Cotgrave’s biggest
Cotgrave Field of Hope
Park or garden
1.0 ha (3 acres)0.4 km of path
Centralin the middle of Cotgrave
Directionsto the nearest entrance
Photo: Yellowman94 · CC BY-SA 3.0C−Outdoors Grade
Outdoors in Cotgrave · parks, paths & countryside
Cotgrave has more footpath per square kilometre than 8 in 10 UK towns
Footpaths add up to 49 km in the town and the kilometre around it, 4.1 for every square kilometre. 47% of residents live within a 5-minute walk of a park or playing field. Parks and playing fields in Cotgrave add up to 1.0 ha for every 1,000 residents; the typical UK town has 2.1. Cotgrave grades C− for the outdoors: #42 of 49 in Nottinghamshire. A character grade: it isn’t part of the overall grade.
Green space
1.0 ha
per 1,000 residents
Typical UK town 2.1
Near a park
47%
of residents within 400 m
Typical UK town 83%
Footpaths
49 km
4.1 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 Cotgrave?
Read from the data: what stands out first, good and bad.
A town of footpaths4.1 km of path per km², more than 82% of UK towns. The typical town has 3.0.Less park per person1.0 ha of parks and playing fields per 1,000 residents; the typical UK town has 2.1.
Cotgrave’s strongest suit is dense footpaths. Where it falls short is park space per person.
Outdoors grade
Cotgrave grades C− for the outdoors
Each chart is every UK town of 1,000 or more on one measure: the green bar is Cotgrave, the dashed line the typical town. The number is the share of towns it beats; the five are averaged and the average ranked again.
C−
Better than 16% of UK towns#42 of 49 in Nottinghamshire · 53rd of 60 UK towns its size
Public green space1.0 haper 1,000 residents: parks, gardens, playing fields, play spaces
13out of
100
100
A park within a walk47%of residents within 400 m (a 5-minute walk)
12out of
100
100
National Park or National Landscape0%of the land within 5 km · None within 5 km
31out of
100
100
Footpaths4.1 kmper km², the town and 1 km around it
82out 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
Cotgrave is 53rd of 60 UK towns its size for the outdoors
The 60 UK towns and cities of 7,500 to 8,200 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
Cotgrave4.1
Towns its size2.9
Nottinghamshire towns3.0
All UK towns3.0
Green space, ha per 1,000 residents
Cotgrave1.0
Towns its size2.1
Nottinghamshire towns2.4
All UK towns2.1
Residents within 400 m of a park
Cotgrave47%
Towns its size78%
Nottinghamshire towns81%
All UK towns83%
Against towns its size, Cotgrave stands out most for path per km²: only 13 of the other 59 have more. It falls furthest behind on park space per resident, where 51 of the others do better.
Show as a table
| Town | Outdoors | Green space | Near a park | Path per km² | Protected | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Freshwater and Totland Isle of Wight | A+ | 5 | 89% | 3.9 | 20% |
| 2 | Chipping Sodbury Gloucestershire | A+ | 5.2 | 93% | 8.2 | 29% |
| 3 | Bargod Gwent | A | 13.6 | 100% | 5.5 | 0% |
| 4 | Dursley Gloucestershire | A | 1.8 | 90% | 7.2 | 52% |
| 5 | Grove Oxfordshire | A | 2.2 | 92% | 4.7 | 27% |
| 6 | Bursledon Hampshire | A | 2.6 | 90% | 3.8 | 0% |
| 7 | Richmond North Yorkshire | A | 2.4 | 96% | 3.9 | 7% |
| 8 | Prestwood and Great Missenden Buckinghamshire | A− | 5.5 | 65% | 3.2 | 94% |
| 9 | Dinas Powis South Glamorgan | A− | 3 | 73% | 4.5 | 0% |
| 10 | London Colney Hertfordshire | A− | 3.7 | 96% | 4.3 | 0% |
| 11 | Burnham-on-Crouch Essex | A− | 5.3 | 86% | 2.5 | 0% |
| 12 | City of London London | A− | 2 | 100% | 11 | 0% |
| 13 | Cam Gloucestershire | A− | 2.8 | 57% | 5 | 34% |
| 14 | Pembroke Dyfed | B+ | 2.2 | 91% | 1 | 31% |
| 15 | Annfield Plain County Durham | B+ | 3.4 | 93% | 3.7 | 0% |
| 16 | Great Notley Essex | B+ | 6.4 | 79% | 4.1 | 0% |
| 17 | Cromer Norfolk | B+ | 1.4 | 74% | 2.5 | 36% |
| 18 | Runwell Essex | B+ | 5.1 | 92% | 2.8 | 0% |
| 19 | Partington Greater Manchester | B | 2.8 | 100% | 2.7 | 0% |
| 20 | Edenbridge Kent | B | 2.6 | 64% | 3 | 42% |
| 21 | Barugh Green and Redbrook South Yorkshire | B | 2.1 | 94% | 4 | 0% |
| 22 | Rusthall and Langton Green Kent | B | 2.1 | 69% | 2.7 | 79% |
| 23 | Princes Risborough Buckinghamshire | B | 1.4 | 78% | 3.2 | 57% |
| 24 | Clayton-le-Moors Lancashire | B | 1.1 | 86% | 4.2 | 2% |
| 25 | Ashley Hampshire | B | 2.2 | 53% | 1.7 | 47% |
| 26 | Twyford Berkshire | B− | 2.4 | 86% | 2.1 | 5% |
| 27 | Berechurch Essex | B− | 2.1 | 72% | 10.4 | 0% |
| 28 | Wootton Bedfordshire | B− | 2.5 | 79% | 3.8 | 0% |
| 29 | Rogerstone Gwent | B− | 3.1 | 60% | 4.7 | 0% |
| 30 | Crawcrook and Greenside Tyne and Wear | B− | 3.2 | 86% | 2.4 | 0% |
| 31 | Yatton Somerset | B− | 3.7 | 40% | 2.5 | 0% |
| 32 | Denbigh Clwyd | B− | 1.3 | 96% | 2.3 | 5% |
| 33 | Buntingford Hertfordshire | C+ | 1.5 | 95% | 3.2 | 0% |
| 34 | Ystalyfera West Glamorgan | C+ | 2.6 | 84% | 0.8 | 15% |
| 35 | Crediton Devon | C+ | 2.4 | 89% | 2.4 | 0% |
| 36 | Paddock Wood Kent | C+ | 1.7 | 78% | 2.1 | 28% |
| 37 | Countesthorpe Leicestershire | C+ | 1.7 | 100% | 2.1 | 0% |
| 38 | Seaton Delaval Northumberland | C+ | 0.5 | 66% | 4 | 0% |
| 39 | Sprotbrough South Yorkshire | C+ | 1.8 | 79% | 3.5 | 0% |
| 40 | Holywell Clwyd | C | 0.9 | 68% | 3 | 0% |
| 41 | Mablethorpe Lincolnshire | C | 2.1 | 66% | 1.5 | 0% |
| 42 | Elworth Cheshire | C | 1.8 | 83% | 2.6 | 0% |
| 43 | Newbridge Gwent | C | 2.2 | 94% | 1.3 | 0% |
| 44 | Fazeley Staffordshire | C | 3.2 | 35% | 2.9 | 0% |
| 45 | Norton-on-Derwent North Yorkshire | C | 1.6 | 58% | 2.4 | 16% |
| 46 | Marske-by-the-Sea North Yorkshire | C | 1.6 | 66% | 1.8 | 0% |
| 47 | Southam Warwickshire | C | 2.3 | 86% | 1.7 | 0% |
| 48 | Dalton-in-Furness Cumbria | C | 0.9 | 74% | 2.4 | 0% |
| 49 | Histon and Impington Cambridgeshire | C | 1.5 | 66% | 3.9 | 0% |
| 50 | Heathfield East Sussex | C | 0.9 | 53% | 2.3 | 79% |
| 51 | Rainworth Nottinghamshire | C− | 0.5 | 65% | 4.6 | 0% |
| 52 | Tenterden Kent | C− | 0.8 | 58% | 1.8 | 48% |
| 53 | Cotgrave Nottinghamshire | C− | 1 | 47% | 4.1 | 0% |
| 54 | Godmanchester Cambridgeshire | C− | 1.6 | 66% | 2.7 | 0% |
| 55 | Highworth Wiltshire | C− | 0.4 | 59% | 4.1 | 0% |
| 56 | Clowne Derbyshire | C− | 1.4 | 67% | 2.8 | 0% |
| 57 | Spencers Wood and Three Mile Cross Berkshire | D | 0.7 | 78% | 2.7 | 0% |
| 58 | Polesworth and Dordon Warwickshire | D | 1.6 | 68% | 1.8 | 0% |
| 59 | Old Windsor and Wraysbury Berkshire | D | 1.2 | 52% | 2.5 | 0% |
| 60 | Treorchy Mid Glamorgan | D− | 1 | 57% | 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 Cotgrave’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 Cotgrave
The biggest is Cotgrave Field of Hope, 1.0 ha (3 acres). Directions go to the park’s nearest public entrance where Ordnance Survey maps one.
Close to home
5 in 10 Cotgrave 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).
Within 400 m (47%)Further (53%)
Cotgrave47%
Towns its size78%
Nottinghamshire towns81%
All UK towns83%
About 4,100 people live further than that. Playing fields count, so a park within reach isn’t always one with paths or trees; 7 playgrounds are mapped in and around the town, about one for every 1,113 residents.
Footpaths & waymarked walks
5 waymarked walks pass through or near Cotgrave
49 km of footpaths, bridleways and rights of way are mapped in Cotgrave and the kilometre around it, 4.1 km for every square kilometre (the typical UK town has 3.0). Bars show each route’s kilometres within 2 km of the town.
LocalOther waymarked
Red5.8 km
Green4.8 km
Blue3.5 km
Yellow2.2 km
Grantham Canal Bi-Centenial Canalside Walk1.3 km
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 Cotgrave: 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) | 7 | 8 | 11 | 14 | 17 | 20 | 22 | 22 | 19 | 14 | 10 | 8 |
| Rain (mm) | 45 | 37 | 35 | 41 | 46 | 60 | 63 | 60 | 51 | 58 | 53 | 52 |
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 63 mm of rain falls in July, the wettest month. Frost comes on about 38 nights a year. The climate in Cotgrave →
Things to do
7 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
Cotgrave is inland. These are the nearest named beaches, measured from the edge of the town.
The Beach17 mi from Cotgrave’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
Viewpoints 1
Windmill Hill0.2 mi from town
DirectionsCampsites 2
Hollygate Scout Campin town
DirectionsCanping & Caravan Club Nottingham Site1.0 mi from town
DirectionsNext door
The outdoors in nearby towns
The nearest towns of 1,000+ within 12 miles. Tap a town for its outdoors page.
Cropwell BishopRadcliffe on TrentTollertonGamston (Rushcliffe)KeyworthEdwaltonCotgrave
ABCDOutdoors Grade
| Town | Outdoors | Green space, ha per 1,000 | Near a park | Protected within 5 km |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cotgrave | C− | 1.0 | 47% | 0% |
| Cropwell Bishop 2.1 mi | D | 0.7 | 45% | 0% |
| Radcliffe on Trent 2.6 mi | C | 2.5 | 76% | 0% |
| Tollerton 2.6 mi | D− | 0.6 | 19% | 0% |
| Gamston (Rushcliffe) 3.2 mi | B+ | 2.7 | 86% | 0% |
| Keyworth 3.3 mi | D− | 1.3 | 58% | 0% |
| Edwalton 3.4 mi | C+ | 2.1 | 58% | 0% |
Gamston (Rushcliffe), 3.2 miles away, grades B+, the best next door: 86% of its residents live within 400 m of a park. Radcliffe on Trent, Gamston (Rushcliffe) and Edwalton have at least twice Cotgrave’s green space per resident. None of the neighbours has a protected landscape within 5 km either.
Questions about the outdoors in Cotgrave
What is the biggest park in Cotgrave?
Cotgrave Field of Hope, 1.0 ha (3 acres). 1 named park, garden or playing field is in the town or within 400 m of it.
Is Cotgrave near a National Park?
No National Park or National Landscape is within 30 km (about 19 miles) of Cotgrave.
What are the best walks near Cotgrave?
5 waymarked walking routes pass within 2 km of the town, including the Red, Green and Blue.
What is the nearest beach to Cotgrave?
The Beach, 17 mi from the edge of the town. Cotgrave itself is inland.
How many people in Cotgrave live near a park?
47% 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 Cotgrave?
May to September: the longest days, the warmest afternoons and the least rain of the year, from the Met Office 1991–2020 averages.
Is Cotgrave good for walking?
For paths, yes: 4.1 km of footpath and right of way per square kilometre, more than 82% of UK towns. For park space per person it beats 13% (1.0 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 Cotgrave’s overall grade.
Sources
Where Cotgrave’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.
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