Meopham’s biggest
Camer Park
Park or garden · 190 m outside town
18 ha (45 acres)0.8 km of path
10 minto walk all 0.8 km of path
25 pitchesfootball pitches would fit
0.4 mi eastfrom the centre
Playground
Directionsto the nearest entrance
Photo: Clem Rutter, Rochester Kent · CC BY-SA 3.0COutdoors Grade
Outdoors in Meopham · parks, paths & countryside
35% of the land within 5 km of Meopham is National Park or National Landscape
The Kent Downs National Landscape reaches the edge of Meopham. A park or playing field is within a 5-minute walk for 53% of residents. Parks and playing fields in Meopham add up to 1.3 ha for every 1,000 residents; the typical UK town has 2.1. Meopham grades C for the outdoors: #70 of 87 in Kent. A character grade: it isn’t part of the overall grade.
Green space
1.3 ha
per 1,000 residents
Typical UK town 2.1
Near a park
53%
of residents within 400 m
Typical UK town 83%
Footpaths
39 km
2.5 km per km², town + 1 km
Typical UK town 3.0 per km²
Protected landscape
35%
of the land within 5 km
Nearest: Kent Downs National Landscape
Character
What kind of outdoors town is Meopham?
Read from the data: what stands out first, good and bad.
Protected countryside35% of the land within 5 km is Kent Downs National Landscape.Less park per person1.3 ha of parks and playing fields per 1,000 residents; the typical UK town has 2.1.
Meopham’s strongest suit is protected countryside on the doorstep. Where it falls short is park space per person.
Outdoors grade
Meopham grades C for the outdoors
Each chart is every UK town of 1,000 or more on one measure: the green bar is Meopham, the dashed line the typical town. The number is the share of towns it beats; the five are averaged and the average ranked again.
C
Better than 28% of UK towns#70 of 87 in Kent · 38th of 60 UK towns its size
Public green space1.3 haper 1,000 residents: parks, gardens, playing fields, play spaces
21out of
100
100
A park within a walk53%of residents within 400 m (a 5-minute walk)
16out of
100
100
National Park or National Landscape35%of the land within 5 km
86out of
100
100
Footpaths2.5 kmper km², the town and 1 km around it
44out 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.
Towns its size
Meopham is 38th of 60 UK towns its size for the outdoors
The 60 UK towns and cities of 4,200 to 4,500 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
Meopham2.5
Towns its size2.5
Kent towns2.6
All UK towns3.0
Green space, ha per 1,000 residents
Meopham1.3
Towns its size1.7
Kent towns2.3
All UK towns2.1
Residents within 400 m of a park
Meopham53%
Towns its size88%
Kent towns78%
All UK towns83%
Meopham falls furthest behind on homes near a park, where 50 of the 59 others do better.
Show as a table
| Town | Outdoors | Green space | Near a park | Path per km² | Protected | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Keswick Cumbria | A+ | 9.1 | 100% | 4.1 | 100% |
| 2 | West Malling Kent | A+ | 8.7 | 100% | 3.4 | 21% |
| 3 | Telscombe Cliffs East Sussex | A+ | 3 | 58% | 5.1 | 42% |
| 4 | Great Denham Bedfordshire | A | 14.7 | 100% | 5.3 | 0% |
| 5 | Aberbargoed Gwent | A | 22.8 | 95% | 5.6 | 0% |
| 6 | Denaby Main South Yorkshire | A | 10.4 | 100% | 3.8 | 0% |
| 7 | Overton Hampshire | A | 3.7 | 92% | 2.5 | 45% |
| 8 | Kimberley Nottinghamshire | A− | 2.9 | 100% | 4.8 | 0% |
| 9 | Whittle-le-Woods Lancashire | A− | 7.7 | 91% | 4 | 0% |
| 10 | Loftus North Yorkshire | A− | 1.9 | 90% | 2 | 31% |
| 11 | Exminster Devon | A− | 2.5 | 100% | 2.7 | 0% |
| 12 | Arborfield Garrison Berkshire | A− | 10.4 | 95% | 3.3 | 0% |
| 13 | Stokenchurch Buckinghamshire | A− | 2.3 | 90% | 2.6 | 86% |
| 14 | Fairford Gloucestershire | A− | 3.4 | 100% | 1.8 | 17% |
| 15 | Horsford Norfolk | B+ | 6.5 | 97% | 2.8 | 0% |
| 16 | Ratby Leicestershire | B+ | 1.7 | 100% | 4.8 | 0% |
| 17 | Girton Cambridgeshire | B+ | 2.8 | 92% | 3.6 | 0% |
| 18 | Elmswell Suffolk | B | 2.5 | 100% | 2.9 | 0% |
| 19 | Clayton West and Scissett West Yorkshire | B | 1.4 | 100% | 4.2 | 0% |
| 20 | Winchcombe Gloucestershire | B | 2.2 | 60% | 3 | 81% |
| 21 | Earby Lancashire | B− | 1.4 | 93% | 4.7 | 0% |
| 22 | Woodford Halse Northamptonshire | B− | 3.6 | 100% | 1.6 | 0% |
| 23 | Wilton Wiltshire | B− | 1.4 | 94% | 1.6 | 45% |
| 24 | Tibshelf Derbyshire | B− | 1.4 | 94% | 3.8 | 0% |
| 25 | Ferndale Mid Glamorgan | B− | 3.6 | 88% | 2.1 | 0% |
| 26 | Woburn Sands Buckinghamshire | C+ | 1.1 | 94% | 4.1 | 0% |
| 27 | Milford on Sea Hampshire | C+ | 1.2 | 50% | 2.1 | 21% |
| 28 | Kessingland Suffolk | C+ | 0.9 | 70% | 1.9 | 19% |
| 29 | Backwell Somerset | C+ | 2.3 | 57% | 4.4 | 0% |
| 30 | Sandwich Kent | C+ | 2.1 | 51% | 2.5 | 0% |
| 31 | Sible Hedingham Essex | C+ | 0.9 | 100% | 2.9 | 0% |
| 32 | Halfway Houses Kent | C | 1.8 | 71% | 1.8 | 0% |
| 33 | Queen's Hills Norfolk | C | 0.4 | 100% | 3 | 0% |
| 34 | Hope Clwyd | C | 8.5 | 64% | 2 | 0% |
| 35 | Kilburn and Horsley Woodhouse Derbyshire | C | 1.6 | 75% | 3.6 | 0% |
| 36 | Skelmanthorpe West Yorkshire | C | 1 | 88% | 3.2 | 0% |
| 37 | Brundall Norfolk | C | 1.6 | 62% | 2.3 | 20% |
| 38 | Meopham Kent | C | 1.3 | 53% | 2.5 | 35% |
| 39 | Uppingham Rutland | C | 2.2 | 89% | 1.6 | 0% |
| 40 | Long Lawford Warwickshire | C | 1.2 | 91% | 2.6 | 0% |
| 41 | Branston Lincolnshire | C | 2.1 | 86% | 1.8 | 0% |
| 42 | Llangennech Dyfed | C | 1.6 | 82% | 1.1 | 0% |
| 43 | Nelson Gwent | C | 2.1 | 88% | 1.5 | 0% |
| 44 | Cuffley Hertfordshire | C− | 13.6 | 19% | 1.9 | 0% |
| 45 | Ellesmere Shropshire | C− | 12.5 | 54% | 1.3 | 0% |
| 46 | Chudleigh Devon | C− | 0.3 | 83% | 1.4 | 15% |
| 47 | Saxilby Lincolnshire | C− | 1.3 | 100% | 0.7 | 0% |
| 48 | Epworth Lincolnshire | C− | 1.6 | 75% | 2.2 | 0% |
| 49 | Doddington and Wimblington Cambridgeshire | C− | 2.5 | 73% | 1.2 | 0% |
| 50 | Great Ayton North Yorkshire | C− | 0.2 | 48% | 2.2 | 31% |
| 51 | West Kingsdown Kent | D | 0.8 | 28% | 1.6 | 52% |
| 52 | North Weald Bassett Essex | D | 1.4 | 67% | 2.4 | 0% |
| 53 | Linton Cambridgeshire | D | 1.1 | 67% | 2.6 | 0% |
| 54 | Shepperton Green Surrey | D | 1.4 | 73% | 1.7 | 0% |
| 55 | Banks Lancashire | D | 0.3 | 33% | 1.7 | 0% |
| 56 | Blidworth Nottinghamshire | D | 0.5 | 23% | 3.2 | 0% |
| 57 | Kegworth Leicestershire | D | 0.4 | 54% | 2.6 | 0% |
| 58 | Wheatley Oxfordshire | D− | 0.2 | 34% | 2.4 | 0% |
| 59 | Warboys Cambridgeshire | D− | 0.4 | 67% | 1 | 0% |
| 60 | Pinchbeck Lincolnshire | D− | 1 | 49% | 1 | 0% |
The map
Parks, footpaths & countryside
Tap a number to zoom to a park. Tap a layer to hide it. The dashed line is Meopham’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 Meopham
The biggest is Camer Park, 18 ha (45 acres). Directions go to the park’s nearest public entrance where Ordnance Survey maps one.
Judson Recreation Ground
Playing field
1.4 ha (3 acres)0.1 km of path
2 pitchesfootball pitches would fit
Centralin the middle of Meopham
Directionsto the nearest entrance
Pitfield Green
Playing field
1.2 ha (3 acres)
2 pitchesfootball pitches would fit
1.1 mi southfrom the centre
1 listed
Directionsto the nearest entrance
Close to home
5 in 10 Meopham 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).
Within 400 m (53%)Further (47%)
Meopham53%
Towns its size88%
Kent towns78%
All UK towns83%
About 2,000 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 725 residents.
National Parks & National Landscapes
National Parks and National Landscapes around Meopham
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
At the edge east879 km²since 196835% of the land within 5 km
Official site35% of the land within 5 km of Meopham is National Park or National Landscape, more than 86% of UK towns.
Footpaths & waymarked walks
2 waymarked walks pass through or near Meopham
39 km of footpaths, bridleways and rights of way are mapped in Meopham and the kilometre around it, 2.5 km for every square kilometre (the typical UK town has 3.0). Bars show each route’s kilometres within 2 km of the town.
Regional
Wealdway7.6 km
1066 Harold's Way1.6 km
2 regional routes pass through, including the Wealdway and 1066 Harold's Way.
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 Meopham: 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 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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) | 71 | 53 | 43 | 47 | 50 | 50 | 42 | 54 | 56 | 76 | 74 | 73 |
July is the driest month (42 mm) and the warmest (highs of 23 °C). Winter days are short, about 8 hours of daylight in December, and 76 mm of rain falls in October, the wettest month. Frost comes on about 46 nights a year. The climate in Meopham →
Things to do
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
Meopham is inland. These are the nearest named beaches, measured from the edge of the town.
Northfleet Beach5.4 mi from Meopham’s edge
DirectionsEgypt Bay Beach11 mi from Meopham’s edge
DirectionsSt Mary's Bay Beach12 mi from Meopham’s edge
DirectionsCoombe Point Beach12 mi from Meopham’s edge
DirectionsThorney Bay Beach13 mi from Meopham’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
Viewpoints 1
Plus 1 viewpoint without a name on the map.
Picnic sites 1
Plus 1 picnic site without a name on the map.
Playgrounds 6
Camer Park Childrens Play area0.2 mi from town
DirectionsPlus 5 playgrounds without a name on the map.
Campsites 2
Ashmere Farm Certified Campsite0.1 mi from town
DirectionsHopehill Scout Campsite0.2 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.
Istead RiseLongfield, New Ash Green and HartleyCulverstone GreenVigo VillageGravesendShorneMeopham
ABCDOutdoors Grade
| Town | Outdoors | Green space, ha per 1,000 | Near a park | Protected within 5 km |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Meopham | C | 1.3 | 53% | 35% |
| Istead Rise 1.9 mi | B− | 1.9 | 82% | 15% |
| Longfield, New Ash Green and Hartley 2.1 mi | C | 1.2 | 54% | 21% |
| Culverstone Green 2.7 mi | B+ | 5.3 | 61% | 42% |
| Vigo Village 3.2 mi | A+ | 33.3 | 100% | 44% |
| Gravesend 3.6 mi | A | 1.4 | 84% | 14% |
| Shorne 3.8 mi | A | 28.3 | 23% | 24% |
Vigo Village, 3.2 miles away, grades A+, the best next door: every resident lives within 400 m of a park. Culverstone Green, Vigo Village and Shorne have at least twice Meopham’s green space per resident.
Questions about the outdoors in Meopham
What is the biggest park in Meopham?
Camer Park, 18 ha (45 acres), with 0.8 km of path, just outside the built-up area. Judson Recreation Ground (1.4 ha) is second. 3 named parks, gardens and playing fields are in the town or within 400 m of it.
Is Meopham near a National Park?
It covers 879 km² and was designated in 1968.
What are the best walks near Meopham?
2 waymarked walking routes pass within 2 km of the town, including the Wealdway and 1066 Harold's Way.
What is the nearest beach to Meopham?
Northfleet Beach, 5.4 mi from the edge of the town, then Egypt Bay Beach (11 mi). Meopham itself is inland.
How many people in Meopham live near a park?
53% 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 Meopham?
May to September: the longest days, the warmest afternoons and the least rain of the year, from the Met Office 1991–2020 averages.
Is Meopham good for walking?
About average for paths: 2.5 km of footpath and right of way per square kilometre, more than 44% of UK towns. For park space per person it beats 21% (1.3 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 Meopham’s overall grade.
Sources
Where Meopham’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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