Wellesbourne’s biggest
Mountford Play Area
Play space
0.2 ha (0 acres)
Centralin the middle of Wellesbourne
Directionsto the nearest entrance
Church of St Leonard · Photo: David P Howard · CC BY-SA 2.0DOutdoors Grade
Outdoors in Wellesbourne · parks, paths & countryside
88% of Wellesbourne’s residents live within a 5-minute walk of a park
Parks and playing fields in Wellesbourne add up to 1.1 ha for every 1,000 residents; the typical UK town has 2.1. Footpaths add up to 30 km in the town and the kilometre around it, 1.4 for every square kilometre. Wellesbourne grades D for the outdoors: #29 of 34 in Warwickshire. A character grade: it isn’t part of the overall grade.
Green space
1.1 ha
per 1,000 residents
Typical UK town 2.1
Near a park
88%
of residents within 400 m
Typical UK town 83%
Footpaths
30 km
1.4 km per km², town + 1 km
Typical UK town 3.0 per km²
Protected landscape
0%
of the land within 5 km
Nearest: Cotswolds National Landscape
Character
What kind of outdoors town is Wellesbourne?
Read from the data: what stands out first, good and bad.
Historic parksCharlecote Park is a registered historic park (Grade II*).Less park per person1.1 ha of parks and playing fields per 1,000 residents; the typical UK town has 2.1.
Wellesbourne’s strongest suit is its historic parks. Where it falls short is park space per person.
Outdoors grade
Wellesbourne grades D for the outdoors
Each chart is every UK town of 1,000 or more on one measure: the green bar is Wellesbourne, 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 12% of UK towns#29 of 34 in Warwickshire
Public green space1.1 haper 1,000 residents: parks, gardens, playing fields, play spaces
15out of
100
100
A park within a walk88%of residents within 400 m (a 5-minute walk)
62out of
100
100
National Park or National Landscape0%of the land within 5 km · None within 5 km
31out of
100
100
Footpaths1.4 kmper km², the town and 1 km around it
16out 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
How Wellesbourne compares with UK towns of 6,700 to 7,300
The 60 UK towns and cities of 6,700 to 7,300 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
Wellesbourne1.4
Towns its size2.8
Warwickshire towns2.2
All UK towns3.0
Green space, ha per 1,000 residents
Wellesbourne1.1
Towns its size2.2
Warwickshire towns2.3
All UK towns2.1
Residents within 400 m of a park
Wellesbourne88%
Towns its size79%
Warwickshire towns88%
All UK towns83%
Against towns its size, Wellesbourne stands out most for homes near a park: only 18 of the other 59 have more. It falls furthest behind on path per km², where 57 of the others do better.
Show as a table
| Town | Outdoors | Green space | Near a park | Path per km² | Protected | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sheringham Norfolk | A+ | 11.6 | 74% | 3.4 | 32% |
| 2 | Acrefair and Cefn-mawr Clwyd | A | 6.5 | 96% | 2.9 | 36% |
| 3 | Stocksbridge South Yorkshire | A | 2.2 | 100% | 4.4 | 30% |
| 4 | Anstey Leicestershire | A | 12.9 | 100% | 4.3 | 0% |
| 5 | Liphook Hampshire | A | 3.1 | 86% | 3.8 | 64% |
| 6 | Bishop's Waltham Hampshire | A | 2.6 | 93% | 3.4 | 55% |
| 7 | East Boldon and West Boldon Tyne and Wear | A | 3.4 | 96% | 3.4 | 0% |
| 8 | Ibstock Leicestershire | A | 8.5 | 96% | 4.6 | 0% |
| 9 | Bourne End Buckinghamshire | A | 2.9 | 87% | 4 | 19% |
| 10 | Barton on Sea Hampshire | A | 4.9 | 50% | 2.8 | 22% |
| 11 | Gwersyllt Clwyd | A | 14.6 | 96% | 2.5 | 2% |
| 12 | Ashley Heath Dorset | A | 24.2 | 68% | 4 | 15% |
| 13 | Darfield South Yorkshire | A | 4 | 100% | 3.9 | 0% |
| 14 | Easington County Durham | A− | 5 | 94% | 2.2 | 0% |
| 15 | Walton-on-the-Naze Essex | A− | 3.2 | 96% | 2.3 | 0% |
| 16 | Horden County Durham | A− | 2.1 | 82% | 4.8 | 0% |
| 17 | Shiremoor Tyne and Wear | A− | 2.5 | 76% | 5.3 | 0% |
| 18 | Torpoint Cornwall | A− | 2.2 | 84% | 1.6 | 26% |
| 19 | Blackwater Hampshire | B+ | 10.6 | 74% | 4.7 | 0% |
| 20 | Chinnor Oxfordshire | B+ | 1.5 | 88% | 3.7 | 37% |
| 21 | Kiveton Park South Yorkshire | B+ | 2.8 | 100% | 3.2 | 0% |
| 22 | Fence Houses Tyne and Wear | B+ | 3.8 | 81% | 4.7 | 0% |
| 23 | Skelton (Redcar and Cleveland) North Yorkshire | B+ | 1.7 | 82% | 2.2 | 9% |
| 24 | Burley in Wharfedale West Yorkshire | B | 1.6 | 81% | 3.5 | 35% |
| 25 | Malmesbury Wiltshire | B | 2 | 86% | 2.5 | 26% |
| 26 | Wroughton Wiltshire | B | 1.1 | 78% | 3.9 | 52% |
| 27 | Chapel-en-le-Frith Derbyshire | B− | 1 | 75% | 3.8 | 58% |
| 28 | Woodville Derbyshire | B− | 3.7 | 78% | 3.4 | 0% |
| 29 | Barrow upon Soar Leicestershire | B− | 2.7 | 89% | 2.8 | 0% |
| 30 | Balsall Common West Midlands | B− | 3.7 | 81% | 2.6 | 0% |
| 31 | Cranfield Bedfordshire | B− | 2.3 | 72% | 4.4 | 0% |
| 32 | Borrowash Derbyshire | B− | 2.8 | 85% | 2.7 | 0% |
| 33 | Bollington Cheshire | B− | 1.3 | 56% | 4.1 | 31% |
| 34 | Blackheath West Midlands | C+ | 2.5 | 57% | 4.9 | 0% |
| 35 | Allerton Bywater West Yorkshire | C+ | 2.1 | 78% | 3.9 | 0% |
| 36 | North Baddesley Hampshire | C+ | 1.7 | 91% | 3.3 | 0% |
| 37 | Chipping Norton Oxfordshire | C+ | 1.5 | 67% | 2.4 | 73% |
| 38 | Poringland Norfolk | C+ | 1.3 | 91% | 2.1 | 5% |
| 39 | Murton County Durham | C+ | 2.1 | 54% | 2.6 | 0% |
| 40 | West Mersea Essex | C+ | 1.9 | 69% | 2 | 0% |
| 41 | Thrapston Northamptonshire | C | 1.2 | 100% | 2.4 | 0% |
| 42 | Radcliffe on Trent Nottinghamshire | C | 2.5 | 76% | 2.6 | 0% |
| 43 | Hattersley Greater Manchester | C | 0.9 | 52% | 3.9 | 7% |
| 44 | Sawston Cambridgeshire | C | 1.4 | 97% | 2.3 | 0% |
| 45 | Waddington Lincolnshire | C | 2.3 | 87% | 1.7 | 0% |
| 46 | Hagley Worcestershire | C | 1.7 | 90% | 2.2 | 0% |
| 47 | Crewkerne Somerset | C | 0.5 | 66% | 2.8 | 21% |
| 48 | Rhoose South Glamorgan | C | 2 | 43% | 1.7 | 0% |
| 49 | Great Wakering Essex | C | 1.1 | 47% | 2.7 | 0% |
| 50 | Aylsham Norfolk | C | 2.6 | 74% | 2 | 0% |
| 51 | Hethersett Norfolk | C | 2.1 | 65% | 2.9 | 0% |
| 52 | Market Warsop Nottinghamshire | C | 2.1 | 67% | 2.8 | 0% |
| 53 | Hollywood Worcestershire | C− | 2.4 | 54% | 2.5 | 0% |
| 54 | Pickering North Yorkshire | C− | 1.7 | 39% | 1.7 | 19% |
| 55 | Wellesbourne Warwickshire | D | 1.1 | 88% | 1.4 | 0% |
| 56 | Deeping St James Lincolnshire | D | 0.5 | 73% | 2.4 | 0% |
| 57 | Keyworth Nottinghamshire | D− | 1.3 | 58% | 1.7 | 0% |
| 58 | Blythe Bridge and Forsbrook Staffordshire | D− | 1.6 | 49% | 1.1 | 0% |
| 59 | Featherstone Staffordshire | D− | 1.2 | 52% | 1.5 | 0% |
| 60 | Albrighton Shropshire | D− | 0.8 | 32% | 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 Wellesbourne’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 Wellesbourne
The biggest is Mountford Play Area, 0.2 ha (0 acres). Directions go to the park’s nearest public entrance where Ordnance Survey maps one.
Close to home
How close Wellesbourne’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).
Within 400 m (88%)Further (12%)
Wellesbourne88%
Towns its size79%
Warwickshire towns88%
All UK towns83%
About 900 people live further than that. Playing fields count, so a park within reach isn’t always one with paths or trees; 13 playgrounds are mapped in and around the town, about one for every 540 residents.
National Parks & National Landscapes
The Cotswolds National Landscape is 6.4 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
2 waymarked walks pass through or near Wellesbourne
30 km of footpaths, bridleways and rights of way are mapped in Wellesbourne and the kilometre around it, 1.4 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
Shakespeare's Avon Way3.7 km
Parkland Walk, Charlecote Park2.3 km
The regional route here is the Shakespeare's Avon Way.
Waymarked walks are OpenStreetMap walking routes. Public rights of way are only as complete as the map in each area.
History along the way
A registered historic park in Wellesbourne
Historic England’s register of parks and gardens, and the listed buildings and scheduled monuments that stand inside Wellesbourne’s named parks.
Registered · Grade II*Charlecote Park3.4 ha
A listed building or monument counts when it sits inside the park’s OS Open Greenspace outline (to about 15 m), so a few at the boundary are included. Historic England, National Heritage List for England.
When to get out
The best walking months in Wellesbourne: 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 | 16.7 | 16.3 | 14.7 | 12.6 | 10.5 | 8.7 | 7.7 |
| High (°C) | 8 | 8 | 11 | 14 | 17 | 20 | 23 | 22 | 19 | 15 | 11 | 8 |
| Rain (mm) | 54 | 40 | 40 | 46 | 55 | 53 | 57 | 60 | 51 | 63 | 59 | 56 |
March is the driest month (40 mm) and July the warmest (highs of 23 °C). Winter days are short, about 8 hours of daylight in December, and 63 mm of rain falls in October, the wettest month. Frost comes on about 49 nights a year. The climate in Wellesbourne →
Things to do
13 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
Wellesbourne is inland. These are the nearest named beaches, measured from the edge of the town.
library22 mi from Wellesbourne’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
Playgrounds 13
Plus 13 playgrounds without a name on the map.
Campsites 3
Newlands Camp Sitein town
DirectionsOwl Barn Farm Camping0.1 mi from town
DirectionsTwitey's Camping and Glamping Meadows0.3 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.
TiddingtonBarfordEttingtonBishop's TachbrookKinetonStratford-upon-AvonWellesbourne
ABCDOutdoors Grade
| Town | Outdoors | Green space, ha per 1,000 | Near a park | Protected within 5 km |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wellesbourne | D | 1.1 | 88% | 0% |
| Tiddington 3.3 mi | D | 0.2 | 79% | 0% |
| Barford 3.6 mi | D | 2.1 | 58% | 0% |
| Ettington 3.8 mi | B− | 3.3 | 100% | 0% |
| Bishop's Tachbrook 4.4 mi | B− | 2.5 | 100% | 0% |
| Kineton 4.4 mi | D | 0.2 | 0% | 5% |
| Stratford-upon-Avon 5.0 mi | C | 1.6 | 84% | 0% |
Bishop's Tachbrook, 4.4 miles away, grades B−, the best next door: every resident lives within 400 m of a park. Ettington and Bishop's Tachbrook have at least twice Wellesbourne’s green space per resident.
Questions about the outdoors in Wellesbourne
What is the biggest park in Wellesbourne?
Mountford Play Area, 0.2 ha (0 acres). 1 named park, garden or playing field is in the town or within 400 m of it.
Is Wellesbourne near a National Park?
The nearest protected landscape is the Cotswolds National Landscape, 6.4 mi south-east of the town’s edge. It covers 2,041 km² and was designated in 1966.
What are the best walks near Wellesbourne?
2 waymarked walking routes pass within 2 km of the town, including the Shakespeare's Avon Way and Parkland Walk, Charlecote Park.
What is the nearest beach to Wellesbourne?
library, 22 mi from the edge of the town. Wellesbourne itself is inland.
How many people in Wellesbourne live near a park?
88% 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 Wellesbourne?
May to September: the longest days, the warmest afternoons and the least rain of the year, from the Met Office 1991–2020 averages.
Which parks in Wellesbourne are historic?
Charlecote Park (Grade II*) is on Historic England’s register of parks and gardens.
Is Wellesbourne good for walking?
Paths are thinner than most towns: 1.4 km of footpath and right of way per square kilometre, more than 16% of UK towns. For park space per person it beats 15% (1.1 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 Wellesbourne’s overall grade.
Sources
Where Wellesbourne’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.