Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
Photo: Geoff Pick · CC BY-SA 2.0Parks and playing fields in Stanwick add up to 7.9 ha for every 1,000 residents; the typical UK town has 2.1. Footpaths add up to 17 km in the village and the kilometre around it, 2.3 for every square kilometre. 82% of residents live within a 5-minute walk of a park or playing field. Stanwick grades B− for the outdoors. A character grade: it isn’t part of the overall grade.
Each chart is every UK town of 1,000 or more on one measure: the green bar is Stanwick, the dashed line the typical town. The number is the share of towns it beats; the five are averaged and the average ranked again.
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.
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.
Against villages its size, Stanwick stands out most for park space per resident: only 7 of the other 59 have more.
| 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 | Highnam Gloucestershire | B+ | 12 | 100% | 2.1 | 0% |
| 18 | Mevagissey Cornwall | B+ | 1.3 | 87% | 1.9 | 29% |
| 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 | Wickham Bishops Essex | C+ | 3.4 | 91% | 1.8 | 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 | Sleights North Yorkshire | C | 0.9 | 30% | 1.5 | 80% |
| 41 | Rode Heath Cheshire | C | 0.9 | 100% | 2.4 | 0% |
| 42 | Newton Poppleford Devon | C | 1.4 | 44% | 2.3 | 60% |
| 43 | Toft Hill and High Etherley County Durham | C− | 2.5 | 83% | 1.2 | 0% |
| 44 | Hemingbrough North Yorkshire | C− | 1.3 | 100% | 1.1 | 0% |
| 45 | Littlethorpe Leicestershire | C− | 0.4 | 57% | 4.7 | 0% |
| 46 | Thornton-le-Dale North Yorkshire | D | 1.1 | 58% | 1.1 | 29% |
| 47 | Brompton-on-Swale North Yorkshire | D | 2.1 | 71% | 1.4 | 0% |
| 48 | Manby Lincolnshire | D | 1.4 | 68% | 0.8 | 2% |
| 49 | Cropwell Bishop Nottinghamshire | D | 0.7 | 45% | 3.5 | 0% |
| 50 | Newton Longville Buckinghamshire | D | 2.9 | 18% | 1.5 | 0% |
| 51 | Dunholme Lincolnshire | D | 1.8 | 52% | 2.1 | 0% |
| 52 | Salfords Surrey | D | 1.3 | 12% | 3 | 0% |
| 53 | Little Plumstead Norfolk | D | 0.6 | 64% | 1 | 16% |
| 54 | Wragby Lincolnshire | D | 1.3 | 69% | 1.4 | 0% |
| 55 | Hampton in Arden West Midlands | D− | 0.1 | 44% | 2.7 | 0% |
| 56 | Colnbrook Berkshire | D− | 0.6 | 68% | 1.7 | 0% |
| 57 | Weeting Norfolk | D− | 1.2 | 68% | 1.1 | 0% |
| 58 | Great Gonerby Lincolnshire | D− | 0.7 | 56% | 1.4 | 0% |
| 59 | Shippon Oxfordshire | D− | 0.4 | 0% | 2 | 0% |
| 60 | Burstwick East Riding of Yorkshire | D− | 0 | 0% | 1 | 0% |
Tap a number to zoom to a park. Tap a layer to hide it. The dashed line is Stanwick’s built-up area.
The biggest is Stanwick Lakes Country Park, 238 ha (589 acres). Directions go to the park’s nearest public entrance where Ordnance Survey maps one.
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 300 people live further than that. Playing fields count, so a park within reach isn’t always one with paths or trees; 9 playgrounds are mapped in and around the village, about one for every 210 residents.
17 km of footpaths, bridleways and rights of way are mapped in Stanwick and the kilometre around it, 2.3 km for every square kilometre (the typical UK town has 3.0). Bars show each route’s kilometres within 2 km of the village.
The regional route here is the Nene Way.
Waymarked walks are OpenStreetMap walking routes. Public rights of way are only as complete as the map in each area.
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) | 8.2 | 9.8 | 11.7 | 13.8 | 15.7 | 16.8 | 16.3 | 14.7 | 12.6 | 10.5 | 8.7 | 7.7 |
| High (°C) | 7 | 8 | 11 | 14 | 17 | 20 | 23 | 23 | 19 | 15 | 10 | 8 |
| Rain (mm) | 57 | 44 | 40 | 45 | 48 | 51 | 54 | 59 | 52 | 66 | 60 | 58 |
March is the driest month (40 mm) and July the warmest (highs of 23 °C). Winter days are short, about 8 hours of daylight in December, and 66 mm of rain falls in October, the wettest month. Frost comes on about 45 nights a year. The climate in Stanwick →
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.
Stanwick 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.
Plus 7 playgrounds without a name on the map.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Stanwick | B− | 7.9 | 82% | 0% |
| Raunds 1.2 mi | C+ | 4.7 | 74% | 0% |
| Higham Ferrers 2.0 mi | B+ | 3.5 | 93% | 0% |
| Irthlingborough 2.3 mi | A− | 4.7 | 94% | 0% |
| Ringstead 2.4 mi | C | 1.8 | 100% | 0% |
| Rushden 3.5 mi | C− | 1.5 | 84% | 0% |
| Woodford 3.5 mi | D− | 0.0 | 0% | 0% |
Irthlingborough, 2.3 miles away, grades A−, the best next door: 94% of its residents live within 400 m of a park. None of the neighbours has a protected landscape within 5 km either.
Stanwick Lakes Country Park, 238 ha (589 acres), with 11.7 km of path, just outside the built-up area. 1 named park, garden or playing field is in the village or within 400 m of it.
No National Park or National Landscape is within 30 km (about 19 miles) of Stanwick.
1 waymarked walking route passes within 2 km of the village, including the Nene Way. Stanwick Lakes Country Park alone has 11.7 km of path.
The Beach, 21 mi from the edge of the village. Stanwick itself is inland.
82% 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%.
May to September: the longest days, the warmest afternoons and the least rain of the year, from the Met Office 1991–2020 averages.
Paths are thinner than most towns: 2.3 km of footpath and right of way per square kilometre, more than 38% of UK towns. For park space per person it beats 94% (7.9 ha per 1,000 residents).
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 Stanwick’s overall grade.
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