Pheasey’s biggest
King George's Field
Playing field · 390 m outside town
11 ha (27 acres)0.9 km of path
10 minto walk all 0.9 km of path
15 pitchesfootball pitches would fit
0.9 mi eastfrom the centre
Directionsto the nearest entrance
Photo: Richard Law · CC BY-SA 2.0D−Outdoors Grade
Outdoors in Pheasey · parks, paths & countryside
Parks and walks in Pheasey
40% of residents live within a 5-minute walk of a park or playing field. Parks and playing fields in Pheasey add up to 0.9 ha for every 1,000 residents; the typical UK town has 2.1. 27 km of footpaths run through the town and the kilometre around it, 2.4 for every square kilometre. Pheasey grades D− for the outdoors. A character grade: it isn’t part of the overall grade.
Green space
0.9 ha
per 1,000 residents
Typical UK town 2.1
Near a park
40%
of residents within 400 m
Typical UK town 83%
Footpaths
27 km
2.4 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
Character
What kind of outdoors town is Pheasey?
Read from the data: what stands out first, good and bad.
Hills with a view5 mapped viewpoints, about 5× as many per resident as the typical town its size.Historic parksGreat Barr Hall is a registered historic park (Grade II).Less park per person0.9 ha of parks and playing fields per 1,000 residents; the typical UK town has 2.1.
Pheasey’s strongest suit is its views, followed by its historic parks. Where it falls short is park space per person.
Outdoors grade
Pheasey grades D− for the outdoors
Each chart is every UK town of 1,000 or more on one measure: the green bar is Pheasey, 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 5% of UK towns#35 of 35 in West Midlands
Public green space0.9 haper 1,000 residents: parks, gardens, playing fields, play spaces
10out of
100
100
A park within a walk40%of residents within 400 m (a 5-minute walk)
9out of
100
100
National Park or National Landscape0%of the land within 5 km · None within 5 km
31out of
100
100
Footpaths2.4 kmper km², the town and 1 km around it
44out 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 Pheasey compares with UK towns of 9,000 to 10,000
The 60 UK towns and cities of 9,000 to 10,000 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
Pheasey2.4
Towns its size3.2
West Midlands towns3.0
All UK towns3.0
Green space, ha per 1,000 residents
Pheasey0.9
Towns its size2.7
West Midlands towns2.7
All UK towns2.1
Residents within 400 m of a park
Pheasey40%
Towns its size86%
West Midlands towns77%
All UK towns83%
Pheasey falls furthest behind on park space per resident, where 57 of the 59 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 | Caldicot Gwent | A+ | 4.2 | 92% | 3 | 2% |
| 3 | Brynteg Clwyd | A | 8.5 | 100% | 2.8 | 7% |
| 4 | Ilfracombe Devon | A | 2 | 86% | 3 | 28% |
| 5 | Bordon Hampshire | A | 8.6 | 54% | 6.7 | 49% |
| 6 | Killamarsh Derbyshire | A | 10.6 | 97% | 5.5 | 0% |
| 7 | Linthwaite and Slaithwaite West Yorkshire | A | 2.2 | 97% | 4.8 | 12% |
| 8 | New Mills Derbyshire | A | 2.4 | 84% | 5.1 | 34% |
| 9 | Beccles Suffolk | A | 4.5 | 87% | 3.2 | 20% |
| 10 | South Merstham Surrey | A | 3.7 | 84% | 3.7 | 20% |
| 11 | Nuthall and Watnall Nottinghamshire | A | 6.3 | 97% | 4.3 | 0% |
| 12 | Bradford-on-Avon Wiltshire | A | 2.8 | 88% | 3.7 | 21% |
| 13 | Greasby Merseyside | A | 5.9 | 74% | 3.6 | 0% |
| 14 | Southborough Kent | A− | 2.8 | 94% | 2.5 | 57% |
| 15 | Whiteley Hampshire | A− | 3 | 52% | 4.4 | 2% |
| 16 | Thurmaston Leicestershire | A− | 10.4 | 89% | 4.2 | 0% |
| 17 | Esher Surrey | A− | 6.9 | 86% | 4.8 | 0% |
| 18 | Shelf and Northowram West Yorkshire | A− | 5.3 | 88% | 4.7 | 0% |
| 19 | Billingshurst West Sussex | A− | 2.9 | 95% | 3.1 | 3% |
| 20 | Thurnscoe South Yorkshire | A− | 9.4 | 100% | 2.7 | 0% |
| 21 | Shaftesbury Dorset | A− | 2.8 | 92% | 2.3 | 44% |
| 22 | Aveley Essex | A− | 3.4 | 84% | 2.9 | 0% |
| 23 | Shanklin Isle of Wight | A− | 1.4 | 33% | 4.5 | 29% |
| 24 | Irthlingborough Northamptonshire | A− | 4.7 | 94% | 3.4 | 0% |
| 25 | Yarm North Yorkshire | A− | 3.3 | 96% | 3.8 | 0% |
| 26 | Frodsham Cheshire | B+ | 2.5 | 67% | 4.4 | 0% |
| 27 | Sandiacre Derbyshire | B+ | 2.6 | 94% | 3.8 | 0% |
| 28 | Pontllanfraith Gwent | B | 3.7 | 93% | 2.7 | 0% |
| 29 | Shildon County Durham | B | 2.8 | 93% | 3.3 | 0% |
| 30 | Hemsworth West Yorkshire | B | 3.6 | 100% | 2.2 | 0% |
| 31 | Gatley Greater Manchester | B | 5.7 | 66% | 4.2 | 0% |
| 32 | North Wingfield and Holmewood Derbyshire | B | 2.7 | 84% | 4.1 | 0% |
| 33 | Queensbury West Yorkshire | B | 2.6 | 91% | 3.2 | 0% |
| 34 | Tiptree Essex | B | 2.7 | 90% | 3.2 | 0% |
| 35 | Immingham Lincolnshire | B | 2 | 100% | 1.1 | 0% |
| 36 | Perton Staffordshire | B | 2.4 | 93% | 3 | 0% |
| 37 | Yaxley Cambridgeshire | B− | 2.6 | 90% | 3.1 | 0% |
| 38 | Pembroke Dock Dyfed | B− | 1.7 | 80% | 1.1 | 25% |
| 39 | Caernarfon Gwynedd | B− | 1.7 | 83% | 1.4 | 14% |
| 40 | Horbury West Yorkshire | B− | 2.5 | 75% | 4.5 | 0% |
| 41 | Mildenhall Suffolk | B− | 2.1 | 91% | 3.3 | 0% |
| 42 | Knottingley West Yorkshire | B− | 2.7 | 88% | 2.5 | 0% |
| 43 | Whitchurch Shropshire | B− | 2.7 | 86% | 2.6 | 0% |
| 44 | Caister-on-Sea Norfolk | C+ | 1.1 | 58% | 2.1 | 21% |
| 45 | Wideopen Tyne and Wear | C+ | 2.1 | 75% | 4.2 | 0% |
| 46 | Mold Clwyd | C+ | 1.9 | 86% | 1.6 | 17% |
| 47 | Okehampton Devon | C+ | 0.9 | 85% | 2.2 | 37% |
| 48 | Brandon County Durham | C+ | 2.2 | 72% | 3.6 | 0% |
| 49 | Crook County Durham | C+ | 1.5 | 85% | 3.5 | 0% |
| 50 | Lydney Gloucestershire | C+ | 2.1 | 52% | 2.5 | 0% |
| 51 | Barwell Leicestershire | C | 1.7 | 90% | 2.6 | 0% |
| 52 | Diss Norfolk | C | 1.5 | 80% | 3.5 | 0% |
| 53 | Milnrow Greater Manchester | C | 2.9 | 58% | 3 | 0% |
| 54 | Shepton Mallet Somerset | C | 1.2 | 70% | 2.8 | 1% |
| 55 | Totnes Devon | C | 0.4 | 65% | 3.3 | 11% |
| 56 | Pencoed Mid Glamorgan | C− | 2.8 | 52% | 2.1 | 0% |
| 57 | Broughton Astley Leicestershire | D | 1 | 82% | 1.9 | 0% |
| 58 | Brandon Suffolk | D | 0.8 | 39% | 3.5 | 0% |
| 59 | Littleport Cambridgeshire | D | 1 | 71% | 2.4 | 0% |
| 60 | Pheasey West Midlands | D− | 0.9 | 40% | 2.4 | 0% |
The map
Parks, footpaths & countryside
Tap a number to zoom to a park. Tap a layer to hide it. The dashed line is Pheasey’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 Pheasey
The biggest is King George's Field, 11 ha (27 acres). Directions go to the park’s nearest public entrance where Ordnance Survey maps one.
Doe Bank Park
Playing field
6.5 ha (16 acres)0.8 km of path
10 minto walk all 0.8 km of path
9 pitchesfootball pitches would fit
0.4 mi northfrom the centre
Directionsto the nearest entrance
Close to home
4 in 10 Pheasey 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 (40%)Further (60%)
Pheasey40%
Towns its size86%
West Midlands towns77%
All UK towns83%
About 5,700 people live further than that. Playing fields count, so a park within reach isn’t always one with paths or trees; 21 playgrounds are mapped in and around the town, about one for every 452 residents.
National Parks & National Landscapes
The Cannock Chase National Landscape is 8.9 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 Pheasey
27 km of footpaths, bridleways and rights of way are mapped in Pheasey and the kilometre around it, 2.4 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
Beacon Way6.4 km
Sutton Park Archeology Walk 3: Banners Gate2.7 km
The regional route here is the Beacon 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 Pheasey
Historic England’s register of parks and gardens, and the listed buildings and scheduled monuments that stand inside Pheasey’s named parks.
Registered · Grade IIGreat Barr Hall1.8 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 Pheasey: 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 | 13.9 | 15.7 | 16.8 | 16.4 | 14.7 | 12.6 | 10.5 | 8.6 | 7.7 |
| High (°C) | 7 | 8 | 10 | 13 | 16 | 19 | 21 | 21 | 18 | 14 | 10 | 7 |
| Rain (mm) | 67 | 53 | 53 | 59 | 65 | 71 | 62 | 69 | 59 | 83 | 76 | 79 |
March is the driest month (53 mm) and July the warmest (highs of 21 °C). Winter days are short, about 8 hours of daylight in December, and 83 mm of rain falls in October, the wettest month. Frost comes on about 43 nights a year. The climate in Pheasey →
Things to do
5 viewpoints, 21 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.
5Viewpoints5.2× towns its size1Hills and peaks5Nature reserves5.1× towns its size21Playgroundsabout the same as towns its size
The nearest beaches
Pheasey is inland. These are the nearest named beaches, measured from the edge of the town.
library18 mi from Pheasey’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.
Up high. Barr Beacon, at 227 m, is the highest named top within 2 km of Pheasey.
Every named place, with directions
Viewpoints 5
Barr Beacon War Memorial0.6 mi from town
DirectionsPerry Barr Reservoir0.7 mi from town
DirectionsKingstanding Beacon1.1 mi from town
DirectionsPlus 2 viewpoints without a name on the map.
Hills and peaks 1
Barr Beacon227 m (745 ft) · 0.6 mi from town
DirectionsNature reserves 5
Pinfold Lane Quarry SINC Black Country Geosite7.8 ha · 0.3 mi from town
DirectionsHolly Wood Nature Reserve9.2 ha · 0.4 mi from town
DirectionsMerrions Wood Local Nature Reserve10 ha · 0.8 mi from town
DirectionsMerrion’s Wood7.7 ha · 0.8 mi from town
DirectionsGorse Farm Wood5.9 ha · 1.0 mi from town
DirectionsPlaygrounds 21
Beeches Playground0.5 mi from town
DirectionsTurnberry Woods Play Area0.8 mi from town
DirectionsRed House Park Play Areas0.9 mi from town
DirectionsBlackwood Park Play Area1.0 mi from town
DirectionsBanners Gate Golden Jubilee Play Area1.1 mi from town
DirectionsPlus 16 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.
StreetlyRoyal Sutton ColdfieldWalsallAldridgeWest BromwichWednesburyPheasey
ABCDOutdoors Grade
| Town | Outdoors | Green space, ha per 1,000 | Near a park | Protected within 5 km |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pheasey | D− | 0.9 | 40% | 0% |
| Streetly 1.8 mi | C | 7.5 | 58% | 0% |
| Royal Sutton Coldfield 3.4 mi | B− | 6.1 | 64% | 0% |
| Walsall 3.4 mi | C+ | 2.5 | 75% | 0% |
| Aldridge 3.5 mi | C+ | 3.0 | 83% | 0% |
| West Bromwich 3.5 mi | B− | 2.7 | 83% | 0% |
| Wednesbury 4.4 mi | B− | 2.7 | 93% | 0% |
West Bromwich, 3.5 miles away, grades B−, the best next door: 83% of its residents live within 400 m of a park. Streetly, Royal Sutton Coldfield and Walsall have at least twice Pheasey’s green space per resident. None of the neighbours has a protected landscape within 5 km either.
Questions about the outdoors in Pheasey
What is the biggest park in Pheasey?
King George's Field, 11 ha (27 acres), with 0.9 km of path, just outside the built-up area. Doe Bank Park (6.5 ha) is second. 2 named parks, gardens and playing fields are in the town or within 400 m of it.
Is Pheasey near a National Park?
The nearest protected landscape is the Cannock Chase National Landscape, 8.9 mi north of the town’s edge. It covers 69 km² and was designated in 1958.
What are the best walks near Pheasey?
2 waymarked walking routes pass within 2 km of the town, including the Beacon Way and Sutton Park Archeology Walk 3: Banners Gate.
What is the nearest beach to Pheasey?
library, 18 mi from the edge of the town. Pheasey itself is inland.
How many people in Pheasey live near a park?
40% 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 Pheasey?
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 Pheasey are historic?
Great Barr Hall (Grade II) is on Historic England’s register of parks and gardens.
Is Pheasey good for walking?
About average for paths: 2.4 km of footpath and right of way per square kilometre, more than 44% of UK towns. For park space per person it beats 10% (0.9 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 Pheasey’s overall grade.
Sources
Where Pheasey’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.