Photo: David Howard · CC BY-SA 2.0Parks and walks in Little Eriswell
Parks and playing fields in Little Eriswell add up to 0.1 ha for every 1,000 residents; the typical UK town has 2.1. 34 km of footpaths run through the town and the kilometre around it, 1.5 for every square kilometre. No park or playing field is mapped within a 5-minute walk of homes in Little Eriswell. Little Eriswell grades D− for the outdoors. A character grade: it isn’t part of the overall grade.
Little Eriswell grades D− for the outdoors
Each chart is every UK town of 1,000 or more on one measure: the green bar is Little Eriswell, 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 Little Eriswell compares with UK towns of 3,900 to 4,300
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.
Little Eriswell falls furthest behind on homes near a park, where 59 of the 59 others do better.
Show as a table
| 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 | Darley Dale Derbyshire | A+ | 3.8 | 100% | 3.4 | 51% |
| 4 | Telscombe Cliffs East Sussex | A+ | 3 | 58% | 5.1 | 42% |
| 5 | Southbourne West Sussex | A | 1.3 | 92% | 3.3 | 64% |
| 6 | Pitstone Buckinghamshire | A | 1.6 | 100% | 4.2 | 40% |
| 7 | Tenby Dyfed | A | 2.1 | 88% | 2.5 | 21% |
| 8 | Bisley Surrey | A | 8 | 92% | 4.8 | 0% |
| 9 | Milton Cambridgeshire | A | 10.4 | 100% | 3.4 | 0% |
| 10 | Holt Norfolk | A | 8.5 | 84% | 2.4 | 40% |
| 11 | Old Sarum Wiltshire | A | 4.6 | 100% | 3.7 | 0% |
| 12 | Hunstanton Norfolk | A− | 3.7 | 71% | 1.4 | 31% |
| 13 | Prestbury Gloucestershire | A− | 1.6 | 80% | 5.3 | 51% |
| 14 | Fairford Gloucestershire | A− | 3.4 | 100% | 1.8 | 17% |
| 15 | Bearwood Dorset | B+ | 2.5 | 100% | 3.8 | 0% |
| 16 | Lofthouse and Robin Hood West Yorkshire | B+ | 3.4 | 93% | 3.8 | 0% |
| 17 | Cheddleton Staffordshire | B+ | 3.5 | 88% | 3.6 | 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 | Calverley West Yorkshire | B | 1.5 | 92% | 6 | 0% |
| 22 | Brampton Cumbria | B | 2 | 92% | 2.2 | 9% |
| 23 | Saltford Somerset | B | 1.6 | 75% | 3.6 | 24% |
| 24 | Bourton-on-the-Water Gloucestershire | B | 0.9 | 79% | 3.3 | 100% |
| 25 | Penrhyn Bay Clwyd | B− | 0.6 | 68% | 3.3 | 0% |
| 26 | Little Paxton Cambridgeshire | B− | 2.8 | 87% | 3 | 0% |
| 27 | Tumble Dyfed | B− | 19.5 | 93% | 1.5 | 0% |
| 28 | Stoney Stanton Leicestershire | B− | 2.5 | 100% | 2.2 | 0% |
| 29 | Topsham Devon | B− | 1.9 | 76% | 2.9 | 0% |
| 30 | Martock Somerset | B− | 2.9 | 85% | 3 | 0% |
| 31 | Easington Lane Tyne and Wear | B− | 0.9 | 100% | 4 | 0% |
| 32 | South Cerney Gloucestershire | B− | 2.5 | 77% | 2.4 | 7% |
| 33 | Kessingland Suffolk | C+ | 0.9 | 70% | 1.9 | 19% |
| 34 | Ystradgynlais Powys | C+ | 2.5 | 78% | 1.2 | 36% |
| 35 | Send Surrey | C+ | 2.6 | 28% | 3.3 | 5% |
| 36 | Old Tupton Derbyshire | C+ | 2.3 | 73% | 3.9 | 0% |
| 37 | Eaton Bray and Edlesborough Bedfordshire | C+ | 2.6 | 72% | 1.7 | 29% |
| 38 | Thorpe Hesley South Yorkshire | C+ | 1.8 | 80% | 4 | 0% |
| 39 | Sandwich Kent | C+ | 2.1 | 51% | 2.5 | 0% |
| 40 | Sible Hedingham Essex | C+ | 0.9 | 100% | 2.9 | 0% |
| 41 | Holmfield West Yorkshire | C+ | 2.8 | 74% | 2.7 | 0% |
| 42 | Knebworth Hertfordshire | C+ | 1.5 | 81% | 3.8 | 0% |
| 43 | Shirland and Stonebroom Derbyshire | C | 3.7 | 43% | 3 | 0% |
| 44 | Kirkburton West Yorkshire | C | 1.4 | 86% | 3.3 | 0% |
| 45 | Warton (Fylde) Lancashire | C | 1.3 | 92% | 1.1 | 0% |
| 46 | South Darenth and Sutton at Hone Kent | C | 1.8 | 43% | 2.7 | 10% |
| 47 | Brayton North Yorkshire | C | 0.8 | 100% | 2.4 | 0% |
| 48 | Langley Park County Durham | C | 0.8 | 84% | 3.8 | 0% |
| 49 | Deanshanger Northamptonshire | C | 1.5 | 93% | 2.2 | 0% |
| 50 | Wynyard County Durham | C | 10.7 | 64% | 1.3 | 0% |
| 51 | Beck Row Suffolk | C | 5.3 | 76% | 0.8 | 0% |
| 52 | Great Glen Leicestershire | C | 1.4 | 91% | 2.2 | 0% |
| 53 | Nelson Gwent | C | 2.1 | 88% | 1.5 | 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% |
Parks, footpaths & countryside
Tap a number to zoom to a park. Tap a layer to hide it. The dashed line is Little Eriswell’s built-up area.
Few Little Eriswell 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 4,100 people live further than that. Playing fields count, so a park within reach isn’t always one with paths or trees; 25 playgrounds are mapped in and around the town, about one for every 165 residents.
1 waymarked walk passes through or near Little Eriswell
34 km of footpaths, bridleways and rights of way are mapped in Little Eriswell and the kilometre around it, 1.5 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 best walking months in Little Eriswell: May to September
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 | |
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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 | 8.6 | 7.7 |
| High (°C) | 8 | 9 | 11 | 14 | 18 | 21 | 23 | 23 | 20 | 15 | 11 | 8 |
| Rain (mm) | 49 | 38 | 38 | 37 | 47 | 57 | 57 | 62 | 51 | 60 | 57 | 55 |
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 62 mm of rain falls in August, the wettest month. Frost comes on about 51 nights a year. The climate in Little Eriswell →
Beaches near Little Eriswell
0% of the area within 5 km of Little Eriswell is sea, so the Outdoors Grade counts it as inland. 1 beach is mapped within 5 km.
Sea: the area outside the ONS coastline (mean high water). Bathing water quality is published by the Environment Agency (England) and Natural Resources Wales; check it before swimming.
25 playgrounds
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.
Every named place, with directions
Viewpoints 1
Nature reserves 4
Playgrounds 25
Plus 25 playgrounds without a name on the map.
Dog parks 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Little Eriswell | D− | 0.1 | 0% | 0% |
| Lakenheath 1.9 mi | D | 1.1 | 57% | 0% |
| Beck Row 2.5 mi | C | 5.3 | 76% | 0% |
| Mildenhall 3.1 mi | B− | 2.1 | 91% | 0% |
| Hockwold cum Wilton 5.2 mi | D | 1.6 | 75% | 0% |
| Brandon 5.2 mi | D | 0.8 | 39% | 0% |
| Isleham 6.1 mi | D− | 0.2 | 71% | 0% |
Mildenhall, 3.1 miles away, grades B−, the best next door: 91% of its residents live within 400 m of a park. Lakenheath, Beck Row and Mildenhall have at least twice Little Eriswell’s green space per resident. None of the neighbours has a protected landscape within 5 km either.
Questions about the outdoors in Little Eriswell
Is Little Eriswell near a National Park?
No National Park or National Landscape is within 30 km (about 19 miles) of Little Eriswell.
What are the best walks near Little Eriswell?
1 waymarked walking route passes within 2 km of the town, including the Firecrest Trail.
How many people in Little Eriswell live near a park?
0% 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 Little Eriswell?
May to September: the longest days, the warmest afternoons and the least rain of the year, from the Met Office 1991–2020 averages.
Is Little Eriswell good for walking?
Paths are thinner than most towns: 1.5 km of footpath and right of way per square kilometre, more than 17% of UK towns. For park space per person it beats 1% (0.1 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 Little Eriswell’s overall grade.
Where Little Eriswell’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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