Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
Beck Row War Memorial · Photo: Adrian S Pye · CC BY-SA 2.0Parks and playing fields in Beck Row add up to 5.3 ha for every 1,000 residents; the typical UK town has 2.1. Footpaths add up to 10 km in the town and the kilometre around it, 0.8 for every square kilometre. 76% of residents live within a 5-minute walk of a park or playing field. Beck Row grades C for the outdoors: #26 of 34 in Suffolk. A character grade: it isn’t part of the overall grade.
Read from the data: what stands out first, good and bad.
Beck Row’s strongest suit is plenty of park space. Where it falls short is footpaths.
Each chart is every UK town of 1,000 or more on one measure: the green bar is Beck Row, the dashed line the typical town. The number is the share of towns it beats; the five are averaged and the average ranked again.
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.
The 60 UK towns and cities of 3,900 to 4,300 people with an Outdoors Grade. Hover a dot for its figures; tap one for its page.
Against towns its size, Beck Row stands out most for park space per resident: only 8 of the other 59 have more. It falls furthest behind on path per km², where 59 of the others do better.
| Town | Outdoors | Green space | Near a park | Path per km² | Protected | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Hextable Kent | A+ | 6.7 | 100% | 5.1 | 9% |
| 2 | West Malling Kent | A+ | 8.7 | 100% | 3.4 | 21% |
| 3 | Telscombe Cliffs East Sussex | A+ | 3 | 58% | 5.1 | 42% |
| 4 | Southbourne West Sussex | A | 1.3 | 92% | 3.3 | 64% |
| 5 | Pitstone Buckinghamshire | A | 1.6 | 100% | 4.2 | 40% |
| 6 | Tenby Dyfed | A | 2.1 | 88% | 2.5 | 21% |
| 7 | Bisley Surrey | A | 8 | 92% | 4.8 | 0% |
| 8 | Milton Cambridgeshire | A | 10.4 | 100% | 3.4 | 0% |
| 9 | Holt Norfolk | A | 8.5 | 84% | 2.4 | 40% |
| 10 | Old Sarum Wiltshire | A | 4.6 | 100% | 3.7 | 0% |
| 11 | Hunstanton Norfolk | A− | 3.7 | 71% | 1.4 | 31% |
| 12 | Prestbury Gloucestershire | A− | 1.6 | 80% | 5.3 | 51% |
| 13 | Fairford Gloucestershire | A− | 3.4 | 100% | 1.8 | 17% |
| 14 | Bearwood Dorset | B+ | 2.5 | 100% | 3.8 | 0% |
| 15 | Lofthouse and Robin Hood West Yorkshire | B+ | 3.4 | 93% | 3.8 | 0% |
| 16 | Cheddleton Staffordshire | B+ | 3.5 | 88% | 3.6 | 0% |
| 17 | Ratby Leicestershire | B+ | 1.7 | 100% | 4.8 | 0% |
| 18 | Bramley and Wonersh Surrey | B+ | 1.7 | 77% | 3.5 | 59% |
| 19 | Tangmere West Sussex | B | 2.1 | 100% | 1.2 | 36% |
| 20 | Grange-over-Sands Cumbria | B | 1.5 | 46% | 2.6 | 40% |
| 21 | Brampton Cumbria | B | 2 | 92% | 2.2 | 9% |
| 22 | Saltford Somerset | B | 1.6 | 75% | 3.6 | 24% |
| 23 | Bourton-on-the-Water Gloucestershire | B | 0.9 | 79% | 3.3 | 100% |
| 24 | Penrhyn Bay Clwyd | B− | 0.6 | 68% | 3.3 | 0% |
| 25 | Little Paxton Cambridgeshire | B− | 2.8 | 87% | 3 | 0% |
| 26 | Tumble Dyfed | B− | 19.5 | 93% | 1.5 | 0% |
| 27 | Stoney Stanton Leicestershire | B− | 2.5 | 100% | 2.2 | 0% |
| 28 | Topsham Devon | B− | 1.9 | 76% | 2.9 | 0% |
| 29 | Martock Somerset | B− | 2.9 | 85% | 3 | 0% |
| 30 | Easington Lane Tyne and Wear | B− | 0.9 | 100% | 4 | 0% |
| 31 | South Cerney Gloucestershire | B− | 2.5 | 77% | 2.4 | 7% |
| 32 | Kessingland Suffolk | C+ | 0.9 | 70% | 1.9 | 19% |
| 33 | Ystradgynlais Powys | C+ | 2.5 | 78% | 1.2 | 36% |
| 34 | Send Surrey | C+ | 2.6 | 28% | 3.3 | 5% |
| 35 | Old Tupton Derbyshire | C+ | 2.3 | 73% | 3.9 | 0% |
| 36 | Eaton Bray and Edlesborough Bedfordshire | C+ | 2.6 | 72% | 1.7 | 29% |
| 37 | Thorpe Hesley South Yorkshire | C+ | 1.8 | 80% | 4 | 0% |
| 38 | Sandwich Kent | C+ | 2.1 | 51% | 2.5 | 0% |
| 39 | Sible Hedingham Essex | C+ | 0.9 | 100% | 2.9 | 0% |
| 40 | Holmfield West Yorkshire | C+ | 2.8 | 74% | 2.7 | 0% |
| 41 | Knebworth Hertfordshire | C+ | 1.5 | 81% | 3.8 | 0% |
| 42 | Kirkburton West Yorkshire | C | 1.4 | 86% | 3.3 | 0% |
| 43 | Warton (Fylde) Lancashire | C | 1.3 | 92% | 1.1 | 0% |
| 44 | South Darenth and Sutton at Hone Kent | C | 1.8 | 43% | 2.7 | 10% |
| 45 | Brayton North Yorkshire | C | 0.8 | 100% | 2.4 | 0% |
| 46 | Langley Park County Durham | C | 0.8 | 84% | 3.8 | 0% |
| 47 | Deanshanger Northamptonshire | C | 1.5 | 93% | 2.2 | 0% |
| 48 | Uppingham Rutland | C | 2.2 | 89% | 1.6 | 0% |
| 49 | Wynyard County Durham | C | 10.7 | 64% | 1.3 | 0% |
| 50 | Beck Row Suffolk | C | 5.3 | 76% | 0.8 | 0% |
| 51 | Great Glen Leicestershire | C | 1.4 | 91% | 2.2 | 0% |
| 52 | Nelson Gwent | C | 2.1 | 88% | 1.5 | 0% |
| 53 | Ellesmere Shropshire | C− | 12.5 | 54% | 1.3 | 0% |
| 54 | Brookmans Park Hertfordshire | C− | 2.5 | 43% | 2.5 | 0% |
| 55 | Doddinghurst Essex | D | 1.6 | 60% | 2.4 | 0% |
| 56 | Middleton Cheney Northamptonshire | D | 0.9 | 70% | 2.6 | 0% |
| 57 | Gnosall Staffordshire | D | 1.2 | 42% | 2.3 | 0% |
| 58 | Cricklade Wiltshire | D | 0.3 | 9% | 3 | 0% |
| 59 | Llantrisant Mid Glamorgan | D− | 0.6 | 42% | 2.3 | 0% |
| 60 | Little Eriswell Suffolk | D− | 0.1 | 0% | 1.5 | 0% |
Tap a number to zoom to a park. Tap a layer to hide it. The dashed line is Beck Row’s built-up area.
The biggest is Aspal Close Local Nature Reserve, 20 ha (51 acres). Directions go to the park’s nearest public entrance where Ordnance Survey maps one.
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 1,000 people live further than that. Playing fields count, so a park within reach isn’t always one with paths or trees; 22 playgrounds are mapped in and around the town, about one for every 188 residents.
10 km of footpaths, bridleways and rights of way are mapped in Beck Row and the kilometre around it, 0.8 km for every square kilometre (the typical UK town has 3.0). Bars show each route’s kilometres within 2 km of the town.
Waymarked walks are OpenStreetMap walking routes. Public rights of way are only as complete as the map in each area.
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) | 8.2 | 9.8 | 11.7 | 13.8 | 15.7 | 16.8 | 16.3 | 14.7 | 12.6 | 10.5 | 8.6 | 7.7 |
| High (°C) | 8 | 9 | 11 | 15 | 18 | 21 | 23 | 23 | 20 | 16 | 11 | 8 |
| Rain (mm) | 44 | 35 | 36 | 35 | 46 | 52 | 52 | 60 | 49 | 58 | 54 | 54 |
February is the driest month (35 mm) and July the warmest (highs of 23 °C). Winter days are short, about 8 hours of daylight in December, and 60 mm of rain falls in August, the wettest month. Frost comes on about 39 nights a year. The climate in Beck Row →
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.
Beck Row is inland. These are the nearest named beaches, measured from the edge of the town.
Check the water before you swim. The Environment Agency tests designated bathing waters from May to September and publishes a rating for each beach.
Plus 22 playgrounds without a name on the map.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Beck Row | C | 5.3 | 76% | 0% |
| Mildenhall 2.0 mi | B− | 2.1 | 91% | 0% |
| Little Eriswell 2.5 mi | D− | 0.1 | 0% | 0% |
| Lakenheath 3.3 mi | D | 1.1 | 57% | 0% |
| Isleham 3.6 mi | D− | 0.2 | 71% | 0% |
| Red Lodge 4.7 mi | C | 1.5 | 100% | 0% |
| Fordham 5.9 mi | D | 2.3 | 35% | 0% |
Mildenhall, 2 miles away, grades B−, the best next door: 91% of its residents live within 400 m of a park. None of the neighbours has a protected landscape within 5 km either.
Aspal Close Local Nature Reserve, 20 ha (51 acres), with 4.3 km of path. 1 named park, garden or playing field is in the town or within 400 m of it.
No National Park or National Landscape is within 30 km (about 19 miles) of Beck Row.
2 waymarked walking routes pass within 2 km of the town, including the Red and Blue. Aspal Close Local Nature Reserve alone has 4.3 km of path.
The Beach, 6.2 mi from the edge of the town. Beck Row itself is inland.
76% 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%.
May to September: the longest days, the warmest afternoons and the least rain of the year, from the Met Office 1991–2020 averages.
Paths are thinner than most towns: 0.8 km of footpath and right of way per square kilometre, more than 5% of UK towns. For park space per person it beats 88% (5.3 ha per 1,000 residents).
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 Beck Row’s overall grade.
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