Odiham’s biggest
Chamberlain Gardens
Park or garden
0.4 ha (1 acres)
Centralin the middle of Odiham
Directionsto the park
Photo: Derek Harper · CC BY-SA 2.0COutdoors Grade
Outdoors in Odiham · parks, paths & countryside
Parks and walks in Odiham
The South Downs National Park begins 4.1 mi from the town’s edge. A park or playing field is within a 5-minute walk for 72% of residents. Parks and playing fields in Odiham add up to 1.9 ha for every 1,000 residents; the typical UK town has 2.1. Odiham grades C for the outdoors. A character grade: it isn’t part of the overall grade.
Green space
1.9 ha
per 1,000 residents
Typical UK town 2.1
Near a park
72%
of residents within 400 m
Typical UK town 83%
Footpaths
57 km
2.8 km per km², town + 1 km
Typical UK town 3.0 per km²
Protected landscape
0%
of the land within 5 km
South Downs starts 4.1 mi out, past the 5 km
Outdoors grade
Odiham grades C for the outdoors
Each chart is every UK town of 1,000 or more on one measure: the green bar is Odiham, 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 25% of UK towns45th of 60 UK towns its size
Public green space1.9 haper 1,000 residents: parks, gardens, playing fields, play spaces
42out of
100
100
A park within a walk72%of residents within 400 m (a 5-minute walk)
34out of
100
100
National Park or National Landscape0%of the land within 5 km · South Downs begins just past 5 km
31out of
100
100
Footpaths2.8 kmper km², the town and 1 km around it
55out 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
Odiham is 45th of 60 UK towns its size for the outdoors
The 60 UK towns and cities of 4,900 to 5,300 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
Odiham2.8
Towns its size2.6
Hampshire towns3.3
All UK towns3.0
Green space, ha per 1,000 residents
Odiham1.9
Towns its size2.4
Hampshire towns2.8
All UK towns2.1
Residents within 400 m of a park
Odiham72%
Towns its size77%
Hampshire towns80%
All UK towns83%
Odiham falls furthest behind on park space per resident, where 35 of the 59 others do better.
Show as a table
| Town | Outdoors | Green space | Near a park | Path per km² | Protected | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Cookham Berkshire | A+ | 8.3 | 96% | 4.3 | 19% |
| 2 | Pill Somerset | A+ | 5.2 | 100% | 3.8 | 0% |
| 3 | Weston Dorset | A+ | 2.5 | 95% | 7.6 | 0% |
| 4 | Whitehill Hampshire | A+ | 10.2 | 74% | 5.1 | 58% |
| 5 | Hungerford Berkshire | A+ | 9.1 | 85% | 3.2 | 100% |
| 6 | Burry Port Dyfed | A+ | 11.8 | 75% | 2.8 | 17% |
| 7 | Moreton-in-Marsh Gloucestershire | A | 5 | 100% | 1.8 | 55% |
| 8 | Rhymney Gwent | A | 2.9 | 97% | 3.8 | 6% |
| 9 | Meols Merseyside | A | 3.1 | 100% | 2.2 | 0% |
| 10 | Holmfirth West Yorkshire | A | 2.2 | 88% | 4.6 | 27% |
| 11 | Fitzwilliam and Kinsley West Yorkshire | A− | 11.5 | 100% | 3 | 0% |
| 12 | Budleigh Salterton Devon | A− | 2.7 | 70% | 2.3 | 38% |
| 13 | Fordingbridge Hampshire | A− | 3.6 | 92% | 2 | 56% |
| 14 | Coleford Gloucestershire | A− | 2.8 | 66% | 4.3 | 48% |
| 15 | Needham Market Suffolk | A− | 7.2 | 88% | 4 | 0% |
| 16 | Overseal and Castle Gresley Derbyshire | A− | 2.5 | 100% | 4.4 | 0% |
| 17 | Northam Devon | A− | 6.8 | 43% | 2 | 16% |
| 18 | Huthwaite Nottinghamshire | B+ | 8.1 | 75% | 4.9 | 0% |
| 19 | Seaton Cumbria | B+ | 2.5 | 87% | 2.6 | 0% |
| 20 | Long Ashton Somerset | B+ | 10.2 | 66% | 4.7 | 0% |
| 21 | Fremington Devon | B+ | 1.4 | 88% | 2.1 | 10% |
| 22 | Stone Cross East Sussex | B+ | 1.4 | 86% | 2.3 | 9% |
| 23 | Easingwold North Yorkshire | B | 4.3 | 86% | 1.5 | 14% |
| 24 | Grimethorpe South Yorkshire | B | 2.5 | 100% | 2.8 | 0% |
| 25 | Benson Oxfordshire | B | 6 | 44% | 2.3 | 50% |
| 26 | Market Rasen Lincolnshire | B | 2.6 | 94% | 1.6 | 16% |
| 27 | Sedgefield County Durham | B | 6.2 | 81% | 2.8 | 0% |
| 28 | Redbourn Hertfordshire | B | 2.4 | 70% | 3.2 | 11% |
| 29 | Iver Heath Buckinghamshire | B | 28.9 | 53% | 3.8 | 0% |
| 30 | Virginia Water Surrey | B | 14.5 | 72% | 3 | 0% |
| 31 | Hebden Bridge West Yorkshire | B− | 1.6 | 84% | 7.8 | 0% |
| 32 | Abercarn Gwent | B− | 3 | 100% | 1.8 | 0% |
| 33 | Whitburn Tyne and Wear | B− | 2.5 | 46% | 2.5 | 0% |
| 34 | Wotton-under-Edge Gloucestershire | C+ | 0.4 | 32% | 5.4 | 60% |
| 35 | Wool Dorset | C+ | 2.3 | 51% | 2.5 | 33% |
| 36 | Sacriston County Durham | C+ | 2.1 | 72% | 4 | 0% |
| 37 | Steeton West Yorkshire | C+ | 1.3 | 100% | 2.7 | 0% |
| 38 | Moulton Northamptonshire | C+ | 3.3 | 88% | 1.7 | 0% |
| 39 | Church Lancashire | C | 1.5 | 79% | 3.9 | 0% |
| 40 | Billinge Merseyside | C | 0.9 | 94% | 3 | 0% |
| 41 | Treharris Mid Glamorgan | C | 2.6 | 72% | 2.6 | 0% |
| 42 | Bungay Suffolk | C | 0.5 | 78% | 2.6 | 12% |
| 43 | Sutton on Sea and Trusthorpe Lincolnshire | C | 1.8 | 67% | 1.5 | 0% |
| 44 | Havercroft and Ryhill West Yorkshire | C | 1.6 | 81% | 2.8 | 0% |
| 45 | Odiham Hampshire | C | 1.9 | 72% | 2.8 | 0% |
| 46 | Long Stratton Norfolk | C− | 1 | 89% | 2.5 | 0% |
| 47 | Jaywick Essex | C− | 1.1 | 75% | 1.4 | 0% |
| 48 | Bayston Hill Shropshire | C− | 1.8 | 70% | 2.7 | 0% |
| 49 | Shavington Cheshire | C− | 1.1 | 87% | 2.1 | 0% |
| 50 | Potton Bedfordshire | D | 1.3 | 77% | 2.1 | 0% |
| 51 | Haslington Cheshire | D | 1.8 | 41% | 2.6 | 0% |
| 52 | Gresford Clwyd | D | 1.4 | 76% | 1.8 | 0% |
| 53 | Moorends South Yorkshire | D | 2.2 | 39% | 0.8 | 0% |
| 54 | Winslow Buckinghamshire | D− | 1.4 | 59% | 1.5 | 0% |
| 55 | Lepton West Yorkshire | D− | 0.9 | 36% | 2.3 | 0% |
| 56 | Wingate County Durham | D− | 1 | 64% | 1.5 | 0% |
| 57 | Harleston Norfolk | D− | 0.2 | 42% | 2.2 | 0% |
| 58 | Appley Bridge Greater Manchester | D− | 0.5 | 44% | 1.8 | 0% |
| 59 | Shotton Colliery County Durham | D− | 0.9 | 40% | 1.5 | 0% |
| 60 | Somerton Somerset | D− | 0.6 | 48% | 1 | 0% |
The map
Parks, footpaths & countryside
Tap a number to zoom to a park. Tap a layer to hide it. The dashed line is Odiham’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 Odiham
The biggest is Chamberlain Gardens, 0.4 ha (1 acres). Directions go to the park’s nearest public entrance where Ordnance Survey maps one.
Close to home
7 in 10 Odiham 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).
Within 400 m (72%)Further (28%)
Odiham72%
Towns its size77%
Hampshire towns80%
All UK towns83%
About 1,400 people live further than that. Playing fields count, so a park within reach isn’t always one with paths or trees; 14 playgrounds are mapped in and around the town, about one for every 364 residents.
National Parks & National Landscapes
The South Downs National Park is 4.1 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
Protected landscape begins just outside the 5 km ring the Outdoors Grade measures, so Odiham scores 0% on it even though the South Downs National Park is 4.1 mi away. South Downs National Park covers 1,653 km² and has been a National Park since 2010.
Footpaths & waymarked walks
2 waymarked walks pass through or near Odiham
57 km of footpaths, bridleways and rights of way are mapped in Odiham and the kilometre around it, 2.8 km for every square kilometre (the typical UK town has 3.0). Bars show each route’s kilometres within 2 km of the town.
Regional
Three Castles Path8.3 km
Basingstoke Canal7.3 km
2 regional routes pass through, including the Three Castles Path and Basingstoke Canal.
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 Odiham: 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 | 16.6 | 16.1 | 14.6 | 12.5 | 10.6 | 8.8 | 7.9 |
| High (°C) | 8 | 8 | 11 | 14 | 18 | 20 | 23 | 22 | 19 | 15 | 11 | 8 |
| Rain (mm) | 81 | 57 | 48 | 53 | 50 | 50 | 54 | 59 | 60 | 83 | 88 | 78 |
March is the driest month (48 mm) and July the warmest (highs of 23 °C). Winter days are short, about 8 hours of daylight in December, and 88 mm of rain falls in November, the wettest month. Frost comes on about 42 nights a year. The climate in Odiham →
Things to do
14 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
Odiham is inland. These are the nearest named beaches, measured from the edge of the town.
Penguin Beach5.1 mi from Odiham’s edge
DirectionsAmity Beach21 mi from Odiham’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. Wells Hill, at 125 m, is the highest named top within 2 km of Odiham.
Every named place, with directions
Hills and peaks 6
Wells Hill125 m (410 ft) · 1.0 mi from town
DirectionsPlus 5 hills and peaks without a name on the map.
Nature reserves 1
Coal House Corner Nature Reserve0.2 ha · 1.2 mi from town
DirectionsPlaygrounds 14
South Warnborough Playground0.8 mi from town
DirectionsPlus 13 playgrounds without a name on the map.
Campsites 1
Fox & Goose Campsite0.6 mi from town
DirectionsNext door
The outdoors in nearby towns
The nearest towns of 1,000+ within 12 miles. Tap a town for its outdoors page.
HookHartley WintneyCrondallOld BasingFleetElvetham HeathOdiham
ABCDOutdoors Grade
| Town | Outdoors | Green space, ha per 1,000 | Near a park | Protected within 5 km |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Odiham | C | 1.9 | 72% | 0% |
| Hook 2.3 mi | B− | 2.4 | 80% | 0% |
| Hartley Wintney 3.8 mi | B+ | 6.1 | 82% | 0% |
| Crondall 3.9 mi | C+ | 3.6 | 73% | 1% |
| Old Basing 4.1 mi | A− | 13.6 | 92% | 0% |
| Fleet 4.8 mi | B+ | 3.3 | 79% | 0% |
| Elvetham Heath 4.8 mi | A− | 8.7 | 100% | 0% |
Elvetham Heath, 4.8 miles away, grades A−, the best next door: every resident lives within 400 m of a park. Hartley Wintney, Old Basing and Elvetham Heath have at least twice Odiham’s green space per resident.
Questions about the outdoors in Odiham
What is the biggest park in Odiham?
Chamberlain Gardens, 0.4 ha (1 acres). 1 named park, garden or playing field is in the town or within 400 m of it.
Is Odiham near a National Park?
Yes. South Downs National Park begins 4.1 mi south of the town’s edge. It covers 1,653 km² and has been a National Park since 2010.
What are the best walks near Odiham?
2 waymarked walking routes pass within 2 km of the town, including the Three Castles Path and Basingstoke Canal.
What is the nearest beach to Odiham?
Penguin Beach, 5.1 mi from the edge of the town, then Amity Beach (21 mi). Odiham itself is inland.
How many people in Odiham live near a park?
72% 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 Odiham?
May to September: the longest days, the warmest afternoons and the least rain of the year, from the Met Office 1991–2020 averages.
Is Odiham good for walking?
About average for paths: 2.8 km of footpath and right of way per square kilometre, more than 55% of UK towns. For park space per person it beats 42% (1.9 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 Odiham’s overall grade.
Sources
Where Odiham’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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