Syrena House · Photo: Michael Dibb · CC BY-SA 2.070% of the land within 5 km of Stratton is National Park or National Landscape
The Cotswolds National Landscape reaches the edge of Stratton. Parks and playing fields in Stratton add up to 0.7 ha for every 1,000 residents; the typical UK town has 2.1. 46% of residents live within a 5-minute walk of a park or playing field. Stratton grades C for the outdoors. A character grade: it isn’t part of the overall grade.
What kind of outdoors town is Stratton?
Read from the data: what stands out first, good and bad.
Stratton’s strongest suit is protected countryside on the doorstep. Where it falls short is park space per person.
Stratton grades C for the outdoors
Each chart is every UK town of 1,000 or more on one measure: the green bar is Stratton, 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.
Stratton is 37th of 60 UK towns its size for the outdoors
The 60 UK towns and cities of 2,500 to 2,700 people with an Outdoors Grade. Hover a dot for its figures; tap one for its page.
Against towns its size, Stratton stands out most for path per km²: only 17 of the other 59 have more. It falls furthest behind on park space per resident, where 57 of the others do better.
Show as a table
| Town | Outdoors | Green space | Near a park | Path per km² | Protected | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Petworth West Sussex | A+ | 29.6 | 100% | 4.1 | 93% |
| 2 | Tywardreath Cornwall | A+ | 4.6 | 100% | 2.5 | 26% |
| 3 | Shalford Surrey | A+ | 14.9 | 89% | 4.8 | 47% |
| 4 | Silloth Cumbria | A+ | 7.3 | 100% | 1.4 | 17% |
| 5 | Hopton on Sea Norfolk | A+ | 6.7 | 100% | 1.6 | 2% |
| 6 | Hellingly East Sussex | A | 6.9 | 90% | 3.7 | 11% |
| 7 | Dolgellau Gwynedd | A | 3.6 | 100% | 1.9 | 100% |
| 8 | Binley Woods Warwickshire | A | 5.5 | 100% | 4.3 | 0% |
| 9 | Maple Cross Hertfordshire | A | 3.1 | 100% | 2.9 | 14% |
| 10 | Hawley Hampshire | A | 6.9 | 92% | 5.8 | 0% |
| 11 | Chopwell Tyne and Wear | A | 7.5 | 100% | 3.4 | 0% |
| 12 | Longford Gloucestershire | A | 11.9 | 100% | 3.3 | 0% |
| 13 | Darenth Kent | A− | 1.8 | 100% | 4.3 | 1% |
| 14 | Drybrook Gloucestershire | A− | 3.9 | 83% | 3.4 | 10% |
| 15 | South Anston South Yorkshire | A− | 3.5 | 100% | 3.4 | 0% |
| 16 | Stewartby Bedfordshire | A− | 21 | 100% | 2.4 | 0% |
| 17 | Saundersfoot Dyfed | A− | 10.2 | 69% | 0.9 | 19% |
| 18 | Langold Nottinghamshire | B+ | 13 | 100% | 2.3 | 0% |
| 19 | Porthmadog Gwynedd | B+ | 0.9 | 94% | 2 | 41% |
| 20 | Thornley County Durham | B+ | 3.2 | 100% | 2.9 | 0% |
| 21 | Witton Gilbert County Durham | B+ | 2.1 | 100% | 3.9 | 0% |
| 22 | Craven Arms Shropshire | B | 1.3 | 87% | 2.9 | 59% |
| 23 | Barlestone Leicestershire | B | 3 | 100% | 2.3 | 0% |
| 24 | Oakley Bedfordshire | B | 3.2 | 100% | 2 | 0% |
| 25 | Pannal North Yorkshire | B− | 3.7 | 77% | 3 | 0% |
| 26 | Coundon and Leeholme County Durham | B− | 4.4 | 100% | 1 | 0% |
| 27 | Brewood Staffordshire | B− | 3 | 100% | 1.6 | 0% |
| 28 | Seer Green Buckinghamshire | B− | 1.7 | 38% | 3.8 | 35% |
| 29 | Grimsargh Lancashire | B− | 2.6 | 67% | 2.8 | 2% |
| 30 | Ash Green Warwickshire | B− | 3.4 | 67% | 3.6 | 0% |
| 31 | Timsbury Somerset | B− | 2.7 | 68% | 4.1 | 0% |
| 32 | Bishop's Itchington Warwickshire | C+ | 1.5 | 100% | 2.8 | 0% |
| 33 | Shepley West Yorkshire | C+ | 1.6 | 87% | 3.5 | 0% |
| 34 | Dunchurch Warwickshire | C+ | 7.8 | 68% | 2.2 | 0% |
| 35 | Caton Lancashire | C+ | 1.2 | 72% | 2.2 | 67% |
| 36 | Steeple Claydon Buckinghamshire | C+ | 1.5 | 100% | 2.2 | 0% |
| 37 | Stratton Gloucestershire | C | 0.7 | 46% | 3.3 | 70% |
| 38 | Heage Derbyshire | C | 1.9 | 78% | 3.1 | 0% |
| 39 | Watlington Norfolk | C | 2.3 | 100% | 0.6 | 0% |
| 40 | Smallfield Surrey | C | 1.6 | 70% | 2.4 | 1% |
| 41 | Llandybie Dyfed | C | 2.6 | 59% | 1.2 | 13% |
| 42 | Laleham Surrey | C | 9.8 | 34% | 2.1 | 0% |
| 43 | Marham Norfolk | C | 3.5 | 85% | 0.4 | 0% |
| 44 | Ash (Dover) Kent | C | 2.3 | 72% | 2.4 | 0% |
| 45 | Hatton Derbyshire | C− | 3.3 | 61% | 1.7 | 0% |
| 46 | Costessey Norfolk | C− | 1.8 | 12% | 3.5 | 0% |
| 47 | Loggerheads Staffordshire | C− | 1.2 | 86% | 2.1 | 0% |
| 48 | Cwm Gwent | C− | 2 | 12% | 3.1 | 0% |
| 49 | Cliffe Kent | C− | 1.1 | 55% | 1.9 | 0% |
| 50 | Probus Cornwall | C− | 0.6 | 75% | 1.5 | 15% |
| 51 | Lampeter Dyfed | D | 1.5 | 88% | 0.9 | 0% |
| 52 | Keele Staffordshire | D | 1.1 | 0% | 3.6 | 0% |
| 53 | Fordham Cambridgeshire | D | 2.3 | 35% | 1.7 | 0% |
| 54 | Clophill Bedfordshire | D | 0.7 | 41% | 3.1 | 0% |
| 55 | Silverstone Northamptonshire | D | 1.1 | 0% | 2.8 | 0% |
| 56 | Watton at Stone Hertfordshire | D | 0.8 | 61% | 2.3 | 0% |
| 57 | Holme upon Spalding Moor East Riding of Yorkshire | D− | 1.5 | 41% | 0.8 | 0% |
| 58 | Nafferton East Riding of Yorkshire | D− | 1.3 | 56% | 0.6 | 0% |
| 59 | Rhos West Glamorgan | D− | 1 | 58% | 0.8 | 0% |
| 60 | Cranwell Lincolnshire | D− | 0.5 | 57% | 1.1 | 0% |
Parks, footpaths & countryside
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5 in 10 Stratton 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 1,400 people live further than that. Playing fields count, so a park within reach isn’t always one with paths or trees; 7 playgrounds are mapped in and around the town, about one for every 365 residents.
National Parks and National Landscapes around Stratton
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.
Cotswolds
70% of the land within 5 km of Stratton is National Park or National Landscape, more than 95% of UK towns.
2 waymarked walks pass through or near Stratton
28 km of footpaths, bridleways and rights of way are mapped in Stratton and the kilometre around it, 3.3 km for every square kilometre (the typical UK town has 3.0). Bars show each route’s kilometres within 2 km of the town.
2 regional routes pass through, including the Monarch's Way and The Roman Way.
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 Stratton: 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 | |
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| 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) | 7 | 8 | 11 | 13 | 17 | 20 | 22 | 22 | 19 | 14 | 10 | 8 |
| Rain (mm) | 87 | 61 | 58 | 58 | 65 | 61 | 61 | 70 | 61 | 88 | 93 | 93 |
April is the driest month (58 mm) and July the warmest (highs of 22 °C). Winter days are short, about 8 hours of daylight in December, and 93 mm of rain falls in November, the wettest month. Frost comes on about 51 nights a year. The climate in Stratton →
7 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
Stratton is inland. These are the nearest named beaches, measured from the edge of the town.
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. Shooters Hill, at 148 m, is the highest named top within 2 km of Stratton.
Every named place, with directions
Viewpoints 1
Hills and peaks 1
Picnic sites 1
Plus 1 picnic site without a name on the map.
Playgrounds 7
Plus 7 playgrounds without a name on the map.
Campsites 1
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Stratton | C | 0.7 | 46% | 70% |
| Cirencester 1.4 mi | A+ | 4.3 | 95% | 48% |
| South Cerney 4.5 mi | B− | 2.5 | 77% | 7% |
| Ashton Keynes 6.2 mi | C+ | 1.7 | 100% | 0% |
| Chalford 7.8 mi | A | 1.6 | 96% | 94% |
| Cricklade 8.0 mi | D | 0.3 | 9% | 0% |
| Fairford 8.5 mi | A− | 3.4 | 100% | 17% |
Cirencester, 1.4 miles away, grades A+, the best next door: 95% of its residents live within 400 m of a park. Cirencester, South Cerney and Ashton Keynes have at least twice Stratton’s green space per resident.
Questions about the outdoors in Stratton
Is Stratton near a National Park?
It covers 2,041 km² and was designated in 1966.
What are the best walks near Stratton?
2 waymarked walking routes pass within 2 km of the town, including the Monarch's Way and The Roman Way.
What is the nearest beach to Stratton?
The Leys Park, 21 mi from the edge of the town. Stratton itself is inland.
How many people in Stratton live near a park?
46% 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 Stratton?
May to September: the longest days, the warmest afternoons and the least rain of the year, from the Met Office 1991–2020 averages.
Is Stratton good for walking?
For paths, yes: 3.3 km of footpath and right of way per square kilometre, more than 66% of UK towns. For park space per person it beats 7% (0.7 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 Stratton’s overall grade.
Where Stratton’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.
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