Tatsfield’s biggest
Tatsfield Green
Park or garden
9.4 ha (23 acres)0.9 km of path
10 minto walk all 0.9 km of path
13 pitchesfootball pitches would fit
Centralin the middle of Tatsfield
Directionsto the nearest entrance
Photo: Stacey Harris · CC BY-SA 2.0A+Outdoors Grade
Outdoors in Tatsfield · parks, paths & countryside
Almost everyone in Tatsfield lives within a 5-minute walk of a park
Parks and playing fields in Tatsfield add up to 7.5 ha for every 1,000 residents; the typical UK town has 2.1. The Kent Downs National Landscape and the Surrey Hills National Landscape both begin about a mile from the village’s edge. Footpaths add up to 33 km in the village and the kilometre around it, 3.1 for every square kilometre. Tatsfield grades A+ for the outdoors. A character grade: it isn’t part of the overall grade.
Green space
7.5 ha
per 1,000 residents
Typical UK town 2.1
Near a park
100%
of residents within 400 m
Typical UK town 83%
Footpaths
33 km
3.1 km per km², town + 1 km
Typical UK town 3.0 per km²
Protected landscape
34%
of the land within 5 km
Nearest: Kent Downs National Landscape
Character
What kind of outdoors village is Tatsfield?
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.Room to roam7.5 ha of parks and playing fields per 1,000 residents, more than 93% of UK towns.Protected countryside34% of the land within 5 km is Kent Downs National Landscape.On a National TrailThe North Downs Way passes through.
Tatsfield’s strongest suit is parks close to every home, followed by plenty of park space.
Outdoors grade
Tatsfield grades A+ for the outdoors
Each chart is every UK town of 1,000 or more on one measure: the green bar is Tatsfield, 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 97% of UK towns1st of 60 UK villages its size
Public green space7.5 haper 1,000 residents: parks, gardens, playing fields, play spaces
93out 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 Landscape34%of the land within 5 km
86out of
100
100
Footpaths3.1 kmper km², the town and 1 km around it
63out 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
Tatsfield is 1st of 60 UK villages its size for the outdoors
The 60 UK towns and cities of 1,300 to 1,400 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
Tatsfield3.1
Villages its size2.3
Surrey towns4.3
All UK towns3.0
Green space, ha per 1,000 residents
Tatsfield7.5
Villages its size2.0
Surrey towns3.1
All UK towns2.1
Residents within 400 m of a park
Tatsfield100%
Villages its size81%
Surrey towns75%
All UK towns83%
Against villages its size, Tatsfield stands out most for park space per resident: only 6 of the other 59 have more.
Show as a table
| Town | Outdoors | Green space | Near a park | Path per km² | Protected | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Tatsfield Surrey | A+ | 7.5 | 100% | 3.1 | 34% |
| 2 | Winsley Wiltshire | A | 12.4 | 79% | 4.2 | 38% |
| 3 | Chilton Oxfordshire | A | 5.4 | 88% | 2.8 | 70% |
| 4 | Cromford Derbyshire | A | 1.8 | 100% | 6.6 | 12% |
| 5 | Cowfold West Sussex | A | 2.6 | 100% | 3.6 | 15% |
| 6 | Gomshall Surrey | A | 1.9 | 89% | 4.8 | 87% |
| 7 | West Horsley Surrey | A | 3 | 74% | 5.2 | 40% |
| 8 | Startforth County Durham | A | 6 | 78% | 4.3 | 4% |
| 9 | Maresfield East Sussex | A | 2.3 | 100% | 2.7 | 44% |
| 10 | Sherston Wiltshire | A | 3.7 | 100% | 1.4 | 75% |
| 11 | Sherfield on Loddon Hampshire | A− | 8.3 | 100% | 3.2 | 0% |
| 12 | Weston Rhyn Shropshire | A− | 3.6 | 100% | 2.2 | 10% |
| 13 | Distington Cumbria | A− | 4.2 | 100% | 1.6 | 0% |
| 14 | Stoke sub Hamdon Somerset | A− | 25.1 | 81% | 4.7 | 0% |
| 15 | Wharncliffe Side South Yorkshire | A− | 3.3 | 47% | 6.4 | 22% |
| 16 | Bradwell Derbyshire | A− | 1.2 | 100% | 2.9 | 100% |
| 17 | Appleton Thorn Cheshire | B+ | 5.6 | 100% | 2 | 0% |
| 18 | Handcross West Sussex | B | 9.6 | 58% | 1.9 | 87% |
| 19 | Barrow Lancashire | B | 0.5 | 100% | 2.8 | 27% |
| 20 | Wymeswold Leicestershire | B | 2.9 | 100% | 2.4 | 0% |
| 21 | Motcombe Dorset | B | 9.5 | 74% | 1.5 | 25% |
| 22 | Trevor Clwyd | B | 2 | 60% | 3.5 | 55% |
| 23 | Cefn Cribwr Mid Glamorgan | B | 6.5 | 100% | 1.2 | 0% |
| 24 | Sampford Peverell Devon | B− | 3 | 100% | 2 | 0% |
| 25 | Holymoorside Derbyshire | B− | 1.1 | 82% | 3.8 | 14% |
| 26 | Narborough Norfolk | B− | 3.8 | 100% | 1.5 | 0% |
| 27 | Kingswood Kent | B− | 3.8 | 23% | 2.7 | 11% |
| 28 | Clwt-y-bont Gwynedd | B− | 0.8 | 100% | 2.1 | 19% |
| 29 | Steeple Bumpstead Essex | B− | 1.9 | 100% | 2.4 | 0% |
| 30 | Trub Greater Manchester | C+ | 1.9 | 100% | 2.3 | 0% |
| 31 | Houghton Cambridgeshire | C+ | 2.2 | 81% | 3.4 | 0% |
| 32 | Launton Oxfordshire | C+ | 0.7 | 100% | 3 | 0% |
| 33 | Thorner West Yorkshire | C+ | 2.1 | 74% | 3.4 | 0% |
| 34 | Great Waldingfield Suffolk | C | 2 | 100% | 1.5 | 0% |
| 35 | East Hendred Oxfordshire | C | 1.4 | 29% | 2.8 | 47% |
| 36 | Great Bardfield Essex | C | 2 | 81% | 2.6 | 0% |
| 37 | Ringstead Northamptonshire | C | 1.8 | 100% | 1.3 | 0% |
| 38 | Tickton East Riding of Yorkshire | C | 2 | 100% | 0.7 | 0% |
| 39 | Winterley Cheshire | C | 0.9 | 100% | 2.3 | 0% |
| 40 | Chelford Cheshire | C | 1.8 | 82% | 2.5 | 0% |
| 41 | Easebourne West Sussex | C | 0.4 | 0% | 2.9 | 100% |
| 42 | Blunham Bedfordshire | C | 2.2 | 77% | 2.3 | 0% |
| 43 | Walkern Hertfordshire | C− | 2.4 | 52% | 2.7 | 0% |
| 44 | Offord D'Arcy and Offord Cluny Cambridgeshire | C− | 2.7 | 78% | 1.5 | 0% |
| 45 | Cottingham and Middleton Northamptonshire | C− | 12.1 | 53% | 1.1 | 0% |
| 46 | Penperlleni Gwent | C− | 0.6 | 80% | 1.7 | 17% |
| 47 | Newton St Loe Somerset | C− | 0 | 0% | 3.5 | 17% |
| 48 | Cowbit Lincolnshire | C− | 0.9 | 100% | 1.1 | 0% |
| 49 | Penrhyn-coch Dyfed | D | 0.7 | 100% | 0.8 | 0% |
| 50 | Hawley Kent | D | 0.7 | 24% | 2.8 | 3% |
| 51 | Perham Down Wiltshire | D | 0.8 | 42% | 2.2 | 17% |
| 52 | Butterwick Lincolnshire | D | 1.8 | 40% | 0.3 | 0% |
| 53 | Malpas Cheshire | D | 1.6 | 61% | 2.2 | 0% |
| 54 | Billingborough Lincolnshire | D | 2.4 | 45% | 1.6 | 0% |
| 55 | North Cave East Riding of Yorkshire | D | 2.5 | 47% | 1.4 | 0% |
| 56 | Skelton (York) North Yorkshire | D | 1.4 | 77% | 1.6 | 0% |
| 57 | Bomere Heath Shropshire | D− | 1.8 | 0% | 1.7 | 0% |
| 58 | Woodmansey East Riding of Yorkshire | D− | 0.7 | 0% | 1.9 | 0% |
| 59 | Langham Rutland | D− | 0.3 | 23% | 1.3 | 0% |
| 60 | Griston Norfolk | D− | 0.8 | 15% | 0.5 | 0% |
The map
Parks, footpaths & countryside
Tap a number to zoom to a park. Tap a layer to hide it. The dashed line is Tatsfield’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 Tatsfield
The biggest is Tatsfield Green, 9.4 ha (23 acres). Directions go to the park’s nearest public entrance where Ordnance Survey maps one.
Westmore Green
Park or garden
0.9 ha (2 acres)0.2 km of path
Centralin the middle of Tatsfield
Directionsto the nearest entrance
Close to home
How close Tatsfield’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%)
Tatsfield100%
Villages its size81%
Surrey towns75%
All UK towns83%
Playing fields count, so a park within reach isn’t always one with paths or trees; 3 playgrounds are mapped in and around the village, about one for every 460 residents.
National Parks & National Landscapes
Kent Downs and Surrey Hills both start about a mile from Tatsfield
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
34% of the land within 5 km of Tatsfield is National Park or National Landscape, more than 85% of UK towns.
Footpaths & waymarked walks
Tatsfield is on the North Downs Way
33 km of footpaths, bridleways and rights of way are mapped in Tatsfield and the kilometre around it, 3.1 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
Biggin Hill Circular Walk11.4 km
Berry's Green Circular Walk6.5 km
Tandridge Border Path6.5 km
North Downs Way (Eastern)5.6 km
The North Downs Way, a national route, passes Tatsfield. Close to home, the Biggin Hill Circular Walk has 11 km of local walk within 2 km of the village. The regional route here is the 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 Tatsfield: 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) | 7 | 7 | 10 | 13 | 17 | 20 | 22 | 22 | 19 | 14 | 10 | 8 |
| Rain (mm) | 89 | 69 | 55 | 57 | 60 | 56 | 56 | 68 | 68 | 99 | 96 | 97 |
March is the driest month (55 mm) and July the warmest (highs of 22 °C). Winter days are short, about 8 hours of daylight in December, and 99 mm of rain falls in October, the wettest month. Frost comes on about 47 nights a year. The climate in Tatsfield →
Things to do
3 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
Tatsfield is inland. These are the nearest named beaches, measured from the edge of the village.
Kelson Beach13 mi from Tatsfield’s edge
DirectionsDock Beach14 mi from Tatsfield’s edge
DirectionsNorthfleet Beach16 mi from Tatsfield’s edge
DirectionsThe Hollows19 mi from Tatsfield’s edge
DirectionsHog Hole19 mi from Tatsfield’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.
Up high. Polesteeple Hill, at 190 m, is the highest named top within 2 km of Tatsfield.
Every named place, with directions
Hills and peaks 3
Polesteeple Hill190 m (623 ft) · 0.2 mi from town
DirectionsWesterham Heights0.9 mi from town
DirectionsBetsom's Hill251 m (823 ft) · 0.9 mi from town
DirectionsPlaygrounds 3
Plus 3 playgrounds without a name on the map.
Campsites 2
Wayland Scout Campsite1.0 mi from town
DirectionsDowne Activity Center1.2 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.
LimpsfieldWesterhamWoldinghamOxtedWarlinghamSundridgeTatsfield
ABCDOutdoors Grade
| Town | Outdoors | Green space, ha per 1,000 | Near a park | Protected within 5 km |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tatsfield | A+ | 7.5 | 100% | 34% |
| Limpsfield 2.6 mi | A+ | 2.9 | 100% | 41% |
| Westerham 2.6 mi | B | 1.9 | 61% | 66% |
| Woldingham 2.9 mi | C− | 0.2 | 25% | 20% |
| Oxted 3.4 mi | B | 2.1 | 84% | 28% |
| Warlingham 3.7 mi | A | 4.2 | 81% | 13% |
| Sundridge 4.5 mi | A+ | 9.1 | 100% | 73% |
Tatsfield grades higher for the outdoors than every neighbour in the table.
Questions about the outdoors in Tatsfield
What is the biggest park in Tatsfield?
Tatsfield Green, 9.4 ha (23 acres), with 0.9 km of path. Westmore Green (0.9 ha) is second. 2 named parks, gardens and playing fields are in the village or within 400 m of it.
Is Tatsfield near a National Park?
The nearest protected landscape is the Kent Downs National Landscape, 0.2 mi east of the village’s edge. It covers 879 km² and was designated in 1968.
What are the best walks near Tatsfield?
4 waymarked walking routes pass within 2 km of the village, including the Biggin Hill Circular Walk, Berry's Green Circular Walk and Tandridge Border Path.
What is the nearest beach to Tatsfield?
Kelson Beach, 13 mi from the edge of the village, then Dock Beach (14 mi). Tatsfield itself is inland.
How many people in Tatsfield 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 Tatsfield?
May to September: the longest days, the warmest afternoons and the least rain of the year, from the Met Office 1991–2020 averages.
Is Tatsfield good for walking?
For paths, yes: 3.1 km of footpath and right of way per square kilometre, more than 63% of UK towns. For park space per person it beats 93% (7.5 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 Tatsfield’s overall grade.
Sources
Where Tatsfield’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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