Photo: Ian Capper · CC BY-SA 2.030% of the land within 5 km of Beare Green is National Park or National Landscape
The Surrey Hills National Landscape reaches the edge of Beare Green. Footpaths add up to 42 km in the village and the kilometre around it, 3.9 for every square kilometre. A park or playing field is within a 5-minute walk for 70% of residents. Beare Green grades B for the outdoors. A character grade: it isn’t part of the overall grade.
What kind of outdoors village is Beare Green?
Read from the data: what stands out first, good and bad.
Beare Green’s strongest suit is protected countryside on the doorstep, followed by dense footpaths. Where it falls short is park space per person.
Beare Green grades B for the outdoors
Each chart is every UK town of 1,000 or more on one measure: the green bar is Beare Green, 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.
Beare Green is 21st of 60 UK villages its size for the outdoors
The 60 UK towns and cities of 1,800 to 2,000 people with an Outdoors Grade. Hover a dot for its figures; tap one for its page.
Against villages its size, Beare Green stands out most for path per km²: only 7 of the other 59 have more. It falls furthest behind on park space per resident, where 38 of the others do better.
Show as a table
| Town | Outdoors | Green space | Near a park | Path per km² | Protected | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Westbourne West Sussex | A+ | 9.6 | 100% | 4.1 | 57% |
| 2 | Capel-le-Ferne Kent | A+ | 21.8 | 88% | 4 | 52% |
| 3 | Colyton Devon | A+ | 3.5 | 100% | 2.2 | 79% |
| 4 | Brading Isle of Wight | A+ | 2.9 | 84% | 4.2 | 21% |
| 5 | Chilworth Surrey | A+ | 10.8 | 80% | 6.1 | 59% |
| 6 | Ickleford Hertfordshire | A− | 3.7 | 82% | 3.7 | 11% |
| 7 | South Nutfield Surrey | A− | 2.5 | 100% | 2.7 | 11% |
| 8 | Lyminge Kent | A− | 3.5 | 83% | 2.1 | 90% |
| 9 | Little Haywood Staffordshire | A− | 1.3 | 100% | 3.3 | 34% |
| 10 | Kirkby Lonsdale Cumbria | B+ | 9.2 | 74% | 2.2 | 40% |
| 11 | Pontesbury Shropshire | B+ | 3.1 | 63% | 3.8 | 28% |
| 12 | Highnam Gloucestershire | B+ | 12 | 100% | 2.1 | 0% |
| 13 | Polesworth Warwickshire | B+ | 13.5 | 100% | 2 | 0% |
| 14 | Wingates Greater Manchester | B+ | 2.6 | 100% | 3.2 | 0% |
| 15 | Ingoldmells Lincolnshire | B+ | 2.8 | 83% | 2.3 | 0% |
| 16 | Southgate West Glamorgan | B+ | 1.1 | 21% | 3.7 | 56% |
| 17 | Chinley Derbyshire | B+ | 1.2 | 78% | 4.4 | 53% |
| 18 | Martlesham Suffolk | B | 2.1 | 69% | 3.8 | 24% |
| 19 | Partridge Green West Sussex | B | 2.1 | 100% | 3.3 | 0% |
| 20 | Wrotham Kent | B | 1.6 | 100% | 1.6 | 49% |
| 21 | Beare Green Surrey | B | 1.6 | 70% | 3.9 | 30% |
| 22 | Dilton Marsh Wiltshire | B− | 2.1 | 67% | 3.5 | 4% |
| 23 | Hutton Cranswick East Riding of Yorkshire | B− | 5 | 100% | 0.9 | 0% |
| 24 | Wrea Green Lancashire | B− | 3.5 | 100% | 1.3 | 0% |
| 25 | Whitland Dyfed | B− | 4.4 | 100% | 0.8 | 0% |
| 26 | Wooler Northumberland | B− | 3.3 | 81% | 0.8 | 26% |
| 27 | Stow-on-the-Wold Gloucestershire | B− | 3.4 | 64% | 1.2 | 88% |
| 28 | Oxenhope West Yorkshire | B− | 1.8 | 80% | 4.5 | 0% |
| 29 | Leeswood Clwyd | C+ | 4 | 83% | 0.7 | 2% |
| 30 | Wickham Bishops Essex | C+ | 3.4 | 91% | 1.8 | 0% |
| 31 | Hockley Heath West Midlands | C+ | 2.6 | 86% | 2.5 | 0% |
| 32 | Northiam East Sussex | C+ | 2.2 | 76% | 0.8 | 100% |
| 33 | Stratton Cornwall | C+ | 0.8 | 23% | 3 | 8% |
| 34 | High Spen Tyne and Wear | C+ | 3.3 | 74% | 2.4 | 0% |
| 35 | Hatton Warwickshire | C | 1.6 | 100% | 2 | 0% |
| 36 | Ramsden Heath Essex | C | 2.3 | 82% | 2.4 | 0% |
| 37 | Presteigne Powys | C | 3.2 | 61% | 2.8 | 0% |
| 38 | Sleights North Yorkshire | C | 0.9 | 30% | 1.5 | 80% |
| 39 | Rode Heath Cheshire | C | 0.9 | 100% | 2.4 | 0% |
| 40 | Newton Poppleford Devon | C | 1.4 | 44% | 2.3 | 60% |
| 41 | Barrow Suffolk | C− | 1.1 | 100% | 1.6 | 0% |
| 42 | Chivenor and Wrafton Devon | C− | 0.6 | 0% | 1.7 | 17% |
| 43 | Black Notley Essex | C− | 1.6 | 36% | 3.9 | 0% |
| 44 | Littlethorpe Leicestershire | C− | 0.4 | 57% | 4.7 | 0% |
| 45 | Ashwell Hertfordshire | C− | 3 | 52% | 1.8 | 0% |
| 46 | Stocksfield Northumberland | C− | 2.2 | 40% | 2.6 | 0% |
| 47 | Broughton Northamptonshire | D | 2.7 | 70% | 0.9 | 0% |
| 48 | Cookley Worcestershire | D | 2.3 | 52% | 1.8 | 0% |
| 49 | Brompton-on-Swale North Yorkshire | D | 2.1 | 71% | 1.4 | 0% |
| 50 | Manby Lincolnshire | D | 1.4 | 68% | 0.8 | 2% |
| 51 | Cropwell Bishop Nottinghamshire | D | 0.7 | 45% | 3.5 | 0% |
| 52 | Hutton Rudby North Yorkshire | D | 1.6 | 35% | 1.1 | 13% |
| 53 | Morda Shropshire | D | 0.7 | 84% | 1.9 | 0% |
| 54 | Little Plumstead Norfolk | D | 0.6 | 64% | 1 | 16% |
| 55 | Shawbury Shropshire | D− | 2.2 | 30% | 0.9 | 0% |
| 56 | Wheldrake North Yorkshire | D− | 1.4 | 72% | 0.8 | 0% |
| 57 | Colnbrook Berkshire | D− | 0.6 | 68% | 1.7 | 0% |
| 58 | Tollerton Nottinghamshire | D− | 0.6 | 19% | 1.9 | 0% |
| 59 | Rossett Clwyd | D− | 0.3 | 55% | 1.5 | 0% |
| 60 | Goostrey Cheshire | D− | 0.3 | 42% | 1.7 | 0% |
Parks, footpaths & countryside
Tap a number to zoom to a park. Tap a layer to hide it. The dashed line is Beare Green’s built-up area.
7 in 10 Beare Green 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; 9 playgrounds are mapped in and around the village, about one for every 216 residents.
National Parks and National Landscapes around Beare Green
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.
Surrey Hills
30% of the land within 5 km of Beare Green is National Park or National Landscape, more than 83% of UK towns. South Downs National Park covers 1,653 km² and has been a National Park since 2010.
3 waymarked walks pass through or near Beare Green
42 km of footpaths, bridleways and rights of way are mapped in Beare Green and the kilometre around it, 3.9 km for every square kilometre (the typical UK town has 3.0). Bars show each route’s kilometres within 2 km of the village.
Close to home, the Capel walk (SCC) has 8 km of local walk within 2 km of the village.
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 Beare Green: 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) | 8.4 | 9.9 | 11.7 | 13.8 | 15.5 | 16.5 | 16.1 | 14.6 | 12.5 | 10.6 | 8.8 | 7.9 |
| High (°C) | 8 | 8 | 11 | 14 | 17 | 20 | 22 | 22 | 19 | 15 | 11 | 8 |
| Rain (mm) | 94 | 68 | 55 | 55 | 56 | 53 | 57 | 65 | 65 | 95 | 99 | 97 |
June is the driest month (53 mm) and July the warmest (highs of 22 °C). Winter days are short, about 8 hours of daylight in December, and 99 mm of rain falls in November, the wettest month. Frost comes on about 57 nights a year. The climate in Beare Green →
2 viewpoints, 9 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
Beare Green 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
Viewpoints 2
Plus 2 viewpoints without a name on the map.
Nature reserves 3
Playgrounds 9
Plus 9 playgrounds 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.
Brockham, 3.9 miles away, grades A+, the best next door: 94% of its residents live within 400 m of a park. Dorking, Brockham and Box Hill have at least twice Beare Green’s green space per resident.
Questions about the outdoors in Beare Green
Is Beare Green near a National Park?
Yes. South Downs National Park begins 13 mi south-west of the village’s edge. It covers 1,653 km² and has been a National Park since 2010. The nearest protected landscape of any kind is the Surrey Hills National Landscape, at the edge of the village.
What are the best walks near Beare Green?
3 waymarked walking routes pass within 2 km of the village, including the Capel walk (SCC), Beare Green walk (SCC) and Holmwood Common Family Activitiy Trail, Holmwood Common.
What is the nearest beach to Beare Green?
Amity Beach, 17 mi from the edge of the village, then Hog Hole (21 mi). Beare Green itself is inland.
How many people in Beare Green live near a park?
70% 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 Beare Green?
May to September: the longest days, the warmest afternoons and the least rain of the year, from the Met Office 1991–2020 averages.
Is Beare Green good for walking?
For paths, yes: 3.9 km of footpath and right of way per square kilometre, more than 80% of UK towns. For park space per person it beats 31% (1.6 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 Beare Green’s overall grade.
Where Beare Green’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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