Reydon’s biggest
Sole Bay Juniors Football Club
Playing field
5.7 ha (14 acres)
8 pitchesfootball pitches would fit
Centralin the middle of Reydon
Directionsto the nearest entrance
Photo: Geographer · CC BY-SA 2.0A+Outdoors Grade
Outdoors in Reydon · parks, paths & countryside
Reydon is inside the Suffolk Coast & Heaths National Landscape
The sea makes up 41% of the area within 5 km. Parks and playing fields in Reydon add up to 3.5 ha for every 1,000 residents; the typical UK town has 2.1. Reydon grades A+ for the outdoors. A character grade: it isn’t part of the overall grade.
Green space
3.5 ha
per 1,000 residents
Typical UK town 2.1
Near a park
93%
of residents within 400 m
Typical UK town 83%
Footpaths
34 km
3.6 km per km², town + 1 km
Typical UK town 3.0 per km²
Protected landscape
49%
of the land within 5 km
Nearest: Suffolk Coast & Heaths National Landscape
The sea
41%
of the area within 5 km
A coastal town
Character
What kind of outdoors village is Reydon?
Read from the data: what stands out first, good and bad.
Inside the Suffolk Coast & Heaths National LandscapeReydon sits inside it: 443 km² of protected landscape.On the coast41% of the area within 5 km is sea; 7 beaches mapped.Room to roam3.5 ha of parks and playing fields per 1,000 residents, more than 76% of UK towns.On a National TrailThe King Charles III England Coast Path passes through.
Reydon’s strongest suit is a protected landscape all round, followed by the sea.
Outdoors grade
Reydon grades A+ for the outdoors
Each chart is every UK town of 1,000 or more on one measure: the green bar is Reydon, the dashed line the typical town. The number is the share of towns it beats; the five are averaged and the average ranked again.
A+
Better than almost every UK town1st of 60 UK villages its size
Public green space3.5 haper 1,000 residents: parks, gardens, playing fields, play spaces
77out of
100
100
A park within a walk93%of residents within 400 m (a 5-minute walk)
71out of
100
100
National Park or National Landscape49%of the land within 5 km
91out of
100
100
Footpaths3.6 kmper km², the town and 1 km around it
72out of
100
100
The sea41%of the area within 5 km
96out 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
Reydon is 1st of 60 UK villages its size for the outdoors
The 60 UK towns and cities of 2,300 to 2,500 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
Reydon3.6
Villages its size2.1
Suffolk towns2.5
All UK towns3.0
Green space, ha per 1,000 residents
Reydon3.5
Villages its size1.9
Suffolk towns2.1
All UK towns2.1
Residents within 400 m of a park
Reydon93%
Villages its size87%
Suffolk towns80%
All UK towns83%
Against villages its size, Reydon stands out most for park space per resident: only 9 of the other 59 have more.
Show as a table
| Town | Outdoors | Green space | Near a park | Path per km² | Protected | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Reydon Suffolk | A+ | 3.5 | 93% | 3.6 | 49% |
| 2 | Aldeburgh Suffolk | A | 2.3 | 88% | 2.3 | 41% |
| 3 | St Margaret's at Cliffe Kent | A | 2.3 | 90% | 2.4 | 15% |
| 4 | Upton upon Severn Worcestershire | A− | 4.9 | 90% | 2.8 | 2% |
| 5 | Colerne Wiltshire | A− | 3.1 | 86% | 2.4 | 84% |
| 6 | Picket Piece Hampshire | A− | 3.9 | 100% | 1.3 | 33% |
| 7 | Tanfield Lea County Durham | A− | 3.8 | 89% | 4.4 | 0% |
| 8 | Cannington Somerset | A− | 2.8 | 88% | 3.2 | 3% |
| 9 | Y Felinheli Gwynedd | B+ | 4.9 | 65% | 1.9 | 10% |
| 10 | Kington Herefordshire | B+ | 3.9 | 89% | 3.6 | 0% |
| 11 | Cotford St Luke Somerset | B+ | 2.2 | 100% | 2.2 | 6% |
| 12 | Nant-y-moel Mid Glamorgan | B | 7 | 100% | 1.3 | 0% |
| 13 | Chattenden Kent | B | 1.4 | 100% | 2.2 | 0% |
| 14 | Middlestown and Overton West Yorkshire | B− | 1.5 | 100% | 3.5 | 0% |
| 15 | Stalbridge Dorset | B− | 3.3 | 100% | 1.8 | 0% |
| 16 | Narberth Dyfed | B− | 1.9 | 100% | 1.6 | 4% |
| 17 | Creech St Michael Somerset | B− | 1.2 | 88% | 3.4 | 0% |
| 18 | Upper Halliford Surrey | B− | 5.1 | 44% | 4.1 | 0% |
| 19 | Bassingbourn Cambridgeshire | B− | 3.8 | 85% | 2.5 | 0% |
| 20 | Riccall North Yorkshire | B− | 2.9 | 100% | 1.7 | 0% |
| 21 | Wiveliscombe Somerset | B− | 2.3 | 100% | 2.1 | 0% |
| 22 | Ashurst Hampshire | B− | 0.9 | 65% | 3.6 | 72% |
| 23 | St Dennis Cornwall | C+ | 2.4 | 100% | 1.8 | 0% |
| 24 | Padstow Cornwall | C+ | 0.6 | 33% | 2.5 | 37% |
| 25 | Pentyrch South Glamorgan | C+ | 2.6 | 50% | 4.5 | 0% |
| 26 | Renishaw Derbyshire | C+ | 0.6 | 100% | 3.4 | 0% |
| 27 | Bramford Suffolk | C+ | 3.2 | 76% | 2.7 | 0% |
| 28 | Shelley Essex | C+ | 0.7 | 100% | 3.3 | 0% |
| 29 | Mickleton Gloucestershire | C+ | 2.2 | 52% | 2.1 | 45% |
| 30 | Witchford Cambridgeshire | C+ | 1.9 | 100% | 1.9 | 0% |
| 31 | Coven Staffordshire | C+ | 3.6 | 87% | 1.5 | 0% |
| 32 | Lingwood Norfolk | C+ | 1.2 | 73% | 2.6 | 26% |
| 33 | Pontycymer Mid Glamorgan | C | 2.2 | 100% | 1 | 0% |
| 34 | Stanton Suffolk | C | 2.6 | 87% | 1.7 | 0% |
| 35 | Woolavington Somerset | C | 1.6 | 100% | 1.5 | 0% |
| 36 | Dearham Cumbria | C | 0.6 | 72% | 1.4 | 6% |
| 37 | South Milford North Yorkshire | C | 1.7 | 100% | 1.4 | 0% |
| 38 | West Rainton County Durham | C | 2.1 | 73% | 2.7 | 0% |
| 39 | Bletchingley Surrey | C | 0.5 | 10% | 3.9 | 18% |
| 40 | Credenhill Herefordshire | C− | 1.5 | 87% | 2.3 | 0% |
| 41 | Wilstead Bedfordshire | C− | 1.7 | 88% | 1.8 | 0% |
| 42 | Marshfield Gwent | C− | 1 | 85% | 0.3 | 0% |
| 43 | Hathern Leicestershire | C− | 1.8 | 50% | 3.3 | 0% |
| 44 | Knowsley Merseyside | C− | 3.1 | 77% | 1 | 0% |
| 45 | Cornforth County Durham | C− | 1.9 | 66% | 2.6 | 0% |
| 46 | Collingham West Yorkshire | C− | 1.4 | 84% | 2.2 | 0% |
| 47 | Reepham Norfolk | C− | 2.3 | 66% | 2.1 | 0% |
| 48 | Stilton Cambridgeshire | C− | 0.8 | 100% | 1.4 | 0% |
| 49 | Dinnington Tyne and Wear | C− | 1.6 | 89% | 1.4 | 0% |
| 50 | Brown Edge Staffordshire | C− | 1.1 | 88% | 2.1 | 0% |
| 51 | Goxhill Lincolnshire | C− | 1.5 | 69% | 0.5 | 0% |
| 52 | Eastry Kent | D | 2 | 77% | 1.4 | 0% |
| 53 | Netherton (Wakefield) West Yorkshire | D | 0.7 | 27% | 4.5 | 0% |
| 54 | St Stephen Cornwall | D | 1.2 | 88% | 1.2 | 0% |
| 55 | Leyburn North Yorkshire | D | 0.6 | 22% | 2 | 16% |
| 56 | Fishburn County Durham | D | 1.5 | 76% | 1.2 | 0% |
| 57 | Parbold Lancashire | D | 1.5 | 36% | 2.4 | 0% |
| 58 | Burton upon Stather Lincolnshire | D | 1.5 | 75% | 1.3 | 0% |
| 59 | Myerscough Smithy Lancashire | D | 0.5 | 45% | 3 | 0% |
| 60 | Leven East Riding of Yorkshire | D− | 1.2 | 64% | 0.7 | 0% |
The map
Parks, footpaths & countryside
Tap a number to zoom to a park. Tap a layer to hide it. The dashed line is Reydon’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 Reydon
The biggest is Sole Bay Juniors Football Club, 5.7 ha (14 acres). Directions go to the park’s nearest public entrance where Ordnance Survey maps one.
Reydon Recreation Ground
Playing field
1.9 ha (5 acres)
3 pitchesfootball pitches would fit
Centralin the middle of Reydon
Directionsto the nearest entrance
Jubilee Green
Park or garden
0.3 ha (1 acres)
Centralin the middle of Reydon
Directionsto the nearest entrance
Close to home
9 in 10 Reydon 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 (93%)Further (7%)
Reydon93%
Villages its size87%
Suffolk towns80%
All UK towns83%
About 200 people live further than that. Playing fields count, so a park within reach isn’t always one with paths or trees; 8 playgrounds are mapped in and around the village, about one for every 296 residents.
National Parks & National Landscapes
National Parks and National Landscapes around Reydon
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
National Landscape
Suffolk Coast & Heaths
Reydon is inside it443 km²since 197049% of the land within 5 km
Official site49% of the land within 5 km of Reydon is National Park or National Landscape, more than 91% of UK towns. The Broads National Park covers 302 km² and has been a National Park since 1989.
Footpaths & waymarked walks
Reydon is on the King Charles III England Coast Path
34 km of footpaths, bridleways and rights of way are mapped in Reydon and the kilometre around it, 3.6 km for every square kilometre (the typical UK town has 3.0). Bars show each route’s kilometres within 2 km of the village.
NationalRegionalOther waymarked
Suffolk Coast Path10.7 km
Marsh Meander5.2 km
King Charles III England Coast Path: Aldeburgh to Southwold4.7 km
Sandlings Walk3.3 km
Reebed Ramble2.5 km
The King Charles III England Coast Path, a national route, passes Reydon. 2 regional routes pass through, including the Suffolk Coast Path and Sandlings Walk.
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 Reydon: 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 | 15.7 | 16.8 | 16.3 | 14.7 | 12.6 | 10.5 | 8.7 | 7.7 |
| High (°C) | 8 | 8 | 10 | 14 | 17 | 20 | 22 | 23 | 19 | 15 | 11 | 8 |
| Rain (mm) | 48 | 44 | 41 | 38 | 45 | 49 | 54 | 54 | 56 | 65 | 62 | 59 |
April is the driest month (38 mm) and August the warmest (highs of 23 °C). Winter days are short, about 8 hours of daylight in December, and 65 mm of rain falls in October, the wettest month. Frost comes on about 26 nights a year. The climate in Reydon →
The coast
Reydon is a coastal town
41% of the area within 5 km of Reydon is sea. 7 beaches are mapped within 5 km, 0 with a name.
The King Charles III England Coast Path passes the town.
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.
Things to do
3 viewpoints and 8 playgrounds
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.
Every named place, with directions
Viewpoints 3
Telescope0.6 mi from town
DirectionsQuantum Tunneling Telescope0.6 mi from town
DirectionsGun Hill0.8 mi from town
DirectionsNature reserves 1
Hen Reedbeds22 ha · 1.1 mi from town
DirectionsPlaygrounds 8
Tibby's Green Playground0.4 mi from town
DirectionsPlus 7 playgrounds without a name on the map.
Campsites 2
Pigs in Blankets Campsite0.0 mi from town
DirectionsSouthwold Camping and Caravan Site1.1 mi from town
DirectionsNext door
The outdoors in nearby towns
The nearest towns of 1,000+ within 12 miles. Tap a town for its outdoors page.
KessinglandHalesworthWorlinghamBecclesLowestoftLeistonReydon
ABCDOutdoors Grade
| Town | Outdoors | Green space, ha per 1,000 | Near a park | Protected within 5 km |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Reydon | A+ | 3.5 | 93% | 49% |
| Kessingland 5.9 mi | C+ | 0.9 | 70% | 19% |
| Halesworth 6.8 mi | C− | 1.4 | 55% | 5% |
| Worlingham 8.2 mi | B− | 1.5 | 100% | 24% |
| Beccles 8.7 mi | A | 4.5 | 87% | 20% |
| Lowestoft 9.4 mi | A− | 1.8 | 79% | 17% |
| Leiston 10.1 mi | A | 1.7 | 95% | 35% |
Reydon grades higher for the outdoors than every neighbour in the table.
Questions about the outdoors in Reydon
What is the biggest park in Reydon?
Sole Bay Juniors Football Club, 5.7 ha (14 acres). Reydon Recreation Ground (1.9 ha) is second. 3 named parks, gardens and playing fields are in the village or within 400 m of it.
Is Reydon near a National Park?
Yes. the Broads National Park begins 7.6 mi north of the village’s edge. It covers 302 km² and has been a National Park since 1989. The nearest protected landscape of any kind is the Suffolk Coast & Heaths National Landscape, at the edge of the village.
What are the best walks near Reydon?
5 waymarked walking routes pass within 2 km of the village, including the Suffolk Coast Path, Marsh Meander and King Charles III England Coast Path: Aldeburgh to Southwold.
How many people in Reydon live near a park?
93% 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 Reydon?
May to September: the longest days, the warmest afternoons and the least rain of the year, from the Met Office 1991–2020 averages.
Is Reydon good for walking?
For paths, yes: 3.6 km of footpath and right of way per square kilometre, more than 72% of UK towns. For park space per person it beats 77% (3.5 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 Reydon’s overall grade.
Sources
Where Reydon’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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