Laleham’s biggest
Laleham Park
Park or garden
24 ha (58 acres)0.1 km of path
33 pitchesfootball pitches would fit
0.7 mi south-eastfrom the centre
Directionsto the nearest entrance
The Turks Head Public House Wisteria Cottage · Photo: Mertbiol · CC0COutdoors Grade
Outdoors in Laleham · parks, paths & countryside
Laleham has more park space per resident than 9 in 10 UK towns
Parks and playing fields in Laleham add up to 9.8 ha for every 1,000 residents; the typical UK town has 2.1. 34% of residents live within a 5-minute walk of a park or playing field. 20 km of footpaths run through the town and the kilometre around it, 2.1 for every square kilometre. Laleham grades C for the outdoors: #62 of 65 in Surrey. A character grade: it isn’t part of the overall grade.
Green space
9.8 ha
per 1,000 residents
Typical UK town 2.1
Near a park
34%
of residents within 400 m
Typical UK town 83%
Footpaths
20 km
2.1 km per km², town + 1 km
Typical UK town 3.0 per km²
Protected landscape
0%
of the land within 5 km
Nearest: Surrey Hills National Landscape
Character
What kind of outdoors town is Laleham?
Read from the data: what stands out first, good and bad.
Room to roam9.8 ha of parks and playing fields per 1,000 residents, more than 95% of UK towns.On a National TrailThe Thames Path passes through.Parks can be a walk away66% of residents live more than 400 m from a park or playing field.
Laleham’s strongest suit is plenty of park space, followed by the Thames Path. Where it falls short is how far some homes are from a park.
Outdoors grade
Laleham grades C for the outdoors
Each chart is every UK town of 1,000 or more on one measure: the green bar is Laleham, the dashed line the typical town. The number is the share of towns it beats; the five are averaged and the average ranked again.
C
Better than 27% of UK towns#62 of 65 in Surrey · 39th of 60 UK towns its size
Public green space9.8 haper 1,000 residents: parks, gardens, playing fields, play spaces
96out of
100
100
A park within a walk34%of residents within 400 m (a 5-minute walk)
7out of
100
100
National Park or National Landscape0%of the land within 5 km · None within 5 km
31out of
100
100
Footpaths2.1 kmper km², the town and 1 km around it
32out 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.
Towns its size
Laleham is 39th of 60 UK towns its size for the outdoors
The 60 UK towns and cities of 2,400 to 2,600 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
Laleham2.1
Towns its size2.2
Surrey towns4.3
All UK towns3.0
Green space, ha per 1,000 residents
Laleham9.8
Towns its size2.2
Surrey towns3.1
All UK towns2.1
Residents within 400 m of a park
Laleham34%
Towns its size85%
Surrey towns75%
All UK towns83%
Against towns its size, Laleham stands out most for park space per resident: only 5 of the other 59 have more. It falls furthest behind on homes near a park, where 57 of the others do better.
Show as a table
| Town | Outdoors | Green space | Near a park | Path per km² | Protected | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Rawnsley Staffordshire | A+ | 17.7 | 100% | 3.7 | 36% |
| 2 | Shalford Surrey | A+ | 14.9 | 89% | 4.8 | 47% |
| 3 | Silloth Cumbria | A+ | 7.3 | 100% | 1.4 | 17% |
| 4 | Hopton on Sea Norfolk | A+ | 6.7 | 100% | 1.6 | 2% |
| 5 | Binley Woods Warwickshire | A | 5.5 | 100% | 4.3 | 0% |
| 6 | Rowhedge Essex | A | 1.6 | 100% | 6.4 | 0% |
| 7 | Maple Cross Hertfordshire | A | 3.1 | 100% | 2.9 | 14% |
| 8 | Chopwell Tyne and Wear | A | 7.5 | 100% | 3.4 | 0% |
| 9 | Longford Gloucestershire | A | 11.9 | 100% | 3.3 | 0% |
| 10 | Drybrook Gloucestershire | A− | 3.9 | 83% | 3.4 | 10% |
| 11 | South Anston South Yorkshire | A− | 3.5 | 100% | 3.4 | 0% |
| 12 | Stewartby Bedfordshire | A− | 21 | 100% | 2.4 | 0% |
| 13 | Saundersfoot Dyfed | A− | 10.2 | 69% | 0.9 | 19% |
| 14 | Porthmadog Gwynedd | B+ | 0.9 | 94% | 2 | 41% |
| 15 | Thornley County Durham | B+ | 3.2 | 100% | 2.9 | 0% |
| 16 | Witton Gilbert County Durham | B+ | 2.1 | 100% | 3.9 | 0% |
| 17 | Craven Arms Shropshire | B | 1.3 | 87% | 2.9 | 59% |
| 18 | Barlestone Leicestershire | B | 3 | 100% | 2.3 | 0% |
| 19 | Farndon Nottinghamshire | B | 3.8 | 100% | 1.8 | 0% |
| 20 | Oakley Bedfordshire | B | 3.2 | 100% | 2 | 0% |
| 21 | Pannal North Yorkshire | B− | 3.7 | 77% | 3 | 0% |
| 22 | Coundon and Leeholme County Durham | B− | 4.4 | 100% | 1 | 0% |
| 23 | Brewood Staffordshire | B− | 3 | 100% | 1.6 | 0% |
| 24 | Kelvedon Hatch Essex | B− | 7.3 | 77% | 2.5 | 0% |
| 25 | Ash Green Warwickshire | B− | 3.4 | 67% | 3.6 | 0% |
| 26 | Timsbury Somerset | B− | 2.7 | 68% | 4.1 | 0% |
| 27 | Bishop's Itchington Warwickshire | C+ | 1.5 | 100% | 2.8 | 0% |
| 28 | Llanrwst Clwyd | C+ | 2.2 | 75% | 1.6 | 45% |
| 29 | Crossways Dorset | C+ | 0.5 | 100% | 1.8 | 22% |
| 30 | Shepley West Yorkshire | C+ | 1.6 | 87% | 3.5 | 0% |
| 31 | Widdrington Station Northumberland | C+ | 1 | 88% | 2.4 | 0% |
| 32 | Caton Lancashire | C+ | 1.2 | 72% | 2.2 | 67% |
| 33 | Steeple Claydon Buckinghamshire | C+ | 1.5 | 100% | 2.2 | 0% |
| 34 | Whittington Staffordshire | C | 7.5 | 77% | 1.5 | 0% |
| 35 | Stratton Gloucestershire | C | 0.7 | 46% | 3.3 | 70% |
| 36 | Great Houghton South Yorkshire | C | 1.8 | 100% | 1.7 | 0% |
| 37 | Tycroes Dyfed | C | 3.5 | 80% | 1.5 | 0% |
| 38 | Llandybie Dyfed | C | 2.6 | 59% | 1.2 | 13% |
| 39 | Laleham Surrey | C | 9.8 | 34% | 2.1 | 0% |
| 40 | Ash (Dover) Kent | C | 2.3 | 72% | 2.4 | 0% |
| 41 | Willaston (Cheshire West and Chester) Cheshire | C− | 4.2 | 60% | 1.6 | 0% |
| 42 | Upper Heyford Oxfordshire | C− | 1.1 | 100% | 1.4 | 0% |
| 43 | Hatton Derbyshire | C− | 3.3 | 61% | 1.7 | 0% |
| 44 | Loggerheads Staffordshire | C− | 1.2 | 86% | 2.1 | 0% |
| 45 | Cwm Gwent | C− | 2 | 12% | 3.1 | 0% |
| 46 | Cliffe Kent | C− | 1.1 | 55% | 1.9 | 0% |
| 47 | Probus Cornwall | C− | 0.6 | 75% | 1.5 | 15% |
| 48 | Maulden Bedfordshire | D | 0.9 | 55% | 3.7 | 0% |
| 49 | East Harling Norfolk | D | 1.7 | 85% | 0.9 | 0% |
| 50 | Lampeter Dyfed | D | 1.5 | 88% | 0.9 | 0% |
| 51 | Long Crendon Buckinghamshire | D | 1.4 | 86% | 0.8 | 0% |
| 52 | Mawsley Village Northamptonshire | D | 1.5 | 71% | 2 | 0% |
| 53 | Fordham Cambridgeshire | D | 2.3 | 35% | 1.7 | 0% |
| 54 | Broughton Lancashire | D | 1.7 | 45% | 2.2 | 0% |
| 55 | Long Itchington Warwickshire | D | 2.1 | 45% | 1.7 | 0% |
| 56 | Clophill Bedfordshire | D | 0.7 | 41% | 3.1 | 0% |
| 57 | Silverstone Northamptonshire | D | 1.1 | 0% | 2.8 | 0% |
| 58 | Nafferton East Riding of Yorkshire | D− | 1.3 | 56% | 0.6 | 0% |
| 59 | Holme upon Spalding Moor East Riding of Yorkshire | D− | 1.5 | 41% | 0.8 | 0% |
| 60 | Rhos West Glamorgan | D− | 1 | 58% | 0.8 | 0% |
The map
Parks, footpaths & countryside
Tap a number to zoom to a park. Tap a layer to hide it. The dashed line is Laleham’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 Laleham
The biggest is Laleham Park, 24 ha (58 acres). Directions go to the park’s nearest public entrance where Ordnance Survey maps one.
Staines Park
Park or garden · 340 m outside town
6.5 ha (16 acres)1.0 km of path
15 minto walk all 1 km of path
9 pitchesfootball pitches would fit
0.7 mi northfrom the centre
Directionsto the nearest entrance
Close to home
3 in 10 Laleham 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 (34%)Further (66%)
Laleham34%
Towns its size85%
Surrey towns75%
All UK towns83%
About 1,700 people live further than that. Playing fields count, so a park within reach isn’t always one with paths or trees; 19 playgrounds are mapped in and around the town, about one for every 133 residents.
National Parks & National Landscapes
The Surrey Hills National Landscape is 9.9 mi away
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
Footpaths & waymarked walks
Laleham is on the Thames Path
20 km of footpaths, bridleways and rights of way are mapped in Laleham and the kilometre around it, 2.1 km for every square kilometre (the typical UK town has 3.0). Bars show each route’s kilometres within 2 km of the town.
National
Thames Path8.4 km
European walking route E2 west, UK, South East England8.4 km
The Thames Path, a national route, passes Laleham.
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 Laleham: May to July and September
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) | 8.3 | 9.9 | 11.7 | 13.8 | 15.6 | 16.6 | 16.2 | 14.6 | 12.5 | 10.6 | 8.8 | 7.9 |
| High (°C) | 8 | 9 | 11 | 15 | 18 | 21 | 23 | 23 | 20 | 16 | 11 | 9 |
| Rain (mm) | 66 | 46 | 41 | 43 | 46 | 49 | 39 | 67 | 52 | 65 | 71 | 63 |
July is the driest month (39 mm) and the warmest (highs of 23 °C). Winter days are short, about 8 hours of daylight in December, and 71 mm of rain falls in November, the wettest month. Frost comes on about 34 nights a year. The climate in Laleham →
The coast
Beaches near Laleham
0% of the area within 5 km of Laleham is sea, so the Outdoors Grade counts it as inland. 2 beaches are mapped within 5 km.
Amity Beach0.9 mi from town
DirectionsSea: 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
19 playgrounds
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.
Every named place, with directions
Viewpoints 1
Plus 1 viewpoint without a name on the map.
Playgrounds 19
Fordbridge Park Playground0.9 mi from town
DirectionsPlus 18 playgrounds without a name on the map.
Dog parks 1
Plus 1 dog park without a name on the map.
Campsites 1
Laleham Camping Club0.1 mi from town
DirectionsSlipways 2
Plus 2 slipways without a name on the map.
Next door
The outdoors in nearby towns
The nearest towns of 1,000+ within 12 miles. Tap a town for its outdoors page.
Staines-upon-ThamesAshfordShepperton GreenThorpeChertseyAshford CommonLaleham
ABCDOutdoors Grade
| Town | Outdoors | Green space, ha per 1,000 | Near a park | Protected within 5 km |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Laleham | C | 9.8 | 34% | 0% |
| Staines-upon-Thames 0.9 mi | B− | 3.4 | 67% | 0% |
| Ashford 1.7 mi | C+ | 3.4 | 73% | 0% |
| Shepperton Green 1.7 mi | D | 1.4 | 73% | 0% |
| Thorpe 1.9 mi | A− | 5.2 | 100% | 0% |
| Chertsey 2.1 mi | A− | 6.2 | 84% | 0% |
| Ashford Common 2.3 mi | D | 0.8 | 62% | 0% |
Thorpe, 1.9 miles away, grades A−, the best next door: every resident lives within 400 m of a park. None of the neighbours has a protected landscape within 5 km either.
Questions about the outdoors in Laleham
What is the biggest park in Laleham?
Laleham Park, 24 ha (58 acres). Staines Park (6.5 ha) is second. 2 named parks, gardens and playing fields are in the town or within 400 m of it.
Is Laleham near a National Park?
The nearest protected landscape is the Surrey Hills National Landscape, 9.9 mi south of the town’s edge. It covers 422 km² and was designated in 1958.
What are the best walks near Laleham?
2 waymarked walking routes pass within 2 km of the town, including the Thames Path and European walking route E2 west, UK, South East England.
How many people in Laleham live near a park?
34% 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 Laleham?
May to July and September: the longest days, the warmest afternoons and the least rain of the year, from the Met Office 1991–2020 averages.
Is Laleham good for walking?
Paths are thinner than most towns: 2.1 km of footpath and right of way per square kilometre, more than 32% of UK towns. For park space per person it beats 96% (9.8 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 Laleham’s overall grade.
Sources
Where Laleham’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.
Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026 (ONS boundaries). Northern Ireland: Source: NISRA; contains Land & Property Services data and Ordnance Survey of Northern Ireland information, © Crown copyright, licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Scotland: contains National Records of Scotland data, Registers of Scotland data and SEPA data, © Crown copyright / © SEPA 2025, licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.