Bodicote’s biggest
Bodicote Park
Playing field
14 ha (34 acres)
19 pitchesfootball pitches would fit
Centralin the middle of Bodicote
Directionsto the nearest entrance
Photo: Motacilla · CC BY-SA 4.0B+Outdoors Grade
Outdoors in Bodicote · parks, paths & countryside
Bodicote has more park space per resident than 9 in 10 UK towns
Parks and playing fields in Bodicote add up to 10.2 ha for every 1,000 residents; the typical UK town has 2.1. The Cotswolds National Landscape begins 5.9 mi from the town’s edge. 32 km of footpaths run through the town and the kilometre around it, 3.2 for every square kilometre. Bodicote grades B+ for the outdoors: #12 of 38 in Oxfordshire. A character grade: it isn’t part of the overall grade.
Green space
10.2 ha
per 1,000 residents
Typical UK town 2.1
Near a park
86%
of residents within 400 m
Typical UK town 83%
Footpaths
32 km
3.2 km per km², town + 1 km
Typical UK town 3.0 per km²
Protected landscape
0%
of the land within 5 km
Cotswolds starts 5.9 mi out, past the 5 km
Character
What kind of outdoors town is Bodicote?
Read from the data: what stands out first, good and bad.
Room to roam10.2 ha of parks and playing fields per 1,000 residents, more than 96% of UK towns.Countryside close byThe Cotswolds National Landscape starts 5.9 mi north-west.
Bodicote’s strongest suit is plenty of park space, followed by the Cotswolds National Landscape close by.
Outdoors grade
Bodicote grades B+ for the outdoors
Each chart is every UK town of 1,000 or more on one measure: the green bar is Bodicote, the dashed line the typical town. The number is the share of towns it beats; the five are averaged and the average ranked again.
B+
Better than 71% of UK towns#12 of 38 in Oxfordshire · 19th of 60 UK towns its size
Public green space10.2 haper 1,000 residents: parks, gardens, playing fields, play spaces
96out of
100
100
A park within a walk86%of residents within 400 m (a 5-minute walk)
59out of
100
100
National Park or National Landscape0%of the land within 5 km · Cotswolds begins just past 5 km
31out of
100
100
Footpaths3.2 kmper km², the town and 1 km around it
64out 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
Bodicote is 19th of 60 UK towns its size for the outdoors
The 60 UK towns and cities of 4,600 to 4,900 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
Bodicote3.2
Towns its size2.7
Oxfordshire towns2.6
All UK towns3.0
Green space, ha per 1,000 residents
Bodicote10.2
Towns its size2.4
Oxfordshire towns2.1
All UK towns2.1
Residents within 400 m of a park
Bodicote86%
Towns its size82%
Oxfordshire towns81%
All UK towns83%
Against towns its size, Bodicote stands out most for park space per resident: only 1 of the other 59 has more.
Show as a table
| Town | Outdoors | Green space | Near a park | Path per km² | Protected | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Rye East Sussex | A+ | 3.5 | 89% | 3.5 | 46% |
| 2 | Frinton-on-Sea Essex | A+ | 7.5 | 100% | 2.6 | 0% |
| 3 | Windermere Cumbria | A+ | 3 | 94% | 3.6 | 100% |
| 4 | Rownhams and Nursling Hampshire | A+ | 4.9 | 86% | 6.7 | 12% |
| 5 | Marple Bridge Greater Manchester | A | 9.9 | 80% | 4.4 | 13% |
| 6 | Wilford Nottinghamshire | A | 7.7 | 93% | 9.6 | 0% |
| 7 | Huntington Staffordshire | A | 3.7 | 74% | 4.6 | 27% |
| 8 | Carleton Lancashire | A | 3 | 86% | 3.8 | 0% |
| 9 | Rudheath Cheshire | A | 5.5 | 100% | 3.7 | 0% |
| 10 | Writtle Essex | A− | 5.8 | 100% | 3.3 | 0% |
| 11 | Cringleford Norfolk | A− | 1.7 | 94% | 7.4 | 0% |
| 12 | Dersingham Norfolk | A− | 3.1 | 76% | 1.9 | 39% |
| 13 | Brampton South Yorkshire | A− | 4.4 | 100% | 3.1 | 0% |
| 14 | Liss Hampshire | A− | 2.3 | 87% | 2.6 | 98% |
| 15 | Binfield Berkshire | A− | 8.5 | 100% | 2.5 | 0% |
| 16 | Saxmundham Suffolk | B+ | 3.3 | 100% | 1.9 | 3% |
| 17 | Hugglescote Leicestershire | B+ | 4.2 | 91% | 3.6 | 0% |
| 18 | Borough Green Kent | B+ | 2.5 | 93% | 1.9 | 50% |
| 19 | Bodicote Oxfordshire | B+ | 10.2 | 86% | 3.2 | 0% |
| 20 | Kings Worthy Hampshire | B+ | 3.9 | 66% | 3 | 23% |
| 21 | Sturry Kent | B+ | 2.7 | 80% | 3.4 | 1% |
| 22 | Callington Cornwall | B | 2.1 | 100% | 1.1 | 21% |
| 23 | Coedpoeth Clwyd | B | 1.4 | 100% | 1.9 | 24% |
| 24 | Lyneham Wiltshire | B− | 1.5 | 94% | 2.7 | 6% |
| 25 | Lenham and Harrietsham Kent | B− | 1.4 | 88% | 2.4 | 47% |
| 26 | Chalfont St Giles Buckinghamshire | B− | 1.8 | 57% | 3.5 | 37% |
| 27 | Kelvedon and Feering Essex | B− | 3.5 | 94% | 2.2 | 0% |
| 28 | Astley Greater Manchester | B− | 3.5 | 78% | 3.1 | 0% |
| 29 | Bromham Bedfordshire | B− | 3.8 | 87% | 2.2 | 0% |
| 30 | Handsacre and Armitage Staffordshire | B− | 1.8 | 89% | 2.1 | 12% |
| 31 | Llay Clwyd | B− | 10.6 | 85% | 1.7 | 0% |
| 32 | Dudley Tyne and Wear | C+ | 2.6 | 69% | 4 | 0% |
| 33 | Bramley Hampshire | C+ | 2.8 | 100% | 1.4 | 0% |
| 34 | Dickens Heath West Midlands | C+ | 3.2 | 82% | 2.5 | 0% |
| 35 | Loughor West Glamorgan | C+ | 2.1 | 70% | 1.2 | 6% |
| 36 | Cross Hills North Yorkshire | C+ | 1.9 | 86% | 3 | 0% |
| 37 | Ripponden West Yorkshire | C+ | 2.1 | 75% | 3.8 | 0% |
| 38 | Edwalton Nottinghamshire | C+ | 2.1 | 58% | 4.5 | 0% |
| 39 | Shortstown Bedfordshire | C | 2.4 | 82% | 2.5 | 0% |
| 40 | Datchet Berkshire | C | 8.4 | 72% | 1.5 | 0% |
| 41 | Bowburn County Durham | C | 1.5 | 71% | 3.8 | 0% |
| 42 | Minster (Thanet) Kent | C | 2.3 | 64% | 1.2 | 0% |
| 43 | Makeney Derbyshire | C | 2.1 | 56% | 3.4 | 0% |
| 44 | Mynydd Isa Clwyd | C | 0.9 | 87% | 2 | 3% |
| 45 | Northway Gloucestershire | C | 0.9 | 58% | 3.1 | 13% |
| 46 | Winterton Lincolnshire | C | 1.6 | 82% | 1.1 | 0% |
| 47 | Kinver Staffordshire | C | 3.1 | 60% | 2.3 | 0% |
| 48 | Woodhall Spa Lincolnshire | C− | 1.9 | 61% | 3 | 0% |
| 49 | Barton-under-Needwood Staffordshire | C− | 2.3 | 70% | 2.2 | 0% |
| 50 | Preesall and Knott End-on-Sea Lancashire | C− | 0.7 | 69% | 1.9 | 0% |
| 51 | Bricket Wood Hertfordshire | C− | 1.7 | 43% | 3.8 | 0% |
| 52 | Middleton St George County Durham | C− | 1.8 | 94% | 1 | 0% |
| 53 | Sowerby North Yorkshire | C− | 1.5 | 77% | 2.7 | 0% |
| 54 | Bailrigg Lancashire | C− | 0 | 0% | 3.4 | 18% |
| 55 | Stretton Staffordshire | C− | 3.7 | 49% | 1.7 | 0% |
| 56 | Melbourne Derbyshire | C− | 1.5 | 67% | 2.7 | 0% |
| 57 | Crowland Lincolnshire | C− | 2.8 | 70% | 1.2 | 0% |
| 58 | South Cave East Riding of Yorkshire | D | 1.5 | 43% | 0.9 | 0% |
| 59 | Markfield Leicestershire | D | 0.8 | 63% | 2.7 | 0% |
| 60 | Chilton County Durham | D− | 1.1 | 68% | 1 | 0% |
The map
Parks, footpaths & countryside
Tap a number to zoom to a park. Tap a layer to hide it. The dashed line is Bodicote’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 Bodicote
The biggest is Bodicote Park, 14 ha (34 acres). Directions go to the park’s nearest public entrance where Ordnance Survey maps one.
Close to home
9 in 10 Bodicote 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 (86%)Further (14%)
Bodicote86%
Towns its size82%
Oxfordshire towns81%
All UK towns83%
About 700 people live further than that. Playing fields count, so a park within reach isn’t always one with paths or trees; 28 playgrounds are mapped in and around the town, about one for every 170 residents.
National Parks & National Landscapes
The Cotswolds National Landscape is 5.9 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.
National ParkNational LandscapeThe 5 km the grade counts
Protected landscape begins just outside the 5 km ring the Outdoors Grade measures, so Bodicote scores 0% on it even though the Cotswolds National Landscape is 5.9 mi away.
Footpaths & waymarked walks
5 waymarked walks pass through or near Bodicote
32 km of footpaths, bridleways and rights of way are mapped in Bodicote and the kilometre around it, 3.2 km for every square kilometre (the typical UK town has 3.0). Bars show each route’s kilometres within 2 km of the town.
RegionalLocal
Oxford Canal Walk5.2 km
Adderbury Circular Walk5.1 km
Jurassic Way4.2 km
Cross Cotswold Pathway1.6 km
Grimsbury 5km0.9 km
Close to home, the Adderbury Circular Walk has 5 km of local walk within 2 km of the town. 3 regional routes pass through, including the Oxford Canal Walk, Jurassic Way and Cross Cotswold Pathway.
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 Bodicote: 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 | 14.6 | 12.6 | 10.5 | 8.7 | 7.8 |
| High (°C) | 7 | 8 | 11 | 14 | 17 | 20 | 22 | 22 | 19 | 14 | 10 | 8 |
| Rain (mm) | 67 | 47 | 46 | 51 | 59 | 49 | 54 | 63 | 55 | 73 | 72 | 66 |
March is the driest month (46 mm) and July the warmest (highs of 22 °C). Winter days are short, about 8 hours of daylight in December, and 73 mm of rain falls in October, the wettest month. Frost comes on about 60 nights a year. The climate in Bodicote →
Things to do
28 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
Bodicote is inland. These are the nearest named beaches, measured from the edge of the town.
The Leys Park19 mi from Bodicote’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
Crouch Hill1.0 mi from town
DirectionsNature reserves 1
Adderbury Lakes2.6 ha · 1.2 mi from town
DirectionsPlaygrounds 28
Broughton Road Play Area1.0 mi from town
DirectionsPlus 27 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.
Adderbury and TwyfordBanburyKings SuttonBloxhamMiddleton CheneyDeddingtonBodicote
ABCDOutdoors Grade
| Town | Outdoors | Green space, ha per 1,000 | Near a park | Protected within 5 km |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bodicote | B+ | 10.2 | 86% | 0% |
| Adderbury and Twyford 1.4 mi | C | 1.7 | 89% | 0% |
| Banbury 2.0 mi | A | 2.6 | 96% | 0% |
| Kings Sutton 2.4 mi | C− | 1.8 | 79% | 0% |
| Bloxham 2.7 mi | C− | 2.6 | 71% | 0% |
| Middleton Cheney 3.3 mi | D | 0.9 | 70% | 0% |
| Deddington 3.9 mi | C− | 3.6 | 53% | 0% |
Banbury, 2 miles away, grades A, the best next door: 96% of its residents live within 400 m of a park. None of the neighbours has a protected landscape within 5 km either.
Questions about the outdoors in Bodicote
What is the biggest park in Bodicote?
Bodicote Park, 14 ha (34 acres). 1 named park, garden or playing field is in the town or within 400 m of it.
Is Bodicote near a National Park?
The nearest protected landscape is the Cotswolds National Landscape, 5.9 mi north-west of the town’s edge. It covers 2,041 km² and was designated in 1966.
What are the best walks near Bodicote?
5 waymarked walking routes pass within 2 km of the town, including the Oxford Canal Walk, Adderbury Circular Walk and Jurassic Way.
What is the nearest beach to Bodicote?
The Leys Park, 19 mi from the edge of the town. Bodicote itself is inland.
How many people in Bodicote live near a park?
86% 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 Bodicote?
May to September: the longest days, the warmest afternoons and the least rain of the year, from the Met Office 1991–2020 averages.
Is Bodicote good for walking?
For paths, yes: 3.2 km of footpath and right of way per square kilometre, more than 64% of UK towns. For park space per person it beats 96% (10.2 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 Bodicote’s overall grade.
Sources
Where Bodicote’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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