Photo: Sandy Gerrard · CC BY-SA 2.0Parks and walks in Weeting
11 km of footpaths run through the village and the kilometre around it, 1.1 for every square kilometre. Parks and playing fields in Weeting add up to 1.2 ha for every 1,000 residents; the typical UK town has 2.1. A park or playing field is within a 5-minute walk for 68% of residents. Weeting grades D− for the outdoors. A character grade: it isn’t part of the overall grade.
Weeting grades D− for the outdoors
Each chart is every UK town of 1,000 or more on one measure: the green bar is Weeting, 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 Weeting compares with UK villages of 1,800 to 2,000
The 60 UK towns and cities of 1,800 to 2,000 people with an Outdoors Grade. Hover a dot for its figures; tap one for its page.
Weeting falls furthest behind on path per km², where 49 of the 59 others do better.
Show as a table
| Town | Outdoors | Green space | Near a park | Path per km² | Protected | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Badshot Lea Surrey | A+ | 25.9 | 100% | 5.2 | 25% |
| 2 | Kirkby Stephen Cumbria | A+ | 4.9 | 100% | 3.7 | 65% |
| 3 | Southwick Wiltshire | A+ | 22.2 | 100% | 5.2 | 1% |
| 4 | Brading Isle of Wight | A+ | 2.9 | 84% | 4.2 | 21% |
| 5 | Scholes (near Hade Edge) West Yorkshire | A+ | 3.8 | 100% | 4.7 | 16% |
| 6 | Chilworth Surrey | A+ | 10.8 | 80% | 6.1 | 59% |
| 7 | Hayfield Derbyshire | A+ | 2.2 | 100% | 4.1 | 62% |
| 8 | Colwall Stone Herefordshire | A | 4.5 | 67% | 5.5 | 64% |
| 9 | Bagworth Leicestershire | A | 11 | 100% | 4.3 | 0% |
| 10 | Newell Green Berkshire | A | 22.6 | 100% | 3.7 | 0% |
| 11 | Ravenstone Leicestershire | A− | 5.3 | 100% | 3.4 | 0% |
| 12 | Lower Broadheath Worcestershire | A− | 6 | 100% | 2.9 | 0% |
| 13 | Goosnargh Lancashire | A− | 2.4 | 100% | 2.5 | 6% |
| 14 | Lyminge Kent | A− | 3.5 | 83% | 2.1 | 90% |
| 15 | Flamborough East Riding of Yorkshire | A− | 1.9 | 100% | 2.3 | 0% |
| 16 | Waddesdon Buckinghamshire | B+ | 3 | 100% | 3 | 0% |
| 17 | Mevagissey Cornwall | B+ | 1.3 | 87% | 1.9 | 29% |
| 18 | Bishop's Castle Shropshire | B+ | 2 | 100% | 1.3 | 53% |
| 19 | Chinley Derbyshire | B+ | 1.2 | 78% | 4.4 | 53% |
| 20 | Hathersage Derbyshire | B | 1.6 | 58% | 4.5 | 100% |
| 21 | Partridge Green West Sussex | B | 2.1 | 100% | 3.3 | 0% |
| 22 | Westham East Sussex | B | 3.8 | 18% | 2.3 | 0% |
| 23 | Little Eaton Derbyshire | B | 4.6 | 85% | 3 | 0% |
| 24 | Shurdington Gloucestershire | B | 2.7 | 47% | 3.3 | 42% |
| 25 | Horrabridge Devon | B | 1.4 | 83% | 2.7 | 92% |
| 26 | Campsall South Yorkshire | B | 14.8 | 100% | 0.8 | 0% |
| 27 | Chilcompton Somerset | B− | 6.5 | 40% | 2.9 | 1% |
| 28 | Yelverton Devon | B− | 3.6 | 72% | 1.1 | 85% |
| 29 | Stanwick Northamptonshire | B− | 7.9 | 82% | 2.3 | 0% |
| 30 | Ingrave and Herongate Essex | B− | 5 | 51% | 4 | 0% |
| 31 | Wrea Green Lancashire | B− | 3.5 | 100% | 1.3 | 0% |
| 32 | Whitland Dyfed | B− | 4.4 | 100% | 0.8 | 0% |
| 33 | Stow-on-the-Wold Gloucestershire | B− | 3.4 | 64% | 1.2 | 88% |
| 34 | Oxenhope West Yorkshire | B− | 1.8 | 80% | 4.5 | 0% |
| 35 | Barnburgh and Harlington South Yorkshire | B− | 1.8 | 100% | 2.5 | 0% |
| 36 | Houghton Conquest Bedfordshire | C+ | 1.8 | 100% | 2.3 | 0% |
| 37 | Hockley Heath West Midlands | C+ | 2.6 | 86% | 2.5 | 0% |
| 38 | Northiam East Sussex | C+ | 2.2 | 76% | 0.8 | 100% |
| 39 | Milnthorpe Cumbria | C | 2.2 | 49% | 2 | 39% |
| 40 | Rode Heath Cheshire | C | 0.9 | 100% | 2.4 | 0% |
| 41 | Newton Poppleford Devon | C | 1.4 | 44% | 2.3 | 60% |
| 42 | Toft Hill and High Etherley County Durham | C− | 2.5 | 83% | 1.2 | 0% |
| 43 | Hemingbrough North Yorkshire | C− | 1.3 | 100% | 1.1 | 0% |
| 44 | Littlethorpe Leicestershire | C− | 0.4 | 57% | 4.7 | 0% |
| 45 | Thornton-le-Dale North Yorkshire | D | 1.1 | 58% | 1.1 | 29% |
| 46 | Brompton-on-Swale North Yorkshire | D | 2.1 | 71% | 1.4 | 0% |
| 47 | Manby Lincolnshire | D | 1.4 | 68% | 0.8 | 2% |
| 48 | Cropwell Bishop Nottinghamshire | D | 0.7 | 45% | 3.5 | 0% |
| 49 | Newton Longville Buckinghamshire | D | 2.9 | 18% | 1.5 | 0% |
| 50 | Dunholme Lincolnshire | D | 1.8 | 52% | 2.1 | 0% |
| 51 | Salfords Surrey | D | 1.3 | 12% | 3 | 0% |
| 52 | Little Plumstead Norfolk | D | 0.6 | 64% | 1 | 16% |
| 53 | Wragby Lincolnshire | D | 1.3 | 69% | 1.4 | 0% |
| 54 | Hampton in Arden West Midlands | D− | 0.1 | 44% | 2.7 | 0% |
| 55 | Weeting Norfolk | D− | 1.2 | 68% | 1.1 | 0% |
| 56 | Colnbrook Berkshire | D− | 0.6 | 68% | 1.7 | 0% |
| 57 | Great Gonerby Lincolnshire | D− | 0.7 | 56% | 1.4 | 0% |
| 58 | Great Barton Suffolk | D− | 1.6 | 19% | 0.5 | 0% |
| 59 | Shippon Oxfordshire | D− | 0.4 | 0% | 2 | 0% |
| 60 | Burstwick East Riding of Yorkshire | D− | 0 | 0% | 1 | 0% |
Parks, footpaths & countryside
Tap a number to zoom to a park. Tap a layer to hide it. The dashed line is Weeting’s built-up area.
7 in 10 Weeting 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 600 people live further than that. Playing fields count, so a park within reach isn’t always one with paths or trees; 6 playgrounds are mapped in and around the village, about one for every 314 residents.
9 waymarked walks pass through or near Weeting
11 km of footpaths, bridleways and rights of way are mapped in Weeting and the kilometre around it, 1.1 km for every square kilometre (the typical UK town has 3.0). Bars show each route’s kilometres within 2 km of the village.
Close to home, the The History Trail has 7 km of local walk within 2 km of the village. 3 regional routes pass through, including the Hereward Way, Via Beata and St Edmund Way.
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 Weeting: 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) | 8.2 | 9.8 | 11.7 | 13.9 | 15.7 | 16.8 | 16.3 | 14.7 | 12.6 | 10.5 | 8.6 | 7.7 |
| High (°C) | 8 | 9 | 11 | 14 | 18 | 21 | 23 | 23 | 20 | 15 | 11 | 8 |
| Rain (mm) | 49 | 41 | 42 | 39 | 45 | 58 | 56 | 65 | 51 | 63 | 61 | 58 |
April is the driest month (39 mm) and July the warmest (highs of 23 °C). Winter days are short, about 8 hours of daylight in December, and 65 mm of rain falls in August, the wettest month. Frost comes on about 68 nights a year. The climate in Weeting →
6 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
Weeting 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
Picnic sites 1
Plus 1 picnic site without a name on the map.
Playgrounds 6
Plus 6 playgrounds without a name on the map.
Slipways 1
Plus 1 slipway 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weeting | D− | 1.2 | 68% | 0% |
| Brandon 1.5 mi | D | 0.8 | 39% | 0% |
| Hockwold cum Wilton 2.7 mi | D | 1.6 | 75% | 0% |
| Mundford 3.5 mi | B− | 3.1 | 100% | 0% |
| Feltwell 4.1 mi | D− | 1.1 | 63% | 0% |
| Methwold 4.7 mi | D− | 1.8 | 61% | 0% |
| Lakenheath 5.2 mi | D | 1.1 | 57% | 0% |
Mundford, 3.5 miles away, grades B−, the best next door: every resident lives within 400 m of a park. Mundford has at least twice Weeting’s green space per resident. None of the neighbours has a protected landscape within 5 km either.
Questions about the outdoors in Weeting
Is Weeting near a National Park?
No National Park or National Landscape is within 30 km (about 19 miles) of Weeting.
What are the best walks near Weeting?
9 waymarked walking routes pass within 2 km of the village, including the The History Trail, Hereward Way and Weeting Village Walk.
What is the nearest beach to Weeting?
The Beach, 4.9 mi from the edge of the village. Weeting itself is inland.
How many people in Weeting live near a park?
68% 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 Weeting?
May to September: the longest days, the warmest afternoons and the least rain of the year, from the Met Office 1991–2020 averages.
Is Weeting good for walking?
Paths are thinner than most towns: 1.1 km of footpath and right of way per square kilometre, more than 9% of UK towns. For park space per person it beats 19% (1.2 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 Weeting’s overall grade.
Where Weeting’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.