Bingham’s biggest
Bingham Linear Park
Park or garden
9.9 ha (24 acres)3.7 km of path
50 minto walk all 3.7 km of path
14 pitchesfootball pitches would fit
Centralin the middle of Bingham
Bingham Linear Park
Directionsto the nearest entrance
Photo: Stephen McKay · CC BY-SA 2.0A−Outdoors Grade
Outdoors in Bingham · parks, paths & countryside
Almost everyone in Bingham lives within a 5-minute walk of a park
Parks and playing fields in Bingham add up to 3.4 ha for every 1,000 residents; the typical UK town has 2.1. 49 km of footpaths run through the town and the kilometre around it, 3.4 for every square kilometre. Bingham grades A− for the outdoors: #10 of 49 in Nottinghamshire. A character grade: it isn’t part of the overall grade.
Green space
3.4 ha
per 1,000 residents
Typical UK town 2.1
Near a park
100%
of residents within 400 m
Typical UK town 83%
Footpaths
49 km
3.4 km per km², town + 1 km
Typical UK town 3.0 per km²
Protected landscape
0%
of the land within 5 km
Character
What kind of outdoors town is Bingham?
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 roam3.4 ha of parks and playing fields per 1,000 residents, more than 75% of UK towns.
Bingham’s strongest suit is parks close to every home, followed by plenty of park space.
Outdoors grade
Bingham grades A− for the outdoors
Each chart is every UK town of 1,000 or more on one measure: the green bar is Bingham, 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 78% of UK towns#10 of 49 in Nottinghamshire · 13th of 60 UK towns its size
Public green space3.4 haper 1,000 residents: parks, gardens, playing fields, play spaces
75out 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 · None within 5 km
31out of
100
100
Footpaths3.4 kmper km², the town and 1 km around it
69out 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
Bingham is 13th of 60 UK towns its size for the outdoors
The 60 UK towns and cities of 9,500 to 10,800 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
Bingham3.4
Towns its size3.1
Nottinghamshire towns3.0
All UK towns3.0
Green space, ha per 1,000 residents
Bingham3.4
Towns its size2.2
Nottinghamshire towns2.4
All UK towns2.1
Residents within 400 m of a park
Bingham100%
Towns its size84%
Nottinghamshire towns81%
All UK towns83%
Against towns its size, Bingham stands out most for park space per resident: only 13 of the other 59 have more.
Show as a table
| Town | Outdoors | Green space | Near a park | Path per km² | Protected | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Caldicot Gwent | A+ | 4.2 | 92% | 3 | 2% |
| 2 | Brierfield Lancashire | A | 2.1 | 92% | 5.6 | 18% |
| 3 | South Merstham Surrey | A | 3.7 | 84% | 3.7 | 20% |
| 4 | Beccles Suffolk | A | 4.5 | 87% | 3.2 | 20% |
| 5 | Nuthall and Watnall Nottinghamshire | A | 6.3 | 97% | 4.3 | 0% |
| 6 | Bradford-on-Avon Wiltshire | A | 2.8 | 88% | 3.7 | 21% |
| 7 | Godalming Surrey | A− | 4.6 | 73% | 3.1 | 66% |
| 8 | Southborough Kent | A− | 2.8 | 94% | 2.5 | 57% |
| 9 | Soham Cambridgeshire | A− | 4.7 | 97% | 4.1 | 0% |
| 10 | Platt Bridge and Abram Greater Manchester | A− | 3.7 | 98% | 4.3 | 0% |
| 11 | Kings Hill Kent | A− | 2.4 | 100% | 2.8 | 7% |
| 12 | Padiham Lancashire | A− | 1.5 | 95% | 4.5 | 18% |
| 13 | Bingham Nottinghamshire | A− | 3.4 | 100% | 3.4 | 0% |
| 14 | Sawbridgeworth Hertfordshire | A− | 4 | 85% | 5.4 | 0% |
| 15 | Whitwick Leicestershire | A− | 4.2 | 84% | 5.5 | 0% |
| 16 | Chadwell St Mary Essex | A− | 3.2 | 97% | 2.2 | 0% |
| 17 | Egglescliffe County Durham | A− | 4.9 | 94% | 3.6 | 0% |
| 18 | Yarm North Yorkshire | A− | 3.3 | 96% | 3.8 | 0% |
| 19 | Tidworth Wiltshire | B+ | 3.7 | 90% | 2.3 | 8% |
| 20 | Pelsall West Midlands | B+ | 6.1 | 95% | 2.9 | 0% |
| 21 | Corfe Mullen Dorset | B+ | 3.1 | 72% | 3.5 | 13% |
| 22 | Woodbridge Suffolk | B+ | 1.7 | 80% | 3.9 | 30% |
| 23 | Cranleigh Surrey | B | 2.5 | 20% | 4.3 | 38% |
| 24 | Shildon County Durham | B | 2.8 | 93% | 3.3 | 0% |
| 25 | Baldock Hertfordshire | B | 2.1 | 91% | 4.3 | 0% |
| 26 | Ludlow Shropshire | B | 2.3 | 92% | 2.1 | 16% |
| 27 | North Wingfield and Holmewood Derbyshire | B | 2.7 | 84% | 4.1 | 0% |
| 28 | Great Dunmow Essex | B | 2 | 92% | 4 | 0% |
| 29 | Queensbury West Yorkshire | B | 2.6 | 91% | 3.2 | 0% |
| 30 | Immingham Lincolnshire | B | 2 | 100% | 1.1 | 0% |
| 31 | Pembroke Dock Dyfed | B− | 1.7 | 80% | 1.1 | 25% |
| 32 | Caernarfon Gwynedd | B− | 1.7 | 83% | 1.4 | 14% |
| 33 | Horbury West Yorkshire | B− | 2.5 | 75% | 4.5 | 0% |
| 34 | Mildenhall Suffolk | B− | 2.1 | 91% | 3.3 | 0% |
| 35 | Monmouth Gwent | B− | 1.5 | 69% | 3.1 | 45% |
| 36 | Radstock Somerset | B− | 1.1 | 93% | 2.9 | 1% |
| 37 | Knottingley West Yorkshire | B− | 2.7 | 88% | 2.5 | 0% |
| 38 | Whitchurch Shropshire | B− | 2.7 | 86% | 2.6 | 0% |
| 39 | Mold Clwyd | C+ | 1.9 | 86% | 1.6 | 17% |
| 40 | Baglan West Glamorgan | C+ | 2.5 | 69% | 1.9 | 0% |
| 41 | Raunds Northamptonshire | C+ | 4.7 | 74% | 2.1 | 0% |
| 42 | Crook County Durham | C+ | 1.5 | 85% | 3.5 | 0% |
| 43 | Lydney Gloucestershire | C+ | 2.1 | 52% | 2.5 | 0% |
| 44 | Abertillery Gwent | C | 2.4 | 69% | 2.1 | 0% |
| 45 | Diss Norfolk | C | 1.5 | 80% | 3.5 | 0% |
| 46 | Barnham West Sussex | C | 1.3 | 70% | 2.3 | 32% |
| 47 | Kippax West Yorkshire | C | 1.4 | 80% | 3.4 | 0% |
| 48 | Shepton Mallet Somerset | C | 1.2 | 70% | 2.8 | 1% |
| 49 | Catshill Worcestershire | C | 1.4 | 82% | 2.9 | 0% |
| 50 | Prudhoe Northumberland | C− | 1.7 | 37% | 4.1 | 0% |
| 51 | Epping Essex | C− | 1.2 | 70% | 3.7 | 0% |
| 52 | Polegate East Sussex | C− | 0.8 | 64% | 2.2 | 24% |
| 53 | Lutterworth Leicestershire | C− | 1.7 | 83% | 2 | 0% |
| 54 | West Moors Dorset | C− | 0.9 | 33% | 3.1 | 0% |
| 55 | Haxby North Yorkshire | D | 0.6 | 59% | 3.6 | 0% |
| 56 | Sherborne Dorset | D | 1.2 | 76% | 2.1 | 0% |
| 57 | Broughton Astley Leicestershire | D | 1 | 82% | 1.9 | 0% |
| 58 | Burton Latimer Northamptonshire | D | 0.9 | 62% | 2.8 | 0% |
| 59 | Pocklington East Riding of Yorkshire | D | 1.6 | 65% | 1.3 | 0% |
| 60 | Ponteland Northumberland | D− | 1.1 | 36% | 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 Bingham’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 Bingham
The biggest is Bingham Linear Park, 9.9 ha (24 acres). Directions go to the park’s nearest public entrance where Ordnance Survey maps one.
Close to home
How close Bingham’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%)
Bingham100%
Towns its size84%
Nottinghamshire towns81%
All UK towns83%
Playing fields count, so a park within reach isn’t always one with paths or trees; 11 playgrounds are mapped in and around the town, about one for every 919 residents.
Footpaths & waymarked walks
1 waymarked walk passes through or near Bingham
49 km of footpaths, bridleways and rights of way are mapped in Bingham and the kilometre around it, 3.4 km for every square kilometre (the typical UK town has 3.0). Bars show each route’s kilometres within 2 km of the town.
Regional
Trent Valley Way1.2 km
The regional route here is the Trent 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 Bingham: 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) | 8.1 | 9.8 | 11.7 | 13.9 | 15.8 | 16.9 | 16.4 | 14.7 | 12.6 | 10.5 | 8.6 | 7.6 |
| High (°C) | 8 | 8 | 11 | 14 | 17 | 20 | 22 | 22 | 19 | 15 | 10 | 8 |
| Rain (mm) | 47 | 38 | 35 | 43 | 43 | 62 | 60 | 59 | 46 | 56 | 52 | 53 |
March is the driest month (35 mm) and July the warmest (highs of 22 °C). Winter days are short, about 8 hours of daylight in December, and 62 mm of rain falls in June, the wettest month. Frost comes on about 40 nights a year. The climate in Bingham →
Things to do
11 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
Bingham is inland. These are the nearest named beaches, measured from the edge of the town.
The Beach15 mi from Bingham’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
Playgrounds 11
Cogley Lane Playgroundin town
DirectionsRomans Quarter Play Parkin town
DirectionsPlus 9 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.
East BridgfordAslocktonCropwell BishopRadcliffe on TrentCotgraveLowdhamBingham
ABCDOutdoors Grade
| Town | Outdoors | Green space, ha per 1,000 | Near a park | Protected within 5 km |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bingham | A− | 3.4 | 100% | 0% |
| East Bridgford 2.0 mi | B− | 1.4 | 100% | 0% |
| Aslockton 2.3 mi | D− | 1.0 | 11% | 0% |
| Cropwell Bishop 2.7 mi | D | 0.7 | 45% | 0% |
| Radcliffe on Trent 3.2 mi | C | 2.5 | 76% | 0% |
| Cotgrave 4.3 mi | C− | 1.0 | 47% | 0% |
| Lowdham 4.4 mi | C+ | 3.7 | 85% | 0% |
Bingham 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 Bingham
What is the biggest park in Bingham?
Bingham Linear Park, 9.9 ha (24 acres), with 3.7 km of path. 1 named park, garden or playing field is in the town or within 400 m of it.
Is Bingham near a National Park?
No National Park or National Landscape is within 30 km (about 19 miles) of Bingham.
What are the best walks near Bingham?
1 waymarked walking route passes within 2 km of the town, including the Trent Valley Way. Bingham Linear Park alone has 3.7 km of path.
What is the nearest beach to Bingham?
The Beach, 15 mi from the edge of the town. Bingham itself is inland.
How many people in Bingham 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 Bingham?
May to September: the longest days, the warmest afternoons and the least rain of the year, from the Met Office 1991–2020 averages.
Is Bingham good for walking?
For paths, yes: 3.4 km of footpath and right of way per square kilometre, more than 69% of UK towns. For park space per person it beats 75% (3.4 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 Bingham’s overall grade.
Sources
Where Bingham’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.