Ash Green’s biggest
Coventry Welsh Rugby Football Ground
Playing field
1.8 ha (4 acres)
3 pitchesfootball pitches would fit
0.5 mi southfrom the centre
Directionsto the nearest entrance
Photo: Stephen McKay · CC BY-SA 2.0B−Outdoors Grade
Outdoors in Ash Green · parks, paths & countryside
Parks and walks in Ash Green
Parks and playing fields in Ash Green add up to 3.4 ha for every 1,000 residents; the typical UK town has 2.1. 33 km of footpaths run through the town and the kilometre around it, 3.6 for every square kilometre. 67% of residents live within a 5-minute walk of a park or playing field. Ash Green grades B− for the outdoors: #16 of 34 in Warwickshire. A character grade: it isn’t part of the overall grade.
Green space
3.4 ha
per 1,000 residents
Typical UK town 2.1
Near a park
67%
of residents within 400 m
Typical UK town 83%
Footpaths
33 km
3.6 km per km², town + 1 km
Typical UK town 3.0 per km²
Protected landscape
0%
of the land within 5 km
Outdoors grade
Ash Green grades B− for the outdoors
Each chart is every UK town of 1,000 or more on one measure: the green bar is Ash 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.
B−
Better than 47% of UK towns#16 of 34 in Warwickshire · 31st of 60 UK towns its size
Public green space3.4 haper 1,000 residents: parks, gardens, playing fields, play spaces
75out of
100
100
A park within a walk67%of residents within 400 m (a 5-minute walk)
27out of
100
100
National Park or National Landscape0%of the land within 5 km · None within 5 km
31out of
100
100
Footpaths3.6 kmper km², the town and 1 km around it
73out 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
Ash Green is 31st of 60 UK towns its size for the outdoors
The 60 UK towns and cities of 2,500 to 2,700 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
Ash Green3.6
Towns its size2.4
Warwickshire towns2.2
All UK towns3.0
Green space, ha per 1,000 residents
Ash Green3.4
Towns its size2.7
Warwickshire towns2.3
All UK towns2.1
Residents within 400 m of a park
Ash Green67%
Towns its size85%
Warwickshire towns88%
All UK towns83%
Against towns its size, Ash Green stands out most for path per km²: only 9 of the other 59 have more. It falls furthest behind on homes near a park, where 41 of the others do better.
Show as a table
| Town | Outdoors | Green space | Near a park | Path per km² | Protected | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Petworth West Sussex | A+ | 29.6 | 100% | 4.1 | 93% |
| 2 | Tywardreath Cornwall | A+ | 4.6 | 100% | 2.5 | 26% |
| 3 | Shalford Surrey | A+ | 14.9 | 89% | 4.8 | 47% |
| 4 | Silloth Cumbria | A+ | 7.3 | 100% | 1.4 | 17% |
| 5 | Hopton on Sea Norfolk | A+ | 6.7 | 100% | 1.6 | 2% |
| 6 | Hellingly East Sussex | A | 6.9 | 90% | 3.7 | 11% |
| 7 | Dolgellau Gwynedd | A | 3.6 | 100% | 1.9 | 100% |
| 8 | Binley Woods Warwickshire | A | 5.5 | 100% | 4.3 | 0% |
| 9 | Maple Cross Hertfordshire | A | 3.1 | 100% | 2.9 | 14% |
| 10 | Hawley Hampshire | A | 6.9 | 92% | 5.8 | 0% |
| 11 | Chopwell Tyne and Wear | A | 7.5 | 100% | 3.4 | 0% |
| 12 | Longford Gloucestershire | A | 11.9 | 100% | 3.3 | 0% |
| 13 | Darenth Kent | A− | 1.8 | 100% | 4.3 | 1% |
| 14 | Drybrook Gloucestershire | A− | 3.9 | 83% | 3.4 | 10% |
| 15 | South Anston South Yorkshire | A− | 3.5 | 100% | 3.4 | 0% |
| 16 | Stewartby Bedfordshire | A− | 21 | 100% | 2.4 | 0% |
| 17 | Saundersfoot Dyfed | A− | 10.2 | 69% | 0.9 | 19% |
| 18 | Langold Nottinghamshire | B+ | 13 | 100% | 2.3 | 0% |
| 19 | Porthmadog Gwynedd | B+ | 0.9 | 94% | 2 | 41% |
| 20 | Thornley County Durham | B+ | 3.2 | 100% | 2.9 | 0% |
| 21 | Witton Gilbert County Durham | B+ | 2.1 | 100% | 3.9 | 0% |
| 22 | Craven Arms Shropshire | B | 1.3 | 87% | 2.9 | 59% |
| 23 | Barlestone Leicestershire | B | 3 | 100% | 2.3 | 0% |
| 24 | Builth Wells Powys | B | 4.9 | 100% | 1.6 | 0% |
| 25 | Oakley Bedfordshire | B | 3.2 | 100% | 2 | 0% |
| 26 | Pannal North Yorkshire | B− | 3.7 | 77% | 3 | 0% |
| 27 | Coundon and Leeholme County Durham | B− | 4.4 | 100% | 1 | 0% |
| 28 | Brewood Staffordshire | B− | 3 | 100% | 1.6 | 0% |
| 29 | Seer Green Buckinghamshire | B− | 1.7 | 38% | 3.8 | 35% |
| 30 | Grimsargh Lancashire | B− | 2.6 | 67% | 2.8 | 2% |
| 31 | Ash Green Warwickshire | B− | 3.4 | 67% | 3.6 | 0% |
| 32 | Timsbury Somerset | B− | 2.7 | 68% | 4.1 | 0% |
| 33 | Bishop's Itchington Warwickshire | C+ | 1.5 | 100% | 2.8 | 0% |
| 34 | Shepley West Yorkshire | C+ | 1.6 | 87% | 3.5 | 0% |
| 35 | Dunchurch Warwickshire | C+ | 7.8 | 68% | 2.2 | 0% |
| 36 | Caton Lancashire | C+ | 1.2 | 72% | 2.2 | 67% |
| 37 | Steeple Claydon Buckinghamshire | C+ | 1.5 | 100% | 2.2 | 0% |
| 38 | Stratton Gloucestershire | C | 0.7 | 46% | 3.3 | 70% |
| 39 | Heage Derbyshire | C | 1.9 | 78% | 3.1 | 0% |
| 40 | Watlington Norfolk | C | 2.3 | 100% | 0.6 | 0% |
| 41 | Smallfield Surrey | C | 1.6 | 70% | 2.4 | 1% |
| 42 | Llandybie Dyfed | C | 2.6 | 59% | 1.2 | 13% |
| 43 | Laleham Surrey | C | 9.8 | 34% | 2.1 | 0% |
| 44 | Marham Norfolk | C | 3.5 | 85% | 0.4 | 0% |
| 45 | Ash (Dover) Kent | C | 2.3 | 72% | 2.4 | 0% |
| 46 | Hatton Derbyshire | C− | 3.3 | 61% | 1.7 | 0% |
| 47 | Costessey Norfolk | C− | 1.8 | 12% | 3.5 | 0% |
| 48 | Loggerheads Staffordshire | C− | 1.2 | 86% | 2.1 | 0% |
| 49 | Cwm Gwent | C− | 2 | 12% | 3.1 | 0% |
| 50 | Cliffe Kent | C− | 1.1 | 55% | 1.9 | 0% |
| 51 | Probus Cornwall | C− | 0.6 | 75% | 1.5 | 15% |
| 52 | Keele Staffordshire | D | 1.1 | 0% | 3.6 | 0% |
| 53 | Fordham Cambridgeshire | D | 2.3 | 35% | 1.7 | 0% |
| 54 | Clophill Bedfordshire | D | 0.7 | 41% | 3.1 | 0% |
| 55 | Silverstone Northamptonshire | D | 1.1 | 0% | 2.8 | 0% |
| 56 | Watton at Stone Hertfordshire | D | 0.8 | 61% | 2.3 | 0% |
| 57 | Holme upon Spalding Moor East Riding of Yorkshire | D− | 1.5 | 41% | 0.8 | 0% |
| 58 | Nafferton East Riding of Yorkshire | D− | 1.3 | 56% | 0.6 | 0% |
| 59 | Rhos West Glamorgan | D− | 1 | 58% | 0.8 | 0% |
| 60 | Cranwell Lincolnshire | D− | 0.5 | 57% | 1.1 | 0% |
The map
Parks, footpaths & countryside
Tap a number to zoom to a park. Tap a layer to hide it. The dashed line is Ash 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 Ash Green
The biggest is Coventry Welsh Rugby Football Ground, 1.8 ha (4 acres). Directions go to the park’s nearest public entrance where Ordnance Survey maps one.
Close to home
7 in 10 Ash 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 (67%)Further (33%)
Ash Green67%
Towns its size85%
Warwickshire towns88%
All UK towns83%
About 800 people live further than that. Playing fields count, so a park within reach isn’t always one with paths or trees; 17 playgrounds are mapped in and around the town, about one for every 151 residents.
Footpaths & waymarked walks
6 waymarked walks pass through or near Ash Green
33 km of footpaths, bridleways and rights of way are mapped in Ash Green and the kilometre around it, 3.6 km for every square kilometre (the typical UK town has 3.0). Bars show each route’s kilometres within 2 km of the town.
RegionalLocal
ACW Circular Walk 165.1 km
A Coventry Way3.9 km
Oxford Canal Walk3.6 km
Coventry's Canal Walk3.4 km
ACW Circular Walk 16A (short-cut for C16)3.1 km
Rail Trail: Coventry Arena > Bedworth2.5 km
Close to home, the ACW Circular Walk 16 has 5 km of local walk within 2 km of the town. 2 regional routes pass through, including the A Coventry Way and Oxford Canal Walk.
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 Ash 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) | 8.2 | 9.8 | 11.7 | 13.8 | 15.7 | 16.8 | 16.3 | 14.7 | 12.6 | 10.5 | 8.6 | 7.7 |
| High (°C) | 7 | 8 | 11 | 14 | 17 | 20 | 22 | 22 | 19 | 14 | 10 | 8 |
| Rain (mm) | 65 | 47 | 45 | 48 | 59 | 60 | 66 | 65 | 59 | 68 | 70 | 67 |
March is the driest month (45 mm) and July the warmest (highs of 22 °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 43 nights a year. The climate in Ash Green →
Things to do
17 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
Ash Green is inland. These are the nearest named beaches, measured from the edge of the town.
library4.3 mi from Ash Green’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 1
Plus 1 viewpoint without a name on the map.
Nature reserves 1
Longford Community Nature Park5.6 ha · 0.5 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.
HawkesburyKeresley NewlandsBedworthCoventryBermudaBulkingtonAsh Green
ABCDOutdoors Grade
| Town | Outdoors | Green space, ha per 1,000 | Near a park | Protected within 5 km |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ash Green | B− | 3.4 | 67% | 0% |
| Hawkesbury 1.2 mi | C | 1.0 | 78% | 0% |
| Keresley Newlands 1.2 mi | B+ | 4.4 | 89% | 0% |
| Bedworth 1.5 mi | C | 1.5 | 87% | 0% |
| Coventry 3.2 mi | B− | 1.9 | 84% | 0% |
| Bermuda 3.4 mi | B | 4.7 | 100% | 0% |
| Bulkington 3.6 mi | D | 0.9 | 76% | 0% |
Keresley Newlands, 1.2 miles away, grades B+, the best next door: 89% of its residents live within 400 m of a park. None of the neighbours has a protected landscape within 5 km either.
Questions about the outdoors in Ash Green
What is the biggest park in Ash Green?
Coventry Welsh Rugby Football Ground, 1.8 ha (4 acres). 1 named park, garden or playing field is in the town or within 400 m of it.
Is Ash Green near a National Park?
No National Park or National Landscape is within 30 km (about 19 miles) of Ash Green.
What are the best walks near Ash Green?
6 waymarked walking routes pass within 2 km of the town, including the ACW Circular Walk 16, A Coventry Way and Oxford Canal Walk.
What is the nearest beach to Ash Green?
library, 4.3 mi from the edge of the town. Ash Green itself is inland.
How many people in Ash Green live near a park?
67% 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 Ash 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 Ash Green good for walking?
For paths, yes: 3.6 km of footpath and right of way per square kilometre, more than 73% of UK towns. For park space per person it beats 75% (3.4 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 Ash Green’s overall grade.
Sources
Where Ash 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.