Stone’s biggest
Worcester Park
Park or garden
4.8 ha (12 acres)1.2 km of path
15 minto walk all 1.2 km of path
7 pitchesfootball pitches would fit
Centralin the middle of Stone
Playground
Directionsto the nearest entrance
Photo: Steve F · CC BY-SA 2.0A+Outdoors Grade
Outdoors in Stone · parks, paths & countryside
Stone is on the coast, on the King Charles III England Coast Path
The sea makes up 10% of the area within 5 km. 74 km of footpaths run through the town and the kilometre around it, 6.2 for every square kilometre. The Kent Downs National Landscape begins 4.1 mi from the town’s edge. Stone grades A+ for the outdoors: #8 of 87 in Kent. A character grade: it isn’t part of the overall grade.
Green space
3.1 ha
per 1,000 residents
Typical UK town 2.1
Near a park
100%
of residents within 400 m
Typical UK town 83%
Footpaths
74 km
6.2 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 4.1 mi out, past the 5 km
The sea
10%
of the area within 5 km
A coastal town
Character
What kind of outdoors town is Stone?
Read from the data: what stands out first, good and bad.
On the coast10% of the area within 5 km is sea; 4 beaches mapped.A town of footpaths6.2 km of path per km², more than 97% of UK towns. The typical town has 3.0.A park on every doorstep100% of residents live within 400 m of a park or playing field.Countryside close byThe Kent Downs National Landscape starts 4.1 mi south-west.
Stone’s strongest suit is the sea, followed by dense footpaths.
Outdoors grade
Stone grades A+ for the outdoors
Each chart is every UK town of 1,000 or more on one measure: the green bar is Stone, the dashed line the typical town. The number is the share of towns it beats; the five are averaged and the average ranked again.
A+
Better than 98% of UK towns#8 of 87 in Kent · 2nd of 60 UK towns its size
Public green space3.1 haper 1,000 residents: parks, gardens, playing fields, play spaces
72out 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 · Kent Downs begins just past 5 km
31out of
100
100
Footpaths6.2 kmper km², the town and 1 km around it
98out of
100
100
The sea10%of the area within 5 km
86out 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
Stone is 2nd of 60 UK towns its size for the outdoors
The 60 UK towns and cities of 6,200 to 6,700 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
Stone6.2
Towns its size2.9
Kent towns2.6
All UK towns3.0
Green space, ha per 1,000 residents
Stone3.1
Towns its size2.2
Kent towns2.3
All UK towns2.1
Residents within 400 m of a park
Stone100%
Towns its size84%
Kent towns78%
All UK towns83%
Against towns its size, Stone stands out most for path per km²: none of the other 59 has more.
Show as a table
| Town | Outdoors | Green space | Near a park | Path per km² | Protected | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Netley Hampshire | A+ | 16.3 | 100% | 4.1 | 4% |
| 2 | Stone Kent | A+ | 3.1 | 100% | 6.2 | 0% |
| 3 | Filey North Yorkshire | A | 5.9 | 89% | 2.8 | 0% |
| 4 | Chalford Gloucestershire | A | 1.6 | 96% | 4.7 | 94% |
| 5 | Wingerworth Derbyshire | A | 9 | 86% | 4 | 0% |
| 6 | Shotton Clwyd | A | 4.5 | 100% | 4.7 | 0% |
| 7 | Bedwas Gwent | A | 4.4 | 100% | 4 | 0% |
| 8 | Broad Blunsdon Wiltshire | A− | 5.2 | 93% | 4.4 | 0% |
| 9 | Barnton Cheshire | A− | 10 | 94% | 3.8 | 0% |
| 10 | St Blazey Cornwall | A− | 2.4 | 78% | 2.8 | 17% |
| 11 | Marston Moretaine Bedfordshire | A− | 17.4 | 88% | 4.2 | 0% |
| 12 | Olney Buckinghamshire | A− | 6.3 | 100% | 3.2 | 0% |
| 13 | Alcester Warwickshire | A− | 4.1 | 100% | 3.5 | 0% |
| 14 | Ackworth Moor Top West Yorkshire | A− | 4.6 | 91% | 4.6 | 0% |
| 15 | Whitfield Kent | A− | 2.3 | 79% | 2.5 | 32% |
| 16 | Paulton Somerset | A− | 2.1 | 96% | 4.1 | 0% |
| 17 | Burghfield Common Berkshire | A− | 2.1 | 100% | 2.9 | 8% |
| 18 | Broadbridge Heath West Sussex | B+ | 1.6 | 95% | 4.3 | 3% |
| 19 | Lightwater Surrey | B+ | 9.2 | 72% | 5.6 | 0% |
| 20 | Milford and Witley Surrey | B+ | 2.6 | 54% | 3.7 | 78% |
| 21 | Cawston Warwickshire | B+ | 3.6 | 98% | 3 | 0% |
| 22 | North Anston South Yorkshire | B+ | 2.6 | 100% | 3.3 | 0% |
| 23 | Cleator Moor Cumbria | B+ | 3.5 | 91% | 1.9 | 11% |
| 24 | Little Chalfont Buckinghamshire | B+ | 1.5 | 83% | 3.6 | 45% |
| 25 | Groby Leicestershire | B+ | 2.1 | 96% | 4.5 | 0% |
| 26 | Peasedown St John Somerset | B+ | 1.5 | 88% | 4 | 9% |
| 27 | Hindhead Surrey | B | 1.7 | 37% | 5.9 | 66% |
| 28 | Braunton Devon | B | 1.6 | 78% | 2.1 | 24% |
| 29 | Galleywood Essex | B | 10.3 | 61% | 4.2 | 0% |
| 30 | Throckley Tyne and Wear | B | 3.1 | 89% | 3.2 | 0% |
| 31 | Oundle Northamptonshire | B− | 2.4 | 100% | 2.4 | 0% |
| 32 | Bovey Tracey Devon | B− | 2.2 | 66% | 2.5 | 55% |
| 33 | Rishton Lancashire | B− | 2.2 | 94% | 3 | 0% |
| 34 | Yapton West Sussex | B− | 1.8 | 63% | 2 | 15% |
| 35 | Upton West Yorkshire | B− | 2.2 | 100% | 2.2 | 0% |
| 36 | Crigglestone and Durkar West Yorkshire | B− | 4.4 | 45% | 3.9 | 0% |
| 37 | Ushaw Moor and Bearpark County Durham | C+ | 1.6 | 82% | 4.6 | 0% |
| 38 | South Molton Devon | C+ | 2.2 | 96% | 1.3 | 0% |
| 39 | Chiswell Green Hertfordshire | C+ | 4 | 54% | 3.5 | 0% |
| 40 | Denmead Hampshire | C+ | 1.4 | 72% | 2.8 | 35% |
| 41 | Waltham Lincolnshire | C+ | 2.2 | 84% | 1.3 | 19% |
| 42 | Tetbury Gloucestershire | C+ | 1.2 | 66% | 2.6 | 88% |
| 43 | Malton North Yorkshire | C+ | 2.3 | 43% | 2.4 | 24% |
| 44 | Brampton Cambridgeshire | C | 3.2 | 61% | 2.9 | 0% |
| 45 | Market Deeping Lincolnshire | C | 1.5 | 96% | 2.4 | 0% |
| 46 | Cross Hands and Pen-y-groes Dyfed | C | 9.7 | 70% | 1.4 | 0% |
| 47 | Lydiate Merseyside | C− | 1.5 | 90% | 2 | 0% |
| 48 | Gildersome West Yorkshire | C− | 1.2 | 81% | 2.9 | 0% |
| 49 | Ashingdon Essex | C− | 1.3 | 61% | 2.2 | 0% |
| 50 | Weaverham Cheshire | C− | 0.7 | 81% | 3 | 0% |
| 51 | Boston Spa West Yorkshire | C− | 1.2 | 86% | 1.9 | 0% |
| 52 | Washingborough and Heighington Lincolnshire | D | 1.8 | 66% | 2.2 | 0% |
| 53 | Wem Shropshire | D | 1.2 | 77% | 1.5 | 0% |
| 54 | Aintree Merseyside | D | 1.3 | 43% | 2.5 | 0% |
| 55 | Holmes Chapel Cheshire | D | 0.8 | 72% | 2 | 0% |
| 56 | Pontarddulais West Glamorgan | D | 1.9 | 67% | 0.5 | 0% |
| 57 | Selston Nottinghamshire | D | 0.9 | 61% | 2.3 | 0% |
| 58 | Broughton Clwyd | D− | 0.8 | 80% | 1 | 0% |
| 59 | Abercynon Mid Glamorgan | D− | 1.1 | 55% | 1.6 | 0% |
| 60 | Tadcaster North Yorkshire | D− | 0.6 | 58% | 1.7 | 0% |
The map
Parks, footpaths & countryside
Tap a number to zoom to a park. Tap a layer to hide it. The dashed line is Stone’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 Stone
The biggest is Worcester Park, 4.8 ha (12 acres). Directions go to the park’s nearest public entrance where Ordnance Survey maps one.
All 6 named parks by size: 16 ha (39 acres) and 2 km of path
Parks & gardens 6.3 haPlaying fields 9.3 haPlay spaces 0.3 ha
The two biggest, Worcester Park and Stone Recreation Ground, are 66% of the named green space. 3 of the 6 are under 2 ha: small gardens, play spaces and pitches.
Stone Recreation Ground
Playing field
5.6 ha (14 acres)0.7 km of path
10 minto walk all 0.7 km of path
8 pitchesfootball pitches would fit
0.5 mi westfrom the centre
Directionsto the nearest entrance
Saxon Park
Park or garden
1.4 ha (3 acres)0.5 km of path
2 pitchesfootball pitches would fit
Centralin the middle of Stone
Playground
Directionsto the nearest entrance
Dartford Valley Rugby Club
Playing field · 250 m outside town
3.7 ha (9 acres)
5 pitchesfootball pitches would fit
1 mi westfrom the centre
Directionsto the nearest entrance
Jessamine Place Play Area
Play space · 350 m outside town
0.3 ha (1 acres)
0.9 mi westfrom the centre
Playground
Directionsto the nearest entrance
Close to home
Everyone in Stone 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%)
Stone100%
Towns its size84%
Kent towns78%
All UK towns83%
Playing fields count, so a park within reach isn’t always one with paths or trees; 45 playgrounds are mapped in and around the town, about one for every 143 residents.
National Parks & National Landscapes
The Kent Downs National Landscape is 4.1 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 Stone scores 0% on it even though the Kent Downs National Landscape is 4.1 mi away.
Footpaths & waymarked walks
Stone is on the King Charles III England Coast Path
74 km of footpaths, bridleways and rights of way are mapped in Stone and the kilometre around it, 6.2 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
King Charles III England Coast Path: Grain to Woolwich5.7 km
1066 Harold's Way3.9 km
The King Charles III England Coast Path, a national route, passes Stone. The regional route here is the 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 Stone: 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 | 8 | 11 | 14 | 17 | 21 | 23 | 23 | 20 | 15 | 11 | 8 |
| Rain (mm) | 55 | 46 | 39 | 41 | 47 | 48 | 44 | 56 | 53 | 69 | 69 | 62 |
March is the driest month (39 mm) and July the warmest (highs of 23 °C). Winter days are short, about 8 hours of daylight in December, and 69 mm of rain falls in November, the wettest month. Frost comes on about 34 nights a year. The climate in Stone →
The coast
The coast and beaches near Stone
10% of the area within 5 km of Stone is sea. 4 beaches are mapped within 5 km, 1 with a name.
Northfleet Beach1.9 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
2 viewpoints and 45 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
Viewpoints 2
Plus 2 viewpoints without a name on the map.
Picnic sites 2
Plus 2 picnic sites without a name on the map.
Playgrounds 45
Low Close Playgroundin town
DirectionsWorcester Park Play Areain town
DirectionsSaxon Park Play Area0.0 mi from town
DirectionsChildren's Play Area0.1 mi from town
DirectionsJessamine Place Play Area0.2 mi from town
DirectionsThe Romans0.4 mi from town
DirectionsQueens Gardens Playground0.8 mi from town
DirectionsPlus 38 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.
SwanscombeBeanEbbsfleet ValleyDarenthDartfordHawleyStone
ABCDOutdoors Grade
| Town | Outdoors | Green space, ha per 1,000 | Near a park | Protected within 5 km |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Stone | A+ | 3.1 | 100% | 0% |
| Swanscombe 1.1 mi | A+ | 3.3 | 90% | 0% |
| Bean 1.3 mi | A− | 17.0 | 72% | 0% |
| Ebbsfleet Valley 1.7 mi | A | 9.0 | 77% | 0% |
| Darenth 1.8 mi | A− | 1.8 | 100% | 1% |
| Dartford 2.1 mi | A | 3.9 | 72% | 1% |
| Hawley 2.6 mi | D | 0.7 | 24% | 3% |
Stone grades higher for the outdoors than every neighbour in the table. Bean and Ebbsfleet Valley have at least twice Stone’s green space per resident.
Questions about the outdoors in Stone
What is the biggest park in Stone?
Worcester Park, 4.8 ha (12 acres), with 1.2 km of path. Stone Recreation Ground (5.6 ha) is second. 6 named parks, gardens and playing fields are in the town or within 400 m of it.
Is Stone near a National Park?
The nearest protected landscape is the Kent Downs National Landscape, 4.1 mi south-west of the town’s edge. It covers 879 km² and was designated in 1968.
What are the best walks near Stone?
2 waymarked walking routes pass within 2 km of the town, including the King Charles III England Coast Path: Grain to Woolwich and 1066 Harold's Way.
How many people in Stone 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 Stone?
May to September: the longest days, the warmest afternoons and the least rain of the year, from the Met Office 1991–2020 averages.
Is Stone good for walking?
For paths, yes: 6.2 km of footpath and right of way per square kilometre, more than 98% of UK towns. For park space per person it beats 72% (3.1 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 Stone’s overall grade.
Sources
Where Stone’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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