Photo: Charlesdrakew · Public domain42% of the land within 5 km of Edenbridge is National Park or National Landscape
The High Weald National Landscape and the Kent Downs National Landscape both begin about a mile from the town’s edge. 64% of residents live within a 5-minute walk of a park or playing field. Parks and playing fields in Edenbridge add up to 2.6 ha for every 1,000 residents; the typical UK town has 2.1. Edenbridge grades B for the outdoors: #44 of 87 in Kent. A character grade: it isn’t part of the overall grade.
What kind of outdoors town is Edenbridge?
Read from the data: what stands out first, good and bad.
Edenbridge’s strongest suit is protected countryside on the doorstep. Where it falls short is how far some homes are from a park.
Edenbridge grades B for the outdoors
Each chart is every UK town of 1,000 or more on one measure: the green bar is Edenbridge, 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.
Edenbridge is 23rd of 60 UK towns its size for the outdoors
The 60 UK towns and cities of 7,500 to 8,300 people with an Outdoors Grade. Hover a dot for its figures; tap one for its page.
Against towns its size, Edenbridge stands out most for park space per resident: only 20 of the other 59 have more. It falls furthest behind on homes near a park, where 46 of the others do better.
Show as a table
| Town | Outdoors | Green space | Near a park | Path per km² | Protected | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Chipping Sodbury Gloucestershire | A+ | 5.2 | 93% | 8.2 | 29% |
| 2 | Ecclesfield and Grenoside South Yorkshire | A+ | 5.1 | 94% | 5.2 | 2% |
| 3 | Stakeford Northumberland | A+ | 10 | 100% | 2.9 | 0% |
| 4 | Bargod Gwent | A | 13.6 | 100% | 5.5 | 0% |
| 5 | Dursley Gloucestershire | A | 1.8 | 90% | 7.2 | 52% |
| 6 | Grove Oxfordshire | A | 2.2 | 92% | 4.7 | 27% |
| 7 | Brecon Powys | A | 3.2 | 86% | 3.2 | 61% |
| 8 | Bursledon Hampshire | A | 2.6 | 90% | 3.8 | 0% |
| 9 | Richmond North Yorkshire | A | 2.4 | 96% | 3.9 | 7% |
| 10 | Prestwood and Great Missenden Buckinghamshire | A− | 5.5 | 65% | 3.2 | 94% |
| 11 | Norton Canes Staffordshire | A− | 13.3 | 97% | 1.9 | 10% |
| 12 | Dinas Powis South Glamorgan | A− | 3 | 73% | 4.5 | 0% |
| 13 | London Colney Hertfordshire | A− | 3.7 | 96% | 4.3 | 0% |
| 14 | Burnham-on-Crouch Essex | A− | 5.3 | 86% | 2.5 | 0% |
| 15 | City of London London | A− | 2 | 100% | 11 | 0% |
| 16 | Cam Gloucestershire | A− | 2.8 | 57% | 5 | 34% |
| 17 | Pembroke Dyfed | B+ | 2.2 | 91% | 1 | 31% |
| 18 | Annfield Plain County Durham | B+ | 3.4 | 93% | 3.7 | 0% |
| 19 | Great Notley Essex | B+ | 6.4 | 79% | 4.1 | 0% |
| 20 | Runwell Essex | B+ | 5.1 | 92% | 2.8 | 0% |
| 21 | Pershore Worcestershire | B | 2.7 | 76% | 3.2 | 7% |
| 22 | Partington Greater Manchester | B | 2.8 | 100% | 2.7 | 0% |
| 23 | Edenbridge Kent | B | 2.6 | 64% | 3 | 42% |
| 24 | Rusthall and Langton Green Kent | B | 2.1 | 69% | 2.7 | 79% |
| 25 | Clayton-le-Moors Lancashire | B | 1.1 | 86% | 4.2 | 2% |
| 26 | Ashley Hampshire | B | 2.2 | 53% | 1.7 | 47% |
| 27 | Twyford Berkshire | B− | 2.4 | 86% | 2.1 | 5% |
| 28 | Berechurch Essex | B− | 2.1 | 72% | 10.4 | 0% |
| 29 | Wootton Bedfordshire | B− | 2.5 | 79% | 3.8 | 0% |
| 30 | Yatton Somerset | B− | 3.7 | 40% | 2.5 | 0% |
| 31 | Denbigh Clwyd | B− | 1.3 | 96% | 2.3 | 5% |
| 32 | Buntingford Hertfordshire | C+ | 1.5 | 95% | 3.2 | 0% |
| 33 | Ystalyfera West Glamorgan | C+ | 2.6 | 84% | 0.8 | 15% |
| 34 | Crediton Devon | C+ | 2.4 | 89% | 2.4 | 0% |
| 35 | Paddock Wood Kent | C+ | 1.7 | 78% | 2.1 | 28% |
| 36 | Countesthorpe Leicestershire | C+ | 1.7 | 100% | 2.1 | 0% |
| 37 | Seaton Delaval Northumberland | C+ | 0.5 | 66% | 4 | 0% |
| 38 | Holywell Clwyd | C | 0.9 | 68% | 3 | 0% |
| 39 | Mablethorpe Lincolnshire | C | 2.1 | 66% | 1.5 | 0% |
| 40 | Elworth Cheshire | C | 1.8 | 83% | 2.6 | 0% |
| 41 | Newbridge Gwent | C | 2.2 | 94% | 1.3 | 0% |
| 42 | Fazeley Staffordshire | C | 3.2 | 35% | 2.9 | 0% |
| 43 | Norton-on-Derwent North Yorkshire | C | 1.6 | 58% | 2.4 | 16% |
| 44 | Southam Warwickshire | C | 2.3 | 86% | 1.7 | 0% |
| 45 | Marske-by-the-Sea North Yorkshire | C | 1.6 | 66% | 1.8 | 0% |
| 46 | Histon and Impington Cambridgeshire | C | 1.5 | 66% | 3.9 | 0% |
| 47 | Gerrards Cross Buckinghamshire | C | 2.1 | 38% | 2.3 | 2% |
| 48 | Heathfield East Sussex | C | 0.9 | 53% | 2.3 | 79% |
| 49 | Hedon East Riding of Yorkshire | C− | 0.9 | 74% | 2.1 | 0% |
| 50 | Llanharan and Brynna Mid Glamorgan | C− | 1.7 | 97% | 1.2 | 0% |
| 51 | Radlett Hertfordshire | C− | 2.1 | 60% | 2.7 | 0% |
| 52 | Rainworth Nottinghamshire | C− | 0.5 | 65% | 4.6 | 0% |
| 53 | Tenterden Kent | C− | 0.8 | 58% | 1.8 | 48% |
| 54 | Cotgrave Nottinghamshire | C− | 1 | 47% | 4.1 | 0% |
| 55 | Godmanchester Cambridgeshire | C− | 1.6 | 66% | 2.7 | 0% |
| 56 | Highworth Wiltshire | C− | 0.4 | 59% | 4.1 | 0% |
| 57 | Clowne Derbyshire | C− | 1.4 | 67% | 2.8 | 0% |
| 58 | Spencers Wood and Three Mile Cross Berkshire | D | 0.7 | 78% | 2.7 | 0% |
| 59 | Old Windsor and Wraysbury Berkshire | D | 1.2 | 52% | 2.5 | 0% |
| 60 | Treorchy Mid Glamorgan | D− | 1 | 57% | 1.6 | 0% |
Parks, footpaths & countryside
Tap a number to zoom to a park. Tap a layer to hide it. The dashed line is Edenbridge’s built-up area.
6 in 10 Edenbridge 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 2,900 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 town, about one for every 1,317 residents.
National Parks and National Landscapes around Edenbridge
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.
42% of the land within 5 km of Edenbridge is National Park or National Landscape, more than 88% of UK towns. South Downs National Park covers 1,653 km² and has been a National Park since 2010.
3 waymarked walks pass through or near Edenbridge
38 km of footpaths, bridleways and rights of way are mapped in Edenbridge and the kilometre around it, 3.0 km for every square kilometre (the typical UK town has 3.0). Bars show each route’s kilometres within 2 km of the town.
Close to home, the Eden Valley Walk has 8 km of local walk within 2 km of the town. 2 regional routes pass through, including the Vanguard Way and Tandridge Border Path.
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 Edenbridge: 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 | |
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| Daylight (h) | 8.4 | 9.9 | 11.7 | 13.8 | 15.5 | 16.5 | 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) | 76 | 60 | 48 | 50 | 53 | 50 | 52 | 61 | 61 | 89 | 91 | 90 |
March is the driest month (48 mm) and July the warmest (highs of 22 °C). Winter days are short, about 8 hours of daylight in December, and 91 mm of rain falls in November, the wettest month. Frost comes on about 53 nights a year. The climate in Edenbridge →
6 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
Edenbridge is inland. These are the nearest named beaches, measured from the edge of the town.
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
Hills and peaks 1
Playgrounds 6
Plus 6 playgrounds without a name on the map.
Campsites 2
Plus 2 campsites 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Edenbridge | B | 2.6 | 64% | 42% |
| Marlpit Hill 0.7 mi | B− | 2.5 | 0% | 35% |
| Dormansland 3.7 mi | B− | 2.5 | 70% | 33% |
| Lingfield 3.9 mi | A | 3.5 | 100% | 16% |
| Oxted 4.2 mi | B | 2.1 | 84% | 28% |
| Limpsfield 4.6 mi | A+ | 2.9 | 100% | 41% |
| Westerham 4.7 mi | B | 1.9 | 61% | 66% |
Limpsfield, 4.6 miles away, grades A+, the best next door: every resident lives within 400 m of a park.
Questions about the outdoors in Edenbridge
Is Edenbridge near a National Park?
Yes. South Downs National Park begins 18 mi south of the town’s edge. It covers 1,653 km² and has been a National Park since 2010. The nearest protected landscape of any kind is the High Weald National Landscape, 0.4 mi away.
What are the best walks near Edenbridge?
3 waymarked walking routes pass within 2 km of the town, including the Eden Valley Walk, Vanguard Way and Tandridge Border Path.
What is the nearest beach to Edenbridge?
Kelson Beach, 20 mi from the edge of the town, then Northfleet Beach (21 mi). Edenbridge itself is inland.
How many people in Edenbridge live near a park?
64% 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 Edenbridge?
May to September: the longest days, the warmest afternoons and the least rain of the year, from the Met Office 1991–2020 averages.
Is Edenbridge good for walking?
About average for paths: 3.0 km of footpath and right of way per square kilometre, more than 60% of UK towns. For park space per person it beats 61% (2.6 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 Edenbridge’s overall grade.
Where Edenbridge’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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