Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
Photo: Hugh Venables · CC BY-SA 2.0Footpaths add up to 89 km in the town and the kilometre around it, 3.3 for every square kilometre. Parks and playing fields in Mildenhall add up to 2.1 ha for every 1,000 residents; the typical UK town has 2.1. Mildenhall grades B− for the outdoors: #19 of 34 in Suffolk. A character grade: it isn’t part of the overall grade.
Each chart is every UK town of 1,000 or more on one measure: the green bar is Mildenhall, 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 9,100 to 10,200 people with an Outdoors Grade. Hover a dot for its figures; tap one for its page.
Mildenhall falls furthest behind on park space per resident, where 37 of the 59 others do better.
| Town | Outdoors | Green space | Near a park | Path per km² | Protected | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Caldicot Gwent | A+ | 4.2 | 92% | 3 | 2% |
| 2 | Brynteg Clwyd | A | 8.5 | 100% | 2.8 | 7% |
| 3 | Ilfracombe Devon | A | 2 | 86% | 3 | 28% |
| 4 | Bordon Hampshire | A | 8.6 | 54% | 6.7 | 49% |
| 5 | Linthwaite and Slaithwaite West Yorkshire | A | 2.2 | 97% | 4.8 | 12% |
| 6 | New Mills Derbyshire | A | 2.4 | 84% | 5.1 | 34% |
| 7 | Beccles Suffolk | A | 4.5 | 87% | 3.2 | 20% |
| 8 | South Merstham Surrey | A | 3.7 | 84% | 3.7 | 20% |
| 9 | Nuthall and Watnall Nottinghamshire | A | 6.3 | 97% | 4.3 | 0% |
| 10 | Bradford-on-Avon Wiltshire | A | 2.8 | 88% | 3.7 | 21% |
| 11 | Greasby Merseyside | A | 5.9 | 74% | 3.6 | 0% |
| 12 | Southborough Kent | A− | 2.8 | 94% | 2.5 | 57% |
| 13 | Whiteley Hampshire | A− | 3 | 52% | 4.4 | 2% |
| 14 | Thurmaston Leicestershire | A− | 10.4 | 89% | 4.2 | 0% |
| 15 | Esher Surrey | A− | 6.9 | 86% | 4.8 | 0% |
| 16 | Shelf and Northowram West Yorkshire | A− | 5.3 | 88% | 4.7 | 0% |
| 17 | Kings Hill Kent | A− | 2.4 | 100% | 2.8 | 7% |
| 18 | Padiham Lancashire | A− | 1.5 | 95% | 4.5 | 18% |
| 19 | Bingham Nottinghamshire | A− | 3.4 | 100% | 3.4 | 0% |
| 20 | Aveley Essex | A− | 3.4 | 84% | 2.9 | 0% |
| 21 | Irthlingborough Northamptonshire | A− | 4.7 | 94% | 3.4 | 0% |
| 22 | Yarm North Yorkshire | A− | 3.3 | 96% | 3.8 | 0% |
| 23 | Corfe Mullen Dorset | B+ | 3.1 | 72% | 3.5 | 13% |
| 24 | Woodbridge Suffolk | B+ | 1.7 | 80% | 3.9 | 30% |
| 25 | Sandiacre Derbyshire | B+ | 2.6 | 94% | 3.8 | 0% |
| 26 | Shildon County Durham | B | 2.8 | 93% | 3.3 | 0% |
| 27 | Pontllanfraith Gwent | B | 3.7 | 93% | 2.7 | 0% |
| 28 | Hemsworth West Yorkshire | B | 3.6 | 100% | 2.2 | 0% |
| 29 | Ludlow Shropshire | B | 2.3 | 92% | 2.1 | 16% |
| 30 | North Wingfield and Holmewood Derbyshire | B | 2.7 | 84% | 4.1 | 0% |
| 31 | Queensbury West Yorkshire | B | 2.6 | 91% | 3.2 | 0% |
| 32 | Tiptree Essex | B | 2.7 | 90% | 3.2 | 0% |
| 33 | Immingham Lincolnshire | B | 2 | 100% | 1.1 | 0% |
| 34 | Perton Staffordshire | B | 2.4 | 93% | 3 | 0% |
| 35 | Pembroke Dock Dyfed | B− | 1.7 | 80% | 1.1 | 25% |
| 36 | Yaxley Cambridgeshire | B− | 2.6 | 90% | 3.1 | 0% |
| 37 | Caernarfon Gwynedd | B− | 1.7 | 83% | 1.4 | 14% |
| 38 | Horbury West Yorkshire | B− | 2.5 | 75% | 4.5 | 0% |
| 39 | Mildenhall Suffolk | B− | 2.1 | 91% | 3.3 | 0% |
| 40 | Radstock Somerset | B− | 1.1 | 93% | 2.9 | 1% |
| 41 | Knottingley West Yorkshire | B− | 2.7 | 88% | 2.5 | 0% |
| 42 | Whitchurch Shropshire | B− | 2.7 | 86% | 2.6 | 0% |
| 43 | Mold Clwyd | C+ | 1.9 | 86% | 1.6 | 17% |
| 44 | Brandon County Durham | C+ | 2.2 | 72% | 3.6 | 0% |
| 45 | Crook County Durham | C+ | 1.5 | 85% | 3.5 | 0% |
| 46 | Lydney Gloucestershire | C+ | 2.1 | 52% | 2.5 | 0% |
| 47 | Diss Norfolk | C | 1.5 | 80% | 3.5 | 0% |
| 48 | Milnrow Greater Manchester | C | 2.9 | 58% | 3 | 0% |
| 49 | Barnham West Sussex | C | 1.3 | 70% | 2.3 | 32% |
| 50 | Shepton Mallet Somerset | C | 1.2 | 70% | 2.8 | 1% |
| 51 | Totnes Devon | C | 0.4 | 65% | 3.3 | 11% |
| 52 | Catshill Worcestershire | C | 1.4 | 82% | 2.9 | 0% |
| 53 | Polegate East Sussex | C− | 0.8 | 64% | 2.2 | 24% |
| 54 | Haxby North Yorkshire | D | 0.6 | 59% | 3.6 | 0% |
| 55 | Broughton Astley Leicestershire | D | 1 | 82% | 1.9 | 0% |
| 56 | Brandon Suffolk | D | 0.8 | 39% | 3.5 | 0% |
| 57 | Littleport Cambridgeshire | D | 1 | 71% | 2.4 | 0% |
| 58 | Pocklington East Riding of Yorkshire | D | 1.6 | 65% | 1.3 | 0% |
| 59 | Pheasey West Midlands | D− | 0.9 | 40% | 2.4 | 0% |
| 60 | Ponteland Northumberland | D− | 1.1 | 36% | 1.4 | 0% |
Tap a number to zoom to a park. Tap a layer to hide it. The dashed line is Mildenhall’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 900 people live further than that. Playing fields count, so a park within reach isn’t always one with paths or trees; 35 playgrounds are mapped in and around the town, about one for every 277 residents.
89 km of footpaths, bridleways and rights of way are mapped in Mildenhall and the kilometre around it, 3.3 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 | 8 | 11 | 14 | 18 | 21 | 23 | 23 | 20 | 15 | 11 | 8 |
| Rain (mm) | 46 | 36 | 36 | 35 | 45 | 52 | 52 | 60 | 48 | 58 | 55 | 53 |
April 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 Mildenhall →
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.
Mildenhall 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 1 picnic site without a name on the map.
Plus 34 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mildenhall | B− | 2.1 | 91% | 0% |
| Beck Row 2.0 mi | C | 5.3 | 76% | 0% |
| Red Lodge 3.1 mi | C | 1.5 | 100% | 0% |
| Little Eriswell 3.1 mi | D− | 0.1 | 0% | 0% |
| Isleham 4.0 mi | D− | 0.2 | 71% | 0% |
| Lakenheath 4.6 mi | D | 1.1 | 57% | 0% |
| Kentford 5.4 mi | D− | 1.9 | 0% | 0% |
Mildenhall grades higher for the outdoors than every neighbour in the table. Beck Row has at least twice Mildenhall’s green space per resident. 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, just outside the built-up area. Half Moon Park (0.8 ha) is second. 3 named parks, gardens and playing fields are in the town or within 400 m of it.
No National Park or National Landscape is within 30 km (about 19 miles) of Mildenhall.
4 waymarked walking routes pass within 2 km of the town, including the Red, Lark Valley Path and The Warrener's World Trail. Aspal Close Local Nature Reserve alone has 4.3 km of path.
The Beach, 5.7 mi from the edge of the town. Mildenhall itself is inland.
91% 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.
For paths, yes: 3.3 km of footpath and right of way per square kilometre, more than 67% of UK towns. For park space per person it beats 47% (2.1 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 Mildenhall’s overall grade.
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