Whitnash’s biggest
Wych Elm Park
Park or garden · 360 m outside town
0.8 ha (2 acres)0.4 km of path
0.8 mi northfrom the centre
Directionsto the nearest entrance
'Cook's Cottages' · Photo: Ian Rob · CC BY-SA 2.0B−Outdoors Grade
Outdoors in Whitnash · parks, paths & countryside
Almost everyone in Whitnash lives within a 5-minute walk of a park
A park or playing field is within a 5-minute walk for 95% of residents. 35 km of footpaths run through the town and the kilometre around it, 3.3 for every square kilometre. Parks and playing fields in Whitnash add up to 2.0 ha for every 1,000 residents; the typical UK town has 2.1. Whitnash grades B− for the outdoors: #15 of 34 in Warwickshire. A character grade: it isn’t part of the overall grade.
Green space
2.0 ha
per 1,000 residents
Typical UK town 2.1
Near a park
95%
of residents within 400 m
Typical UK town 83%
Footpaths
35 km
3.3 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 Whitnash?
Read from the data: what stands out first, good and bad.
A park on every doorstep95% of residents live within 400 m of a park or playing field.Historic parksMallory Court is a registered historic park (Grade II).
Whitnash’s strongest suit is parks close to every home, followed by its historic parks.
Outdoors grade
Whitnash grades B− for the outdoors
Each chart is every UK town of 1,000 or more on one measure: the green bar is Whitnash, 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 52% of UK towns#15 of 34 in Warwickshire · 36th of 60 UK towns its size
Public green space2.0 haper 1,000 residents: parks, gardens, playing fields, play spaces
45out of
100
100
A park within a walk95%of residents within 400 m (a 5-minute walk)
75out of
100
100
National Park or National Landscape0%of the land within 5 km · None within 5 km
31out of
100
100
Footpaths3.3 kmper km², the town and 1 km around it
66out 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
Whitnash is 36th of 60 UK towns its size for the outdoors
The 60 UK towns and cities of 8,600 to 9,200 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
Whitnash3.3
Towns its size3.1
Warwickshire towns2.2
All UK towns3.0
Green space, ha per 1,000 residents
Whitnash2.0
Towns its size2.5
Warwickshire towns2.3
All UK towns2.1
Residents within 400 m of a park
Whitnash95%
Towns its size85%
Warwickshire towns88%
All UK towns83%
Against towns its size, Whitnash stands out most for homes near a park: only 9 of the other 59 have more. It falls furthest behind on park space per resident, where 34 of the others do better.
Show as a table
| Town | Outdoors | Green space | Near a park | Path per km² | Protected | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Swanage Dorset | A+ | 6.9 | 95% | 4.2 | 47% |
| 2 | Worsbrough South Yorkshire | A | 10.1 | 100% | 6 | 0% |
| 3 | Storrington West Sussex | A | 5.5 | 85% | 3.2 | 54% |
| 4 | Ilfracombe Devon | A | 2 | 86% | 3 | 28% |
| 5 | Killamarsh Derbyshire | A | 10.6 | 97% | 5.5 | 0% |
| 6 | New Mills Derbyshire | A | 2.4 | 84% | 5.1 | 34% |
| 7 | Warlingham Surrey | A | 4.2 | 81% | 4.3 | 13% |
| 8 | Greasby Merseyside | A | 5.9 | 74% | 3.6 | 0% |
| 9 | Hetton-le-Hole Tyne and Wear | A− | 7.8 | 95% | 3.7 | 0% |
| 10 | Shelf and Northowram West Yorkshire | A− | 5.3 | 88% | 4.7 | 0% |
| 11 | Billingshurst West Sussex | A− | 2.9 | 95% | 3.1 | 3% |
| 12 | Ryton Tyne and Wear | A− | 5.5 | 85% | 5.1 | 0% |
| 13 | Brightlingsea Essex | A− | 3 | 97% | 2.4 | 0% |
| 14 | Thurnscoe South Yorkshire | A− | 9.4 | 100% | 2.7 | 0% |
| 15 | Shaftesbury Dorset | A− | 2.8 | 92% | 2.3 | 44% |
| 16 | Shanklin Isle of Wight | A− | 1.4 | 33% | 4.5 | 29% |
| 17 | Alfreton Derbyshire | B+ | 4.3 | 100% | 2.7 | 0% |
| 18 | Longridge Lancashire | B+ | 1.9 | 89% | 3 | 32% |
| 19 | Winnersh Berkshire | B+ | 9.6 | 80% | 3.9 | 0% |
| 20 | Frodsham Cheshire | B+ | 2.5 | 67% | 4.4 | 0% |
| 21 | Hadleigh Suffolk | B+ | 2.6 | 87% | 2.7 | 10% |
| 22 | Higham Ferrers Northamptonshire | B+ | 3.5 | 93% | 3.3 | 0% |
| 23 | Hayle Cornwall | B+ | 1.4 | 72% | 3.4 | 6% |
| 24 | Banstead Surrey | B+ | 2.4 | 66% | 5.2 | 3% |
| 25 | Cinderford Gloucestershire | B+ | 1.7 | 80% | 4.7 | 4% |
| 26 | Ashbourne Derbyshire | B | 1.9 | 92% | 2.7 | 14% |
| 27 | Cockermouth Cumbria | B | 2.6 | 81% | 2.2 | 42% |
| 28 | Ampthill Bedfordshire | B | 6.8 | 71% | 3.9 | 0% |
| 29 | Hemsworth West Yorkshire | B | 3.6 | 100% | 2.2 | 0% |
| 30 | Clay Cross Derbyshire | B | 2.6 | 88% | 3.7 | 0% |
| 31 | Gatley Greater Manchester | B | 5.7 | 66% | 4.2 | 0% |
| 32 | South Kirkby West Yorkshire | B | 3 | 97% | 2.7 | 0% |
| 33 | Marlborough Wiltshire | B | 1.2 | 72% | 3.8 | 100% |
| 34 | Wendover Buckinghamshire | B | 1 | 58% | 5.6 | 60% |
| 35 | Hornsea East Riding of Yorkshire | B− | 2.7 | 90% | 0.6 | 0% |
| 36 | Whitnash Warwickshire | B− | 2 | 95% | 3.3 | 0% |
| 37 | Cullompton Devon | B− | 3.2 | 100% | 1.8 | 0% |
| 38 | Stansted Mountfitchet Essex | B− | 0.8 | 96% | 4.7 | 0% |
| 39 | Hook Hampshire | B− | 2.4 | 80% | 3.4 | 0% |
| 40 | West End and Chobham Surrey | B− | 3.3 | 65% | 3.6 | 0% |
| 41 | Caister-on-Sea Norfolk | C+ | 1.1 | 58% | 2.1 | 21% |
| 42 | Hoo St Werburgh Kent | C+ | 1.4 | 92% | 1.9 | 0% |
| 43 | Wideopen Tyne and Wear | C+ | 2.1 | 75% | 4.2 | 0% |
| 44 | Okehampton Devon | C+ | 0.9 | 85% | 2.2 | 37% |
| 45 | Atherstone Warwickshire | C+ | 2.7 | 88% | 2 | 0% |
| 46 | Brinsworth South Yorkshire | C | 1.3 | 76% | 4.5 | 0% |
| 47 | Barwell Leicestershire | C | 1.7 | 90% | 2.6 | 0% |
| 48 | Faringdon Oxfordshire | C | 1.3 | 94% | 2.5 | 0% |
| 49 | Kinmel Bay Clwyd | C | 1.8 | 76% | 0.9 | 0% |
| 50 | Burscough Lancashire | C | 2.6 | 76% | 2.1 | 0% |
| 51 | Ferryhill County Durham | C− | 1.5 | 94% | 1.7 | 0% |
| 52 | Pencoed Mid Glamorgan | C− | 2.8 | 52% | 2.1 | 0% |
| 53 | Sileby Leicestershire | C− | 1 | 80% | 2.6 | 0% |
| 54 | Adlington Lancashire | C− | 1.3 | 64% | 3.1 | 0% |
| 55 | Shifnal Shropshire | D | 1 | 89% | 1.6 | 0% |
| 56 | Littleport Cambridgeshire | D | 1 | 71% | 2.4 | 0% |
| 57 | Harworth and Bircotes Nottinghamshire | D | 1.9 | 64% | 1.5 | 0% |
| 58 | Holbeach Lincolnshire | D | 1 | 91% | 0.5 | 0% |
| 59 | Tarleton and Hesketh Bank Lancashire | D | 1.5 | 63% | 1.7 | 0% |
| 60 | Kirkham Lancashire | D− | 1.3 | 66% | 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 Whitnash’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 Whitnash
The biggest is Wych Elm Park, 0.8 ha (2 acres). Directions go to the park’s nearest public entrance where Ordnance Survey maps one.
Chapel Green
Park or garden
0.0 ha (0 acres)
Centralin the middle of Whitnash
Directionsto the nearest entrance
Close to home
How close Whitnash’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 (95%)Further (5%)
Whitnash95%
Towns its size85%
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; 43 playgrounds are mapped in and around the town, about one for every 207 residents.
National Parks & National Landscapes
The Cotswolds National Landscape is 8.8 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
7 waymarked walks pass through or near Whitnash
35 km of footpaths, bridleways and rights of way are mapped in Whitnash and the kilometre around it, 3.3 km for every square kilometre (the typical UK town has 3.0). Bars show each route’s kilometres within 2 km of the town.
RegionalLocalOther waymarked
Rail Trail: Royal Leamington Spa Circular via Offchurch6.7 km
Centenary Way5.7 km
Grand Union Canal Walk4.7 km
Millennium Way (Warks)4.3 km
Shakespeare's Avon Way3.9 km
Riverside Walk3.4 km
Centenary Way - Alternative routes1.1 km
Close to home, the Rail Trail: Royal Leamington Spa Circular via Offchurch has 7 km of local walk within 2 km of the town. 4 regional routes pass through, including the Centenary Way, Grand Union Canal Walk, Millennium Way (Warks) and 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 Whitnash
Historic England’s register of parks and gardens, and the listed buildings and scheduled monuments that stand inside Whitnash’s named parks.
Registered · Grade IIMallory Court1.8 ha
Heritage walks
Grand Union Canal Walk 4.7 km
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 Whitnash: 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 | 10 | 8 |
| Rain (mm) | 53 | 42 | 40 | 47 | 54 | 53 | 60 | 64 | 52 | 62 | 62 | 58 |
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 64 mm of rain falls in August, the wettest month. Frost comes on about 46 nights a year. The climate in Whitnash →
Things to do
43 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
Whitnash is inland. These are the nearest named beaches, measured from the edge of the town.
library17 mi from Whitnash’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
Nature reserves 1
Whitnash Brook4.7 ha · 0.4 mi from town
DirectionsPicnic sites 1
Plus 1 picnic site without a name on the map.
Playgrounds 43
Chesterton Gardens Play Area0.1 mi from town
DirectionsWindmill Road Play Area0.2 mi from town
DirectionsWhitnash Brook Play area0.6 mi from town
DirectionsMyton Green Canalside Play Area0.9 mi from town
DirectionsMill Gardens Play Area0.9 mi from town
DirectionsMyton Green Lakeside Play Area1.1 mi from town
DirectionsPlus 37 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.
Radford SemeleBishop's TachbrookRoyal Leamington SpaWarwickCubbingtonHarburyWhitnash
ABCDOutdoors Grade
| Town | Outdoors | Green space, ha per 1,000 | Near a park | Protected within 5 km |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Whitnash | B− | 2.0 | 95% | 0% |
| Radford Semele 1.4 mi | A | 12.3 | 100% | 0% |
| Bishop's Tachbrook 1.6 mi | B− | 2.5 | 100% | 0% |
| Royal Leamington Spa 1.7 mi | B+ | 2.7 | 91% | 0% |
| Warwick 2.5 mi | B | 3.0 | 85% | 0% |
| Cubbington 3.3 mi | C | 1.5 | 100% | 0% |
| Harbury 3.6 mi | D | 1.6 | 73% | 0% |
Radford Semele, 1.4 miles away, grades A, the best next door: every resident lives within 400 m of a park. Radford Semele has at least twice Whitnash’s green space per resident. None of the neighbours has a protected landscape within 5 km either.
Questions about the outdoors in Whitnash
What is the biggest park in Whitnash?
Wych Elm Park, 0.8 ha (2 acres), just outside the built-up area. Chapel Green (0.0 ha) is second. 2 named parks, gardens and playing fields are in the town or within 400 m of it.
Is Whitnash near a National Park?
The nearest protected landscape is the Cotswolds National Landscape, 8.8 mi south-east of the town’s edge. It covers 2,041 km² and was designated in 1966.
What are the best walks near Whitnash?
7 waymarked walking routes pass within 2 km of the town, including the Rail Trail: Royal Leamington Spa Circular via Offchurch, Centenary Way and Grand Union Canal Walk.
What is the nearest beach to Whitnash?
library, 17 mi from the edge of the town. Whitnash itself is inland.
How many people in Whitnash live near a park?
95% 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 Whitnash?
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 Whitnash are historic?
Mallory Court (Grade II) is on Historic England’s register of parks and gardens.
Is Whitnash good for walking?
For paths, yes: 3.3 km of footpath and right of way per square kilometre, more than 66% of UK towns. For park space per person it beats 45% (2.0 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 Whitnash’s overall grade.
Sources
Where Whitnash’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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