New Romney’s biggest
Romney Warren Country Park
Park or garden
4.1 ha (10 acres)0.8 km of path
10 minto walk all 0.8 km of path
6 pitchesfootball pitches would fit
0.7 mi north-eastfrom the centre
Directionsto the nearest entrance
Photo: Chris Gunns · CC BY-SA 2.0C+Outdoors Grade
Outdoors in New Romney · parks, paths & countryside
New Romney is on the coast, on the King Charles III England Coast Path
The sea makes up 28% of the area within 5 km. The Kent Downs National Landscape begins 3.9 mi from the town’s edge. 20 km of footpaths run through the town and the kilometre around it, 1.6 for every square kilometre. New Romney grades C+ for the outdoors: #58 of 87 in Kent. A character grade: it isn’t part of the overall grade.
Green space
2.5 ha
per 1,000 residents
Typical UK town 2.1
Near a park
79%
of residents within 400 m
Typical UK town 83%
Footpaths
20 km
1.6 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 3.9 mi out, past the 5 km
The sea
28%
of the area within 5 km
A coastal town
Character
What kind of outdoors town is New Romney?
Read from the data: what stands out first, good and bad.
On the coast28% of the area within 5 km is sea; 6 beaches mapped.Countryside close byThe Kent Downs National Landscape starts 3.9 mi north.On a National TrailThe King Charles III England Coast Path passes through.Few mapped footpaths1.6 km of path per km²; the typical UK town has 3.0.
New Romney’s strongest suit is the sea, followed by the Kent Downs National Landscape close by. Where it falls short is footpaths.
Outdoors grade
New Romney grades C+ for the outdoors
Each chart is every UK town of 1,000 or more on one measure: the green bar is New Romney, 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 44% of UK towns#58 of 87 in Kent · 31st of 60 UK towns its size
Public green space2.5 haper 1,000 residents: parks, gardens, playing fields, play spaces
58out of
100
100
A park within a walk79%of residents within 400 m (a 5-minute walk)
44out 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
Footpaths1.6 kmper km², the town and 1 km around it
18out of
100
100
The sea28%of the area within 5 km
92out 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
New Romney is 31st of 60 UK towns its size for the outdoors
The 60 UK towns and cities of 3,700 to 4,000 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
New Romney1.6
Towns its size2.4
Kent towns2.6
All UK towns3.0
Green space, ha per 1,000 residents
New Romney2.5
Towns its size1.9
Kent towns2.3
All UK towns2.1
Residents within 400 m of a park
New Romney79%
Towns its size82%
Kent towns78%
All UK towns83%
Against towns its size, New Romney stands out most for park space per resident: only 21 of the other 59 have more. It falls furthest behind on path per km², where 44 of the others do better.
Show as a table
| Town | Outdoors | Green space | Near a park | Path per km² | Protected | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Batheaston Somerset | A | 3 | 84% | 4.6 | 71% |
| 2 | Cuckfield West Sussex | A | 6.7 | 70% | 4.9 | 49% |
| 3 | Cranbrook Kent | A | 5.8 | 82% | 2.9 | 65% |
| 4 | Chickerell Dorset | A | 1.5 | 88% | 3 | 27% |
| 5 | Walter's Ash and Naphill Buckinghamshire | A | 3.7 | 50% | 5.3 | 79% |
| 6 | Disley Cheshire | A− | 1.2 | 100% | 4.6 | 22% |
| 7 | Mulbarton Norfolk | A− | 7 | 100% | 3 | 0% |
| 8 | Welwyn Hertfordshire | A− | 2.6 | 100% | 4 | 0% |
| 9 | Esh Winning County Durham | A− | 3.2 | 100% | 3.5 | 0% |
| 10 | Old Basing Hampshire | A− | 13.6 | 92% | 3.1 | 0% |
| 11 | Colden Common Hampshire | B+ | 2.7 | 82% | 2.8 | 35% |
| 12 | Barnt Green Worcestershire | B+ | 37.8 | 81% | 3.7 | 0% |
| 13 | Carbis Bay Cornwall | B+ | 0.5 | 88% | 2.8 | 20% |
| 14 | Long Melford Suffolk | B+ | 6.9 | 87% | 3.3 | 0% |
| 15 | Papworth Everard Cambridgeshire | B+ | 4.3 | 100% | 2.5 | 0% |
| 16 | Chirk Clwyd | B+ | 1.8 | 100% | 2.3 | 15% |
| 17 | Locking Somerset | B+ | 2.7 | 84% | 2.4 | 23% |
| 18 | Greasbrough South Yorkshire | B | 2.9 | 80% | 4.7 | 0% |
| 19 | Queenborough Kent | B | 1.6 | 100% | 2 | 0% |
| 20 | Stoke Poges Buckinghamshire | B | 7.7 | 76% | 3.3 | 0% |
| 21 | Romanby North Yorkshire | B | 3.1 | 100% | 2.3 | 0% |
| 22 | Mytholmroyd West Yorkshire | B | 1.8 | 88% | 5.8 | 0% |
| 23 | Framlingham Suffolk | B | 3.7 | 73% | 4.2 | 0% |
| 24 | Pirbright Surrey | B | 2 | 84% | 5.7 | 0% |
| 25 | Rhuddlan Clwyd | B− | 1.8 | 85% | 0.9 | 8% |
| 26 | Glanaman Dyfed | B− | 3.3 | 83% | 0.8 | 29% |
| 27 | Cholsey Oxfordshire | B− | 2.3 | 55% | 2.5 | 81% |
| 28 | Alford Lincolnshire | B− | 2.1 | 85% | 1.5 | 26% |
| 29 | Lower Stondon Bedfordshire | B− | 2.7 | 73% | 2.2 | 5% |
| 30 | Cardigan Dyfed | B− | 1.9 | 69% | 1.4 | 13% |
| 31 | New Romney Kent | C+ | 2.5 | 79% | 1.6 | 0% |
| 32 | Chipping Ongar Essex | C+ | 2.5 | 83% | 2.9 | 0% |
| 33 | Bar Hill Cambridgeshire | C+ | 1.4 | 93% | 3.5 | 0% |
| 34 | Pewsey Wiltshire | C+ | 1 | 64% | 3 | 91% |
| 35 | Troedyrhiw and Pentrebach Mid Glamorgan | C+ | 2.5 | 84% | 1.5 | 0% |
| 36 | Norton Fitzwarren Somerset | C+ | 1.3 | 35% | 5.2 | 6% |
| 37 | Forest Row East Sussex | C+ | 0.3 | 51% | 3.4 | 94% |
| 38 | Coggeshall Essex | C | 2.1 | 84% | 2.5 | 0% |
| 39 | Silver End Essex | C | 2 | 88% | 2.1 | 0% |
| 40 | Cubbington Warwickshire | C | 1.5 | 100% | 1.7 | 0% |
| 41 | Tenbury Wells Worcestershire | C | 2.3 | 51% | 2.1 | 3% |
| 42 | Oaklands Hertfordshire | C | 2 | 7% | 4.3 | 0% |
| 43 | Bromyard Herefordshire | C | 0.9 | 100% | 2.1 | 0% |
| 44 | Whiston South Yorkshire | C− | 1 | 75% | 3.8 | 0% |
| 45 | Desford Leicestershire | C− | 1.6 | 90% | 2 | 0% |
| 46 | Holton le Clay Lincolnshire | C− | 2 | 59% | 1.4 | 8% |
| 47 | Lydd Kent | C− | 1.7 | 66% | 0.9 | 0% |
| 48 | Kingston Bagpuize Oxfordshire | C− | 0.8 | 100% | 1.3 | 0% |
| 49 | Swanland East Riding of Yorkshire | C− | 1.1 | 75% | 0.3 | 0% |
| 50 | Sutton Cambridgeshire | D | 1.9 | 82% | 1.1 | 0% |
| 51 | Glyn-neath West Glamorgan | D | 1.3 | 57% | 1.1 | 22% |
| 52 | Pen-pedair-heol Gwent | D | 0.9 | 80% | 2.3 | 0% |
| 53 | Crowle Lincolnshire | D | 1.3 | 91% | 1 | 0% |
| 54 | Puckeridge and Standon Hertfordshire | D | 0.9 | 59% | 3.2 | 0% |
| 55 | Sutton Bridge Lincolnshire | D | 1.3 | 79% | 0.8 | 0% |
| 56 | North Ferriby East Riding of Yorkshire | D | 0.6 | 33% | 1 | 0% |
| 57 | Willingham Cambridgeshire | D | 1.4 | 73% | 0.8 | 0% |
| 58 | Long Buckby Northamptonshire | D− | 0.6 | 52% | 1.9 | 0% |
| 59 | Penyffordd Clwyd | D− | 0.7 | 36% | 1.6 | 0% |
| 60 | Indian Queens, Fraddon and St Columb Road Cornwall | D− | 0.7 | 27% | 1.6 | 0% |
The map
Parks, footpaths & countryside
Tap a number to zoom to a park. Tap a layer to hide it. The dashed line is New Romney’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 New Romney
The biggest is Romney Warren Country Park, 4.1 ha (10 acres). Directions go to the park’s nearest public entrance where Ordnance Survey maps one.
St Martins Field
Park or garden
1.0 ha (2 acres)
Centralin the middle of New Romney
Directionsto the nearest entrance
Fairfield Road Recreation Ground
Playing field
0.7 ha (2 acres)0.1 km of path
Centralin the middle of New Romney
Directionsto the nearest entrance
Close to home
8 in 10 New Romney 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 (79%)Further (21%)
New Romney79%
Towns its size82%
Kent towns78%
All UK towns83%
About 800 people live further than that. Playing fields count, so a park within reach isn’t always one with paths or trees; 13 playgrounds are mapped in and around the town, about one for every 298 residents.
National Parks & National Landscapes
The Kent Downs National Landscape is 3.9 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 New Romney scores 0% on it even though the Kent Downs National Landscape is 3.9 mi away.
Footpaths & waymarked walks
New Romney is on the King Charles III England Coast Path
20 km of footpaths, bridleways and rights of way are mapped in New Romney and the kilometre around it, 1.6 km for every square kilometre (the typical UK town has 3.0). Bars show each route’s kilometres within 2 km of the town.
National
King Charles III England Coast Path: Camber to Folkestone5.4 km
The King Charles III England Coast Path, a national route, passes New Romney.
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 New Romney: 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) | 8.4 | 9.9 | 11.7 | 13.8 | 15.5 | 16.5 | 16.1 | 14.5 | 12.5 | 10.6 | 8.8 | 7.9 |
| High (°C) | 8 | 8 | 11 | 14 | 17 | 20 | 22 | 22 | 20 | 16 | 11 | 9 |
| Rain (mm) | 68 | 50 | 39 | 41 | 47 | 47 | 50 | 56 | 52 | 80 | 85 | 81 |
March is the driest month (39 mm) and August the warmest (highs of 22 °C). Winter days are short, about 8 hours of daylight in December, and 85 mm of rain falls in November, the wettest month. Frost comes on about 28 nights a year. The climate in New Romney →
The coast
The coast and beaches near New Romney
28% of the area within 5 km of New Romney is sea. 6 beaches are mapped within 5 km, 2 with a name.
Greatstone beach0.8 mi from town
DirectionsBroomhill Sands1.8 mi from town
DirectionsThe King Charles III England Coast Path passes the town.
Sea: the area outside the ONS coastline (mean high water). Bathing water quality is published by the Environment Agency (England) and Natural Resources Wales; check it before swimming.
Things to do
13 playgrounds
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.
Every named place, with directions
Campsites 4
Marlie Farm Holiday Park0.1 mi from town
DirectionsRomney Meadows Caravan and Camping Park0.5 mi from town
DirectionsRomney Tent Site0.6 mi from town
DirectionsPlus 1 campsite without a name on the map.
Slipways 2
Plus 2 slipways 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.
Littlestone-on-SeaSt Mary's BayLyddDymchurchHamstreetLympneNew Romney
ABCDOutdoors Grade
| Town | Outdoors | Green space, ha per 1,000 | Near a park | Protected within 5 km |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| New Romney | C+ | 2.5 | 79% | 0% |
| Littlestone-on-Sea 1.4 mi | C− | 1.4 | 37% | 0% |
| St Mary's Bay 2.1 mi | D | 0.0 | 0% | 0% |
| Lydd 2.9 mi | C− | 1.7 | 66% | 0% |
| Dymchurch 4.0 mi | C+ | 1.6 | 58% | 13% |
| Hamstreet 6.6 mi | A− | 2.3 | 100% | 0% |
| Lympne 7.2 mi | A+ | 4.0 | 100% | 34% |
Lympne, 7.2 miles away, grades A+, the best next door: every resident lives within 400 m of a park.
Questions about the outdoors in New Romney
What is the biggest park in New Romney?
Romney Warren Country Park, 4.1 ha (10 acres), with 0.8 km of path. St Martins Field (1.0 ha) is second. 3 named parks, gardens and playing fields are in the town or within 400 m of it.
Is New Romney near a National Park?
The nearest protected landscape is the Kent Downs National Landscape, 3.9 mi north of the town’s edge. It covers 879 km² and was designated in 1968.
What are the best walks near New Romney?
1 waymarked walking route passes within 2 km of the town, including the King Charles III England Coast Path: Camber to Folkestone.
How many people in New Romney live near a park?
79% 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 New Romney?
May to September: the longest days, the warmest afternoons and the least rain of the year, from the Met Office 1991–2020 averages.
Is New Romney good for walking?
Paths are thinner than most towns: 1.6 km of footpath and right of way per square kilometre, more than 18% of UK towns. For park space per person it beats 58% (2.5 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 New Romney’s overall grade.
Sources
Where New Romney’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.