Pill’s biggest
Victoria Park
Park or garden
7.1 ha (18 acres)0.8 km of path
10 minto walk all 0.8 km of path
10 pitchesfootball pitches would fit
Centralin the middle of Pill
Directionsto the nearest entrance
Photo: Neil Owen · CC BY-SA 2.0A+Outdoors Grade
Outdoors in Pill · parks, paths & countryside
Almost everyone in Pill lives within a 5-minute walk of a park
Parks and playing fields in Pill add up to 5.2 ha for every 1,000 residents; the typical UK town has 2.1. 46 km of footpaths run through the town and the kilometre around it, 3.8 for every square kilometre. The sea makes up 11% of the area within 5 km. Pill grades A+ for the outdoors: #2 of 49 in Somerset. A character grade: it isn’t part of the overall grade.
Green space
5.2 ha
per 1,000 residents
Typical UK town 2.1
Near a park
100%
of residents within 400 m
Typical UK town 83%
Footpaths
46 km
3.8 km per km², town + 1 km
Typical UK town 3.0 per km²
Protected landscape
0%
of the land within 5 km
Nearest: Mendip Hills National Landscape
The sea
11%
of the area within 5 km
Character
What kind of outdoors town is Pill?
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 roam5.2 ha of parks and playing fields per 1,000 residents, more than 87% of UK towns.A town of footpaths3.8 km of path per km², more than 77% of UK towns. The typical town has 3.0.On a National TrailThe King Charles III England Coast Path passes through.
Pill’s strongest suit is parks close to every home, followed by plenty of park space.
Outdoors grade
Pill grades A+ for the outdoors
Each chart is every UK town of 1,000 or more on one measure: the green bar is Pill, the dashed line the typical town. The number is the share of towns it beats; the five are averaged and the average ranked again.
A+
Better than 97% of UK towns#2 of 49 in Somerset · 2nd of 60 UK towns its size
Public green space5.2 haper 1,000 residents: parks, gardens, playing fields, play spaces
88out 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 · None within 5 km
31out of
100
100
Footpaths3.8 kmper km², the town and 1 km around it
77out of
100
100
The sea11%of the area within 5 km
87out 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
Pill is 2nd of 60 UK towns its size for the outdoors
The 60 UK towns and cities of 4,800 to 5,100 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
Pill3.8
Towns its size2.6
Somerset towns3.0
All UK towns3.0
Green space, ha per 1,000 residents
Pill5.2
Towns its size2.2
Somerset towns2.0
All UK towns2.1
Residents within 400 m of a park
Pill100%
Towns its size81%
Somerset towns83%
All UK towns83%
Against towns its size, Pill stands out most for park space per resident: only 12 of the other 59 have 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 | Pill Somerset | A+ | 5.2 | 100% | 3.8 | 0% |
| 3 | Frinton-on-Sea Essex | A+ | 7.5 | 100% | 2.6 | 0% |
| 4 | Burry Port Dyfed | A+ | 11.8 | 75% | 2.8 | 17% |
| 5 | Wilford Nottinghamshire | A | 7.7 | 93% | 9.6 | 0% |
| 6 | Moreton-in-Marsh Gloucestershire | A | 5 | 100% | 1.8 | 55% |
| 7 | Wirksworth Derbyshire | A | 2 | 100% | 4.6 | 8% |
| 8 | Rhymney Gwent | A | 2.9 | 97% | 3.8 | 6% |
| 9 | Meols Merseyside | A | 3.1 | 100% | 2.2 | 0% |
| 10 | Holmfirth West Yorkshire | A | 2.2 | 88% | 4.6 | 27% |
| 11 | Fitzwilliam and Kinsley West Yorkshire | A− | 11.5 | 100% | 3 | 0% |
| 12 | Joyden's Wood Kent | A− | 2.7 | 82% | 5.6 | 4% |
| 13 | Fordingbridge Hampshire | A− | 3.6 | 92% | 2 | 56% |
| 14 | Coleford Gloucestershire | A− | 2.8 | 66% | 4.3 | 48% |
| 15 | Elvetham Heath Hampshire | A− | 8.7 | 100% | 2.8 | 0% |
| 16 | Needham Market Suffolk | A− | 7.2 | 88% | 4 | 0% |
| 17 | Overseal and Castle Gresley Derbyshire | A− | 2.5 | 100% | 4.4 | 0% |
| 18 | Binfield Berkshire | A− | 8.5 | 100% | 2.5 | 0% |
| 19 | Huthwaite Nottinghamshire | B+ | 8.1 | 75% | 4.9 | 0% |
| 20 | Seaton Cumbria | B+ | 2.5 | 87% | 2.6 | 0% |
| 21 | Cranbrook Devon | B+ | 6.4 | 87% | 1.9 | 1% |
| 22 | Hildenborough Kent | B+ | 6.5 | 40% | 2.8 | 46% |
| 23 | Sturry Kent | B+ | 2.7 | 80% | 3.4 | 1% |
| 24 | Stone Cross East Sussex | B+ | 1.4 | 86% | 2.3 | 9% |
| 25 | Aspull Greater Manchester | B | 7.6 | 92% | 2.4 | 0% |
| 26 | Easingwold North Yorkshire | B | 4.3 | 86% | 1.5 | 14% |
| 27 | Grimethorpe South Yorkshire | B | 2.5 | 100% | 2.8 | 0% |
| 28 | Market Rasen Lincolnshire | B | 2.6 | 94% | 1.6 | 16% |
| 29 | Sedgefield County Durham | B | 6.2 | 81% | 2.8 | 0% |
| 30 | Headley Down and Headley Hampshire | B | 2.1 | 55% | 3.4 | 44% |
| 31 | Handsacre and Armitage Staffordshire | B− | 1.8 | 89% | 2.1 | 12% |
| 32 | Wotton-under-Edge Gloucestershire | C+ | 0.4 | 32% | 5.4 | 60% |
| 33 | Stokesley North Yorkshire | C+ | 0.9 | 100% | 1.7 | 16% |
| 34 | Wool Dorset | C+ | 2.3 | 51% | 2.5 | 33% |
| 35 | Steeton West Yorkshire | C+ | 1.3 | 100% | 2.7 | 0% |
| 36 | Moulton Northamptonshire | C+ | 3.3 | 88% | 1.7 | 0% |
| 37 | Barton-le-Clay Bedfordshire | C+ | 1.3 | 43% | 3.2 | 38% |
| 38 | Church Lancashire | C | 1.5 | 79% | 3.9 | 0% |
| 39 | Shortstown Bedfordshire | C | 2.4 | 82% | 2.5 | 0% |
| 40 | Billinge Merseyside | C | 0.9 | 94% | 3 | 0% |
| 41 | Treharris Mid Glamorgan | C | 2.6 | 72% | 2.6 | 0% |
| 42 | Copthorne West Sussex | C | 1.2 | 62% | 2.9 | 13% |
| 43 | Bowburn County Durham | C | 1.5 | 71% | 3.8 | 0% |
| 44 | Bungay Suffolk | C | 0.5 | 78% | 2.6 | 12% |
| 45 | Sutton on Sea and Trusthorpe Lincolnshire | C | 1.8 | 67% | 1.5 | 0% |
| 46 | Northway Gloucestershire | C | 0.9 | 58% | 3.1 | 13% |
| 47 | Jaywick Essex | C− | 1.1 | 75% | 1.4 | 0% |
| 48 | Shavington Cheshire | C− | 1.1 | 87% | 2.1 | 0% |
| 49 | Melbourne Derbyshire | C− | 1.5 | 67% | 2.7 | 0% |
| 50 | Halesworth Suffolk | C− | 1.4 | 55% | 1.9 | 5% |
| 51 | Tickhill South Yorkshire | D | 1.7 | 69% | 2.2 | 0% |
| 52 | Haslington Cheshire | D | 1.8 | 41% | 2.6 | 0% |
| 53 | Gresford Clwyd | D | 1.4 | 76% | 1.8 | 0% |
| 54 | Melbourn Cambridgeshire | D | 1.2 | 45% | 2.7 | 0% |
| 55 | Fleckney Leicestershire | D | 0.8 | 63% | 2.3 | 0% |
| 56 | Lepton West Yorkshire | D− | 0.9 | 36% | 2.3 | 0% |
| 57 | Wingate County Durham | D− | 1 | 64% | 1.5 | 0% |
| 58 | Harleston Norfolk | D− | 0.2 | 42% | 2.2 | 0% |
| 59 | Bulford Wiltshire | D− | 0.9 | 51% | 1.6 | 0% |
| 60 | Shotton Colliery County Durham | D− | 0.9 | 40% | 1.5 | 0% |
The map
Parks, footpaths & countryside
Tap a number to zoom to a park. Tap a layer to hide it. The dashed line is Pill’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 Pill
The biggest is Victoria Park, 7.1 ha (18 acres). Directions go to the park’s nearest public entrance where Ordnance Survey maps one.
The Daisy Field
Park or garden · 300 m outside town
4.3 ha (11 acres)
6 pitchesfootball pitches would fit
0.5 mi north-eastfrom the centre
Directionsto the nearest entrance
School Playing Field
Playing field
1.1 ha (3 acres)
Centralin the middle of Pill
Playground
Directionsto the nearest entrance
Close to home
How close Pill’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%)
Pill100%
Towns its size81%
Somerset towns83%
All UK towns83%
Playing fields count, so a park within reach isn’t always one with paths or trees; 17 playgrounds are mapped in and around the town, about one for every 292 residents.
National Parks & National Landscapes
The Mendip Hills National Landscape is 8.4 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
Footpaths & waymarked walks
Pill is on the King Charles III England Coast Path
46 km of footpaths, bridleways and rights of way are mapped in Pill and the kilometre around it, 3.8 km for every square kilometre (the typical UK town has 3.0). Bars show each route’s kilometres within 2 km of the town.
NationalRegionalLocal
Severn Way (3) Worcester to Bristol9.1 km
Gordano Round8.1 km
King Charles III England Coast Path: Old Passage, Aust to Wain's Hill, Clevedon7.2 km
River Avon Trail5.2 km
Community Forest Path2.8 km
Monarch's Way1.8 km
Bristol Triangular City Walk1.2 km
Prior's Wood0.9 km
The King Charles III England Coast Path, a national route, passes Pill. Close to home, the Gordano Round has 8 km of local walk within 2 km of the town. 3 regional routes pass through, including the Severn Way (3) Worcester to Bristol, River Avon Trail and Monarch's Way.
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 Pill: May to July and 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) | 8.3 | 9.9 | 11.7 | 13.8 | 15.6 | 16.6 | 16.2 | 14.6 | 12.5 | 10.5 | 8.8 | 7.9 |
| High (°C) | 9 | 9 | 11 | 14 | 17 | 20 | 21 | 21 | 19 | 15 | 11 | 9 |
| Rain (mm) | 82 | 63 | 57 | 55 | 62 | 64 | 68 | 78 | 67 | 92 | 95 | 95 |
April is the driest month (55 mm) and July the warmest (highs of 21 °C). Winter days are short, about 8 hours of daylight in December, and 95 mm of rain falls in November, the wettest month. Frost comes on about 24 nights a year. The climate in Pill →
The coast
Pill is near the sea
11% of the area within 5 km of Pill is sea. 14 beaches are mapped within 5 km, 0 with a name.
The King Charles III England Coast Path passes the town.
Sea: the area outside the ONS coastline (mean high water). Bathing water quality is published by the Environment Agency (England) and Natural Resources Wales; check it before swimming.
Things to do
11 viewpoints and 17 playgrounds
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.
11Viewpoints2Hills and peaks4Waterfalls7Nature reserves7.1× towns its size17Playgrounds1.4× towns its size
Every named place, with directions
Hills and peaks 2
Conygar Hill0.8 mi from town
DirectionsWindmill Hill0.8 mi from town
DirectionsWaterfalls 4
Plus 4 waterfalls without a name on the map.
Nature reserves 7
Saint George's Flower Bank0.0 mi from town
DirectionsPill Paddock0.5 ha · 0.1 mi from town
DirectionsPill Foreshore8.3 ha · 0.1 mi from town
DirectionsLamplighter's Marsh Nature Reserve11 ha · 0.2 mi from town
DirectionsWildlife Corridor0.7 ha · 1.0 mi from town
DirectionsBennett's Patch & White's Paddock5.7 ha · 1.1 mi from town
DirectionsOld Sneed Park Nature Reserve6.4 ha · 1.1 mi from town
DirectionsPlaygrounds 17
Brookside Adventure Park0.0 mi from town
DirectionsSpringfield Park0.4 mi from town
DirectionsPlus 15 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.
AvonmouthLong AshtonPortisheadBristolNailseaBackwellPill
ABCDOutdoors Grade
| Town | Outdoors | Green space, ha per 1,000 | Near a park | Protected within 5 km |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pill | A+ | 5.2 | 100% | 0% |
| Avonmouth 1.4 mi | B+ | 2.5 | 100% | 0% |
| Long Ashton 3.5 mi | B+ | 10.2 | 66% | 0% |
| Portishead 3.7 mi | B+ | 2.0 | 82% | 0% |
| Bristol 4.3 mi | A | 2.9 | 90% | 0% |
| Nailsea 4.6 mi | C | 1.1 | 65% | 0% |
| Backwell 5.1 mi | C+ | 2.3 | 57% | 0% |
Pill grades higher for the outdoors than every neighbour in the table. None of the neighbours has a protected landscape within 5 km either.
Questions about the outdoors in Pill
What is the biggest park in Pill?
Victoria Park, 7.1 ha (18 acres), with 0.8 km of path. The Daisy Field (4.3 ha) is second. 3 named parks, gardens and playing fields are in the town or within 400 m of it.
Is Pill near a National Park?
The nearest protected landscape is the Mendip Hills National Landscape, 8.4 mi south of the town’s edge. It covers 198 km² and was designated in 1989.
What are the best walks near Pill?
8 waymarked walking routes pass within 2 km of the town, including the Severn Way (3) Worcester to Bristol, Gordano Round and King Charles III England Coast Path: Old Passage, Aust to Wain's Hill, Clevedon.
How many people in Pill 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 Pill?
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 Pill good for walking?
For paths, yes: 3.8 km of footpath and right of way per square kilometre, more than 77% of UK towns. For park space per person it beats 88% (5.2 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 Pill’s overall grade.
Sources
Where Pill’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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