Photo: Roger Cornfoot · CC BY-SA 2.077% of Temple Cloud’s residents live within a 5-minute walk of a park
The Mendip Hills National Landscape begins 1.3 mi from the village’s edge. Footpaths add up to 36 km in the village and the kilometre around it, 3.9 for every square kilometre. Parks and playing fields in Temple Cloud add up to 2.6 ha for every 1,000 residents; the typical UK town has 2.1. Temple Cloud grades B+ for the outdoors. A character grade: it isn’t part of the overall grade.
What kind of outdoors village is Temple Cloud?
Read from the data: what stands out first, good and bad.
Temple Cloud’s strongest suit is two protected landscapes close by, followed by dense footpaths.
Temple Cloud grades B+ for the outdoors
Each chart is every UK town of 1,000 or more on one measure: the green bar is Temple Cloud, 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.
Temple Cloud is 12th of 60 UK villages its size for the outdoors
The 60 UK towns and cities of 1,400 to 1,600 people with an Outdoors Grade. Hover a dot for its figures; tap one for its page.
Against villages its size, Temple Cloud stands out most for path per km²: only 6 of the other 59 have more.
Show as a table
| Town | Outdoors | Green space | Near a park | Path per km² | Protected | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Chambercombe Devon | A+ | 8.7 | 100% | 2.8 | 29% |
| 2 | Ashurst Wood West Sussex | A+ | 4 | 100% | 3.4 | 81% |
| 3 | Heathfield Devon | A+ | 20.4 | 100% | 3 | 30% |
| 4 | Ewhurst Surrey | A | 4.3 | 76% | 4.6 | 46% |
| 5 | Newfield County Durham | A | 8.3 | 100% | 4.5 | 0% |
| 6 | Gargrave North Yorkshire | A | 5.2 | 100% | 1.9 | 41% |
| 7 | Collett's Green Worcestershire | A | 3.5 | 100% | 4.3 | 0% |
| 8 | Hale Cheshire | A− | 4.8 | 100% | 1.1 | 0% |
| 9 | Littleton Hampshire | A− | 7.8 | 100% | 1.1 | 10% |
| 10 | Llanrug Gwynedd | A− | 1.7 | 100% | 1.7 | 6% |
| 11 | Longwick Buckinghamshire | B+ | 2 | 100% | 2.3 | 31% |
| 12 | Temple Cloud Somerset | B+ | 2.6 | 77% | 3.9 | 15% |
| 13 | Blackhall Mill County Durham | B+ | 3.4 | 100% | 2.9 | 0% |
| 14 | Castleside County Durham | B+ | 0.9 | 100% | 3 | 42% |
| 15 | Caer-went Gwent | B+ | 1.8 | 100% | 0.8 | 8% |
| 16 | Great Bowden Leicestershire | B+ | 6.1 | 100% | 2.1 | 0% |
| 17 | Ramsbury Wiltshire | B+ | 3.9 | 62% | 2.3 | 100% |
| 18 | Offenham Worcestershire | B+ | 2.4 | 100% | 3.1 | 0% |
| 19 | Kensworth Bedfordshire | B | 1.8 | 79% | 3 | 59% |
| 20 | Burford Oxfordshire | B | 3.5 | 84% | 1.2 | 53% |
| 21 | Sturminster Marshall Dorset | B | 2 | 100% | 1.4 | 30% |
| 22 | Potterne Wiltshire | B | 1.3 | 77% | 5.1 | 8% |
| 23 | South Godstone Surrey | B | 2 | 100% | 1.8 | 5% |
| 24 | Wingrave Buckinghamshire | B− | 3.7 | 100% | 1.7 | 0% |
| 25 | Kingstone Herefordshire | B− | 3.1 | 100% | 1.9 | 0% |
| 26 | Kibblesworth Tyne and Wear | B− | 2.5 | 100% | 2.1 | 0% |
| 27 | Bridge Kent | B− | 2.2 | 60% | 2.7 | 44% |
| 28 | Foxhole Cornwall | B− | 2.9 | 100% | 1.7 | 0% |
| 29 | Collingtree and Milton Malsor Northamptonshire | B− | 4.9 | 83% | 2.3 | 0% |
| 30 | Carharrack Cornwall | C+ | 0.7 | 80% | 4.2 | 2% |
| 31 | Gilfach Goch Mid Glamorgan | C+ | 2.9 | 100% | 1.4 | 0% |
| 32 | Trinant Gwent | C+ | 2.5 | 100% | 1.5 | 0% |
| 33 | Mylor Bridge Cornwall | C+ | 1.1 | 63% | 1.2 | 49% |
| 34 | Langley Vale Surrey | C+ | 0.8 | 53% | 5.5 | 7% |
| 35 | Gretton Northamptonshire | C+ | 2.3 | 100% | 1.3 | 0% |
| 36 | Nether Heyford Northamptonshire | C+ | 1.4 | 100% | 2.3 | 0% |
| 37 | Bassingham Lincolnshire | C+ | 2.2 | 100% | 1.2 | 0% |
| 38 | Sibsey Lincolnshire | C | 2.4 | 100% | 0.2 | 0% |
| 39 | Flitton Bedfordshire | C | 1.4 | 49% | 3.3 | 6% |
| 40 | Geddington Northamptonshire | C | 3 | 82% | 1.5 | 0% |
| 41 | Horndon on the Hill Essex | C | 3.5 | 81% | 1.1 | 0% |
| 42 | Freeland Oxfordshire | C | 1.4 | 53% | 2.6 | 17% |
| 43 | Waresley Worcestershire | C | 1.7 | 100% | 1 | 0% |
| 44 | Alveley Shropshire | C− | 5.4 | 51% | 1.6 | 0% |
| 45 | Hartwell Northamptonshire | C− | 1.2 | 59% | 3.9 | 0% |
| 46 | Haslingfield Cambridgeshire | C− | 2 | 80% | 1.8 | 0% |
| 47 | Silverton Devon | C− | 1 | 100% | 1.3 | 0% |
| 48 | Greens Norton Northamptonshire | C− | 1.2 | 66% | 3.1 | 0% |
| 49 | Dalston Cumbria | C− | 3.4 | 66% | 0.9 | 0% |
| 50 | Cawood North Yorkshire | D | 1.9 | 60% | 2.1 | 0% |
| 51 | Braunston Northamptonshire | D | 1.8 | 50% | 2.4 | 0% |
| 52 | Croft Cheshire | D | 1.1 | 79% | 1.9 | 0% |
| 53 | Tetney Lincolnshire | D | 1.5 | 79% | 1.1 | 0% |
| 54 | Oakington Cambridgeshire | D | 2.1 | 52% | 1.6 | 0% |
| 55 | Stockton Warwickshire | D | 1.5 | 44% | 2.3 | 0% |
| 56 | Newton-with-Scales Lancashire | D | 1.4 | 76% | 1.3 | 0% |
| 57 | Gayton Norfolk | D− | 1.6 | 62% | 0.8 | 0% |
| 58 | Tilney St Lawrence Norfolk | D− | 1.5 | 53% | 0.3 | 0% |
| 59 | South Broomhill Northumberland | D− | 0 | 0% | 0.5 | 0% |
| 60 | Great Bricett Suffolk | D− | 1.2 | 0% | 1.4 | 0% |
Parks, footpaths & countryside
Tap a number to zoom to a park. Tap a layer to hide it. The dashed line is Temple Cloud’s built-up area.
How close Temple Cloud’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).
About 400 people live further than that. Playing fields count, so a park within reach isn’t always one with paths or trees; 9 playgrounds are mapped in and around the village, about one for every 169 residents.
Mendip Hills and Cotswolds both start about 6 miles from Temple Cloud
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
15% of the land within 5 km of Temple Cloud is National Park or National Landscape, more than 74% of UK towns.
2 waymarked walks pass through or near Temple Cloud
36 km of footpaths, bridleways and rights of way are mapped in Temple Cloud and the kilometre around it, 3.9 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 5 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 Temple Cloud: 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 | |
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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 | 11 | 14 | 17 | 20 | 21 | 21 | 19 | 15 | 11 | 8 |
| Rain (mm) | 103 | 85 | 75 | 68 | 70 | 63 | 67 | 84 | 74 | 111 | 117 | 119 |
June is the driest month (63 mm) and July the warmest (highs of 21 °C). Winter days are short, about 8 hours of daylight in December, and 119 mm of rain falls in December, the wettest month. Frost comes on about 38 nights a year. The climate in Temple Cloud →
9 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
Temple Cloud 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 Temple Cloud.
Every named place, with directions
Viewpoints 1
Plus 1 viewpoint without a name on the map.
Hills and peaks 2
Plus 1 peak without a name on the map.
Waterfalls 1
Plus 1 waterfall without a name on the map.
Nature reserves 1
Playgrounds 9
Plus 9 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Temple Cloud | B+ | 2.6 | 77% | 15% |
| Clutton 0.6 mi | C+ | 0.9 | 74% | 11% |
| High Littleton 1.3 mi | C+ | 1.0 | 58% | 1% |
| Paulton 1.9 mi | A− | 2.1 | 96% | 0% |
| Bishop Sutton 2.6 mi | B− | 2.3 | 64% | 36% |
| Timsbury 2.8 mi | B− | 2.7 | 68% | 0% |
| Farmborough 2.9 mi | C− | 2.0 | 38% | 0% |
Paulton, 1.9 miles away, grades A−, the best next door: 96% of its residents live within 400 m of a park.
Questions about the outdoors in Temple Cloud
Is Temple Cloud near a National Park?
The nearest protected landscape is the Mendip Hills National Landscape, 1.3 mi west of the village’s edge. It covers 198 km² and was designated in 1989.
What are the best walks near Temple Cloud?
2 waymarked walking routes pass within 2 km of the village, including the Limestone Link and Three Peaks Walk.
What is the nearest beach to Temple Cloud?
Sugar Loaf Beach, 15 mi from the edge of the village, then Clevedon Beach (15 mi). Temple Cloud itself is inland.
How many people in Temple Cloud live near a park?
77% 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 Temple Cloud?
May to September: the longest days, the warmest afternoons and the least rain of the year, from the Met Office 1991–2020 averages.
Is Temple Cloud good for walking?
For paths, yes: 3.9 km of footpath and right of way per square kilometre, more than 79% of UK towns. For park space per person it beats 62% (2.6 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 Temple Cloud’s overall grade.
Where Temple Cloud’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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