Surfleet’s biggest
Glen Park
Park or garden
4.4 ha (11 acres)0.3 km of path
6 pitchesfootball pitches would fit
0.5 mi westfrom the centre
Directionsto the nearest entrance
Photo: Dave Hitchborne · CC BY-SA 2.0C−Outdoors Grade
Outdoors in Surfleet · parks, paths & countryside
Surfleet has more park space per resident than 8 in 10 UK towns
Parks and playing fields in Surfleet add up to 4.2 ha for every 1,000 residents; the typical UK town has 2.1. Footpaths add up to 24 km in the village and the kilometre around it, 1.8 for every square kilometre. No park or playing field is mapped within a 5-minute walk of homes in Surfleet. Surfleet grades C− for the outdoors. 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
0%
of residents within 400 m
Typical UK town 83%
Footpaths
24 km
1.8 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 village is Surfleet?
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.Parks can be a walk away100% of residents live more than 400 m from a park or playing field.
Surfleet’s strongest suit is plenty of park space. Where it falls short is how far some homes are from a park.
Outdoors grade
Surfleet grades C− for the outdoors
Each chart is every UK town of 1,000 or more on one measure: the green bar is Surfleet, 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 17% of UK towns48th of 60 UK villages its size
Public green space4.2 haper 1,000 residents: parks, gardens, playing fields, play spaces
83out of
100
100
A park within a walk0%of residents within 400 m (a 5-minute walk)
2out of
100
100
National Park or National Landscape0%of the land within 5 km · None within 5 km
31out of
100
100
Footpaths1.8 kmper km², the town and 1 km around it
23out 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.
Villages its size
Surfleet is 48th of 60 UK villages its size for the outdoors
The 60 UK towns and cities of 1,000 to 1,100 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
Surfleet1.8
Villages its size2.2
Lincolnshire towns1.3
All UK towns3.0
Green space, ha per 1,000 residents
Surfleet4.2
Villages its size2.4
Lincolnshire towns1.6
All UK towns2.1
Residents within 400 m of a park
Surfleet0%
Villages its size73%
Lincolnshire towns71%
All UK towns83%
Against villages its size, Surfleet stands out most for park space per resident: only 14 of the other 59 have more. It falls furthest behind on homes near a park, where 52 of the others do better.
Show as a table
| Town | Outdoors | Green space | Near a park | Path per km² | Protected | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Grove Dorset | A+ | 6 | 100% | 8.7 | 0% |
| 2 | Lizard Cornwall | A+ | 2.3 | 100% | 3.3 | 30% |
| 3 | Uplyme Devon | A+ | 2.4 | 100% | 3 | 61% |
| 4 | East Challow Oxfordshire | A+ | 4.9 | 100% | 3.6 | 44% |
| 5 | Blagdon Somerset | A | 3.3 | 100% | 2.9 | 62% |
| 6 | Abingworth West Sussex | A | 6.1 | 100% | 2.7 | 27% |
| 7 | Newnham Gloucestershire | A | 4.2 | 100% | 3.2 | 0% |
| 8 | Bellingham Northumberland | A | 8.6 | 100% | 1.8 | 57% |
| 9 | Aberaeron Dyfed | A | 6.1 | 100% | 2.1 | 0% |
| 10 | Shorne Kent | A | 28.3 | 23% | 3.4 | 24% |
| 11 | Silverdale Lancashire | A | 2.3 | 46% | 3.9 | 76% |
| 12 | Misterton Somerset | A | 2.5 | 100% | 2.9 | 35% |
| 13 | Godshill Isle of Wight | A | 2.1 | 100% | 2.7 | 53% |
| 14 | Chedgrave Norfolk | A− | 3 | 100% | 1.7 | 26% |
| 15 | Ardleigh Essex | A− | 3.2 | 100% | 1.5 | 21% |
| 16 | Hyde Heath Buckinghamshire | B+ | 5.4 | 68% | 2.1 | 81% |
| 17 | Llangynidr Powys | B+ | 2.4 | 65% | 3.2 | 100% |
| 18 | Crowlas Cornwall | B+ | 3.3 | 73% | 1.1 | 23% |
| 19 | Loddiswell Devon | B+ | 2.1 | 100% | 1.3 | 53% |
| 20 | Thornwood Common Essex | B+ | 6.1 | 100% | 1.9 | 0% |
| 21 | Clyst Honiton Devon | B+ | 8 | 83% | 3.1 | 0% |
| 22 | Avening Gloucestershire | B | 0.9 | 100% | 2.3 | 97% |
| 23 | Morchard Bishop Devon | B | 2.6 | 100% | 2.8 | 0% |
| 24 | Thornton Leicestershire | B | 13.7 | 50% | 4.9 | 0% |
| 25 | Flamstead Hertfordshire | B | 2.1 | 82% | 2.7 | 33% |
| 26 | Llanymynech Shropshire | B | 2 | 100% | 2.9 | 0% |
| 27 | Minley Hampshire | B− | 5.7 | 0% | 6.5 | 0% |
| 28 | High Shincliffe County Durham | B− | 0.5 | 100% | 4.6 | 0% |
| 29 | King's Bromley Staffordshire | B− | 3.4 | 100% | 1.2 | 0% |
| 30 | St Newlyn East Cornwall | C+ | 3 | 100% | 0.7 | 0% |
| 31 | Little Waltham Essex | C+ | 2.3 | 63% | 3.8 | 0% |
| 32 | Weston Staffordshire | C+ | 1.3 | 100% | 1 | 4% |
| 33 | Simister Greater Manchester | C | 16.6 | 0% | 2.7 | 0% |
| 34 | Warmington Northamptonshire | C | 1.6 | 100% | 2 | 0% |
| 35 | Little Melton Norfolk | C | 4.2 | 72% | 2 | 0% |
| 36 | Hilton Cambridgeshire | C | 6.8 | 70% | 1.8 | 0% |
| 37 | Huby (Hambleton) North Yorkshire | C | 2.4 | 75% | 1.5 | 2% |
| 38 | Upper Bucklebury Berkshire | C | 0.1 | 0% | 4 | 48% |
| 39 | Elswick Lancashire | C | 1.8 | 100% | 0.8 | 0% |
| 40 | Freethorpe Norfolk | C− | 2.3 | 26% | 0.7 | 61% |
| 41 | Kimbolton Cambridgeshire | C− | 2.4 | 50% | 2.8 | 0% |
| 42 | Ansley Warwickshire | C− | 1.8 | 64% | 2.8 | 0% |
| 43 | Ewyas Harold Herefordshire | C− | 2.1 | 55% | 2.8 | 0% |
| 44 | Hoylandswaine South Yorkshire | C− | 1.4 | 60% | 3.6 | 0% |
| 45 | Marchwiel Clwyd | C− | 1.1 | 100% | 1 | 0% |
| 46 | Castle Hedingham Essex | C− | 1.7 | 52% | 3.1 | 0% |
| 47 | Swarthmoor Cumbria | C− | 0.2 | 79% | 1.5 | 0% |
| 48 | Surfleet Lincolnshire | C− | 4.2 | 0% | 1.8 | 0% |
| 49 | Scole Norfolk | C− | 2.1 | 51% | 2.5 | 0% |
| 50 | New Quay Dyfed | D | 1.2 | 30% | 1.3 | 0% |
| 51 | Skidby East Riding of Yorkshire | D | 2.8 | 56% | 0.9 | 0% |
| 52 | Snitterfield Warwickshire | D | 2.4 | 63% | 0.8 | 0% |
| 53 | Northop Clwyd | D | 1.6 | 70% | 1.3 | 0% |
| 54 | Hevingham Norfolk | D | 1.8 | 0% | 2 | 0% |
| 55 | Waltham on the Wolds Leicestershire | D | 2 | 23% | 1.7 | 0% |
| 56 | Horsham St Faith Norfolk | D | 0.9 | 52% | 1.1 | 0% |
| 57 | Henham Essex | D | 0 | 0% | 3 | 0% |
| 58 | Methwold Norfolk | D− | 1.8 | 61% | 0.5 | 0% |
| 59 | Wainfleet St Mary Lincolnshire | D− | 0.1 | 0% | 1.5 | 0% |
| 60 | Ranby Nottinghamshire | D− | 0 | 0% | 0.8 | 0% |
The map
Parks, footpaths & countryside
Tap a number to zoom to a park. Tap a layer to hide it. The dashed line is Surfleet’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 Surfleet
The biggest is Glen Park, 4.4 ha (11 acres). Directions go to the park’s nearest public entrance where Ordnance Survey maps one.
Close to home
Few Surfleet 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 (0%)Further (100%)
Surfleet0%
Villages its size73%
Lincolnshire towns71%
All UK towns83%
About 1,000 people live further than that. Playing fields count, so a park within reach isn’t always one with paths or trees; 4 playgrounds are mapped in and around the village, about one for every 261 residents.
Footpaths & waymarked walks
1 waymarked walk passes through or near Surfleet
24 km of footpaths, bridleways and rights of way are mapped in Surfleet 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.
Regional
Macmillan Way8.8 km
The regional route here is the Macmillan Way.
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 Surfleet: 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) | 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 | 11 | 14 | 17 | 20 | 22 | 22 | 19 | 15 | 10 | 8 |
| Rain (mm) | 51 | 38 | 37 | 43 | 47 | 54 | 63 | 62 | 50 | 65 | 56 | 54 |
March is the driest month (37 mm) and July the warmest (highs of 22 °C). Winter days are short, about 8 hours of daylight in December, and 65 mm of rain falls in October, the wettest month. Frost comes on about 43 nights a year. The climate in Surfleet →
Things to do
4 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
Surfleet is inland. These are the nearest named beaches, measured from the edge of the village.
Snettisham Scalp23 mi from Surfleet’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
Nature reserves 1
Surfleet Lows3.6 ha · 0.1 mi from town
DirectionsPlaygrounds 4
Plus 4 playgrounds without a name on the map.
Campsites 1
WigWam Crowtree0.3 mi from town
DirectionsNext door
The outdoors in nearby towns
The nearest towns of 1,000+ within 12 miles. Tap a town for its outdoors page.
GosbertonPinchbeckMoultonSpaldingSuttertonWhaplodeSurfleet
ABCDOutdoors Grade
Sutterton, 4.3 miles away, grades C+, the best next door: every resident lives within 400 m of a park. None of the neighbours has a protected landscape within 5 km either.
Questions about the outdoors in Surfleet
What is the biggest park in Surfleet?
Glen Park, 4.4 ha (11 acres). 1 named park, garden or playing field is in the village or within 400 m of it.
Is Surfleet near a National Park?
No National Park or National Landscape is within 30 km (about 19 miles) of Surfleet.
What are the best walks near Surfleet?
1 waymarked walking route passes within 2 km of the village, including the Macmillan Way.
What is the nearest beach to Surfleet?
Snettisham Scalp, 23 mi from the edge of the village. Surfleet itself is inland.
How many people in Surfleet live near a park?
0% 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 Surfleet?
May to September: the longest days, the warmest afternoons and the least rain of the year, from the Met Office 1991–2020 averages.
Is Surfleet good for walking?
Paths are thinner than most towns: 1.8 km of footpath and right of way per square kilometre, more than 23% 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 Surfleet’s overall grade.
Sources
Where Surfleet’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.