Eastry’s biggest
Gun Park
Playing field
1.9 ha (5 acres)
3 pitchesfootball pitches would fit
Centralin the middle of Eastry
Directionsto the nearest entrance
Photo: Chris Whippet · CC BY-SA 2.0DOutdoors Grade
Outdoors in Eastry · parks, paths & countryside
77% of Eastry’s residents live within a 5-minute walk of a park
The Kent Downs National Landscape begins 4.7 mi from the village’s edge. 14 km of footpaths run through the village and the kilometre around it, 1.4 for every square kilometre. Parks and playing fields in Eastry add up to 2.0 ha for every 1,000 residents; the typical UK town has 2.1. Eastry grades D for the outdoors. A character grade: it isn’t part of the overall grade.
Green space
2.0 ha
per 1,000 residents
Typical UK town 2.1
Near a park
77%
of residents within 400 m
Typical UK town 83%
Footpaths
14 km
1.4 km per km², town + 1 km
Typical UK town 3.0 per km²
Protected landscape
0%
of the land within 5 km
Kent Downs starts 4.7 mi out, past the 5 km
Character
What kind of outdoors village is Eastry?
Read from the data: what stands out first, good and bad.
Countryside close byThe Kent Downs National Landscape starts 4.7 mi south-west.Few mapped footpaths1.4 km of path per km²; the typical UK town has 3.0.
Eastry’s strongest suit is the Kent Downs National Landscape close by. Where it falls short is footpaths.
Outdoors grade
Eastry grades D for the outdoors
Each chart is every UK town of 1,000 or more on one measure: the green bar is Eastry, the dashed line the typical town. The number is the share of towns it beats; the five are averaged and the average ranked again.
D
Better than 15% of UK towns51st of 60 UK villages its size
Public green space2.0 haper 1,000 residents: parks, gardens, playing fields, play spaces
45out of
100
100
A park within a walk77%of residents within 400 m (a 5-minute walk)
42out of
100
100
National Park or National Landscape0%of the land within 5 km · Kent Downs begins just past 5 km
31out of
100
100
Footpaths1.4 kmper km², the town and 1 km around it
14out 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
Eastry is 51st of 60 UK villages its size for the outdoors
The 60 UK towns and cities of 2,300 to 2,500 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
Eastry1.4
Villages its size2.2
Kent towns2.6
All UK towns3.0
Green space, ha per 1,000 residents
Eastry2.0
Villages its size1.8
Kent towns2.3
All UK towns2.1
Residents within 400 m of a park
Eastry77%
Villages its size88%
Kent towns78%
All UK towns83%
Eastry falls furthest behind on path per km², where 49 of the 59 others do better.
Show as a table
| Town | Outdoors | Green space | Near a park | Path per km² | Protected | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Reydon Suffolk | A+ | 3.5 | 93% | 3.6 | 49% |
| 2 | Wolsingham County Durham | A+ | 2.7 | 100% | 3.9 | 55% |
| 3 | Aldeburgh Suffolk | A | 2.3 | 88% | 2.3 | 41% |
| 4 | St Margaret's at Cliffe Kent | A | 2.3 | 90% | 2.4 | 15% |
| 5 | Old Stratford Northamptonshire | A | 9.8 | 100% | 3.8 | 0% |
| 6 | Upton upon Severn Worcestershire | A− | 4.9 | 90% | 2.8 | 2% |
| 7 | Colerne Wiltshire | A− | 3.1 | 86% | 2.4 | 84% |
| 8 | West Wick Somerset | A− | 1.6 | 100% | 3.5 | 16% |
| 9 | Tanfield Lea County Durham | A− | 3.8 | 89% | 4.4 | 0% |
| 10 | Sway Hampshire | B+ | 2.9 | 38% | 4 | 74% |
| 11 | Kington Herefordshire | B+ | 3.9 | 89% | 3.6 | 0% |
| 12 | Williton Somerset | B+ | 1.1 | 88% | 2.1 | 31% |
| 13 | Cotford St Luke Somerset | B+ | 2.2 | 100% | 2.2 | 6% |
| 14 | Nant-y-moel Mid Glamorgan | B | 7 | 100% | 1.3 | 0% |
| 15 | Chattenden Kent | B | 1.4 | 100% | 2.2 | 0% |
| 16 | Middlestown and Overton West Yorkshire | B− | 1.5 | 100% | 3.5 | 0% |
| 17 | Stalbridge Dorset | B− | 3.3 | 100% | 1.8 | 0% |
| 18 | Narberth Dyfed | B− | 1.9 | 100% | 1.6 | 4% |
| 19 | Watlington Oxfordshire | B− | 2.3 | 67% | 2.4 | 55% |
| 20 | Wootton (Vale of White Horse) Oxfordshire | B− | 3.4 | 84% | 2.8 | 0% |
| 21 | Bassingbourn Cambridgeshire | B− | 3.8 | 85% | 2.5 | 0% |
| 22 | Riccall North Yorkshire | B− | 2.9 | 100% | 1.7 | 0% |
| 23 | Ashurst Hampshire | B− | 0.9 | 65% | 3.6 | 72% |
| 24 | St Dennis Cornwall | C+ | 2.4 | 100% | 1.8 | 0% |
| 25 | Padstow Cornwall | C+ | 0.6 | 33% | 2.5 | 37% |
| 26 | Pentyrch South Glamorgan | C+ | 2.6 | 50% | 4.5 | 0% |
| 27 | Renishaw Derbyshire | C+ | 0.6 | 100% | 3.4 | 0% |
| 28 | Shelley Essex | C+ | 0.7 | 100% | 3.3 | 0% |
| 29 | Witchford Cambridgeshire | C+ | 1.9 | 100% | 1.9 | 0% |
| 30 | Grendon Warwickshire | C+ | 8.1 | 71% | 2 | 0% |
| 31 | Coven Staffordshire | C+ | 3.6 | 87% | 1.5 | 0% |
| 32 | Ruspidge Gloucestershire | C+ | 2 | 46% | 5.6 | 0% |
| 33 | Lingwood Norfolk | C+ | 1.2 | 73% | 2.6 | 26% |
| 34 | Pontycymer Mid Glamorgan | C | 2.2 | 100% | 1 | 0% |
| 35 | South Milford North Yorkshire | C | 1.7 | 100% | 1.4 | 0% |
| 36 | Dearham Cumbria | C | 0.6 | 72% | 1.4 | 6% |
| 37 | Bletchingley Surrey | C | 0.5 | 10% | 3.9 | 18% |
| 38 | Bugle Cornwall | C− | 1.8 | 92% | 1.5 | 0% |
| 39 | Hambleton Lancashire | C− | 2.3 | 14% | 1.9 | 0% |
| 40 | Eggborough North Yorkshire | C− | 1.5 | 100% | 1 | 0% |
| 41 | Wilstead Bedfordshire | C− | 1.7 | 88% | 1.8 | 0% |
| 42 | Marshfield Gwent | C− | 1 | 85% | 0.3 | 0% |
| 43 | Hathern Leicestershire | C− | 1.8 | 50% | 3.3 | 0% |
| 44 | Knowsley Merseyside | C− | 3.1 | 77% | 1 | 0% |
| 45 | Aberfan Mid Glamorgan | C− | 4.5 | 58% | 1.4 | 0% |
| 46 | Cornforth County Durham | C− | 1.9 | 66% | 2.6 | 0% |
| 47 | Collingham West Yorkshire | C− | 1.4 | 84% | 2.2 | 0% |
| 48 | Stilton Cambridgeshire | C− | 0.8 | 100% | 1.4 | 0% |
| 49 | Dinnington Tyne and Wear | C− | 1.6 | 89% | 1.4 | 0% |
| 50 | Brown Edge Staffordshire | C− | 1.1 | 88% | 2.1 | 0% |
| 51 | Eastry Kent | D | 2 | 77% | 1.4 | 0% |
| 52 | St Stephen Cornwall | D | 1.2 | 88% | 1.2 | 0% |
| 53 | Leyburn North Yorkshire | D | 0.6 | 22% | 2 | 16% |
| 54 | Fishburn County Durham | D | 1.5 | 76% | 1.2 | 0% |
| 55 | Parbold Lancashire | D | 1.5 | 36% | 2.4 | 0% |
| 56 | Aston-on-Trent Derbyshire | D | 1.5 | 44% | 2.3 | 0% |
| 57 | Burton upon Stather Lincolnshire | D | 1.5 | 75% | 1.3 | 0% |
| 58 | Myerscough Smithy Lancashire | D | 0.5 | 45% | 3 | 0% |
| 59 | Garden City Clwyd | D− | 1.5 | 58% | 1.4 | 0% |
| 60 | Leven East Riding of Yorkshire | D− | 1.2 | 64% | 0.7 | 0% |
The map
Parks, footpaths & countryside
Tap a number to zoom to a park. Tap a layer to hide it. The dashed line is Eastry’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 Eastry
The biggest is Gun Park, 1.9 ha (5 acres). Directions go to the park’s nearest public entrance where Ordnance Survey maps one.
Close to home
How close Eastry’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 (77%)Further (23%)
Eastry77%
Villages its size88%
Kent towns78%
All UK towns83%
About 500 people live further than that. Playing fields count, so a park within reach isn’t always one with paths or trees; 3 playgrounds are mapped in and around the village, about one for every 796 residents.
National Parks & National Landscapes
The Kent Downs National Landscape is 4.7 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 Eastry scores 0% on it even though the Kent Downs National Landscape is 4.7 mi away.
Footpaths & waymarked walks
1 waymarked walk passes through or near Eastry
14 km of footpaths, bridleways and rights of way are mapped in Eastry and the kilometre around it, 1.4 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
Miner's Way Trail8.7 km
The regional route here is the Miner's Way Trail.
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 Eastry: 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 | 16.1 | 14.6 | 12.5 | 10.6 | 8.8 | 7.9 |
| High (°C) | 8 | 8 | 11 | 14 | 17 | 20 | 22 | 22 | 19 | 15 | 11 | 8 |
| Rain (mm) | 68 | 47 | 38 | 40 | 48 | 49 | 48 | 51 | 52 | 84 | 76 | 72 |
March is the driest month (38 mm) and July the warmest (highs of 22 °C). Winter days are short, about 8 hours of daylight in December, and 84 mm of rain falls in October, the wettest month. Frost comes on about 32 nights a year. The climate in Eastry →
Things to do
3 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
Eastry is inland. These are the nearest named beaches, measured from the edge of the village.
Ramsgate Western Undercliffe6.5 mi from Eastry’s edge
DirectionsSt Margaret's Bay7.1 mi from Eastry’s edge
DirectionsLangdon Beach7.6 mi from Eastry’s edge
DirectionsRamsgate Sands8.0 mi from Eastry’s edge
DirectionsShakespeare's Beach8.7 mi from Eastry’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
Campsites 4
Betteshanger Scout Camp Site1.2 mi from town
DirectionsPlus 3 campsites without a name on the map.
Next door
The outdoors in nearby towns
The nearest towns of 1,000+ within 12 miles. Tap a town for its outdoors page.
SandwichAsh (Dover)EythorneWinghamDealAyleshamEastry
ABCDOutdoors Grade
Deal, 4.3 miles away, grades B+, the best next door: 86% of its residents live within 400 m of a park.
Questions about the outdoors in Eastry
What is the biggest park in Eastry?
Gun Park, 1.9 ha (5 acres). 1 named park, garden or playing field is in the village or within 400 m of it.
Is Eastry near a National Park?
The nearest protected landscape is the Kent Downs National Landscape, 4.7 mi south-west of the village’s edge. It covers 879 km² and was designated in 1968.
What are the best walks near Eastry?
1 waymarked walking route passes within 2 km of the village, including the Miner's Way Trail.
What is the nearest beach to Eastry?
Ramsgate Western Undercliffe, 6.5 mi from the edge of the village, then St Margaret's Bay (7.1 mi). Eastry itself is inland.
How many people in Eastry live near a park?
77% 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 Eastry?
May to September: the longest days, the warmest afternoons and the least rain of the year, from the Met Office 1991–2020 averages.
Is Eastry good for walking?
Paths are thinner than most towns: 1.4 km of footpath and right of way per square kilometre, more than 14% of UK towns. For park space per person it beats 45% (2.0 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 Eastry’s overall grade.
Sources
Where Eastry’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.
Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026 (ONS boundaries). Northern Ireland: Source: NISRA; contains Land & Property Services data and Ordnance Survey of Northern Ireland information, © Crown copyright, licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Scotland: contains National Records of Scotland data, Registers of Scotland data and SEPA data, © Crown copyright / © SEPA 2025, licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.