Haughley’s biggest
Gallowsfield Wood
Park or garden · 300 m outside town
3.2 ha (8 acres)0.3 km of path
4 pitchesfootball pitches would fit
0.5 mi westfrom the centre
Directionsto the nearest entrance
Photo: Geographer · CC BY-SA 2.0COutdoors Grade
Outdoors in Haughley · parks, paths & countryside
Parks and walks in Haughley
Parks and playing fields in Haughley add up to 3.0 ha for every 1,000 residents; the typical UK town has 2.1. 71% of residents live within a 5-minute walk of a park or playing field. Footpaths add up to 17 km in the village and the kilometre around it, 2.3 for every square kilometre. Haughley grades C for the outdoors. A character grade: it isn’t part of the overall grade.
Green space
3.0 ha
per 1,000 residents
Typical UK town 2.1
Near a park
71%
of residents within 400 m
Typical UK town 83%
Footpaths
17 km
2.3 km per km², town + 1 km
Typical UK town 3.0 per km²
Protected landscape
0%
of the land within 5 km
Nearest: Dedham Vale National Landscape
Outdoors grade
Haughley grades C for the outdoors
Each chart is every UK town of 1,000 or more on one measure: the green bar is Haughley, 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 30% of UK towns37th of 60 UK villages its size
Public green space3.0 haper 1,000 residents: parks, gardens, playing fields, play spaces
69out of
100
100
A park within a walk71%of residents within 400 m (a 5-minute walk)
32out of
100
100
National Park or National Landscape0%of the land within 5 km · None within 5 km
31out of
100
100
Footpaths2.3 kmper km², the town and 1 km around it
40out 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
Haughley is 37th of 60 UK villages its size for the outdoors
The 60 UK towns and cities of 1,200 to 1,400 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
Haughley2.3
Villages its size2.3
Suffolk towns2.5
All UK towns3.0
Green space, ha per 1,000 residents
Haughley3.0
Villages its size2.5
Suffolk towns2.1
All UK towns2.1
Residents within 400 m of a park
Haughley71%
Villages its size76%
Suffolk towns80%
All UK towns83%
Against villages its size, Haughley stands out most for park space per resident: only 26 of the other 59 have more.
Show as a table
| Town | Outdoors | Green space | Near a park | Path per km² | Protected | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Hightown Hampshire | A+ | 15.7 | 100% | 3.5 | 58% |
| 2 | Worrall South Yorkshire | A+ | 3.7 | 100% | 5.4 | 21% |
| 3 | Holybourne Hampshire | A+ | 12.2 | 100% | 2.7 | 23% |
| 4 | Wolvercote Oxfordshire | A | 32 | 100% | 5.5 | 0% |
| 5 | Crowmarsh Gifford Oxfordshire | A | 8 | 77% | 3.6 | 60% |
| 6 | Pwll Dyfed | A | 21.6 | 64% | 2.6 | 19% |
| 7 | Hurley Berkshire | A | 3.1 | 100% | 2.6 | 36% |
| 8 | Amberley Gloucestershire | A | 13.7 | 0% | 6.3 | 87% |
| 9 | Charmouth Dorset | A | 2.5 | 82% | 2.3 | 63% |
| 10 | Bere Regis Dorset | A | 39.2 | 100% | 3.5 | 0% |
| 11 | Brinscall Lancashire | A | 3.5 | 100% | 4.6 | 0% |
| 12 | Burbage Wiltshire | A | 2.7 | 100% | 1.9 | 100% |
| 13 | Compton Hampshire | A− | 18.8 | 61% | 3.6 | 28% |
| 14 | Upper Caldecote Bedfordshire | A− | 3.7 | 100% | 3.4 | 0% |
| 15 | Bradley Clwyd | A− | 29.9 | 100% | 2.6 | 0% |
| 16 | Blean Kent | A− | 5.9 | 80% | 6.5 | 0% |
| 17 | Sherford Devon | A− | 3.2 | 100% | 1.5 | 28% |
| 18 | Auckley South Yorkshire | B+ | 4.9 | 100% | 2.6 | 0% |
| 19 | Riseley Bedfordshire | B+ | 2.4 | 100% | 3.9 | 0% |
| 20 | Layer-de-la-Haye Essex | B+ | 9.5 | 79% | 4.2 | 0% |
| 21 | Marshfield Gloucestershire | B+ | 4.9 | 42% | 2.7 | 99% |
| 22 | Welland Worcestershire | B+ | 1.7 | 100% | 1.9 | 38% |
| 23 | Abbots Bromley Staffordshire | B | 6.9 | 100% | 1.6 | 0% |
| 24 | Lidlington Bedfordshire | B | 1.9 | 100% | 3.3 | 0% |
| 25 | Lingdale North Yorkshire | B− | 1.4 | 100% | 1.7 | 31% |
| 26 | Blakeney Gloucestershire | B− | 2.1 | 68% | 3.1 | 0% |
| 27 | Fowlmere Cambridgeshire | B− | 4.5 | 100% | 1.1 | 0% |
| 28 | Burwash East Sussex | B− | 1.5 | 76% | 2.5 | 100% |
| 29 | Pensarn Clwyd | C+ | 13.1 | 45% | 1.1 | 0% |
| 30 | Morton Derbyshire | C+ | 18.3 | 66% | 2.5 | 0% |
| 31 | Belford Northumberland | C+ | 1.2 | 83% | 0.9 | 21% |
| 32 | Perranarworthal Cornwall | C+ | 2.5 | 76% | 1.6 | 19% |
| 33 | Littleton Panell Wiltshire | C+ | 5.3 | 39% | 3.3 | 0% |
| 34 | Claverdon Warwickshire | C+ | 1.2 | 100% | 2.5 | 0% |
| 35 | North Duffield North Yorkshire | C | 2.6 | 100% | 0.4 | 0% |
| 36 | Quainton Buckinghamshire | C | 3.8 | 69% | 2.1 | 0% |
| 37 | Haughley Suffolk | C | 3 | 71% | 2.3 | 0% |
| 38 | Kislingbury Northamptonshire | C | 8.4 | 26% | 2.3 | 0% |
| 39 | Moretonhampstead Devon | C | 0.6 | 81% | 1.2 | 100% |
| 40 | Ninfield East Sussex | C− | 1.8 | 50% | 1.4 | 50% |
| 41 | Atworth Wiltshire | C− | 1.5 | 62% | 2.2 | 13% |
| 42 | Langthorpe North Yorkshire | C− | 0.3 | 100% | 1.6 | 0% |
| 43 | Wingham Kent | C− | 2.2 | 53% | 1.3 | 0% |
| 44 | Llandysul Dyfed | C− | 5.2 | 47% | 1 | 0% |
| 45 | Northborough Cambridgeshire | C− | 1.7 | 68% | 2.5 | 0% |
| 46 | Wooden Dyfed | D | 0.1 | 0% | 0.4 | 18% |
| 47 | Bampton Devon | D | 1.5 | 22% | 1.6 | 5% |
| 48 | Heddon-on-the-Wall Northumberland | D | 0.6 | 70% | 2.7 | 0% |
| 49 | Colsterworth Lincolnshire | D | 1.3 | 67% | 2.2 | 0% |
| 50 | Staindrop County Durham | D | 1.4 | 82% | 1.1 | 0% |
| 51 | Hockwold cum Wilton Norfolk | D | 1.6 | 75% | 1.4 | 0% |
| 52 | Garsington Oxfordshire | D | 0.4 | 65% | 2.6 | 0% |
| 53 | Appleby Magna Leicestershire | D | 1.7 | 46% | 2 | 0% |
| 54 | Byfield Northamptonshire | D | 1.9 | 48% | 1.5 | 0% |
| 55 | Croeserw West Glamorgan | D | 1.3 | 33% | 2.5 | 0% |
| 56 | Hauxton Cambridgeshire | D− | 1.3 | 55% | 1.8 | 0% |
| 57 | Brandesburton East Riding of Yorkshire | D− | 2.2 | 0% | 0.5 | 0% |
| 58 | Deeping St Nicholas Lincolnshire | D− | 0.7 | 80% | 0 | 0% |
| 59 | Hunger Hill Greater Manchester | D− | 0 | 0% | 2.4 | 0% |
| 60 | Witheridge Devon | D− | 0.5 | 36% | 1 | 0% |
The map
Parks, footpaths & countryside
Tap a number to zoom to a park. Tap a layer to hide it. The dashed line is Haughley’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 Haughley
The biggest is Gallowsfield Wood, 3.2 ha (8 acres). Directions go to the park’s nearest public entrance where Ordnance Survey maps one.
King George's Field
Playing field
2.7 ha (7 acres)0.3 km of path
4 pitchesfootball pitches would fit
Centralin the middle of Haughley
Directionsto the nearest entrance
The Green
Park or garden
0.1 ha (0 acres)
Centralin the middle of Haughley
Directionsto the nearest entrance
Close to home
7 in 10 Haughley 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).
Within 400 m (71%)Further (29%)
Haughley71%
Villages its size76%
Suffolk towns80%
All UK towns83%
About 400 people live further than that. Playing fields count, so a park within reach isn’t always one with paths or trees; 6 playgrounds are mapped in and around the village, about one for every 219 residents.
National Parks & National Landscapes
The Dedham Vale National Landscape is 14 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
2 waymarked walks pass through or near Haughley
17 km of footpaths, bridleways and rights of way are mapped in Haughley and the kilometre around it, 2.3 km for every square kilometre (the typical UK town has 3.0). Bars show each route’s kilometres within 2 km of the village.
RegionalLocal
Middy Railway Footpath1.2 km
The Mid Suffolk Footpath1.2 km
The regional route here is the The Mid Suffolk Footpath.
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 Haughley: May to July and 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 | 15.7 | 16.7 | 16.3 | 14.7 | 12.6 | 10.5 | 8.7 | 7.7 |
| High (°C) | 7 | 8 | 11 | 13 | 17 | 20 | 22 | 22 | 19 | 15 | 10 | 8 |
| Rain (mm) | 48 | 41 | 37 | 35 | 49 | 50 | 58 | 67 | 47 | 59 | 60 | 55 |
April is the driest month (35 mm) and July the warmest (highs of 22 °C). Winter days are short, about 8 hours of daylight in December, and 67 mm of rain falls in August, the wettest month. Frost comes on about 39 nights a year. The climate in Haughley →
Things to do
6 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
Haughley is inland. These are the nearest named beaches, measured from the edge of the village.
Honolulu Beach17 mi from Haughley’s edge
DirectionsThe Beach18 mi from Haughley’s edge
DirectionsTrimley Shores20 mi from Haughley’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
Picnic sites 1
Plus 1 picnic site without a name on the map.
Playgrounds 6
Plus 6 playgrounds without a name on the map.
Next door
The outdoors in nearby towns
The nearest towns of 1,000+ within 12 miles. Tap a town for its outdoors page.
StowmarketStowuplandElmswellWoolpitBacton and CottonMendleshamHaughley
ABCDOutdoors Grade
| Town | Outdoors | Green space, ha per 1,000 | Near a park | Protected within 5 km |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Haughley | C | 3.0 | 71% | 0% |
| Stowmarket 2.5 mi | C− | 0.8 | 50% | 0% |
| Stowupland 2.5 mi | A− | 5.3 | 83% | 0% |
| Elmswell 2.7 mi | B | 2.5 | 100% | 0% |
| Woolpit 3.3 mi | C− | 4.3 | 54% | 0% |
| Bacton and Cotton 3.7 mi | C+ | 4.4 | 70% | 0% |
| Mendlesham 5.1 mi | D− | 0.1 | 0% | 0% |
Stowupland, 2.5 miles away, grades A−, the best next door: 83% of its residents live within 400 m of a park. None of the neighbours has a protected landscape within 5 km either.
Questions about the outdoors in Haughley
What is the biggest park in Haughley?
Gallowsfield Wood, 3.2 ha (8 acres), just outside the built-up area. King George's Field (2.7 ha) is second. 3 named parks, gardens and playing fields are in the village or within 400 m of it.
Is Haughley near a National Park?
The nearest protected landscape is the Dedham Vale National Landscape, 14 mi south of the village’s edge. It covers 91 km² and was designated in 1970.
What are the best walks near Haughley?
2 waymarked walking routes pass within 2 km of the village, including the Middy Railway Footpath and The Mid Suffolk Footpath.
What is the nearest beach to Haughley?
Honolulu Beach, 17 mi from the edge of the village, then The Beach (18 mi). Haughley itself is inland.
How many people in Haughley live near a park?
71% 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 Haughley?
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 Haughley good for walking?
About average for paths: 2.3 km of footpath and right of way per square kilometre, more than 40% of UK towns. For park space per person it beats 69% (3.0 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 Haughley’s overall grade.
Sources
Where Haughley’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.