Ewhurst’s biggest
Ewhurst Green
Park or garden
3.0 ha (7 acres)0.2 km of path
4 pitchesfootball pitches would fit
0.4 mi southfrom the centre
Directionsto the nearest entrance
Photo: David Howard · CC BY-SA 2.0AOutdoors Grade
Outdoors in Ewhurst · parks, paths & countryside
46% of the land within 5 km of Ewhurst is National Park or National Landscape
The Surrey Hills National Landscape reaches the edge of Ewhurst. Footpaths add up to 75 km in the village and the kilometre around it, 4.6 for every square kilometre. Parks and playing fields in Ewhurst add up to 4.3 ha for every 1,000 residents; the typical UK town has 2.1. Ewhurst grades A for the outdoors. A character grade: it isn’t part of the overall grade.
Green space
4.3 ha
per 1,000 residents
Typical UK town 2.1
Near a park
76%
of residents within 400 m
Typical UK town 83%
Footpaths
75 km
4.6 km per km², town + 1 km
Typical UK town 3.0 per km²
Protected landscape
46%
of the land within 5 km
Nearest: Surrey Hills National Landscape
Character
What kind of outdoors village is Ewhurst?
Read from the data: what stands out first, good and bad.
Protected countryside46% of the land within 5 km is Surrey Hills National Landscape.A village of footpaths4.6 km of path per km², more than 89% of UK towns. The typical town has 3.0.Room to roam4.3 ha of parks and playing fields per 1,000 residents, more than 83% of UK towns.
Ewhurst’s strongest suit is protected countryside on the doorstep, followed by dense footpaths.
Outdoors grade
Ewhurst grades A for the outdoors
Each chart is every UK town of 1,000 or more on one measure: the green bar is Ewhurst, 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 93% of UK towns4th of 60 UK villages its size
Public green space4.3 haper 1,000 residents: parks, gardens, playing fields, play spaces
83out of
100
100
A park within a walk76%of residents within 400 m (a 5-minute walk)
39out of
100
100
National Park or National Landscape46%of the land within 5 km
91out of
100
100
Footpaths4.6 kmper km², the town and 1 km around it
89out of
100
100
The sea0%of the area within 5 km · Inland
42out 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
Ewhurst is 4th of 60 UK villages its size for the outdoors
The 60 UK towns and cities of 1,400 to 1,600 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
Ewhurst4.6
Villages its size1.9
Surrey towns4.3
All UK towns3.0
Green space, ha per 1,000 residents
Ewhurst4.3
Villages its size2.2
Surrey towns3.1
All UK towns2.1
Residents within 400 m of a park
Ewhurst76%
Villages its size83%
Surrey towns75%
All UK towns83%
Against villages its size, Ewhurst stands out most for path per km²: only 1 of the other 59 has more.
Show as a table
| Town | Outdoors | Green space | Near a park | Path per km² | Protected | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Chambercombe Devon | A+ | 8.7 | 100% | 2.8 | 29% |
| 2 | Ashurst Wood West Sussex | A+ | 4 | 100% | 3.4 | 81% |
| 3 | Heathfield Devon | A+ | 20.4 | 100% | 3 | 30% |
| 4 | Ewhurst Surrey | A | 4.3 | 76% | 4.6 | 46% |
| 5 | Newfield County Durham | A | 8.3 | 100% | 4.5 | 0% |
| 6 | Gargrave North Yorkshire | A | 5.2 | 100% | 1.9 | 41% |
| 7 | Collett's Green Worcestershire | A | 3.5 | 100% | 4.3 | 0% |
| 8 | Hale Cheshire | A− | 4.8 | 100% | 1.1 | 0% |
| 9 | Littleton Hampshire | A− | 7.8 | 100% | 1.1 | 10% |
| 10 | Llanrug Gwynedd | A− | 1.7 | 100% | 1.7 | 6% |
| 11 | Longwick Buckinghamshire | B+ | 2 | 100% | 2.3 | 31% |
| 12 | Temple Cloud Somerset | B+ | 2.6 | 77% | 3.9 | 15% |
| 13 | Blackhall Mill County Durham | B+ | 3.4 | 100% | 2.9 | 0% |
| 14 | Castleside County Durham | B+ | 0.9 | 100% | 3 | 42% |
| 15 | Caer-went Gwent | B+ | 1.8 | 100% | 0.8 | 8% |
| 16 | Great Bowden Leicestershire | B+ | 6.1 | 100% | 2.1 | 0% |
| 17 | Ramsbury Wiltshire | B+ | 3.9 | 62% | 2.3 | 100% |
| 18 | Offenham Worcestershire | B+ | 2.4 | 100% | 3.1 | 0% |
| 19 | Kensworth Bedfordshire | B | 1.8 | 79% | 3 | 59% |
| 20 | Burford Oxfordshire | B | 3.5 | 84% | 1.2 | 53% |
| 21 | Sturminster Marshall Dorset | B | 2 | 100% | 1.4 | 30% |
| 22 | South Godstone Surrey | B | 2 | 100% | 1.8 | 5% |
| 23 | Wingrave Buckinghamshire | B− | 3.7 | 100% | 1.7 | 0% |
| 24 | Kingstone Herefordshire | B− | 3.1 | 100% | 1.9 | 0% |
| 25 | Kibblesworth Tyne and Wear | B− | 2.5 | 100% | 2.1 | 0% |
| 26 | Bridge Kent | B− | 2.2 | 60% | 2.7 | 44% |
| 27 | Foxhole Cornwall | B− | 2.9 | 100% | 1.7 | 0% |
| 28 | Collingtree and Milton Malsor Northamptonshire | B− | 4.9 | 83% | 2.3 | 0% |
| 29 | Carharrack Cornwall | C+ | 0.7 | 80% | 4.2 | 2% |
| 30 | Gilfach Goch Mid Glamorgan | C+ | 2.9 | 100% | 1.4 | 0% |
| 31 | Trinant Gwent | C+ | 2.5 | 100% | 1.5 | 0% |
| 32 | Mylor Bridge Cornwall | C+ | 1.1 | 63% | 1.2 | 49% |
| 33 | Langley Vale Surrey | C+ | 0.8 | 53% | 5.5 | 7% |
| 34 | Gretton Northamptonshire | C+ | 2.3 | 100% | 1.3 | 0% |
| 35 | Nether Heyford Northamptonshire | C+ | 1.4 | 100% | 2.3 | 0% |
| 36 | Bassingham Lincolnshire | C+ | 2.2 | 100% | 1.2 | 0% |
| 37 | Sibsey Lincolnshire | C | 2.4 | 100% | 0.2 | 0% |
| 38 | Flitton Bedfordshire | C | 1.4 | 49% | 3.3 | 6% |
| 39 | Geddington Northamptonshire | C | 3 | 82% | 1.5 | 0% |
| 40 | Barton Lancashire | C | 2.6 | 47% | 2.1 | 0% |
| 41 | Horndon on the Hill Essex | C | 3.5 | 81% | 1.1 | 0% |
| 42 | Freeland Oxfordshire | C | 1.4 | 53% | 2.6 | 17% |
| 43 | Waresley Worcestershire | C | 1.7 | 100% | 1 | 0% |
| 44 | Alveley Shropshire | C− | 5.4 | 51% | 1.6 | 0% |
| 45 | Hartwell Northamptonshire | C− | 1.2 | 59% | 3.9 | 0% |
| 46 | Haslingfield Cambridgeshire | C− | 2 | 80% | 1.8 | 0% |
| 47 | Silverton Devon | C− | 1 | 100% | 1.3 | 0% |
| 48 | Greens Norton Northamptonshire | C− | 1.2 | 66% | 3.1 | 0% |
| 49 | Dalston Cumbria | C− | 3.4 | 66% | 0.9 | 0% |
| 50 | Cawood North Yorkshire | D | 1.9 | 60% | 2.1 | 0% |
| 51 | Braunston Northamptonshire | D | 1.8 | 50% | 2.4 | 0% |
| 52 | Croft Cheshire | D | 1.1 | 79% | 1.9 | 0% |
| 53 | Tetney Lincolnshire | D | 1.5 | 79% | 1.1 | 0% |
| 54 | Oakington Cambridgeshire | D | 2.1 | 52% | 1.6 | 0% |
| 55 | Stockton Warwickshire | D | 1.5 | 44% | 2.3 | 0% |
| 56 | Newton-with-Scales Lancashire | D | 1.4 | 76% | 1.3 | 0% |
| 57 | Gayton Norfolk | D− | 1.6 | 62% | 0.8 | 0% |
| 58 | Tilney St Lawrence Norfolk | D− | 1.5 | 53% | 0.3 | 0% |
| 59 | South Broomhill Northumberland | D− | 0 | 0% | 0.5 | 0% |
| 60 | Great Bricett Suffolk | D− | 1.2 | 0% | 1.4 | 0% |
The map
Parks, footpaths & countryside
Tap a number to zoom to a park. Tap a layer to hide it. The dashed line is Ewhurst’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 Ewhurst
The biggest is Ewhurst Green, 3.0 ha (7 acres). Directions go to the park’s nearest public entrance where Ordnance Survey maps one.
Close to home
8 in 10 Ewhurst 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 (76%)Further (24%)
Ewhurst76%
Villages its size83%
Surrey towns75%
All UK towns83%
About 400 people live further than that. Playing fields count, so a park within reach isn’t always one with paths or trees; 5 playgrounds are mapped in and around the village, about one for every 303 residents.
National Parks & National Landscapes
National Parks and National Landscapes around Ewhurst
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
Surrey Hills
At the edge north422 km²since 195846% of the land within 5 km
Official site46% of the land within 5 km of Ewhurst is National Park or National Landscape, more than 90% of UK towns. South Downs National Park covers 1,653 km² and has been a National Park since 2010.
Footpaths & waymarked walks
1 waymarked walk passes through or near Ewhurst
75 km of footpaths, bridleways and rights of way are mapped in Ewhurst and the kilometre around it, 4.6 km for every square kilometre (the typical UK town has 3.0). Bars show each route’s kilometres within 2 km of the village.
Regional
Greensand Way7.8 km
The regional route here is the Greensand Way.
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 Ewhurst: 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) | 94 | 67 | 57 | 57 | 58 | 55 | 52 | 68 | 68 | 98 | 101 | 98 |
July is the driest month (52 mm) and the warmest (highs of 22 °C). Winter days are short, about 8 hours of daylight in December, and 101 mm of rain falls in November, the wettest month. Frost comes on about 51 nights a year. The climate in Ewhurst →
Things to do
9 viewpoints, 5 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
Ewhurst is inland. These are the nearest named beaches, measured from the edge of the village.
Amity Beach16 mi from Ewhurst’s edge
DirectionsPenguin Beach16 mi from Ewhurst’s edge
DirectionsLancing Beach23 mi from Ewhurst’s edge
DirectionsHog Hole23 mi from Ewhurst’s edge
DirectionsWorthing Beach23 mi from Ewhurst’s edge
DirectionsGood to know
Check the water before you swim. The Environment Agency tests designated bathing waters from May to September and publishes a rating for each beach.
Up high. Pitch Hill, at 257 m, is the highest named top within 2 km of Ewhurst.
Every named place, with directions
Viewpoints 9
Plus 9 viewpoints without a name on the map.
Hills and peaks 4
Pitch Hill257 m (843 ft) · 0.1 mi from town
DirectionsReynards Hill0.2 mi from town
DirectionsWinterfold Hill0.7 mi from town
DirectionsHolmbury Hill261 m (856 ft) · 1.0 mi from town
DirectionsPicnic sites 1
Plus 1 picnic site without a name on the map.
Playgrounds 5
Plus 5 playgrounds without a name on the map.
Campsites 1
Bentley Copse Activity Centre1.1 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.
CranleighRudgwickShamley GreenGomshallBeare GreenBramley and WonershEwhurst
ABCDOutdoors Grade
| Town | Outdoors | Green space, ha per 1,000 | Near a park | Protected within 5 km |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ewhurst | A | 4.3 | 76% | 46% |
| Cranleigh 2.0 mi | B | 2.5 | 20% | 38% |
| Rudgwick 4.2 mi | C− | 2.5 | 16% | 0% |
| Shamley Green 4.4 mi | A | 2.9 | 100% | 69% |
| Gomshall 4.6 mi | A | 1.9 | 89% | 87% |
| Beare Green 5.6 mi | B | 1.6 | 70% | 30% |
| Bramley and Wonersh 5.7 mi | B+ | 1.7 | 77% | 59% |
Shamley Green, 4.4 miles away, grades A, the best next door: every resident lives within 400 m of a park.
Questions about the outdoors in Ewhurst
What is the biggest park in Ewhurst?
Ewhurst Green, 3.0 ha (7 acres). 1 named park, garden or playing field is in the village or within 400 m of it.
Is Ewhurst near a National Park?
Yes. South Downs National Park begins 8.5 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 Ewhurst?
1 waymarked walking route passes within 2 km of the village, including the Greensand Way.
What is the nearest beach to Ewhurst?
Amity Beach, 16 mi from the edge of the village, then Penguin Beach (16 mi). Ewhurst itself is inland.
How many people in Ewhurst live near a park?
76% 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 Ewhurst?
May to September: the longest days, the warmest afternoons and the least rain of the year, from the Met Office 1991–2020 averages.
Is Ewhurst good for walking?
For paths, yes: 4.6 km of footpath and right of way per square kilometre, more than 89% of UK towns. For park space per person it beats 83% (4.3 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 Ewhurst’s overall grade.
Sources
Where Ewhurst’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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