Photo: Alexander P Kapp · CC BY-SA 2.0Almost everyone in Bonds lives within a 5-minute walk of a park
The Forest Of Bowland National Landscape begins 1.2 mi from the village’s edge. Footpaths add up to 22 km in the village and the kilometre around it, 3.5 for every square kilometre. Parks and playing fields in Bonds add up to 1.7 ha for every 1,000 residents; the typical UK town has 2.1. Bonds grades A− for the outdoors. A character grade: it isn’t part of the overall grade.
What kind of outdoors village is Bonds?
Read from the data: what stands out first, good and bad.
Bonds’ strongest suit is parks close to every home, followed by the Forest Of Bowland National Landscape close by. Where it falls short is park space per person.
Bonds grades A− for the outdoors
Each chart is every UK town of 1,000 or more on one measure: the green bar is Bonds, the dashed line the typical town. The number is the share of towns it beats; the five are averaged and the average ranked again.
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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.
Bonds is 17th of 60 UK villages its size for the outdoors
The 60 UK towns and cities of 1,200 to 1,300 people with an Outdoors Grade. Hover a dot for its figures; tap one for its page.
Against villages its size, Bonds stands out most for path per km²: only 10 of the other 59 have more. It falls furthest behind on park space per resident, where 47 of the others do better.
Show as a table
| Town | Outdoors | Green space | Near a park | Path per km² | Protected | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Clanfield Hampshire | A+ | 6.1 | 100% | 2.9 | 78% |
| 2 | Eastington Gloucestershire | A+ | 4.2 | 100% | 3.7 | 22% |
| 3 | Holmbridge West Yorkshire | A+ | 2.5 | 100% | 4.2 | 45% |
| 4 | Kirton Suffolk | A+ | 2.5 | 100% | 2.3 | 50% |
| 5 | Hoddlesden Lancashire | A | 11.4 | 100% | 4.5 | 0% |
| 6 | Otterbourne Hampshire | A | 2.9 | 100% | 3.2 | 25% |
| 7 | Rotherfield East Sussex | A | 5.6 | 100% | 1.7 | 91% |
| 8 | Thurgoland South Yorkshire | A | 2.5 | 100% | 4.1 | 1% |
| 9 | Haydon Bridge Northumberland | A | 7.2 | 100% | 1.7 | 26% |
| 10 | Cronton Merseyside | A | 6.8 | 100% | 3.5 | 0% |
| 11 | Chew Magna Somerset | A | 2.4 | 100% | 3 | 15% |
| 12 | Millhouse Green South Yorkshire | A | 1.9 | 100% | 3.6 | 18% |
| 13 | Nutley East Sussex | A− | 2.2 | 75% | 4.5 | 80% |
| 14 | East Hanney Oxfordshire | A− | 5.7 | 100% | 1.8 | 4% |
| 15 | Caldy Merseyside | A− | 19.3 | 47% | 3.6 | 0% |
| 16 | Thorpe Surrey | A− | 5.2 | 100% | 3.1 | 0% |
| 17 | Bonds Lancashire | A− | 1.7 | 100% | 3.5 | 16% |
| 18 | Herstmonceux East Sussex | A− | 3.4 | 100% | 1.5 | 36% |
| 19 | Bradpole Dorset | A− | 0.9 | 100% | 3.3 | 95% |
| 20 | Felsted Essex | A− | 7.5 | 81% | 4.4 | 0% |
| 21 | Tregarth Gwynedd | B+ | 1.5 | 100% | 2.9 | 23% |
| 22 | Bierton Buckinghamshire | B+ | 5.8 | 70% | 7.7 | 0% |
| 23 | Walberton West Sussex | B+ | 1.8 | 100% | 1.9 | 39% |
| 24 | Sharpness Gloucestershire | B+ | 2.1 | 100% | 1.8 | 0% |
| 25 | Billy Row County Durham | B | 2.3 | 100% | 3.1 | 0% |
| 26 | Stoke Holy Cross Norfolk | B | 2.2 | 100% | 2.1 | 0% |
| 27 | Horton Kirby Kent | B | 5.9 | 78% | 1.7 | 21% |
| 28 | Kilgetty Dyfed | B | 1 | 100% | 0.9 | 18% |
| 29 | Talgarth Powys | B | 5.7 | 71% | 1.5 | 52% |
| 30 | Alconbury Weald Cambridgeshire | B | 5 | 100% | 1.6 | 0% |
| 31 | Eckington Worcestershire | B | 4.1 | 72% | 1.9 | 23% |
| 32 | Portreath Cornwall | B | 1.1 | 78% | 2.3 | 8% |
| 33 | Corse Gloucestershire | B | 2.3 | 100% | 1.4 | 1% |
| 34 | Clarborough Nottinghamshire | B | 4 | 100% | 1.7 | 0% |
| 35 | Brightwell-cum-Sotwell Oxfordshire | B− | 2.5 | 72% | 2.2 | 40% |
| 36 | Wyton Cambridgeshire | B− | 4.9 | 100% | 0.8 | 0% |
| 37 | Gilmorton Leicestershire | B− | 3.3 | 100% | 1.4 | 0% |
| 38 | Chulmleigh Devon | C+ | 3.5 | 100% | 0.9 | 0% |
| 39 | East Morton West Yorkshire | C+ | 2.1 | 89% | 2.9 | 0% |
| 40 | Trimdon Grange County Durham | C+ | 2.1 | 100% | 2.1 | 0% |
| 41 | Crondall Hampshire | C+ | 3.6 | 73% | 1.8 | 1% |
| 42 | Husbands Bosworth Leicestershire | C+ | 3 | 100% | 1 | 0% |
| 43 | Clehonger Herefordshire | C+ | 0.6 | 100% | 3.3 | 0% |
| 44 | Thorpe on the Hill West Yorkshire | C+ | 2.2 | 64% | 4 | 0% |
| 45 | Ashill Norfolk | C+ | 3.7 | 82% | 1.7 | 0% |
| 46 | Westhampnett West Sussex | C | 0.2 | 79% | 2.6 | 33% |
| 47 | Lavenham Suffolk | C | 4.2 | 59% | 2.6 | 0% |
| 48 | Ampleforth North Yorkshire | C | 2.3 | 27% | 1.7 | 95% |
| 49 | Bradfield Essex | C | 1.4 | 27% | 1.5 | 35% |
| 50 | Warwick Bridge Cumbria | C | 6.5 | 78% | 1.3 | 0% |
| 51 | West Clandon Surrey | C | 1.9 | 49% | 2.1 | 28% |
| 52 | South Killingholme Lincolnshire | C | 1.7 | 68% | 1.8 | 0% |
| 53 | Hanwood Shropshire | C− | 1.9 | 19% | 2.6 | 3% |
| 54 | Crays Hill Essex | C− | 10.6 | 0% | 1.7 | 0% |
| 55 | Little Downham Cambridgeshire | C− | 2.8 | 61% | 1.8 | 0% |
| 56 | Trewoon Cornwall | D | 0.9 | 71% | 1.7 | 6% |
| 57 | Walesby Nottinghamshire | D− | 1.1 | 50% | 1.9 | 0% |
| 58 | Sutton on Trent Nottinghamshire | D− | 0.5 | 39% | 1.9 | 0% |
| 59 | Helpston Cambridgeshire | D− | 0 | 0% | 1.7 | 0% |
| 60 | Prees Higher Heath Shropshire | D− | 0.7 | 26% | 0.9 | 0% |
Parks, footpaths & countryside
Tap a number to zoom to a park. Tap a layer to hide it. The dashed line is Bonds’ built-up area.
How close Bonds’s homes are to 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).
Playing fields count, so a park within reach isn’t always one with paths or trees; 8 playgrounds are mapped in and around the village, about one for every 155 residents.
The Forest Of Bowland National Landscape is 1.2 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.
Forest Of Bowland
16% of the land within 5 km of Bonds is National Park or National Landscape, more than 75% of UK towns.
2 waymarked walks pass through or near Bonds
22 km of footpaths, bridleways and rights of way are mapped in Bonds and the kilometre around it, 3.5 km for every square kilometre (the typical UK town has 3.0). Bars show each route’s kilometres within 2 km of the village.
2 regional routes pass through, including the Wyre Way (Shard Bridge to Garstang) and Wyre Way (Garstang to Abbeystead).
Waymarked walks are OpenStreetMap walking routes. Public rights of way are only as complete as the map in each area.
The best walking months in Bonds: 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) | 7.9 | 9.7 | 11.7 | 13.9 | 15.9 | 17.1 | 16.6 | 14.8 | 12.6 | 10.4 | 8.4 | 7.4 |
| High (°C) | 7 | 8 | 10 | 13 | 16 | 18 | 20 | 20 | 17 | 14 | 10 | 8 |
| Rain (mm) | 93 | 80 | 68 | 55 | 60 | 70 | 81 | 99 | 97 | 116 | 110 | 117 |
April is the driest month (55 mm) and July the warmest (highs of 20 °C). Winter days are short, about 7 hours of daylight in December, and 117 mm of rain falls in December, the wettest month. Frost comes on about 41 nights a year. The climate in Bonds →
8 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
Bonds is inland. These are the nearest named beaches, measured from the edge of the village.
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
Nature reserves 1
Picnic sites 2
Plus 2 picnic sites without a name on the map.
Playgrounds 8
Plus 8 playgrounds without a name on the map.
Dog parks 1
Plus 1 dog park without a name on the map.
Campsites 1
The outdoors in nearby towns
The nearest towns of 1,000+ within 12 miles. Tap a town for its outdoors page.
Bonds grades higher for the outdoors than every neighbour in the table. Pilling has at least twice Bonds’ green space per resident.
Questions about the outdoors in Bonds
Is Bonds near a National Park?
The nearest protected landscape is the Forest Of Bowland National Landscape, 1.2 mi east of the village’s edge. It covers 806 km² and was designated in 1964.
What are the best walks near Bonds?
2 waymarked walking routes pass within 2 km of the village, including the Wyre Way (Shard Bridge to Garstang) and Wyre Way (Garstang to Abbeystead).
What is the nearest beach to Bonds?
Half Moon Bay, 11 mi from the edge of the village, then Mallows Bay (13 mi). Bonds itself is inland.
How many people in Bonds 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 Bonds?
May to September: the longest days, the warmest afternoons and the least rain of the year, from the Met Office 1991–2020 averages.
Is Bonds good for walking?
For paths, yes: 3.5 km of footpath and right of way per square kilometre, more than 72% of UK towns. For park space per person it beats 33% (1.7 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 Bonds’ overall grade.
Where Bonds’ 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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