Evercreech’s biggest
Horsehill Meadows
Play space
0.1 ha (0 acres)
Centralin the middle of Evercreech
Directionsto the nearest entrance
Photo: Roger Cornfoot · CC BY-SA 2.0BOutdoors Grade
Outdoors in Evercreech · parks, paths & countryside
Almost everyone in Evercreech lives within a 5-minute walk of a park
The Cranborne Chase & West Wiltshire Downs National Landscape begins 5.4 mi from the village’s edge. Parks and playing fields in Evercreech add up to 3.5 ha for every 1,000 residents; the typical UK town has 2.1. Footpaths add up to 15 km in the village and the kilometre around it, 2.0 for every square kilometre. Evercreech grades B for the outdoors. A character grade: it isn’t part of the overall grade.
Green space
3.5 ha
per 1,000 residents
Typical UK town 2.1
Near a park
100%
of residents within 400 m
Typical UK town 83%
Footpaths
15 km
2.0 km per km², town + 1 km
Typical UK town 3.0 per km²
Protected landscape
0%
of the land within 5 km
Cranborne Chase & West Wiltshire Downs starts 5.4 mi out, past the 5 km
Character
What kind of outdoors village is Evercreech?
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 roam3.5 ha of parks and playing fields per 1,000 residents, more than 75% of UK towns.Countryside close byThe Cranborne Chase & West Wiltshire Downs National Landscape starts 5.4 mi east.
Evercreech’s strongest suit is parks close to every home, followed by plenty of park space.
Outdoors grade
Evercreech grades B for the outdoors
Each chart is every UK town of 1,000 or more on one measure: the green bar is Evercreech, 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 57% of UK towns27th of 60 UK villages its size
Public green space3.5 haper 1,000 residents: parks, gardens, playing fields, play spaces
76out 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 · Cranborne Chase & West Wiltshire Downs begins just past 5 km
31out of
100
100
Footpaths2.0 kmper km², the town and 1 km around it
29out 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
Evercreech is 27th 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
Evercreech2.0
Villages its size2.2
Somerset towns3.0
All UK towns3.0
Green space, ha per 1,000 residents
Evercreech3.5
Villages its size2.3
Somerset towns2.0
All UK towns2.1
Residents within 400 m of a park
Evercreech100%
Villages its size83%
Somerset towns83%
All UK towns83%
Against villages its size, Evercreech stands out most for park space per resident: only 16 of the other 59 have more.
Show as a table
| Town | Outdoors | Green space | Near a park | Path per km² | Protected | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mullion Cornwall | A+ | 3.7 | 100% | 2.5 | 64% |
| 2 | Broughton Buckinghamshire | A+ | 8 | 100% | 6.5 | 0% |
| 3 | Bestwood Village Nottinghamshire | A | 43.8 | 100% | 5.2 | 0% |
| 4 | Deepcut Surrey | A | 8.4 | 100% | 6.8 | 0% |
| 5 | Springwell Tyne and Wear | A | 5 | 100% | 6.7 | 0% |
| 6 | Smalley Derbyshire | A− | 2.9 | 100% | 4.1 | 0% |
| 7 | Streethay Staffordshire | A− | 10.1 | 100% | 2.6 | 0% |
| 8 | Gilwern Gwent | A− | 1.9 | 100% | 2 | 83% |
| 9 | Newstead Nottinghamshire | B+ | 2.6 | 100% | 3.7 | 0% |
| 10 | Woodcote Oxfordshire | B+ | 1.6 | 84% | 3.5 | 99% |
| 11 | Hanslope Buckinghamshire | B+ | 1.9 | 100% | 4.9 | 0% |
| 12 | Church Warsop Nottinghamshire | B+ | 4.1 | 85% | 4.2 | 0% |
| 13 | Chiddingfold Surrey | B+ | 2.2 | 87% | 2.5 | 68% |
| 14 | Wells-next-the-Sea Norfolk | B+ | 2 | 70% | 1.9 | 65% |
| 15 | Charing Kent | B+ | 2.7 | 85% | 2.1 | 56% |
| 16 | Brimscombe and Thrupp Gloucestershire | B+ | 2.1 | 12% | 5.9 | 89% |
| 17 | Sharlston West Yorkshire | B+ | 4.9 | 93% | 3 | 0% |
| 18 | Gamston (Rushcliffe) Nottinghamshire | B+ | 2.7 | 86% | 4.7 | 0% |
| 19 | Holbrook Suffolk | B+ | 1.1 | 74% | 2.7 | 52% |
| 20 | Banwell Somerset | B+ | 1.7 | 100% | 2 | 38% |
| 21 | Carnon Downs and Devoran Cornwall | B+ | 0.3 | 87% | 2.5 | 36% |
| 22 | Yarnfield Staffordshire | B | 6.6 | 100% | 1.8 | 0% |
| 23 | Longtown Cumbria | B | 4.3 | 100% | 0.1 | 0% |
| 24 | Wheelock Cheshire | B | 2.4 | 100% | 2.8 | 0% |
| 25 | Ellington Northumberland | B | 2.5 | 86% | 2 | 0% |
| 26 | Trowell Nottinghamshire | B | 7.7 | 56% | 4.5 | 0% |
| 27 | Evercreech Somerset | B | 3.5 | 100% | 2 | 0% |
| 28 | Rayne Essex | B− | 4.3 | 64% | 4 | 0% |
| 29 | Resolven West Glamorgan | B− | 2.4 | 100% | 2.3 | 0% |
| 30 | East Peckham Kent | B− | 14.5 | 66% | 2 | 1% |
| 31 | Hutton Lancashire | B− | 6.6 | 90% | 1.8 | 0% |
| 32 | Swanton Morley Norfolk | C+ | 3.5 | 94% | 1.6 | 0% |
| 33 | Burgh le Marsh Lincolnshire | C+ | 3.2 | 74% | 1.3 | 7% |
| 34 | Hook Norton Oxfordshire | C+ | 2 | 70% | 2 | 28% |
| 35 | Luddenden Foot West Yorkshire | C+ | 2.2 | 68% | 3.9 | 0% |
| 36 | Machynlleth Powys | C+ | 2.6 | 45% | 2 | 29% |
| 37 | Huncote Leicestershire | C+ | 0.8 | 100% | 2.9 | 0% |
| 38 | Trimsaran Dyfed | C | 2.4 | 31% | 1 | 2% |
| 39 | Linton Derbyshire | C | 1.8 | 76% | 3.2 | 0% |
| 40 | Mitcheldean Gloucestershire | C | 1.5 | 80% | 1.9 | 1% |
| 41 | Barwick in Elmet West Yorkshire | C | 1.5 | 87% | 2.5 | 0% |
| 42 | Llanidloes Powys | C | 2.4 | 89% | 1.3 | 0% |
| 43 | Aspatria Cumbria | C− | 3.1 | 60% | 0.8 | 1% |
| 44 | Great Blakenham Suffolk | C− | 3.6 | 70% | 1.5 | 0% |
| 45 | Rudgwick West Sussex | C− | 2.5 | 16% | 3.1 | 0% |
| 46 | Meriden West Midlands | C− | 1.8 | 70% | 2.6 | 0% |
| 47 | Lanner Cornwall | C− | 1.3 | 65% | 3.6 | 0% |
| 48 | Long Bennington Lincolnshire | C− | 1.6 | 82% | 1.9 | 0% |
| 49 | Underwood Gwent | C− | 1.9 | 87% | 1 | 0% |
| 50 | Wickham Hampshire | D | 0.8 | 26% | 2 | 13% |
| 51 | Thurlby Lincolnshire | D | 1.3 | 54% | 2.2 | 0% |
| 52 | Morton Lincolnshire | D | 0.2 | 28% | 3 | 0% |
| 53 | Mattishall Norfolk | D− | 1.4 | 58% | 1.5 | 0% |
| 54 | Misterton Nottinghamshire | D− | 1.4 | 47% | 1.7 | 0% |
| 55 | Billinghay Lincolnshire | D− | 1.8 | 41% | 0.7 | 0% |
| 56 | Bozeat Northamptonshire | D− | 1.3 | 13% | 1.3 | 0% |
| 57 | Shenstone Staffordshire | D− | 1 | 55% | 1 | 0% |
| 58 | Cilfrew West Glamorgan | D− | 0.8 | 44% | 1.3 | 0% |
| 59 | Aslockton Nottinghamshire | D− | 1 | 11% | 1.4 | 0% |
| 60 | Ipplepen Devon | D− | 0.8 | 42% | 1.1 | 0% |
The map
Parks, footpaths & countryside
Tap a number to zoom to a park. Tap a layer to hide it. The dashed line is Evercreech’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 Evercreech
The biggest is Horsehill Meadows, 0.1 ha (0 acres). Directions go to the park’s nearest public entrance where Ordnance Survey maps one.
Close to home
How close Evercreech’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%)
Evercreech100%
Villages its size83%
Somerset towns83%
All UK towns83%
Playing fields count, so a park within reach isn’t always one with paths or trees.
National Parks & National Landscapes
The Cranborne Chase & West Wiltshire Downs National Landscape is 5.4 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 Evercreech scores 0% on it even though the Cranborne Chase & West Wiltshire Downs National Landscape is 5.4 mi away.
Footpaths & waymarked walks
Footpaths in and around Evercreech
15 km of footpaths, bridleways and rights of way are mapped in Evercreech and the kilometre around it, 2.0 km for every square kilometre (the typical UK town has 3.0).
No named walking route is mapped within 2 km of Evercreech; its footpaths are on the map above.
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 Evercreech: 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 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Daylight (h) | 8.4 | 9.9 | 11.7 | 13.8 | 15.5 | 16.5 | 16.1 | 14.6 | 12.5 | 10.6 | 8.8 | 7.9 |
| High (°C) | 8 | 9 | 11 | 14 | 17 | 20 | 22 | 21 | 19 | 15 | 11 | 9 |
| Rain (mm) | 87 | 68 | 60 | 61 | 62 | 68 | 69 | 83 | 65 | 101 | 100 | 95 |
March is the driest month (60 mm) and July the warmest (highs of 22 °C). Winter days are short, about 8 hours of daylight in December, and 101 mm of rain falls in October, the wettest month. Frost comes on about 40 nights a year. The climate in Evercreech →
Things to do
2 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
Evercreech is inland. These are the nearest named beaches, measured from the edge of the village.
Berrow Sands22 mi from Evercreech’s edge
DirectionsClevedon Beach25 mi from Evercreech’s edge
DirectionsLadye Bay25 mi from Evercreech’s edge
DirectionsSugar Loaf Beach26 mi from Evercreech’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.
Up high. Maes Down, at 207 m, is the highest named top within 2 km of Evercreech.
Every named place, with directions
Hills and peaks 2
Maes Down207 m (679 ft) · 0.8 mi from town
DirectionsSmall Down Knoll222 m (728 ft) · 1.2 mi from town
DirectionsPlaygrounds 2
Plus 2 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.
Shepton MalletBrutonPiltonCastle CaryColefordWellsEvercreech
ABCDOutdoors Grade
| Town | Outdoors | Green space, ha per 1,000 | Near a park | Protected within 5 km |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Evercreech | B | 3.5 | 100% | 0% |
| Shepton Mallet 3.4 mi | C | 1.2 | 70% | 1% |
| Bruton 3.5 mi | A | 9.3 | 100% | 1% |
| Pilton 3.6 mi | D− | 1.2 | 28% | 0% |
| Castle Cary 4.0 mi | B− | 2.2 | 91% | 0% |
| Coleford 7.0 mi | C− | 1.2 | 51% | 0% |
| Wells 7.5 mi | B− | 1.7 | 65% | 26% |
Bruton, 3.5 miles away, grades A, the best next door: every resident lives within 400 m of a park. Bruton has at least twice Evercreech’s green space per resident.
Questions about the outdoors in Evercreech
What is the biggest park in Evercreech?
Horsehill Meadows, 0.1 ha (0 acres). 1 named park, garden or playing field is in the village or within 400 m of it.
Is Evercreech near a National Park?
The nearest protected landscape is the Cranborne Chase & West Wiltshire Downs National Landscape, 5.4 mi east of the village’s edge. It covers 986 km² and was designated in 1983.
What is the nearest beach to Evercreech?
Berrow Sands, 22 mi from the edge of the village, then Clevedon Beach (25 mi). Evercreech itself is inland.
How many people in Evercreech 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 Evercreech?
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 Evercreech good for walking?
Paths are thinner than most towns: 2.0 km of footpath and right of way per square kilometre, more than 29% of UK towns. For park space per person it beats 76% (3.5 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 Evercreech’s overall grade.
Sources
Where Evercreech’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.