Photo: BazzaDaRambler · CC BY 2.0Almost everyone in Ettington lives within a 5-minute walk of a park
The Cotswolds National Landscape begins 4.3 mi from the village’s edge. Parks and playing fields in Ettington add up to 3.3 ha for every 1,000 residents; the typical UK town has 2.1. 13 km of footpaths run through the village and the kilometre around it, 1.6 for every square kilometre. Ettington grades B− for the outdoors. A character grade: it isn’t part of the overall grade.
What kind of outdoors village is Ettington?
Read from the data: what stands out first, good and bad.
Ettington’s strongest suit is parks close to every home, followed by the Cotswolds National Landscape close by. Where it falls short is footpaths.
Ettington grades B− for the outdoors
Each chart is every UK town of 1,000 or more on one measure: the green bar is Ettington, 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.
Ettington is 31st of 60 UK villages its size for the outdoors
The 60 UK towns and cities of 1,000 to 1,100 people with an Outdoors Grade. Hover a dot for its figures; tap one for its page.
Against villages its size, Ettington stands out most for park space per resident: only 19 of the other 59 have more. It falls furthest behind on path per km², where 41 of the others do better.
Show as a table
| Town | Outdoors | Green space | Near a park | Path per km² | Protected | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Giggleswick North Yorkshire | A+ | 14.2 | 100% | 4.1 | 75% |
| 2 | Lympne Kent | A+ | 4 | 100% | 2.7 | 34% |
| 3 | Uplyme Devon | A+ | 2.4 | 100% | 3 | 61% |
| 4 | Frampton on Severn Gloucestershire | A+ | 11 | 100% | 3.6 | 0% |
| 5 | Bromham Wiltshire | A+ | 5.8 | 100% | 3.3 | 13% |
| 6 | Blagdon Somerset | A | 3.3 | 100% | 2.9 | 62% |
| 7 | Colney Heath Hertfordshire | A | 8.7 | 100% | 7.4 | 0% |
| 8 | Alston Cumbria | A | 5.8 | 100% | 2.1 | 100% |
| 9 | Newnham Gloucestershire | A | 4.2 | 100% | 3.2 | 0% |
| 10 | Heather Leicestershire | A | 16.9 | 100% | 4.7 | 0% |
| 11 | Blockley Gloucestershire | A | 2.9 | 100% | 2.5 | 86% |
| 12 | Silverdale Lancashire | A | 2.3 | 46% | 3.9 | 76% |
| 13 | North Curry Somerset | A | 6.2 | 100% | 3.5 | 0% |
| 14 | Furness Vale Derbyshire | A− | 2 | 78% | 5 | 36% |
| 15 | Old Langho Lancashire | A− | 7.6 | 73% | 2.9 | 20% |
| 16 | Chedgrave Norfolk | A− | 3 | 100% | 1.7 | 26% |
| 17 | Plumpton Green East Sussex | A− | 4.6 | 54% | 3.6 | 37% |
| 18 | Cwmgwrach West Glamorgan | B+ | 3.2 | 100% | 1.7 | 6% |
| 19 | Calver Derbyshire | B+ | 2.2 | 44% | 4.8 | 99% |
| 20 | Groombridge East Sussex | B+ | 2.3 | 77% | 2.8 | 92% |
| 21 | Crowlas Cornwall | B+ | 3.3 | 73% | 1.1 | 23% |
| 22 | Blackfordby Leicestershire | B+ | 3.5 | 100% | 2.6 | 0% |
| 23 | Five Ash Down East Sussex | B+ | 2.8 | 0% | 4.1 | 43% |
| 24 | Avening Gloucestershire | B | 0.9 | 100% | 2.3 | 97% |
| 25 | Flamstead Hertfordshire | B | 2.1 | 82% | 2.7 | 33% |
| 26 | Fishtoft Lincolnshire | B | 2.3 | 100% | 1.1 | 0% |
| 27 | Nanpean Cornwall | B | 4.4 | 100% | 1.5 | 0% |
| 28 | Sharnford Leicestershire | B− | 1.9 | 100% | 2.9 | 0% |
| 29 | Tackley Oxfordshire | B− | 1.9 | 100% | 2.8 | 0% |
| 30 | Twyning Gloucestershire | B− | 1 | 100% | 2.5 | 10% |
| 31 | Ettington Warwickshire | B− | 3.3 | 100% | 1.6 | 0% |
| 32 | South Wingfield Derbyshire | B− | 5.4 | 75% | 2.8 | 0% |
| 33 | Coopersale Essex | B− | 1.1 | 100% | 3.5 | 0% |
| 34 | Carleton-in-Craven North Yorkshire | C+ | 0.4 | 100% | 2.3 | 10% |
| 35 | Chillington Devon | C+ | 0.6 | 78% | 1.3 | 55% |
| 36 | Milford Derbyshire | C+ | 1.4 | 100% | 2.8 | 0% |
| 37 | Draycott Somerset | C+ | 2.1 | 68% | 2.1 | 46% |
| 38 | Sutterton Lincolnshire | C+ | 2.8 | 100% | 0.4 | 0% |
| 39 | Upper Basildon Berkshire | C+ | 2.3 | 0% | 2 | 97% |
| 40 | Weston Staffordshire | C+ | 1.3 | 100% | 1 | 4% |
| 41 | Simister Greater Manchester | C | 16.6 | 0% | 2.7 | 0% |
| 42 | Hilton Cambridgeshire | C | 6.8 | 70% | 1.8 | 0% |
| 43 | Huby (Hambleton) North Yorkshire | C | 2.4 | 75% | 1.5 | 2% |
| 44 | Freethorpe Norfolk | C− | 2.3 | 26% | 0.7 | 61% |
| 45 | Kimbolton Cambridgeshire | C− | 2.4 | 50% | 2.8 | 0% |
| 46 | Stebbing Essex | C− | 2.4 | 70% | 2 | 0% |
| 47 | North Leverton with Habblesthorpe Nottinghamshire | C− | 0.5 | 100% | 1.4 | 0% |
| 48 | Tolleshunt Knights Essex | C− | 3.4 | 41% | 1.8 | 0% |
| 49 | Gorefield Cambridgeshire | D | 2.9 | 67% | 0.5 | 0% |
| 50 | Snitterfield Warwickshire | D | 2.4 | 63% | 0.8 | 0% |
| 51 | Crundale Dyfed | D | 1.5 | 57% | 0.5 | 5% |
| 52 | Napton on the Hill Warwickshire | D | 0.4 | 69% | 2.5 | 0% |
| 53 | Aberporth Dyfed | D | 0.6 | 38% | 0.8 | 0% |
| 54 | Wisbech St Mary Cambridgeshire | D | 1.8 | 69% | 0.2 | 0% |
| 55 | Horsham St Faith Norfolk | D | 0.9 | 52% | 1.1 | 0% |
| 56 | Hockliffe Bedfordshire | D− | 1.2 | 49% | 1.8 | 0% |
| 57 | South Hykeham Lincolnshire | D− | 0.2 | 0% | 2.3 | 0% |
| 58 | Pencader Dyfed | D− | 1.2 | 30% | 0.1 | 0% |
| 59 | Netheravon Wiltshire | D− | 0.4 | 0% | 1.3 | 0% |
| 60 | Leeming Bar North Yorkshire | D− | 0.7 | 0% | 0.9 | 0% |
Parks, footpaths & countryside
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How close Ettington’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.
The Cotswolds National Landscape is 4.3 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.
Protected landscape begins just outside the 5 km ring the Outdoors Grade measures, so Ettington scores 0% on it even though the Cotswolds National Landscape is 4.3 mi away.
1 waymarked walk passes through or near Ettington
13 km of footpaths, bridleways and rights of way are mapped in Ettington and the kilometre around it, 1.6 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 regional route here is the Shakespeare's Way.
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 Ettington: 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 | |
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| Daylight (h) | 8.2 | 9.8 | 11.7 | 13.8 | 15.7 | 16.7 | 16.3 | 14.6 | 12.6 | 10.5 | 8.7 | 7.7 |
| High (°C) | 7 | 8 | 10 | 14 | 17 | 20 | 22 | 22 | 19 | 14 | 10 | 8 |
| Rain (mm) | 55 | 42 | 44 | 50 | 58 | 55 | 63 | 63 | 55 | 71 | 66 | 60 |
February is the driest month (42 mm) and July the warmest (highs of 22 °C). Winter days are short, about 8 hours of daylight in December, and 71 mm of rain falls in October, the wettest month. Frost comes on about 50 nights a year. The climate in Ettington →
2 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
Playgrounds 2
Plus 2 playgrounds without a name on the map.
Dog parks 6
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ettington | B− | 3.3 | 100% | 0% |
| Wellesbourne 3.8 mi | D | 1.1 | 88% | 0% |
| Kineton 4.3 mi | D | 0.2 | 0% | 5% |
| Shipston-on-Stour 5.2 mi | B | 2.3 | 94% | 20% |
| Tiddington 5.3 mi | D | 0.2 | 79% | 0% |
| Lower Quinton 5.9 mi | C− | 2.0 | 49% | 18% |
| Stratford-upon-Avon 6.1 mi | C | 1.6 | 84% | 0% |
Shipston-on-Stour, 5.2 miles away, grades B, the best next door: 94% of its residents live within 400 m of a park.
Questions about the outdoors in Ettington
Is Ettington near a National Park?
The nearest protected landscape is the Cotswolds National Landscape, 4.3 mi south-west of the village’s edge. It covers 2,041 km² and was designated in 1966.
What are the best walks near Ettington?
1 waymarked walking route passes within 2 km of the village, including the Shakespeare's Way.
How many people in Ettington 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 Ettington?
May to September: the longest days, the warmest afternoons and the least rain of the year, from the Met Office 1991–2020 averages.
Is Ettington good for walking?
Paths are thinner than most towns: 1.6 km of footpath and right of way per square kilometre, more than 20% of UK towns. For park space per person it beats 74% (3.3 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 Ettington’s overall grade.
Where Ettington’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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