Mattishall’s biggest
South Green
Park or garden
2.6 ha (6 acres)
4 pitchesfootball pitches would fit
0.6 mi south-eastfrom the centre
Directionsto the nearest entrance
Photo: Michael Garlick · CC BY-SA 2.0D−Outdoors Grade
Outdoors in Mattishall · parks, paths & countryside
Parks and walks in Mattishall
23 km of footpaths run through the village and the kilometre around it, 1.5 for every square kilometre. A park or playing field is within a 5-minute walk for 58% of residents. Parks and playing fields in Mattishall add up to 1.4 ha for every 1,000 residents; the typical UK town has 2.1. Mattishall grades D− for the outdoors. A character grade: it isn’t part of the overall grade.
Green space
1.4 ha
per 1,000 residents
Typical UK town 2.1
Near a park
58%
of residents within 400 m
Typical UK town 83%
Footpaths
23 km
1.5 km per km², town + 1 km
Typical UK town 3.0 per km²
Protected landscape
0%
of the land within 5 km
Nearest: the Broads National Park
Outdoors grade
Mattishall grades D− for the outdoors
Each chart is every UK town of 1,000 or more on one measure: the green bar is Mattishall, 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 towns53rd of 60 UK villages its size
Public green space1.4 haper 1,000 residents: parks, gardens, playing fields, play spaces
23out of
100
100
A park within a walk58%of residents within 400 m (a 5-minute walk)
19out of
100
100
National Park or National Landscape0%of the land within 5 km · None within 5 km
31out of
100
100
Footpaths1.5 kmper km², the town and 1 km around it
16out 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
Mattishall is 53rd of 60 UK villages its size for the outdoors
The 60 UK towns and cities of 2,100 to 2,300 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
Mattishall1.5
Villages its size2.2
Norfolk towns1.6
All UK towns3.0
Green space, ha per 1,000 residents
Mattishall1.4
Villages its size2.0
Norfolk towns1.8
All UK towns2.1
Residents within 400 m of a park
Mattishall58%
Villages its size74%
Norfolk towns73%
All UK towns83%
Mattishall falls furthest behind on park space per resident, where 42 of the 59 others do better.
Show as a table
| Town | Outdoors | Green space | Near a park | Path per km² | Protected | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Broughton Buckinghamshire | A+ | 8 | 100% | 6.5 | 0% |
| 2 | Brockham Surrey | A+ | 7.4 | 94% | 4.4 | 38% |
| 3 | Deepcut Surrey | A | 8.4 | 100% | 6.8 | 0% |
| 4 | Tanyfron Clwyd | A | 7.4 | 100% | 2.6 | 13% |
| 5 | Berry Hill Gloucestershire | A | 2.9 | 79% | 4.7 | 55% |
| 6 | Hapton Lancashire | A | 2.6 | 87% | 6.1 | 2% |
| 7 | Severn Beach Gloucestershire | A− | 5.8 | 100% | 1.5 | 0% |
| 8 | Great Horkesley Essex | A− | 4.7 | 78% | 3.3 | 25% |
| 9 | Arnside Cumbria | A− | 1.3 | 65% | 4.1 | 75% |
| 10 | Smalley Derbyshire | A− | 2.9 | 100% | 4.1 | 0% |
| 11 | Streethay Staffordshire | A− | 10.1 | 100% | 2.6 | 0% |
| 12 | Merlin's Bridge Dyfed | A− | 3.3 | 100% | 2 | 11% |
| 13 | Gilwern Gwent | A− | 1.9 | 100% | 2 | 83% |
| 14 | Newstead Nottinghamshire | B+ | 2.6 | 100% | 3.7 | 0% |
| 15 | Woodcote Oxfordshire | B+ | 1.6 | 84% | 3.5 | 99% |
| 16 | Charing Kent | B+ | 2.7 | 85% | 2.1 | 56% |
| 17 | Brimscombe and Thrupp Gloucestershire | B+ | 2.1 | 12% | 5.9 | 89% |
| 18 | Sharlston West Yorkshire | B+ | 4.9 | 93% | 3 | 0% |
| 19 | Gamston (Rushcliffe) Nottinghamshire | B+ | 2.7 | 86% | 4.7 | 0% |
| 20 | Woodford Greater Manchester | B+ | 5.9 | 80% | 2.3 | 5% |
| 21 | Banwell Somerset | B+ | 1.7 | 100% | 2 | 38% |
| 22 | Steventon Oxfordshire | B+ | 2 | 100% | 2 | 17% |
| 23 | Longtown Cumbria | B | 4.3 | 100% | 0.1 | 0% |
| 24 | Trowell Nottinghamshire | B | 7.7 | 56% | 4.5 | 0% |
| 25 | Evercreech Somerset | B | 3.5 | 100% | 2 | 0% |
| 26 | Rayne Essex | B− | 4.3 | 64% | 4 | 0% |
| 27 | Lechlade-on-Thames Gloucestershire | B− | 6.7 | 66% | 1.5 | 6% |
| 28 | Swanton Morley Norfolk | C+ | 3.5 | 94% | 1.6 | 0% |
| 29 | Hermitage Berkshire | C+ | 0.6 | 58% | 3.4 | 82% |
| 30 | Hook Norton Oxfordshire | C+ | 2 | 70% | 2 | 28% |
| 31 | Huncote Leicestershire | C+ | 0.8 | 100% | 2.9 | 0% |
| 32 | Farndon Cheshire | C+ | 1.2 | 82% | 4.2 | 0% |
| 33 | East Bergholt Suffolk | C | 1.9 | 26% | 2.4 | 46% |
| 34 | Trimsaran Dyfed | C | 2.4 | 31% | 1 | 2% |
| 35 | Wickham Market Suffolk | C | 2.5 | 64% | 1.7 | 7% |
| 36 | Mitcheldean Gloucestershire | C | 1.5 | 80% | 1.9 | 1% |
| 37 | Llanidloes Powys | C | 2.4 | 89% | 1.3 | 0% |
| 38 | Barwick in Elmet West Yorkshire | C | 1.5 | 87% | 2.5 | 0% |
| 39 | Eye Suffolk | C | 2 | 66% | 3 | 0% |
| 40 | Aspatria Cumbria | C− | 3.1 | 60% | 0.8 | 1% |
| 41 | Great Blakenham Suffolk | C− | 3.6 | 70% | 1.5 | 0% |
| 42 | Stoke Prior Worcestershire | C− | 2.6 | 67% | 2.2 | 0% |
| 43 | Coleford Somerset | C− | 1.2 | 51% | 4.5 | 0% |
| 44 | Meriden West Midlands | C− | 1.8 | 70% | 2.6 | 0% |
| 45 | Woldingham Surrey | C− | 0.2 | 25% | 3.1 | 20% |
| 46 | Lanner Cornwall | C− | 1.3 | 65% | 3.6 | 0% |
| 47 | Hatfield Woodhouse South Yorkshire | C− | 0.6 | 100% | 1.6 | 0% |
| 48 | Duxford Cambridgeshire | D | 1.7 | 78% | 1.2 | 0% |
| 49 | Wickham Hampshire | D | 0.8 | 26% | 2 | 13% |
| 50 | Morton Lincolnshire | D | 0.2 | 28% | 3 | 0% |
| 51 | Kineton Warwickshire | D | 0.2 | 0% | 1.8 | 5% |
| 52 | Leconfield East Riding of Yorkshire | D− | 1.6 | 51% | 1.3 | 0% |
| 53 | Mattishall Norfolk | D− | 1.4 | 58% | 1.5 | 0% |
| 54 | Bettws Mid Glamorgan | D− | 0.7 | 71% | 1.6 | 0% |
| 55 | Misterton Nottinghamshire | D− | 1.4 | 47% | 1.7 | 0% |
| 56 | Billinghay Lincolnshire | D− | 1.8 | 41% | 0.7 | 0% |
| 57 | Bozeat Northamptonshire | D− | 1.3 | 13% | 1.3 | 0% |
| 58 | Shenstone Staffordshire | D− | 1 | 55% | 1 | 0% |
| 59 | Cilfrew West Glamorgan | D− | 0.8 | 44% | 1.3 | 0% |
| 60 | Aslockton Nottinghamshire | D− | 1 | 11% | 1.4 | 0% |
The map
Parks, footpaths & countryside
Tap a number to zoom to a park. Tap a layer to hide it. The dashed line is Mattishall’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 Mattishall
The biggest is South Green, 2.6 ha (6 acres). Directions go to the park’s nearest public entrance where Ordnance Survey maps one.
Mattishall Playing Field
Playing field
2.1 ha (5 acres)
3 pitchesfootball pitches would fit
0.6 mi south-eastfrom the centre
Directionsto the nearest entrance
Old School Green
Park or garden
0.1 ha (0 acres)
Centralin the middle of Mattishall
Directionsto the nearest entrance
Close to home
6 in 10 Mattishall 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 (58%)Further (42%)
Mattishall58%
Villages its size74%
Norfolk towns73%
All UK towns83%
About 900 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 10 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
The Broads National Park covers 302 km² and has been a National Park since 1989.
Footpaths & waymarked walks
Footpaths in and around Mattishall
23 km of footpaths, bridleways and rights of way are mapped in Mattishall and the kilometre around it, 1.5 km for every square kilometre (the typical UK town has 3.0).
No named walking route is mapped within 2 km of Mattishall; its footpaths are on the map above.
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 Mattishall: 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 | 15.7 | 16.8 | 16.4 | 14.7 | 12.6 | 10.5 | 8.6 | 7.6 |
| High (°C) | 7 | 8 | 11 | 14 | 17 | 20 | 23 | 23 | 19 | 15 | 10 | 7 |
| Rain (mm) | 64 | 51 | 49 | 43 | 49 | 65 | 62 | 72 | 60 | 72 | 74 | 69 |
April is the driest month (43 mm) and July the warmest (highs of 23 °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 41 nights a year. The climate in Mattishall →
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
Mattishall is inland. These are the nearest named beaches, measured from the edge of the village.
Holkham Naturist Beach23 mi from Mattishall’s edge
DirectionsThe Beach24 mi from Mattishall’s edge
DirectionsSnettisham Scalp27 mi from Mattishall’s edge
DirectionsWest Sands29 mi from Mattishall’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
Picnic sites 2
Plus 2 picnic sites without a name on the map.
Playgrounds 2
Plus 2 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.
DerehamSwanton MorleyEastonHinghamShipdhamQueen's HillsMattishall
ABCDOutdoors Grade
| Town | Outdoors | Green space, ha per 1,000 | Near a park | Protected within 5 km |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mattishall | D− | 1.4 | 58% | 0% |
| Dereham 3.8 mi | B− | 1.8 | 90% | 0% |
| Swanton Morley 4.3 mi | C+ | 3.5 | 94% | 0% |
| Easton 5.6 mi | D− | 1.0 | 0% | 0% |
| Hingham 5.7 mi | D− | 1.9 | 13% | 0% |
| Shipdham 5.8 mi | D− | 1.0 | 59% | 0% |
| Queen's Hills 6.5 mi | C | 0.4 | 100% | 0% |
Dereham, 3.8 miles away, grades B−, the best next door: 90% of its residents live within 400 m of a park. Swanton Morley has at least twice Mattishall’s green space per resident. None of the neighbours has a protected landscape within 5 km either.
Questions about the outdoors in Mattishall
What is the biggest park in Mattishall?
South Green, 2.6 ha (6 acres). Mattishall Playing Field (2.1 ha) is second. 3 named parks, gardens and playing fields are in the village or within 400 m of it.
Is Mattishall near a National Park?
Yes. the Broads National Park begins 10 mi east of the village’s edge. It covers 302 km² and has been a National Park since 1989.
What is the nearest beach to Mattishall?
Holkham Naturist Beach, 23 mi from the edge of the village, then The Beach (24 mi). Mattishall itself is inland.
How many people in Mattishall live near a park?
58% 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 Mattishall?
May to September: the longest days, the warmest afternoons and the least rain of the year, from the Met Office 1991–2020 averages.
Is Mattishall good for walking?
Paths are thinner than most towns: 1.5 km of footpath and right of way per square kilometre, more than 16% of UK towns. For park space per person it beats 23% (1.4 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 Mattishall’s overall grade.
Sources
Where Mattishall’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.