Littlebourne’s biggest
Turners Orchard
Park or garden
0.4 ha (1 acres)
Centralin the middle of Littlebourne
Directionsto the nearest entrance
Photo: Peter Wood · CC BY-SA 2.0B+Outdoors Grade
Outdoors in Littlebourne · parks, paths & countryside
Almost everyone in Littlebourne lives within a 5-minute walk of a park
The Kent Downs National Landscape begins 1.6 mi from the village’s edge. Parks and playing fields in Littlebourne add up to 1.6 ha for every 1,000 residents; the typical UK town has 2.1. 24 km of footpaths run through the village and the kilometre around it, 3.0 for every square kilometre. Littlebourne grades B+ for the outdoors. A character grade: it isn’t part of the overall grade.
Green space
1.6 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
3.0 km per km², town + 1 km
Typical UK town 3.0 per km²
Protected landscape
9%
of the land within 5 km
Nearest: Kent Downs National Landscape
Character
What kind of outdoors village is Littlebourne?
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.Countryside close byThe Kent Downs National Landscape starts 1.6 mi south-west.Less park per person1.6 ha of parks and playing fields per 1,000 residents; the typical UK town has 2.1.
Littlebourne’s strongest suit is parks close to every home, followed by the Kent Downs National Landscape close by. Where it falls short is park space per person.
Outdoors grade
Littlebourne grades B+ for the outdoors
Each chart is every UK town of 1,000 or more on one measure: the green bar is Littlebourne, the dashed line the typical town. The number is the share of towns it beats; the five are averaged and the average ranked again.
B+
Better than 70% of UK towns25th of 60 UK villages its size
Public green space1.6 haper 1,000 residents: parks, gardens, playing fields, play spaces
30out 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 Landscape9%of the land within 5 km
71out of
100
100
Footpaths3.0 kmper km², the town and 1 km around it
58out 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
Littlebourne is 25th of 60 UK villages its size for the outdoors
The 60 UK towns and cities of 1,500 to 1,700 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
Littlebourne3.0
Villages its size2.6
Kent towns2.6
All UK towns3.0
Green space, ha per 1,000 residents
Littlebourne1.6
Villages its size2.2
Kent towns2.3
All UK towns2.1
Residents within 400 m of a park
Littlebourne100%
Villages its size81%
Kent towns78%
All UK towns83%
Against villages its size, Littlebourne stands out most for homes near a park: none of the other 59 has more. It falls furthest behind on park space per resident, where 43 of the others do better.
Show as a table
| Town | Outdoors | Green space | Near a park | Path per km² | Protected | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Portskewett Gwent | A+ | 10 | 100% | 2.9 | 3% |
| 2 | Stanhope County Durham | A+ | 7.7 | 100% | 3.5 | 86% |
| 3 | Melton Suffolk | A+ | 6.5 | 100% | 4.1 | 33% |
| 4 | Salcombe Devon | A+ | 2 | 100% | 3.3 | 65% |
| 5 | Finberry Kent | A+ | 4 | 100% | 5.1 | 2% |
| 6 | Dobcross Greater Manchester | A+ | 2.8 | 100% | 4.8 | 22% |
| 7 | Crockenhill Kent | A+ | 5.2 | 100% | 3.1 | 27% |
| 8 | Wood Street Village Surrey | A+ | 25.7 | 81% | 4.9 | 18% |
| 9 | Ducklington Oxfordshire | A | 10.1 | 79% | 4.8 | 4% |
| 10 | Roydon Essex | A | 3.5 | 100% | 4.9 | 0% |
| 11 | St Athan South Glamorgan | A | 2.2 | 100% | 3 | 0% |
| 12 | Sabden Lancashire | A− | 0.8 | 100% | 5 | 38% |
| 13 | Hale Bank Cheshire | A− | 9.1 | 100% | 1.4 | 0% |
| 14 | Oakenshaw West Yorkshire | A− | 7.4 | 100% | 3 | 0% |
| 15 | West Wellow Hampshire | A− | 3.6 | 82% | 2.7 | 51% |
| 16 | Woodhouse Eaves Leicestershire | A− | 35.7 | 85% | 3.8 | 0% |
| 17 | Kewstoke Somerset | A− | 1.3 | 74% | 4.3 | 1% |
| 18 | Sonning Berkshire | A− | 11.1 | 80% | 2.5 | 7% |
| 19 | Thorpe-le-Soken Essex | A− | 4.2 | 100% | 1.4 | 0% |
| 20 | East Dean and Friston East Sussex | B+ | 1.2 | 18% | 4.6 | 58% |
| 21 | Stithians Cornwall | B+ | 3.2 | 80% | 3.4 | 3% |
| 22 | Staining Lancashire | B+ | 2.6 | 100% | 1.9 | 0% |
| 23 | King's Cliffe Northamptonshire | B+ | 3.3 | 100% | 2.9 | 0% |
| 24 | Seal Kent | B+ | 3.3 | 78% | 2.1 | 77% |
| 25 | Littlebourne Kent | B+ | 1.6 | 100% | 3 | 9% |
| 26 | Ambergate Derbyshire | B+ | 2.4 | 100% | 3.4 | 0% |
| 27 | Farcet Cambridgeshire | B+ | 13.8 | 77% | 3.5 | 0% |
| 28 | Mount Hawke Cornwall | B | 1.4 | 85% | 2 | 6% |
| 29 | Fence Lancashire | B | 1.3 | 62% | 6.2 | 32% |
| 30 | Wick Gloucestershire | B− | 1.8 | 56% | 3.6 | 39% |
| 31 | Sibertswold Kent | B− | 1.9 | 79% | 2.2 | 38% |
| 32 | Gotham Nottinghamshire | B− | 3.9 | 83% | 2.4 | 0% |
| 33 | Whittington Shropshire | B− | 3.7 | 100% | 1 | 0% |
| 34 | South Witham Lincolnshire | B− | 2.5 | 100% | 1.9 | 0% |
| 35 | High Harrington Cumbria | C+ | 0.5 | 100% | 1.9 | 0% |
| 36 | Evenwood County Durham | C+ | 3.4 | 100% | 0.8 | 0% |
| 37 | Everton Hampshire | C+ | 1.3 | 58% | 1.5 | 37% |
| 38 | Norton (Norton Juxta Kempsey) Worcestershire | C+ | 0.9 | 100% | 3 | 0% |
| 39 | Bacton and Cotton Suffolk | C+ | 4.4 | 70% | 2.5 | 0% |
| 40 | Four Lanes Cornwall | C | 0.6 | 100% | 2.8 | 0% |
| 41 | Blisworth Northamptonshire | C | 2.2 | 81% | 2.4 | 0% |
| 42 | Buxted East Sussex | C | 1.1 | 63% | 2.4 | 52% |
| 43 | Stock Essex | C | 2.2 | 62% | 3.3 | 0% |
| 44 | Harden West Yorkshire | C | 1.8 | 40% | 5 | 0% |
| 45 | Scawby Lincolnshire | C− | 25.7 | 68% | 0.4 | 0% |
| 46 | Higher Walton Lancashire | C− | 2.2 | 61% | 2.7 | 0% |
| 47 | Arksey South Yorkshire | C− | 1.1 | 88% | 2.4 | 0% |
| 48 | Rawcliffe East Riding of Yorkshire | C− | 1 | 100% | 1.6 | 0% |
| 49 | Horsmonden Kent | C− | 0.5 | 79% | 0.9 | 50% |
| 50 | Baston Lincolnshire | C− | 2.3 | 78% | 1 | 0% |
| 51 | Ainsworth Greater Manchester | D | 0.4 | 64% | 3.2 | 0% |
| 52 | Whittlesford Cambridgeshire | D | 2.3 | 57% | 1.4 | 0% |
| 53 | Henstridge Somerset | D | 1.8 | 47% | 2 | 0% |
| 54 | Moulton Lincolnshire | D | 1.9 | 75% | 0.1 | 0% |
| 55 | Ketton Rutland | D | 2.1 | 56% | 1.4 | 0% |
| 56 | Balsham Cambridgeshire | D | 1.7 | 57% | 1.8 | 0% |
| 57 | St Erme and Trispen Cornwall | D | 0.3 | 69% | 1.2 | 2% |
| 58 | Findern Derbyshire | D | 1.8 | 40% | 1.9 | 0% |
| 59 | Walpole St Peter and Walpole St Andrew Norfolk | D− | 1.7 | 52% | 0.2 | 0% |
| 60 | School Aycliffe County Durham | D− | 0 | 0% | 2.5 | 0% |
The map
Parks, footpaths & countryside
Tap a number to zoom to a park. Tap a layer to hide it. The dashed line is Littlebourne’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 Littlebourne
The biggest is Turners Orchard, 0.4 ha (1 acres). Directions go to the park’s nearest public entrance where Ordnance Survey maps one.
Close to home
How close Littlebourne’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%)
Littlebourne100%
Villages its size81%
Kent towns78%
All UK towns83%
Playing fields count, so a park within reach isn’t always one with paths or trees; 4 playgrounds are mapped in and around the village, about one for every 399 residents.
National Parks & National Landscapes
The Kent Downs National Landscape is 1.6 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
National Landscape
Kent Downs
1.6 mi south-west879 km²since 19689% of the land within 5 km
Official site9% of the land within 5 km of Littlebourne is National Park or National Landscape, more than 70% of UK towns.
Footpaths & waymarked walks
3 waymarked walks pass through or near Littlebourne
24 km of footpaths, bridleways and rights of way are mapped in Littlebourne 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 village.
RegionalLocal
Augustine Camino6.2 km
Canterbury Outer Ring Walk6.2 km
Stour Valley Walk2.0 km
Close to home, the Canterbury Outer Ring Walk has 6 km of local walk within 2 km of the village. 2 regional routes pass through, including the Augustine Camino and Stour Valley Walk.
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 Littlebourne: 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) | 74 | 56 | 42 | 45 | 53 | 50 | 49 | 59 | 57 | 87 | 85 | 83 |
March is the driest month (42 mm) and July the warmest (highs of 22 °C). Winter days are short, about 8 hours of daylight in December, and 87 mm of rain falls in October, the wettest month. Frost comes on about 38 nights a year. The climate in Littlebourne →
Things to do
4 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
Littlebourne is inland. These are the nearest named beaches, measured from the edge of the village.
Herne Bay Beach6.6 mi from Littlebourne’s edge
DirectionsRamsgate Western Undercliffe11 mi from Littlebourne’s edge
DirectionsSouth Shellness Beach11 mi from Littlebourne’s edge
DirectionsMargate Main Sands11 mi from Littlebourne’s edge
DirectionsShellness Beach11 mi from Littlebourne’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
Nature reserves 2
Cherry Orchard Nature Reservein town
DirectionsPlus 1 nature reserve without a name on the map.
Playgrounds 4
Plus 4 playgrounds without a name on the map.
Campsites 2
Plus 2 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.
WinghamSturryHersdenBridgeAyleshamCanterburyLittlebourne
ABCDOutdoors Grade
Littlebourne grades higher for the outdoors than every neighbour in the table.
Questions about the outdoors in Littlebourne
What is the biggest park in Littlebourne?
Turners Orchard, 0.4 ha (1 acres). 1 named park, garden or playing field is in the village or within 400 m of it.
Is Littlebourne near a National Park?
The nearest protected landscape is the Kent Downs National Landscape, 1.6 mi south-west of the village’s edge. It covers 879 km² and was designated in 1968.
What are the best walks near Littlebourne?
3 waymarked walking routes pass within 2 km of the village, including the Augustine Camino, Canterbury Outer Ring Walk and Stour Valley Walk.
What is the nearest beach to Littlebourne?
Herne Bay Beach, 6.6 mi from the edge of the village, then Ramsgate Western Undercliffe (11 mi). Littlebourne itself is inland.
How many people in Littlebourne 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 Littlebourne?
May to September: the longest days, the warmest afternoons and the least rain of the year, from the Met Office 1991–2020 averages.
Is Littlebourne good for walking?
About average for paths: 3.0 km of footpath and right of way per square kilometre, more than 58% of UK towns. For park space per person it beats 30% (1.6 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 Littlebourne’s overall grade.
Sources
Where Littlebourne’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.