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Outdoors in Runfold · parks, paths & countryside

45% of the land within 5 km of Runfold is National Park or National Landscape

Parks and playing fields in Runfold add up to 6.1 ha for every 1,000 residents; the typical UK town has 2.1. Footpaths add up to 31 km in the village and the kilometre around it, 2.7 for every square kilometre. No park or playing field is mapped within a 5-minute walk of homes in Runfold. Runfold has no Outdoors Grade (towns under 1,000 people aren’t graded).

Green space
6.1 ha
per 1,000 residents
Typical UK town 2.1
Near a park
0%
of residents within 400 m
Typical UK town 83%
Footpaths
31 km
2.7 km per km², town + 1 km
Typical UK town 3.0 per km²
Protected landscape
45%
of the land within 5 km
Character

What kind of outdoors village is Runfold?

Read from the data: what stands out first, good and bad.

Runfold’s strongest suit is protected countryside on the doorstep, followed by its historic parks. Where it falls short is how far some homes are from a park.

Close to home

Few Runfold 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 (0%)Further (100%)
Runfold0%
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.

Footpaths & waymarked walks

Footpaths in and around Runfold

31 km of footpaths, bridleways and rights of way are mapped in Runfold and the kilometre around it, 2.7 km for every square kilometre (the typical UK town has 3.0).

No named walking route is mapped within 2 km of Runfold; its footpaths are on the map above.

Waymarked walks are OpenStreetMap walking routes. Public rights of way are only as complete as the map in each area.

History along the way

A registered historic park in Runfold

Historic England’s register of parks and gardens, and the listed buildings and scheduled monuments that stand inside Runfold’s named parks.

Registered · Grade IIMoor Park1.8 ha

A listed building or monument counts when it sits inside the park’s OS Open Greenspace outline (to about 15 m), so a few at the boundary are included. Historic England, National Heritage List for England.

When to get out

The best walking months in Runfold: 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.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Daylight (h)8.49.911.713.815.516.616.114.612.510.68.87.9
High (°C)881114182123221915118
Rain (mm)835850534649495554859080

May is the driest month (46 mm) and July the warmest (highs of 23 °C). Winter days are short, about 8 hours of daylight in December, and 90 mm of rain falls in November, the wettest month. Frost comes on about 51 nights a year. The climate in Runfold →

Next door

The outdoors in nearby towns

The nearest towns of 1,000+ within 12 miles. Tap a town for its outdoors page.

ABCDOutdoors Grade
TownOutdoorsGreen space, ha per 1,000Near a parkProtected within 5 km
Runfold–6.10%45%
Badshot Lea 1.4 miA+25.9100%25%
Farnham 1.8 miA5.173%35%
Weybourne 2.2 miA+7.186%14%
Aldershot 2.4 miA3.477%17%
Elstead 2.8 miA2.5100%82%
Wrecclesham 3.0 miC+1.250%37%

Badshot Lea, 1.4 miles away, grades A+, the best next door: every resident lives within 400 m of a park. Badshot Lea has at least twice Runfold’s green space per resident.

Questions about the outdoors in Runfold

Is Runfold near a National Park?

No National Park or National Landscape is within 30 km (about 19 miles) of Runfold.

How many people in Runfold live near a park?

0% 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 Runfold?

May to September: the longest days, the warmest afternoons and the least rain of the year, from the Met Office 1991–2020 averages.

Which parks in Runfold are historic?

Moor Park (Grade II) is on Historic England’s register of parks and gardens.

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 Runfold’s overall grade.

Sources

Where Runfold’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.