Charfield’s biggest
The St James Mews Play Area
Play space
0.3 ha (1 acres)0.2 km of path
Centralin the middle of Charfield
Directionsto the nearest entrance
Photo: Ray Bird · CC BY-SA 2.0B+Outdoors Grade
Outdoors in Charfield · parks, paths & countryside
Almost everyone in Charfield lives within a 5-minute walk of a park
The Cotswolds National Landscape begins 1.1 mi from the town’s edge. Parks and playing fields in Charfield add up to 1.3 ha for every 1,000 residents; the typical UK town has 2.1. 28 km of footpaths run through the town and the kilometre around it, 3.0 for every square kilometre. Charfield grades B+ for the outdoors: #32 of 48 in Gloucestershire. A character grade: it isn’t part of the overall grade.
Green space
1.3 ha
per 1,000 residents
Typical UK town 2.1
Near a park
100%
of residents within 400 m
Typical UK town 83%
Footpaths
28 km
3.0 km per km², town + 1 km
Typical UK town 3.0 per km²
Protected landscape
22%
of the land within 5 km
Nearest: Cotswolds National Landscape
Character
What kind of outdoors town is Charfield?
Read from the data: what stands out first, good and bad.
A park on every doorstep100% of residents live within 400 m of a park or playing field.Countryside close byThe Cotswolds National Landscape starts 1.1 mi north-east.Less park per person1.3 ha of parks and playing fields per 1,000 residents; the typical UK town has 2.1.
Charfield’s strongest suit is parks close to every home, followed by the Cotswolds National Landscape close by. Where it falls short is park space per person.
Outdoors grade
Charfield grades B+ for the outdoors
Each chart is every UK town of 1,000 or more on one measure: the green bar is Charfield, 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 71% of UK towns#32 of 48 in Gloucestershire · 13th of 60 UK towns its size
Public green space1.3 haper 1,000 residents: parks, gardens, playing fields, play spaces
20out 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 Landscape22%of the land within 5 km
79out of
100
100
Footpaths3.0 kmper km², the town and 1 km around it
60out 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
Charfield is 13th of 60 UK towns its size for the outdoors
The 60 UK towns and cities of 2,700 to 3,000 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
Charfield3.0
Towns its size2.2
Gloucestershire towns3.6
All UK towns3.0
Green space, ha per 1,000 residents
Charfield1.3
Towns its size1.7
Gloucestershire towns2.4
All UK towns2.1
Residents within 400 m of a park
Charfield100%
Towns its size77%
Gloucestershire towns84%
All UK towns83%
Against towns its size, Charfield stands out most for path per km²: only 15 of the other 59 have more. It falls furthest behind on park space per resident, where 41 of the others do better.
Show as a table
| Town | Outdoors | Green space | Near a park | Path per km² | Protected | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Rudloe Wiltshire | A+ | 7.3 | 91% | 4 | 45% |
| 2 | Bruton Somerset | A | 9.3 | 100% | 2.5 | 1% |
| 3 | Penmaenmawr Clwyd | A | 1.7 | 78% | 3.4 | 39% |
| 4 | Hartshill Warwickshire | A | 19 | 100% | 3.5 | 0% |
| 5 | Stoke Mandeville Buckinghamshire | A− | 5.5 | 37% | 6.8 | 29% |
| 6 | Kingsclere Hampshire | A− | 2.2 | 100% | 2.5 | 50% |
| 7 | Wargrave Berkshire | A− | 4 | 100% | 2 | 11% |
| 8 | Threemilestone Cornwall | A− | 3.1 | 100% | 2.6 | 1% |
| 9 | East Saltdean East Sussex | A− | 1.6 | 0% | 4.9 | 44% |
| 10 | Congresbury Somerset | A− | 8.5 | 67% | 3.5 | 10% |
| 11 | Jacksdale and Westwood Nottinghamshire | A− | 2.7 | 100% | 3.9 | 0% |
| 12 | Holywell Green and Stainland West Yorkshire | A− | 4 | 89% | 4.1 | 0% |
| 13 | Charfield Gloucestershire | B+ | 1.3 | 100% | 3 | 22% |
| 14 | South Hetton County Durham | B+ | 3.4 | 100% | 2.5 | 0% |
| 15 | Hertford Heath Hertfordshire | B+ | 1.6 | 100% | 4.4 | 0% |
| 16 | Mundesley Norfolk | B | 1.8 | 79% | 1.5 | 24% |
| 17 | Charlbury Oxfordshire | B | 3.1 | 66% | 2.4 | 65% |
| 18 | Barlborough Derbyshire | B | 4.4 | 100% | 2 | 0% |
| 19 | Rockwell Green Somerset | B | 1 | 90% | 3.2 | 24% |
| 20 | Scholes (near Cleckheaton) West Yorkshire | B | 4 | 89% | 2.5 | 0% |
| 21 | Tollesbury Essex | B− | 2 | 85% | 2.2 | 0% |
| 22 | Chalgrove Oxfordshire | B− | 4.1 | 85% | 1.2 | 4% |
| 23 | Aston Clwyd | B− | 4.4 | 37% | 4.7 | 0% |
| 24 | Waltham Chase Hampshire | B− | 2 | 75% | 2.2 | 39% |
| 25 | Pimperne Dorset | C+ | 1.9 | 72% | 1.9 | 89% |
| 26 | Great Totham Essex | C+ | 2.8 | 100% | 1.3 | 0% |
| 27 | Over Cambridgeshire | C+ | 1.3 | 100% | 2.7 | 0% |
| 28 | Rhostyllen Clwyd | C+ | 1.1 | 68% | 3.7 | 10% |
| 29 | Bluntisham and Colne Cambridgeshire | C+ | 2.3 | 88% | 2.2 | 0% |
| 30 | Rolleston on Dove Staffordshire | C+ | 3.8 | 84% | 1.7 | 0% |
| 31 | Asfordby Leicestershire | C | 4 | 57% | 2.5 | 0% |
| 32 | Alderholt Dorset | C | 1.9 | 43% | 2.3 | 31% |
| 33 | Collingham Nottinghamshire | C | 2.4 | 78% | 2.4 | 0% |
| 34 | Llanfair Pwllgwyngyll Gwynedd | C | 0.8 | 71% | 1.6 | 8% |
| 35 | Barrow upon Humber Lincolnshire | C | 1.5 | 88% | 0.3 | 0% |
| 36 | Kidwelly Dyfed | C | 2.8 | 56% | 1 | 0% |
| 37 | Trimdon County Durham | C | 1 | 100% | 2.2 | 0% |
| 38 | East Goscote Leicestershire | C | 2.9 | 75% | 1.8 | 0% |
| 39 | Corbridge Northumberland | C | 2.2 | 79% | 2.1 | 0% |
| 40 | Maerdy Mid Glamorgan | C− | 1.1 | 100% | 1.8 | 0% |
| 41 | Alrewas Staffordshire | C− | 1.5 | 66% | 3.6 | 0% |
| 42 | Tuxford Nottinghamshire | C− | 1.4 | 100% | 1 | 0% |
| 43 | Mere Wiltshire | C− | 1.6 | 34% | 1.5 | 54% |
| 44 | Clifton Bedfordshire | C− | 1.7 | 64% | 2.6 | 0% |
| 45 | Weedon Bec Northamptonshire | C− | 1.1 | 87% | 2 | 0% |
| 46 | Kirkbymoorside North Yorkshire | C− | 0.4 | 55% | 1.9 | 37% |
| 47 | Thorngumbald East Riding of Yorkshire | D | 1.3 | 69% | 0.5 | 0% |
| 48 | Catterall Lancashire | D | 1 | 47% | 1.9 | 9% |
| 49 | Croston Lancashire | D | 0.6 | 78% | 2.3 | 0% |
| 50 | Sherburn County Durham | D | 0.2 | 0% | 4.1 | 0% |
| 51 | Berinsfield Oxfordshire | D | 0.1 | 0% | 2.1 | 11% |
| 52 | Terrington St Clement Norfolk | D | 1.5 | 53% | 0.4 | 0% |
| 53 | Seghill Northumberland | D | 0.2 | 41% | 3.1 | 0% |
| 54 | Repton Derbyshire | D | 0.8 | 36% | 2.8 | 0% |
| 55 | Pevensey Bay East Sussex | D | 0.5 | 0% | 1.1 | 0% |
| 56 | East Ayton and West Ayton North Yorkshire | D | 0.1 | 0% | 1.2 | 33% |
| 57 | West Winch Norfolk | D | 1.5 | 73% | 0.7 | 0% |
| 58 | Hunmanby North Yorkshire | D | 0.3 | 33% | 1.2 | 0% |
| 59 | Pickmere Cheshire | D− | 0.4 | 71% | 1.6 | 0% |
| 60 | Greetham Rutland | D− | 0.9 | 30% | 0.8 | 0% |
The map
Parks, footpaths & countryside
Tap a number to zoom to a park. Tap a layer to hide it. The dashed line is Charfield’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 Charfield
The biggest is The St James Mews Play Area, 0.3 ha (1 acres). Directions go to the park’s nearest public entrance where Ordnance Survey maps one.
Close to home
How close Charfield’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 (100%)Further (0%)
Charfield100%
Towns its size77%
Gloucestershire towns84%
All UK towns83%
Playing fields count, so a park within reach isn’t always one with paths or trees; 9 playgrounds are mapped in and around the town, about one for every 315 residents.
National Parks & National Landscapes
The Cotswolds National Landscape is 1.1 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
National Landscape
Cotswolds
1.1 mi north-east2,041 km²since 196622% of the land within 5 km
Official site22% of the land within 5 km of Charfield is National Park or National Landscape, more than 79% of UK towns.
Footpaths & waymarked walks
Footpaths in and around Charfield
28 km of footpaths, bridleways and rights of way are mapped in Charfield 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 Charfield; 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 Charfield: May to July and 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 | 16.6 | 16.2 | 14.6 | 12.6 | 10.5 | 8.7 | 7.8 |
| High (°C) | 8 | 9 | 11 | 14 | 17 | 20 | 22 | 22 | 19 | 15 | 11 | 8 |
| Rain (mm) | 80 | 58 | 53 | 52 | 61 | 59 | 61 | 72 | 61 | 84 | 87 | 89 |
April is the driest month (52 mm) and July the warmest (highs of 22 °C). Winter days are short, about 8 hours of daylight in December, and 89 mm of rain falls in December, the wettest month. Frost comes on about 38 nights a year. The climate in Charfield →
Things to do
9 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
Charfield is inland. These are the nearest named beaches, measured from the edge of the town.
Fossil Beach9.7 mi from Charfield’s edge
DirectionsSugar Loaf Beach19 mi from Charfield’s edge
DirectionsLadye Bay22 mi from Charfield’s edge
DirectionsClevedon Beach23 mi from Charfield’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.
Up high. Charfield Hill, at 86 m, is the highest named top within 2 km of Charfield.
Every named place, with directions
Hills and peaks 2
Charfield Hill86 m (282 ft) · 0.1 mi from town
DirectionsAnchorite Hill1.2 mi from town
DirectionsPicnic sites 1
Plus 1 picnic site without a name on the map.
Playgrounds 9
Plus 9 playgrounds without a name on the map.
Slipways 1
Plus 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.
KingswoodWickwarWotton-under-EdgeDursleyHawkesbury UptonThornburyCharfield
ABCDOutdoors Grade
| Town | Outdoors | Green space, ha per 1,000 | Near a park | Protected within 5 km |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Charfield | B+ | 1.3 | 100% | 22% |
| Kingswood 1.5 mi | A | 2.1 | 100% | 45% |
| Wickwar 2.3 mi | A− | 2.0 | 100% | 15% |
| Wotton-under-Edge 2.3 mi | C+ | 0.4 | 32% | 60% |
| Dursley 4.5 mi | A | 1.8 | 90% | 52% |
| Hawkesbury Upton 4.8 mi | A+ | 3.4 | 100% | 73% |
| Thornbury 5.0 mi | A− | 2.5 | 97% | 0% |
Hawkesbury Upton, 4.8 miles away, grades A+, the best next door: every resident lives within 400 m of a park. Hawkesbury Upton has at least twice Charfield’s green space per resident.
Questions about the outdoors in Charfield
What is the biggest park in Charfield?
The St James Mews Play Area, 0.3 ha (1 acres). 1 named park, garden or playing field is in the town or within 400 m of it.
Is Charfield near a National Park?
The nearest protected landscape is the Cotswolds National Landscape, 1.1 mi north-east of the town’s edge. It covers 2,041 km² and was designated in 1966.
What is the nearest beach to Charfield?
Fossil Beach, 9.7 mi from the edge of the town, then Sugar Loaf Beach (19 mi). Charfield itself is inland.
How many people in Charfield 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 Charfield?
May to July and September: the longest days, the warmest afternoons and the least rain of the year, from the Met Office 1991–2020 averages.
Is Charfield good for walking?
About average for paths: 3.0 km of footpath and right of way per square kilometre, more than 60% of UK towns. For park space per person it beats 20% (1.3 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 Charfield’s overall grade.
Sources
Where Charfield’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.