Woldingham’s biggest
The Green
Park or garden
0.4 ha (1 acres)
Centralin the middle of Woldingham
Directionsto the nearest entrance
Photo: Russel Wills · CC BY-SA 2.0C−Outdoors Grade
Outdoors in Woldingham · parks, paths & countryside
Parks and walks in Woldingham
The Surrey Hills National Landscape reaches the edge of Woldingham. Parks and playing fields in Woldingham add up to 0.2 ha for every 1,000 residents; the typical UK town has 2.1. 25% of residents live within a 5-minute walk of a park or playing field. Woldingham grades C− for the outdoors. A character grade: it isn’t part of the overall grade.
Green space
0.2 ha
per 1,000 residents
Typical UK town 2.1
Near a park
25%
of residents within 400 m
Typical UK town 83%
Footpaths
62 km
3.1 km per km², town + 1 km
Typical UK town 3.0 per km²
Protected landscape
20%
of the land within 5 km
Nearest: Surrey Hills National Landscape
Character
What kind of outdoors village is Woldingham?
Read from the data: what stands out first, good and bad.
Countryside both waysSurrey Hills starts 0.0 mi west, Kent Downs 2.9 mi east.On a National TrailThe North Downs Way passes through.Less park per person0.2 ha of parks and playing fields per 1,000 residents; the typical UK town has 2.1.
Woldingham’s strongest suit is two protected landscapes close by, followed by the North Downs Way. Where it falls short is park space per person.
Outdoors grade
Woldingham grades C− for the outdoors
Each chart is every UK town of 1,000 or more on one measure: the green bar is Woldingham, the dashed line the typical town. The number is the share of towns it beats; the five are averaged and the average ranked again.
C−
Better than 20% of UK towns44th of 60 UK villages its size
Public green space0.2 haper 1,000 residents: parks, gardens, playing fields, play spaces
2out of
100
100
A park within a walk25%of residents within 400 m (a 5-minute walk)
5out of
100
100
National Park or National Landscape20%of the land within 5 km
78out of
100
100
Footpaths3.1 kmper km², the town and 1 km around it
62out 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
Woldingham is 44th of 60 UK villages its size for the outdoors
The 60 UK towns and cities of 2,100 to 2,300 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
Woldingham3.1
Villages its size2.1
Surrey towns4.3
All UK towns3.0
Green space, ha per 1,000 residents
Woldingham0.2
Villages its size1.9
Surrey towns3.1
All UK towns2.1
Residents within 400 m of a park
Woldingham25%
Villages its size70%
Surrey towns75%
All UK towns83%
Against villages its size, Woldingham stands out most for path per km²: only 17 of the other 59 have more. It falls furthest behind on park space per resident, where 55 of the others do better.
Show as a table
| Town | Outdoors | Green space | Near a park | Path per km² | Protected | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Brockham Surrey | A+ | 7.4 | 94% | 4.4 | 38% |
| 2 | Limpsfield Surrey | A+ | 2.9 | 100% | 3.7 | 41% |
| 3 | Tanyfron Clwyd | A | 7.4 | 100% | 2.6 | 13% |
| 4 | Berry Hill Gloucestershire | A | 2.9 | 79% | 4.7 | 55% |
| 5 | Elstead Surrey | A | 2.5 | 100% | 2.6 | 82% |
| 6 | Hapton Lancashire | A | 2.6 | 87% | 6.1 | 2% |
| 7 | Severn Beach Gloucestershire | A− | 5.8 | 100% | 1.5 | 0% |
| 8 | Great Horkesley Essex | A− | 4.7 | 78% | 3.3 | 25% |
| 9 | Arnside Cumbria | A− | 1.3 | 65% | 4.1 | 75% |
| 10 | Smalley Derbyshire | A− | 2.9 | 100% | 4.1 | 0% |
| 11 | Merlin's Bridge Dyfed | A− | 3.3 | 100% | 2 | 11% |
| 12 | Gilwern Gwent | A− | 1.9 | 100% | 2 | 83% |
| 13 | Berrow and Brean Somerset | A− | 3.6 | 75% | 1.7 | 1% |
| 14 | Newstead Nottinghamshire | B+ | 2.6 | 100% | 3.7 | 0% |
| 15 | Woodcote Oxfordshire | B+ | 1.6 | 84% | 3.5 | 99% |
| 16 | Acle Norfolk | B+ | 1.6 | 89% | 3.1 | 43% |
| 17 | Brimscombe and Thrupp Gloucestershire | B+ | 2.1 | 12% | 5.9 | 89% |
| 18 | Woodford Greater Manchester | B+ | 5.9 | 80% | 2.3 | 5% |
| 19 | Banwell Somerset | B+ | 1.7 | 100% | 2 | 38% |
| 20 | Steventon Oxfordshire | B+ | 2 | 100% | 2 | 17% |
| 21 | Crick Northamptonshire | B | 3.8 | 100% | 1.9 | 0% |
| 22 | Mayfield East Sussex | B− | 3.3 | 61% | 1.9 | 99% |
| 23 | Loddon Norfolk | B− | 2.4 | 77% | 2.5 | 18% |
| 24 | Park Street and Frogmore Hertfordshire | B− | 4.5 | 63% | 3.6 | 0% |
| 25 | Lechlade-on-Thames Gloucestershire | B− | 6.7 | 66% | 1.5 | 6% |
| 26 | Bere Alston Devon | C+ | 1.4 | 64% | 1.3 | 93% |
| 27 | Hermitage Berkshire | C+ | 0.6 | 58% | 3.4 | 82% |
| 28 | Hook Norton Oxfordshire | C+ | 2 | 70% | 2 | 28% |
| 29 | Cold Ash Berkshire | C+ | 1.5 | 7% | 3.1 | 60% |
| 30 | Berkeley Gloucestershire | C+ | 0.9 | 49% | 2.6 | 3% |
| 31 | Farndon Cheshire | C+ | 1.2 | 82% | 4.2 | 0% |
| 32 | East Bergholt Suffolk | C | 1.9 | 26% | 2.4 | 46% |
| 33 | Trimsaran Dyfed | C | 2.4 | 31% | 1 | 2% |
| 34 | Wickham Market Suffolk | C | 2.5 | 64% | 1.7 | 7% |
| 35 | Llanidloes Powys | C | 2.4 | 89% | 1.3 | 0% |
| 36 | Barwick in Elmet West Yorkshire | C | 1.5 | 87% | 2.5 | 0% |
| 37 | Eye Suffolk | C | 2 | 66% | 3 | 0% |
| 38 | Wateringbury Kent | C− | 2.4 | 73% | 2.1 | 0% |
| 39 | Great Blakenham Suffolk | C− | 3.6 | 70% | 1.5 | 0% |
| 40 | Stoke Prior Worcestershire | C− | 2.6 | 67% | 2.2 | 0% |
| 41 | Coleford Somerset | C− | 1.2 | 51% | 4.5 | 0% |
| 42 | Coltishall and Horstead Norfolk | C− | 2.1 | 57% | 1.3 | 8% |
| 43 | Meriden West Midlands | C− | 1.8 | 70% | 2.6 | 0% |
| 44 | Woldingham Surrey | C− | 0.2 | 25% | 3.1 | 20% |
| 45 | Hatfield Woodhouse South Yorkshire | C− | 0.6 | 100% | 1.6 | 0% |
| 46 | St Osyth Essex | C− | 1.5 | 54% | 1.3 | 0% |
| 47 | Scholes (Leeds) West Yorkshire | D | 0 | 0% | 5.5 | 0% |
| 48 | Comberton Cambridgeshire | D | 1.6 | 71% | 2.1 | 0% |
| 49 | Duxford Cambridgeshire | D | 1.7 | 78% | 1.2 | 0% |
| 50 | Morton Lincolnshire | D | 0.2 | 28% | 3 | 0% |
| 51 | Kineton Warwickshire | D | 0.2 | 0% | 1.8 | 5% |
| 52 | Great Barford Bedfordshire | D− | 1.4 | 45% | 1.8 | 0% |
| 53 | Leconfield East Riding of Yorkshire | D− | 1.6 | 51% | 1.3 | 0% |
| 54 | Bettws Mid Glamorgan | D− | 0.7 | 71% | 1.6 | 0% |
| 55 | Mattishall Norfolk | D− | 1.4 | 58% | 1.5 | 0% |
| 56 | Misterton Nottinghamshire | D− | 1.4 | 47% | 1.7 | 0% |
| 57 | Billinghay Lincolnshire | D− | 1.8 | 41% | 0.7 | 0% |
| 58 | Shenstone Staffordshire | D− | 1 | 55% | 1 | 0% |
| 59 | Cilfrew West Glamorgan | D− | 0.8 | 44% | 1.3 | 0% |
| 60 | Puriton Somerset | D− | 0.1 | 0% | 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 Woldingham’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 Woldingham
The biggest is The Green, 0.4 ha (1 acres). Directions go to the park’s nearest public entrance where Ordnance Survey maps one.
Close to home
3 in 10 Woldingham 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 (25%)Further (75%)
Woldingham25%
Villages its size70%
Surrey towns75%
All UK towns83%
About 1,700 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 village, about one for every 159 residents.
National Parks & National Landscapes
Surrey Hills and Kent Downs both start about 3 miles from Woldingham
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
National Landscape
Surrey Hills
At the edge west422 km²since 195820% of the land within 5 km
Official site20% of the land within 5 km of Woldingham is National Park or National Landscape, more than 78% of UK towns.
Footpaths & waymarked walks
Woldingham is on the North Downs Way
62 km of footpaths, bridleways and rights of way are mapped in Woldingham 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
Vanguard Way8.6 km
North Downs Way (Eastern)8.6 km
Woldingham Countryside Walk8.5 km
Greenwich Meridian Trail7.5 km
Over the Downs to Oxted Mill walk (SCC)6.0 km
Caterham Circular Walk5.5 km
Woldingham walk (SCC)5.1 km
Tandridge Border Path1.7 km
Greensand way (Oxted Spur)1.3 km
The North Downs Way, a national route, passes Woldingham. Close to home, the Woldingham Countryside Walk has 8 km of local walk within 2 km of the village. 4 regional routes pass through, including the Vanguard Way, Greenwich Meridian Trail, Tandridge Border Path and Greensand way (Oxted Spur).
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 Woldingham: 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 | 21 | 19 | 14 | 10 | 8 |
| Rain (mm) | 89 | 73 | 57 | 58 | 59 | 58 | 60 | 69 | 67 | 102 | 102 | 100 |
March is the driest month (57 mm) and July the warmest (highs of 22 °C). Winter days are short, about 8 hours of daylight in December, and 102 mm of rain falls in October, the wettest month. Frost comes on about 42 nights a year. The climate in Woldingham →
Things to do
2 viewpoints, 14 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
Woldingham is inland. These are the nearest named beaches, measured from the edge of the village.
Kelson Beach13 mi from Woldingham’s edge
DirectionsDock Beach14 mi from Woldingham’s edge
DirectionsThe Hollows17 mi from Woldingham’s edge
DirectionsHog Hole17 mi from Woldingham’s edge
DirectionsNorthfleet Beach19 mi from Woldingham’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.
Every named place, with directions
Viewpoints 2
Plus 2 viewpoints without a name on the map.
Hills and peaks 6
Winders Hill0.3 mi from town
DirectionsNore Hill0.3 mi from town
DirectionsBotley Hill270 m (885 ft) · 0.5 mi from town
DirectionsTandridge Hill0.5 mi from town
DirectionsStony Hill0.7 mi from town
DirectionsBurntwood Hill1.2 mi from town
DirectionsNature reserves 1
Marden Park21 ha · 0.3 mi from town
DirectionsPlaygrounds 14
Plus 14 playgrounds without a name on the map.
Next door
The outdoors in nearby towns
The nearest towns of 1,000+ within 12 miles. Tap a town for its outdoors page.
WarlinghamCaterhamGodstoneWhyteleafeLimpsfieldOxtedWoldingham
ABCDOutdoors Grade
| Town | Outdoors | Green space, ha per 1,000 | Near a park | Protected within 5 km |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Woldingham | C− | 0.2 | 25% | 20% |
| Warlingham 2.2 mi | A | 4.2 | 81% | 13% |
| Caterham 2.3 mi | A | 4.3 | 84% | 17% |
| Godstone 2.5 mi | C+ | 1.7 | 52% | 18% |
| Whyteleafe 2.5 mi | A+ | 16.3 | 100% | 15% |
| Limpsfield 2.6 mi | A+ | 2.9 | 100% | 41% |
| Oxted 2.9 mi | B | 2.1 | 84% | 28% |
Whyteleafe, 2.5 miles away, grades A+, the best next door: every resident lives within 400 m of a park. Warlingham, Caterham and Godstone have at least twice Woldingham’s green space per resident.
Questions about the outdoors in Woldingham
What is the biggest park in Woldingham?
The Green, 0.4 ha (1 acres). 1 named park, garden or playing field is in the village or within 400 m of it.
Is Woldingham near a National Park?
It covers 422 km² and was designated in 1958.
What are the best walks near Woldingham?
9 waymarked walking routes pass within 2 km of the village, including the Vanguard Way, North Downs Way (Eastern) and Woldingham Countryside Walk.
What is the nearest beach to Woldingham?
Kelson Beach, 13 mi from the edge of the village, then Dock Beach (14 mi). Woldingham itself is inland.
How many people in Woldingham live near a park?
25% 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 Woldingham?
May to September: the longest days, the warmest afternoons and the least rain of the year, from the Met Office 1991–2020 averages.
Is Woldingham 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 2% (0.2 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 Woldingham’s overall grade.
Sources
Where Woldingham’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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