Photo: Bikeboy · CC BY-SA 2.080% of Bugbrooke’s residents live within a 5-minute walk of a park
Parks and playing fields in Bugbrooke add up to 3.7 ha for every 1,000 residents; the typical UK town has 2.1. Footpaths add up to 25 km in the town and the kilometre around it, 3.0 for every square kilometre. Bugbrooke grades B− for the outdoors: #11 of 31 in Northamptonshire. A character grade: it isn’t part of the overall grade.
Bugbrooke grades B− for the outdoors
Each chart is every UK town of 1,000 or more on one measure: the green bar is Bugbrooke, the dashed line the typical town. The number is the share of towns it beats; the five are averaged and the average ranked again.
100
100
100
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.
Bugbrooke is 26th of 60 UK towns its size for the outdoors
The 60 UK towns and cities of 2,900 to 3,200 people with an Outdoors Grade. Hover a dot for its figures; tap one for its page.
Against towns its size, Bugbrooke stands out most for park space per resident: only 17 of the other 59 have more.
Show as a table
| Town | Outdoors | Green space | Near a park | Path per km² | Protected | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Rowlands Castle Hampshire | A+ | 26.1 | 100% | 5 | 48% |
| 2 | Arundel West Sussex | A+ | 4.4 | 100% | 3.8 | 56% |
| 3 | Theale Berkshire | A+ | 5 | 100% | 3.8 | 39% |
| 4 | Cuxton Kent | A+ | 25.2 | 90% | 4 | 44% |
| 5 | Horton Heath Hampshire | A+ | 10 | 100% | 3.3 | 13% |
| 6 | Beaminster Dorset | A | 4.1 | 89% | 3.4 | 100% |
| 7 | Ebbsfleet Valley Kent | A | 9 | 77% | 8.3 | 0% |
| 8 | Langwith Derbyshire | A | 19.6 | 100% | 3.7 | 0% |
| 9 | Ellistown Leicestershire | A | 7.5 | 100% | 3.8 | 0% |
| 10 | Llangollen Clwyd | A | 3.5 | 91% | 2.5 | 76% |
| 11 | Menai Bridge Gwynedd | A | 1.8 | 100% | 2.4 | 7% |
| 12 | New Marske North Yorkshire | A− | 4.4 | 90% | 1.3 | 0% |
| 13 | Bream Gloucestershire | A− | 2.2 | 82% | 4.7 | 10% |
| 14 | Rhodes Greater Manchester | B+ | 16.6 | 78% | 4.2 | 0% |
| 15 | Wootton Isle of Wight | B+ | 3.7 | 67% | 1.7 | 20% |
| 16 | Porthleven Cornwall | B+ | 1.6 | 78% | 2.5 | 19% |
| 17 | Drayton Oxfordshire | B+ | 1.7 | 100% | 3 | 3% |
| 18 | Newton and Blackwell Derbyshire | B | 2.6 | 91% | 3.7 | 0% |
| 19 | Wing Buckinghamshire | B | 2.4 | 100% | 3 | 0% |
| 20 | Honeybourne Worcestershire | B | 2.9 | 80% | 2.6 | 14% |
| 21 | Camelford Cornwall | B | 2 | 100% | 1.5 | 33% |
| 22 | Upper Beeding West Sussex | B | 0.6 | 83% | 3.9 | 62% |
| 23 | Fleur-de-lis and Pengam Gwent | B | 6 | 54% | 4.9 | 0% |
| 24 | Weldon Northamptonshire | B | 8.2 | 100% | 1.1 | 0% |
| 25 | Newbold Verdon Leicestershire | B− | 2.3 | 100% | 2.5 | 0% |
| 26 | Bugbrooke Northamptonshire | B− | 3.7 | 80% | 3 | 0% |
| 27 | Long Hanborough Oxfordshire | B− | 1.3 | 89% | 2.7 | 18% |
| 28 | Harwell Oxfordshire | B− | 1.4 | 85% | 2.3 | 42% |
| 29 | Crumbles East Sussex | B− | 0.3 | 44% | 3.6 | 0% |
| 30 | Henley-in-Arden Warwickshire | C+ | 4.6 | 58% | 3.1 | 0% |
| 31 | Etwall Derbyshire | C+ | 2.3 | 100% | 1.5 | 0% |
| 32 | Capel St Mary Suffolk | C+ | 1.5 | 59% | 3 | 24% |
| 33 | Dymchurch Kent | C+ | 1.6 | 58% | 1 | 13% |
| 34 | Thaxted Essex | C | 0.8 | 91% | 3.6 | 0% |
| 35 | Swillington West Yorkshire | C | 2.2 | 68% | 3.3 | 0% |
| 36 | Hendy and Fforest Dyfed | C | 2.1 | 100% | 0.8 | 0% |
| 37 | Swanmore Hampshire | C | 1.4 | 69% | 1.9 | 54% |
| 38 | Sutton Courtenay Oxfordshire | C | 1.2 | 23% | 4 | 6% |
| 39 | West Chiltington West Sussex | C | 1.5 | 18% | 2.7 | 38% |
| 40 | Bottesford Leicestershire | C | 3.9 | 69% | 1.9 | 0% |
| 41 | Haddenham Cambridgeshire | C | 2.2 | 86% | 1.9 | 0% |
| 42 | Ogmore Vale Mid Glamorgan | C | 4.3 | 79% | 0.9 | 0% |
| 43 | Fenstanton Cambridgeshire | C− | 0.8 | 100% | 2 | 0% |
| 44 | Cullingworth West Yorkshire | C− | 1.1 | 72% | 3.9 | 0% |
| 45 | Great Leighs Essex | C− | 1.5 | 87% | 2.2 | 0% |
| 46 | Lostwithiel Cornwall | C− | 1.6 | 67% | 1.5 | 11% |
| 47 | West Auckland County Durham | C− | 1.1 | 91% | 2.1 | 0% |
| 48 | Burnopfield County Durham | C− | 1.5 | 50% | 3.3 | 0% |
| 49 | South Petherton Somerset | C− | 1.1 | 61% | 3.4 | 0% |
| 50 | St Mary's Bay Kent | D | 0 | 0% | 1.3 | 0% |
| 51 | Cleobury Mortimer Shropshire | D | 0.8 | 64% | 2 | 2% |
| 52 | Kelsall Cheshire | D | 1 | 57% | 3.1 | 0% |
| 53 | Gobowen Shropshire | D | 1.2 | 50% | 1.2 | 2% |
| 54 | Skellingthorpe Lincolnshire | D | 1.2 | 69% | 1.9 | 0% |
| 55 | Gilberdyke East Riding of Yorkshire | D | 0.7 | 90% | 0.3 | 0% |
| 56 | Thurston Suffolk | D | 1.6 | 39% | 2.1 | 0% |
| 57 | Bampton Oxfordshire | D | 1.1 | 63% | 2 | 0% |
| 58 | Queniborough Leicestershire | D | 1.4 | 48% | 1.9 | 0% |
| 59 | Kirton in Lindsey Lincolnshire | D− | 1.7 | 57% | 0.8 | 0% |
| 60 | Boroughbridge North Yorkshire | D− | 0.4 | 60% | 1.6 | 0% |
Parks, footpaths & countryside
Tap a number to zoom to a park. Tap a layer to hide it. The dashed line is Bugbrooke’s built-up area.
How close Bugbrooke’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).
About 600 people live further than that. Playing fields count, so a park within reach isn’t always one with paths or trees; 5 playgrounds are mapped in and around the town, about one for every 608 residents.
The Cotswolds National Landscape is 17 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.
4 waymarked walks pass through or near Bugbrooke
25 km of footpaths, bridleways and rights of way are mapped in Bugbrooke 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.
3 regional routes pass through, including the Midshires Way, Grand Union Canal Walk and Nene 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 Bugbrooke: 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 | 13.8 | 15.7 | 16.7 | 16.3 | 14.7 | 12.6 | 10.5 | 8.7 | 7.7 |
| High (°C) | 7 | 8 | 11 | 14 | 17 | 20 | 22 | 22 | 19 | 15 | 10 | 8 |
| Rain (mm) | 57 | 43 | 40 | 44 | 51 | 52 | 53 | 62 | 51 | 65 | 61 | 61 |
March is the driest month (40 mm) and July the warmest (highs of 22 °C). Winter days are short, about 8 hours of daylight in December, and 65 mm of rain falls in October, the wettest month. Frost comes on about 48 nights a year. The climate in Bugbrooke →
5 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
Bugbrooke is inland. These are the nearest named beaches, measured from the edge of the town.
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
Playgrounds 5
Plus 5 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bugbrooke | B− | 3.7 | 80% | 0% |
| Nether Heyford 1.5 mi | C+ | 1.4 | 100% | 0% |
| Kislingbury 1.6 mi | C | 8.4 | 26% | 0% |
| Harpole 2.2 mi | C | 2.3 | 81% | 0% |
| Pattishall and Astcote 2.2 mi | C− | 2.9 | 39% | 0% |
| Flore 2.9 mi | D | 1.6 | 62% | 0% |
| Weedon Bec 3.5 mi | C− | 1.1 | 87% | 0% |
Bugbrooke grades higher for the outdoors than every neighbour in the table. Kislingbury has at least twice Bugbrooke’s green space per resident. None of the neighbours has a protected landscape within 5 km either.
Questions about the outdoors in Bugbrooke
Is Bugbrooke near a National Park?
The nearest protected landscape is the Cotswolds National Landscape, 17 mi west of the town’s edge. It covers 2,041 km² and was designated in 1966.
What are the best walks near Bugbrooke?
4 waymarked walking routes pass within 2 km of the town, including the Northamptonshire Round, Midshires Way and Grand Union Canal Walk.
What is the nearest beach to Bugbrooke?
The Beach, 24 mi from the edge of the town, then library (29 mi). Bugbrooke itself is inland.
How many people in Bugbrooke live near a park?
80% 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 Bugbrooke?
May to September: the longest days, the warmest afternoons and the least rain of the year, from the Met Office 1991–2020 averages.
Is Bugbrooke 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 79% (3.7 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 Bugbrooke’s overall grade.
Where Bugbrooke’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.