Grantham’s biggest
Queen Elizabeth Park
Park or garden
11 ha (26 acres)0.3 km of path
15 pitchesfootball pitches would fit
Centralin the middle of Grantham
Directionsto the nearest entrance
Photo: Jonathan Thacker · CC BY-SA 2.0DOutdoors Grade
Outdoors in Grantham · parks, paths & countryside
Parks and walks in Grantham
Parks and playing fields in Grantham 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 69% of residents. Footpaths add up to 105 km in the town and the kilometre around it, 2.7 for every square kilometre. Grantham grades D for the outdoors: #42 of 61 in Lincolnshire. A character grade: it isn’t part of the overall grade.
Green space
0.9 ha
per 1,000 residents
Typical UK town 2.1
Near a park
69%
of residents within 400 m
Typical UK town 83%
Footpaths
105 km
2.7 km per km², town + 1 km
Typical UK town 3.0 per km²
Protected landscape
0%
of the land within 5 km
Character
What kind of outdoors town is Grantham?
Read from the data: what stands out first, good and bad.
Historic parksBelton House is a registered historic park (Grade I).Less park per person0.9 ha of parks and playing fields per 1,000 residents; the typical UK town has 2.1.
Grantham’s strongest suit is its historic parks. Where it falls short is park space per person.
Outdoors grade
Grantham grades D for the outdoors
Each chart is every UK town of 1,000 or more on one measure: the green bar is Grantham, the dashed line the typical town. The number is the share of towns it beats; the five are averaged and the average ranked again.
D
Better than 12% of UK towns#42 of 61 in Lincolnshire
Public green space0.9 haper 1,000 residents: parks, gardens, playing fields, play spaces
10out of
100
100
A park within a walk69%of residents within 400 m (a 5-minute walk)
29out of
100
100
National Park or National Landscape0%of the land within 5 km · None within 5 km
31out of
100
100
Footpaths2.7 kmper km², the town and 1 km around it
50out 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
How Grantham compares with UK towns of 39,500 to 50,800
The 60 UK towns and cities of 39,500 to 50,800 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
Grantham2.7
Towns its size3.7
Lincolnshire towns1.3
All UK towns3.0
Green space, ha per 1,000 residents
Grantham0.9
Towns its size2.3
Lincolnshire towns1.6
All UK towns2.1
Residents within 400 m of a park
Grantham69%
Towns its size83%
Lincolnshire towns71%
All UK towns83%
Grantham falls furthest behind on park space per resident, where 59 of the 59 others do better.
Show as a table
| Town | Outdoors | Green space | Near a park | Path per km² | Protected | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Havant Hampshire | A+ | 3.6 | 84% | 5.8 | 30% |
| 2 | Andover Hampshire | A | 2.7 | 91% | 4.4 | 21% |
| 3 | Wrexham Clwyd | A | 3.8 | 92% | 3.9 | 2% |
| 4 | Salisbury Wiltshire | A | 2.7 | 94% | 3.9 | 22% |
| 5 | Aldershot Hampshire | A | 3.4 | 77% | 6.3 | 17% |
| 6 | Wallsend Tyne and Wear | A | 6 | 93% | 5.7 | 0% |
| 7 | Merthyr Tydfil Mid Glamorgan | A | 3.3 | 89% | 3.2 | 29% |
| 8 | Haywards Heath West Sussex | A | 2.4 | 84% | 4.2 | 44% |
| 9 | Bexhill-on-Sea East Sussex | A | 1.7 | 83% | 3.4 | 13% |
| 10 | Bletchley Buckinghamshire | A | 4.1 | 91% | 5.9 | 0% |
| 11 | Eastleigh Hampshire | A− | 3 | 76% | 4.9 | 17% |
| 12 | Llanelli Dyfed | A− | 2.3 | 85% | 2.4 | 18% |
| 13 | Trowbridge Wiltshire | A− | 2.3 | 91% | 4.3 | 3% |
| 14 | Christchurch Dorset | A− | 2.1 | 70% | 3.3 | 14% |
| 15 | Crosby Merseyside | A− | 4.6 | 89% | 2.3 | 0% |
| 16 | Ashton-under-Lyne Greater Manchester | A− | 3.1 | 85% | 3.6 | 0% |
| 17 | Chorley Lancashire | A− | 5 | 88% | 4.1 | 0% |
| 18 | Bamber Bridge Lancashire | A− | 6.4 | 88% | 3.7 | 0% |
| 19 | Hoddesdon Hertfordshire | A− | 6.5 | 82% | 4.3 | 0% |
| 20 | Cheshunt Hertfordshire | B+ | 4.8 | 79% | 4.9 | 0% |
| 21 | Newbury Berkshire | B+ | 1.9 | 81% | 3.3 | 50% |
| 22 | Hatfield Hertfordshire | B+ | 2.8 | 84% | 5.5 | 0% |
| 23 | West Molesey Surrey | B+ | 4.4 | 80% | 4.4 | 0% |
| 24 | Thundersley and South Benfleet Essex | B+ | 3.2 | 69% | 3.2 | 0% |
| 25 | Bridgwater Somerset | B+ | 1.9 | 86% | 3.7 | 2% |
| 26 | Yeovil Somerset | B+ | 2 | 90% | 3.2 | 2% |
| 27 | Batley West Yorkshire | B+ | 2.7 | 94% | 3.5 | 0% |
| 28 | Cwmbrân Gwent | B+ | 2.1 | 84% | 3.7 | 1% |
| 29 | Middleton Greater Manchester | B+ | 3.5 | 80% | 4.2 | 0% |
| 30 | Horsham West Sussex | B | 1.5 | 83% | 3.9 | 19% |
| 31 | Wokingham Berkshire | B | 4 | 84% | 3.5 | 0% |
| 32 | Leigh Greater Manchester | B | 5.3 | 77% | 3.8 | 0% |
| 33 | Arnold Nottinghamshire | B | 3 | 81% | 4.2 | 0% |
| 34 | Bishop's Stortford Hertfordshire | B | 2.3 | 80% | 6.8 | 0% |
| 35 | Ramsgate Kent | B | 1.2 | 89% | 2.9 | 0% |
| 36 | Borehamwood Hertfordshire | B | 1.8 | 97% | 3.9 | 0% |
| 37 | Winchester Hampshire | B | 1.2 | 79% | 3.8 | 35% |
| 38 | Altrincham Greater Manchester | B | 2.2 | 91% | 3.6 | 0% |
| 39 | Blyth Northumberland | B | 1.6 | 83% | 2.8 | 0% |
| 40 | Castleford West Yorkshire | B | 2.3 | 92% | 3.2 | 0% |
| 41 | Fareham Hampshire | B | 1.1 | 48% | 4 | 2% |
| 42 | Bury St Edmunds Suffolk | B− | 3 | 78% | 3.4 | 0% |
| 43 | Oldbury West Midlands | B− | 3 | 68% | 4.3 | 0% |
| 44 | Eccles Greater Manchester | B− | 2.7 | 93% | 2.5 | 0% |
| 45 | Lytham St Anne's Lancashire | B− | 2.4 | 83% | 1.5 | 0% |
| 46 | Braintree Essex | B− | 1.7 | 89% | 3.7 | 0% |
| 47 | Tipton West Midlands | B− | 1.9 | 79% | 4.5 | 0% |
| 48 | Hinckley Leicestershire | C+ | 1.8 | 87% | 3.3 | 0% |
| 49 | Willenhall West Midlands | C+ | 3.4 | 66% | 3 | 0% |
| 50 | Leighton Buzzard Bedfordshire | C+ | 1.5 | 85% | 3.8 | 0% |
| 51 | Urmston Greater Manchester | C+ | 1.7 | 79% | 3.8 | 0% |
| 52 | King's Lynn Norfolk | C+ | 1.3 | 80% | 2.2 | 23% |
| 53 | Neath West Glamorgan | C | 2 | 80% | 1.4 | 0% |
| 54 | Kirkby Merseyside | C | 2.2 | 87% | 2.2 | 0% |
| 55 | Grays Essex | C | 1.2 | 83% | 2.1 | 0% |
| 56 | Durham County Durham | C | 1.1 | 68% | 6 | 0% |
| 57 | Keighley West Yorkshire | C | 1.6 | 73% | 3.3 | 0% |
| 58 | Boston Lincolnshire | C− | 2.1 | 78% | 2.1 | 0% |
| 59 | Worksop Nottinghamshire | C− | 1.3 | 75% | 3 | 0% |
| 60 | Grantham Lincolnshire | D | 0.9 | 69% | 2.7 | 0% |
The map
Parks, footpaths & countryside
Tap a number to zoom to a park. Tap a layer to hide it. The dashed line is Grantham’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 Grantham
The biggest is Queen Elizabeth Park, 11 ha (26 acres). Directions go to the park’s nearest public entrance where Ordnance Survey maps one.
All 5 named parks by size: 19 ha (47 acres) and 3 km of path
Parks & gardens 19 ha
The two biggest, Queen Elizabeth Park and Wyndham Park, are 71% of the named green space.
Wyndham Park
Park or garden
2.9 ha (7 acres)1.4 km of path
20 minto walk all 1.4 km of path
4 pitchesfootball pitches would fit
Centralin the middle of Grantham
Directionsto the nearest entrance
Dysart Park
Park or garden
3.7 ha (9 acres)1.0 km of path
15 minto walk all 1 km of path
5 pitchesfootball pitches would fit
0.9 mi south-eastfrom the centre
Directionsto the nearest entrance
Sedgwick Meadows
Park or garden
1.7 ha (4 acres)0.2 km of path
2 pitchesfootball pitches would fit
Centralin the middle of Grantham
Directionsto the nearest entrance
Abbey Gardens
Park or garden
0.1 ha (0 acres)
Centralin the middle of Grantham
Directionsto the nearest entrance
Close to home
7 in 10 Grantham 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 (69%)Further (31%)
Grantham69%
Towns its size83%
Lincolnshire towns71%
All UK towns83%
About 14,000 people live further than that. Playing fields count, so a park within reach isn’t always one with paths or trees; 28 playgrounds are mapped in and around the town, about one for every 1,604 residents.
Footpaths & waymarked walks
6 waymarked walks pass through or near Grantham
105 km of footpaths, bridleways and rights of way are mapped in Grantham and the kilometre around it, 2.7 km for every square kilometre (the typical UK town has 3.0). Bars show each route’s kilometres within 2 km of the town.
Local
Tamper and Walk Trail, Belton House5.7 km
Belton Park Walk, Belton House5.3 km
Belton Pleasure Grounds Walk, Belton House2.7 km
Belton Estate Riverside Walk, Belton House2.3 km
Formal Gardens Walk, Belton House1.1 km
Belton's Moondial Walk, Belton House0.8 km
Close to home, the Tamper and Walk Trail, Belton House has 6 km of local walk within 2 km of the town.
Waymarked walks are OpenStreetMap walking routes. Public rights of way are only as complete as the map in each area.
History along the way
A registered historic park in Grantham
Historic England’s register of parks and gardens, and the listed buildings and scheduled monuments that stand inside Grantham’s named parks.
Registered · Grade IBelton House1.9 ha
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 Grantham: 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 | 16.9 | 16.4 | 14.7 | 12.6 | 10.5 | 8.6 | 7.6 |
| High (°C) | 7 | 8 | 10 | 13 | 16 | 19 | 22 | 22 | 19 | 14 | 10 | 7 |
| Rain (mm) | 51 | 44 | 41 | 45 | 49 | 61 | 60 | 60 | 55 | 66 | 60 | 62 |
March is the driest month (41 mm) and July the warmest (highs of 22 °C). Winter days are short, about 8 hours of daylight in December, and 66 mm of rain falls in October, the wettest month. Frost comes on about 44 nights a year. The climate in Grantham →
Things to do
3 viewpoints, 28 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.
3Viewpoints1.6× towns its size5Hills and peaks4.7× towns its size1Nature reserves1Picnic sites28Playgrounds0.6× towns its size
The nearest beaches
Grantham is inland. These are the nearest named beaches, measured from the edge of the town.
The Beach23 mi from Grantham’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.
Up high. Hall's Hill, at 133 m, is the highest named top within 2 km of Grantham.
Every named place, with directions
Viewpoints 3
Church Viewin town
DirectionsSt Wufram's View0.6 mi from town
DirectionsPlus 1 viewpoint without a name on the map.
Hills and peaks 5
Hall's Hill133 m (436 ft) · 0.0 mi from town
DirectionsStubbock Hill111 m (364 ft) · 0.4 mi from town
DirectionsMill Hill105 m (344 ft) · 0.5 mi from town
DirectionsFlat Cliff112 m (367 ft) · 1.0 mi from town
DirectionsPlus 1 peak without a name on the map.
Nature reserves 1
Hills and Hollows2.1 ha · 0.3 mi from town
DirectionsPicnic sites 1
Plus 1 picnic site without a name on the map.
Playgrounds 28
Belton House Adventure Playground0.9 mi from town
DirectionsPlus 27 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.
Great GonerbyBarrowbyBottesfordLong BenningtonColsterworthCorby GlenGrantham
ABCDOutdoors Grade
| Town | Outdoors | Green space, ha per 1,000 | Near a park | Protected within 5 km |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grantham | D | 0.9 | 69% | 0% |
| Great Gonerby 1.8 mi | D− | 0.7 | 56% | 0% |
| Barrowby 1.9 mi | C− | 3.5 | 66% | 0% |
| Bottesford 6.9 mi | C | 3.9 | 69% | 0% |
| Long Bennington 7.3 mi | C− | 1.6 | 82% | 0% |
| Colsterworth 7.6 mi | D | 1.3 | 67% | 0% |
| Corby Glen 8.8 mi | D− | 2.0 | 0% | 0% |
Bottesford, 6.9 miles away, grades C, the best next door: 69% of its residents live within 400 m of a park. Barrowby, Bottesford and Corby Glen have at least twice Grantham’s green space per resident. None of the neighbours has a protected landscape within 5 km either.
Questions about the outdoors in Grantham
What is the biggest park in Grantham?
Queen Elizabeth Park, 11 ha (26 acres). Wyndham Park (2.9 ha) is second. 5 named parks, gardens and playing fields are in the town or within 400 m of it.
Is Grantham near a National Park?
No National Park or National Landscape is within 30 km (about 19 miles) of Grantham.
What are the best walks near Grantham?
6 waymarked walking routes pass within 2 km of the town, including the Tamper and Walk Trail, Belton House, Belton Park Walk, Belton House and Belton Pleasure Grounds Walk, Belton House.
What is the nearest beach to Grantham?
The Beach, 23 mi from the edge of the town. Grantham itself is inland.
How many people in Grantham live near a park?
69% 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 Grantham?
May to September: the longest days, the warmest afternoons and the least rain of the year, from the Met Office 1991–2020 averages.
Which parks in Grantham are historic?
Belton House (Grade I) is on Historic England’s register of parks and gardens.
Is Grantham good for walking?
About average for paths: 2.7 km of footpath and right of way per square kilometre, more than 50% of UK towns. For park space per person it beats 10% (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 Grantham’s overall grade.
Sources
Where Grantham’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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