Photo: Philip Halling · CC BY-SA 2.0Colwall Stone is inside the Malvern Hills National Landscape
75 km of footpaths run through the village and the kilometre around it, 5.5 for every square kilometre. Parks and playing fields in Colwall Stone add up to 4.5 ha for every 1,000 residents; the typical UK town has 2.1. Colwall Stone grades A for the outdoors. A character grade: it isn’t part of the overall grade.
What kind of outdoors village is Colwall Stone?
Read from the data: what stands out first, good and bad.
Colwall Stone’s strongest suit is a protected landscape all round, followed by dense footpaths. Where it falls short is how far some homes are from a park.
Colwall Stone grades A for the outdoors
Each chart is every UK town of 1,000 or more on one measure: the green bar is Colwall Stone, 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.
Colwall Stone is 8th of 60 UK villages its size for the outdoors
The 60 UK towns and cities of 1,800 to 1,900 people with an Outdoors Grade. Hover a dot for its figures; tap one for its page.
Against villages its size, Colwall Stone stands out most for path per km²: only 1 of the other 59 has more.
Show as a table
| Town | Outdoors | Green space | Near a park | Path per km² | Protected | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Badshot Lea Surrey | A+ | 25.9 | 100% | 5.2 | 25% |
| 2 | Llanberis Gwynedd | A+ | 33.7 | 100% | 3.9 | 49% |
| 3 | St Just Cornwall | A+ | 1.8 | 100% | 4.2 | 50% |
| 4 | Southwick Wiltshire | A+ | 22.2 | 100% | 5.2 | 1% |
| 5 | Scholes (near Hade Edge) West Yorkshire | A+ | 3.8 | 100% | 4.7 | 16% |
| 6 | Hayfield Derbyshire | A+ | 2.2 | 100% | 4.1 | 62% |
| 7 | Mistley Essex | A | 4.3 | 86% | 1.9 | 41% |
| 8 | Colwall Stone Herefordshire | A | 4.5 | 67% | 5.5 | 64% |
| 9 | Bagworth Leicestershire | A | 11 | 100% | 4.3 | 0% |
| 10 | Newell Green Berkshire | A | 22.6 | 100% | 3.7 | 0% |
| 11 | Ravenstone Leicestershire | A− | 5.3 | 100% | 3.4 | 0% |
| 12 | Wembury Devon | A− | 2.4 | 53% | 2.7 | 41% |
| 13 | Flamborough East Riding of Yorkshire | A− | 1.9 | 100% | 2.3 | 0% |
| 14 | Painswick Gloucestershire | B+ | 1.3 | 81% | 4.3 | 83% |
| 15 | Waddesdon Buckinghamshire | B+ | 3 | 100% | 3 | 0% |
| 16 | Mevagissey Cornwall | B+ | 1.3 | 87% | 1.9 | 29% |
| 17 | Tongwynlais South Glamorgan | B+ | 8.6 | 65% | 5.8 | 0% |
| 18 | Findon West Sussex | B+ | 1.7 | 74% | 3.7 | 70% |
| 19 | Bishop's Castle Shropshire | B+ | 2 | 100% | 1.3 | 53% |
| 20 | Weston Turville Buckinghamshire | B | 2.9 | 64% | 3.1 | 30% |
| 21 | Fernhurst West Sussex | B | 3.1 | 37% | 3 | 92% |
| 22 | Hathersage Derbyshire | B | 1.6 | 58% | 4.5 | 100% |
| 23 | Westham East Sussex | B | 3.8 | 18% | 2.3 | 0% |
| 24 | Little Eaton Derbyshire | B | 4.6 | 85% | 3 | 0% |
| 25 | Rhayader Powys | B | 5.5 | 100% | 1.6 | 0% |
| 26 | Horrabridge Devon | B | 1.4 | 83% | 2.7 | 92% |
| 27 | Campsall South Yorkshire | B | 14.8 | 100% | 0.8 | 0% |
| 28 | Chilcompton Somerset | B− | 6.5 | 40% | 2.9 | 1% |
| 29 | Yelverton Devon | B− | 3.6 | 72% | 1.1 | 85% |
| 30 | Ingrave and Herongate Essex | B− | 5 | 51% | 4 | 0% |
| 31 | Newcastle Emlyn Dyfed | B− | 5.9 | 100% | 0.4 | 0% |
| 32 | Barnburgh and Harlington South Yorkshire | B− | 1.8 | 100% | 2.5 | 0% |
| 33 | Houghton Conquest Bedfordshire | C+ | 1.8 | 100% | 2.3 | 0% |
| 34 | Lowdham Nottinghamshire | C+ | 3.7 | 85% | 1.8 | 0% |
| 35 | Pontlottyn Gwent | C+ | 1.8 | 70% | 4.2 | 0% |
| 36 | Ryton-on-Dunsmore Warwickshire | C | 1.2 | 100% | 2.5 | 0% |
| 37 | Milnthorpe Cumbria | C | 2.2 | 49% | 2 | 39% |
| 38 | Walkington East Riding of Yorkshire | C | 2.3 | 100% | 1 | 0% |
| 39 | Dunkeswell Devon | C | 1.4 | 83% | 0.7 | 87% |
| 40 | Lympstone Devon | C | 1 | 66% | 1.3 | 16% |
| 41 | Scotby Cumbria | C− | 3 | 75% | 1.6 | 0% |
| 42 | Toft Hill and High Etherley County Durham | C− | 2.5 | 83% | 1.2 | 0% |
| 43 | Woolpit Suffolk | C− | 4.3 | 54% | 1.7 | 0% |
| 44 | Hemingbrough North Yorkshire | C− | 1.3 | 100% | 1.1 | 0% |
| 45 | Bradninch Devon | D | 2.3 | 73% | 1.1 | 0% |
| 46 | Thornton-le-Dale North Yorkshire | D | 1.1 | 58% | 1.1 | 29% |
| 47 | Newton Longville Buckinghamshire | D | 2.9 | 18% | 1.5 | 0% |
| 48 | Dunholme Lincolnshire | D | 1.8 | 52% | 2.1 | 0% |
| 49 | Salfords Surrey | D | 1.3 | 12% | 3 | 0% |
| 50 | Rickinghall and Botesdale Suffolk | D | 1.7 | 61% | 1.9 | 0% |
| 51 | Harston Cambridgeshire | D | 1.6 | 45% | 2.1 | 0% |
| 52 | Barnetby le Wold Lincolnshire | D | 1.8 | 59% | 1.2 | 0% |
| 53 | Wragby Lincolnshire | D | 1.3 | 69% | 1.4 | 0% |
| 54 | Hampton in Arden West Midlands | D− | 0.1 | 44% | 2.7 | 0% |
| 55 | Mickle Trafford Cheshire | D− | 0.5 | 70% | 1.8 | 0% |
| 56 | Weeting Norfolk | D− | 1.2 | 68% | 1.1 | 0% |
| 57 | Audlem Cheshire | D− | 0.6 | 50% | 2.2 | 0% |
| 58 | Great Gonerby Lincolnshire | D− | 0.7 | 56% | 1.4 | 0% |
| 59 | Great Barton Suffolk | D− | 1.6 | 19% | 0.5 | 0% |
| 60 | Burstwick East Riding of Yorkshire | D− | 0 | 0% | 1 | 0% |
Parks, footpaths & countryside
Tap a number to zoom to a park. Tap a layer to hide it. The dashed line is Colwall Stone’s built-up area.
7 in 10 Colwall Stone 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 600 people live further than that. Playing fields count, so a park within reach isn’t always one with paths or trees.
National Parks and National Landscapes around Colwall Stone
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.
Malvern Hills
64% of the land within 5 km of Colwall Stone is National Park or National Landscape, more than 94% of UK towns.
4 waymarked walks pass through or near Colwall Stone
75 km of footpaths, bridleways and rights of way are mapped in Colwall Stone and the kilometre around it, 5.5 km for every square kilometre (the typical UK town has 3.0). Bars show each route’s kilometres within 2 km of the village.
4 regional routes pass through, including the Geopark Way, Three Choirs Way (Worcester to Gloucester), Three Choirs Way (Malvern Hills) and Geopark Way (Colwall Link).
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 Colwall Stone: May to September
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 | |
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| Daylight (h) | 8.2 | 9.8 | 11.7 | 13.8 | 15.7 | 16.7 | 16.3 | 14.6 | 12.6 | 10.5 | 8.7 | 7.8 |
| High (°C) | 8 | 8 | 11 | 14 | 17 | 20 | 22 | 22 | 19 | 15 | 11 | 8 |
| Rain (mm) | 64 | 50 | 52 | 53 | 58 | 64 | 56 | 64 | 58 | 77 | 70 | 72 |
February is the driest month (50 mm) and July the warmest (highs of 22 °C). Winter days are short, about 8 hours of daylight in December, and 77 mm of rain falls in October, the wettest month. Frost comes on about 40 nights a year. The climate in Colwall Stone →
3 viewpoints and 2 playgrounds
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.
Every named place, with directions
Viewpoints 3
Plus 3 viewpoints without a name on the map.
Hills and peaks 10
Plus 2 hills and peaks more.
Nature reserves 1
Playgrounds 2
Plus 2 playgrounds without a name on the map.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Colwall Stone | A | 4.5 | 67% | 64% |
| Malvern Wells 1.2 mi | A | 10.8 | 37% | 57% |
| Welland 3.2 mi | B+ | 1.7 | 100% | 38% |
| Great Malvern 3.2 mi | A+ | 3.9 | 90% | 38% |
| Ledbury 4.1 mi | A | 3.3 | 89% | 34% |
| Upton upon Severn 6.1 mi | A− | 4.9 | 90% | 2% |
| Collett's Green 6.8 mi | A | 3.5 | 100% | 0% |
Great Malvern, 3.2 miles away, grades A+, the best next door: 90% of its residents live within 400 m of a park. Malvern Wells has at least twice Colwall Stone’s green space per resident.
Questions about the outdoors in Colwall Stone
What are the best walks near Colwall Stone?
4 waymarked walking routes pass within 2 km of the village, including the Geopark Way, Three Choirs Way (Worcester to Gloucester) and Three Choirs Way (Malvern Hills).
How many people in Colwall Stone live near a park?
67% 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 Colwall Stone?
May to September: the longest days, the warmest afternoons and the least rain of the year, from the Met Office 1991–2020 averages.
Is Colwall Stone good for walking?
For paths, yes: 5.5 km of footpath and right of way per square kilometre, more than 96% of UK towns. For park space per person it beats 85% (4.5 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 Colwall Stone’s overall grade.
Where Colwall Stone’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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