Photo: Jean Barrow · CC BY-SA 2.033% of the land within 5 km of Dormansland is National Park or National Landscape
The High Weald National Landscape reaches the edge of Dormansland. A park or playing field is within a 5-minute walk for 70% of residents. 28 km of footpaths run through the village and the kilometre around it, 2.3 for every square kilometre. Dormansland grades B− for the outdoors. A character grade: it isn’t part of the overall grade.
Dormansland grades B− for the outdoors
Each chart is every UK town of 1,000 or more on one measure: the green bar is Dormansland, 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.
Dormansland is 16th of 60 UK villages its size for the outdoors
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.
Against villages its size, Dormansland stands out most for park space per resident: only 21 of the other 59 have more.
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 | Cannington Somerset | A− | 2.8 | 88% | 3.2 | 3% |
| 8 | Clare Suffolk | A− | 7.7 | 100% | 2.5 | 0% |
| 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 | Dearham Cumbria | C | 0.6 | 72% | 1.4 | 6% |
| 35 | West Rainton County Durham | C | 2.1 | 73% | 2.7 | 0% |
| 36 | Tatworth Somerset | C | 1.3 | 71% | 1.7 | 44% |
| 37 | Whaddon Wiltshire | C | 2.6 | 55% | 1.3 | 10% |
| 38 | Wardley Greater Manchester | C− | 0.6 | 88% | 3 | 0% |
| 39 | Stanford in the Vale Oxfordshire | C− | 1.3 | 100% | 1.5 | 0% |
| 40 | Credenhill Herefordshire | C− | 1.5 | 87% | 2.3 | 0% |
| 41 | Roche Cornwall | C− | 2.8 | 81% | 1 | 0% |
| 42 | Knowsley Merseyside | C− | 3.1 | 77% | 1 | 0% |
| 43 | Creigiau South Glamorgan | C− | 1.7 | 85% | 1.8 | 0% |
| 44 | Coltishall and Horstead Norfolk | C− | 2.1 | 57% | 1.3 | 8% |
| 45 | Kings Sutton Northamptonshire | C− | 1.8 | 79% | 2.1 | 0% |
| 46 | Reepham Norfolk | C− | 2.3 | 66% | 2.1 | 0% |
| 47 | Coates and Eastrea Cambridgeshire | C− | 0.9 | 100% | 1.3 | 0% |
| 48 | Goxhill Lincolnshire | C− | 1.5 | 69% | 0.5 | 0% |
| 49 | Usk Gwent | C− | 3.5 | 56% | 1.3 | 0% |
| 50 | Netherton (Wakefield) West Yorkshire | D | 0.7 | 27% | 4.5 | 0% |
| 51 | Scholes (Leeds) West Yorkshire | D | 0 | 0% | 5.5 | 0% |
| 52 | St Stephen Cornwall | D | 1.2 | 88% | 1.2 | 0% |
| 53 | Bicknacre Essex | D | 1 | 56% | 2.6 | 0% |
| 54 | Belton Lincolnshire | D | 1.5 | 67% | 1.2 | 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 Dormansland’s built-up area.
7 in 10 Dormansland 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 700 people live further than that. Playing fields count, so a park within reach isn’t always one with paths or trees; 10 playgrounds are mapped in and around the village, about one for every 230 residents.
National Parks and National Landscapes around Dormansland
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.
High Weald
33% of the land within 5 km of Dormansland is National Park or National Landscape, more than 84% of UK towns. South Downs National Park covers 1,653 km² and has been a National Park since 2010.
7 waymarked walks pass through or near Dormansland
28 km of footpaths, bridleways and rights of way are mapped in Dormansland and the kilometre around it, 2.3 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 Dormans Park Walk (SCC) has 7 km of local walk within 2 km of the village. 4 regional routes pass through, including the Tandridge Border Path, Greenwich Meridian Trail, Sussex Border Path and Vanguard Way.
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 Dormansland: 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) | 8.4 | 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) | 91 | 67 | 53 | 54 | 56 | 55 | 56 | 66 | 64 | 97 | 98 | 99 |
March is the driest month (53 mm) and August the warmest (highs of 22 °C). Winter days are short, about 8 hours of daylight in December, and 99 mm of rain falls in December, the wettest month. Frost comes on about 47 nights a year. The climate in Dormansland →
10 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
Dormansland 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
Nature reserves 1
Dog parks 3
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dormansland | B− | 2.5 | 70% | 33% |
| Lingfield 1.4 mi | A | 3.5 | 100% | 16% |
| East Grinstead 2.4 mi | A− | 1.6 | 87% | 58% |
| Felbridge 2.8 mi | B− | 2.0 | 80% | 25% |
| Blindley Heath 3.5 mi | B− | 3.2 | 79% | 1% |
| Ashurst Wood 3.6 mi | A+ | 4.0 | 100% | 81% |
| Edenbridge 3.7 mi | B | 2.6 | 64% | 42% |
Ashurst Wood, 3.6 miles away, grades A+, the best next door: every resident lives within 400 m of a park.
Questions about the outdoors in Dormansland
Is Dormansland near a National Park?
Yes. South Downs National Park begins 15 mi south 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 High Weald National Landscape, at the edge of the village.
What are the best walks near Dormansland?
7 waymarked walking routes pass within 2 km of the village, including the Tandridge Border Path, Greenwich Meridian Trail and Dormans Park Walk (SCC).
What is the nearest beach to Dormansland?
Kelson Beach, 22 mi from the edge of the village, then Dock Beach (23 mi). Dormansland itself is inland.
How many people in Dormansland 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 Dormansland?
May to September: the longest days, the warmest afternoons and the least rain of the year, from the Met Office 1991–2020 averages.
Is Dormansland good for walking?
Paths are thinner than most towns: 2.3 km of footpath and right of way per square kilometre, more than 39% of UK towns. For park space per person it beats 58% (2.5 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 Dormansland’s overall grade.
Where Dormansland’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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