Steventon’s biggest
The Green
Playing field
3.9 ha (10 acres)0.2 km of path
6 pitchesfootball pitches would fit
Centralin the middle of Steventon
Directionsto the nearest entrance
Photo: David Howard · CC BY-SA 2.0B+Outdoors Grade
Outdoors in Steventon · parks, paths & countryside
Almost everyone in Steventon lives within a 5-minute walk of a park
The North Wessex Downs National Landscape begins 1.2 mi from the village’s edge. 28 km of footpaths run through the village and the kilometre around it, 2.0 for every square kilometre. Parks and playing fields in Steventon add up to 2.0 ha for every 1,000 residents; the typical UK town has 2.1. Steventon grades B+ for the outdoors. A character grade: it isn’t part of the overall grade.
Green space
2.0 ha
per 1,000 residents
Typical UK town 2.1
Near a park
100%
of residents within 400 m
Typical UK town 83%
Footpaths
28 km
2.0 km per km², town + 1 km
Typical UK town 3.0 per km²
Protected landscape
17%
of the land within 5 km
Nearest: North Wessex Downs National Landscape
Character
What kind of outdoors village is Steventon?
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.Countryside close byThe North Wessex Downs National Landscape starts 1.2 mi south.
Steventon’s strongest suit is parks close to every home, followed by the North Wessex Downs National Landscape close by.
Outdoors grade
Steventon grades B+ for the outdoors
Each chart is every UK town of 1,000 or more on one measure: the green bar is Steventon, 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 66% of UK towns20th of 60 UK villages its size
Public green space2.0 haper 1,000 residents: parks, gardens, playing fields, play spaces
44out 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 Landscape17%of the land within 5 km
75out of
100
100
Footpaths2.0 kmper km², the town and 1 km around it
31out 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.
Villages its size
Steventon is 20th of 60 UK villages its size for the outdoors
The 60 UK towns and cities of 2,100 to 2,300 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
Steventon2.0
Villages its size2.0
Oxfordshire towns2.6
All UK towns3.0
Green space, ha per 1,000 residents
Steventon2.0
Villages its size2.0
Oxfordshire towns2.1
All UK towns2.1
Residents within 400 m of a park
Steventon100%
Villages its size70%
Oxfordshire towns81%
All UK towns83%
Against villages its size, Steventon stands out most for homes near a park: none of the other 59 has more.
Show as a table
| Town | Outdoors | Green space | Near a park | Path per km² | Protected | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Brockham Surrey | A+ | 7.4 | 94% | 4.4 | 38% |
| 2 | Limpsfield Surrey | A+ | 2.9 | 100% | 3.7 | 41% |
| 3 | Tanyfron Clwyd | A | 7.4 | 100% | 2.6 | 13% |
| 4 | Berry Hill Gloucestershire | A | 2.9 | 79% | 4.7 | 55% |
| 5 | Hapton Lancashire | A | 2.6 | 87% | 6.1 | 2% |
| 6 | Severn Beach Gloucestershire | A− | 5.8 | 100% | 1.5 | 0% |
| 7 | Great Horkesley Essex | A− | 4.7 | 78% | 3.3 | 25% |
| 8 | Arnside Cumbria | A− | 1.3 | 65% | 4.1 | 75% |
| 9 | Smalley Derbyshire | A− | 2.9 | 100% | 4.1 | 0% |
| 10 | Merlin's Bridge Dyfed | A− | 3.3 | 100% | 2 | 11% |
| 11 | Gilwern Gwent | A− | 1.9 | 100% | 2 | 83% |
| 12 | Berrow and Brean Somerset | A− | 3.6 | 75% | 1.7 | 1% |
| 13 | Newstead Nottinghamshire | B+ | 2.6 | 100% | 3.7 | 0% |
| 14 | Woodcote Oxfordshire | B+ | 1.6 | 84% | 3.5 | 99% |
| 15 | Charing Kent | B+ | 2.7 | 85% | 2.1 | 56% |
| 16 | Brimscombe and Thrupp Gloucestershire | B+ | 2.1 | 12% | 5.9 | 89% |
| 17 | Gamston (Rushcliffe) Nottinghamshire | B+ | 2.7 | 86% | 4.7 | 0% |
| 18 | Woodford Greater Manchester | B+ | 5.9 | 80% | 2.3 | 5% |
| 19 | Banwell Somerset | B+ | 1.7 | 100% | 2 | 38% |
| 20 | Steventon Oxfordshire | B+ | 2 | 100% | 2 | 17% |
| 21 | Longtown Cumbria | B | 4.3 | 100% | 0.1 | 0% |
| 22 | Crick Northamptonshire | B | 3.8 | 100% | 1.9 | 0% |
| 23 | Mayfield East Sussex | B− | 3.3 | 61% | 1.9 | 99% |
| 24 | Rayne Essex | B− | 4.3 | 64% | 4 | 0% |
| 25 | Loddon Norfolk | B− | 2.4 | 77% | 2.5 | 18% |
| 26 | Lechlade-on-Thames Gloucestershire | B− | 6.7 | 66% | 1.5 | 6% |
| 27 | Swanton Morley Norfolk | C+ | 3.5 | 94% | 1.6 | 0% |
| 28 | Hermitage Berkshire | C+ | 0.6 | 58% | 3.4 | 82% |
| 29 | Hook Norton Oxfordshire | C+ | 2 | 70% | 2 | 28% |
| 30 | Huncote Leicestershire | C+ | 0.8 | 100% | 2.9 | 0% |
| 31 | Berkeley Gloucestershire | C+ | 0.9 | 49% | 2.6 | 3% |
| 32 | Farndon Cheshire | C+ | 1.2 | 82% | 4.2 | 0% |
| 33 | East Bergholt Suffolk | C | 1.9 | 26% | 2.4 | 46% |
| 34 | Trimsaran Dyfed | C | 2.4 | 31% | 1 | 2% |
| 35 | Wickham Market Suffolk | C | 2.5 | 64% | 1.7 | 7% |
| 36 | Llanidloes Powys | C | 2.4 | 89% | 1.3 | 0% |
| 37 | Barwick in Elmet West Yorkshire | C | 1.5 | 87% | 2.5 | 0% |
| 38 | Eye Suffolk | C | 2 | 66% | 3 | 0% |
| 39 | Aspatria Cumbria | C− | 3.1 | 60% | 0.8 | 1% |
| 40 | Wateringbury Kent | C− | 2.4 | 73% | 2.1 | 0% |
| 41 | Great Blakenham Suffolk | C− | 3.6 | 70% | 1.5 | 0% |
| 42 | Stoke Prior Worcestershire | C− | 2.6 | 67% | 2.2 | 0% |
| 43 | Coleford Somerset | C− | 1.2 | 51% | 4.5 | 0% |
| 44 | Meriden West Midlands | C− | 1.8 | 70% | 2.6 | 0% |
| 45 | Woldingham Surrey | C− | 0.2 | 25% | 3.1 | 20% |
| 46 | Hatfield Woodhouse South Yorkshire | C− | 0.6 | 100% | 1.6 | 0% |
| 47 | St Osyth Essex | C− | 1.5 | 54% | 1.3 | 0% |
| 48 | Duxford Cambridgeshire | D | 1.7 | 78% | 1.2 | 0% |
| 49 | Wickham Hampshire | D | 0.8 | 26% | 2 | 13% |
| 50 | Morton Lincolnshire | D | 0.2 | 28% | 3 | 0% |
| 51 | Kineton Warwickshire | D | 0.2 | 0% | 1.8 | 5% |
| 52 | Great Barford Bedfordshire | D− | 1.4 | 45% | 1.8 | 0% |
| 53 | Leconfield East Riding of Yorkshire | D− | 1.6 | 51% | 1.3 | 0% |
| 54 | Mattishall Norfolk | D− | 1.4 | 58% | 1.5 | 0% |
| 55 | Bettws Mid Glamorgan | D− | 0.7 | 71% | 1.6 | 0% |
| 56 | Misterton Nottinghamshire | D− | 1.4 | 47% | 1.7 | 0% |
| 57 | Billinghay Lincolnshire | D− | 1.8 | 41% | 0.7 | 0% |
| 58 | Shenstone Staffordshire | D− | 1 | 55% | 1 | 0% |
| 59 | Cilfrew West Glamorgan | D− | 0.8 | 44% | 1.3 | 0% |
| 60 | Aslockton Nottinghamshire | D− | 1 | 11% | 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 Steventon’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 Steventon
The biggest is The Green, 3.9 ha (10 acres). Directions go to the park’s nearest public entrance where Ordnance Survey maps one.
Close to home
How close Steventon’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%)
Steventon100%
Villages its size70%
Oxfordshire towns81%
All UK towns83%
Playing fields count, so a park within reach isn’t always one with paths or trees; 5 playgrounds are mapped in and around the village, about one for every 442 residents.
National Parks & National Landscapes
The North Wessex Downs National Landscape is 1.2 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
National Landscape
North Wessex Downs
1.2 mi south1,731 km²since 197217% of the land within 5 km
Official site17% of the land within 5 km of Steventon is National Park or National Landscape, more than 75% of UK towns.
Footpaths & waymarked walks
1 waymarked walk passes through or near Steventon
28 km of footpaths, bridleways and rights of way are mapped in Steventon and the kilometre around it, 2.0 km for every square kilometre (the typical UK town has 3.0). Bars show each route’s kilometres within 2 km of the village.
Local
The Vale Way7.2 km
Close to home, the The Vale Way has 7 km of local walk within 2 km of the village.
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 Steventon: May to September
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) | 8.3 | 9.9 | 11.7 | 13.8 | 15.6 | 16.6 | 16.2 | 14.6 | 12.6 | 10.5 | 8.7 | 7.8 |
| High (°C) | 8 | 9 | 11 | 14 | 17 | 21 | 23 | 22 | 19 | 15 | 11 | 8 |
| Rain (mm) | 58 | 40 | 37 | 44 | 50 | 46 | 44 | 50 | 45 | 63 | 65 | 57 |
March is the driest month (37 mm) and July the warmest (highs of 23 °C). Winter days are short, about 8 hours of daylight in December, and 65 mm of rain falls in November, the wettest month. Frost comes on about 47 nights a year. The climate in Steventon →
Things to do
5 playgrounds and the nearest beaches
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.
The nearest beaches
Steventon is inland. These are the nearest named beaches, measured from the edge of the village.
The Leys Park12 mi from Steventon’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
Hills and peaks 1
Quab Hill0.9 mi from town
DirectionsPlaygrounds 5
Plus 5 playgrounds without a name on the map.
Campsites 1
Muster Point Campsite0.9 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.
DraytonEast HendredSutton CourtenayHarwellEast HanneyMarchamSteventon
ABCDOutdoors Grade
| Town | Outdoors | Green space, ha per 1,000 | Near a park | Protected within 5 km |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Steventon | B+ | 2.0 | 100% | 17% |
| Drayton 1.6 mi | B+ | 1.7 | 100% | 3% |
| East Hendred 2.0 mi | C | 1.4 | 29% | 47% |
| Sutton Courtenay 2.3 mi | C | 1.2 | 23% | 6% |
| Harwell 2.3 mi | B− | 1.4 | 85% | 42% |
| East Hanney 3.1 mi | A− | 5.7 | 100% | 4% |
| Marcham 3.2 mi | C | 1.2 | 100% | 0% |
East Hanney, 3.1 miles away, grades A−, the best next door: every resident lives within 400 m of a park. East Hanney has at least twice Steventon’s green space per resident.
Questions about the outdoors in Steventon
What is the biggest park in Steventon?
The Green, 3.9 ha (10 acres). 1 named park, garden or playing field is in the village or within 400 m of it.
Is Steventon near a National Park?
The nearest protected landscape is the North Wessex Downs National Landscape, 1.2 mi south of the village’s edge. It covers 1,731 km² and was designated in 1972.
What are the best walks near Steventon?
1 waymarked walking route passes within 2 km of the village, including the The Vale Way.
What is the nearest beach to Steventon?
The Leys Park, 12 mi from the edge of the village. Steventon itself is inland.
How many people in Steventon 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 Steventon?
May to September: the longest days, the warmest afternoons and the least rain of the year, from the Met Office 1991–2020 averages.
Is Steventon good for walking?
Paths are thinner than most towns: 2.0 km of footpath and right of way per square kilometre, more than 31% of UK towns. For park space per person it beats 44% (2.0 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 Steventon’s overall grade.
Sources
Where Steventon’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.