Photo: David Wright · CC BY-SA 2.0Almost everyone in Stallingborough lives within a 5-minute walk of a park
The Lincolnshire Wolds National Landscape begins 3.5 mi from the village’s edge. The sea makes up 14% of the area within 5 km. 15 km of footpaths run through the village and the kilometre around it, 1.8 for every square kilometre. Stallingborough grades B+ for the outdoors. A character grade: it isn’t part of the overall grade.
What kind of outdoors village is Stallingborough?
Read from the data: what stands out first, good and bad.
Stallingborough’s strongest suit is parks close to every home, followed by the Lincolnshire Wolds National Landscape close by.
Stallingborough grades B+ for the outdoors
Each chart is every UK town of 1,000 or more on one measure: the green bar is Stallingborough, 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.
Stallingborough is 16th of 60 UK villages its size for the outdoors
The 60 UK towns and cities of 1,100 to 1,300 people with an Outdoors Grade. Hover a dot for its figures; tap one for its page.
Against villages its size, Stallingborough stands out most for homes near a park: none of the other 59 has more.
Show as a table
| Town | Outdoors | Green space | Near a park | Path per km² | Protected | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Porlock Somerset | A+ | 2.9 | 75% | 5.2 | 71% |
| 2 | Carlin How North Yorkshire | A+ | 3.1 | 100% | 2.3 | 13% |
| 3 | Sundridge Kent | A+ | 9.1 | 100% | 2.3 | 73% |
| 4 | Shamley Green Surrey | A | 2.9 | 100% | 3 | 69% |
| 5 | Dawlish Warren Devon | A | 21.1 | 73% | 2.9 | 1% |
| 6 | Niton Isle of Wight | A | 2.6 | 76% | 3.1 | 37% |
| 7 | Donisthorpe Leicestershire | A | 38.4 | 100% | 4.3 | 0% |
| 8 | Egloshayle Cornwall | A | 7.3 | 100% | 2.6 | 12% |
| 9 | Bures Suffolk | A | 5.4 | 100% | 2.5 | 14% |
| 10 | Ruardean Gloucestershire | A | 4.5 | 100% | 2.2 | 29% |
| 11 | Great Bedwyn Wiltshire | A | 3 | 76% | 3.7 | 100% |
| 12 | Brighstone Isle of Wight | A | 2.2 | 55% | 3.4 | 56% |
| 13 | Low Bradley North Yorkshire | A− | 1.2 | 100% | 6.2 | 2% |
| 14 | Hurst Green East Sussex | B+ | 2.3 | 100% | 1.1 | 100% |
| 15 | Oxspring South Yorkshire | B+ | 2.7 | 77% | 4 | 1% |
| 16 | Stallingborough Lincolnshire | B+ | 2.3 | 100% | 1.8 | 0% |
| 17 | King's Somborne Hampshire | B+ | 5.2 | 100% | 2.1 | 0% |
| 18 | St Bees Cumbria | B | 8.5 | 78% | 1.2 | 0% |
| 19 | Clyst St Mary Devon | B | 5.8 | 100% | 1.6 | 0% |
| 20 | Bodedern Gwynedd | B | 1.2 | 100% | 0 | 16% |
| 21 | Woodchurch Kent | B | 2.3 | 78% | 2.8 | 12% |
| 22 | Moresby Parks Cumbria | B− | 1.2 | 100% | 2 | 0% |
| 23 | Stradbroke Suffolk | B− | 3 | 100% | 1.8 | 0% |
| 24 | Trawden Lancashire | B− | 4 | 0% | 6.1 | 0% |
| 25 | Stretton-on-Dunsmore Warwickshire | B− | 2.9 | 100% | 1.7 | 0% |
| 26 | Welford Northamptonshire | B− | 3.5 | 100% | 1.4 | 0% |
| 27 | Rushwick Worcestershire | B− | 5 | 71% | 2.8 | 0% |
| 28 | Datchworth Hertfordshire | C+ | 10.8 | 76% | 2.2 | 0% |
| 29 | Lyne Surrey | C+ | 4 | 71% | 3 | 0% |
| 30 | Tansley Derbyshire | C+ | 1.6 | 73% | 3.4 | 4% |
| 31 | Coldeast Devon | C+ | 1.6 | 47% | 3.6 | 30% |
| 32 | Haswell County Durham | C+ | 3.2 | 100% | 0.9 | 0% |
| 33 | Chesterton Oxfordshire | C+ | 1.8 | 100% | 2.2 | 0% |
| 34 | Bottom Boat West Yorkshire | C | 0.8 | 100% | 2.6 | 0% |
| 35 | Stalmine Lancashire | C | 3.1 | 67% | 0.8 | 0% |
| 36 | Carlyon Bay Cornwall | C | 0.7 | 0% | 2.4 | 12% |
| 37 | Rearsby Leicestershire | C | 1.5 | 100% | 1.9 | 0% |
| 38 | Yoxall Staffordshire | C | 1.9 | 100% | 0.9 | 0% |
| 39 | Barrington Cambridgeshire | C | 3.6 | 69% | 1.9 | 0% |
| 40 | Croughton Northamptonshire | C | 3.6 | 73% | 1.6 | 0% |
| 41 | Hill Brow and Rake Hampshire | C− | 0 | 0% | 2.9 | 97% |
| 42 | Raglan Gwent | C− | 3.9 | 0% | 1.2 | 1% |
| 43 | Methley West Yorkshire | C− | 0.2 | 100% | 1.6 | 0% |
| 44 | Abbotskerswell Devon | C− | 4.2 | 49% | 1.4 | 0% |
| 45 | Spofforth North Yorkshire | C− | 1.7 | 78% | 1.8 | 0% |
| 46 | Parson Drove Cambridgeshire | D | 3.5 | 60% | 0.9 | 0% |
| 47 | Shardlow Derbyshire | D | 1.5 | 73% | 2.3 | 0% |
| 48 | Kingswood Warwickshire | D | 1.7 | 42% | 2.7 | 0% |
| 49 | Puddletown Dorset | D | 0.2 | 0% | 2.1 | 15% |
| 50 | Aston Oxfordshire | D | 2.2 | 62% | 0.6 | 0% |
| 51 | Llanybydder Dyfed | D | 2.2 | 60% | 0.3 | 0% |
| 52 | Melton Constable Norfolk | D | 1.6 | 76% | 0.7 | 0% |
| 53 | Stoke Ferry Norfolk | D | 1.1 | 73% | 1.6 | 0% |
| 54 | Ifold West Sussex | D | 0 | 0% | 1.9 | 5% |
| 55 | Bretforton Worcestershire | D− | 0.2 | 0% | 1.4 | 9% |
| 56 | Standlake Oxfordshire | D− | 1.7 | 42% | 1.3 | 0% |
| 57 | Rillington North Yorkshire | D− | 1 | 75% | 0.6 | 0% |
| 58 | Wrawby Lincolnshire | D− | 1.8 | 26% | 0.8 | 0% |
| 59 | Darrington West Yorkshire | D− | 0.5 | 72% | 0.8 | 0% |
| 60 | Fiskerton Lincolnshire | D− | 0 | 0% | 1.9 | 0% |
Parks, footpaths & countryside
Tap a number to zoom to a park. Tap a layer to hide it. The dashed line is Stallingborough’s built-up area.
How close Stallingborough’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; 7 playgrounds are mapped in and around the village, about one for every 170 residents.
The Lincolnshire Wolds National Landscape is 3.5 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.
Protected landscape begins just outside the 5 km ring the Outdoors Grade measures, so Stallingborough scores 0% on it even though the Lincolnshire Wolds National Landscape is 3.5 mi away.
2 waymarked walks pass through or near Stallingborough
15 km of footpaths, bridleways and rights of way are mapped in Stallingborough and the kilometre around it, 1.8 km for every square kilometre (the typical UK town has 3.0). Bars show each route’s kilometres within 2 km of the village.
The regional route here is the Nev Cole Way.
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 Stallingborough: May, June, August and 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 | |
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| Daylight (h) | 8.0 | 9.7 | 11.7 | 13.9 | 15.9 | 17.0 | 16.5 | 14.8 | 12.6 | 10.4 | 8.5 | 7.5 |
| High (°C) | 7 | 8 | 10 | 13 | 16 | 19 | 22 | 21 | 19 | 15 | 10 | 8 |
| Rain (mm) | 50 | 40 | 34 | 43 | 37 | 56 | 69 | 60 | 51 | 55 | 65 | 50 |
March is the driest month (34 mm) and July the warmest (highs of 22 °C). Winter days are short, about 7 hours of daylight in December, and 69 mm of rain falls in July, the wettest month. Frost comes on about 31 nights a year. The climate in Stallingborough →
Stallingborough is near the sea
14% of the area within 5 km of Stallingborough is sea.
Sea: the area outside the ONS coastline (mean high water). Bathing water quality is published by the Environment Agency (England) and Natural Resources Wales; check it before swimming.
7 playgrounds
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.
Every named place, with directions
Playgrounds 7
Plus 5 playgrounds without a name on the map.
The outdoors in nearby towns
The nearest towns of 1,000+ within 12 miles. Tap a town for its outdoors page.
Stallingborough grades higher for the outdoors than every neighbour in the table.
Questions about the outdoors in Stallingborough
Is Stallingborough near a National Park?
The nearest protected landscape is the Lincolnshire Wolds National Landscape, 3.5 mi south of the village’s edge. It covers 559 km² and was designated in 1973.
What are the best walks near Stallingborough?
2 waymarked walking routes pass within 2 km of the village, including the Nev Cole Way and Healing Hobble.
How many people in Stallingborough 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 Stallingborough?
May, June, August and September: the longest days, the warmest afternoons and the least rain of the year, from the Met Office 1991–2020 averages.
Is Stallingborough good for walking?
Paths are thinner than most towns: 1.8 km of footpath and right of way per square kilometre, more than 24% of UK towns. For park space per person it beats 54% (2.3 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 Stallingborough’s overall grade.
Where Stallingborough’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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