Photo: Chris Whippet · CC BY-SA 2.088% of the land within 5 km of Rolvenden is National Park or National Landscape
Parks and playing fields in Rolvenden add up to 4.7 ha for every 1,000 residents; the typical UK town has 2.1. 69% of residents live within a 5-minute walk of a park or playing field. Footpaths add up to 17 km in the village and the kilometre around it, 2.6 for every square kilometre. Rolvenden has no Outdoors Grade (towns under 1,000 people aren’t graded).
What kind of outdoors village is Rolvenden?
Read from the data: what stands out first, good and bad.
Rolvenden’s strongest suit is protected countryside on the doorstep, followed by its historic parks. Where it falls short is how far some homes are from a park.
7 in 10 Rolvenden 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 300 people live further than that. Playing fields count, so a park within reach isn’t always one with paths or trees.
Footpaths in and around Rolvenden
17 km of footpaths, bridleways and rights of way are mapped in Rolvenden and the kilometre around it, 2.6 km for every square kilometre (the typical UK town has 3.0).
No named walking route is mapped within 2 km of Rolvenden; its footpaths are on the map above.
Waymarked walks are OpenStreetMap walking routes. Public rights of way are only as complete as the map in each area.
A registered historic park in Rolvenden
Historic England’s register of parks and gardens, and the listed buildings and scheduled monuments that stand inside Rolvenden’s named parks.
A listed building or monument counts when it sits inside the park’s OS Open Greenspace outline (to about 15 m), so a few at the boundary are included. Historic England, National Heritage List for England.
The best walking months in Rolvenden: 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) | 8.4 | 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 | 19 | 15 | 11 | 8 |
| Rain (mm) | 80 | 63 | 48 | 51 | 51 | 50 | 48 | 61 | 57 | 92 | 96 | 97 |
March is the driest month (48 mm) and August the warmest (highs of 22 °C). Winter days are short, about 8 hours of daylight in December, and 97 mm of rain falls in December, the wettest month. Frost comes on about 42 nights a year. The climate in Rolvenden →
The outdoors in nearby towns
The nearest towns of 1,000+ within 12 miles. Tap a town for its outdoors page.
Cranbrook, 5.1 miles away, grades A, the best next door: 82% of its residents live within 400 m of a park.
Questions about the outdoors in Rolvenden
Is Rolvenden near a National Park?
No National Park or National Landscape is within 30 km (about 19 miles) of Rolvenden.
How many people in Rolvenden live near a park?
69% 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 Rolvenden?
May to September: the longest days, the warmest afternoons and the least rain of the year, from the Met Office 1991–2020 averages.
Which parks in Rolvenden are historic?
Great Maytham (Grade II) is on Historic England’s register of parks and gardens.
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 Rolvenden’s overall grade.
Where Rolvenden’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.