Photo: Rodw at English Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0Parks and walks in Clutton
The Mendip Hills National Landscape begins 1.6 mi from the village’s edge. Parks and playing fields in Clutton add up to 0.9 ha for every 1,000 residents; the typical UK town has 2.1. Footpaths add up to 30 km in the village and the kilometre around it, 3.3 for every square kilometre. Clutton grades C+ for the outdoors. A character grade: it isn’t part of the overall grade.
What kind of outdoors village is Clutton?
Read from the data: what stands out first, good and bad.
Clutton’s strongest suit is two protected landscapes close by. Where it falls short is park space per person.
Clutton grades C+ for the outdoors
Each chart is every UK town of 1,000 or more on one measure: the green bar is Clutton, the dashed line the typical town. The number is the share of towns it beats; the five are averaged and the average ranked again.
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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.
Clutton is 31st of 60 UK villages its size for the outdoors
The 60 UK towns and cities of 1,500 to 1,700 people with an Outdoors Grade. Hover a dot for its figures; tap one for its page.
Against villages its size, Clutton stands out most for path per km²: only 12 of the other 59 have more. It falls furthest behind on park space per resident, where 55 of the others do better.
Show as a table
| Town | Outdoors | Green space | Near a park | Path per km² | Protected | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Portskewett Gwent | A+ | 10 | 100% | 2.9 | 3% |
| 2 | Melton Suffolk | A+ | 6.5 | 100% | 4.1 | 33% |
| 3 | Llansanffraid Glan Conwy Clwyd | A+ | 10.8 | 100% | 1.6 | 8% |
| 4 | Pen-clawdd West Glamorgan | A | 4 | 100% | 0.5 | 42% |
| 5 | St Athan South Glamorgan | A | 2.2 | 100% | 3 | 0% |
| 6 | Hale Bank Cheshire | A− | 9.1 | 100% | 1.4 | 0% |
| 7 | Shillington Bedfordshire | A− | 3.7 | 83% | 3.2 | 14% |
| 8 | Bean Kent | A− | 17 | 72% | 3.1 | 0% |
| 9 | Woodhouse Eaves Leicestershire | A− | 35.7 | 85% | 3.8 | 0% |
| 10 | Kewstoke Somerset | A− | 1.3 | 74% | 4.3 | 1% |
| 11 | Hampton Magna Warwickshire | A− | 6.8 | 100% | 2.6 | 0% |
| 12 | Sonning Berkshire | A− | 11.1 | 80% | 2.5 | 7% |
| 13 | East Dean and Friston East Sussex | B+ | 1.2 | 18% | 4.6 | 58% |
| 14 | Stithians Cornwall | B+ | 3.2 | 80% | 3.4 | 3% |
| 15 | Staining Lancashire | B+ | 2.6 | 100% | 1.9 | 0% |
| 16 | Seal Kent | B+ | 3.3 | 78% | 2.1 | 77% |
| 17 | Littlebourne Kent | B+ | 1.6 | 100% | 3 | 9% |
| 18 | Farcet Cambridgeshire | B+ | 13.8 | 77% | 3.5 | 0% |
| 19 | Ardingly West Sussex | B | 1.7 | 53% | 4.1 | 83% |
| 20 | Abridge Essex | B | 3 | 100% | 2.4 | 0% |
| 21 | Mount Hawke Cornwall | B | 1.4 | 85% | 2 | 6% |
| 22 | Edgworth Lancashire | B | 3.2 | 100% | 2.1 | 0% |
| 23 | Normandy Surrey | B− | 3.2 | 23% | 3.1 | 26% |
| 24 | Sibertswold Kent | B− | 1.9 | 79% | 2.2 | 38% |
| 25 | Onley Northamptonshire | B− | 2.3 | 100% | 2.2 | 0% |
| 26 | Whittington Shropshire | B− | 3.7 | 100% | 1 | 0% |
| 27 | West Horndon Essex | C+ | 2.2 | 100% | 1.9 | 0% |
| 28 | Bartestree Herefordshire | C+ | 2.1 | 81% | 1.9 | 10% |
| 29 | Everton Hampshire | C+ | 1.3 | 58% | 1.5 | 37% |
| 30 | Templecombe Somerset | C+ | 2 | 100% | 1.7 | 0% |
| 31 | Clutton Somerset | C+ | 0.9 | 74% | 3.3 | 11% |
| 32 | New Arley Warwickshire | C+ | 2.4 | 100% | 1.1 | 0% |
| 33 | High Littleton Somerset | C+ | 1 | 58% | 4.9 | 1% |
| 34 | Potterspury Northamptonshire | C | 1.4 | 100% | 2.1 | 0% |
| 35 | Acton Suffolk | C | 1.6 | 100% | 1.8 | 0% |
| 36 | Blisworth Northamptonshire | C | 2.2 | 81% | 2.4 | 0% |
| 37 | Buxted East Sussex | C | 1.1 | 63% | 2.4 | 52% |
| 38 | Stonesfield Oxfordshire | C | 1.9 | 60% | 1.8 | 38% |
| 39 | Harden West Yorkshire | C | 1.8 | 40% | 5 | 0% |
| 40 | Earith Cambridgeshire | C | 1.2 | 78% | 3.6 | 0% |
| 41 | Scawby Lincolnshire | C− | 25.7 | 68% | 0.4 | 0% |
| 42 | Wylam Northumberland | C− | 1.1 | 74% | 3.8 | 0% |
| 43 | Higher Walton Lancashire | C− | 2.2 | 61% | 2.7 | 0% |
| 44 | Thorney Cambridgeshire | C− | 3.4 | 74% | 0.7 | 0% |
| 45 | Creunant West Glamorgan | C− | 1.7 | 79% | 0.3 | 0% |
| 46 | Pensilva Cornwall | C− | 1.6 | 60% | 1.3 | 15% |
| 47 | Sywell and Overstone Northamptonshire | D | 3.1 | 62% | 1.2 | 0% |
| 48 | Upper Arncott Oxfordshire | D | 3.1 | 59% | 1.2 | 0% |
| 49 | Thurcaston Leicestershire | D | 1.1 | 33% | 3.6 | 0% |
| 50 | Ainsworth Greater Manchester | D | 0.4 | 64% | 3.2 | 0% |
| 51 | Whittlesford Cambridgeshire | D | 2.3 | 57% | 1.4 | 0% |
| 52 | Moulton Lincolnshire | D | 1.9 | 75% | 0.1 | 0% |
| 53 | Ketton Rutland | D | 2.1 | 56% | 1.4 | 0% |
| 54 | Balsham Cambridgeshire | D | 1.7 | 57% | 1.8 | 0% |
| 55 | St Erme and Trispen Cornwall | D | 0.3 | 69% | 1.2 | 2% |
| 56 | Findern Derbyshire | D | 1.8 | 40% | 1.9 | 0% |
| 57 | Woodborough Nottinghamshire | D− | 1 | 45% | 2 | 0% |
| 58 | Ulceby Lincolnshire | D− | 1.2 | 72% | 0.5 | 0% |
| 59 | Scarcroft West Yorkshire | D− | 0.5 | 15% | 2.4 | 0% |
| 60 | Church Fenton North Yorkshire | D− | 0.3 | 50% | 0.7 | 0% |
Parks, footpaths & countryside
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7 in 10 Clutton 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).
About 400 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 village, about one for every 233 residents.
Mendip Hills and Cotswolds both start about 6 miles from Clutton
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.
Cranborne Chase & West Wiltshire Downs
11% of the land within 5 km of Clutton is National Park or National Landscape, more than 71% of UK towns.
2 waymarked walks pass through or near Clutton
30 km of footpaths, bridleways and rights of way are mapped in Clutton and the kilometre around it, 3.3 km for every square kilometre (the typical UK town has 3.0). Bars show each route’s kilometres within 2 km of the village.
Close to home, the Three Peaks Walk has 6 km of local walk within 2 km of the village. The regional route here is the Limestone Link.
Waymarked walks are OpenStreetMap walking routes. Public rights of way are only as complete as the map in each area.
The best walking months in Clutton: May to July and 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 | |
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| Daylight (h) | 8.3 | 9.9 | 11.7 | 13.8 | 15.6 | 16.6 | 16.2 | 14.6 | 12.5 | 10.6 | 8.8 | 7.9 |
| High (°C) | 8 | 8 | 10 | 13 | 16 | 19 | 21 | 21 | 18 | 14 | 11 | 8 |
| Rain (mm) | 103 | 74 | 65 | 62 | 66 | 63 | 69 | 83 | 71 | 101 | 106 | 105 |
April is the driest month (62 mm) and July the warmest (highs of 21 °C). Winter days are short, about 8 hours of daylight in December, and 106 mm of rain falls in November, the wettest month. Frost comes on about 40 nights a year. The climate in Clutton →
7 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
Clutton 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.
Up high. Nap Hill, at 179 m, is the highest named top within 2 km of Clutton.
Every named place, with directions
Viewpoints 1
Plus 1 viewpoint without a name on the map.
Hills and peaks 3
Plus 1 peak without a name on the map.
Waterfalls 1
Plus 1 waterfall without a name on the map.
Playgrounds 7
Plus 7 playgrounds without a name on the map.
Campsites 1
Plus 1 campsite without a name on the map.
The outdoors in nearby towns
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Clutton | C+ | 0.9 | 74% | 11% |
| Temple Cloud 0.6 mi | B+ | 2.6 | 77% | 15% |
| High Littleton 1.3 mi | C+ | 1.0 | 58% | 1% |
| Paulton 2.2 mi | A− | 2.1 | 96% | 0% |
| Bishop Sutton 2.5 mi | B− | 2.3 | 64% | 36% |
| Farmborough 2.5 mi | C− | 2.0 | 38% | 0% |
| Timsbury 2.7 mi | B− | 2.7 | 68% | 0% |
Paulton, 2.2 miles away, grades A−, the best next door: 96% of its residents live within 400 m of a park. Temple Cloud, Paulton and Bishop Sutton have at least twice Clutton’s green space per resident.
Questions about the outdoors in Clutton
Is Clutton near a National Park?
The nearest protected landscape is the Mendip Hills National Landscape, 1.6 mi west of the village’s edge. It covers 198 km² and was designated in 1989.
What are the best walks near Clutton?
2 waymarked walking routes pass within 2 km of the village, including the Three Peaks Walk and Limestone Link.
What is the nearest beach to Clutton?
Sugar Loaf Beach, 15 mi from the edge of the village, then Ladye Bay (15 mi). Clutton itself is inland.
How many people in Clutton live near a park?
74% 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 Clutton?
May to July and September: the longest days, the warmest afternoons and the least rain of the year, from the Met Office 1991–2020 averages.
Is Clutton good for walking?
For paths, yes: 3.3 km of footpath and right of way per square kilometre, more than 66% of UK towns. For park space per person it beats 11% (0.9 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 Clutton’s overall grade.
Where Clutton’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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