Windlesham’s biggest
Windlesham Field of Remembrance
Playing field
4.3 ha (11 acres)0.4 km of path
6 pitchesfootball pitches would fit
Centralin the middle of Windlesham
Directionsto the nearest entrance
Church of St John the Baptist · Photo: Mertbiol · CC0DOutdoors Grade
Outdoors in Windlesham · parks, paths & countryside
Parks and walks in Windlesham
A park or playing field is within a 5-minute walk for 57% of residents. Footpaths add up to 44 km in the town and the kilometre around it, 2.2 for every square kilometre. Parks and playing fields in Windlesham add up to 2.0 ha for every 1,000 residents; the typical UK town has 2.1. Windlesham grades D for the outdoors: #63 of 65 in Surrey. 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
57%
of residents within 400 m
Typical UK town 83%
Footpaths
44 km
2.2 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
Outdoors grade
Windlesham grades D for the outdoors
Each chart is every UK town of 1,000 or more on one measure: the green bar is Windlesham, 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 14% of UK towns#63 of 65 in Surrey · 48th of 60 UK towns its size
Public green space2.0 haper 1,000 residents: parks, gardens, playing fields, play spaces
47out of
100
100
A park within a walk57%of residents within 400 m (a 5-minute walk)
18out of
100
100
National Park or National Landscape0%of the land within 5 km · None within 5 km
31out of
100
100
Footpaths2.2 kmper km², the town and 1 km around it
35out 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
Windlesham is 48th of 60 UK towns its size for the outdoors
The 60 UK towns and cities of 3,600 to 3,900 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
Windlesham2.2
Towns its size2.4
Surrey towns4.3
All UK towns3.0
Green space, ha per 1,000 residents
Windlesham2.0
Towns its size1.7
Surrey towns3.1
All UK towns2.1
Residents within 400 m of a park
Windlesham57%
Towns its size78%
Surrey towns75%
All UK towns83%
Against towns its size, Windlesham stands out most for park space per resident: only 22 of the other 59 have more. It falls furthest behind on homes near a park, where 48 of the others do better.
Show as a table
| Town | Outdoors | Green space | Near a park | Path per km² | Protected | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Trimley St Mary Suffolk | A+ | 2.3 | 100% | 3.8 | 34% |
| 2 | Tutshill and Sedbury Gloucestershire | A+ | 2.5 | 87% | 4.5 | 32% |
| 3 | Marsden West Yorkshire | A | 1.9 | 100% | 6.5 | 33% |
| 4 | Cuckfield West Sussex | A | 6.7 | 70% | 4.9 | 49% |
| 5 | Lingfield Surrey | A | 3.5 | 100% | 2.8 | 16% |
| 6 | Bethesda Gwynedd | A | 2.5 | 90% | 3.2 | 49% |
| 7 | Mulbarton Norfolk | A− | 7 | 100% | 3 | 0% |
| 8 | Kingswood Surrey | A− | 4.6 | 27% | 6.3 | 17% |
| 9 | Barnt Green Worcestershire | B+ | 37.8 | 81% | 3.7 | 0% |
| 10 | Stanstead Abbotts Hertfordshire | B+ | 2.5 | 92% | 4.9 | 0% |
| 11 | Keresley Newlands Warwickshire | B+ | 4.4 | 89% | 3.5 | 0% |
| 12 | Harriseahead, Mow Cop and Newchapel Staffordshire | B+ | 4.2 | 86% | 3.7 | 0% |
| 13 | Watchet Somerset | B+ | 1.3 | 86% | 2 | 18% |
| 14 | Locking Somerset | B+ | 2.7 | 84% | 2.4 | 23% |
| 15 | Lyme Regis Dorset | B | 1.4 | 60% | 2.5 | 56% |
| 16 | Mayland Essex | B | 2.6 | 91% | 1.8 | 0% |
| 17 | Martham Norfolk | B | 1.7 | 74% | 1.8 | 45% |
| 18 | Belton Norfolk | B− | 1.5 | 77% | 1.5 | 48% |
| 19 | Whitwell Derbyshire | B− | 1.7 | 100% | 3 | 0% |
| 20 | Rhuddlan Clwyd | B− | 1.8 | 85% | 0.9 | 8% |
| 21 | Cholsey Oxfordshire | B− | 2.3 | 55% | 2.5 | 81% |
| 22 | Lower Nazeing Essex | B− | 23.8 | 58% | 3.2 | 0% |
| 23 | Worlingham Suffolk | B− | 1.5 | 100% | 1.4 | 24% |
| 24 | Pulborough West Sussex | B− | 1.4 | 77% | 2.7 | 50% |
| 25 | Cardigan Dyfed | B− | 1.9 | 69% | 1.4 | 13% |
| 26 | Kingskerswell Devon | C+ | 3.5 | 76% | 1.2 | 0% |
| 27 | Oakworth West Yorkshire | C+ | 2.3 | 84% | 3.1 | 0% |
| 28 | Fradley Staffordshire | C+ | 2.7 | 82% | 2.7 | 0% |
| 29 | Tutbury Staffordshire | C+ | 2.5 | 90% | 2.2 | 0% |
| 30 | Pewsey Wiltshire | C+ | 1 | 64% | 3 | 91% |
| 31 | Troedyrhiw and Pentrebach Mid Glamorgan | C+ | 2.5 | 84% | 1.5 | 0% |
| 32 | Great Lumley County Durham | C+ | 1.4 | 88% | 3.6 | 0% |
| 33 | Norton Fitzwarren Somerset | C+ | 1.3 | 35% | 5.2 | 6% |
| 34 | Hatfield Peverel Essex | C | 2 | 84% | 2.7 | 0% |
| 35 | Coggeshall Essex | C | 2.1 | 84% | 2.5 | 0% |
| 36 | Bransgore Hampshire | C | 1.9 | 71% | 1.2 | 49% |
| 37 | Cowbridge South Glamorgan | C | 1.2 | 86% | 3.1 | 0% |
| 38 | Haltwhistle Northumberland | C | 1.5 | 59% | 2.3 | 31% |
| 39 | Bromyard Herefordshire | C | 0.9 | 100% | 2.1 | 0% |
| 40 | Glemsford Suffolk | C− | 1.1 | 84% | 3 | 0% |
| 41 | Desford Leicestershire | C− | 1.6 | 90% | 2 | 0% |
| 42 | Hawkhurst Kent | C− | 1.1 | 60% | 1.4 | 100% |
| 43 | Fulbourn Cambridgeshire | C− | 1.7 | 74% | 2.4 | 0% |
| 44 | Pwllheli Gwynedd | C− | 0.1 | 23% | 1.3 | 2% |
| 45 | West Parley Dorset | C− | 1.6 | 20% | 3.5 | 0% |
| 46 | Bloxham Oxfordshire | C− | 2.6 | 71% | 1.2 | 0% |
| 47 | Kempsey Worcestershire | D | 0.9 | 40% | 3.9 | 0% |
| 48 | Windlesham Surrey | D | 2 | 57% | 2.2 | 0% |
| 49 | Hoveton and Wroxham Norfolk | D | 1.4 | 65% | 0.8 | 18% |
| 50 | Pen-pedair-heol Gwent | D | 0.9 | 80% | 2.3 | 0% |
| 51 | Langford Bedfordshire | D | 1.4 | 63% | 2.6 | 0% |
| 52 | Spilsby Lincolnshire | D | 0 | 0% | 2.2 | 23% |
| 53 | Wilsden West Yorkshire | D | 0.6 | 61% | 3 | 0% |
| 54 | St Columb Major Cornwall | D | 1 | 89% | 1 | 0% |
| 55 | Willaston (Cheshire East) Cheshire | D | 1 | 82% | 1.5 | 0% |
| 56 | Bilton East Riding of Yorkshire | D | 1.3 | 66% | 1.5 | 0% |
| 57 | Llanbradach Gwent | D− | 1.2 | 52% | 1.9 | 0% |
| 58 | Upwell and Outwell Norfolk | D− | 1.8 | 43% | 0.4 | 0% |
| 59 | Llanharry Mid Glamorgan | D− | 0.6 | 50% | 1.3 | 0% |
| 60 | Copmanthorpe North Yorkshire | D− | 0.7 | 38% | 1.4 | 0% |
The map
Parks, footpaths & countryside
Tap a number to zoom to a park. Tap a layer to hide it. The dashed line is Windlesham’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 Windlesham
The biggest is Windlesham Field of Remembrance, 4.3 ha (11 acres). Directions go to the park’s nearest public entrance where Ordnance Survey maps one.
Close to home
6 in 10 Windlesham 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 (57%)Further (43%)
Windlesham57%
Towns its size78%
Surrey towns75%
All UK towns83%
About 1,600 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 265 residents.
National Parks & National Landscapes
The Surrey Hills National Landscape is 8.6 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
South Downs National Park covers 1,653 km² and has been a National Park since 2010.
Footpaths & waymarked walks
2 waymarked walks pass through or near Windlesham
44 km of footpaths, bridleways and rights of way are mapped in Windlesham and the kilometre around it, 2.2 km for every square kilometre (the typical UK town has 3.0). Bars show each route’s kilometres within 2 km of the town.
Local
Lightwater Country Park Purple0.6 km
Lightwater Country Park orange0.3 km
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 Windlesham: 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 | 14 | 18 | 21 | 23 | 22 | 19 | 15 | 11 | 8 |
| Rain (mm) | 73 | 53 | 47 | 50 | 49 | 54 | 52 | 59 | 56 | 79 | 83 | 73 |
March is the driest month (47 mm) and July the warmest (highs of 23 °C). Winter days are short, about 8 hours of daylight in December, and 83 mm of rain falls in November, the wettest month. Frost comes on about 46 nights a year. The climate in Windlesham →
Things to do
14 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
Windlesham is inland. These are the nearest named beaches, measured from the edge of the town.
Amity Beach5.6 mi from Windlesham’s edge
DirectionsPenguin Beach15 mi from Windlesham’s edge
DirectionsHog Hole17 mi from Windlesham’s edge
DirectionsThe Hollows17 mi from Windlesham’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. Hatton Hill, at 80 m, is the highest named top within 2 km of Windlesham.
Every named place, with directions
Hills and peaks 14
Hatton Hill80 m (262 ft) · 0.0 mi from town
DirectionsUpdown Hill70 m (230 ft) · 0.1 mi from town
DirectionsRussell Hill0.3 mi from town
DirectionsBirch Hill74 m (243 ft) · 0.5 mi from town
DirectionsKings Hill85 m (279 ft) · 0.6 mi from town
DirectionsChickabiddy Hill71 m (233 ft) · 0.8 mi from town
DirectionsTurf Hill0.9 mi from town
DirectionsSandpit Hill1.0 mi from town
DirectionsPlus 6 hills and peaks without a name on the map.
Playgrounds 14
Freemantle Road Playground0.2 mi from town
DirectionsPlus 13 playgrounds without a name on the map.
Campsites 1
Earleywood Campsite and County Centre0.3 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.
LightwaterBagshotWest End and ChobhamAscotBisleyCamberleyWindlesham
ABCDOutdoors Grade
| Town | Outdoors | Green space, ha per 1,000 | Near a park | Protected within 5 km |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Windlesham | D | 2.0 | 57% | 0% |
| Lightwater 1.6 mi | B+ | 9.2 | 72% | 0% |
| Bagshot 1.7 mi | A | 10.5 | 100% | 0% |
| West End and Chobham 1.9 mi | B− | 3.3 | 65% | 0% |
| Ascot 2.6 mi | C+ | 3.6 | 56% | 0% |
| Bisley 3.1 mi | A | 8.0 | 92% | 0% |
| Camberley 4.0 mi | C+ | 2.0 | 73% | 0% |
Bagshot, 1.7 miles away, grades A, the best next door: every resident lives within 400 m of a park. Lightwater, Bagshot and Bisley have at least twice Windlesham’s green space per resident. None of the neighbours has a protected landscape within 5 km either.
Questions about the outdoors in Windlesham
What is the biggest park in Windlesham?
Windlesham Field of Remembrance, 4.3 ha (11 acres). 1 named park, garden or playing field is in the town or within 400 m of it.
Is Windlesham near a National Park?
Yes. South Downs National Park begins 14 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, 8.6 mi away.
What are the best walks near Windlesham?
2 waymarked walking routes pass within 2 km of the town, including the Lightwater Country Park Purple and Lightwater Country Park orange.
What is the nearest beach to Windlesham?
Amity Beach, 5.6 mi from the edge of the town, then Penguin Beach (15 mi). Windlesham itself is inland.
How many people in Windlesham live near a park?
57% 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 Windlesham?
May to September: the longest days, the warmest afternoons and the least rain of the year, from the Met Office 1991–2020 averages.
Is Windlesham good for walking?
Paths are thinner than most towns: 2.2 km of footpath and right of way per square kilometre, more than 35% of UK towns. For park space per person it beats 47% (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 Windlesham’s overall grade.
Sources
Where Windlesham’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.