Badersfield’s biggest
RAF Coltishall Memorial Gardens
Park or garden
0.4 ha (1 acres)
Centralin the middle of Badersfield
Directionsto the nearest entrance
Photo: David Pashley · CC BY-SA 2.0D−Outdoors Grade
Outdoors in Badersfield · parks, paths & countryside
Parks and walks in Badersfield
The Broads National Park begins 1.6 mi from the village’s edge. Parks and playing fields in Badersfield add up to 0.3 ha for every 1,000 residents; the typical UK town has 2.1. 9 km of footpaths run through the village and the kilometre around it, 1.0 for every square kilometre. Badersfield grades D− for the outdoors. A character grade: it isn’t part of the overall grade.
Green space
0.3 ha
per 1,000 residents
Typical UK town 2.1
Near a park
53%
of residents within 400 m
Typical UK town 83%
Footpaths
9 km
1.0 km per km², town + 1 km
Typical UK town 3.0 per km²
Protected landscape
2%
of the land within 5 km
Nearest: the Broads National Park
Character
What kind of outdoors village is Badersfield?
Read from the data: what stands out first, good and bad.
Countryside close byThe Broads National Park starts 1.6 mi south.Less park per person0.3 ha of parks and playing fields per 1,000 residents; the typical UK town has 2.1.
Badersfield’s strongest suit is the Broads National Park close by. Where it falls short is park space per person.
Outdoors grade
Badersfield grades D− for the outdoors
Each chart is every UK town of 1,000 or more on one measure: the green bar is Badersfield, 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 4% of UK towns
Public green space0.3 haper 1,000 residents: parks, gardens, playing fields, play spaces
2out of
100
100
A park within a walk53%of residents within 400 m (a 5-minute walk)
16out of
100
100
National Park or National Landscape2%of the land within 5 km
65out of
100
100
Footpaths1.0 kmper km², the town and 1 km around it
7out 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
How Badersfield compares with UK villages of 1,400 to 1,600
The 60 UK towns and cities of 1,400 to 1,600 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
Badersfield1.0
Villages its size1.9
Norfolk towns1.6
All UK towns3.0
Green space, ha per 1,000 residents
Badersfield0.3
Villages its size2.0
Norfolk towns1.8
All UK towns2.1
Residents within 400 m of a park
Badersfield53%
Villages its size85%
Norfolk towns73%
All UK towns83%
Badersfield falls furthest behind on park space per resident, where 57 of the 59 others do better.
Show as a table
| Town | Outdoors | Green space | Near a park | Path per km² | Protected | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Chambercombe Devon | A+ | 8.7 | 100% | 2.8 | 29% |
| 2 | Ashurst Wood West Sussex | A+ | 4 | 100% | 3.4 | 81% |
| 3 | Heathfield Devon | A+ | 20.4 | 100% | 3 | 30% |
| 4 | Charlton Down Dorset | A | 4 | 100% | 2.3 | 58% |
| 5 | Newburn Tyne and Wear | A | 12.1 | 100% | 4.3 | 0% |
| 6 | Gargrave North Yorkshire | A | 5.2 | 100% | 1.9 | 41% |
| 7 | Three Crosses West Glamorgan | A | 2.4 | 100% | 1.3 | 39% |
| 8 | Denham Buckinghamshire | A− | 5.7 | 100% | 3.1 | 0% |
| 9 | Knowle Hampshire | A− | 2 | 100% | 3.1 | 7% |
| 10 | Hale Cheshire | A− | 4.8 | 100% | 1.1 | 0% |
| 11 | Littleton Hampshire | A− | 7.8 | 100% | 1.1 | 10% |
| 12 | Twyford Hampshire | A− | 6.8 | 49% | 3.3 | 44% |
| 13 | Little Kingshill Buckinghamshire | A− | 6.5 | 50% | 2.9 | 90% |
| 14 | Holme Cumbria | A− | 2.8 | 100% | 1.8 | 25% |
| 15 | Great Bowden Leicestershire | B+ | 6.1 | 100% | 2.1 | 0% |
| 16 | Offenham Worcestershire | B+ | 2.4 | 100% | 3.1 | 0% |
| 17 | Horspath Oxfordshire | B | 14 | 54% | 5 | 0% |
| 18 | Hellifield North Yorkshire | B | 1.3 | 100% | 2.2 | 38% |
| 19 | Sturminster Marshall Dorset | B | 2 | 100% | 1.4 | 30% |
| 20 | Pont Rhyd-y-cyff Mid Glamorgan | B | 4.9 | 100% | 1.6 | 0% |
| 21 | Houghton Cumbria | B | 1.7 | 100% | 2.2 | 0% |
| 22 | Wingrave Buckinghamshire | B− | 3.7 | 100% | 1.7 | 0% |
| 23 | Kingstone Herefordshire | B− | 3.1 | 100% | 1.9 | 0% |
| 24 | Kibblesworth Tyne and Wear | B− | 2.5 | 100% | 2.1 | 0% |
| 25 | Netherne on-the-Hill Surrey | B− | 1.6 | 40% | 5.9 | 19% |
| 26 | Trinant Gwent | C+ | 2.5 | 100% | 1.5 | 0% |
| 27 | Nether Stowey Somerset | C+ | 1.9 | 18% | 3 | 39% |
| 28 | Killinghall North Yorkshire | C+ | 1 | 100% | 1.6 | 7% |
| 29 | Nether Heyford Northamptonshire | C+ | 1.4 | 100% | 2.3 | 0% |
| 30 | Bassingham Lincolnshire | C+ | 2.2 | 100% | 1.2 | 0% |
| 31 | Lavendon Buckinghamshire | C | 1.5 | 100% | 2 | 0% |
| 32 | Connor Downs Cornwall | C | 0.5 | 79% | 0.7 | 8% |
| 33 | Barton Lancashire | C | 2.6 | 47% | 2.1 | 0% |
| 34 | Newborough Cambridgeshire | C | 2.1 | 100% | 0.1 | 0% |
| 35 | Eythorne Kent | C | 0.5 | 79% | 2.5 | 9% |
| 36 | Horndon on the Hill Essex | C | 3.5 | 81% | 1.1 | 0% |
| 37 | Brabourne Lees Kent | C | 0.9 | 0% | 3.2 | 34% |
| 38 | Alveley Shropshire | C− | 5.4 | 51% | 1.6 | 0% |
| 39 | Warton Warwickshire | C− | 1.1 | 100% | 1.5 | 0% |
| 40 | Cogenhoe Northamptonshire | C− | 1.5 | 78% | 2.7 | 0% |
| 41 | Burniston North Yorkshire | C− | 0.1 | 0% | 0.9 | 49% |
| 42 | Hartwell Northamptonshire | C− | 1.2 | 59% | 3.9 | 0% |
| 43 | Silverton Devon | C− | 1 | 100% | 1.3 | 0% |
| 44 | Ruishton Somerset | C− | 0.6 | 60% | 2.7 | 4% |
| 45 | Denbury Devon | C− | 2.8 | 24% | 0.7 | 3% |
| 46 | Pontyberem Dyfed | C− | 4.7 | 58% | 0.4 | 0% |
| 47 | East Rainton Tyne and Wear | D | 1.4 | 34% | 3.4 | 0% |
| 48 | Hook East Riding of Yorkshire | D | 1.1 | 19% | 2.2 | 0% |
| 49 | North Somercotes Lincolnshire | D | 1.7 | 44% | 0.7 | 0% |
| 50 | Pontyates Dyfed | D | 4.6 | 39% | 0.7 | 0% |
| 51 | Cawood North Yorkshire | D | 1.9 | 60% | 2.1 | 0% |
| 52 | Copplestone Devon | D | 1.1 | 88% | 0.9 | 0% |
| 53 | Oakington Cambridgeshire | D | 2.1 | 52% | 1.6 | 0% |
| 54 | Stockton Warwickshire | D | 1.5 | 44% | 2.3 | 0% |
| 55 | Newton-with-Scales Lancashire | D | 1.4 | 76% | 1.3 | 0% |
| 56 | Four Crosses Powys | D− | 1.9 | 53% | 0.8 | 0% |
| 57 | Badersfield Norfolk | D− | 0.3 | 53% | 1 | 2% |
| 58 | Sturton by Stow Lincolnshire | D− | 1.7 | 41% | 1 | 0% |
| 59 | Tilney St Lawrence Norfolk | D− | 1.5 | 53% | 0.3 | 0% |
| 60 | Woodford Northamptonshire | D− | 0 | 0% | 1.5 | 0% |
The map
Parks, footpaths & countryside
Tap a number to zoom to a park. Tap a layer to hide it. The dashed line is Badersfield’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 Badersfield
The biggest is RAF Coltishall Memorial Gardens, 0.4 ha (1 acres). Directions go to the park’s nearest public entrance where Ordnance Survey maps one.
Close to home
5 in 10 Badersfield 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 (53%)Further (47%)
Badersfield53%
Villages its size85%
Norfolk towns73%
All UK towns83%
About 700 people live further than that. Playing fields count, so a park within reach isn’t always one with paths or trees.
National Parks & National Landscapes
The Broads National Park is 1.6 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
2% of the land within 5 km of Badersfield is National Park or National Landscape, more than 64% of UK towns. The Broads National Park covers 302 km² and has been a National Park since 1989.
Footpaths & waymarked walks
1 waymarked walk passes through or near Badersfield
9 km of footpaths, bridleways and rights of way are mapped in Badersfield and the kilometre around it, 1.0 km for every square kilometre (the typical UK town has 3.0). Bars show each route’s kilometres within 2 km of the village.
Local
Oxnead Circular3.2 km
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 Badersfield: 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 | 16.8 | 16.4 | 14.7 | 12.6 | 10.5 | 8.6 | 7.6 |
| High (°C) | 8 | 8 | 10 | 13 | 16 | 19 | 22 | 22 | 19 | 15 | 11 | 8 |
| Rain (mm) | 56 | 47 | 47 | 40 | 44 | 63 | 55 | 66 | 60 | 71 | 74 | 66 |
April is the driest month (40 mm) and August the warmest (highs of 22 °C). Winter days are short, about 8 hours of daylight in December, and 74 mm of rain falls in November, the wettest month. Frost comes on about 37 nights a year. The climate in Badersfield →
Things to do
2 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
Badersfield is inland. These are the nearest named beaches, measured from the edge of the village.
Corton Sands24 mi from Badersfield’s edge
DirectionsCorton Beach24 mi from Badersfield’s edge
DirectionsGunton Sands24 mi from Badersfield’s edge
DirectionsHolkham Naturist Beach27 mi from Badersfield’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 2
Plus 2 playgrounds without a name on the map.
Campsites 2
Goat Inn0.5 mi from town
DirectionsHautbois Residential & Activities Centre1.2 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.
Coltishall and HorsteadHevinghamAylshamHoveton and WroxhamNorth WalshamSpixworthBadersfield
ABCDOutdoors Grade
| Town | Outdoors | Green space, ha per 1,000 | Near a park | Protected within 5 km |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Badersfield | D− | 0.3 | 53% | 2% |
| Coltishall and Horstead 2.3 mi | C− | 2.1 | 57% | 8% |
| Hevingham 3.8 mi | D | 1.8 | 0% | 0% |
| Aylsham 4.4 mi | C | 2.6 | 74% | 0% |
| Hoveton and Wroxham 4.6 mi | D | 1.4 | 65% | 18% |
| North Walsham 4.6 mi | C− | 1.3 | 69% | 10% |
| Spixworth 5.2 mi | D | 0.6 | 59% | 5% |
Aylsham, 4.4 miles away, grades C, the best next door: 74% of its residents live within 400 m of a park. Coltishall and Horstead, Hevingham and Aylsham have at least twice Badersfield’s green space per resident.
Questions about the outdoors in Badersfield
What is the biggest park in Badersfield?
RAF Coltishall Memorial Gardens, 0.4 ha (1 acres). 1 named park, garden or playing field is in the village or within 400 m of it.
Is Badersfield near a National Park?
Yes. the Broads National Park begins 1.6 mi south of the village’s edge. It covers 302 km² and has been a National Park since 1989.
What are the best walks near Badersfield?
1 waymarked walking route passes within 2 km of the village, including the Oxnead Circular.
What is the nearest beach to Badersfield?
Corton Sands, 24 mi from the edge of the village, then Corton Beach (24 mi). Badersfield itself is inland.
How many people in Badersfield live near a park?
53% 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 Badersfield?
May to September: the longest days, the warmest afternoons and the least rain of the year, from the Met Office 1991–2020 averages.
Is Badersfield good for walking?
Paths are thinner than most towns: 1.0 km of footpath and right of way per square kilometre, more than 7% of UK towns. For park space per person it beats 2% (0.3 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 Badersfield’s overall grade.
Sources
Where Badersfield’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.