Photo: Michael Garlick · CC BY-SA 2.0Parks and walks in Whaplode
2 km of footpaths run through the village and the kilometre around it, 0.2 for every square kilometre. Parks and playing fields in Whaplode add up to 0.4 ha for every 1,000 residents; the typical UK town has 2.1. No park or playing field is mapped within a 5-minute walk of homes in Whaplode. Whaplode grades D− for the outdoors. A character grade: it isn’t part of the overall grade.
Whaplode grades D− for the outdoors
Each chart is every UK town of 1,000 or more on one measure: the green bar is Whaplode, 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.
How Whaplode compares with UK villages of 1,000 to 1,200
The 60 UK towns and cities of 1,000 to 1,200 people with an Outdoors Grade. Hover a dot for its figures; tap one for its page.
Whaplode falls furthest behind on homes near a park, where 52 of the 59 others do better.
Show as a table
| Town | Outdoors | Green space | Near a park | Path per km² | Protected | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Illogan Cornwall | A+ | 3 | 100% | 3.2 | 7% |
| 2 | Polgooth Cornwall | A+ | 7 | 100% | 2 | 13% |
| 3 | Fairlands Surrey | A+ | 2.8 | 100% | 5 | 11% |
| 4 | Chagford Devon | A+ | 4.7 | 100% | 2.5 | 98% |
| 5 | Masham North Yorkshire | A+ | 3.7 | 100% | 3 | 44% |
| 6 | Tolvaddon Cornwall | A | 11.9 | 24% | 4.5 | 9% |
| 7 | Ditchling East Sussex | A | 7.4 | 77% | 4 | 57% |
| 8 | Leigh Kent | A | 3 | 100% | 2.6 | 49% |
| 9 | Moston Cheshire | A | 7.8 | 100% | 3.8 | 0% |
| 10 | Charnock Richard Lancashire | A | 29.8 | 100% | 3.3 | 0% |
| 11 | Barns Green West Sussex | A | 6.6 | 100% | 3.5 | 0% |
| 12 | Horsted Keynes West Sussex | A− | 2.2 | 100% | 2.3 | 83% |
| 13 | Mayfield Staffordshire | A− | 1.9 | 100% | 3.3 | 14% |
| 14 | Boosbeck North Yorkshire | A− | 2.9 | 100% | 1.9 | 22% |
| 15 | Grange Moor West Yorkshire | A− | 4.3 | 100% | 2.8 | 0% |
| 16 | Llanddulas Clwyd | B+ | 1.7 | 100% | 2.4 | 0% |
| 17 | North Thoresby Lincolnshire | B+ | 3.7 | 100% | 0.8 | 21% |
| 18 | Bethel Gwynedd | B+ | 1.6 | 100% | 1.4 | 10% |
| 19 | Grassington North Yorkshire | B+ | 1.3 | 79% | 4.1 | 100% |
| 20 | South Bents Tyne and Wear | B+ | 4.9 | 62% | 2.6 | 0% |
| 21 | Borth Dyfed | B | 3.1 | 74% | 1.2 | 0% |
| 22 | Upperthong West Yorkshire | B | 1.7 | 65% | 4.7 | 26% |
| 23 | Cropston Leicestershire | B | 3.1 | 100% | 2.2 | 0% |
| 24 | Barwick and Stoford Somerset | B | 6.4 | 71% | 2.2 | 5% |
| 25 | Jacobs Well Surrey | B | 1.4 | 77% | 4.7 | 8% |
| 26 | Milborne St Andrew Dorset | B | 3.3 | 71% | 2.1 | 33% |
| 27 | Bedlinog Mid Glamorgan | B | 4.1 | 100% | 1.6 | 0% |
| 28 | Goudhurst Kent | B | 1.5 | 100% | 1.2 | 65% |
| 29 | Challock Kent | B− | 3 | 62% | 2 | 88% |
| 30 | Shipham Somerset | B− | 1.2 | 63% | 4 | 55% |
| 31 | Harpur Hill Derbyshire | B− | 3.1 | 31% | 2.3 | 60% |
| 32 | Roydon (South Norfolk) Norfolk | B− | 4.3 | 50% | 4 | 0% |
| 33 | Beaumaris Gwynedd | B− | 2.7 | 30% | 0.8 | 18% |
| 34 | Beeford East Riding of Yorkshire | C+ | 3.9 | 100% | 0.4 | 0% |
| 35 | Easton on the Hill Northamptonshire | C+ | 2.5 | 100% | 1.7 | 0% |
| 36 | Castlethorpe Buckinghamshire | C+ | 3.5 | 72% | 2.9 | 0% |
| 37 | Whimple Devon | C+ | 5.2 | 70% | 0.9 | 1% |
| 38 | Brinklow Warwickshire | C+ | 1.7 | 100% | 2 | 0% |
| 39 | Ashchurch Gloucestershire | C | 2 | 59% | 2.2 | 21% |
| 40 | Bow Street Dyfed | C | 3.1 | 33% | 1.6 | 0% |
| 41 | Woodhouses Greater Manchester | C | 2.6 | 40% | 3.5 | 0% |
| 42 | Bow Devon | C | 1.9 | 100% | 1.1 | 0% |
| 43 | Baldwin's Gate Staffordshire | C− | 1.3 | 100% | 1.5 | 0% |
| 44 | Glazebury Cheshire | C− | 5.1 | 58% | 1.5 | 0% |
| 45 | Milverton Somerset | C− | 2.1 | 70% | 2.4 | 0% |
| 46 | Beachley Gloucestershire | C− | 0.3 | 0% | 1.2 | 14% |
| 47 | Bildeston Suffolk | C− | 0.5 | 100% | 1.3 | 0% |
| 48 | Farmborough Somerset | C− | 2 | 38% | 2.6 | 0% |
| 49 | Cawston Norfolk | D | 2.7 | 71% | 0.8 | 0% |
| 50 | Broad Oak (Wealden) East Sussex | D | 0.1 | 0% | 1.4 | 96% |
| 51 | Wattstown Mid Glamorgan | D | 3.1 | 26% | 0.8 | 0% |
| 52 | Landrake Cornwall | D | 0.9 | 0% | 0.6 | 38% |
| 53 | Reawla Cornwall | D | 0.2 | 0% | 2 | 3% |
| 54 | Stickney Lincolnshire | D | 2.4 | 0% | 1 | 0% |
| 55 | Berryfield Wiltshire | D− | 0.4 | 53% | 2.1 | 0% |
| 56 | Pilton Somerset | D− | 1.2 | 28% | 1.9 | 0% |
| 57 | Moulton Chapel Lincolnshire | D− | 1.5 | 60% | 0 | 0% |
| 58 | Llanfyllin Powys | D− | 0 | 0% | 1.6 | 0% |
| 59 | Great Horwood Buckinghamshire | D− | 0.8 | 0% | 1 | 0% |
| 60 | Whaplode Lincolnshire | D− | 0.4 | 0% | 0.2 | 0% |
Parks, footpaths & countryside
Tap a number to zoom to a park. Tap a layer to hide it. The dashed line is Whaplode’s built-up area.
Few Whaplode 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).
About 1,100 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 277 residents.
The Norfolk Coast National Landscape is 16 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.
1 waymarked walk passes through or near Whaplode
2 km of footpaths, bridleways and rights of way are mapped in Whaplode and the kilometre around it, 0.2 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 Greenwich Meridian Trail.
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 Whaplode: 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 | |
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| 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) | 49 | 38 | 37 | 44 | 49 | 64 | 61 | 65 | 52 | 66 | 56 | 55 |
March is the driest month (37 mm) and August 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 43 nights a year. The climate in Whaplode →
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
Whaplode is inland. These are the nearest named beaches, measured from the edge of the village.
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 4
Plus 4 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.
| Town | Outdoors | Green space, ha per 1,000 | Near a park | Protected within 5 km |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Whaplode | D− | 0.4 | 0% | 0% |
| Moulton 1.4 mi | D | 1.9 | 75% | 0% |
| Holbeach 2.0 mi | D | 1.0 | 91% | 0% |
| Fleet Hargate 4.0 mi | D | 1.7 | 76% | 0% |
| Moulton Chapel 4.3 mi | D− | 1.5 | 60% | 0% |
| Surfleet 5.0 mi | C− | 4.2 | 0% | 0% |
| Spalding 5.3 mi | D | 1.1 | 85% | 0% |
Surfleet, 5 miles away, grades C−, the best next door: 0% of its residents live within 400 m of a park. Moulton, Holbeach and Fleet Hargate have at least twice Whaplode’s green space per resident. None of the neighbours has a protected landscape within 5 km either.
Questions about the outdoors in Whaplode
Is Whaplode near a National Park?
The nearest protected landscape is the Norfolk Coast National Landscape, 16 mi east of the village’s edge. It covers 446 km² and was designated in 1968.
What are the best walks near Whaplode?
1 waymarked walking route passes within 2 km of the village, including the Greenwich Meridian Trail.
What is the nearest beach to Whaplode?
Snettisham Scalp, 20 mi from the edge of the village, then West Sands (27 mi). Whaplode itself is inland.
How many people in Whaplode 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 Whaplode?
May to September: the longest days, the warmest afternoons and the least rain of the year, from the Met Office 1991–2020 averages.
Is Whaplode good for walking?
Paths are thinner than most towns: 0.2 km of footpath and right of way per square kilometre, more than 0% of UK towns. For park space per person it beats 4% (0.4 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 Whaplode’s overall grade.
Where Whaplode’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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