Nettleham’s biggest
Longdales Park
Playing field
13 ha (32 acres)
18 pitchesfootball pitches would fit
0.6 mi south-eastfrom the centre
Directionsto the nearest entrance
Photo: Graham Robson · CC BY-SA 2.0COutdoors Grade
Outdoors in Nettleham · parks, paths & countryside
Nettleham has more park space per resident than 8 in 10 UK towns
Parks and playing fields in Nettleham add up to 4.2 ha for every 1,000 residents; the typical UK town has 2.1. Footpaths add up to 16 km in the town and the kilometre around it, 1.3 for every square kilometre. A park or playing field is within a 5-minute walk for 74% of residents. Nettleham grades C for the outdoors: #23 of 61 in Lincolnshire. A character grade: it isn’t part of the overall grade.
Green space
4.2 ha
per 1,000 residents
Typical UK town 2.1
Near a park
74%
of residents within 400 m
Typical UK town 83%
Footpaths
16 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
Nearest: Lincolnshire Wolds National Landscape
Character
What kind of outdoors town is Nettleham?
Read from the data: what stands out first, good and bad.
Room to roam4.2 ha of parks and playing fields per 1,000 residents, more than 82% of UK towns.Few mapped footpaths1.3 km of path per km²; the typical UK town has 3.0.
Nettleham’s strongest suit is plenty of park space. Where it falls short is footpaths.
Outdoors grade
Nettleham grades C for the outdoors
Each chart is every UK town of 1,000 or more on one measure: the green bar is Nettleham, 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 26% of UK towns#23 of 61 in Lincolnshire · 45th of 60 UK towns its size
Public green space4.2 haper 1,000 residents: parks, gardens, playing fields, play spaces
83out of
100
100
A park within a walk74%of residents within 400 m (a 5-minute walk)
37out of
100
100
National Park or National Landscape0%of the land within 5 km · None within 5 km
31out of
100
100
Footpaths1.3 kmper km², the town and 1 km around it
11out 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
Nettleham is 45th of 60 UK towns its size for the outdoors
The 60 UK towns and cities of 3,300 to 3,600 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
Nettleham1.3
Towns its size2.3
Lincolnshire towns1.3
All UK towns3.0
Green space, ha per 1,000 residents
Nettleham4.2
Towns its size1.9
Lincolnshire towns1.6
All UK towns2.1
Residents within 400 m of a park
Nettleham74%
Towns its size82%
Lincolnshire towns71%
All UK towns83%
Against towns its size, Nettleham stands out most for park space per resident: only 7 of the other 59 have more. It falls furthest behind on path per km², where 49 of the others do better.
Show as a table
| Town | Outdoors | Green space | Near a park | Path per km² | Protected | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Minchinhampton Gloucestershire | A+ | 5.6 | 91% | 5.3 | 90% |
| 2 | Lane End Buckinghamshire | A+ | 3.1 | 92% | 4.7 | 90% |
| 3 | Silsoe Bedfordshire | A+ | 6.6 | 100% | 3.8 | 2% |
| 4 | Goring Oxfordshire | A+ | 3 | 100% | 3.2 | 98% |
| 5 | Talke and Talke Pits Staffordshire | A | 16.6 | 100% | 3.5 | 0% |
| 6 | Elsenham Essex | A− | 3 | 100% | 4.3 | 0% |
| 7 | Westward Ho! Devon | A− | 12.3 | 63% | 1.7 | 18% |
| 8 | Birdwell South Yorkshire | A− | 3.6 | 90% | 4.6 | 0% |
| 9 | Essington Staffordshire | B+ | 6.8 | 100% | 2.4 | 0% |
| 10 | Newlyn Cornwall | B+ | 1.5 | 67% | 3.2 | 24% |
| 11 | Blaenau Ffestiniog Gwynedd | B+ | 3.6 | 70% | 2.5 | 78% |
| 12 | St Asaph Clwyd | B+ | 3.2 | 100% | 1.6 | 9% |
| 13 | Mickletown West Yorkshire | B+ | 3.3 | 93% | 3.2 | 0% |
| 14 | Water Orton Warwickshire | B+ | 5.3 | 82% | 3.4 | 0% |
| 15 | Hartley Wintney Hampshire | B+ | 6.1 | 82% | 3.3 | 0% |
| 16 | Whalley Lancashire | B | 1.2 | 88% | 3.5 | 23% |
| 17 | Fishbourne West Sussex | B | 1.9 | 38% | 2.5 | 47% |
| 18 | Westerham Kent | B | 1.9 | 61% | 3.5 | 66% |
| 19 | Brockenhurst Hampshire | B | 1.8 | 63% | 3.3 | 98% |
| 20 | Hemingford Grey Cambridgeshire | B | 1.9 | 100% | 3.1 | 0% |
| 21 | Sunniside Tyne and Wear | B | 2.1 | 87% | 4 | 0% |
| 22 | Gunnislake and St Ann's Chapel Cornwall | B− | 2.5 | 64% | 2.3 | 66% |
| 23 | Istead Rise Kent | B− | 1.9 | 82% | 2.7 | 15% |
| 24 | Ruabon Clwyd | B− | 3.8 | 69% | 1.9 | 20% |
| 25 | Burtonwood Cheshire | B− | 3.3 | 93% | 2.2 | 0% |
| 26 | Castle Cary Somerset | B− | 2.2 | 91% | 3 | 0% |
| 27 | Stalham Norfolk | B− | 1.9 | 85% | 2 | 23% |
| 28 | Pilsley and Lower Pilsley Derbyshire | B− | 1.9 | 91% | 3.3 | 0% |
| 29 | Kirkheaton West Yorkshire | C+ | 1.8 | 92% | 3 | 0% |
| 30 | Broomfield Essex | C+ | 2.7 | 45% | 5 | 0% |
| 31 | Fishguard Dyfed | C+ | 0.8 | 64% | 2.1 | 23% |
| 32 | Woodstock Oxfordshire | C+ | 1 | 80% | 3 | 11% |
| 33 | Leadgate County Durham | C+ | 1.5 | 91% | 1.9 | 1% |
| 34 | Thorpe Willoughby North Yorkshire | C | 0.4 | 92% | 3.5 | 0% |
| 35 | Marlow Bottom Buckinghamshire | C | 0.5 | 40% | 3.4 | 50% |
| 36 | Ashburton Devon | C | 1.7 | 74% | 1 | 60% |
| 37 | Somersham Cambridgeshire | C | 2.7 | 81% | 1.9 | 0% |
| 38 | Cosby Leicestershire | C | 1.6 | 93% | 2.2 | 0% |
| 39 | Earls Colne Essex | C | 1.4 | 91% | 2.6 | 0% |
| 40 | Marden Kent | C | 1.8 | 71% | 2.1 | 3% |
| 41 | Upper Poppleton North Yorkshire | C | 2.9 | 82% | 1.7 | 0% |
| 42 | Alvechurch Worcestershire | C | 2.2 | 84% | 1.9 | 0% |
| 43 | Adderbury and Twyford Oxfordshire | C | 1.7 | 89% | 2.2 | 0% |
| 44 | Eastchurch Kent | C | 1.9 | 72% | 0.6 | 0% |
| 45 | Nettleham Lincolnshire | C | 4.2 | 74% | 1.3 | 0% |
| 46 | Goff's Oak Hertfordshire | C− | 2.4 | 41% | 3.1 | 0% |
| 47 | Holsworthy Devon | C− | 2.7 | 84% | 0.8 | 0% |
| 48 | Bishopthorpe North Yorkshire | C− | 3.2 | 51% | 2.2 | 0% |
| 49 | Lytchett Matravers Dorset | C− | 1.2 | 83% | 1.2 | 5% |
| 50 | Willand Devon | C− | 0.9 | 88% | 0.6 | 1% |
| 51 | Witham St Hughs Lincolnshire | D | 0.7 | 91% | 1.7 | 0% |
| 52 | Wadhurst East Sussex | D | 0.9 | 19% | 1.2 | 100% |
| 53 | Chapel St Leonards Lincolnshire | D | 0.4 | 53% | 1.5 | 0% |
| 54 | Messingham Lincolnshire | D | 3.4 | 46% | 0.6 | 0% |
| 55 | Lanchester County Durham | D | 1.4 | 70% | 2.1 | 0% |
| 56 | Bilsthorpe Nottinghamshire | D | 0.7 | 88% | 1.2 | 0% |
| 57 | Cherry Willingham Lincolnshire | D | 1 | 79% | 1.6 | 0% |
| 58 | Spixworth Norfolk | D | 0.6 | 59% | 1.2 | 5% |
| 59 | Barlby North Yorkshire | D− | 0.2 | 0% | 1.8 | 0% |
| 60 | Bawtry South Yorkshire | D− | 0.5 | 49% | 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 Nettleham’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 Nettleham
The biggest is Longdales Park, 13 ha (32 acres). Directions go to the park’s nearest public entrance where Ordnance Survey maps one.
Memorial Playing Field
Playing field
1.4 ha (4 acres)
2 pitchesfootball pitches would fit
Centralin the middle of Nettleham
Directionsto the nearest entrance
Close to home
7 in 10 Nettleham 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 (74%)Further (26%)
Nettleham74%
Towns its size82%
Lincolnshire towns71%
All UK towns83%
About 900 people live further than that. Playing fields count, so a park within reach isn’t always one with paths or trees; 11 playgrounds are mapped in and around the town, about one for every 311 residents.
National Parks & National Landscapes
The Lincolnshire Wolds National Landscape is 10 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
Footpaths & waymarked walks
1 waymarked walk passes through or near Nettleham
16 km of footpaths, bridleways and rights of way are mapped in Nettleham 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 town.
Regional
Viking Way (Barnetby to Whitwell)3.2 km
The regional route here is the Viking Way (Barnetby to Whitwell).
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 Nettleham: May and July 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) | 8.0 | 9.7 | 11.7 | 13.9 | 15.8 | 17.0 | 16.5 | 14.8 | 12.6 | 10.4 | 8.5 | 7.5 |
| High (°C) | 7 | 8 | 10 | 13 | 16 | 19 | 22 | 22 | 19 | 14 | 10 | 7 |
| Rain (mm) | 53 | 42 | 39 | 45 | 49 | 68 | 65 | 62 | 55 | 61 | 62 | 55 |
March is the driest month (39 mm) and July the warmest (highs of 22 °C). Winter days are short, about 8 hours of daylight in December, and 68 mm of rain falls in June, the wettest month. Frost comes on about 47 nights a year. The climate in Nettleham →
Things to do
11 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
Nettleham is inland. These are the nearest named beaches, measured from the edge of the town.
The Beach24 mi from Nettleham’s edge
DirectionsSea Lions27 mi from Nettleham’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
Hills and peaks 1
Plus 1 peak without a name on the map.
Playgrounds 11
Plus 11 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.
SudbrookeCherry WillinghamDunholmeWeltonFiskertonWashingborough and HeighingtonNettleham
ABCDOutdoors Grade
| Town | Outdoors | Green space, ha per 1,000 | Near a park | Protected within 5 km |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nettleham | C | 4.2 | 74% | 0% |
| Sudbrooke 1.7 mi | C− | 1.5 | 82% | 0% |
| Cherry Willingham 2.2 mi | D | 1.0 | 79% | 0% |
| Dunholme 2.4 mi | D | 1.8 | 52% | 0% |
| Welton 2.9 mi | D | 2.0 | 57% | 0% |
| Fiskerton 3.3 mi | D− | 0.0 | 0% | 0% |
| Washingborough and Heighington 3.5 mi | D | 1.8 | 66% | 0% |
Nettleham grades higher for the outdoors than every neighbour in the table. None of the neighbours has a protected landscape within 5 km either.
Questions about the outdoors in Nettleham
What is the biggest park in Nettleham?
Longdales Park, 13 ha (32 acres). Memorial Playing Field (1.4 ha) is second. 2 named parks, gardens and playing fields are in the town or within 400 m of it.
Is Nettleham near a National Park?
The nearest protected landscape is the Lincolnshire Wolds National Landscape, 10 mi north-east of the town’s edge. It covers 559 km² and was designated in 1973.
What are the best walks near Nettleham?
1 waymarked walking route passes within 2 km of the town, including the Viking Way (Barnetby to Whitwell).
What is the nearest beach to Nettleham?
The Beach, 24 mi from the edge of the town, then Sea Lions (27 mi). Nettleham itself is inland.
How many people in Nettleham live near a park?
74% 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 Nettleham?
May and July to September: the longest days, the warmest afternoons and the least rain of the year, from the Met Office 1991–2020 averages.
Is Nettleham good for walking?
Paths are thinner than most towns: 1.3 km of footpath and right of way per square kilometre, more than 11% of UK towns. For park space per person it beats 83% (4.2 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 Nettleham’s overall grade.
Sources
Where Nettleham’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.