Wingham’s biggest
Wingham Recreation Grund
Playing field
2.8 ha (7 acres)
4 pitchesfootball pitches would fit
Centralin the middle of Wingham
Directionsto the nearest entrance
Photo: Colin Smith · CC BY-SA 2.0C−Outdoors Grade
Outdoors in Wingham · parks, paths & countryside
Parks and walks in Wingham
The Kent Downs National Landscape begins 3.0 mi from the village’s edge. 12 km of footpaths run through the village and the kilometre around it, 1.3 for every square kilometre. A park or playing field is within a 5-minute walk for 53% of residents. Wingham grades C− for the outdoors. A character grade: it isn’t part of the overall grade.
Green space
2.2 ha
per 1,000 residents
Typical UK town 2.1
Near a park
53%
of residents within 400 m
Typical UK town 83%
Footpaths
12 km
1.3 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 3.0 mi out, past the 5 km
Character
What kind of outdoors village is Wingham?
Read from the data: what stands out first, good and bad.
Countryside close byThe Kent Downs National Landscape starts 3.0 mi south-west.Few mapped footpaths1.3 km of path per km²; the typical UK town has 3.0.
Wingham’s strongest suit is the Kent Downs National Landscape close by. Where it falls short is footpaths.
Outdoors grade
Wingham grades C− for the outdoors
Each chart is every UK town of 1,000 or more on one measure: the green bar is Wingham, 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 17% of UK towns44th of 60 UK villages its size
Public green space2.2 haper 1,000 residents: parks, gardens, playing fields, play spaces
50out of
100
100
A park within a walk53%of residents within 400 m (a 5-minute walk)
15out of
100
100
National Park or National Landscape0%of the land within 5 km · Kent Downs begins just past 5 km
62out of
100
100
Footpaths1.3 kmper km², the town and 1 km around it
12out 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
Wingham is 44th of 60 UK villages its size for the outdoors
The 60 UK towns and cities of 1,200 to 1,400 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
Wingham1.3
Villages its size2.3
Kent towns2.6
All UK towns3.0
Green space, ha per 1,000 residents
Wingham2.2
Villages its size2.4
Kent towns2.3
All UK towns2.1
Residents within 400 m of a park
Wingham53%
Villages its size75%
Kent towns78%
All UK towns83%
Wingham falls furthest behind on path per km², where 49 of the 59 others do better.
Show as a table
| Town | Outdoors | Green space | Near a park | Path per km² | Protected | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Hightown Hampshire | A+ | 15.7 | 100% | 3.5 | 58% |
| 2 | Rough Common Kent | A+ | 11 | 100% | 9.2 | 1% |
| 3 | Worrall South Yorkshire | A+ | 3.7 | 100% | 5.4 | 21% |
| 4 | Holybourne Hampshire | A+ | 12.2 | 100% | 2.7 | 23% |
| 5 | Wolvercote Oxfordshire | A | 32 | 100% | 5.5 | 0% |
| 6 | Crowmarsh Gifford Oxfordshire | A | 8 | 77% | 3.6 | 60% |
| 7 | Pwll Dyfed | A | 21.6 | 64% | 2.6 | 19% |
| 8 | Hurley Berkshire | A | 3.1 | 100% | 2.6 | 36% |
| 9 | Amberley Gloucestershire | A | 13.7 | 0% | 6.3 | 87% |
| 10 | Bere Regis Dorset | A | 39.2 | 100% | 3.5 | 0% |
| 11 | Brinscall Lancashire | A | 3.5 | 100% | 4.6 | 0% |
| 12 | Burbage Wiltshire | A | 2.7 | 100% | 1.9 | 100% |
| 13 | Compton Hampshire | A− | 18.8 | 61% | 3.6 | 28% |
| 14 | Upper Caldecote Bedfordshire | A− | 3.7 | 100% | 3.4 | 0% |
| 15 | Bradley Clwyd | A− | 29.9 | 100% | 2.6 | 0% |
| 16 | Blean Kent | A− | 5.9 | 80% | 6.5 | 0% |
| 17 | Sherford Devon | A− | 3.2 | 100% | 1.5 | 28% |
| 18 | Auckley South Yorkshire | B+ | 4.9 | 100% | 2.6 | 0% |
| 19 | Riseley Bedfordshire | B+ | 2.4 | 100% | 3.9 | 0% |
| 20 | Marshfield Gloucestershire | B+ | 4.9 | 42% | 2.7 | 99% |
| 21 | Welland Worcestershire | B+ | 1.7 | 100% | 1.9 | 38% |
| 22 | Abbots Bromley Staffordshire | B | 6.9 | 100% | 1.6 | 0% |
| 23 | Lidlington Bedfordshire | B | 1.9 | 100% | 3.3 | 0% |
| 24 | Lingdale North Yorkshire | B− | 1.4 | 100% | 1.7 | 31% |
| 25 | Blakeney Gloucestershire | B− | 2.1 | 68% | 3.1 | 0% |
| 26 | Fowlmere Cambridgeshire | B− | 4.5 | 100% | 1.1 | 0% |
| 27 | Burwash East Sussex | B− | 1.5 | 76% | 2.5 | 100% |
| 28 | Burham Kent | C+ | 1.4 | 77% | 2.8 | 35% |
| 29 | Pensarn Clwyd | C+ | 13.1 | 45% | 1.1 | 0% |
| 30 | Morton Derbyshire | C+ | 18.3 | 66% | 2.5 | 0% |
| 31 | Belford Northumberland | C+ | 1.2 | 83% | 0.9 | 21% |
| 32 | Perranarworthal Cornwall | C+ | 2.5 | 76% | 1.6 | 19% |
| 33 | Littleton Panell Wiltshire | C+ | 5.3 | 39% | 3.3 | 0% |
| 34 | Claverdon Warwickshire | C+ | 1.2 | 100% | 2.5 | 0% |
| 35 | North Duffield North Yorkshire | C | 2.6 | 100% | 0.4 | 0% |
| 36 | Quainton Buckinghamshire | C | 3.8 | 69% | 2.1 | 0% |
| 37 | Haughley Suffolk | C | 3 | 71% | 2.3 | 0% |
| 38 | Kislingbury Northamptonshire | C | 8.4 | 26% | 2.3 | 0% |
| 39 | Nefyn Gwynedd | C | 0 | 0% | 2 | 24% |
| 40 | Moretonhampstead Devon | C | 0.6 | 81% | 1.2 | 100% |
| 41 | Ninfield East Sussex | C− | 1.8 | 50% | 1.4 | 50% |
| 42 | Atworth Wiltshire | C− | 1.5 | 62% | 2.2 | 13% |
| 43 | Langthorpe North Yorkshire | C− | 0.3 | 100% | 1.6 | 0% |
| 44 | Wingham Kent | C− | 2.2 | 53% | 1.3 | 0% |
| 45 | Llandysul Dyfed | C− | 5.2 | 47% | 1 | 0% |
| 46 | Wooden Dyfed | D | 0.1 | 0% | 0.4 | 18% |
| 47 | Bampton Devon | D | 1.5 | 22% | 1.6 | 5% |
| 48 | Pagham West Sussex | D | 0.3 | 0% | 2 | 0% |
| 49 | Heddon-on-the-Wall Northumberland | D | 0.6 | 70% | 2.7 | 0% |
| 50 | Colsterworth Lincolnshire | D | 1.3 | 67% | 2.2 | 0% |
| 51 | Hockwold cum Wilton Norfolk | D | 1.6 | 75% | 1.4 | 0% |
| 52 | Garsington Oxfordshire | D | 0.4 | 65% | 2.6 | 0% |
| 53 | Appleby Magna Leicestershire | D | 1.7 | 46% | 2 | 0% |
| 54 | Byfield Northamptonshire | D | 1.9 | 48% | 1.5 | 0% |
| 55 | Croeserw West Glamorgan | D | 1.3 | 33% | 2.5 | 0% |
| 56 | Hauxton Cambridgeshire | D− | 1.3 | 55% | 1.8 | 0% |
| 57 | Brandesburton East Riding of Yorkshire | D− | 2.2 | 0% | 0.5 | 0% |
| 58 | Deeping St Nicholas Lincolnshire | D− | 0.7 | 80% | 0 | 0% |
| 59 | Hunger Hill Greater Manchester | D− | 0 | 0% | 2.4 | 0% |
| 60 | Witheridge Devon | D− | 0.5 | 36% | 1 | 0% |
The map
Parks, footpaths & countryside
Tap a number to zoom to a park. Tap a layer to hide it. The dashed line is Wingham’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 Wingham
The biggest is Wingham Recreation Grund, 2.8 ha (7 acres). Directions go to the park’s nearest public entrance where Ordnance Survey maps one.
Close to home
5 in 10 Wingham 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 (53%)Further (47%)
Wingham53%
Villages its size75%
Kent towns78%
All UK towns83%
About 600 people live further than that. Playing fields count, so a park within reach isn’t always one with paths or trees; 3 playgrounds are mapped in and around the village, about one for every 438 residents.
National Parks & National Landscapes
The Kent Downs National Landscape is 3.0 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 Wingham scores 0% on it even though the Kent Downs National Landscape is 3.0 mi away.
Footpaths & waymarked walks
1 waymarked walk passes through or near Wingham
12 km of footpaths, bridleways and rights of way are mapped in Wingham and the kilometre around it, 1.3 km for every square kilometre (the typical UK town has 3.0). Bars show each route’s kilometres within 2 km of the village.
Regional
Miner's Way Trail8.0 km
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 Wingham: 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) | 8.3 | 9.9 | 11.7 | 13.8 | 15.6 | 16.6 | 16.1 | 14.6 | 12.5 | 10.6 | 8.8 | 7.9 |
| High (°C) | 8 | 8 | 11 | 14 | 17 | 20 | 22 | 22 | 19 | 15 | 11 | 8 |
| Rain (mm) | 59 | 48 | 38 | 38 | 49 | 45 | 46 | 55 | 44 | 68 | 72 | 66 |
March is the driest month (38 mm) and July the warmest (highs of 22 °C). Winter days are short, about 8 hours of daylight in December, and 72 mm of rain falls in November, the wettest month. Frost comes on about 38 nights a year. The climate in Wingham →
Things to do
3 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
Wingham is inland. These are the nearest named beaches, measured from the edge of the village.
Herne Bay Beach7.5 mi from Wingham’s edge
DirectionsRamsgate Western Undercliffe8.5 mi from Wingham’s edge
DirectionsMargate Main Sands9.6 mi from Wingham’s edge
DirectionsRamsgate Sands9.9 mi from Wingham’s edge
DirectionsWalpole Bay11 mi from Wingham’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 3
Plus 3 playgrounds without a name on the map.
Campsites 2
Plus 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.
LittlebourneAsh (Dover)AyleshamHersdenEastryBridgeWingham
ABCDOutdoors Grade
| Town | Outdoors | Green space, ha per 1,000 | Near a park | Protected within 5 km |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wingham | C− | 2.2 | 53% | 0% |
| Littlebourne 2.2 mi | B+ | 1.6 | 100% | 9% |
| Ash (Dover) 2.8 mi | C | 2.3 | 72% | 0% |
| Aylesham 3.0 mi | C+ | 0.3 | 76% | 33% |
| Hersden 3.8 mi | D | 2.0 | 63% | 0% |
| Eastry 4.2 mi | D | 2.0 | 77% | 0% |
| Bridge 4.3 mi | B− | 2.2 | 60% | 44% |
Littlebourne, 2.2 miles away, grades B+, the best next door: every resident lives within 400 m of a park.
Questions about the outdoors in Wingham
What is the biggest park in Wingham?
Wingham Recreation Grund, 2.8 ha (7 acres). 1 named park, garden or playing field is in the village or within 400 m of it.
Is Wingham near a National Park?
The nearest protected landscape is the Kent Downs National Landscape, 3.0 mi south-west of the village’s edge. It covers 879 km² and was designated in 1968.
What are the best walks near Wingham?
1 waymarked walking route passes within 2 km of the village, including the Miner's Way Trail.
What is the nearest beach to Wingham?
Herne Bay Beach, 7.5 mi from the edge of the village, then Ramsgate Western Undercliffe (8.5 mi). Wingham itself is inland.
How many people in Wingham live near a park?
53% 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 Wingham?
May to September: the longest days, the warmest afternoons and the least rain of the year, from the Met Office 1991–2020 averages.
Is Wingham good for walking?
Paths are thinner than most towns: 1.3 km of footpath and right of way per square kilometre, more than 12% of UK towns. For park space per person it beats 50% (2.2 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 Wingham’s overall grade.
Sources
Where Wingham’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.