Pirbright’s biggest
Pirbright Green
Park or garden
5.8 ha (14 acres)0.3 km of path
8 pitchesfootball pitches would fit
0.8 mi south-eastfrom the centre
Directionsto the nearest entrance
Photo: SuzanneKn at en.wikipedia · Public domainBOutdoors Grade
Outdoors in Pirbright · parks, paths & countryside
Pirbright has more footpath per square kilometre than 9 in 10 UK towns
91 km of footpaths run through the town and the kilometre around it, 5.7 for every square kilometre. The Surrey Hills National Landscape begins 3.8 mi from the town’s edge. A park or playing field is within a 5-minute walk for 84% of residents. Pirbright grades B for the outdoors. A character grade: it isn’t part of the overall grade.
Green space
2.0 ha
per 1,000 residents
Typical UK town 2.1
Near a park
84%
of residents within 400 m
Typical UK town 83%
Footpaths
91 km
5.7 km per km², town + 1 km
Typical UK town 3.0 per km²
Protected landscape
0%
of the land within 5 km
Surrey Hills starts 3.8 mi out, past the 5 km
Character
What kind of outdoors town is Pirbright?
Read from the data: what stands out first, good and bad.
A town of footpaths5.7 km of path per km², more than 96% of UK towns. The typical town has 3.0.Countryside close byThe Surrey Hills National Landscape starts 3.8 mi south.
Pirbright’s strongest suit is dense footpaths, followed by the Surrey Hills National Landscape close by.
Outdoors grade
Pirbright grades B for the outdoors
Each chart is every UK town of 1,000 or more on one measure: the green bar is Pirbright, the dashed line the typical town. The number is the share of towns it beats; the five are averaged and the average ranked again.
B
Better than 59% of UK towns28th of 60 UK towns its size
Public green space2.0 haper 1,000 residents: parks, gardens, playing fields, play spaces
45out of
100
100
A park within a walk84%of residents within 400 m (a 5-minute walk)
55out of
100
100
National Park or National Landscape0%of the land within 5 km · Surrey Hills begins just past 5 km
31out of
100
100
Footpaths5.7 kmper km², the town and 1 km around it
97out 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
Pirbright is 28th of 60 UK towns its size for the outdoors
The 60 UK towns and cities of 3,800 to 4,100 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
Pirbright5.7
Towns its size2.5
Surrey towns4.3
All UK towns3.0
Green space, ha per 1,000 residents
Pirbright2.0
Towns its size2.0
Surrey towns3.1
All UK towns2.1
Residents within 400 m of a park
Pirbright84%
Towns its size83%
Surrey towns75%
All UK towns83%
Against towns its size, Pirbright stands out most for path per km²: only 2 of the other 59 have more.
Show as a table
| Town | Outdoors | Green space | Near a park | Path per km² | Protected | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Darley Dale Derbyshire | A+ | 3.8 | 100% | 3.4 | 51% |
| 2 | Batheaston Somerset | A | 3 | 84% | 4.6 | 71% |
| 3 | Cranbrook Kent | A | 5.8 | 82% | 2.9 | 65% |
| 4 | Chickerell Dorset | A | 1.5 | 88% | 3 | 27% |
| 5 | Walter's Ash and Naphill Buckinghamshire | A | 3.7 | 50% | 5.3 | 79% |
| 6 | Holt Norfolk | A | 8.5 | 84% | 2.4 | 40% |
| 7 | Old Sarum Wiltshire | A | 4.6 | 100% | 3.7 | 0% |
| 8 | Disley Cheshire | A− | 1.2 | 100% | 4.6 | 22% |
| 9 | Bowerhill Wiltshire | A− | 7.4 | 100% | 3 | 0% |
| 10 | Welwyn Hertfordshire | A− | 2.6 | 100% | 4 | 0% |
| 11 | Esh Winning County Durham | A− | 3.2 | 100% | 3.5 | 0% |
| 12 | Old Basing Hampshire | A− | 13.6 | 92% | 3.1 | 0% |
| 13 | Colden Common Hampshire | B+ | 2.7 | 82% | 2.8 | 35% |
| 14 | Barnt Green Worcestershire | B+ | 37.8 | 81% | 3.7 | 0% |
| 15 | Carbis Bay Cornwall | B+ | 0.5 | 88% | 2.8 | 20% |
| 16 | Long Melford Suffolk | B+ | 6.9 | 87% | 3.3 | 0% |
| 17 | Papworth Everard Cambridgeshire | B+ | 4.3 | 100% | 2.5 | 0% |
| 18 | Cheddleton Staffordshire | B+ | 3.5 | 88% | 3.6 | 0% |
| 19 | Chirk Clwyd | B+ | 1.8 | 100% | 2.3 | 15% |
| 20 | Locking Somerset | B+ | 2.7 | 84% | 2.4 | 23% |
| 21 | Greasbrough South Yorkshire | B | 2.9 | 80% | 4.7 | 0% |
| 22 | Queenborough Kent | B | 1.6 | 100% | 2 | 0% |
| 23 | Tangmere West Sussex | B | 2.1 | 100% | 1.2 | 36% |
| 24 | Stoke Poges Buckinghamshire | B | 7.7 | 76% | 3.3 | 0% |
| 25 | Romanby North Yorkshire | B | 3.1 | 100% | 2.3 | 0% |
| 26 | Mytholmroyd West Yorkshire | B | 1.8 | 88% | 5.8 | 0% |
| 27 | Framlingham Suffolk | B | 3.7 | 73% | 4.2 | 0% |
| 28 | Pirbright Surrey | B | 2 | 84% | 5.7 | 0% |
| 29 | Calverley West Yorkshire | B | 1.5 | 92% | 6 | 0% |
| 30 | Glanaman Dyfed | B− | 3.3 | 83% | 0.8 | 29% |
| 31 | South Cerney Gloucestershire | B− | 2.5 | 77% | 2.4 | 7% |
| 32 | Alford Lincolnshire | B− | 2.1 | 85% | 1.5 | 26% |
| 33 | Lower Stondon Bedfordshire | B− | 2.7 | 73% | 2.2 | 5% |
| 34 | New Romney Kent | C+ | 2.5 | 79% | 1.6 | 0% |
| 35 | Chipping Ongar Essex | C+ | 2.5 | 83% | 2.9 | 0% |
| 36 | Bar Hill Cambridgeshire | C+ | 1.4 | 93% | 3.5 | 0% |
| 37 | Heacham Norfolk | C+ | 1.5 | 53% | 1.1 | 29% |
| 38 | Forest Row East Sussex | C+ | 0.3 | 51% | 3.4 | 94% |
| 39 | Shirland and Stonebroom Derbyshire | C | 3.7 | 43% | 3 | 0% |
| 40 | Silver End Essex | C | 2 | 88% | 2.1 | 0% |
| 41 | Cubbington Warwickshire | C | 1.5 | 100% | 1.7 | 0% |
| 42 | Tenbury Wells Worcestershire | C | 2.3 | 51% | 2.1 | 3% |
| 43 | Oaklands Hertfordshire | C | 2 | 7% | 4.3 | 0% |
| 44 | Bromyard Herefordshire | C | 0.9 | 100% | 2.1 | 0% |
| 45 | Whiston South Yorkshire | C− | 1 | 75% | 3.8 | 0% |
| 46 | Desford Leicestershire | C− | 1.6 | 90% | 2 | 0% |
| 47 | Holton le Clay Lincolnshire | C− | 2 | 59% | 1.4 | 8% |
| 48 | Lydd Kent | C− | 1.7 | 66% | 0.9 | 0% |
| 49 | Kingston Bagpuize Oxfordshire | C− | 0.8 | 100% | 1.3 | 0% |
| 50 | Swanland East Riding of Yorkshire | C− | 1.1 | 75% | 0.3 | 0% |
| 51 | Sutton Cambridgeshire | D | 1.9 | 82% | 1.1 | 0% |
| 52 | Glyn-neath West Glamorgan | D | 1.3 | 57% | 1.1 | 22% |
| 53 | Crowle Lincolnshire | D | 1.3 | 91% | 1 | 0% |
| 54 | Puckeridge and Standon Hertfordshire | D | 0.9 | 59% | 3.2 | 0% |
| 55 | Sutton Bridge Lincolnshire | D | 1.3 | 79% | 0.8 | 0% |
| 56 | North Ferriby East Riding of Yorkshire | D | 0.6 | 33% | 1 | 0% |
| 57 | Willingham Cambridgeshire | D | 1.4 | 73% | 0.8 | 0% |
| 58 | Long Buckby Northamptonshire | D− | 0.6 | 52% | 1.9 | 0% |
| 59 | Penyffordd Clwyd | D− | 0.7 | 36% | 1.6 | 0% |
| 60 | Indian Queens, Fraddon and St Columb Road Cornwall | D− | 0.7 | 27% | 1.6 | 0% |
The map
Parks, footpaths & countryside
Tap a number to zoom to a park. Tap a layer to hide it. The dashed line is Pirbright’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 Pirbright
The biggest is Pirbright Green, 5.8 ha (14 acres). Directions go to the park’s nearest public entrance where Ordnance Survey maps one.
Close to home
8 in 10 Pirbright 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 (84%)Further (16%)
Pirbright84%
Towns its size83%
Surrey towns75%
All UK towns83%
About 600 people live further than that. Playing fields count, so a park within reach isn’t always one with paths or trees; 22 playgrounds are mapped in and around the town, about one for every 178 residents.
National Parks & National Landscapes
The Surrey Hills National Landscape is 3.8 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
Protected landscape begins just outside the 5 km ring the Outdoors Grade measures, so Pirbright scores 0% on it even though the Surrey Hills National Landscape is 3.8 mi away. South Downs National Park covers 1,653 km² and has been a National Park since 2010.
Footpaths & waymarked walks
3 waymarked walks pass through or near Pirbright
91 km of footpaths, bridleways and rights of way are mapped in Pirbright and the kilometre around it, 5.7 km for every square kilometre (the typical UK town has 3.0). Bars show each route’s kilometres within 2 km of the town.
RegionalLocal
Basingstoke Canal7.4 km
Pirbright walk (SCC)6.6 km
The Fox Way2.3 km
Close to home, the Pirbright walk (SCC) has 7 km of local walk within 2 km of the town. The regional route here is the Basingstoke Canal.
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 Pirbright: May to 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 | 16.1 | 14.6 | 12.5 | 10.6 | 8.8 | 7.9 |
| High (°C) | 8 | 9 | 11 | 14 | 18 | 21 | 23 | 22 | 19 | 15 | 11 | 8 |
| Rain (mm) | 72 | 52 | 43 | 49 | 47 | 49 | 49 | 56 | 55 | 79 | 79 | 72 |
March is the driest month (43 mm) and July the warmest (highs of 23 °C). Winter days are short, about 8 hours of daylight in December, and 79 mm of rain falls in November, the wettest month. Frost comes on about 48 nights a year. The climate in Pirbright →
Things to do
22 playgrounds and the nearest beaches
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.
The nearest beaches
Pirbright is inland. These are the nearest named beaches, measured from the edge of the town.
Amity Beach9.1 mi from Pirbright’s edge
DirectionsPenguin Beach11 mi from Pirbright’s edge
DirectionsHog Hole20 mi from Pirbright’s edge
DirectionsThe Hollows20 mi from Pirbright’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
Viewpoints 1
C1.1 mi from town
DirectionsHills and peaks 15
Old Windmill Hill0.1 mi from town
DirectionsCooper's Hill0.1 mi from town
DirectionsHazelacre Hill0.1 mi from town
DirectionsLodge Hill0.2 mi from town
DirectionsFurze Hill0.2 mi from town
DirectionsPorridgepot Hill0.3 mi from town
DirectionsRuwenzori Hill0.4 mi from town
DirectionsMainstone Hill0.5 mi from town
DirectionsPlus 7 hills and peaks more.
Playgrounds 22
Plus 22 playgrounds without a name on the map.
Campsites 5
Military Field0.1 mi from town
DirectionsSergeant's mess0.2 mi from town
DirectionsInns of Court0.2 mi from town
DirectionsMaple Acre0.3 mi from town
DirectionsSit Perpetuum Lawn0.4 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.
BrookwoodBisleyDeepcutWest End and ChobhamLightwaterFrimleyPirbright
ABCDOutdoors Grade
| Town | Outdoors | Green space, ha per 1,000 | Near a park | Protected within 5 km |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pirbright | B | 2.0 | 84% | 0% |
| Brookwood 0.9 mi | B+ | 8.5 | 59% | 0% |
| Bisley 1.7 mi | A | 8.0 | 92% | 0% |
| Deepcut 2.0 mi | A | 8.4 | 100% | 0% |
| West End and Chobham 2.8 mi | B− | 3.3 | 65% | 0% |
| Lightwater 3.0 mi | B+ | 9.2 | 72% | 0% |
| Frimley 3.2 mi | A− | 2.9 | 99% | 0% |
Deepcut, 2 miles away, grades A, the best next door: every resident lives within 400 m of a park. Brookwood, Bisley and Deepcut have at least twice Pirbright’s green space per resident. None of the neighbours has a protected landscape within 5 km either.
Questions about the outdoors in Pirbright
What is the biggest park in Pirbright?
Pirbright Green, 5.8 ha (14 acres). Cook's Green (0.8 ha) is second. 2 named parks, gardens and playing fields are in the town or within 400 m of it.
Is Pirbright near a National Park?
Yes. South Downs National Park begins 10.0 mi south-west of the town’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, 3.8 mi away.
What are the best walks near Pirbright?
3 waymarked walking routes pass within 2 km of the town, including the Basingstoke Canal, Pirbright walk (SCC) and The Fox Way.
What is the nearest beach to Pirbright?
Amity Beach, 9.1 mi from the edge of the town, then Penguin Beach (11 mi). Pirbright itself is inland.
How many people in Pirbright live near a park?
84% 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 Pirbright?
May to September: the longest days, the warmest afternoons and the least rain of the year, from the Met Office 1991–2020 averages.
Is Pirbright good for walking?
For paths, yes: 5.7 km of footpath and right of way per square kilometre, more than 97% of UK towns. For park space per person it beats 45% (2.0 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 Pirbright’s overall grade.
Sources
Where Pirbright’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.