Shepperton Green’s biggest
Littleton Recreation Ground
Playing field
4.3 ha (11 acres)0.2 km of path
6 pitchesfootball pitches would fit
Centralin the middle of Shepperton Green
Directionsto the nearest entrance
Photo: Alan Hunt · CC BY-SA 2.0DOutdoors Grade
Outdoors in Shepperton Green · parks, paths & countryside
Parks and walks in Shepperton Green
Footpaths add up to 17 km in the town and the kilometre around it, 1.7 for every square kilometre. Parks and playing fields in Shepperton Green add up to 1.4 ha for every 1,000 residents; the typical UK town has 2.1. 73% of residents live within a 5-minute walk of a park or playing field. Shepperton Green grades D for the outdoors. A character grade: it isn’t part of the overall grade.
Green space
1.4 ha
per 1,000 residents
Typical UK town 2.1
Near a park
73%
of residents within 400 m
Typical UK town 83%
Footpaths
17 km
1.7 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 Shepperton Green?
Read from the data: what stands out first, good and bad.
On a National TrailThe Thames Path passes through.Less park per person1.4 ha of parks and playing fields per 1,000 residents; the typical UK town has 2.1.
Shepperton Green’s strongest suit is the Thames Path. Where it falls short is park space per person.
Outdoors grade
Shepperton Green grades D for the outdoors
Each chart is every UK town of 1,000 or more on one measure: the green bar is Shepperton Green, the dashed line the typical town. The number is the share of towns it beats; the five are averaged and the average ranked again.
D
Better than 9% of UK towns#64 of 65 in Surrey · 54th of 60 UK towns its size
Public green space1.4 haper 1,000 residents: parks, gardens, playing fields, play spaces
25out of
100
100
A park within a walk73%of residents within 400 m (a 5-minute walk)
35out of
100
100
National Park or National Landscape0%of the land within 5 km · None within 5 km
31out of
100
100
Footpaths1.7 kmper km², the town and 1 km around it
21out 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
Shepperton Green is 54th of 60 UK towns its size for the outdoors
The 60 UK towns and cities of 4,200 to 4,500 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
Shepperton Green1.7
Towns its size2.5
Surrey towns4.3
All UK towns3.0
Green space, ha per 1,000 residents
Shepperton Green1.4
Towns its size1.6
Surrey towns3.1
All UK towns2.1
Residents within 400 m of a park
Shepperton Green73%
Towns its size87%
Surrey towns75%
All UK towns83%
Shepperton Green falls furthest behind on path per km², where 46 of the 59 others do better.
Show as a table
| Town | Outdoors | Green space | Near a park | Path per km² | Protected | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Keswick Cumbria | A+ | 9.1 | 100% | 4.1 | 100% |
| 2 | West Malling Kent | A+ | 8.7 | 100% | 3.4 | 21% |
| 3 | Great Denham Bedfordshire | A | 14.7 | 100% | 5.3 | 0% |
| 4 | Aberbargoed Gwent | A | 22.8 | 95% | 5.6 | 0% |
| 5 | Denaby Main South Yorkshire | A | 10.4 | 100% | 3.8 | 0% |
| 6 | Overton Hampshire | A | 3.7 | 92% | 2.5 | 45% |
| 7 | Kimberley Nottinghamshire | A− | 2.9 | 100% | 4.8 | 0% |
| 8 | Whittle-le-Woods Lancashire | A− | 7.7 | 91% | 4 | 0% |
| 9 | Loftus North Yorkshire | A− | 1.9 | 90% | 2 | 31% |
| 10 | Exminster Devon | A− | 2.5 | 100% | 2.7 | 0% |
| 11 | Arborfield Garrison Berkshire | A− | 10.4 | 95% | 3.3 | 0% |
| 12 | Stokenchurch Buckinghamshire | A− | 2.3 | 90% | 2.6 | 86% |
| 13 | Fairford Gloucestershire | A− | 3.4 | 100% | 1.8 | 17% |
| 14 | Horsford Norfolk | B+ | 6.5 | 97% | 2.8 | 0% |
| 15 | Ratby Leicestershire | B+ | 1.7 | 100% | 4.8 | 0% |
| 16 | Girton Cambridgeshire | B+ | 2.8 | 92% | 3.6 | 0% |
| 17 | Elmswell Suffolk | B | 2.5 | 100% | 2.9 | 0% |
| 18 | Clayton West and Scissett West Yorkshire | B | 1.4 | 100% | 4.2 | 0% |
| 19 | Winchcombe Gloucestershire | B | 2.2 | 60% | 3 | 81% |
| 20 | Earby Lancashire | B− | 1.4 | 93% | 4.7 | 0% |
| 21 | Woodford Halse Northamptonshire | B− | 3.6 | 100% | 1.6 | 0% |
| 22 | Wilton Wiltshire | B− | 1.4 | 94% | 1.6 | 45% |
| 23 | Tibshelf Derbyshire | B− | 1.4 | 94% | 3.8 | 0% |
| 24 | Ferndale Mid Glamorgan | B− | 3.6 | 88% | 2.1 | 0% |
| 25 | Woburn Sands Buckinghamshire | C+ | 1.1 | 94% | 4.1 | 0% |
| 26 | Milford on Sea Hampshire | C+ | 1.2 | 50% | 2.1 | 21% |
| 27 | Kessingland Suffolk | C+ | 0.9 | 70% | 1.9 | 19% |
| 28 | Backwell Somerset | C+ | 2.3 | 57% | 4.4 | 0% |
| 29 | Sandwich Kent | C+ | 2.1 | 51% | 2.5 | 0% |
| 30 | Sible Hedingham Essex | C+ | 0.9 | 100% | 2.9 | 0% |
| 31 | Halfway Houses Kent | C | 1.8 | 71% | 1.8 | 0% |
| 32 | Queen's Hills Norfolk | C | 0.4 | 100% | 3 | 0% |
| 33 | Hope Clwyd | C | 8.5 | 64% | 2 | 0% |
| 34 | Kilburn and Horsley Woodhouse Derbyshire | C | 1.6 | 75% | 3.6 | 0% |
| 35 | Skelmanthorpe West Yorkshire | C | 1 | 88% | 3.2 | 0% |
| 36 | Brundall Norfolk | C | 1.6 | 62% | 2.3 | 20% |
| 37 | Meopham Kent | C | 1.3 | 53% | 2.5 | 35% |
| 38 | Uppingham Rutland | C | 2.2 | 89% | 1.6 | 0% |
| 39 | Long Lawford Warwickshire | C | 1.2 | 91% | 2.6 | 0% |
| 40 | Branston Lincolnshire | C | 2.1 | 86% | 1.8 | 0% |
| 41 | Llangennech Dyfed | C | 1.6 | 82% | 1.1 | 0% |
| 42 | Cuffley Hertfordshire | C− | 13.6 | 19% | 1.9 | 0% |
| 43 | Ellesmere Shropshire | C− | 12.5 | 54% | 1.3 | 0% |
| 44 | Wesham Lancashire | C− | 1.7 | 87% | 1.8 | 0% |
| 45 | Chudleigh Devon | C− | 0.3 | 83% | 1.4 | 15% |
| 46 | Saxilby Lincolnshire | C− | 1.3 | 100% | 0.7 | 0% |
| 47 | Epworth Lincolnshire | C− | 1.6 | 75% | 2.2 | 0% |
| 48 | Doddington and Wimblington Cambridgeshire | C− | 2.5 | 73% | 1.2 | 0% |
| 49 | Great Ayton North Yorkshire | C− | 0.2 | 48% | 2.2 | 31% |
| 50 | Freckleton Lancashire | D | 0.4 | 73% | 1.4 | 0% |
| 51 | West Kingsdown Kent | D | 0.8 | 28% | 1.6 | 52% |
| 52 | North Weald Bassett Essex | D | 1.4 | 67% | 2.4 | 0% |
| 53 | Linton Cambridgeshire | D | 1.1 | 67% | 2.6 | 0% |
| 54 | Shepperton Green Surrey | D | 1.4 | 73% | 1.7 | 0% |
| 55 | Banks Lancashire | D | 0.3 | 33% | 1.7 | 0% |
| 56 | Blidworth Nottinghamshire | D | 0.5 | 23% | 3.2 | 0% |
| 57 | Kegworth Leicestershire | D | 0.4 | 54% | 2.6 | 0% |
| 58 | Wheatley Oxfordshire | D− | 0.2 | 34% | 2.4 | 0% |
| 59 | Warboys Cambridgeshire | D− | 0.4 | 67% | 1 | 0% |
| 60 | Pinchbeck Lincolnshire | D− | 1 | 49% | 1 | 0% |
The map
Parks, footpaths & countryside
Tap a number to zoom to a park. Tap a layer to hide it. The dashed line is Shepperton Green’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 Shepperton Green
The biggest is Littleton Recreation Ground, 4.3 ha (11 acres). Directions go to the park’s nearest public entrance where Ordnance Survey maps one.
Close to home
7 in 10 Shepperton Green 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 (73%)Further (27%)
Shepperton Green73%
Towns its size87%
Surrey towns75%
All UK towns83%
About 1,200 people live further than that. Playing fields count, so a park within reach isn’t always one with paths or trees; 14 playgrounds are mapped in and around the town, about one for every 311 residents.
National Parks & National Landscapes
The Surrey Hills National Landscape is 9.1 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
Shepperton Green is on the Thames Path
17 km of footpaths, bridleways and rights of way are mapped in Shepperton Green and the kilometre around it, 1.7 km for every square kilometre (the typical UK town has 3.0). Bars show each route’s kilometres within 2 km of the town.
NationalRegionalLocal
Thames Path8.2 km
European walking route E2 west, UK, South East England7.4 km
Thames Path - alternate3.5 km
Weybridge to New Haw Lock Walk, River Wey Navigations0.8 km
The Thames Path, a national route, passes Shepperton Green. The regional route here is the Thames Path - alternate.
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 Shepperton Green: 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 | 16.2 | 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) | 63 | 45 | 39 | 43 | 43 | 47 | 47 | 57 | 55 | 70 | 70 | 62 |
March is the driest month (39 mm) and July the warmest (highs of 23 °C). Winter days are short, about 8 hours of daylight in December, and 70 mm of rain falls in November, the wettest month. Frost comes on about 33 nights a year. The climate in Shepperton Green →
The coast
Beaches near Shepperton Green
0% of the area within 5 km of Shepperton Green is sea, so the Outdoors Grade counts it as inland. 2 beaches are mapped within 5 km.
Amity Beach1.6 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
14 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 14
Plus 14 playgrounds without a name on the map.
Dog parks 2
Plus 2 dog parks without a name on the map.
Campsites 1
Laleham Camping Club0.7 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.
SheppertonUpper HallifordLalehamAshford CommonWeybridgeAshfordShepperton Green
ABCDOutdoors Grade
| Town | Outdoors | Green space, ha per 1,000 | Near a park | Protected within 5 km |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Shepperton Green | D | 1.4 | 73% | 0% |
| Shepperton 0.8 mi | A | 8.7 | 89% | 0% |
| Upper Halliford 1.2 mi | B− | 5.1 | 44% | 0% |
| Laleham 1.7 mi | C | 9.8 | 34% | 0% |
| Ashford Common 1.7 mi | D | 0.8 | 62% | 0% |
| Weybridge 2.1 mi | B+ | 3.9 | 80% | 0% |
| Ashford 2.1 mi | C+ | 3.4 | 73% | 0% |
Shepperton, 0.8 miles away, grades A, the best next door: 89% of its residents live within 400 m of a park. Shepperton, Upper Halliford and Laleham have at least twice Shepperton Green’s green space per resident. None of the neighbours has a protected landscape within 5 km either.
Questions about the outdoors in Shepperton Green
What is the biggest park in Shepperton Green?
Littleton Recreation Ground, 4.3 ha (11 acres). The Green (0.9 ha) is second. 2 named parks, gardens and playing fields are in the town or within 400 m of it.
Is Shepperton Green near a National Park?
The nearest protected landscape is the Surrey Hills National Landscape, 9.1 mi south-east of the town’s edge. It covers 422 km² and was designated in 1958.
What are the best walks near Shepperton Green?
4 waymarked walking routes pass within 2 km of the town, including the Thames Path, European walking route E2 west, UK, South East England and Thames Path - alternate.
How many people in Shepperton Green live near a park?
73% 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 Shepperton Green?
May to September: the longest days, the warmest afternoons and the least rain of the year, from the Met Office 1991–2020 averages.
Is Shepperton Green good for walking?
Paths are thinner than most towns: 1.7 km of footpath and right of way per square kilometre, more than 21% of UK towns. For park space per person it beats 25% (1.4 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 Shepperton Green’s overall grade.
Sources
Where Shepperton Green’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.