Crockenhill’s biggest
Harvestfield Park
Park or garden
2.8 ha (7 acres)0.5 km of path
4 pitchesfootball pitches would fit
Centralin the middle of Crockenhill
Directionsto the nearest entrance
Photo: Malc McDonald · CC BY-SA 2.0A+Outdoors Grade
Outdoors in Crockenhill · parks, paths & countryside
Almost everyone in Crockenhill lives within a 5-minute walk of a park
Parks and playing fields in Crockenhill add up to 5.2 ha for every 1,000 residents; the typical UK town has 2.1. The Kent Downs National Landscape begins 0.3 mi from the village’s edge. Footpaths add up to 24 km in the village and the kilometre around it, 3.1 for every square kilometre. Crockenhill grades A+ for the outdoors. A character grade: it isn’t part of the overall grade.
Green space
5.2 ha
per 1,000 residents
Typical UK town 2.1
Near a park
100%
of residents within 400 m
Typical UK town 83%
Footpaths
24 km
3.1 km per km², town + 1 km
Typical UK town 3.0 per km²
Protected landscape
27%
of the land within 5 km
Nearest: Kent Downs National Landscape
Character
What kind of outdoors village is Crockenhill?
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.Room to roam5.2 ha of parks and playing fields per 1,000 residents, more than 87% of UK towns.Protected countryside27% of the land within 5 km is Kent Downs National Landscape.
Crockenhill’s strongest suit is parks close to every home, followed by plenty of park space.
Outdoors grade
Crockenhill grades A+ for the outdoors
Each chart is every UK town of 1,000 or more on one measure: the green bar is Crockenhill, the dashed line the typical town. The number is the share of towns it beats; the five are averaged and the average ranked again.
A+
Better than 96% of UK towns6th of 60 UK villages its size
Public green space5.2 haper 1,000 residents: parks, gardens, playing fields, play spaces
87out 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 Landscape27%of the land within 5 km
82out of
100
100
Footpaths3.1 kmper km², the town and 1 km around it
63out 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.
Villages its size
Crockenhill is 6th of 60 UK villages its size for the outdoors
The 60 UK towns and cities of 1,500 to 1,600 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
Crockenhill3.1
Villages its size2.7
Kent towns2.6
All UK towns3.0
Green space, ha per 1,000 residents
Crockenhill5.2
Villages its size2.3
Kent towns2.3
All UK towns2.1
Residents within 400 m of a park
Crockenhill100%
Villages its size81%
Kent towns78%
All UK towns83%
Against villages its size, Crockenhill stands out most for park space per resident: only 8 of the other 59 have more.
Show as a table
| Town | Outdoors | Green space | Near a park | Path per km² | Protected | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Stanhope County Durham | A+ | 7.7 | 100% | 3.5 | 86% |
| 2 | Salcombe Devon | A+ | 2 | 100% | 3.3 | 65% |
| 3 | Finberry Kent | A+ | 4 | 100% | 5.1 | 2% |
| 4 | Dobcross Greater Manchester | A+ | 2.8 | 100% | 4.8 | 22% |
| 5 | Fairlight East Sussex | A+ | 39.6 | 50% | 3.3 | 42% |
| 6 | Crockenhill Kent | A+ | 5.2 | 100% | 3.1 | 27% |
| 7 | Wood Street Village Surrey | A+ | 25.7 | 81% | 4.9 | 18% |
| 8 | Ducklington Oxfordshire | A | 10.1 | 79% | 4.8 | 4% |
| 9 | Roydon Essex | A | 3.5 | 100% | 4.9 | 0% |
| 10 | Haverigg Cumbria | A | 4.7 | 67% | 2.5 | 11% |
| 11 | North Bradley Wiltshire | A | 3.4 | 100% | 4.6 | 0% |
| 12 | Middle Winterslow Wiltshire | A | 7 | 100% | 3.5 | 0% |
| 13 | Collett's Green Worcestershire | A | 3.5 | 100% | 4.3 | 0% |
| 14 | St Athan South Glamorgan | A | 2.2 | 100% | 3 | 0% |
| 15 | Sabden Lancashire | A− | 0.8 | 100% | 5 | 38% |
| 16 | Oakenshaw West Yorkshire | A− | 7.4 | 100% | 3 | 0% |
| 17 | West Wellow Hampshire | A− | 3.6 | 82% | 2.7 | 51% |
| 18 | Thorpe-le-Soken Essex | A− | 4.2 | 100% | 1.4 | 0% |
| 19 | King's Cliffe Northamptonshire | B+ | 3.3 | 100% | 2.9 | 0% |
| 20 | Kimpton Hertfordshire | B+ | 3.7 | 100% | 2.7 | 0% |
| 21 | Littlebourne Kent | B+ | 1.6 | 100% | 3 | 9% |
| 22 | Ambergate Derbyshire | B+ | 2.4 | 100% | 3.4 | 0% |
| 23 | Farcet Cambridgeshire | B+ | 13.8 | 77% | 3.5 | 0% |
| 24 | Tideswell Derbyshire | B | 1.5 | 100% | 1.6 | 97% |
| 25 | Mount Hawke Cornwall | B | 1.4 | 85% | 2 | 6% |
| 26 | Fence Lancashire | B | 1.3 | 62% | 6.2 | 32% |
| 27 | Potterne Wiltshire | B | 1.3 | 77% | 5.1 | 8% |
| 28 | Wick Gloucestershire | B− | 1.8 | 56% | 3.6 | 39% |
| 29 | Mundford Norfolk | B− | 3.1 | 100% | 1.6 | 0% |
| 30 | Gotham Nottinghamshire | B− | 3.9 | 83% | 2.4 | 0% |
| 31 | South Witham Lincolnshire | B− | 2.5 | 100% | 1.9 | 0% |
| 32 | High Harrington Cumbria | C+ | 0.5 | 100% | 1.9 | 0% |
| 33 | Evenwood County Durham | C+ | 3.4 | 100% | 0.8 | 0% |
| 34 | Norton (Norton Juxta Kempsey) Worcestershire | C+ | 0.9 | 100% | 3 | 0% |
| 35 | Bacton and Cotton Suffolk | C+ | 4.4 | 70% | 2.5 | 0% |
| 36 | Rufford Lancashire | C | 2.8 | 70% | 2.8 | 0% |
| 37 | Anna Valley and Upper Clatford Hampshire | C | 2.2 | 77% | 3 | 0% |
| 38 | Four Lanes Cornwall | C | 0.6 | 100% | 2.8 | 0% |
| 39 | Kingsley Cheshire | C | 3.4 | 81% | 1.8 | 0% |
| 40 | Stock Essex | C | 2.2 | 62% | 3.3 | 0% |
| 41 | Arksey South Yorkshire | C− | 1.1 | 88% | 2.4 | 0% |
| 42 | Rawcliffe East Riding of Yorkshire | C− | 1 | 100% | 1.6 | 0% |
| 43 | Glapwell Derbyshire | C− | 2.2 | 60% | 2.6 | 0% |
| 44 | Horsmonden Kent | C− | 0.5 | 79% | 0.9 | 50% |
| 45 | Yalding Kent | C− | 7.1 | 21% | 1.5 | 0% |
| 46 | Sandleheath Hampshire | C− | 0.1 | 0% | 2.6 | 52% |
| 47 | Tidbury Green West Midlands | C− | 2.4 | 49% | 2.4 | 0% |
| 48 | Baston Lincolnshire | C− | 2.3 | 78% | 1 | 0% |
| 49 | Ainsworth Greater Manchester | D | 0.4 | 64% | 3.2 | 0% |
| 50 | Heighington County Durham | D | 2.6 | 64% | 0.4 | 0% |
| 51 | Henstridge Somerset | D | 1.8 | 47% | 2 | 0% |
| 52 | Broadclyst Devon | D | 1.4 | 78% | 1.4 | 0% |
| 53 | Wood End (North Warwickshire) Warwickshire | D | 1.1 | 74% | 1.7 | 0% |
| 54 | Camblesforth North Yorkshire | D | 0.3 | 81% | 1.3 | 0% |
| 55 | Burton Green Warwickshire | D− | 0 | 0% | 2.9 | 0% |
| 56 | Aberford West Yorkshire | D− | 1.3 | 22% | 2.1 | 0% |
| 57 | Edgmond Shropshire | D− | 1.7 | 33% | 1.4 | 0% |
| 58 | Walpole St Peter and Walpole St Andrew Norfolk | D− | 1.7 | 52% | 0.2 | 0% |
| 59 | School Aycliffe County Durham | D− | 0 | 0% | 2.5 | 0% |
| 60 | Leasingham Lincolnshire | D− | 1.3 | 50% | 0.9 | 0% |
The map
Parks, footpaths & countryside
Tap a number to zoom to a park. Tap a layer to hide it. The dashed line is Crockenhill’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 Crockenhill
The biggest is Harvestfield Park, 2.8 ha (7 acres). Directions go to the park’s nearest public entrance where Ordnance Survey maps one.
The Green
Park or garden
0.5 ha (1 acres)
Centralin the middle of Crockenhill
Directionsto the nearest entrance
Close to home
How close Crockenhill’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%)
Crockenhill100%
Villages its size81%
Kent towns78%
All UK towns83%
Playing fields count, so a park within reach isn’t always one with paths or trees; 8 playgrounds are mapped in and around the village, about one for every 196 residents.
National Parks & National Landscapes
The Kent Downs National Landscape is 0.3 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
27% of the land within 5 km of Crockenhill is National Park or National Landscape, more than 82% of UK towns.
Footpaths & waymarked walks
1 waymarked walk passes through or near Crockenhill
24 km of footpaths, bridleways and rights of way are mapped in Crockenhill and the kilometre around it, 3.1 km for every square kilometre (the typical UK town has 3.0). Bars show each route’s kilometres within 2 km of the village.
Regional
Southwark Cathedral to Otford3.8 km
The regional route here is the Southwark Cathedral to Otford.
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 Crockenhill: 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 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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) | 7 | 8 | 11 | 14 | 17 | 20 | 23 | 22 | 19 | 15 | 11 | 8 |
| Rain (mm) | 69 | 48 | 40 | 44 | 49 | 49 | 44 | 55 | 52 | 71 | 68 | 67 |
March is the driest month (40 mm) and July the warmest (highs of 23 °C). Winter days are short, about 8 hours of daylight in December, and 71 mm of rain falls in October, the wettest month. Frost comes on about 55 nights a year. The climate in Crockenhill →
Things to do
8 playgrounds and the nearest beaches
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.
The nearest beaches
Crockenhill is inland. These are the nearest named beaches, measured from the edge of the village.
Northfleet Beach8.3 mi from Crockenhill’s edge
DirectionsDock Beach10 mi from Crockenhill’s edge
DirectionsKelson Beach10 mi from Crockenhill’s edge
DirectionsEgypt Bay Beach18 mi from Crockenhill’s edge
DirectionsSt Mary's Bay Beach19 mi from Crockenhill’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.
Every named place, with directions
Playgrounds 8
Plus 8 playgrounds without a name on the map.
Campsites 1
The Naturist Foundation1.0 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.
SwanleyHextableEynsfordFarninghamJoyden's WoodHorton KirbyCrockenhill
ABCDOutdoors Grade
| Town | Outdoors | Green space, ha per 1,000 | Near a park | Protected within 5 km |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Crockenhill | A+ | 5.2 | 100% | 27% |
| Swanley 1.2 mi | B+ | 1.8 | 78% | 20% |
| Hextable 2.4 mi | A+ | 6.7 | 100% | 9% |
| Eynsford 2.4 mi | B− | 2.1 | 81% | 46% |
| Farningham 2.6 mi | B+ | 1.7 | 100% | 33% |
| Joyden's Wood 3.1 mi | A− | 2.7 | 82% | 4% |
| Horton Kirby 3.7 mi | B | 5.9 | 78% | 21% |
Hextable, 2.4 miles away, grades A+, the best next door: every resident lives within 400 m of a park.
Questions about the outdoors in Crockenhill
What is the biggest park in Crockenhill?
Harvestfield Park, 2.8 ha (7 acres). The Green (0.5 ha) is second. 2 named parks, gardens and playing fields are in the village or within 400 m of it.
Is Crockenhill near a National Park?
The nearest protected landscape is the Kent Downs National Landscape, 0.3 mi south of the village’s edge. It covers 879 km² and was designated in 1968.
What are the best walks near Crockenhill?
1 waymarked walking route passes within 2 km of the village, including the Southwark Cathedral to Otford.
What is the nearest beach to Crockenhill?
Northfleet Beach, 8.3 mi from the edge of the village, then Dock Beach (10 mi). Crockenhill itself is inland.
How many people in Crockenhill 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 Crockenhill?
May to September: the longest days, the warmest afternoons and the least rain of the year, from the Met Office 1991–2020 averages.
Is Crockenhill good for walking?
For paths, yes: 3.1 km of footpath and right of way per square kilometre, more than 63% of UK towns. For park space per person it beats 87% (5.2 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 Crockenhill’s overall grade.
Sources
Where Crockenhill’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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