshire | B | 3.6 | 100% | 2.2 | 0% |
| 31 | Gatley Greater Manchester | B | 5.7 | 66% | 4.2 | 0% |
| 32 | Clay Cross Derbyshire | B | 2.6 | 88% | 3.7 | 0% |
| 33 | North Wingfield and Holmewood Derbyshire | B | 2.7 | 84% | 4.1 | 0% |
| 34 | Tiptree Essex | B | 2.7 | 90% | 3.2 | 0% |
| 35 | Perton Staffordshire | B | 2.4 | 93% | 3 | 0% |
| 36 | Yaxley Cambridgeshire | B− | 2.6 | 90% | 3.1 | 0% |
| 37 | Pembroke Dock Dyfed | B− | 1.7 | 80% | 1.1 | 25% |
| 38 | Whitnash Warwickshire | B− | 2 | 95% | 3.3 | 0% |
| 39 | Mildenhall Suffolk | B− | 2.1 | 91% | 3.3 | 0% |
| 40 | Knottingley West Yorkshire | B− | 2.7 | 88% | 2.5 | 0% |
| 41 | Hook Hampshire | B− | 2.4 | 80% | 3.4 | 0% |
| 42 | Caister-on-Sea Norfolk | C+ | 1.1 | 58% | 2.1 | 21% |
| 43 | Wideopen Tyne and Wear | C+ | 2.1 | 75% | 4.2 | 0% |
| 44 | Okehampton Devon | C+ | 0.9 | 85% | 2.2 | 37% |
| 45 | Brandon County Durham | C+ | 2.2 | 72% | 3.6 | 0% |
| 46 | Lydney Gloucestershire | C+ | 2.1 | 52% | 2.5 | 0% |
| 47 | Barwell Leicestershire | C | 1.7 | 90% | 2.6 | 0% |
| 48 | Diss Norfolk | C | 1.5 | 80% | 3.5 | 0% |
| 49 | Milnrow Greater Manchester | C | 2.9 | 58% | 3 | 0% |
| 50 | Kinmel Bay Clwyd | C | 1.8 | 76% | 0.9 | 0% |
| 51 | Shepton Mallet Somerset | C | 1.2 | 70% | 2.8 | 1% |
| 52 | Totnes Devon | C | 0.4 | 65% | 3.3 | 11% |
| 53 | Pencoed Mid Glamorgan | C− | 2.8 | 52% | 2.1 | 0% |
| 54 | Sileby Leicestershire | C− | 1 | 80% | 2.6 | 0% |
| 55 | Shifnal Shropshire | D | 1 | 89% | 1.6 | 0% |
| 56 | Broughton Astley Leicestershire | D | 1 | 82% | 1.9 | 0% |
| 57 | Brandon Suffolk | D | 0.8 | 39% | 3.5 | 0% |
| 58 | Littleport Cambridgeshire | D | 1 | 71% | 2.4 | 0% |
| 59 | Pheasey West Midlands | D− | 0.9 | 40% | 2.4 | 0% |
| 60 | Kirkham Lancashire | D− | 1.3 | 66% | 1.3 | 0% |
The map
Parks, footpaths & countryside
Tap a number to zoom to a park. Tap a layer to hide it. The dashed line is Tiptree’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 Tiptree
The biggest is Tiptree Heath, 21 ha (52 acres). Directions go to the park’s nearest public entrance where Ordnance Survey maps one.
Windmill Green
Park or garden
1.2 ha (3 acres)0.1 km of path
2 pitchesfootball pitches would fit
Centralin the middle of Tiptree
Directionsto the nearest entrance
Close to home
How close Tiptree’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 (90%)Further (11%)
Tiptree90%
Towns its size85%
Essex towns84%
All UK towns83%
About 1,000 people live further than that. Playing fields count, so a park within reach isn’t always one with paths or trees; 6 playgrounds are mapped in and around the town, about one for every 1,550 residents.
National Parks & National Landscapes
The Dedham Vale National Landscape is 9.1 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
Footpaths in and around Tiptree
59 km of footpaths, bridleways and rights of way are mapped in Tiptree and the kilometre around it, 3.2 km for every square kilometre (the typical UK town has 3.0).
No named walking route is mapped within 2 km of Tiptree; 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.
When to get out
The best walking months in Tiptree: 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) | 7 | 8 | 11 | 14 | 17 | 20 | 23 | 23 | 20 | 15 | 11 | 8 |
| Rain (mm) | 51 | 41 | 35 | 39 | 47 | 51 | 47 | 55 | 47 | 65 | 62 | 58 |
March is the driest month (35 mm) and July the warmest (highs of 23 °C). Winter days are short, about 8 hours of daylight in December, and 65 mm of rain falls in October, the wettest month. Frost comes on about 40 nights a year. The climate in Tiptree →
Things to do
6 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
Tiptree is inland. These are the nearest named beaches, measured from the edge of the town.
Mill Beach4.5 mi from Tiptree’s edge
DirectionsEast Point Beach5.8 mi from Tiptree’s edge
DirectionsWeymarks Beach7.9 mi from Tiptree’s edge
DirectionsSt Osyth Naturist Beach13 mi from Tiptree’s edge
DirectionsBrooklands Beach15 mi from Tiptree’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
Playgrounds 6
Plus 6 playgrounds 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.
Tolleshunt KnightsKelvedon and FeeringGreat TothamWickham BishopsMarks TeyCopfordTiptree
ABCDOutdoors Grade
| Town | Outdoors | Green space, ha per 1,000 | Near a park | Protected within 5 km |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tiptree | B | 2.7 | 90% | 0% |
| Tolleshunt Knights 1.3 mi | C− | 3.4 | 41% | 0% |
| Kelvedon and Feering 2.5 mi | B− | 3.5 | 94% | 0% |
| Great Totham 3.7 mi | C+ | 2.8 | 100% | 0% |
| Wickham Bishops 4.0 mi | C+ | 3.4 | 91% | 0% |
| Marks Tey 4.3 mi | B+ | 5.5 | 92% | 0% |
| Copford 4.8 mi | B− | 4.0 | 70% | 0% |
Marks Tey, 4.3 miles away, grades B+, the best next door: 92% of its residents live within 400 m of a park. Marks Tey has at least twice Tiptree’s green space per resident. None of the neighbours has a protected landscape within 5 km either.
Questions about the outdoors in Tiptree
What is the biggest park in Tiptree?
Tiptree Heath, 21 ha (52 acres), with 7.2 km of path. Windmill Green (1.2 ha) is second. 2 named parks, gardens and playing fields are in the town or within 400 m of it.
Is Tiptree near a National Park?
The nearest protected landscape is the Dedham Vale National Landscape, 9.1 mi north of the town’s edge. It covers 91 km² and was designated in 1970.
What is the nearest beach to Tiptree?
Mill Beach, 4.5 mi from the edge of the town, then East Point Beach (5.8 mi). Tiptree itself is inland.
How many people in Tiptree live near a park?
90% 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 Tiptree?
May to September: the longest days, the warmest afternoons and the least rain of the year, from the Met Office 1991–2020 averages.
Is Tiptree good for walking?
For paths, yes: 3.2 km of footpath and right of way per square kilometre, more than 64% of UK towns. For park space per person it beats 65% (2.7 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 Tiptree’s overall grade.
Sources
Where Tiptree’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.