Photo: Bernd Jatzwauk Pommes104 · CC BY-SA 3.046% of the land within 5 km of East Bergholt is National Park or National Landscape
The Dedham Vale National Landscape and the Suffolk Coast & Heaths National Landscape both begin about a mile from the village’s edge. A park or playing field is within a 5-minute walk for 26% of residents. Footpaths add up to 29 km in the village and the kilometre around it, 2.4 for every square kilometre. East Bergholt grades C for the outdoors. A character grade: it isn’t part of the overall grade.
What kind of outdoors village is East Bergholt?
Read from the data: what stands out first, good and bad.
East Bergholt’s strongest suit is protected countryside on the doorstep. Where it falls short is how far some homes are from a park.
East Bergholt grades C for the outdoors
Each chart is every UK town of 1,000 or more on one measure: the green bar is East Bergholt, 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.
East Bergholt is 33rd of 60 UK villages its size for the outdoors
The 60 UK towns and cities of 2,100 to 2,300 people with an Outdoors Grade. Hover a dot for its figures; tap one for its page.
Against villages its size, East Bergholt stands out most for path per km²: only 24 of the other 59 have more. It falls furthest behind on homes near a park, where 54 of the others do better.
Show as a table
| Town | Outdoors | Green space | Near a park | Path per km² | Protected | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Brockham Surrey | A+ | 7.4 | 94% | 4.4 | 38% |
| 2 | Limpsfield Surrey | A+ | 2.9 | 100% | 3.7 | 41% |
| 3 | Tanyfron Clwyd | A | 7.4 | 100% | 2.6 | 13% |
| 4 | Berry Hill Gloucestershire | A | 2.9 | 79% | 4.7 | 55% |
| 5 | Hapton Lancashire | A | 2.6 | 87% | 6.1 | 2% |
| 6 | Severn Beach Gloucestershire | A− | 5.8 | 100% | 1.5 | 0% |
| 7 | Great Horkesley Essex | A− | 4.7 | 78% | 3.3 | 25% |
| 8 | Arnside Cumbria | A− | 1.3 | 65% | 4.1 | 75% |
| 9 | Smalley Derbyshire | A− | 2.9 | 100% | 4.1 | 0% |
| 10 | Merlin's Bridge Dyfed | A− | 3.3 | 100% | 2 | 11% |
| 11 | Gilwern Gwent | A− | 1.9 | 100% | 2 | 83% |
| 12 | Berrow and Brean Somerset | A− | 3.6 | 75% | 1.7 | 1% |
| 13 | Newstead Nottinghamshire | B+ | 2.6 | 100% | 3.7 | 0% |
| 14 | Woodcote Oxfordshire | B+ | 1.6 | 84% | 3.5 | 99% |
| 15 | Charing Kent | B+ | 2.7 | 85% | 2.1 | 56% |
| 16 | Brimscombe and Thrupp Gloucestershire | B+ | 2.1 | 12% | 5.9 | 89% |
| 17 | Gamston (Rushcliffe) Nottinghamshire | B+ | 2.7 | 86% | 4.7 | 0% |
| 18 | Woodford Greater Manchester | B+ | 5.9 | 80% | 2.3 | 5% |
| 19 | Banwell Somerset | B+ | 1.7 | 100% | 2 | 38% |
| 20 | Steventon Oxfordshire | B+ | 2 | 100% | 2 | 17% |
| 21 | Longtown Cumbria | B | 4.3 | 100% | 0.1 | 0% |
| 22 | Crick Northamptonshire | B | 3.8 | 100% | 1.9 | 0% |
| 23 | Mayfield East Sussex | B− | 3.3 | 61% | 1.9 | 99% |
| 24 | Rayne Essex | B− | 4.3 | 64% | 4 | 0% |
| 25 | Loddon Norfolk | B− | 2.4 | 77% | 2.5 | 18% |
| 26 | Lechlade-on-Thames Gloucestershire | B− | 6.7 | 66% | 1.5 | 6% |
| 27 | Swanton Morley Norfolk | C+ | 3.5 | 94% | 1.6 | 0% |
| 28 | Hermitage Berkshire | C+ | 0.6 | 58% | 3.4 | 82% |
| 29 | Hook Norton Oxfordshire | C+ | 2 | 70% | 2 | 28% |
| 30 | Huncote Leicestershire | C+ | 0.8 | 100% | 2.9 | 0% |
| 31 | Berkeley Gloucestershire | C+ | 0.9 | 49% | 2.6 | 3% |
| 32 | Farndon Cheshire | C+ | 1.2 | 82% | 4.2 | 0% |
| 33 | East Bergholt Suffolk | C | 1.9 | 26% | 2.4 | 46% |
| 34 | Trimsaran Dyfed | C | 2.4 | 31% | 1 | 2% |
| 35 | Wickham Market Suffolk | C | 2.5 | 64% | 1.7 | 7% |
| 36 | Llanidloes Powys | C | 2.4 | 89% | 1.3 | 0% |
| 37 | Barwick in Elmet West Yorkshire | C | 1.5 | 87% | 2.5 | 0% |
| 38 | Eye Suffolk | C | 2 | 66% | 3 | 0% |
| 39 | Aspatria Cumbria | C− | 3.1 | 60% | 0.8 | 1% |
| 40 | Wateringbury Kent | C− | 2.4 | 73% | 2.1 | 0% |
| 41 | Great Blakenham Suffolk | C− | 3.6 | 70% | 1.5 | 0% |
| 42 | Stoke Prior Worcestershire | C− | 2.6 | 67% | 2.2 | 0% |
| 43 | Coleford Somerset | C− | 1.2 | 51% | 4.5 | 0% |
| 44 | Meriden West Midlands | C− | 1.8 | 70% | 2.6 | 0% |
| 45 | Woldingham Surrey | C− | 0.2 | 25% | 3.1 | 20% |
| 46 | Hatfield Woodhouse South Yorkshire | C− | 0.6 | 100% | 1.6 | 0% |
| 47 | St Osyth Essex | C− | 1.5 | 54% | 1.3 | 0% |
| 48 | Duxford Cambridgeshire | D | 1.7 | 78% | 1.2 | 0% |
| 49 | Wickham Hampshire | D | 0.8 | 26% | 2 | 13% |
| 50 | Morton Lincolnshire | D | 0.2 | 28% | 3 | 0% |
| 51 | Kineton Warwickshire | D | 0.2 | 0% | 1.8 | 5% |
| 52 | Great Barford Bedfordshire | D− | 1.4 | 45% | 1.8 | 0% |
| 53 | Leconfield East Riding of Yorkshire | D− | 1.6 | 51% | 1.3 | 0% |
| 54 | Mattishall Norfolk | D− | 1.4 | 58% | 1.5 | 0% |
| 55 | Bettws Mid Glamorgan | D− | 0.7 | 71% | 1.6 | 0% |
| 56 | Misterton Nottinghamshire | D− | 1.4 | 47% | 1.7 | 0% |
| 57 | Billinghay Lincolnshire | D− | 1.8 | 41% | 0.7 | 0% |
| 58 | Shenstone Staffordshire | D− | 1 | 55% | 1 | 0% |
| 59 | Cilfrew West Glamorgan | D− | 0.8 | 44% | 1.3 | 0% |
| 60 | Aslockton Nottinghamshire | D− | 1 | 11% | 1.4 | 0% |
Parks, footpaths & countryside
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3 in 10 East Bergholt residents live within a 5-minute walk of 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 1,600 people live further than that. Playing fields count, so a park within reach isn’t always one with paths or trees; 5 playgrounds are mapped in and around the village, about one for every 442 residents.
National Parks and National Landscapes around East Bergholt
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.
Dedham Vale
Suffolk Coast & Heaths
46% of the land within 5 km of East Bergholt is National Park or National Landscape, more than 90% of UK towns.
7 waymarked walks pass through or near East Bergholt
29 km of footpaths, bridleways and rights of way are mapped in East Bergholt and the kilometre around it, 2.4 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 Flatford and Constable Country Walk, Flatford has 11 km of local walk within 2 km of the village. 4 regional routes pass through, including the Stour Valley Path part 3, St Edmund Way, Essex Way (Stratford St Mary to Ramsey) and Stour & Orwell Walk.
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 East Bergholt: 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) | 8.2 | 9.8 | 11.7 | 13.8 | 15.6 | 16.7 | 16.3 | 14.6 | 12.6 | 10.5 | 8.7 | 7.8 |
| High (°C) | 7 | 8 | 11 | 14 | 17 | 20 | 23 | 23 | 20 | 15 | 11 | 8 |
| Rain (mm) | 52 | 45 | 39 | 38 | 48 | 51 | 50 | 62 | 51 | 63 | 63 | 62 |
April is the driest month (38 mm) and July the warmest (highs of 23 °C). Winter days are short, about 8 hours of daylight in December, and 63 mm of rain falls in October, the wettest month. Frost comes on about 54 nights a year. The climate in East Bergholt →
5 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
East Bergholt 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.
Every named place, with directions
Viewpoints 1
Picnic sites 2
Plus 2 picnic sites without a name on the map.
Playgrounds 5
Plus 5 playgrounds without a name on the map.
Slipways 2
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| East Bergholt | C | 1.9 | 26% | 46% |
| Capel St Mary 2.1 mi | C+ | 1.5 | 59% | 24% |
| Brantham 2.1 mi | C+ | 1.0 | 27% | 42% |
| Lawford 2.9 mi | A+ | 3.4 | 94% | 40% |
| Manningtree 3.0 mi | A+ | 5.6 | 100% | 43% |
| Mistley 3.8 mi | A | 4.3 | 86% | 41% |
| Ardleigh 3.9 mi | A− | 3.2 | 100% | 21% |
Manningtree, 3 miles away, grades A+, the best next door: every resident lives within 400 m of a park. Manningtree and Mistley have at least twice East Bergholt’s green space per resident.
Questions about the outdoors in East Bergholt
Is East Bergholt near a National Park?
The Dedham Vale National Landscape reaches the edge of East Bergholt. It covers 91 km² and was designated in 1970.
What are the best walks near East Bergholt?
7 waymarked walking routes pass within 2 km of the village, including the Flatford and Constable Country Walk, Flatford, Stour Valley Path part 3 and St Edmund Way.
What is the nearest beach to East Bergholt?
Trimley Shores, 11 mi from the edge of the village, then Lilley Farm Bay (13 mi). East Bergholt itself is inland.
How many people in East Bergholt live near a park?
26% 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 East Bergholt?
May to September: the longest days, the warmest afternoons and the least rain of the year, from the Met Office 1991–2020 averages.
Is East Bergholt good for walking?
About average for paths: 2.4 km of footpath and right of way per square kilometre, more than 42% of UK towns. For park space per person it beats 44% (1.9 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 East Bergholt’s overall grade.
Where East Bergholt’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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