Mulbarton’s biggest
The Common
Park or garden
16 ha (40 acres)4.2 km of path
55 minto walk all 4.2 km of path
23 pitchesfootball pitches would fit
Centralin the middle of Mulbarton
Directionsto the nearest entrance
Photo: Michael Garlick · CC BY-SA 2.0A−Outdoors Grade
Outdoors in Mulbarton · parks, paths & countryside
Almost everyone in Mulbarton lives within a 5-minute walk of a park
Parks and playing fields in Mulbarton add up to 7.0 ha for every 1,000 residents; the typical UK town has 2.1. The Broads National Park begins 4.6 mi from the town’s edge. 28 km of footpaths run through the town and the kilometre around it, 3.0 for every square kilometre. Mulbarton grades A− for the outdoors: #5 of 51 in Norfolk. A character grade: it isn’t part of the overall grade.
Green space
7.0 ha
per 1,000 residents
Typical UK town 2.1
Near a park
100%
of residents within 400 m
Typical UK town 83%
Footpaths
28 km
3.0 km per km², town + 1 km
Typical UK town 3.0 per km²
Protected landscape
0%
of the land within 5 km
the Broads starts 4.6 mi out, past the 5 km
Character
What kind of outdoors town is Mulbarton?
Read from the data: what stands out first, good and bad.
A park on every doorstep100% of residents live within 400 m of a park or playing field.Room to roam7.0 ha of parks and playing fields per 1,000 residents, more than 92% of UK towns.Countryside close byThe Broads National Park starts 4.6 mi north-east.
Mulbarton’s strongest suit is parks close to every home, followed by plenty of park space.
Outdoors grade
Mulbarton grades A− for the outdoors
Each chart is every UK town of 1,000 or more on one measure: the green bar is Mulbarton, the dashed line the typical town. The number is the share of towns it beats; the five are averaged and the average ranked again.
A−
Better than 81% of UK towns#5 of 51 in Norfolk · 7th of 60 UK towns its size
Public green space7.0 haper 1,000 residents: parks, gardens, playing fields, play spaces
92out of
100
100
A park within a walk100%of residents within 400 m (a 5-minute walk)
89out of
100
100
National Park or National Landscape0%of the land within 5 km · the Broads begins just past 5 km
31out of
100
100
Footpaths3.0 kmper km², the town and 1 km around it
59out 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.
Towns its size
Mulbarton is 7th of 60 UK towns its size for the outdoors
The 60 UK towns and cities of 3,700 to 4,000 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
Mulbarton3.0
Towns its size2.5
Norfolk towns1.6
All UK towns3.0
Green space, ha per 1,000 residents
Mulbarton7.0
Towns its size1.9
Norfolk towns1.8
All UK towns2.1
Residents within 400 m of a park
Mulbarton100%
Towns its size81%
Norfolk towns73%
All UK towns83%
Against towns its size, Mulbarton stands out most for park space per resident: only 2 of the other 59 have more.
Show as a table
| Town | Outdoors | Green space | Near a park | Path per km² | Protected | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Trimley St Mary Suffolk | A+ | 2.3 | 100% | 3.8 | 34% |
| 2 | Batheaston Somerset | A | 3 | 84% | 4.6 | 71% |
| 3 | Cuckfield West Sussex | A | 6.7 | 70% | 4.9 | 49% |
| 4 | Walter's Ash and Naphill Buckinghamshire | A | 3.7 | 50% | 5.3 | 79% |
| 5 | Bethesda Gwynedd | A | 2.5 | 90% | 3.2 | 49% |
| 6 | Disley Cheshire | A− | 1.2 | 100% | 4.6 | 22% |
| 7 | Mulbarton Norfolk | A− | 7 | 100% | 3 | 0% |
| 8 | Kingswood Surrey | A− | 4.6 | 27% | 6.3 | 17% |
| 9 | Welwyn Hertfordshire | A− | 2.6 | 100% | 4 | 0% |
| 10 | Esh Winning County Durham | A− | 3.2 | 100% | 3.5 | 0% |
| 11 | Old Basing Hampshire | A− | 13.6 | 92% | 3.1 | 0% |
| 12 | Barnt Green Worcestershire | B+ | 37.8 | 81% | 3.7 | 0% |
| 13 | Colden Common Hampshire | B+ | 2.7 | 82% | 2.8 | 35% |
| 14 | Stanstead Abbotts Hertfordshire | B+ | 2.5 | 92% | 4.9 | 0% |
| 15 | Long Melford Suffolk | B+ | 6.9 | 87% | 3.3 | 0% |
| 16 | Papworth Everard Cambridgeshire | B+ | 4.3 | 100% | 2.5 | 0% |
| 17 | Locking Somerset | B+ | 2.7 | 84% | 2.4 | 23% |
| 18 | Lyme Regis Dorset | B | 1.4 | 60% | 2.5 | 56% |
| 19 | Greasbrough South Yorkshire | B | 2.9 | 80% | 4.7 | 0% |
| 20 | Queenborough Kent | B | 1.6 | 100% | 2 | 0% |
| 21 | Mayland Essex | B | 2.6 | 91% | 1.8 | 0% |
| 22 | Romanby North Yorkshire | B | 3.1 | 100% | 2.3 | 0% |
| 23 | Framlingham Suffolk | B | 3.7 | 73% | 4.2 | 0% |
| 24 | Mytholmroyd West Yorkshire | B | 1.8 | 88% | 5.8 | 0% |
| 25 | Whitwell Derbyshire | B− | 1.7 | 100% | 3 | 0% |
| 26 | Rhuddlan Clwyd | B− | 1.8 | 85% | 0.9 | 8% |
| 27 | Glanaman Dyfed | B− | 3.3 | 83% | 0.8 | 29% |
| 28 | Cholsey Oxfordshire | B− | 2.3 | 55% | 2.5 | 81% |
| 29 | Alford Lincolnshire | B− | 2.1 | 85% | 1.5 | 26% |
| 30 | Cardigan Dyfed | B− | 1.9 | 69% | 1.4 | 13% |
| 31 | Kingskerswell Devon | C+ | 3.5 | 76% | 1.2 | 0% |
| 32 | New Romney Kent | C+ | 2.5 | 79% | 1.6 | 0% |
| 33 | Bar Hill Cambridgeshire | C+ | 1.4 | 93% | 3.5 | 0% |
| 34 | Pewsey Wiltshire | C+ | 1 | 64% | 3 | 91% |
| 35 | Troedyrhiw and Pentrebach Mid Glamorgan | C+ | 2.5 | 84% | 1.5 | 0% |
| 36 | Norton Fitzwarren Somerset | C+ | 1.3 | 35% | 5.2 | 6% |
| 37 | Forest Row East Sussex | C+ | 0.3 | 51% | 3.4 | 94% |
| 38 | Coggeshall Essex | C | 2.1 | 84% | 2.5 | 0% |
| 39 | Silver End Essex | C | 2 | 88% | 2.1 | 0% |
| 40 | Cubbington Warwickshire | C | 1.5 | 100% | 1.7 | 0% |
| 41 | Bromyard Herefordshire | C | 0.9 | 100% | 2.1 | 0% |
| 42 | Desford Leicestershire | C− | 1.6 | 90% | 2 | 0% |
| 43 | Holton le Clay Lincolnshire | C− | 2 | 59% | 1.4 | 8% |
| 44 | Lydd Kent | C− | 1.7 | 66% | 0.9 | 0% |
| 45 | Fulbourn Cambridgeshire | C− | 1.7 | 74% | 2.4 | 0% |
| 46 | Kingston Bagpuize Oxfordshire | C− | 0.8 | 100% | 1.3 | 0% |
| 47 | Sutton Cambridgeshire | D | 1.9 | 82% | 1.1 | 0% |
| 48 | Kempsey Worcestershire | D | 0.9 | 40% | 3.9 | 0% |
| 49 | Windlesham Surrey | D | 2 | 57% | 2.2 | 0% |
| 50 | Pen-pedair-heol Gwent | D | 0.9 | 80% | 2.3 | 0% |
| 51 | Puckeridge and Standon Hertfordshire | D | 0.9 | 59% | 3.2 | 0% |
| 52 | Langford Bedfordshire | D | 1.4 | 63% | 2.6 | 0% |
| 53 | Wilsden West Yorkshire | D | 0.6 | 61% | 3 | 0% |
| 54 | Sutton Bridge Lincolnshire | D | 1.3 | 79% | 0.8 | 0% |
| 55 | Willingham Cambridgeshire | D | 1.4 | 73% | 0.8 | 0% |
| 56 | Llanbradach Gwent | D− | 1.2 | 52% | 1.9 | 0% |
| 57 | Long Buckby Northamptonshire | D− | 0.6 | 52% | 1.9 | 0% |
| 58 | Penyffordd Clwyd | D− | 0.7 | 36% | 1.6 | 0% |
| 59 | Llanharry Mid Glamorgan | D− | 0.6 | 50% | 1.3 | 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 Mulbarton’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 Mulbarton
The biggest is The Common, 16 ha (40 acres). Directions go to the park’s nearest public entrance where Ordnance Survey maps one.
Close to home
How close Mulbarton’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 (100%)Further (0%)
Mulbarton100%
Towns its size81%
Norfolk towns73%
All UK towns83%
Playing fields count, so a park within reach isn’t always one with paths or trees; 16 playgrounds are mapped in and around the town, about one for every 238 residents.
National Parks & National Landscapes
The Broads National Park is 4.6 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
Protected landscape begins just outside the 5 km ring the Outdoors Grade measures, so Mulbarton scores 0% on it even though the Broads National Park is 4.6 mi away. The Broads National Park covers 302 km² and has been a National Park since 1989.
Footpaths & waymarked walks
5 waymarked walks pass through or near Mulbarton
28 km of footpaths, bridleways and rights of way are mapped in Mulbarton and the kilometre around it, 3.0 km for every square kilometre (the typical UK town has 3.0). Bars show each route’s kilometres within 2 km of the town.
RegionalLocal
Kett's Country Walk8.7 km
Tas Valley Way7.7 km
Mulbarton’s Old Witch Trail7.7 km
Swardeston’s Trail of Two Commons4.9 km
Edith Cavell Pilgrimage0.9 km
Close to home, the Mulbarton’s Old Witch Trail has 8 km of local walk within 2 km of the town. 2 regional routes pass through, including the Kett's Country Walk and Tas Valley 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 Mulbarton: 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) | 8.2 | 9.8 | 11.7 | 13.9 | 15.7 | 16.8 | 16.4 | 14.7 | 12.6 | 10.5 | 8.6 | 7.7 |
| High (°C) | 7 | 8 | 10 | 14 | 17 | 20 | 22 | 22 | 19 | 15 | 10 | 8 |
| Rain (mm) | 54 | 46 | 46 | 38 | 46 | 45 | 57 | 62 | 51 | 63 | 73 | 69 |
April is the driest month (38 mm) and August the warmest (highs of 22 °C). Winter days are short, about 8 hours of daylight in December, and 73 mm of rain falls in November, the wettest month. Frost comes on about 43 nights a year. The climate in Mulbarton →
Things to do
16 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
Mulbarton is inland. These are the nearest named beaches, measured from the edge of the town.
Corton Sands22 mi from Mulbarton’s edge
DirectionsCorton Beach22 mi from Mulbarton’s edge
DirectionsGunton Sands22 mi from Mulbarton’s edge
DirectionsThe Beach27 mi from Mulbarton’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
Hethel Old Thorn1.0 mi from town
DirectionsPlaygrounds 16
Plus 16 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.
Newton FlotmanStoke Holy CrossCringlefordHethersettLong StrattonLittle MeltonMulbarton
ABCDOutdoors Grade
| Town | Outdoors | Green space, ha per 1,000 | Near a park | Protected within 5 km |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mulbarton | A− | 7.0 | 100% | 0% |
| Newton Flotman 1.5 mi | C− | 2.5 | 78% | 0% |
| Stoke Holy Cross 2.9 mi | B | 2.2 | 100% | 0% |
| Cringleford 3.5 mi | A− | 1.7 | 94% | 0% |
| Hethersett 4.1 mi | C | 2.1 | 65% | 0% |
| Long Stratton 4.6 mi | C− | 1.0 | 89% | 0% |
| Little Melton 4.6 mi | C | 4.2 | 72% | 0% |
Mulbarton grades higher for the outdoors than every neighbour in the table. None of the neighbours has a protected landscape within 5 km either.
Questions about the outdoors in Mulbarton
What is the biggest park in Mulbarton?
The Common, 16 ha (40 acres), with 4.2 km of path. 1 named park, garden or playing field is in the town or within 400 m of it.
Is Mulbarton near a National Park?
Yes. the Broads National Park begins 4.6 mi north-east of the town’s edge. It covers 302 km² and has been a National Park since 1989.
What are the best walks near Mulbarton?
5 waymarked walking routes pass within 2 km of the town, including the Kett's Country Walk, Tas Valley Way and Mulbarton’s Old Witch Trail. The Common alone has 4.2 km of path.
What is the nearest beach to Mulbarton?
Corton Sands, 22 mi from the edge of the town, then Corton Beach (22 mi). Mulbarton itself is inland.
How many people in Mulbarton live near a park?
100% 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 Mulbarton?
May to September: the longest days, the warmest afternoons and the least rain of the year, from the Met Office 1991–2020 averages.
Is Mulbarton good for walking?
About average for paths: 3.0 km of footpath and right of way per square kilometre, more than 59% of UK towns. For park space per person it beats 92% (7.0 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 Mulbarton’s overall grade.
Sources
Where Mulbarton’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.