Langley Vale’s biggest
The Warren Recreation Ground
Playing field
1.2 ha (3 acres)0.2 km of path
2 pitchesfootball pitches would fit
Centralin the middle of Langley Vale
1 listed
Directionsto the nearest entrance
Photo: Ian Capper · CC BY-SA 2.0C+Outdoors Grade
Outdoors in Langley Vale · parks, paths & countryside
Langley Vale has more footpath per square kilometre than 9 in 10 UK towns
Footpaths add up to 35 km in the village and the kilometre around it, 5.5 for every square kilometre. The Surrey Hills National Landscape begins 2.0 mi from the village’s edge. Parks and playing fields in Langley Vale add up to 0.8 ha for every 1,000 residents; the typical UK town has 2.1. Langley Vale grades C+ for the outdoors. A character grade: it isn’t part of the overall grade.
Green space
0.8 ha
per 1,000 residents
Typical UK town 2.1
Near a park
53%
of residents within 400 m
Typical UK town 83%
Footpaths
35 km
5.5 km per km², town + 1 km
Typical UK town 3.0 per km²
Protected landscape
7%
of the land within 5 km
Nearest: Surrey Hills National Landscape
Character
What kind of outdoors village is Langley Vale?
Read from the data: what stands out first, good and bad.
A village of footpaths5.5 km of path per km², more than 95% of UK towns. The typical town has 3.0.Countryside close byThe Surrey Hills National Landscape starts 2.0 mi south.Less park per person0.8 ha of parks and playing fields per 1,000 residents; the typical UK town has 2.1.
Langley Vale’s strongest suit is dense footpaths, followed by the Surrey Hills National Landscape close by. Where it falls short is park space per person.
Outdoors grade
Langley Vale grades C+ for the outdoors
Each chart is every UK town of 1,000 or more on one measure: the green bar is Langley Vale, 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 38% of UK towns32nd of 60 UK villages its size
Public green space0.8 haper 1,000 residents: parks, gardens, playing fields, play spaces
9out of
100
100
A park within a walk53%of residents within 400 m (a 5-minute walk)
15out of
100
100
National Park or National Landscape7%of the land within 5 km
69out of
100
100
Footpaths5.5 kmper km², the town and 1 km around it
96out 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
Langley Vale is 32nd 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
Langley Vale5.5
Villages its size1.9
Surrey towns4.3
All UK towns3.0
Green space, ha per 1,000 residents
Langley Vale0.8
Villages its size2.1
Surrey towns3.1
All UK towns2.1
Residents within 400 m of a park
Langley Vale53%
Villages its size82%
Surrey towns75%
All UK towns83%
Against villages its size, Langley Vale stands out most for path per km²: none of the other 59 has more. It falls furthest behind on park space per resident, where 56 of the others do better.
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 | Hale Cheshire | A− | 4.8 | 100% | 1.1 | 0% |
| 8 | Littleton Hampshire | A− | 7.8 | 100% | 1.1 | 10% |
| 9 | Llanrug Gwynedd | A− | 1.7 | 100% | 1.7 | 6% |
| 10 | Longwick Buckinghamshire | B+ | 2 | 100% | 2.3 | 31% |
| 11 | Temple Cloud Somerset | B+ | 2.6 | 77% | 3.9 | 15% |
| 12 | Blackhall Mill County Durham | B+ | 3.4 | 100% | 2.9 | 0% |
| 13 | Castleside County Durham | B+ | 0.9 | 100% | 3 | 42% |
| 14 | Caer-went Gwent | B+ | 1.8 | 100% | 0.8 | 8% |
| 15 | Great Bowden Leicestershire | B+ | 6.1 | 100% | 2.1 | 0% |
| 16 | Ramsbury Wiltshire | B+ | 3.9 | 62% | 2.3 | 100% |
| 17 | Offenham Worcestershire | B+ | 2.4 | 100% | 3.1 | 0% |
| 18 | Kensworth Bedfordshire | B | 1.8 | 79% | 3 | 59% |
| 19 | Burford Oxfordshire | B | 3.5 | 84% | 1.2 | 53% |
| 20 | Sturminster Marshall Dorset | B | 2 | 100% | 1.4 | 30% |
| 21 | South Godstone Surrey | B | 2 | 100% | 1.8 | 5% |
| 22 | Wingrave Buckinghamshire | B− | 3.7 | 100% | 1.7 | 0% |
| 23 | Kingstone Herefordshire | B− | 3.1 | 100% | 1.9 | 0% |
| 24 | Kibblesworth Tyne and Wear | B− | 2.5 | 100% | 2.1 | 0% |
| 25 | Bridge Kent | B− | 2.2 | 60% | 2.7 | 44% |
| 26 | Foxhole Cornwall | B− | 2.9 | 100% | 1.7 | 0% |
| 27 | Collingtree and Milton Malsor Northamptonshire | B− | 4.9 | 83% | 2.3 | 0% |
| 28 | Carharrack Cornwall | C+ | 0.7 | 80% | 4.2 | 2% |
| 29 | Gilfach Goch Mid Glamorgan | C+ | 2.9 | 100% | 1.4 | 0% |
| 30 | Trinant Gwent | C+ | 2.5 | 100% | 1.5 | 0% |
| 31 | Mylor Bridge Cornwall | C+ | 1.1 | 63% | 1.2 | 49% |
| 32 | Langley Vale Surrey | C+ | 0.8 | 53% | 5.5 | 7% |
| 33 | Gretton Northamptonshire | C+ | 2.3 | 100% | 1.3 | 0% |
| 34 | Nether Heyford Northamptonshire | C+ | 1.4 | 100% | 2.3 | 0% |
| 35 | Bassingham Lincolnshire | C+ | 2.2 | 100% | 1.2 | 0% |
| 36 | Sibsey Lincolnshire | C | 2.4 | 100% | 0.2 | 0% |
| 37 | Flitton Bedfordshire | C | 1.4 | 49% | 3.3 | 6% |
| 38 | Geddington Northamptonshire | C | 3 | 82% | 1.5 | 0% |
| 39 | Barton Lancashire | C | 2.6 | 47% | 2.1 | 0% |
| 40 | Horndon on the Hill Essex | C | 3.5 | 81% | 1.1 | 0% |
| 41 | Freeland Oxfordshire | C | 1.4 | 53% | 2.6 | 17% |
| 42 | Waresley Worcestershire | C | 1.7 | 100% | 1 | 0% |
| 43 | Alveley Shropshire | C− | 5.4 | 51% | 1.6 | 0% |
| 44 | Hartwell Northamptonshire | C− | 1.2 | 59% | 3.9 | 0% |
| 45 | Haslingfield Cambridgeshire | C− | 2 | 80% | 1.8 | 0% |
| 46 | Silverton Devon | C− | 1 | 100% | 1.3 | 0% |
| 47 | Greens Norton Northamptonshire | C− | 1.2 | 66% | 3.1 | 0% |
| 48 | Dalston Cumbria | C− | 3.4 | 66% | 0.9 | 0% |
| 49 | Cawood North Yorkshire | D | 1.9 | 60% | 2.1 | 0% |
| 50 | Braunston Northamptonshire | D | 1.8 | 50% | 2.4 | 0% |
| 51 | Croft Cheshire | D | 1.1 | 79% | 1.9 | 0% |
| 52 | Tetney Lincolnshire | D | 1.5 | 79% | 1.1 | 0% |
| 53 | Oakington Cambridgeshire | D | 2.1 | 52% | 1.6 | 0% |
| 54 | Stockton Warwickshire | D | 1.5 | 44% | 2.3 | 0% |
| 55 | Newton-with-Scales Lancashire | D | 1.4 | 76% | 1.3 | 0% |
| 56 | Badersfield Norfolk | D− | 0.3 | 53% | 1 | 2% |
| 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 Langley Vale’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 Langley Vale
The biggest is The Warren Recreation Ground, 1.2 ha (3 acres). Directions go to the park’s nearest public entrance where Ordnance Survey maps one.
Close to home
5 in 10 Langley Vale 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 (53%)Further (47%)
Langley Vale53%
Villages its size82%
Surrey towns75%
All UK towns83%
About 700 people live further than that. Playing fields count, so a park within reach isn’t always one with paths or trees; 6 playgrounds are mapped in and around the village, about one for every 253 residents.
National Parks & National Landscapes
The Surrey Hills National Landscape is 2.0 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
7% of the land within 5 km of Langley Vale is National Park or National Landscape, more than 68% of UK towns.
Footpaths & waymarked walks
1 waymarked walk passes through or near Langley Vale
35 km of footpaths, bridleways and rights of way are mapped in Langley Vale and the kilometre around it, 5.5 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
Thames Down Link4.1 km
The regional route here is the Thames Down Link.
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 Langley Vale: 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) | 8.3 | 9.9 | 11.7 | 13.8 | 15.6 | 16.6 | 16.1 | 14.6 | 12.5 | 10.6 | 8.8 | 7.9 |
| High (°C) | 8 | 8 | 10 | 14 | 17 | 20 | 22 | 22 | 19 | 14 | 10 | 8 |
| Rain (mm) | 75 | 60 | 49 | 52 | 54 | 50 | 53 | 61 | 61 | 84 | 89 | 83 |
March is the driest month (49 mm) and July the warmest (highs of 22 °C). Winter days are short, about 8 hours of daylight in December, and 89 mm of rain falls in November, the wettest month. Frost comes on about 49 nights a year. The climate in Langley Vale →
Things to do
2 viewpoints, 6 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
Langley Vale is inland. These are the nearest named beaches, measured from the edge of the village.
Hog Hole12 mi from Langley Vale’s edge
DirectionsThe Hollows12 mi from Langley Vale’s edge
DirectionsAmity Beach12 mi from Langley Vale’s edge
DirectionsKelson Beach17 mi from Langley Vale’s edge
DirectionsDock Beach18 mi from Langley Vale’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.
Every named place, with directions
Next door
The outdoors in nearby towns
The nearest towns of 1,000+ within 12 miles. Tap a town for its outdoors page.
Tadworth and Epsom DownsAshteadEpsomKingswoodLeatherheadBansteadLangley Vale
ABCDOutdoors Grade
| Town | Outdoors | Green space, ha per 1,000 | Near a park | Protected within 5 km |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Langley Vale | C+ | 0.8 | 53% | 7% |
| Tadworth and Epsom Downs 1.4 mi | A− | 3.4 | 65% | 16% |
| Ashtead 1.9 mi | B+ | 2.7 | 62% | 13% |
| Epsom 2.1 mi | A | 5.7 | 80% | 2% |
| Kingswood 2.4 mi | A− | 4.6 | 27% | 17% |
| Leatherhead 2.8 mi | B− | 1.0 | 72% | 24% |
| Banstead 3.0 mi | B+ | 2.4 | 66% | 3% |
Epsom, 2.1 miles away, grades A, the best next door: 80% of its residents live within 400 m of a park. Tadworth and Epsom Downs, Ashtead and Epsom have at least twice Langley Vale’s green space per resident.
Questions about the outdoors in Langley Vale
What is the biggest park in Langley Vale?
The Warren Recreation Ground, 1.2 ha (3 acres). 1 named park, garden or playing field is in the village or within 400 m of it.
Is Langley Vale near a National Park?
The nearest protected landscape is the Surrey Hills National Landscape, 2.0 mi south of the village’s edge. It covers 422 km² and was designated in 1958.
What are the best walks near Langley Vale?
1 waymarked walking route passes within 2 km of the village, including the Thames Down Link.
What is the nearest beach to Langley Vale?
Hog Hole, 12 mi from the edge of the village, then The Hollows (12 mi). Langley Vale itself is inland.
How many people in Langley Vale live near a park?
53% 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 Langley Vale?
May to September: the longest days, the warmest afternoons and the least rain of the year, from the Met Office 1991–2020 averages.
Is Langley Vale good for walking?
For paths, yes: 5.5 km of footpath and right of way per square kilometre, more than 96% of UK towns. For park space per person it beats 9% (0.8 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 Langley Vale’s overall grade.
Sources
Where Langley Vale’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.