Photo: RAY JONES · CC BY-SA 2.0Almost everyone in Thorpe lives within a 5-minute walk of a park
Parks and playing fields in Thorpe add up to 5.2 ha for every 1,000 residents; the typical UK town has 2.1. 26 km of footpaths run through the village and the kilometre around it, 3.1 for every square kilometre. Thorpe grades A− for the outdoors. A character grade: it isn’t part of the overall grade.
What kind of outdoors village is Thorpe?
Read from the data: what stands out first, good and bad.
Thorpe’s strongest suit is parks close to every home, followed by plenty of park space.
Thorpe grades A− for the outdoors
Each chart is every UK town of 1,000 or more on one measure: the green bar is Thorpe, the dashed line the typical town. The number is the share of towns it beats; the five are averaged and the average ranked again.
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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.
Thorpe is 13th of 60 UK villages its size for the outdoors
The 60 UK towns and cities of 1,200 to 1,300 people with an Outdoors Grade. Hover a dot for its figures; tap one for its page.
Against villages its size, Thorpe stands out most for park space per resident: only 15 of the other 59 have more.
Show as a table
| Town | Outdoors | Green space | Near a park | Path per km² | Protected | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Eastington Gloucestershire | A+ | 4.2 | 100% | 3.7 | 22% |
| 2 | Holmbridge West Yorkshire | A+ | 2.5 | 100% | 4.2 | 45% |
| 3 | Kirton Suffolk | A+ | 2.5 | 100% | 2.3 | 50% |
| 4 | Hoddlesden Lancashire | A | 11.4 | 100% | 4.5 | 0% |
| 5 | Rotherfield East Sussex | A | 5.6 | 100% | 1.7 | 91% |
| 6 | Thurgoland South Yorkshire | A | 2.5 | 100% | 4.1 | 1% |
| 7 | Haydon Bridge Northumberland | A | 7.2 | 100% | 1.7 | 26% |
| 8 | Cronton Merseyside | A | 6.8 | 100% | 3.5 | 0% |
| 9 | Lower Halstow Kent | A− | 1.5 | 100% | 2.5 | 4% |
| 10 | Nutley East Sussex | A− | 2.2 | 75% | 4.5 | 80% |
| 11 | East Hanney Oxfordshire | A− | 5.7 | 100% | 1.8 | 4% |
| 12 | Caldy Merseyside | A− | 19.3 | 47% | 3.6 | 0% |
| 13 | Thorpe Surrey | A− | 5.2 | 100% | 3.1 | 0% |
| 14 | Bonds Lancashire | A− | 1.7 | 100% | 3.5 | 16% |
| 15 | Herstmonceux East Sussex | A− | 3.4 | 100% | 1.5 | 36% |
| 16 | Foulridge Lancashire | A− | 9.4 | 23% | 5.4 | 4% |
| 17 | Felsted Essex | A− | 7.5 | 81% | 4.4 | 0% |
| 18 | Walberton West Sussex | B+ | 1.8 | 100% | 1.9 | 39% |
| 19 | Toll Bar South Yorkshire | B+ | 10.9 | 100% | 1.8 | 0% |
| 20 | King's Somborne Hampshire | B+ | 5.2 | 100% | 2.1 | 0% |
| 21 | Sharpness Gloucestershire | B+ | 2.1 | 100% | 1.8 | 0% |
| 22 | Canewdon Essex | B | 2.5 | 100% | 1.4 | 0% |
| 23 | Stoke Holy Cross Norfolk | B | 2.2 | 100% | 2.1 | 0% |
| 24 | Horton Kirby Kent | B | 5.9 | 78% | 1.7 | 21% |
| 25 | Keinton Mandeville Somerset | B | 3.8 | 100% | 2.1 | 0% |
| 26 | Alconbury Weald Cambridgeshire | B | 5 | 100% | 1.6 | 0% |
| 27 | Portreath Cornwall | B | 1.1 | 78% | 2.3 | 8% |
| 28 | Corse Gloucestershire | B | 2.3 | 100% | 1.4 | 1% |
| 29 | Clarborough Nottinghamshire | B | 4 | 100% | 1.7 | 0% |
| 30 | Brightwell-cum-Sotwell Oxfordshire | B− | 2.5 | 72% | 2.2 | 40% |
| 31 | Gilmorton Leicestershire | B− | 3.3 | 100% | 1.4 | 0% |
| 32 | Chulmleigh Devon | C+ | 3.5 | 100% | 0.9 | 0% |
| 33 | East Morton West Yorkshire | C+ | 2.1 | 89% | 2.9 | 0% |
| 34 | Trimdon Grange County Durham | C+ | 2.1 | 100% | 2.1 | 0% |
| 35 | Crondall Hampshire | C+ | 3.6 | 73% | 1.8 | 1% |
| 36 | Husbands Bosworth Leicestershire | C+ | 3 | 100% | 1 | 0% |
| 37 | Clehonger Herefordshire | C+ | 0.6 | 100% | 3.3 | 0% |
| 38 | Thorpe on the Hill West Yorkshire | C+ | 2.2 | 64% | 4 | 0% |
| 39 | Westhampnett West Sussex | C | 0.2 | 79% | 2.6 | 33% |
| 40 | Lavenham Suffolk | C | 4.2 | 59% | 2.6 | 0% |
| 41 | Ampleforth North Yorkshire | C | 2.3 | 27% | 1.7 | 95% |
| 42 | Medomsley County Durham | C | 1.6 | 100% | 1.9 | 0% |
| 43 | Warwick Bridge Cumbria | C | 6.5 | 78% | 1.3 | 0% |
| 44 | West Clandon Surrey | C | 1.9 | 49% | 2.1 | 28% |
| 45 | Clifton upon Dunsmore Warwickshire | C | 2.2 | 79% | 2.3 | 0% |
| 46 | South Killingholme Lincolnshire | C | 1.7 | 68% | 1.8 | 0% |
| 47 | Wolverley Worcestershire | C− | 7.2 | 23% | 1.9 | 0% |
| 48 | Crays Hill Essex | C− | 10.6 | 0% | 1.7 | 0% |
| 49 | Little Downham Cambridgeshire | C− | 2.8 | 61% | 1.8 | 0% |
| 50 | Sproatley East Riding of Yorkshire | C− | 8.6 | 47% | 0.5 | 0% |
| 51 | Kirby-le-Soken Essex | C− | 0.7 | 0% | 2.5 | 0% |
| 52 | Trewoon Cornwall | D | 0.9 | 71% | 1.7 | 6% |
| 53 | Coup Green Lancashire | D | 0.6 | 70% | 2.8 | 0% |
| 54 | Horton and Broadway Somerset | D | 0.5 | 45% | 1.9 | 14% |
| 55 | Beckingham Nottinghamshire | D | 2.6 | 28% | 0.9 | 0% |
| 56 | Walesby Nottinghamshire | D− | 1.1 | 50% | 1.9 | 0% |
| 57 | Rillington North Yorkshire | D− | 1 | 75% | 0.6 | 0% |
| 58 | Blackwell Worcestershire | D− | 0.7 | 29% | 2 | 0% |
| 59 | Sutton on Trent Nottinghamshire | D− | 0.5 | 39% | 1.9 | 0% |
| 60 | Prees Higher Heath Shropshire | D− | 0.7 | 26% | 0.9 | 0% |
Parks, footpaths & countryside
Tap a number to zoom to a park. Tap a layer to hide it. The dashed line is Thorpe’s built-up area.
How close Thorpe’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).
Playing fields count, so a park within reach isn’t always one with paths or trees; 22 playgrounds are mapped in and around the village, about one for every 56 residents.
The Surrey Hills National Landscape is 11 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.
Thorpe is on the Thames Path
26 km of footpaths, bridleways and rights of way are mapped in Thorpe 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.
The Thames Path, a national route, passes Thorpe.
Waymarked walks are OpenStreetMap walking routes. Public rights of way are only as complete as the map in each area.
The best walking months in Thorpe: 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 | 16.2 | 14.6 | 12.5 | 10.6 | 8.8 | 7.9 |
| High (°C) | 8 | 9 | 12 | 15 | 18 | 21 | 23 | 23 | 20 | 16 | 11 | 9 |
| Rain (mm) | 65 | 48 | 41 | 45 | 44 | 50 | 44 | 56 | 53 | 70 | 70 | 63 |
March is the driest month (41 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 October, the wettest month. Frost comes on about 38 nights a year. The climate in Thorpe →
Beaches near Thorpe
0% of the area within 5 km of Thorpe is sea, so the Outdoors Grade counts it as inland. 2 beaches are mapped within 5 km.
Sea: 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.
2 viewpoints and 22 playgrounds
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.
Every named place, with directions
Viewpoints 2
Plus 2 viewpoints without a name on the map.
Hills and peaks 1
Playgrounds 22
Plus 20 playgrounds without a name on the map.
Dog parks 2
Plus 2 dog parks without a name on the map.
Slipways 2
Plus 2 slipways without a name on the map.
The outdoors in nearby towns
The nearest towns of 1,000+ within 12 miles. Tap a town for its outdoors page.
| Town | Outdoors | Green space, ha per 1,000 | Near a park | Protected within 5 km |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Thorpe | A− | 5.2 | 100% | 0% |
| Virginia Water 1.4 mi | B | 14.5 | 72% | 0% |
| Lyne 1.5 mi | C+ | 4.0 | 71% | 0% |
| Egham 1.6 mi | B | 4.1 | 63% | 0% |
| Laleham 1.9 mi | C | 9.8 | 34% | 0% |
| Chertsey 2.0 mi | A− | 6.2 | 84% | 0% |
| Staines-upon-Thames 2.2 mi | B− | 3.4 | 67% | 0% |
Thorpe grades higher for the outdoors than every neighbour in the table. Virginia Water has at least twice Thorpe’s green space per resident. None of the neighbours has a protected landscape within 5 km either.
Questions about the outdoors in Thorpe
Is Thorpe near a National Park?
The nearest protected landscape is the Surrey Hills National Landscape, 11 mi south-east of the village’s edge. It covers 422 km² and was designated in 1958.
What are the best walks near Thorpe?
4 waymarked walking routes pass within 2 km of the village, including the Thames Path, European walking route E2 west, UK, South East England and Circular Route.
How many people in Thorpe 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 Thorpe?
May to September: the longest days, the warmest afternoons and the least rain of the year, from the Met Office 1991–2020 averages.
Is Thorpe good for walking?
For paths, yes: 3.1 km of footpath and right of way per square kilometre, more than 62% of UK towns. For park space per person it beats 88% (5.2 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 Thorpe’s overall grade.
Where Thorpe’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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