Sutton Bridge’s biggest
Memorial Park
Playing field
3.0 ha (7 acres)
4 pitchesfootball pitches would fit
Centralin the middle of Sutton Bridge
Directionsto the nearest entrance
Photo: Hugh Venables · CC BY-SA 2.0DOutdoors Grade
Outdoors in Sutton Bridge · parks, paths & countryside
79% of Sutton Bridge’s residents live within a 5-minute walk of a park
Footpaths add up to 11 km in the town and the kilometre around it, 0.8 for every square kilometre. Parks and playing fields in Sutton Bridge add up to 1.3 ha for every 1,000 residents; the typical UK town has 2.1. Sutton Bridge grades D for the outdoors: #55 of 61 in Lincolnshire. A character grade: it isn’t part of the overall grade.
Green space
1.3 ha
per 1,000 residents
Typical UK town 2.1
Near a park
79%
of residents within 400 m
Typical UK town 83%
Footpaths
11 km
0.8 km per km², town + 1 km
Typical UK town 3.0 per km²
Protected landscape
0%
of the land within 5 km
Nearest: Norfolk Coast National Landscape
Character
What kind of outdoors town is Sutton Bridge?
Read from the data: what stands out first, good and bad.
On a National TrailThe King Charles III England Coast Path passes through.Few mapped footpaths0.8 km of path per km²; the typical UK town has 3.0.
Sutton Bridge’s strongest suit is the King Charles III England Coast Path. Where it falls short is footpaths.
Outdoors grade
Sutton Bridge grades D for the outdoors
Each chart is every UK town of 1,000 or more on one measure: the green bar is Sutton Bridge, 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 7% of UK towns#55 of 61 in Lincolnshire
Public green space1.3 haper 1,000 residents: parks, gardens, playing fields, play spaces
22out of
100
100
A park within a walk79%of residents within 400 m (a 5-minute walk)
45out of
100
100
National Park or National Landscape0%of the land within 5 km · None within 5 km
31out of
100
100
Footpaths0.8 kmper km², the town and 1 km around it
4out of
100
100
The sea0%of the area within 5 km · Inland: 1% sea, under the 5% that counts
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 Sutton Bridge compares with UK towns of 3,800 to 4,100
The 60 UK towns and cities of 3,800 to 4,100 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
Sutton Bridge0.8
Towns its size2.5
Lincolnshire towns1.3
All UK towns3.0
Green space, ha per 1,000 residents
Sutton Bridge1.3
Towns its size2.0
Lincolnshire towns1.6
All UK towns2.1
Residents within 400 m of a park
Sutton Bridge79%
Towns its size83%
Lincolnshire towns71%
All UK towns83%
Sutton Bridge falls furthest behind on path per km², where 57 of the 59 others do better.
Show as a table
| Town | Outdoors | Green space | Near a park | Path per km² | Protected | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Darley Dale Derbyshire | A+ | 3.8 | 100% | 3.4 | 51% |
| 2 | Batheaston Somerset | A | 3 | 84% | 4.6 | 71% |
| 3 | Cranbrook Kent | A | 5.8 | 82% | 2.9 | 65% |
| 4 | Chickerell Dorset | A | 1.5 | 88% | 3 | 27% |
| 5 | Walter's Ash and Naphill Buckinghamshire | A | 3.7 | 50% | 5.3 | 79% |
| 6 | Holt Norfolk | A | 8.5 | 84% | 2.4 | 40% |
| 7 | Old Sarum Wiltshire | A | 4.6 | 100% | 3.7 | 0% |
| 8 | Disley Cheshire | A− | 1.2 | 100% | 4.6 | 22% |
| 9 | Bowerhill Wiltshire | A− | 7.4 | 100% | 3 | 0% |
| 10 | Mulbarton Norfolk | A− | 7 | 100% | 3 | 0% |
| 11 | Welwyn Hertfordshire | A− | 2.6 | 100% | 4 | 0% |
| 12 | Esh Winning County Durham | A− | 3.2 | 100% | 3.5 | 0% |
| 13 | Old Basing Hampshire | A− | 13.6 | 92% | 3.1 | 0% |
| 14 | Colden Common Hampshire | B+ | 2.7 | 82% | 2.8 | 35% |
| 15 | Barnt Green Worcestershire | B+ | 37.8 | 81% | 3.7 | 0% |
| 16 | Carbis Bay Cornwall | B+ | 0.5 | 88% | 2.8 | 20% |
| 17 | Long Melford Suffolk | B+ | 6.9 | 87% | 3.3 | 0% |
| 18 | Papworth Everard Cambridgeshire | B+ | 4.3 | 100% | 2.5 | 0% |
| 19 | Chirk Clwyd | B+ | 1.8 | 100% | 2.3 | 15% |
| 20 | Locking Somerset | B+ | 2.7 | 84% | 2.4 | 23% |
| 21 | Greasbrough South Yorkshire | B | 2.9 | 80% | 4.7 | 0% |
| 22 | Queenborough Kent | B | 1.6 | 100% | 2 | 0% |
| 23 | Tangmere West Sussex | B | 2.1 | 100% | 1.2 | 36% |
| 24 | Stoke Poges Buckinghamshire | B | 7.7 | 76% | 3.3 | 0% |
| 25 | Romanby North Yorkshire | B | 3.1 | 100% | 2.3 | 0% |
| 26 | Mytholmroyd West Yorkshire | B | 1.8 | 88% | 5.8 | 0% |
| 27 | Framlingham Suffolk | B | 3.7 | 73% | 4.2 | 0% |
| 28 | Pirbright Surrey | B | 2 | 84% | 5.7 | 0% |
| 29 | Calverley West Yorkshire | B | 1.5 | 92% | 6 | 0% |
| 30 | Glanaman Dyfed | B− | 3.3 | 83% | 0.8 | 29% |
| 31 | South Cerney Gloucestershire | B− | 2.5 | 77% | 2.4 | 7% |
| 32 | Alford Lincolnshire | B− | 2.1 | 85% | 1.5 | 26% |
| 33 | Lower Stondon Bedfordshire | B− | 2.7 | 73% | 2.2 | 5% |
| 34 | New Romney Kent | C+ | 2.5 | 79% | 1.6 | 0% |
| 35 | Chipping Ongar Essex | C+ | 2.5 | 83% | 2.9 | 0% |
| 36 | Bar Hill Cambridgeshire | C+ | 1.4 | 93% | 3.5 | 0% |
| 37 | Heacham Norfolk | C+ | 1.5 | 53% | 1.1 | 29% |
| 38 | Forest Row East Sussex | C+ | 0.3 | 51% | 3.4 | 94% |
| 39 | Shirland and Stonebroom Derbyshire | C | 3.7 | 43% | 3 | 0% |
| 40 | Silver End Essex | C | 2 | 88% | 2.1 | 0% |
| 41 | Cubbington Warwickshire | C | 1.5 | 100% | 1.7 | 0% |
| 42 | Tenbury Wells Worcestershire | C | 2.3 | 51% | 2.1 | 3% |
| 43 | Oaklands Hertfordshire | C | 2 | 7% | 4.3 | 0% |
| 44 | Bromyard Herefordshire | C | 0.9 | 100% | 2.1 | 0% |
| 45 | Whiston South Yorkshire | C− | 1 | 75% | 3.8 | 0% |
| 46 | Desford Leicestershire | C− | 1.6 | 90% | 2 | 0% |
| 47 | Holton le Clay Lincolnshire | C− | 2 | 59% | 1.4 | 8% |
| 48 | Lydd Kent | C− | 1.7 | 66% | 0.9 | 0% |
| 49 | Kingston Bagpuize Oxfordshire | C− | 0.8 | 100% | 1.3 | 0% |
| 50 | Swanland East Riding of Yorkshire | C− | 1.1 | 75% | 0.3 | 0% |
| 51 | Sutton Cambridgeshire | D | 1.9 | 82% | 1.1 | 0% |
| 52 | Glyn-neath West Glamorgan | D | 1.3 | 57% | 1.1 | 22% |
| 53 | Crowle Lincolnshire | D | 1.3 | 91% | 1 | 0% |
| 54 | Puckeridge and Standon Hertfordshire | D | 0.9 | 59% | 3.2 | 0% |
| 55 | Sutton Bridge Lincolnshire | D | 1.3 | 79% | 0.8 | 0% |
| 56 | North Ferriby East Riding of Yorkshire | D | 0.6 | 33% | 1 | 0% |
| 57 | Willingham Cambridgeshire | D | 1.4 | 73% | 0.8 | 0% |
| 58 | Long Buckby Northamptonshire | D− | 0.6 | 52% | 1.9 | 0% |
| 59 | Penyffordd Clwyd | D− | 0.7 | 36% | 1.6 | 0% |
| 60 | Indian Queens, Fraddon and St Columb Road Cornwall | D− | 0.7 | 27% | 1.6 | 0% |
The map
Parks, footpaths & countryside
Tap a number to zoom to a park. Tap a layer to hide it. The dashed line is Sutton Bridge’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 Sutton Bridge
The biggest is Memorial Park, 3.0 ha (7 acres). Directions go to the park’s nearest public entrance where Ordnance Survey maps one.
Princes Street Playing Field
Playing field
0.9 ha (2 acres)
Centralin the middle of Sutton Bridge
Directionsto the nearest entrance
Close to home
How close Sutton Bridge’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).
Within 400 m (79%)Further (21%)
Sutton Bridge79%
Towns its size83%
Lincolnshire towns71%
All UK towns83%
About 800 people live further than that. Playing fields count, so a park within reach isn’t always one with paths or trees; 3 playgrounds are mapped in and around the town, about one for every 1,304 residents.
National Parks & National Landscapes
The Norfolk Coast National Landscape is 6.8 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
Sutton Bridge is on the King Charles III England Coast Path
11 km of footpaths, bridleways and rights of way are mapped in Sutton Bridge and the kilometre around it, 0.8 km for every square kilometre (the typical UK town has 3.0). Bars show each route’s kilometres within 2 km of the town.
NationalRegional
Nene Way6.9 km
King Charles III England Coast Path: Hunstanton to Sutton Bridge3.6 km
King Charles III England Coast Path: Sutton Bridge to Skegness3.6 km
The King Charles III England Coast Path, a national route, passes Sutton Bridge. The regional route here is the Nene 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 Sutton Bridge: 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 | 15 | 11 | 8 |
| Rain (mm) | 52 | 38 | 37 | 41 | 48 | 57 | 56 | 61 | 52 | 61 | 57 | 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 61 mm of rain falls in October, the wettest month. Frost comes on about 38 nights a year. The climate in Sutton Bridge →
Things to do
3 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
Sutton Bridge is inland. These are the nearest named beaches, measured from the edge of the town.
Snettisham Scalp12 mi from Sutton Bridge’s edge
DirectionsWest Sands20 mi from Sutton Bridge’s edge
DirectionsHolkham Naturist Beach28 mi from Sutton Bridge’s edge
DirectionsThe Beach31 mi from Sutton Bridge’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
Playgrounds 3
Plus 3 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.
Long SuttonWalpole St Peter and Walpole St AndrewTerrington St ClementSutton St JamesFleet HargateTilney St LawrenceSutton Bridge
ABCDOutdoors Grade
| Town | Outdoors | Green space, ha per 1,000 | Near a park | Protected within 5 km |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sutton Bridge | D | 1.3 | 79% | 0% |
| Long Sutton 2.9 mi | D | 2.2 | 81% | 0% |
| Walpole St Peter and Walpole St Andrew 3.3 mi | D− | 1.7 | 52% | 0% |
| Terrington St Clement 4.7 mi | D | 1.5 | 53% | 0% |
| Sutton St James 5.3 mi | D | 0.1 | 100% | 0% |
| Fleet Hargate 5.5 mi | D | 1.7 | 76% | 0% |
| Tilney St Lawrence 6.2 mi | D− | 1.5 | 53% | 0% |
Long Sutton, 2.9 miles away, grades D, the best next door: 81% of its residents live within 400 m of a park. None of the neighbours has a protected landscape within 5 km either.
Questions about the outdoors in Sutton Bridge
What is the biggest park in Sutton Bridge?
Memorial Park, 3.0 ha (7 acres). Princes Street Playing Field (0.9 ha) is second. 2 named parks, gardens and playing fields are in the town or within 400 m of it.
Is Sutton Bridge near a National Park?
The nearest protected landscape is the Norfolk Coast National Landscape, 6.8 mi east of the town’s edge. It covers 446 km² and was designated in 1968.
What are the best walks near Sutton Bridge?
3 waymarked walking routes pass within 2 km of the town, including the Nene Way, King Charles III England Coast Path: Hunstanton to Sutton Bridge and King Charles III England Coast Path: Sutton Bridge to Skegness.
What is the nearest beach to Sutton Bridge?
Snettisham Scalp, 12 mi from the edge of the town, then West Sands (20 mi). Sutton Bridge itself is inland.
How many people in Sutton Bridge live near a park?
79% 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 Sutton Bridge?
May to September: the longest days, the warmest afternoons and the least rain of the year, from the Met Office 1991–2020 averages.
Is Sutton Bridge good for walking?
Paths are thinner than most towns: 0.8 km of footpath and right of way per square kilometre, more than 4% of UK towns. For park space per person it beats 22% (1.3 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 Sutton Bridge’s overall grade.
Sources
Where Sutton Bridge’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.