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Outdoors in Mountsorrel · parks, paths & countryside

Parks and walks in Mountsorrel

Parks and playing fields in Mountsorrel add up to 0.9 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 56% of residents. 58 km of footpaths run through the town and the kilometre around it, 3.1 for every square kilometre. Mountsorrel grades D for the outdoors: #45 of 50 in Leicestershire. A character grade: it isn’t part of the overall grade.

2named parks 1waymarked walk

Green space

0.9 ha

per 1,000 residents

Typical UK town 2.1

Near a park

56%

of residents within 400 m

Typical UK town 83%

Footpaths

58 km

3.1 km per km², town + 1 km

Typical UK town 3.0 per km²

Protected landscape

of the land within 5 km

Outdoors grade

Mountsorrel grades D for the outdoors

Each chart is every UK town of 1,000 or more on one measure: the green bar is Mountsorrel, the dashed line the typical town. The number is the share of towns it beats; the five are averaged and the average ranked again.

Better than 11% of UK towns#45 of 50 in Leicestershire

Public green space0.9 haper 1,000 residents: parks, gardens, playing fields, play spaces

11out of
100

A park within a walk56%of residents within 400 m (a 5-minute walk)

17out of
100

National Park or National Landscape0%of the land within 5 km · None within 5 km

31out of
100

Footpaths3.1 kmper km², the town and 1 km around it

62out of
100

The sea0%of the area within 5 km · Inland

42out of
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

How Mountsorrel compares with UK towns of 12,200 to 13,600

The 60 UK towns and cities of 12,200 to 13,600 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

Mountsorrel3.1

Towns its size3.1

Leicestershire towns2.6

All UK towns3.0

Green space, ha per 1,000 residents

Mountsorrel0.9

Towns its size2.2

Leicestershire towns2.3

All UK towns2.1

Residents within 400 m of a park

Mountsorrel56%

Towns its size79%

Leicestershire towns86%

All UK towns83%

Mountsorrel falls furthest behind on park space per resident, where 54 of the 59 others do better.

Show as a table

	Town	Outdoors	Green space	Near a park	Path per km²	Protected
1	Whitby North Yorkshire	A⁺	4	100%	2.9	53%
2	Farncombe Surrey	A⁺	5.7	92%	3.8	54%
3	Sidmouth Devon	A	2.6	73%	2.9	60%
4	Newhaven East Sussex	A	1.9	84%	2.9	50%
5	Rhosllannerchrugog Clwyd	A	3.5	98%	2.8	31%
6	Southwick West Sussex	A	1.1	100%	2.6	34%
7	Houghton-le-Spring Tyne and Wear	A	4.8	100%	4.2	0%
8	Little Lever Greater Manchester	A	4.5	97%	4.5	0%
9	Wick West Sussex	A	1.3	91%	3	25%
10	Stoke Gifford Gloucestershire	A⁻	5.7	87%	5.9	0%
11	Blackwood Gwent	A⁻	3.6	97%	4.4	0%
12	Heckmondwike West Yorkshire	A⁻	2.9	100%	4.3	0%
13	Bridport Dorset	A⁻	0.9	75%	3.7	71%
14	Churchdown Gloucestershire	A⁻	2.2	92%	3.7	11%
15	Flackwell Heath and Wooburn Green Buckinghamshire	A⁻	1.7	90%	3.9	30%
16	Guiseley West Yorkshire	A⁻	2.5	75%	5.7	6%
17	Wantage Oxfordshire	A⁻	2.5	71%	3.9	47%
18	Lees Greater Manchester	A⁻	2.5	80%	4.4	4%
19	Tavistock Devon	A⁻	5.9	83%	1.6	72%
20	Bacup Lancashire	A⁻	2.5	94%	5.5	0%
21	Audenshaw Greater Manchester	B⁺	4.6	93%	3.3	0%
22	Ivybridge Devon	B⁺	1.8	86%	3.4	38%
23	Berwick-upon-Tweed Northumberland	B⁺	2.5	62%	2.7	1%
24	Ringwood Hampshire	B⁺	2.3	78%	3.2	43%
25	Chorleywood Hertfordshire	B⁺	2.7	37%	5.7	22%
26	Poulton-le-Fylde Lancashire	B⁺	3.6	85%	2.2	0%
27	Marple Greater Manchester	B⁺	3.4	64%	3.8	5%
28	Poynton Cheshire	B⁺	2.2	79%	3.7	14%
29	Royal Wootton Bassett Wiltshire	B⁺	1.6	98%	3.1	10%
30	Cudworth and Shafton South Yorkshire	B	3.1	88%	3.7	0%
31	Stotfold Bedfordshire	B	2.1	96%	3.5	0%
32	Enderby and Narborough Leicestershire	B	1.9	89%	4.4	0%
33	West Kirby Merseyside	B	1.9	68%	3.2	0%
34	Rushall and Shelfield West Midlands	B	4.3	88%	2.5	0%
35	Scawthorpe and Cusworth South Yorkshire	B⁻	3.1	88%	2.5	0%
36	Standish Greater Manchester	B⁻	2.6	84%	3.1	0%
37	Chigwell Essex	B⁻	2.9	64%	4.5	0%
38	Sheerness Kent	B⁻	3	68%	1.7	0%
39	Rochford Essex	B⁻	2	71%	2.7	0%
40	Knutsford Cheshire	C⁺	2.6	83%	2.9	0%
41	Thame Oxfordshire	C⁺	2.9	91%	1.8	0%
42	Huntington North Yorkshire	C⁺	2	72%	3.9	0%
43	Street Somerset	C⁺	0.7	96%	3.5	0%
44	Todmorden West Yorkshire	C	0.8	72%	6.8	0%
45	Hersham Surrey	C	2.5	73%	2.4	0%
46	Ferndown Dorset	C	0.7	13%	4.5	0%
47	Rhondda Mid Glamorgan	C⁻	1.4	84%	2.7	0%
48	Brough East Riding of Yorkshire	C⁻	1.4	74%	1.2	0%
49	North Walsham Norfolk	C⁻	1.3	69%	2	10%
50	Porth Mid Glamorgan	D	1.8	63%	2.2	0%
51	Kirk Sandall and Edenthorpe South Yorkshire	D	2	75%	1.4	0%
52	Amesbury Wiltshire	D	1.8	73%	1.6	0%
53	Northallerton North Yorkshire	D	1.1	70%	2.6	0%
54	Driffield East Riding of Yorkshire	D	2.1	75%	0.9	0%
55	Mountsorrel Leicestershire	D	0.9	56%	3.1	0%
56	Flint Clwyd	D	1	56%	1.2	0%
57	Mountain Ash Mid Glamorgan	D	1.4	56%	2.3	0%
58	Wombourne Staffordshire	D	0.8	78%	1.8	0%
59	Balderton Nottinghamshire	D	1.4	64%	1.7	0%
60	Thorne South Yorkshire	D⁻	1.6	65%	0.6	0%

The map

Parks, footpaths & countryside

Tap a number to zoom to a park. Tap a layer to hide it. The dashed line is Mountsorrel’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 Mountsorrel

The biggest is The Green, 0.3 ha (1 acres). Directions go to the park’s nearest public entrance where Ordnance Survey maps one.

Mountsorrel’s biggest

The Green

Park or garden

0.3 ha (1 acres)

0.6 mi northfrom the centre

3 listed

Directionsto the nearest entrance

Town Green

Park or garden

0.1 ha (0 acres)

0.9 mi southfrom the centre

1 listed

Directionsto the nearest entrance

Close to home

6 in 10 Mountsorrel 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 (56%)Further (45%)

Mountsorrel56%

Towns its size79%

Leicestershire towns86%

All UK towns83%

About 5,700 people live further than that. Playing fields count, so a park within reach isn’t always one with paths or trees; 33 playgrounds are mapped in and around the town, about one for every 390 residents.

Footpaths & waymarked walks

1 waymarked walk passes through or near Mountsorrel

58 km of footpaths, bridleways and rights of way are mapped in Mountsorrel and the kilometre around it, 3.1 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

Leicestershire Round10.0 km

The regional route here is the Leicestershire Round.

Waymarked walks are OpenStreetMap walking routes. Public rights of way are only as complete as the map in each area.

History along the way

History inside Mountsorrel’s parks

Historic England’s register of parks and gardens, and the listed buildings and scheduled monuments that stand inside Mountsorrel’s named parks.

Park with listed buildings

The Green

0.3 ha. 3 listed structures and monuments stand inside it or at its edge.

IIGordon HouseIIVillage Pump

A listed building or monument counts when it sits inside the park’s OS Open Greenspace outline (to about 15 m), so a few at the boundary are included. Historic England, National Heritage List for England.

When to get out

The best walking months in Mountsorrel: 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)	8.1	9.8	11.7	13.9	15.8	16.8	16.4	14.7	12.6	10.5	8.6	7.6
High (°C)	7	8	11	14	17	20	22	22	19	14	10	8
Rain (mm)	54	45	43	49	44	55	61	60	54	71	56	60

March is the driest month (43 mm) and July the warmest (highs of 22 °C). Winter days are short, about 8 hours of daylight in December, and 71 mm of rain falls in October, the wettest month. Frost comes on about 47 nights a year. The climate in Mountsorrel →

Things to do

3 viewpoints, 33 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.

3Viewpoints3× towns its size 2Nature reserves 33Playgrounds1.5× towns its size

The nearest beaches

Mountsorrel is inland. These are the nearest named beaches, measured from the edge of the town.

library18 mi from Mountsorrel’s edge

Directions

Good 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

Viewpoints 3

Plus 3 viewpoints without a name on the map.

Nature reserves 2

Tom Long's Nature Reserve2.3 ha · 1.1 mi from town

Directions

Reedbed Nature Reserve17 ha · 1.2 mi from town

Directions

Playgrounds 33

Halstead Play Parkin town

Directions

Pom Pom Park0.4 mi from town

Directions

Bulter Way Play Area1.1 mi from town

Directions

Plus 30 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.

SilebyCropstonQuorndonBarrow upon SoarThurcastonBirstallMountsorrel

ABCDOutdoors Grade

Town	Outdoors	Green space, ha per 1,000	Near a park	Protected within 5 km
Mountsorrel	D	0.9	56%	0%
Sileby 1.9 mi	C⁻	1.0	80%	0%
Cropston 2.3 mi	B	3.1	100%	0%
Quorndon 2.3 mi	C⁺	2.7	81%	0%
Barrow upon Soar 2.4 mi	B⁻	2.7	89%	0%
Thurcaston 2.4 mi	D	1.1	33%	0%
Birstall 2.7 mi	A⁻	6.0	80%	0%

Birstall, 2.7 miles away, grades A−, the best next door: 80% of its residents live within 400 m of a park. Cropston, Quorndon and Barrow upon Soar have at least twice Mountsorrel’s green space per resident. None of the neighbours has a protected landscape within 5 km either.

Questions about the outdoors in Mountsorrel

What is the biggest park in Mountsorrel?

The Green, 0.3 ha (1 acres). Town Green (0.1 ha) is second. 2 named parks, gardens and playing fields are in the town or within 400 m of it.

Is Mountsorrel near a National Park?

No National Park or National Landscape is within 30 km (about 19 miles) of Mountsorrel.

What are the best walks near Mountsorrel?

1 waymarked walking route passes within 2 km of the town, including the Leicestershire Round.

What is the nearest beach to Mountsorrel?

library, 18 mi from the edge of the town. Mountsorrel itself is inland.

How many people in Mountsorrel live near a park?

56% 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 Mountsorrel?

May to September: the longest days, the warmest afternoons and the least rain of the year, from the Met Office 1991–2020 averages.

Is Mountsorrel good for walking?

For paths, yes: 3.1 km of footpath and right of way per square kilometre, more than 62% of UK towns. For park space per person it beats 11% (0.9 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 Mountsorrel’s overall grade.

Sources

Where Mountsorrel’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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