Photo: Alan Murray-Rust · CC BY-SA 2.0Parks and walks in Ixworth
Footpaths add up to 8 km in the village and the kilometre around it, 0.9 for every square kilometre. Parks and playing fields in Ixworth add up to 1.0 ha for every 1,000 residents; the typical UK town has 2.1. 73% of residents live within a 5-minute walk of a park or playing field. Ixworth grades D− for the outdoors. A character grade: it isn’t part of the overall grade.
Ixworth grades D− for the outdoors
Each chart is every UK town of 1,000 or more on one measure: the green bar is Ixworth, 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.
How Ixworth compares with UK villages of 2,200 to 2,400
The 60 UK towns and cities of 2,200 to 2,400 people with an Outdoors Grade. Hover a dot for its figures; tap one for its page.
Ixworth falls furthest behind on path per km², where 56 of the 59 others do better.
Show as a table
| Town | Outdoors | Green space | Near a park | Path per km² | Protected | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Radford Semele Warwickshire | A | 12.3 | 100% | 4.4 | 0% |
| 2 | Elstead Surrey | A | 2.5 | 100% | 2.6 | 82% |
| 3 | Westcott Surrey | A | 1.8 | 86% | 5.5 | 78% |
| 4 | Harlington Bedfordshire | A− | 2.7 | 100% | 2.7 | 16% |
| 5 | Millbrook Cornwall | A− | 2 | 100% | 1.1 | 19% |
| 6 | Picket Piece Hampshire | A− | 3.9 | 100% | 1.3 | 33% |
| 7 | Clare Suffolk | A− | 7.7 | 100% | 2.5 | 0% |
| 8 | Cannington Somerset | A− | 2.8 | 88% | 3.2 | 3% |
| 9 | Y Felinheli Gwynedd | B+ | 4.9 | 65% | 1.9 | 10% |
| 10 | Acle Norfolk | B+ | 1.6 | 89% | 3.1 | 43% |
| 11 | Hall Green West Yorkshire | B+ | 7.5 | 82% | 3.6 | 0% |
| 12 | Tisbury Wiltshire | B+ | 1.5 | 86% | 2.9 | 100% |
| 13 | Bowness-on-Windermere Cumbria | B | 1.7 | 76% | 2.8 | 100% |
| 14 | Pen-y-fai Mid Glamorgan | B | 3.8 | 100% | 1.8 | 0% |
| 15 | Creech St Michael Somerset | B− | 1.2 | 88% | 3.4 | 0% |
| 16 | Dormansland Surrey | B− | 2.5 | 70% | 2.3 | 33% |
| 17 | Upper Halliford Surrey | B− | 5.1 | 44% | 4.1 | 0% |
| 18 | Bickershaw Greater Manchester | B− | 5 | 13% | 4.7 | 0% |
| 19 | Park Street and Frogmore Hertfordshire | B− | 4.5 | 63% | 3.6 | 0% |
| 20 | Wiveliscombe Somerset | B− | 2.3 | 100% | 2.1 | 0% |
| 21 | Debenham Suffolk | C+ | 1 | 100% | 3.4 | 0% |
| 22 | Bere Alston Devon | C+ | 1.4 | 64% | 1.3 | 93% |
| 23 | Osbaldwick North Yorkshire | C+ | 1.9 | 70% | 5 | 0% |
| 24 | Delph Greater Manchester | C+ | 0.7 | 72% | 3.9 | 17% |
| 25 | Bramford Suffolk | C+ | 3.2 | 76% | 2.7 | 0% |
| 26 | Mickleton Gloucestershire | C+ | 2.2 | 52% | 2.1 | 45% |
| 27 | Boughton under Blean Kent | C+ | 2.7 | 24% | 2.5 | 18% |
| 28 | Cold Ash Berkshire | C+ | 1.5 | 7% | 3.1 | 60% |
| 29 | Bishopsteignton Devon | C | 3 | 62% | 1.1 | 0% |
| 30 | Stanton Suffolk | C | 2.6 | 87% | 1.7 | 0% |
| 31 | Caistor Lincolnshire | C | 2.8 | 39% | 1.3 | 33% |
| 32 | Hawkesbury Warwickshire | C | 1 | 78% | 4.2 | 0% |
| 33 | Woolavington Somerset | C | 1.6 | 100% | 1.5 | 0% |
| 34 | West Rainton County Durham | C | 2.1 | 73% | 2.7 | 0% |
| 35 | Tatworth Somerset | C | 1.3 | 71% | 1.7 | 44% |
| 36 | Whaddon Wiltshire | C | 2.6 | 55% | 1.3 | 10% |
| 37 | Wardley Greater Manchester | C− | 0.6 | 88% | 3 | 0% |
| 38 | Stanford in the Vale Oxfordshire | C− | 1.3 | 100% | 1.5 | 0% |
| 39 | Credenhill Herefordshire | C− | 1.5 | 87% | 2.3 | 0% |
| 40 | Roche Cornwall | C− | 2.8 | 81% | 1 | 0% |
| 41 | Creigiau South Glamorgan | C− | 1.7 | 85% | 1.8 | 0% |
| 42 | Coltishall and Horstead Norfolk | C− | 2.1 | 57% | 1.3 | 8% |
| 43 | Kings Sutton Northamptonshire | C− | 1.8 | 79% | 2.1 | 0% |
| 44 | Reepham Norfolk | C− | 2.3 | 66% | 2.1 | 0% |
| 45 | Coates and Eastrea Cambridgeshire | C− | 0.9 | 100% | 1.3 | 0% |
| 46 | Goxhill Lincolnshire | C− | 1.5 | 69% | 0.5 | 0% |
| 47 | Usk Gwent | C− | 3.5 | 56% | 1.3 | 0% |
| 48 | Netherton (Wakefield) West Yorkshire | D | 0.7 | 27% | 4.5 | 0% |
| 49 | Scholes (Leeds) West Yorkshire | D | 0 | 0% | 5.5 | 0% |
| 50 | Comberton Cambridgeshire | D | 1.6 | 71% | 2.1 | 0% |
| 51 | St Stephen Cornwall | D | 1.2 | 88% | 1.2 | 0% |
| 52 | Bicknacre Essex | D | 1 | 56% | 2.6 | 0% |
| 53 | Belton Lincolnshire | D | 1.5 | 67% | 1.2 | 0% |
| 54 | Great Barford Bedfordshire | D− | 1.4 | 45% | 1.8 | 0% |
| 55 | Tattenhall Cheshire | D− | 1.8 | 28% | 1.4 | 0% |
| 56 | Ixworth Suffolk | D− | 1 | 73% | 0.9 | 0% |
| 57 | Hingham Norfolk | D− | 1.9 | 13% | 1 | 0% |
| 58 | Norton South Yorkshire | D− | 1.3 | 63% | 0.7 | 0% |
| 59 | Isleham Cambridgeshire | D− | 0.2 | 71% | 0.8 | 0% |
| 60 | Puriton Somerset | D− | 0.1 | 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 Ixworth’s built-up area.
7 in 10 Ixworth 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 600 people live further than that. Playing fields count, so a park within reach isn’t always one with paths or trees.
Footpaths in and around Ixworth
8 km of footpaths, bridleways and rights of way are mapped in Ixworth and the kilometre around it, 0.9 km for every square kilometre (the typical UK town has 3.0).
No named walking route is mapped within 2 km of Ixworth; its footpaths are on the map above.
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 Ixworth: 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) | 8.2 | 9.8 | 11.7 | 13.8 | 15.7 | 16.8 | 16.3 | 14.7 | 12.6 | 10.5 | 8.7 | 7.7 |
| High (°C) | 7 | 8 | 11 | 14 | 17 | 20 | 23 | 23 | 19 | 15 | 10 | 8 |
| Rain (mm) | 49 | 42 | 40 | 37 | 49 | 54 | 55 | 63 | 53 | 61 | 61 | 57 |
April is the driest month (37 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 August, the wettest month. Frost comes on about 43 nights a year. The climate in Ixworth →
Viewpoints, hills and nature near Ixworth
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
Ixworth 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
Playgrounds 1
Plus 1 playground without a name on the map.
Campsites 1
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ixworth | D− | 1.0 | 73% | 0% |
| Stanton 2.7 mi | C | 2.6 | 87% | 0% |
| Great Barton 3.3 mi | D− | 1.6 | 19% | 0% |
| Thurston 3.4 mi | D | 1.6 | 39% | 0% |
| Walsham le Willows 4.6 mi | D− | 0.4 | 0% | 0% |
| Elmswell 5.4 mi | B | 2.5 | 100% | 0% |
| Woolpit 5.8 mi | C− | 4.3 | 54% | 0% |
Elmswell, 5.4 miles away, grades B, the best next door: every resident lives within 400 m of a park. Stanton, Elmswell and Woolpit have at least twice Ixworth’s green space per resident. None of the neighbours has a protected landscape within 5 km either.
Questions about the outdoors in Ixworth
Is Ixworth near a National Park?
No National Park or National Landscape is within 30 km (about 19 miles) of Ixworth.
What is the nearest beach to Ixworth?
The Beach, 9.8 mi from the edge of the village, then Honolulu Beach (25 mi). Ixworth itself is inland.
How many people in Ixworth live near a park?
73% 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 Ixworth?
May to September: the longest days, the warmest afternoons and the least rain of the year, from the Met Office 1991–2020 averages.
Is Ixworth good for walking?
Paths are thinner than most towns: 0.9 km of footpath and right of way per square kilometre, more than 6% of UK towns. For park space per person it beats 13% (1.0 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 Ixworth’s overall grade.
Where Ixworth’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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