Sibertswold’s biggest
The Green
Park or garden
0.1 ha (0 acres)
Centralin the middle of Sibertswold
1 listed
Directionsto the nearest entrance
Photo: Chris Whippet · CC BY-SA 2.0B−Outdoors Grade
Outdoors in Sibertswold · parks, paths & countryside
38% of the land within 5 km of Sibertswold is National Park or National Landscape
The Kent Downs National Landscape begins 0.1 mi from the village’s edge. Footpaths add up to 20 km in the village and the kilometre around it, 2.2 for every square kilometre. Parks and playing fields in Sibertswold add up to 1.9 ha for every 1,000 residents; the typical UK town has 2.1. Sibertswold grades B− for the outdoors. A character grade: it isn’t part of the overall grade.
Green space
1.9 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
2.2 km per km², town + 1 km
Typical UK town 3.0 per km²
Protected landscape
38%
of the land within 5 km
Nearest: Kent Downs National Landscape
Character
What kind of outdoors village is Sibertswold?
Read from the data: what stands out first, good and bad.
Protected countryside38% of the land within 5 km is Kent Downs National Landscape.On a National TrailThe Via Francigena - 01 part Great Britain passes through.
Sibertswold’s strongest suit is protected countryside on the doorstep, followed by the Via Francigena - 01 part Great Britain.
Outdoors grade
Sibertswold grades B− for the outdoors
Each chart is every UK town of 1,000 or more on one measure: the green bar is Sibertswold, 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 49% of UK towns29th of 60 UK villages its size
Public green space1.9 haper 1,000 residents: parks, gardens, playing fields, play spaces
41out of
100
100
A park within a walk79%of residents within 400 m (a 5-minute walk)
45out of
100
100
National Park or National Landscape38%of the land within 5 km
87out of
100
100
Footpaths2.2 kmper km², the town and 1 km around it
37out 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
Sibertswold is 29th 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
Sibertswold2.2
Villages its size2.4
Kent towns2.6
All UK towns3.0
Green space, ha per 1,000 residents
Sibertswold1.9
Villages its size2.2
Kent towns2.3
All UK towns2.1
Residents within 400 m of a park
Sibertswold79%
Villages its size79%
Kent towns78%
All UK towns83%
Sibertswold falls furthest behind on park space per resident, where 35 of the 59 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 | Melton Suffolk | A+ | 6.5 | 100% | 4.1 | 33% |
| 3 | Salcombe Devon | A+ | 2 | 100% | 3.3 | 65% |
| 4 | Wood Street Village Surrey | A+ | 25.7 | 81% | 4.9 | 18% |
| 5 | Pen-clawdd West Glamorgan | A | 4 | 100% | 0.5 | 42% |
| 6 | Ducklington Oxfordshire | A | 10.1 | 79% | 4.8 | 4% |
| 7 | Roydon Essex | A | 3.5 | 100% | 4.9 | 0% |
| 8 | St Athan South Glamorgan | A | 2.2 | 100% | 3 | 0% |
| 9 | Hale Bank Cheshire | A− | 9.1 | 100% | 1.4 | 0% |
| 10 | West Wellow Hampshire | A− | 3.6 | 82% | 2.7 | 51% |
| 11 | Shillington Bedfordshire | A− | 3.7 | 83% | 3.2 | 14% |
| 12 | Bean Kent | A− | 17 | 72% | 3.1 | 0% |
| 13 | Woodhouse Eaves Leicestershire | A− | 35.7 | 85% | 3.8 | 0% |
| 14 | Kewstoke Somerset | A− | 1.3 | 74% | 4.3 | 1% |
| 15 | Hampton Magna Warwickshire | A− | 6.8 | 100% | 2.6 | 0% |
| 16 | Sonning Berkshire | A− | 11.1 | 80% | 2.5 | 7% |
| 17 | Thorpe-le-Soken Essex | A− | 4.2 | 100% | 1.4 | 0% |
| 18 | East Dean and Friston East Sussex | B+ | 1.2 | 18% | 4.6 | 58% |
| 19 | Stithians Cornwall | B+ | 3.2 | 80% | 3.4 | 3% |
| 20 | Staining Lancashire | B+ | 2.6 | 100% | 1.9 | 0% |
| 21 | Seal Kent | B+ | 3.3 | 78% | 2.1 | 77% |
| 22 | Littlebourne Kent | B+ | 1.6 | 100% | 3 | 9% |
| 23 | Farcet Cambridgeshire | B+ | 13.8 | 77% | 3.5 | 0% |
| 24 | Ardingly West Sussex | B | 1.7 | 53% | 4.1 | 83% |
| 25 | Abridge Essex | B | 3 | 100% | 2.4 | 0% |
| 26 | Mount Hawke Cornwall | B | 1.4 | 85% | 2 | 6% |
| 27 | Fence Lancashire | B | 1.3 | 62% | 6.2 | 32% |
| 28 | Edgworth Lancashire | B | 3.2 | 100% | 2.1 | 0% |
| 29 | Sibertswold Kent | B− | 1.9 | 79% | 2.2 | 38% |
| 30 | Whittington Shropshire | B− | 3.7 | 100% | 1 | 0% |
| 31 | South Witham Lincolnshire | B− | 2.5 | 100% | 1.9 | 0% |
| 32 | West Horndon Essex | C+ | 2.2 | 100% | 1.9 | 0% |
| 33 | Evenwood County Durham | C+ | 3.4 | 100% | 0.8 | 0% |
| 34 | Bartestree Herefordshire | C+ | 2.1 | 81% | 1.9 | 10% |
| 35 | Everton Hampshire | C+ | 1.3 | 58% | 1.5 | 37% |
| 36 | Norton (Norton Juxta Kempsey) Worcestershire | C+ | 0.9 | 100% | 3 | 0% |
| 37 | Clutton Somerset | C+ | 0.9 | 74% | 3.3 | 11% |
| 38 | High Littleton Somerset | C+ | 1 | 58% | 4.9 | 1% |
| 39 | Potterspury Northamptonshire | C | 1.4 | 100% | 2.1 | 0% |
| 40 | Blisworth Northamptonshire | C | 2.2 | 81% | 2.4 | 0% |
| 41 | Buxted East Sussex | C | 1.1 | 63% | 2.4 | 52% |
| 42 | Harden West Yorkshire | C | 1.8 | 40% | 5 | 0% |
| 43 | Earith Cambridgeshire | C | 1.2 | 78% | 3.6 | 0% |
| 44 | Scawby Lincolnshire | C− | 25.7 | 68% | 0.4 | 0% |
| 45 | Higher Walton Lancashire | C− | 2.2 | 61% | 2.7 | 0% |
| 46 | Thorney Cambridgeshire | C− | 3.4 | 74% | 0.7 | 0% |
| 47 | Pensilva Cornwall | C− | 1.6 | 60% | 1.3 | 15% |
| 48 | Sywell and Overstone Northamptonshire | D | 3.1 | 62% | 1.2 | 0% |
| 49 | Thurcaston Leicestershire | D | 1.1 | 33% | 3.6 | 0% |
| 50 | Ainsworth Greater Manchester | D | 0.4 | 64% | 3.2 | 0% |
| 51 | Whittlesford Cambridgeshire | D | 2.3 | 57% | 1.4 | 0% |
| 52 | Moulton Lincolnshire | D | 1.9 | 75% | 0.1 | 0% |
| 53 | Ketton Rutland | D | 2.1 | 56% | 1.4 | 0% |
| 54 | Balsham Cambridgeshire | D | 1.7 | 57% | 1.8 | 0% |
| 55 | St Erme and Trispen Cornwall | D | 0.3 | 69% | 1.2 | 2% |
| 56 | Findern Derbyshire | D | 1.8 | 40% | 1.9 | 0% |
| 57 | Woodborough Nottinghamshire | D− | 1 | 45% | 2 | 0% |
| 58 | Scarcroft West Yorkshire | D− | 0.5 | 15% | 2.4 | 0% |
| 59 | School Aycliffe County Durham | D− | 0 | 0% | 2.5 | 0% |
| 60 | Church Fenton North Yorkshire | D− | 0.3 | 50% | 0.7 | 0% |
The map
Parks, footpaths & countryside
Tap a number to zoom to a park. Tap a layer to hide it. The dashed line is Sibertswold’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 Sibertswold
The biggest is The Green, 0.1 ha (0 acres). Directions go to the park’s nearest public entrance where Ordnance Survey maps one.
Close to home
8 in 10 Sibertswold 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%)
Sibertswold79%
Villages its size79%
Kent towns78%
All UK towns83%
About 300 people live further than that. 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 405 residents.
National Parks & National Landscapes
National Parks and National Landscapes around Sibertswold
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
38% of the land within 5 km of Sibertswold is National Park or National Landscape, more than 87% of UK towns.
Footpaths & waymarked walks
Sibertswold is on the Via Francigena - 01 part Great Britain
20 km of footpaths, bridleways and rights of way are mapped in Sibertswold and the kilometre around it, 2.2 km for every square kilometre (the typical UK town has 3.0). Bars show each route’s kilometres within 2 km of the village.
NationalRegional
Via Francigena - 01 part Great Britain6.6 km
North Downs Way (Canterbury loop)6.6 km
Miner's Way Trail4.5 km
The Via Francigena - 01 part Great Britain, a national route, passes Sibertswold. The regional route here is the Miner's Way Trail.
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 Sibertswold: 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 | 14.6 | 12.5 | 10.6 | 8.8 | 7.9 |
| High (°C) | 7 | 8 | 10 | 13 | 16 | 19 | 22 | 22 | 19 | 15 | 11 | 8 |
| Rain (mm) | 89 | 64 | 47 | 49 | 55 | 55 | 54 | 59 | 66 | 101 | 100 | 98 |
March is the driest month (47 mm) and August the warmest (highs of 22 °C). Winter days are short, about 8 hours of daylight in December, and 101 mm of rain falls in October, the wettest month. Frost comes on about 43 nights a year. The climate in Sibertswold →
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
Sibertswold is inland. These are the nearest named beaches, measured from the edge of the village.
Shakespeare's Beach5.7 mi from Sibertswold’s edge
DirectionsAbbot's Cliff Beach5.7 mi from Sibertswold’s edge
DirectionsLangdon Beach5.9 mi from Sibertswold’s edge
DirectionsThe Warren6.6 mi from Sibertswold’s edge
DirectionsSt Margaret's Bay6.6 mi from Sibertswold’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
Playgrounds 4
Plus 4 playgrounds without a name on the map.
Campsites 4
Coxhill Camping0.5 mi from town
DirectionsThe Field0.9 mi from town
DirectionsPlus 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.
EythorneAyleshamWhitfieldDoverGustonEastrySibertswold
ABCDOutdoors Grade
Guston, 5 miles away, grades A+, the best next door: every resident lives within 400 m of a park. Guston has at least twice Sibertswold’s green space per resident.
Questions about the outdoors in Sibertswold
What is the biggest park in Sibertswold?
The Green, 0.1 ha (0 acres). 1 named park, garden or playing field is in the village or within 400 m of it.
Is Sibertswold near a National Park?
The nearest protected landscape is the Kent Downs National Landscape, 0.1 mi west of the village’s edge. It covers 879 km² and was designated in 1968.
What are the best walks near Sibertswold?
3 waymarked walking routes pass within 2 km of the village, including the Via Francigena - 01 part Great Britain, North Downs Way (Canterbury loop) and Miner's Way Trail.
What is the nearest beach to Sibertswold?
Shakespeare's Beach, 5.7 mi from the edge of the village, then Abbot's Cliff Beach (5.7 mi). Sibertswold itself is inland.
How many people in Sibertswold 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 Sibertswold?
May to September: the longest days, the warmest afternoons and the least rain of the year, from the Met Office 1991–2020 averages.
Is Sibertswold good for walking?
Paths are thinner than most towns: 2.2 km of footpath and right of way per square kilometre, more than 37% of UK towns. For park space per person it beats 41% (1.9 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 Sibertswold’s overall grade.
Sources
Where Sibertswold’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.