Tenterden’s biggest
Millennium Garden
Park or garden
0.1 ha (0 acres)
0.5 mi south-westfrom the centre
1 listed
Directionsto the nearest entrance
Photo: Phil Brandon Hunter · CC BY-SA 2.0C−Outdoors Grade
Outdoors in Tenterden · parks, paths & countryside
48% of the land within 5 km of Tenterden is National Park or National Landscape
The High Weald National Landscape reaches the edge of Tenterden. Parks and playing fields in Tenterden add up to 0.8 ha for every 1,000 residents; the typical UK town has 2.1. A park or playing field is within a 5-minute walk for 58% of residents. Tenterden grades C− for the outdoors: #80 of 87 in Kent. A character grade: it isn’t part of the overall grade.
Green space
0.8 ha
per 1,000 residents
Typical UK town 2.1
Near a park
58%
of residents within 400 m
Typical UK town 83%
Footpaths
41 km
1.8 km per km², town + 1 km
Typical UK town 3.0 per km²
Protected landscape
48%
of the land within 5 km
Nearest: High Weald National Landscape
Character
What kind of outdoors town is Tenterden?
Read from the data: what stands out first, good and bad.
Protected countryside48% of the land within 5 km is High Weald National Landscape.Less park per person0.8 ha of parks and playing fields per 1,000 residents; the typical UK town has 2.1.
Tenterden’s strongest suit is protected countryside on the doorstep. Where it falls short is park space per person.
Outdoors grade
Tenterden grades C− for the outdoors
Each chart is every UK town of 1,000 or more on one measure: the green bar is Tenterden, 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 18% of UK towns#80 of 87 in Kent · 52nd of 60 UK towns its size
Public green space0.8 haper 1,000 residents: parks, gardens, playing fields, play spaces
8out of
100
100
A park within a walk58%of residents within 400 m (a 5-minute walk)
19out of
100
100
National Park or National Landscape48%of the land within 5 km
91out of
100
100
Footpaths1.8 kmper km², the town and 1 km around it
25out 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.
Towns its size
Tenterden is 52nd of 60 UK towns its size for the outdoors
The 60 UK towns and cities of 7,400 to 8,100 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
Tenterden1.8
Towns its size3.0
Kent towns2.6
All UK towns3.0
Green space, ha per 1,000 residents
Tenterden0.8
Towns its size2.1
Kent towns2.3
All UK towns2.1
Residents within 400 m of a park
Tenterden58%
Towns its size78%
Kent towns78%
All UK towns83%
Tenterden falls furthest behind on park space per resident, where 55 of the 59 others do better.
Show as a table
| Town | Outdoors | Green space | Near a park | Path per km² | Protected | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Freshwater and Totland Isle of Wight | A+ | 5 | 89% | 3.9 | 20% |
| 2 | Chipping Sodbury Gloucestershire | A+ | 5.2 | 93% | 8.2 | 29% |
| 3 | Bargod Gwent | A | 13.6 | 100% | 5.5 | 0% |
| 4 | Ruddington Nottinghamshire | A | 9.7 | 100% | 5.1 | 0% |
| 5 | Dursley Gloucestershire | A | 1.8 | 90% | 7.2 | 52% |
| 6 | Grove Oxfordshire | A | 2.2 | 92% | 4.7 | 27% |
| 7 | Bursledon Hampshire | A | 2.6 | 90% | 3.8 | 0% |
| 8 | Prestwood and Great Missenden Buckinghamshire | A− | 5.5 | 65% | 3.2 | 94% |
| 9 | Dinas Powis South Glamorgan | A− | 3 | 73% | 4.5 | 0% |
| 10 | London Colney Hertfordshire | A− | 3.7 | 96% | 4.3 | 0% |
| 11 | Burnham-on-Crouch Essex | A− | 5.3 | 86% | 2.5 | 0% |
| 12 | City of London London | A− | 2 | 100% | 11 | 0% |
| 13 | Cam Gloucestershire | A− | 2.8 | 57% | 5 | 34% |
| 14 | Goldthorpe South Yorkshire | A− | 8.4 | 84% | 3.8 | 0% |
| 15 | Pembroke Dyfed | B+ | 2.2 | 91% | 1 | 31% |
| 16 | Annfield Plain County Durham | B+ | 3.4 | 93% | 3.7 | 0% |
| 17 | Great Notley Essex | B+ | 6.4 | 79% | 4.1 | 0% |
| 18 | Cromer Norfolk | B+ | 1.4 | 74% | 2.5 | 36% |
| 19 | Partington Greater Manchester | B | 2.8 | 100% | 2.7 | 0% |
| 20 | Edenbridge Kent | B | 2.6 | 64% | 3 | 42% |
| 21 | Barugh Green and Redbrook South Yorkshire | B | 2.1 | 94% | 4 | 0% |
| 22 | Rusthall and Langton Green Kent | B | 2.1 | 69% | 2.7 | 79% |
| 23 | Princes Risborough Buckinghamshire | B | 1.4 | 78% | 3.2 | 57% |
| 24 | Clayton-le-Moors Lancashire | B | 1.1 | 86% | 4.2 | 2% |
| 25 | Ashley Hampshire | B | 2.2 | 53% | 1.7 | 47% |
| 26 | Twyford Berkshire | B− | 2.4 | 86% | 2.1 | 5% |
| 27 | Berechurch Essex | B− | 2.1 | 72% | 10.4 | 0% |
| 28 | Wootton Bedfordshire | B− | 2.5 | 79% | 3.8 | 0% |
| 29 | Rogerstone Gwent | B− | 3.1 | 60% | 4.7 | 0% |
| 30 | Crawcrook and Greenside Tyne and Wear | B− | 3.2 | 86% | 2.4 | 0% |
| 31 | Yatton Somerset | B− | 3.7 | 40% | 2.5 | 0% |
| 32 | Denbigh Clwyd | B− | 1.3 | 96% | 2.3 | 5% |
| 33 | Abersychan Gwent | B− | 2.8 | 83% | 1.1 | 17% |
| 34 | Buntingford Hertfordshire | C+ | 1.5 | 95% | 3.2 | 0% |
| 35 | Ystalyfera West Glamorgan | C+ | 2.6 | 84% | 0.8 | 15% |
| 36 | Crediton Devon | C+ | 2.4 | 89% | 2.4 | 0% |
| 37 | Paddock Wood Kent | C+ | 1.7 | 78% | 2.1 | 28% |
| 38 | Countesthorpe Leicestershire | C+ | 1.7 | 100% | 2.1 | 0% |
| 39 | Seaton Delaval Northumberland | C+ | 0.5 | 66% | 4 | 0% |
| 40 | Sprotbrough South Yorkshire | C+ | 1.8 | 79% | 3.5 | 0% |
| 41 | Holywell Clwyd | C | 0.9 | 68% | 3 | 0% |
| 42 | Mablethorpe Lincolnshire | C | 2.1 | 66% | 1.5 | 0% |
| 43 | Elworth Cheshire | C | 1.8 | 83% | 2.6 | 0% |
| 44 | Newbridge Gwent | C | 2.2 | 94% | 1.3 | 0% |
| 45 | Fazeley Staffordshire | C | 3.2 | 35% | 2.9 | 0% |
| 46 | Norton-on-Derwent North Yorkshire | C | 1.6 | 58% | 2.4 | 16% |
| 47 | Marske-by-the-Sea North Yorkshire | C | 1.6 | 66% | 1.8 | 0% |
| 48 | Dalton-in-Furness Cumbria | C | 0.9 | 74% | 2.4 | 0% |
| 49 | Histon and Impington Cambridgeshire | C | 1.5 | 66% | 3.9 | 0% |
| 50 | Heathfield East Sussex | C | 0.9 | 53% | 2.3 | 79% |
| 51 | Rainworth Nottinghamshire | C− | 0.5 | 65% | 4.6 | 0% |
| 52 | Tenterden Kent | C− | 0.8 | 58% | 1.8 | 48% |
| 53 | Cotgrave Nottinghamshire | C− | 1 | 47% | 4.1 | 0% |
| 54 | Godmanchester Cambridgeshire | C− | 1.6 | 66% | 2.7 | 0% |
| 55 | Highworth Wiltshire | C− | 0.4 | 59% | 4.1 | 0% |
| 56 | Clowne Derbyshire | C− | 1.4 | 67% | 2.8 | 0% |
| 57 | Spencers Wood and Three Mile Cross Berkshire | D | 0.7 | 78% | 2.7 | 0% |
| 58 | Polesworth and Dordon Warwickshire | D | 1.6 | 68% | 1.8 | 0% |
| 59 | Old Windsor and Wraysbury Berkshire | D | 1.2 | 52% | 2.5 | 0% |
| 60 | Treorchy Mid Glamorgan | D− | 1 | 57% | 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 Tenterden’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 Tenterden
The biggest is Millennium Garden, 0.1 ha (0 acres). Directions go to the park’s nearest public entrance where Ordnance Survey maps one.
Close to home
6 in 10 Tenterden 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 (58%)Further (42%)
Tenterden58%
Towns its size78%
Kent towns78%
All UK towns83%
About 3,300 people live further than that. Playing fields count, so a park within reach isn’t always one with paths or trees; 5 playgrounds are mapped in and around the town, about one for every 1,555 residents.
National Parks & National Landscapes
National Parks and National Landscapes around Tenterden
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
National Landscape
High Weald
At the edge west1,462 km²since 198348% of the land within 5 km
Official site48% of the land within 5 km of Tenterden is National Park or National Landscape, more than 91% of UK towns.
Footpaths & waymarked walks
1 waymarked walk passes through or near Tenterden
41 km of footpaths, bridleways and rights of way are mapped in Tenterden and the kilometre around it, 1.8 km for every square kilometre (the typical UK town has 3.0). Bars show each route’s kilometres within 2 km of the town.
Regional
High Weald Landscape Trail7.7 km
The regional route here is the High Weald Landscape 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 Tenterden: 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 | 23 | 23 | 20 | 16 | 11 | 8 |
| Rain (mm) | 76 | 59 | 45 | 44 | 47 | 48 | 40 | 52 | 50 | 85 | 84 | 82 |
July is the driest month (40 mm) and the warmest (highs of 23 °C). Winter days are short, about 8 hours of daylight in December, and 85 mm of rain falls in October, the wettest month. Frost comes on about 42 nights a year. The climate in Tenterden →
Things to do
5 playgrounds and the nearest beaches
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.
The nearest beaches
Tenterden is inland. These are the nearest named beaches, measured from the edge of the town.
Camber Sands9.7 mi from Tenterden’s edge
DirectionsThe Beach11 mi from Tenterden’s edge
DirectionsGreatstone beach13 mi from Tenterden’s edge
DirectionsBroomhill Sands13 mi from Tenterden’s edge
DirectionsFairlight Glen Naturist Beach14 mi from Tenterden’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 5
Plus 5 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.
WoodchurchBiddendenBethersdenBenendenShadoxhurstNorthiamTenterden
ABCDOutdoors Grade
| Town | Outdoors | Green space, ha per 1,000 | Near a park | Protected within 5 km |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tenterden | C− | 0.8 | 58% | 48% |
| Woodchurch 3.6 mi | B | 2.3 | 78% | 12% |
| Biddenden 3.7 mi | A− | 4.2 | 100% | 20% |
| Bethersden 4.5 mi | C+ | 2.4 | 100% | 0% |
| Benenden 5.0 mi | C | 2.0 | 57% | 83% |
| Shadoxhurst 6.0 mi | D | 1.8 | 44% | 0% |
| Northiam 6.5 mi | C+ | 2.2 | 76% | 100% |
Biddenden, 3.7 miles away, grades A−, the best next door: every resident lives within 400 m of a park. Woodchurch, Biddenden and Bethersden have at least twice Tenterden’s green space per resident.
Questions about the outdoors in Tenterden
What is the biggest park in Tenterden?
Millennium Garden, 0.1 ha (0 acres). 1 named park, garden or playing field is in the town or within 400 m of it.
Is Tenterden near a National Park?
It covers 1,462 km² and was designated in 1983.
What are the best walks near Tenterden?
1 waymarked walking route passes within 2 km of the town, including the High Weald Landscape Trail.
What is the nearest beach to Tenterden?
Camber Sands, 9.7 mi from the edge of the town, then The Beach (11 mi). Tenterden itself is inland.
How many people in Tenterden live near a park?
58% 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 Tenterden?
May to September: the longest days, the warmest afternoons and the least rain of the year, from the Met Office 1991–2020 averages.
Is Tenterden good for walking?
Paths are thinner than most towns: 1.8 km of footpath and right of way per square kilometre, more than 25% of UK towns. For park space per person it beats 8% (0.8 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 Tenterden’s overall grade.
Sources
Where Tenterden’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.