Limpsfield’s biggest
Limpsfield
Playing field
4.3 ha (11 acres)0.9 km of path
10 minto walk all 0.9 km of path
6 pitchesfootball pitches would fit
Centralin the middle of Limpsfield
Directionsto the nearest entrance
Photo: David Howard · CC BY-SA 2.0A+Outdoors Grade
Outdoors in Limpsfield · parks, paths & countryside
Almost everyone in Limpsfield lives within a 5-minute walk of a park
The Surrey Hills National Landscape and the Kent Downs National Landscape both begin about a mile from the village’s edge. 47 km of footpaths run through the village and the kilometre around it, 3.7 for every square kilometre. Parks and playing fields in Limpsfield add up to 2.9 ha for every 1,000 residents; the typical UK town has 2.1. Limpsfield grades A+ for the outdoors. A character grade: it isn’t part of the overall grade.
Green space
2.9 ha
per 1,000 residents
Typical UK town 2.1
Near a park
100%
of residents within 400 m
Typical UK town 83%
Footpaths
47 km
3.7 km per km², town + 1 km
Typical UK town 3.0 per km²
Protected landscape
41%
of the land within 5 km
Nearest: Surrey Hills National Landscape
Character
What kind of outdoors village is Limpsfield?
Read from the data: what stands out first, good and bad.
A park on every doorstep100% of residents live within 400 m of a park or playing field.Protected countryside41% of the land within 5 km is Surrey Hills National Landscape.On a National TrailThe North Downs Way passes through.
Limpsfield’s strongest suit is parks close to every home, followed by protected countryside on the doorstep.
Outdoors grade
Limpsfield grades A+ for the outdoors
Each chart is every UK town of 1,000 or more on one measure: the green bar is Limpsfield, 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 96% of UK towns2nd of 60 UK villages its size
Public green space2.9 haper 1,000 residents: parks, gardens, playing fields, play spaces
67out of
100
100
A park within a walk100%of residents within 400 m (a 5-minute walk)
89out of
100
100
National Park or National Landscape41%of the land within 5 km
89out of
100
100
Footpaths3.7 kmper km², the town and 1 km around it
75out 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
Limpsfield is 2nd of 60 UK villages its size for the outdoors
The 60 UK towns and cities of 2,200 to 2,300 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
Limpsfield3.7
Villages its size2.5
Surrey towns4.3
All UK towns3.0
Green space, ha per 1,000 residents
Limpsfield2.9
Villages its size2.0
Surrey towns3.1
All UK towns2.1
Residents within 400 m of a park
Limpsfield100%
Villages its size71%
Surrey towns75%
All UK towns83%
Against villages its size, Limpsfield stands out most for path per km²: only 12 of the other 59 have more.
Show as a table
| Town | Outdoors | Green space | Near a park | Path per km² | Protected | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Brockham Surrey | A+ | 7.4 | 94% | 4.4 | 38% |
| 2 | Limpsfield Surrey | A+ | 2.9 | 100% | 3.7 | 41% |
| 3 | Tanyfron Clwyd | A | 7.4 | 100% | 2.6 | 13% |
| 4 | Elstead Surrey | A | 2.5 | 100% | 2.6 | 82% |
| 5 | Berry Hill Gloucestershire | A | 2.9 | 79% | 4.7 | 55% |
| 6 | Westcott Surrey | A | 1.8 | 86% | 5.5 | 78% |
| 7 | Hapton Lancashire | A | 2.6 | 87% | 6.1 | 2% |
| 8 | Severn Beach Gloucestershire | A− | 5.8 | 100% | 1.5 | 0% |
| 9 | Harlington Bedfordshire | A− | 2.7 | 100% | 2.7 | 16% |
| 10 | Great Horkesley Essex | A− | 4.7 | 78% | 3.3 | 25% |
| 11 | Arnside Cumbria | A− | 1.3 | 65% | 4.1 | 75% |
| 12 | Merlin's Bridge Dyfed | A− | 3.3 | 100% | 2 | 11% |
| 13 | Berrow and Brean Somerset | A− | 3.6 | 75% | 1.7 | 1% |
| 14 | Clare Suffolk | A− | 7.7 | 100% | 2.5 | 0% |
| 15 | Newstead Nottinghamshire | B+ | 2.6 | 100% | 3.7 | 0% |
| 16 | Acle Norfolk | B+ | 1.6 | 89% | 3.1 | 43% |
| 17 | Tisbury Wiltshire | B+ | 1.5 | 86% | 2.9 | 100% |
| 18 | Woodford Greater Manchester | B+ | 5.9 | 80% | 2.3 | 5% |
| 19 | Steventon Oxfordshire | B+ | 2 | 100% | 2 | 17% |
| 20 | Bowness-on-Windermere Cumbria | B | 1.7 | 76% | 2.8 | 100% |
| 21 | Crick Northamptonshire | B | 3.8 | 100% | 1.9 | 0% |
| 22 | Mayfield East Sussex | B− | 3.3 | 61% | 1.9 | 99% |
| 23 | Loddon Norfolk | B− | 2.4 | 77% | 2.5 | 18% |
| 24 | Park Street and Frogmore Hertfordshire | B− | 4.5 | 63% | 3.6 | 0% |
| 25 | Bickershaw Greater Manchester | B− | 5 | 13% | 4.7 | 0% |
| 26 | Lechlade-on-Thames Gloucestershire | B− | 6.7 | 66% | 1.5 | 6% |
| 27 | Bere Alston Devon | C+ | 1.4 | 64% | 1.3 | 93% |
| 28 | Delph Greater Manchester | C+ | 0.7 | 72% | 3.9 | 17% |
| 29 | Hermitage Berkshire | C+ | 0.6 | 58% | 3.4 | 82% |
| 30 | Boughton under Blean Kent | C+ | 2.7 | 24% | 2.5 | 18% |
| 31 | Cold Ash Berkshire | C+ | 1.5 | 7% | 3.1 | 60% |
| 32 | Berkeley Gloucestershire | C+ | 0.9 | 49% | 2.6 | 3% |
| 33 | Farndon Cheshire | C+ | 1.2 | 82% | 4.2 | 0% |
| 34 | East Bergholt Suffolk | C | 1.9 | 26% | 2.4 | 46% |
| 35 | Bishopsteignton Devon | C | 3 | 62% | 1.1 | 0% |
| 36 | Wickham Market Suffolk | C | 2.5 | 64% | 1.7 | 7% |
| 37 | Caistor Lincolnshire | C | 2.8 | 39% | 1.3 | 33% |
| 38 | Hawkesbury Warwickshire | C | 1 | 78% | 4.2 | 0% |
| 39 | Tatworth Somerset | C | 1.3 | 71% | 1.7 | 44% |
| 40 | Whaddon Wiltshire | C | 2.6 | 55% | 1.3 | 10% |
| 41 | Eye Suffolk | C | 2 | 66% | 3 | 0% |
| 42 | Wateringbury Kent | C− | 2.4 | 73% | 2.1 | 0% |
| 43 | Stoke Prior Worcestershire | C− | 2.6 | 67% | 2.2 | 0% |
| 44 | Coleford Somerset | C− | 1.2 | 51% | 4.5 | 0% |
| 45 | Coltishall and Horstead Norfolk | C− | 2.1 | 57% | 1.3 | 8% |
| 46 | Meriden West Midlands | C− | 1.8 | 70% | 2.6 | 0% |
| 47 | Woldingham Surrey | C− | 0.2 | 25% | 3.1 | 20% |
| 48 | Hatfield Woodhouse South Yorkshire | C− | 0.6 | 100% | 1.6 | 0% |
| 49 | St Osyth Essex | C− | 1.5 | 54% | 1.3 | 0% |
| 50 | Scholes (Leeds) West Yorkshire | D | 0 | 0% | 5.5 | 0% |
| 51 | Comberton Cambridgeshire | D | 1.6 | 71% | 2.1 | 0% |
| 52 | Duxford Cambridgeshire | D | 1.7 | 78% | 1.2 | 0% |
| 53 | Bicknacre Essex | D | 1 | 56% | 2.6 | 0% |
| 54 | Kineton Warwickshire | D | 0.2 | 0% | 1.8 | 5% |
| 55 | Great Barford Bedfordshire | D− | 1.4 | 45% | 1.8 | 0% |
| 56 | Leconfield East Riding of Yorkshire | D− | 1.6 | 51% | 1.3 | 0% |
| 57 | Bettws Mid Glamorgan | D− | 0.7 | 71% | 1.6 | 0% |
| 58 | Mattishall Norfolk | D− | 1.4 | 58% | 1.5 | 0% |
| 59 | Isleham Cambridgeshire | D− | 0.2 | 71% | 0.8 | 0% |
| 60 | Puriton Somerset | D− | 0.1 | 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 Limpsfield’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 Limpsfield
The biggest is Limpsfield, 4.3 ha (11 acres). Directions go to the park’s nearest public entrance where Ordnance Survey maps one.
Close to home
How close Limpsfield’s homes are to 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 (100%)Further (0%)
Limpsfield100%
Villages its size71%
Surrey towns75%
All UK towns83%
Playing fields count, so a park within reach isn’t always one with paths or trees; 17 playgrounds are mapped in and around the village, about one for every 132 residents.
National Parks & National Landscapes
Surrey Hills and Kent Downs both start about a mile from Limpsfield
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 east422 km²since 195819% of the land within 5 km
Official site41% of the land within 5 km of Limpsfield is National Park or National Landscape, more than 88% of UK towns.
Footpaths & waymarked walks
Limpsfield is on the North Downs Way
47 km of footpaths, bridleways and rights of way are mapped in Limpsfield and the kilometre around it, 3.7 km for every square kilometre (the typical UK town has 3.0). Bars show each route’s kilometres within 2 km of the village.
NationalRegionalLocal
Vanguard Way8.7 km
Greensand Way7.1 km
Greenwich Meridian Trail7.1 km
Limpsfield common and the Carpenters Arms Walk, Harewoods5.7 km
Tandridge Border Path5.6 km
North Downs Way (Eastern)4.7 km
Over the Downs to Oxted Mill walk (SCC)4.0 km
Greensand way (Oxted Spur)3.7 km
Limpsfield Family Trail, Harewoods1.6 km
Easy Access Trail, Harewoods1.2 km
Ridlands Grove short spring walk at Limpsfield Common, Harewoods0.7 km
The North Downs Way, a national route, passes Limpsfield. Close to home, the Limpsfield common and the Carpenters Arms Walk, Harewoods has 6 km of local walk within 2 km of the village. 5 regional routes pass through, including the Vanguard Way, Greensand Way, Greenwich Meridian Trail and Tandridge Border Path.
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 Limpsfield: 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 | 15 | 11 | 8 |
| Rain (mm) | 84 | 67 | 52 | 54 | 55 | 55 | 53 | 67 | 67 | 96 | 94 | 93 |
March is the driest month (52 mm) and July the warmest (highs of 22 °C). Winter days are short, about 8 hours of daylight in December, and 96 mm of rain falls in October, the wettest month. Frost comes on about 46 nights a year. The climate in Limpsfield →
Things to do
17 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
Limpsfield is inland. These are the nearest named beaches, measured from the edge of the village.
Kelson Beach16 mi from Limpsfield’s edge
DirectionsDock Beach17 mi from Limpsfield’s edge
DirectionsNorthfleet Beach19 mi from Limpsfield’s edge
DirectionsThe Hollows20 mi from Limpsfield’s edge
DirectionsHog Hole20 mi from Limpsfield’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
Hills and peaks 2
Paines Hill0.5 mi from town
DirectionsBotley Hill270 m (885 ft) · 1.2 mi from town
DirectionsPicnic sites 1
Plus 1 picnic site without a name on the map.
Playgrounds 17
Plus 17 playgrounds 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.
OxtedWoldinghamTatsfieldWesterhamGodstoneSouth GodstoneLimpsfield
ABCDOutdoors Grade
| Town | Outdoors | Green space, ha per 1,000 | Near a park | Protected within 5 km |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Limpsfield | A+ | 2.9 | 100% | 41% |
| Oxted 0.8 mi | B | 2.1 | 84% | 28% |
| Woldingham 2.6 mi | C− | 0.2 | 25% | 20% |
| Tatsfield 2.6 mi | A+ | 7.5 | 100% | 34% |
| Westerham 2.7 mi | B | 1.9 | 61% | 66% |
| Godstone 3.3 mi | C+ | 1.7 | 52% | 18% |
| South Godstone 3.7 mi | B | 2.0 | 100% | 5% |
Tatsfield, 2.6 miles away, grades A+, the best next door: every resident lives within 400 m of a park. Tatsfield has at least twice Limpsfield’s green space per resident.
Questions about the outdoors in Limpsfield
What is the biggest park in Limpsfield?
Limpsfield, 4.3 ha (11 acres), with 0.9 km of path. 1 named park, garden or playing field is in the village or within 400 m of it.
Is Limpsfield near a National Park?
The Surrey Hills National Landscape reaches the edge of Limpsfield. It covers 422 km² and was designated in 1958.
What are the best walks near Limpsfield?
11 waymarked walking routes pass within 2 km of the village, including the Vanguard Way, Greensand Way and Greenwich Meridian Trail.
What is the nearest beach to Limpsfield?
Kelson Beach, 16 mi from the edge of the village, then Dock Beach (17 mi). Limpsfield itself is inland.
How many people in Limpsfield live near a park?
100% 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 Limpsfield?
May to September: the longest days, the warmest afternoons and the least rain of the year, from the Met Office 1991–2020 averages.
Is Limpsfield good for walking?
For paths, yes: 3.7 km of footpath and right of way per square kilometre, more than 75% of UK towns. For park space per person it beats 67% (2.9 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 Limpsfield’s overall grade.
Sources
Where Limpsfield’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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