Trull’s biggest
King George's Field
Playing field
2.8 ha (7 acres)0.3 km of path
4 pitchesfootball pitches would fit
Centralin the middle of Trull
Directionsto the nearest entrance
Photo: Nick Chipchase · CC BY-SA 2.0A+Outdoors Grade
Outdoors in Trull · parks, paths & countryside
Almost everyone in Trull lives within a 5-minute walk of a park
Parks and playing fields in Trull add up to 5.9 ha for every 1,000 residents; the typical UK town has 2.1. The Blackdown Hills National Landscape begins 1.3 mi from the village’s edge. 32 km of footpaths run through the village and the kilometre around it, 3.9 for every square kilometre. Trull grades A+ for the outdoors. A character grade: it isn’t part of the overall grade.
Green space
5.9 ha
per 1,000 residents
Typical UK town 2.1
Near a park
100%
of residents within 400 m
Typical UK town 83%
Footpaths
32 km
3.9 km per km², town + 1 km
Typical UK town 3.0 per km²
Protected landscape
20%
of the land within 5 km
Nearest: Blackdown Hills National Landscape
Character
What kind of outdoors village is Trull?
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 roam5.9 ha of parks and playing fields per 1,000 residents, more than 90% of UK towns.Countryside both waysBlackdown Hills starts 1.3 mi south-east, Quantock Hills 4.2 mi north.A village of footpaths3.9 km of path per km², more than 79% of UK towns. The typical town has 3.0.
Trull’s strongest suit is parks close to every home, followed by plenty of park space.
Outdoors grade
Trull grades A+ for the outdoors
Each chart is every UK town of 1,000 or more on one measure: the green bar is Trull, 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 98% of UK towns1st of 60 UK villages its size
Public green space5.9 haper 1,000 residents: parks, gardens, playing fields, play spaces
90out 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 Landscape20%of the land within 5 km
78out of
100
100
Footpaths3.9 kmper km², the town and 1 km around it
79out 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
Trull is 1st of 60 UK villages its size for the outdoors
The 60 UK towns and cities of 1,400 to 1,500 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
Trull3.9
Villages its size2.3
Somerset towns3.0
All UK towns3.0
Green space, ha per 1,000 residents
Trull5.9
Villages its size2.1
Somerset towns2.0
All UK towns2.1
Residents within 400 m of a park
Trull100%
Villages its size85%
Somerset towns83%
All UK towns83%
Against villages its size, Trull stands out most for park space per resident: only 5 of the other 59 have more.
Show as a table
| Town | Outdoors | Green space | Near a park | Path per km² | Protected | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Trull Somerset | A+ | 5.9 | 100% | 3.9 | 20% |
| 2 | Kingswood Gloucestershire | A | 2.1 | 100% | 3.7 | 45% |
| 3 | Tir-y-berth and Glan-y-nant Gwent | A | 22.1 | 100% | 4.3 | 0% |
| 4 | Whiteshill and Randwick Gloucestershire | A | 4.5 | 60% | 7 | 64% |
| 5 | New Houghton Derbyshire | A | 33.8 | 100% | 3.9 | 0% |
| 6 | Balcombe West Sussex | A | 2.9 | 100% | 2.2 | 90% |
| 7 | Jump South Yorkshire | A | 5.1 | 100% | 4.2 | 0% |
| 8 | Sedbergh Cumbria | A | 1.9 | 83% | 5 | 92% |
| 9 | St Day Cornwall | A | 3.2 | 100% | 4.7 | 0% |
| 10 | Chaldon Surrey | A− | 7.4 | 50% | 4.9 | 24% |
| 11 | Heath and Reach Bedfordshire | A− | 3.3 | 100% | 4.1 | 0% |
| 12 | Five Oak Green Kent | A− | 3 | 100% | 2 | 30% |
| 13 | Hallow Worcestershire | A− | 3.7 | 100% | 3.5 | 0% |
| 14 | Wigginton North Yorkshire | A− | 4.1 | 100% | 2.9 | 0% |
| 15 | Shotley Gate Suffolk | A− | 1 | 100% | 1.5 | 34% |
| 16 | Grundisburgh Suffolk | B+ | 2.2 | 100% | 2.6 | 3% |
| 17 | Princetown Devon | B+ | 1.4 | 100% | 2.3 | 100% |
| 18 | Stanwell Moor Surrey | B+ | 2.4 | 100% | 3.4 | 0% |
| 19 | Brookwood Surrey | B+ | 8.5 | 59% | 6.2 | 0% |
| 20 | Emley West Yorkshire | B+ | 2.6 | 100% | 3 | 0% |
| 21 | Cowling North Yorkshire | B | 1.3 | 100% | 6 | 0% |
| 22 | Wedmore Somerset | B | 4.7 | 60% | 3.1 | 1% |
| 23 | Kelloe County Durham | B | 5.6 | 42% | 6 | 0% |
| 24 | Woolmer Green Hertfordshire | B | 1.3 | 100% | 4.3 | 0% |
| 25 | Tye Green Essex | B | 2 | 100% | 3 | 0% |
| 26 | Bentley Hampshire | B | 1.3 | 100% | 2.1 | 22% |
| 27 | Calvert Buckinghamshire | B | 3.3 | 100% | 1.9 | 0% |
| 28 | Abertysswg Gwent | B | 2.5 | 85% | 3.6 | 0% |
| 29 | Little Hallingbury Essex | B− | 1 | 100% | 4.2 | 0% |
| 30 | Brigstock Northamptonshire | B− | 8.2 | 84% | 2.1 | 0% |
| 31 | Warkworth Northumberland | B− | 1.8 | 76% | 1.3 | 9% |
| 32 | Bishop Sutton Somerset | B− | 2.3 | 64% | 2.5 | 36% |
| 33 | Orsett Essex | B− | 4.4 | 100% | 0.9 | 0% |
| 34 | Ashton Keynes Wiltshire | C+ | 1.7 | 100% | 2.6 | 0% |
| 35 | Robertsbridge East Sussex | C+ | 2 | 38% | 2.7 | 100% |
| 36 | Gelligaer Gwent | C+ | 2.3 | 100% | 1.4 | 0% |
| 37 | Shortlanesend Cornwall | C+ | 1 | 100% | 1.7 | 2% |
| 38 | Benenden Kent | C | 2 | 57% | 1.7 | 83% |
| 39 | Barlaston Staffordshire | C | 2.7 | 80% | 2.4 | 0% |
| 40 | Brailsford Derbyshire | C | 0.9 | 100% | 2.4 | 0% |
| 41 | Ryhall Rutland | C | 1.9 | 100% | 1.2 | 0% |
| 42 | Slip End Bedfordshire | C | 1.9 | 22% | 2.3 | 28% |
| 43 | Stewkley Buckinghamshire | C | 4.2 | 74% | 1.7 | 0% |
| 44 | Hurley Warwickshire | C | 2.8 | 75% | 2.2 | 0% |
| 45 | Salhouse Norfolk | C− | 1.9 | 71% | 1 | 17% |
| 46 | Blofield Heath Norfolk | C− | 2.5 | 43% | 0.9 | 17% |
| 47 | Mid Lavant West Sussex | C− | 1.3 | 33% | 1.8 | 62% |
| 48 | Newton Flotman Norfolk | C− | 2.5 | 78% | 1.2 | 0% |
| 49 | Thorrington Essex | C− | 1.2 | 65% | 1.5 | 0% |
| 50 | Shipton Bellinger Hampshire | D | 1.5 | 79% | 1.8 | 0% |
| 51 | Ranskill Nottinghamshire | D | 0.4 | 100% | 0.5 | 0% |
| 52 | Keadby Lincolnshire | D | 1.7 | 84% | 0.6 | 0% |
| 53 | Blakedown Worcestershire | D | 0.8 | 79% | 2 | 0% |
| 54 | Meon Vale Warwickshire | D | 0.4 | 50% | 1.4 | 19% |
| 55 | Byram North Yorkshire | D | 2.1 | 19% | 1.5 | 0% |
| 56 | Stillington County Durham | D | 1.4 | 77% | 0.8 | 0% |
| 57 | Barford Warwickshire | D | 2.1 | 58% | 0.5 | 0% |
| 58 | Friday Bridge Cambridgeshire | D− | 1 | 79% | 0.3 | 0% |
| 59 | Markham Gwent | D− | 0.1 | 0% | 2.6 | 0% |
| 60 | Easton Norfolk | D− | 1 | 0% | 1.2 | 0% |
The map
Parks, footpaths & countryside
Tap a number to zoom to a park. Tap a layer to hide it. The dashed line is Trull’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 Trull
The biggest is King George's Field, 2.8 ha (7 acres). Directions go to the park’s nearest public entrance where Ordnance Survey maps one.
Trull Green
Park or garden
0.1 ha (0 acres)
Centralin the middle of Trull
Directionsto the nearest entrance
Close to home
How close Trull’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%)
Trull100%
Villages its size85%
Somerset towns83%
All UK towns83%
Playing fields count, so a park within reach isn’t always one with paths or trees; 13 playgrounds are mapped in and around the village, about one for every 110 residents.
National Parks & National Landscapes
Blackdown Hills and Quantock Hills both start about 4 miles from Trull
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
National Landscape
Blackdown Hills
1.3 mi south-east370 km²since 199120% of the land within 5 km
Official site20% of the land within 5 km of Trull is National Park or National Landscape, more than 78% of UK towns. Exmoor National Park covers 693 km² and has been a National Park since 1954.
Footpaths & waymarked walks
1 waymarked walk passes through or near Trull
32 km of footpaths, bridleways and rights of way are mapped in Trull 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.
Regional
East Deane Way6.3 km
The regional route here is the East Deane 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 Trull: 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 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Daylight (h) | 8.4 | 9.9 | 11.7 | 13.8 | 15.5 | 16.5 | 16.1 | 14.5 | 12.5 | 10.6 | 8.8 | 7.9 |
| High (°C) | 9 | 9 | 12 | 14 | 17 | 20 | 22 | 22 | 19 | 15 | 12 | 9 |
| Rain (mm) | 93 | 70 | 57 | 58 | 51 | 57 | 56 | 66 | 63 | 90 | 97 | 95 |
May is the driest month (51 mm) and August the warmest (highs of 22 °C). Winter days are short, about 8 hours of daylight in December, and 97 mm of rain falls in November, the wettest month. Frost comes on about 35 nights a year. The climate in Trull →
Things to do
2 viewpoints, 13 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
Trull is inland. These are the nearest named beaches, measured from the edge of the village.
Berrow Sands17 mi from Trull’s edge
DirectionsDunster Beach19 mi from Trull’s edge
DirectionsSeaton Beach20 mi from Trull’s edge
DirectionsChurch Cliff Beach20 mi from Trull’s edge
DirectionsMonmouth Beach20 mi from Trull’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.
Every named place, with directions
Viewpoints 2
Plus 2 viewpoints without a name on the map.
Playgrounds 13
Worcester Road Play Park0.8 mi from town
DirectionsVivary Park Playground1.1 mi from town
DirectionsPlus 11 playgrounds without a name on the map.
Campsites 1
Cornish Farm Touring Park0.8 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.
TauntonNorton FitzwarrenRuishtonMonkton HeathfieldCreech St MichaelCotford St LukeTrull
ABCDOutdoors Grade
| Town | Outdoors | Green space, ha per 1,000 | Near a park | Protected within 5 km |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Trull | A+ | 5.9 | 100% | 20% |
| Taunton 1.8 mi | B | 1.2 | 80% | 16% |
| Norton Fitzwarren 2.6 mi | C+ | 1.3 | 35% | 6% |
| Ruishton 3.4 mi | C− | 0.6 | 60% | 4% |
| Monkton Heathfield 3.9 mi | A | 2.4 | 100% | 8% |
| Creech St Michael 4.1 mi | B− | 1.2 | 88% | 0% |
| Cotford St Luke 4.4 mi | B+ | 2.2 | 100% | 6% |
Trull grades higher for the outdoors than every neighbour in the table.
Questions about the outdoors in Trull
What is the biggest park in Trull?
King George's Field, 2.8 ha (7 acres). Trull Green (0.1 ha) is second. 2 named parks, gardens and playing fields are in the village or within 400 m of it.
Is Trull near a National Park?
Yes. Exmoor National Park begins 11 mi north-west of the village’s edge. It covers 693 km² and has been a National Park since 1954. The nearest protected landscape of any kind is the Blackdown Hills National Landscape, 1.3 mi away.
What are the best walks near Trull?
1 waymarked walking route passes within 2 km of the village, including the East Deane Way.
What is the nearest beach to Trull?
Berrow Sands, 17 mi from the edge of the village, then Dunster Beach (19 mi). Trull itself is inland.
How many people in Trull 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 Trull?
May to September: the longest days, the warmest afternoons and the least rain of the year, from the Met Office 1991–2020 averages.
Is Trull 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 90% (5.9 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 Trull’s overall grade.
Sources
Where Trull’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.