Street’s biggest
Wood's Batch Recreation Ground
Playing field
3.0 ha (7 acres)0.2 km of path
4 pitchesfootball pitches would fit
0.6 mi north-westfrom the centre
Directionsto the nearest entrance
Photo: Lewis Clarke · CC BY-SA 2.0C+Outdoors Grade
Outdoors in Street · parks, paths & countryside
Almost everyone in Street lives within a 5-minute walk of a park
A park or playing field is within a 5-minute walk for 96% of residents. Parks and playing fields in Street add up to 0.7 ha for every 1,000 residents; the typical UK town has 2.1. 55 km of footpaths run through the town and the kilometre around it, 3.5 for every square kilometre. Street grades C+ for the outdoors: #41 of 49 in Somerset. A character grade: it isn’t part of the overall grade.
Green space
0.7 ha
per 1,000 residents
Typical UK town 2.1
Near a park
96%
of residents within 400 m
Typical UK town 83%
Footpaths
55 km
3.5 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
Character
What kind of outdoors town is Street?
Read from the data: what stands out first, good and bad.
A park on every doorstep96% of residents live within 400 m of a park or playing field.Less park per person0.7 ha of parks and playing fields per 1,000 residents; the typical UK town has 2.1.
Street’s strongest suit is parks close to every home. Where it falls short is park space per person.
Outdoors grade
Street grades C+ for the outdoors
Each chart is every UK town of 1,000 or more on one measure: the green bar is Street, the dashed line the typical town. The number is the share of towns it beats; the five are averaged and the average ranked again.
C+
Better than 36% of UK towns#41 of 49 in Somerset · 42nd of 60 UK towns its size
Public green space0.7 haper 1,000 residents: parks, gardens, playing fields, play spaces
7out of
100
100
A park within a walk96%of residents within 400 m (a 5-minute walk)
76out of
100
100
National Park or National Landscape0%of the land within 5 km · None within 5 km
31out of
100
100
Footpaths3.5 kmper km², the town and 1 km around it
72out 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
Street is 42nd of 60 UK towns its size for the outdoors
The 60 UK towns and cities of 12,000 to 13,400 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
Street3.5
Towns its size2.9
Somerset towns3.0
All UK towns3.0
Green space, ha per 1,000 residents
Street0.7
Towns its size2.1
Somerset towns2.0
All UK towns2.1
Residents within 400 m of a park
Street96%
Towns its size78%
Somerset towns83%
All UK towns83%
Against towns its size, Street stands out most for homes near a park: only 9 of the other 59 have more. It falls furthest behind on park space per resident, where 58 of the others do better.
Show as a table
| Town | Outdoors | Green space | Near a park | Path per km² | Protected | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Whitby North Yorkshire | A+ | 4 | 100% | 2.9 | 53% |
| 2 | Farncombe Surrey | A+ | 5.7 | 92% | 3.8 | 54% |
| 3 | Sidmouth Devon | A | 2.6 | 73% | 2.9 | 60% |
| 4 | Newhaven East Sussex | A | 1.9 | 84% | 2.9 | 50% |
| 5 | Rhosllannerchrugog Clwyd | A | 3.5 | 98% | 2.8 | 31% |
| 6 | Southwick West Sussex | A | 1.1 | 100% | 2.6 | 34% |
| 7 | Houghton-le-Spring Tyne and Wear | A | 4.8 | 100% | 4.2 | 0% |
| 8 | Killingworth Tyne and Wear | A | 4.7 | 97% | 4.5 | 0% |
| 9 | Little Lever Greater Manchester | A | 4.5 | 97% | 4.5 | 0% |
| 10 | Wick West Sussex | A | 1.3 | 91% | 3 | 25% |
| 11 | Blackwood Gwent | A− | 3.6 | 97% | 4.4 | 0% |
| 12 | Bridport Dorset | A− | 0.9 | 75% | 3.7 | 71% |
| 13 | Flackwell Heath and Wooburn Green Buckinghamshire | A− | 1.7 | 90% | 3.9 | 30% |
| 14 | Guiseley West Yorkshire | A− | 2.5 | 75% | 5.7 | 6% |
| 15 | Wantage Oxfordshire | A− | 2.5 | 71% | 3.9 | 47% |
| 16 | Lees Greater Manchester | A− | 2.5 | 80% | 4.4 | 4% |
| 17 | Tavistock Devon | A− | 5.9 | 83% | 1.6 | 72% |
| 18 | Ivybridge Devon | B+ | 1.8 | 86% | 3.4 | 38% |
| 19 | Berwick-upon-Tweed Northumberland | B+ | 2.5 | 62% | 2.7 | 1% |
| 20 | Ringwood Hampshire | B+ | 2.3 | 78% | 3.2 | 43% |
| 21 | Chorleywood Hertfordshire | B+ | 2.7 | 37% | 5.7 | 22% |
| 22 | Poulton-le-Fylde Lancashire | B+ | 3.6 | 85% | 2.2 | 0% |
| 23 | Marple Greater Manchester | B+ | 3.4 | 64% | 3.8 | 5% |
| 24 | Poynton Cheshire | B+ | 2.2 | 79% | 3.7 | 14% |
| 25 | Royal Wootton Bassett Wiltshire | B+ | 1.6 | 98% | 3.1 | 10% |
| 26 | Cudworth and Shafton South Yorkshire | B | 3.1 | 88% | 3.7 | 0% |
| 27 | Littleborough Greater Manchester | B | 5 | 85% | 3 | 0% |
| 28 | Stotfold Bedfordshire | B | 2.1 | 96% | 3.5 | 0% |
| 29 | Enderby and Narborough Leicestershire | B | 1.9 | 89% | 4.4 | 0% |
| 30 | Rushall and Shelfield West Midlands | B | 4.3 | 88% | 2.5 | 0% |
| 31 | Honiton Devon | B− | 1.3 | 90% | 2 | 73% |
| 32 | Scawthorpe and Cusworth South Yorkshire | B− | 3.1 | 88% | 2.5 | 0% |
| 33 | Standish Greater Manchester | B− | 2.6 | 84% | 3.1 | 0% |
| 34 | Chigwell Essex | B− | 2.9 | 64% | 4.5 | 0% |
| 35 | Wells Somerset | B− | 1.7 | 65% | 3.4 | 26% |
| 36 | Sheerness Kent | B− | 3 | 68% | 1.7 | 0% |
| 37 | Ince-in-Makerfield Greater Manchester | B− | 2 | 74% | 5.1 | 0% |
| 38 | Rochford Essex | B− | 2 | 71% | 2.7 | 0% |
| 39 | Knutsford Cheshire | C+ | 2.6 | 83% | 2.9 | 0% |
| 40 | Thame Oxfordshire | C+ | 2.9 | 91% | 1.8 | 0% |
| 41 | Huntington North Yorkshire | C+ | 2 | 72% | 3.9 | 0% |
| 42 | Street Somerset | C+ | 0.7 | 96% | 3.5 | 0% |
| 43 | Todmorden West Yorkshire | C | 0.8 | 72% | 6.8 | 0% |
| 44 | Hersham Surrey | C | 2.5 | 73% | 2.4 | 0% |
| 45 | Ferndown Dorset | C | 0.7 | 13% | 4.5 | 0% |
| 46 | Rhondda Mid Glamorgan | C− | 1.4 | 84% | 2.7 | 0% |
| 47 | Bridgnorth Shropshire | C− | 2.4 | 66% | 2.4 | 0% |
| 48 | Brough East Riding of Yorkshire | C− | 1.4 | 74% | 1.2 | 0% |
| 49 | Oakham Rutland | C− | 1.8 | 86% | 1.8 | 0% |
| 50 | North Walsham Norfolk | C− | 1.3 | 69% | 2 | 10% |
| 51 | Kirk Sandall and Edenthorpe South Yorkshire | D | 2 | 75% | 1.4 | 0% |
| 52 | Amesbury Wiltshire | D | 1.8 | 73% | 1.6 | 0% |
| 53 | Northallerton North Yorkshire | D | 1.1 | 70% | 2.6 | 0% |
| 54 | Driffield East Riding of Yorkshire | D | 2.1 | 75% | 0.9 | 0% |
| 55 | Mountsorrel Leicestershire | D | 0.9 | 56% | 3.1 | 0% |
| 56 | Flint Clwyd | D | 1 | 56% | 1.2 | 0% |
| 57 | Mountain Ash Mid Glamorgan | D | 1.4 | 56% | 2.3 | 0% |
| 58 | Wombourne Staffordshire | D | 0.8 | 78% | 1.8 | 0% |
| 59 | Balderton Nottinghamshire | D | 1.4 | 64% | 1.7 | 0% |
| 60 | Thorne South Yorkshire | D− | 1.6 | 65% | 0.6 | 0% |
The map
Parks, footpaths & countryside
Tap a number to zoom to a park. Tap a layer to hide it. The dashed line is Street’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 Street
The biggest is Wood's Batch Recreation Ground, 3.0 ha (7 acres). Directions go to the park’s nearest public entrance where Ordnance Survey maps one.
All 4 named parks by size: 5 ha (11 acres)
Parks & gardens 1.2 haPlaying fields 3.4 ha
The two biggest, Wood's Batch Recreation Ground and Merriman Park, are 83% of the named green space. 3 of the 4 are under 2 ha: small gardens, play spaces and pitches.
Merriman Park
Park or garden
0.8 ha (2 acres)0.3 km of path
Centralin the middle of Street
1 listed
Directionsto the nearest entrance
Wraxhill Park
Park or garden
0.3 ha (1 acres)0.2 km of path
Centralin the middle of Street
Directionsto the nearest entrance
Goss Drive Play Area
Playing field
0.5 ha (1 acres)
0.5 mi south-westfrom the centre
Directionsto the nearest entrance
Close to home
How close Street’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 (96%)Further (4%)
Street96%
Towns its size78%
Somerset towns83%
All UK towns83%
About 500 people live further than that. Playing fields count, so a park within reach isn’t always one with paths or trees; 13 playgrounds are mapped in and around the town, about one for every 977 residents.
National Parks & National Landscapes
The Mendip Hills National Landscape is 6.6 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
Footpaths in and around Street
55 km of footpaths, bridleways and rights of way are mapped in Street and the kilometre around it, 3.5 km for every square kilometre (the typical UK town has 3.0).
No named walking route is mapped within 2 km of Street; 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 Street: 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) | 8.4 | 9.9 | 11.7 | 13.8 | 15.5 | 16.5 | 16.1 | 14.6 | 12.5 | 10.6 | 8.8 | 7.9 |
| High (°C) | 9 | 9 | 11 | 14 | 17 | 20 | 22 | 22 | 19 | 15 | 12 | 9 |
| Rain (mm) | 71 | 51 | 48 | 48 | 52 | 59 | 58 | 69 | 55 | 82 | 80 | 76 |
March is the driest month (48 mm) and July the warmest (highs of 22 °C). Winter days are short, about 8 hours of daylight in December, and 82 mm of rain falls in October, the wettest month. Frost comes on about 37 nights a year. The climate in Street →
Things to do
13 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
Street is inland. These are the nearest named beaches, measured from the edge of the town.
Berrow Sands13 mi from Street’s edge
DirectionsClevedon Beach22 mi from Street’s edge
DirectionsLadye Bay23 mi from Street’s edge
DirectionsSugar Loaf Beach24 mi from Street’s edge
DirectionsThe Bendricks28 mi from Street’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. Wearyall Hill, at 77 m, is the highest named top within 2 km of Street.
Every named place, with directions
Hills and peaks 1
Wearyall Hill77 m (253 ft) · 0.5 mi from town
DirectionsNature reserves 1
RSPB Ham Wall16 ha · 0.7 mi from town
DirectionsPlaygrounds 13
King Arthur's Forest Adventure Play Parkin town
DirectionsAbbey Park1.0 mi from town
DirectionsPlus 11 playgrounds without a name on the map.
Campsites 1
Bramble Hill1.0 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.
WaltonGlastonburySomertonKeinton MandevilleLangportWellsStreet
ABCDOutdoors Grade
| Town | Outdoors | Green space, ha per 1,000 | Near a park | Protected within 5 km |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Street | C+ | 0.7 | 96% | 0% |
| Walton 1.1 mi | B+ | 3.0 | 100% | 0% |
| Glastonbury 2.2 mi | C− | 2.0 | 69% | 0% |
| Somerton 4.7 mi | D− | 0.6 | 48% | 0% |
| Keinton Mandeville 5.3 mi | B | 3.8 | 100% | 0% |
| Langport 6.7 mi | B− | 2.3 | 94% | 0% |
| Wells 7.2 mi | B− | 1.7 | 65% | 26% |
Walton, 1.1 miles away, grades B+, the best next door: every resident lives within 400 m of a park. Walton, Glastonbury and Keinton Mandeville have at least twice Street’s green space per resident.
Questions about the outdoors in Street
What is the biggest park in Street?
Wood's Batch Recreation Ground, 3.0 ha (7 acres). Merriman Park (0.8 ha) is second. 4 named parks, gardens and playing fields are in the town or within 400 m of it.
Is Street near a National Park?
The nearest protected landscape is the Mendip Hills National Landscape, 6.6 mi north-east of the town’s edge. It covers 198 km² and was designated in 1989.
What is the nearest beach to Street?
Berrow Sands, 13 mi from the edge of the town, then Clevedon Beach (22 mi). Street itself is inland.
How many people in Street live near a park?
96% 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 Street?
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 Street good for walking?
For paths, yes: 3.5 km of footpath and right of way per square kilometre, more than 72% of UK towns. For park space per person it beats 7% (0.7 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 Street’s overall grade.
Sources
Where Street’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.