Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
Photo: Robin Webster · CC BY-SA 2.0Footpaths add up to 48 km in the village and the kilometre around it, 6.5 for every square kilometre. Parks and playing fields in Minley add up to 5.7 ha for every 1,000 residents; the typical UK town has 2.1. No park or playing field is mapped within a 5-minute walk of homes in Minley. Minley grades B− for the outdoors. A character grade: it isn’t part of the overall grade.
Read from the data: what stands out first, good and bad.
Minley’s strongest suit is dense footpaths, followed by plenty of park space. Where it falls short is how far some homes are from a park.
Each chart is every UK town of 1,000 or more on one measure: the green bar is Minley, the dashed line the typical town. The number is the share of towns it beats; the five are averaged and the average ranked again.
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.
The 60 UK towns and cities of 1,000 to 1,100 people with an Outdoors Grade. Hover a dot for its figures; tap one for its page.
Against villages its size, Minley stands out most for path per km²: only 1 of the other 59 has more. It falls furthest behind on homes near a park, where 52 of the others do better.
| Town | Outdoors | Green space | Near a park | Path per km² | Protected | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Grove Dorset | A+ | 6 | 100% | 8.7 | 0% |
| 2 | Lizard Cornwall | A+ | 2.3 | 100% | 3.3 | 30% |
| 3 | Uplyme Devon | A+ | 2.4 | 100% | 3 | 61% |
| 4 | Winchelsea Beach East Sussex | A+ | 4.9 | 100% | 1.9 | 45% |
| 5 | East Challow Oxfordshire | A+ | 4.9 | 100% | 3.6 | 44% |
| 6 | Abingworth West Sussex | A | 6.1 | 100% | 2.7 | 27% |
| 7 | Newnham Gloucestershire | A | 4.2 | 100% | 3.2 | 0% |
| 8 | Bellingham Northumberland | A | 8.6 | 100% | 1.8 | 57% |
| 9 | Aberaeron Dyfed | A | 6.1 | 100% | 2.1 | 0% |
| 10 | Shorne Kent | A | 28.3 | 23% | 3.4 | 24% |
| 11 | Silverdale Lancashire | A | 2.3 | 46% | 3.9 | 76% |
| 12 | Misterton Somerset | A | 2.5 | 100% | 2.9 | 35% |
| 13 | Godshill Isle of Wight | A | 2.1 | 100% | 2.7 | 53% |
| 14 | Chedgrave Norfolk | A− | 3 | 100% | 1.7 | 26% |
| 15 | Ardleigh Essex | A− | 3.2 | 100% | 1.5 | 21% |
| 16 | Hyde Heath Buckinghamshire | B+ | 5.4 | 68% | 2.1 | 81% |
| 17 | Llangynidr Powys | B+ | 2.4 | 65% | 3.2 | 100% |
| 18 | Crowlas Cornwall | B+ | 3.3 | 73% | 1.1 | 23% |
| 19 | Loddiswell Devon | B+ | 2.1 | 100% | 1.3 | 53% |
| 20 | Thornwood Common Essex | B+ | 6.1 | 100% | 1.9 | 0% |
| 21 | Clyst Honiton Devon | B+ | 8 | 83% | 3.1 | 0% |
| 22 | Avening Gloucestershire | B | 0.9 | 100% | 2.3 | 97% |
| 23 | Morchard Bishop Devon | B | 2.6 | 100% | 2.8 | 0% |
| 24 | Thornton Leicestershire | B | 13.7 | 50% | 4.9 | 0% |
| 25 | Flamstead Hertfordshire | B | 2.1 | 82% | 2.7 | 33% |
| 26 | Llanymynech Shropshire | B | 2 | 100% | 2.9 | 0% |
| 27 | Minley Hampshire | B− | 5.7 | 0% | 6.5 | 0% |
| 28 | High Shincliffe County Durham | B− | 0.5 | 100% | 4.6 | 0% |
| 29 | King's Bromley Staffordshire | B− | 3.4 | 100% | 1.2 | 0% |
| 30 | Derry Hill and Studley Wiltshire | C+ | 1.2 | 100% | 1.7 | 1% |
| 31 | St Newlyn East Cornwall | C+ | 3 | 100% | 0.7 | 0% |
| 32 | Little Waltham Essex | C+ | 2.3 | 63% | 3.8 | 0% |
| 33 | Simister Greater Manchester | C | 16.6 | 0% | 2.7 | 0% |
| 34 | Warmington Northamptonshire | C | 1.6 | 100% | 2 | 0% |
| 35 | Little Melton Norfolk | C | 4.2 | 72% | 2 | 0% |
| 36 | Hilton Cambridgeshire | C | 6.8 | 70% | 1.8 | 0% |
| 37 | Huby (Hambleton) North Yorkshire | C | 2.4 | 75% | 1.5 | 2% |
| 38 | Upper Bucklebury Berkshire | C | 0.1 | 0% | 4 | 48% |
| 39 | Elswick Lancashire | C | 1.8 | 100% | 0.8 | 0% |
| 40 | Freethorpe Norfolk | C− | 2.3 | 26% | 0.7 | 61% |
| 41 | Ansley Warwickshire | C− | 1.8 | 64% | 2.8 | 0% |
| 42 | Ewyas Harold Herefordshire | C− | 2.1 | 55% | 2.8 | 0% |
| 43 | Hoylandswaine South Yorkshire | C− | 1.4 | 60% | 3.6 | 0% |
| 44 | Marchwiel Clwyd | C− | 1.1 | 100% | 1 | 0% |
| 45 | Castle Hedingham Essex | C− | 1.7 | 52% | 3.1 | 0% |
| 46 | Swarthmoor Cumbria | C− | 0.2 | 79% | 1.5 | 0% |
| 47 | Surfleet Lincolnshire | C− | 4.2 | 0% | 1.8 | 0% |
| 48 | Scole Norfolk | C− | 2.1 | 51% | 2.5 | 0% |
| 49 | New Quay Dyfed | D | 1.2 | 30% | 1.3 | 0% |
| 50 | Sutton St James Lincolnshire | D | 0.1 | 100% | 0.6 | 0% |
| 51 | Skidby East Riding of Yorkshire | D | 2.8 | 56% | 0.9 | 0% |
| 52 | Snitterfield Warwickshire | D | 2.4 | 63% | 0.8 | 0% |
| 53 | Northop Clwyd | D | 1.6 | 70% | 1.3 | 0% |
| 54 | Hevingham Norfolk | D | 1.8 | 0% | 2 | 0% |
| 55 | Waltham on the Wolds Leicestershire | D | 2 | 23% | 1.7 | 0% |
| 56 | Horsham St Faith Norfolk | D | 0.9 | 52% | 1.1 | 0% |
| 57 | Henham Essex | D | 0 | 0% | 3 | 0% |
| 58 | Methwold Norfolk | D− | 1.8 | 61% | 0.5 | 0% |
| 59 | Wainfleet St Mary Lincolnshire | D− | 0.1 | 0% | 1.5 | 0% |
| 60 | Ranby Nottinghamshire | D− | 0 | 0% | 0.8 | 0% |
Tap a number to zoom to a park. Tap a layer to hide it. The dashed line is Minley’s built-up area.
The biggest is Yateley Common, 178 ha (439 acres). Directions go to the park’s nearest public entrance where Ordnance Survey maps one.
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 1,000 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 village, about one for every 174 residents.
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.
South Downs National Park covers 1,653 km² and has been a National Park since 2010.
48 km of footpaths, bridleways and rights of way are mapped in Minley and the kilometre around it, 6.5 km for every square kilometre (the typical UK town has 3.0).
No named walking route is mapped within 2 km of Minley; 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.
Historic England’s register of parks and gardens, and the listed buildings and scheduled monuments that stand inside Minley’s named parks.
A listed building or monument counts when it sits inside the park’s OS Open Greenspace outline (to about 15 m), so a few at the boundary are included. Historic England, National Heritage List for England.
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 | 16.6 | 16.2 | 14.6 | 12.5 | 10.6 | 8.8 | 7.9 |
| High (°C) | 8 | 8 | 11 | 14 | 18 | 21 | 23 | 22 | 19 | 15 | 11 | 8 |
| Rain (mm) | 75 | 52 | 46 | 50 | 46 | 50 | 50 | 57 | 56 | 79 | 83 | 74 |
March is the driest month (46 mm) and July the warmest (highs of 23 °C). Winter days are short, about 8 hours of daylight in December, and 83 mm of rain falls in November, the wettest month. Frost comes on about 51 nights a year. The climate in Minley →
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.
Minley is inland. These are the nearest named beaches, measured from the edge of the village.
Check the water before you swim. The Environment Agency tests designated bathing waters from May to September and publishes a rating for each beach.
Plus 1 nature reserve without a name on the map.
Plus 5 playgrounds without a name on the map.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Minley | B− | 5.7 | 0% | 0% |
| Yateley 1.4 mi | A− | 14.9 | 85% | 0% |
| Blackwater 1.7 mi | B+ | 10.6 | 74% | 0% |
| Hawley 1.9 mi | A | 6.9 | 92% | 0% |
| Elvetham Heath 2.3 mi | A− | 8.7 | 100% | 0% |
| Sandhurst 2.6 mi | B+ | 5.1 | 79% | 0% |
| Farnborough 2.7 mi | A | 4.0 | 77% | 3% |
Hawley, 1.9 miles away, grades A, the best next door: 92% of its residents live within 400 m of a park. Yateley has at least twice Minley’s green space per resident.
Yateley Common, 178 ha (439 acres), with 23.1 km of path, just outside the built-up area. 1 named park, garden or playing field is in the village or within 400 m of it.
Yes. South Downs National Park begins 8.3 mi south of the village’s edge. It covers 1,653 km² and has been a National Park since 2010. The nearest protected landscape of any kind is the Surrey Hills National Landscape, 6.8 mi away.
Penguin Beach, 9.2 mi from the edge of the village, then Amity Beach (14 mi). Minley itself is inland.
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%.
May to September: the longest days, the warmest afternoons and the least rain of the year, from the Met Office 1991–2020 averages.
Minley Manor (Grade II) is on Historic England’s register of parks and gardens.
For paths, yes: 6.5 km of footpath and right of way per square kilometre, more than 98% of UK towns. For park space per person it beats 90% (5.7 ha per 1,000 residents).
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 Minley’s overall grade.
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