Queenborough’s biggest
King George V Playing Field
Playing field
2.0 ha (5 acres)
3 pitchesfootball pitches would fit
Centralin the middle of Queenborough
Directionsto the nearest entrance
Photo: Chris Whippet · CC BY-SA 2.0BOutdoors Grade
Outdoors in Queenborough · parks, paths & countryside
Queenborough is on the coast, on the King Charles III England Coast Path
The sea makes up 33% of the area within 5 km. Footpaths add up to 21 km in the town and the kilometre around it, 2.0 for every square kilometre. Parks and playing fields in Queenborough add up to 1.6 ha for every 1,000 residents; the typical UK town has 2.1. Queenborough grades B for the outdoors: #43 of 87 in Kent. 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
21 km
2.0 km per km², town + 1 km
Typical UK town 3.0 per km²
Protected landscape
0%
of the land within 5 km
Nearest: Kent Downs National Landscape
The sea
33%
of the area within 5 km
A coastal town
Character
What kind of outdoors town is Queenborough?
Read from the data: what stands out first, good and bad.
On the coast33% of the area within 5 km is sea; 5 beaches mapped.A park on every doorstep100% of residents live within 400 m of a park or playing field.On a National TrailThe King Charles III England Coast Path passes through.Less park per person1.6 ha of parks and playing fields per 1,000 residents; the typical UK town has 2.1.
Queenborough’s strongest suit is the sea, followed by parks close to every home. Where it falls short is park space per person.
Outdoors grade
Queenborough grades B for the outdoors
Each chart is every UK town of 1,000 or more on one measure: the green bar is Queenborough, 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 63% of UK towns#43 of 87 in Kent · 22nd of 60 UK towns its size
Public green space1.6 haper 1,000 residents: parks, gardens, playing fields, play spaces
32out 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 Landscape0%of the land within 5 km · None within 5 km
31out of
100
100
Footpaths2.0 kmper km², the town and 1 km around it
30out of
100
100
The sea33%of the area within 5 km
93out 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
Queenborough is 22nd of 60 UK towns its size for the outdoors
The 60 UK towns and cities of 3,800 to 4,100 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
Queenborough2.0
Towns its size2.5
Kent towns2.6
All UK towns3.0
Green space, ha per 1,000 residents
Queenborough1.6
Towns its size2.0
Kent towns2.3
All UK towns2.1
Residents within 400 m of a park
Queenborough100%
Towns its size83%
Kent towns78%
All UK towns83%
Against towns its size, Queenborough 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 37 of the others do better.
Show as a table
| Town | Outdoors | Green space | Near a park | Path per km² | Protected | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Darley Dale Derbyshire | A+ | 3.8 | 100% | 3.4 | 51% |
| 2 | Batheaston Somerset | A | 3 | 84% | 4.6 | 71% |
| 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 | Holt Norfolk | A | 8.5 | 84% | 2.4 | 40% |
| 7 | Old Sarum Wiltshire | A | 4.6 | 100% | 3.7 | 0% |
| 8 | Disley Cheshire | A− | 1.2 | 100% | 4.6 | 22% |
| 9 | Bowerhill Wiltshire | A− | 7.4 | 100% | 3 | 0% |
| 10 | Mulbarton Norfolk | A− | 7 | 100% | 3 | 0% |
| 11 | Welwyn Hertfordshire | A− | 2.6 | 100% | 4 | 0% |
| 12 | Esh Winning County Durham | A− | 3.2 | 100% | 3.5 | 0% |
| 13 | Old Basing Hampshire | A− | 13.6 | 92% | 3.1 | 0% |
| 14 | Colden Common Hampshire | B+ | 2.7 | 82% | 2.8 | 35% |
| 15 | Barnt Green Worcestershire | B+ | 37.8 | 81% | 3.7 | 0% |
| 16 | Carbis Bay Cornwall | B+ | 0.5 | 88% | 2.8 | 20% |
| 17 | Long Melford Suffolk | B+ | 6.9 | 87% | 3.3 | 0% |
| 18 | Papworth Everard Cambridgeshire | B+ | 4.3 | 100% | 2.5 | 0% |
| 19 | Chirk Clwyd | B+ | 1.8 | 100% | 2.3 | 15% |
| 20 | Locking Somerset | B+ | 2.7 | 84% | 2.4 | 23% |
| 21 | Greasbrough South Yorkshire | B | 2.9 | 80% | 4.7 | 0% |
| 22 | Queenborough Kent | B | 1.6 | 100% | 2 | 0% |
| 23 | Tangmere West Sussex | B | 2.1 | 100% | 1.2 | 36% |
| 24 | Stoke Poges Buckinghamshire | B | 7.7 | 76% | 3.3 | 0% |
| 25 | Romanby North Yorkshire | B | 3.1 | 100% | 2.3 | 0% |
| 26 | Mytholmroyd West Yorkshire | B | 1.8 | 88% | 5.8 | 0% |
| 27 | Framlingham Suffolk | B | 3.7 | 73% | 4.2 | 0% |
| 28 | Pirbright Surrey | B | 2 | 84% | 5.7 | 0% |
| 29 | Calverley West Yorkshire | B | 1.5 | 92% | 6 | 0% |
| 30 | Glanaman Dyfed | B− | 3.3 | 83% | 0.8 | 29% |
| 31 | South Cerney Gloucestershire | B− | 2.5 | 77% | 2.4 | 7% |
| 32 | Alford Lincolnshire | B− | 2.1 | 85% | 1.5 | 26% |
| 33 | Lower Stondon Bedfordshire | B− | 2.7 | 73% | 2.2 | 5% |
| 34 | New Romney Kent | C+ | 2.5 | 79% | 1.6 | 0% |
| 35 | Chipping Ongar Essex | C+ | 2.5 | 83% | 2.9 | 0% |
| 36 | Bar Hill Cambridgeshire | C+ | 1.4 | 93% | 3.5 | 0% |
| 37 | Heacham Norfolk | C+ | 1.5 | 53% | 1.1 | 29% |
| 38 | Forest Row East Sussex | C+ | 0.3 | 51% | 3.4 | 94% |
| 39 | Shirland and Stonebroom Derbyshire | C | 3.7 | 43% | 3 | 0% |
| 40 | Silver End Essex | C | 2 | 88% | 2.1 | 0% |
| 41 | Cubbington Warwickshire | C | 1.5 | 100% | 1.7 | 0% |
| 42 | Tenbury Wells Worcestershire | C | 2.3 | 51% | 2.1 | 3% |
| 43 | Oaklands Hertfordshire | C | 2 | 7% | 4.3 | 0% |
| 44 | Bromyard Herefordshire | C | 0.9 | 100% | 2.1 | 0% |
| 45 | Whiston South Yorkshire | C− | 1 | 75% | 3.8 | 0% |
| 46 | Desford Leicestershire | C− | 1.6 | 90% | 2 | 0% |
| 47 | Holton le Clay Lincolnshire | C− | 2 | 59% | 1.4 | 8% |
| 48 | Lydd Kent | C− | 1.7 | 66% | 0.9 | 0% |
| 49 | Kingston Bagpuize Oxfordshire | C− | 0.8 | 100% | 1.3 | 0% |
| 50 | Swanland East Riding of Yorkshire | C− | 1.1 | 75% | 0.3 | 0% |
| 51 | Sutton Cambridgeshire | D | 1.9 | 82% | 1.1 | 0% |
| 52 | Glyn-neath West Glamorgan | D | 1.3 | 57% | 1.1 | 22% |
| 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 Queenborough’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 Queenborough
The biggest is King George V Playing Field, 2.0 ha (5 acres). Directions go to the park’s nearest public entrance where Ordnance Survey maps one.
Queenborough Park
Park or garden
0.2 ha (0 acres)0.2 km of path
0.5 mi westfrom the centre
Directionsto the nearest entrance
Close to home
Everyone in Queenborough lives 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 (100%)Further (0%)
Queenborough100%
Towns its size83%
Kent towns78%
All UK towns83%
Playing fields count, so a park within reach isn’t always one with paths or trees; 11 playgrounds are mapped in and around the town, about one for every 356 residents.
National Parks & National Landscapes
The Kent Downs National Landscape is 6.3 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
Footpaths & waymarked walks
Queenborough is on the King Charles III England Coast Path
21 km of footpaths, bridleways and rights of way are mapped in Queenborough and the kilometre around it, 2.0 km for every square kilometre (the typical UK town has 3.0). Bars show each route’s kilometres within 2 km of the town.
NationalRegional
Saxon Shore Way4.5 km
King Charles III England Coast Path: Iwade to Grain0.6 km
The King Charles III England Coast Path, a national route, passes Queenborough. The regional route here is the Saxon Shore 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 Queenborough: 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) | 8 | 9 | 11 | 15 | 18 | 21 | 23 | 23 | 20 | 16 | 12 | 9 |
| Rain (mm) | 44 | 36 | 32 | 35 | 40 | 41 | 40 | 46 | 43 | 57 | 60 | 49 |
March is the driest month (32 mm) and July the warmest (highs of 23 °C). Winter days are short, about 8 hours of daylight in December, and 60 mm of rain falls in November, the wettest month. Frost comes on about 20 nights a year. The climate in Queenborough →
The coast
The coast and beaches near Queenborough
33% of the area within 5 km of Queenborough is sea. 5 beaches are mapped within 5 km, 2 with a name.
Cockleshell Hard1.6 mi from town
DirectionsGrain Beach3.0 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
11 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
Hills and peaks 3
Rushenden Hill0.0 mi from town
DirectionsBarrows Hill0.2 mi from town
DirectionsFurze Hill0.5 mi from town
DirectionsPlaygrounds 11
Plus 11 playgrounds 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.
Halfway HousesSheernessMinster (Swale)IwadeGrainLower HalstowQueenborough
ABCDOutdoors Grade
| Town | Outdoors | Green space, ha per 1,000 | Near a park | Protected within 5 km |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Queenborough | B | 1.6 | 100% | 0% |
| Halfway Houses 1.1 mi | C | 1.8 | 71% | 0% |
| Sheerness 1.6 mi | B− | 3.0 | 68% | 0% |
| Minster (Swale) 2.3 mi | B | 2.5 | 89% | 0% |
| Iwade 2.8 mi | C+ | 0.8 | 100% | 0% |
| Grain 3.2 mi | A | 13.0 | 100% | 0% |
| Lower Halstow 4.6 mi | A− | 1.5 | 100% | 4% |
Grain, 3.2 miles away, grades A, the best next door: every resident lives within 400 m of a park. Grain has at least twice Queenborough’s green space per resident.
Questions about the outdoors in Queenborough
What is the biggest park in Queenborough?
King George V Playing Field, 2.0 ha (5 acres). Queenborough Park (0.2 ha) is second. 2 named parks, gardens and playing fields are in the town or within 400 m of it.
Is Queenborough near a National Park?
The nearest protected landscape is the Kent Downs National Landscape, 6.3 mi south-west of the town’s edge. It covers 879 km² and was designated in 1968.
What are the best walks near Queenborough?
2 waymarked walking routes pass within 2 km of the town, including the Saxon Shore Way and King Charles III England Coast Path: Iwade to Grain.
How many people in Queenborough 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 Queenborough?
May to September: the longest days, the warmest afternoons and the least rain of the year, from the Met Office 1991–2020 averages.
Is Queenborough good for walking?
Paths are thinner than most towns: 2.0 km of footpath and right of way per square kilometre, more than 30% of UK towns. For park space per person it beats 32% (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 Queenborough’s overall grade.
Sources
Where Queenborough’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.