Hurley’s biggest
Hurley Kings Football Club
Playing field · 20 m outside town
2.9 ha (7 acres)0.1 km of path
4 pitchesfootball pitches would fit
Centralin the middle of Hurley
Directionsto the nearest entrance
Photo: Richard Harrison · CC BY-SA 2.0COutdoors Grade
Outdoors in Hurley · parks, paths & countryside
Parks and walks in Hurley
Parks and playing fields in Hurley add up to 2.8 ha for every 1,000 residents; the typical UK town has 2.1. Footpaths add up to 15 km in the village and the kilometre around it, 2.2 for every square kilometre. A park or playing field is within a 5-minute walk for 75% of residents. Hurley grades C for the outdoors. A character grade: it isn’t part of the overall grade.
Green space
2.8 ha
per 1,000 residents
Typical UK town 2.1
Near a park
75%
of residents within 400 m
Typical UK town 83%
Footpaths
15 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: Cannock Chase National Landscape
Outdoors grade
Hurley grades C for the outdoors
Each chart is every UK town of 1,000 or more on one measure: the green bar is Hurley, 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 29% of UK towns44th of 60 UK villages its size
Public green space2.8 haper 1,000 residents: parks, gardens, playing fields, play spaces
66out of
100
100
A park within a walk75%of residents within 400 m (a 5-minute walk)
38out 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.
Villages its size
Hurley is 44th of 60 UK villages its size for the outdoors
The 60 UK towns and cities of 1,300 to 1,500 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
Hurley2.2
Villages its size2.3
Warwickshire towns2.2
All UK towns3.0
Green space, ha per 1,000 residents
Hurley2.8
Villages its size2.3
Warwickshire towns2.3
All UK towns2.1
Residents within 400 m of a park
Hurley75%
Villages its size83%
Warwickshire towns88%
All UK towns83%
Against villages its size, Hurley stands out most for park space per resident: only 21 of the other 59 have more. It falls furthest behind on homes near a park, where 37 of the others do better.
Show as a table
| Town | Outdoors | Green space | Near a park | Path per km² | Protected | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Dwygyfylchi Clwyd | A+ | 3.2 | 83% | 4.3 | 28% |
| 2 | Trull Somerset | A+ | 5.9 | 100% | 3.9 | 20% |
| 3 | Troon Cornwall | A+ | 6.2 | 100% | 3.7 | 0% |
| 4 | Kingswood Gloucestershire | A | 2.1 | 100% | 3.7 | 45% |
| 5 | Tir-y-berth and Glan-y-nant Gwent | A | 22.1 | 100% | 4.3 | 0% |
| 6 | Whiteshill and Randwick Gloucestershire | A | 4.5 | 60% | 7 | 64% |
| 7 | New Houghton Derbyshire | A | 33.8 | 100% | 3.9 | 0% |
| 8 | Jump South Yorkshire | A | 5.1 | 100% | 4.2 | 0% |
| 9 | St Day Cornwall | A | 3.2 | 100% | 4.7 | 0% |
| 10 | Chaldon Surrey | A− | 7.4 | 50% | 4.9 | 24% |
| 11 | Five Oak Green Kent | A− | 3 | 100% | 2 | 30% |
| 12 | Hallow Worcestershire | A− | 3.7 | 100% | 3.5 | 0% |
| 13 | Wigginton North Yorkshire | A− | 4.1 | 100% | 2.9 | 0% |
| 14 | Shotley Gate Suffolk | A− | 1 | 100% | 1.5 | 34% |
| 15 | Grundisburgh Suffolk | B+ | 2.2 | 100% | 2.6 | 3% |
| 16 | Princetown Devon | B+ | 1.4 | 100% | 2.3 | 100% |
| 17 | Carway Dyfed | B+ | 17 | 100% | 1.8 | 0% |
| 18 | Stanwell Moor Surrey | B+ | 2.4 | 100% | 3.4 | 0% |
| 19 | Brookwood Surrey | B+ | 8.5 | 59% | 6.2 | 0% |
| 20 | Emley West Yorkshire | B+ | 2.6 | 100% | 3 | 0% |
| 21 | Handcross West Sussex | B | 9.6 | 58% | 1.9 | 87% |
| 22 | Cowling North Yorkshire | B | 1.3 | 100% | 6 | 0% |
| 23 | Wedmore Somerset | B | 4.7 | 60% | 3.1 | 1% |
| 24 | Kelloe County Durham | B | 5.6 | 42% | 6 | 0% |
| 25 | Woolmer Green Hertfordshire | B | 1.3 | 100% | 4.3 | 0% |
| 26 | Tye Green Essex | B | 2 | 100% | 3 | 0% |
| 27 | Bentley Hampshire | B | 1.3 | 100% | 2.1 | 22% |
| 28 | Calvert Buckinghamshire | B | 3.3 | 100% | 1.9 | 0% |
| 29 | Abertysswg Gwent | B | 2.5 | 85% | 3.6 | 0% |
| 30 | Little Hallingbury Essex | B− | 1 | 100% | 4.2 | 0% |
| 31 | Brigstock Northamptonshire | B− | 8.2 | 84% | 2.1 | 0% |
| 32 | Warkworth Northumberland | B− | 1.8 | 76% | 1.3 | 9% |
| 33 | Bishop Sutton Somerset | B− | 2.3 | 64% | 2.5 | 36% |
| 34 | Orsett Essex | B− | 4.4 | 100% | 0.9 | 0% |
| 35 | Ashton Keynes Wiltshire | C+ | 1.7 | 100% | 2.6 | 0% |
| 36 | Robertsbridge East Sussex | C+ | 2 | 38% | 2.7 | 100% |
| 37 | Pilning Gloucestershire | C+ | 2 | 54% | 2.6 | 0% |
| 38 | Gelligaer Gwent | C+ | 2.3 | 100% | 1.4 | 0% |
| 39 | Shortlanesend Cornwall | C+ | 1 | 100% | 1.7 | 2% |
| 40 | Benenden Kent | C | 2 | 57% | 1.7 | 83% |
| 41 | Barlaston Staffordshire | C | 2.7 | 80% | 2.4 | 0% |
| 42 | Brailsford Derbyshire | C | 0.9 | 100% | 2.4 | 0% |
| 43 | Slip End Bedfordshire | C | 1.9 | 22% | 2.3 | 28% |
| 44 | Hurley Warwickshire | C | 2.8 | 75% | 2.2 | 0% |
| 45 | Stewkley Buckinghamshire | C | 4.2 | 74% | 1.7 | 0% |
| 46 | Salhouse Norfolk | C− | 1.9 | 71% | 1 | 17% |
| 47 | Blofield Heath Norfolk | C− | 2.5 | 43% | 0.9 | 17% |
| 48 | Mid Lavant West Sussex | C− | 1.3 | 33% | 1.8 | 62% |
| 49 | Newton Flotman Norfolk | C− | 2.5 | 78% | 1.2 | 0% |
| 50 | Thorrington Essex | C− | 1.2 | 65% | 1.5 | 0% |
| 51 | Shipton Bellinger Hampshire | D | 1.5 | 79% | 1.8 | 0% |
| 52 | Ranskill Nottinghamshire | D | 0.4 | 100% | 0.5 | 0% |
| 53 | Meon Vale Warwickshire | D | 0.4 | 50% | 1.4 | 19% |
| 54 | Stillington County Durham | D | 1.4 | 77% | 0.8 | 0% |
| 55 | Byram North Yorkshire | D | 2.1 | 19% | 1.5 | 0% |
| 56 | Barford Warwickshire | D | 2.1 | 58% | 0.5 | 0% |
| 57 | Friday Bridge Cambridgeshire | D− | 1 | 79% | 0.3 | 0% |
| 58 | Markham Gwent | D− | 0.1 | 0% | 2.6 | 0% |
| 59 | Easton Norfolk | D− | 1 | 0% | 1.2 | 0% |
| 60 | Langham Rutland | D− | 0.3 | 23% | 1.3 | 0% |
The map
Parks, footpaths & countryside
Tap a number to zoom to a park. Tap a layer to hide it. The dashed line is Hurley’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 Hurley
The biggest is Hurley Kings Football Club, 2.9 ha (7 acres). Directions go to the park’s nearest public entrance where Ordnance Survey maps one.
Close to home
7 in 10 Hurley 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 (75%)Further (25%)
Hurley75%
Villages its size83%
Warwickshire towns88%
All UK towns83%
About 400 people live further than that. Playing fields count, so a park within reach isn’t always one with paths or trees; 4 playgrounds are mapped in and around the village, about one for every 355 residents.
National Parks & National Landscapes
The Cannock Chase National Landscape is 14 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
Footpaths & waymarked walks
Hurley is on the E2 hiking trail Birmingham
15 km of footpaths, bridleways and rights of way are mapped in Hurley 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 village.
NationalRegional
E2 hiking trail Birmingham5.4 km
Heart of England Way5.4 km
The E2 hiking trail Birmingham, a national route, passes Hurley. The regional route here is the Heart of England Way.
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 Hurley: 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) | 8.2 | 9.8 | 11.7 | 13.9 | 15.7 | 16.8 | 16.4 | 14.7 | 12.6 | 10.5 | 8.6 | 7.7 |
| High (°C) | 7 | 8 | 10 | 13 | 16 | 19 | 22 | 21 | 18 | 14 | 10 | 7 |
| Rain (mm) | 57 | 48 | 46 | 49 | 54 | 67 | 61 | 66 | 58 | 68 | 67 | 65 |
March is the driest month (46 mm) and July the warmest (highs of 22 °C). Winter days are short, about 8 hours of daylight in December, and 68 mm of rain falls in October, the wettest month. Frost comes on about 47 nights a year. The climate in Hurley →
Things to do
4 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
Hurley is inland. These are the nearest named beaches, measured from the edge of the village.
library7.6 mi from Hurley’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.
Playgrounds 4
Plus 4 playgrounds without a name on the map.
Campsites 1
Plus 1 campsite 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.
Wood End (North Warwickshire)KingsburyBaddesley EnsorGrendonPolesworth and DordonAtherstoneHurley
ABCDOutdoors Grade
| Town | Outdoors | Green space, ha per 1,000 | Near a park | Protected within 5 km |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hurley | C | 2.8 | 75% | 0% |
| Wood End (North Warwickshire) 1.4 mi | D | 1.1 | 74% | 0% |
| Kingsbury 1.6 mi | A− | 17.2 | 100% | 0% |
| Baddesley Ensor 2.1 mi | B+ | 18.3 | 100% | 0% |
| Grendon 2.9 mi | C+ | 8.1 | 71% | 0% |
| Polesworth and Dordon 3.5 mi | D | 1.6 | 68% | 0% |
| Atherstone 4.3 mi | C+ | 2.7 | 88% | 0% |
Kingsbury, 1.6 miles away, grades A−, the best next door: every resident lives within 400 m of a park. Kingsbury, Baddesley Ensor and Grendon have at least twice Hurley’s green space per resident. None of the neighbours has a protected landscape within 5 km either.
Questions about the outdoors in Hurley
What is the biggest park in Hurley?
Hurley Kings Football Club, 2.9 ha (7 acres), just outside the built-up area. 1 named park, garden or playing field is in the village or within 400 m of it.
Is Hurley near a National Park?
The nearest protected landscape is the Cannock Chase National Landscape, 14 mi north-west of the village’s edge. It covers 69 km² and was designated in 1958.
What are the best walks near Hurley?
2 waymarked walking routes pass within 2 km of the village, including the E2 hiking trail Birmingham and Heart of England Way.
What is the nearest beach to Hurley?
library, 7.6 mi from the edge of the village. Hurley itself is inland.
How many people in Hurley live near a park?
75% 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 Hurley?
May to September: the longest days, the warmest afternoons and the least rain of the year, from the Met Office 1991–2020 averages.
Is Hurley 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 66% (2.8 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 Hurley’s overall grade.
Sources
Where Hurley’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.