Aldbourne’s biggest
The Green
Park or garden
0.2 ha (0 acres)
Centralin the middle of Aldbourne
Village cross monument +2 listed
Directionsto the nearest entrance
Photo: Adina Levy · CC BY-SA 2.5B+Outdoors Grade
Outdoors in Aldbourne · parks, paths & countryside
Aldbourne is inside the North Wessex Downs National Landscape
Parks and playing fields in Aldbourne add up to 3.2 ha for every 1,000 residents; the typical UK town has 2.1. Footpaths add up to 17 km in the village and the kilometre around it, 1.8 for every square kilometre. Aldbourne grades B+ for the outdoors. A character grade: it isn’t part of the overall grade.
Green space
3.2 ha
per 1,000 residents
Typical UK town 2.1
Near a park
84%
of residents within 400 m
Typical UK town 83%
Footpaths
17 km
1.8 km per km², town + 1 km
Typical UK town 3.0 per km²
Protected landscape
100%
of the land within 5 km
Nearest: North Wessex Downs National Landscape
Outdoors grade
Aldbourne grades B+ for the outdoors
Each chart is every UK town of 1,000 or more on one measure: the green bar is Aldbourne, 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 71% of UK towns21st of 60 UK villages its size
Public green space3.2 haper 1,000 residents: parks, gardens, playing fields, play spaces
72out of
100
100
A park within a walk84%of residents within 400 m (a 5-minute walk)
54out of
100
100
National Park or National Landscape100%of the land within 5 km
100out of
100
100
Footpaths1.8 kmper km², the town and 1 km around it
24out 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
Aldbourne is 21st of 60 UK villages its size for the outdoors
The 60 UK towns and cities of 1,600 to 1,800 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
Aldbourne1.8
Villages its size2.2
Wiltshire towns3.0
All UK towns3.0
Green space, ha per 1,000 residents
Aldbourne3.2
Villages its size2.0
Wiltshire towns2.0
All UK towns2.1
Residents within 400 m of a park
Aldbourne84%
Villages its size79%
Wiltshire towns86%
All UK towns83%
Against villages its size, Aldbourne stands out most for park space per resident: only 17 of the other 59 have more. It falls furthest behind on path per km², where 35 of the others do better.
Show as a table
| Town | Outdoors | Green space | Near a park | Path per km² | Protected | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Pease Pottage West Sussex | A+ | 4.1 | 100% | 7.4 | 65% |
| 2 | Manningtree Essex | A+ | 5.6 | 100% | 2.5 | 43% |
| 3 | Guston Kent | A+ | 5.8 | 100% | 2.5 | 25% |
| 4 | Llansanffraid Glan Conwy Clwyd | A+ | 10.8 | 100% | 1.6 | 8% |
| 5 | Penwithick Cornwall | A | 15 | 100% | 2.8 | 0% |
| 6 | Wroxall Isle of Wight | A | 1.2 | 84% | 4.6 | 33% |
| 7 | Eccles Kent | A | 3.7 | 100% | 2.4 | 30% |
| 8 | Hutton Somerset | A | 1.8 | 100% | 2.2 | 22% |
| 9 | Flimby Cumbria | A | 1.7 | 100% | 2.3 | 2% |
| 10 | Southwell Dorset | A | 0.7 | 100% | 5.4 | 0% |
| 11 | Wickwar Gloucestershire | A− | 2 | 100% | 3.5 | 15% |
| 12 | Lynemouth Northumberland | A− | 3.5 | 100% | 1.7 | 0% |
| 13 | Hemyock Devon | A− | 3.2 | 100% | 1.3 | 82% |
| 14 | Seascale Cumbria | A− | 2.1 | 81% | 2.2 | 27% |
| 15 | Clayhanger West Midlands | A− | 17.4 | 100% | 2.6 | 0% |
| 16 | Harrold Bedfordshire | A− | 19.1 | 100% | 2.5 | 0% |
| 17 | Bathampton Somerset | A− | 1 | 85% | 5.5 | 62% |
| 18 | Ripley Surrey | A− | 15 | 64% | 3.6 | 2% |
| 19 | Appledore Devon | B+ | 1.2 | 100% | 1.6 | 16% |
| 20 | Starcross Devon | B+ | 1.9 | 100% | 0.9 | 1% |
| 21 | Aldbourne Wiltshire | B+ | 3.2 | 84% | 1.8 | 100% |
| 22 | Kingsdown Kent | B+ | 1.1 | 67% | 3.4 | 12% |
| 23 | Blewbury Oxfordshire | B | 3.1 | 54% | 2.7 | 79% |
| 24 | Great Kingshill Buckinghamshire | B | 2.7 | 55% | 2.9 | 84% |
| 25 | Silkstone South Yorkshire | B | 1 | 100% | 5.2 | 0% |
| 26 | Normandy Surrey | B− | 3.2 | 23% | 3.1 | 26% |
| 27 | Streethouse West Yorkshire | B− | 2.2 | 100% | 2.5 | 0% |
| 28 | Eynsford Kent | B− | 2.1 | 81% | 1.9 | 46% |
| 29 | Woodsetts South Yorkshire | B− | 2 | 100% | 2.6 | 0% |
| 30 | Allhallows Kent | B− | 3.2 | 76% | 1.1 | 0% |
| 31 | Onley Northamptonshire | B− | 2.3 | 100% | 2.2 | 0% |
| 32 | Trethomas Gwent | B− | 6.9 | 48% | 3.4 | 0% |
| 33 | Pilling Lancashire | C+ | 4.2 | 46% | 1.8 | 0% |
| 34 | Seahouses and North Sunderland Northumberland | C+ | 1.6 | 17% | 1.7 | 21% |
| 35 | Chipperfield Hertfordshire | C+ | 2.4 | 37% | 2.8 | 17% |
| 36 | Rocester Staffordshire | C+ | 15.2 | 58% | 2.5 | 0% |
| 37 | Templecombe Somerset | C+ | 2 | 100% | 1.7 | 0% |
| 38 | New Arley Warwickshire | C+ | 2.4 | 100% | 1.1 | 0% |
| 39 | Acton Suffolk | C | 1.6 | 100% | 1.8 | 0% |
| 40 | Stonesfield Oxfordshire | C | 1.9 | 60% | 1.8 | 38% |
| 41 | Earith Cambridgeshire | C | 1.2 | 78% | 3.6 | 0% |
| 42 | Wylam Northumberland | C− | 1.1 | 74% | 3.8 | 0% |
| 43 | Leeming North Yorkshire | C− | 5 | 76% | 0.5 | 0% |
| 44 | High Bentham North Yorkshire | C− | 0.1 | 0% | 2.9 | 45% |
| 45 | Lower Quinton Warwickshire | C− | 2 | 49% | 1.3 | 18% |
| 46 | Modbury Devon | C− | 1.7 | 39% | 1.2 | 41% |
| 47 | Creunant West Glamorgan | C− | 1.7 | 79% | 0.3 | 0% |
| 48 | Pensilva Cornwall | C− | 1.6 | 60% | 1.3 | 15% |
| 49 | Whitehill County Durham | C− | 0.3 | 0% | 7.7 | 0% |
| 50 | Upper Arncott Oxfordshire | D | 3.1 | 59% | 1.2 | 0% |
| 51 | Holt Wiltshire | D | 1.1 | 45% | 2.1 | 2% |
| 52 | Leverington Cambridgeshire | D | 2.8 | 59% | 0.8 | 0% |
| 53 | Dobwalls Cornwall | D | 1.4 | 28% | 1.5 | 15% |
| 54 | Tiddington Warwickshire | D | 0.2 | 79% | 2.2 | 0% |
| 55 | Point Clear Essex | D | 0.1 | 0% | 1.8 | 0% |
| 56 | Soughton Clwyd | D | 0.4 | 67% | 1.3 | 3% |
| 57 | Monk Fryston and Hillam North Yorkshire | D | 2.7 | 40% | 0.7 | 0% |
| 58 | Skirlaugh East Riding of Yorkshire | D | 1 | 85% | 0.7 | 0% |
| 59 | Ulceby Lincolnshire | D− | 1.2 | 72% | 0.5 | 0% |
| 60 | Welford-on-Avon Warwickshire | D− | 0.4 | 48% | 1.5 | 0% |
The map
Parks, footpaths & countryside
Tap a number to zoom to a park. Tap a layer to hide it. The dashed line is Aldbourne’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 Aldbourne
The biggest is The Green, 0.2 ha (0 acres). Directions go to the park’s nearest public entrance where Ordnance Survey maps one.
Claridge Close Play Area
Play space
0.0 ha (0 acres)
Centralin the middle of Aldbourne
Directionsto the nearest entrance
Close to home
8 in 10 Aldbourne 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 (84%)Further (16%)
Aldbourne84%
Villages its size79%
Wiltshire towns86%
All UK towns83%
About 300 people live further than that. Playing fields count, so a park within reach isn’t always one with paths or trees.
National Parks & National Landscapes
National Parks and National Landscapes around Aldbourne
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
National Landscape
North Wessex Downs
Aldbourne is inside it1,731 km²since 1972100% of the land within 5 km
Official site100% of the land within 5 km of Aldbourne is National Park or National Landscape, more than 99% of UK towns.
Footpaths & waymarked walks
2 waymarked walks pass through or near Aldbourne
17 km of footpaths, bridleways and rights of way are mapped in Aldbourne and the kilometre around it, 1.8 km for every square kilometre (the typical UK town has 3.0). Bars show each route’s kilometres within 2 km of the village.
RegionalLocal
The Roman Way6.0 km
Ridgeway Circular Route5.6 km
Close to home, the Ridgeway Circular Route has 6 km of local walk within 2 km of the village. The regional route here is the The Roman 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
History inside Aldbourne’s parks
Historic England’s register of parks and gardens, and the listed buildings and scheduled monuments that stand inside Aldbourne’s named parks.
Park with listed buildings
The Green
0.2 ha. 3 listed structures and monuments stand inside it or at its edge, including Village cross (a scheduled monument).
SMVillage crossIIMarket Cross
Heritage walks
The Roman Way 6.0 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 Aldbourne: 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) | 8.3 | 9.9 | 11.7 | 13.8 | 15.6 | 16.6 | 16.2 | 14.6 | 12.5 | 10.5 | 8.8 | 7.9 |
| High (°C) | 7 | 8 | 10 | 13 | 17 | 20 | 22 | 21 | 19 | 14 | 10 | 8 |
| Rain (mm) | 89 | 64 | 57 | 62 | 63 | 53 | 60 | 68 | 61 | 91 | 93 | 89 |
June is the driest month (53 mm) and July the warmest (highs of 22 °C). Winter days are short, about 8 hours of daylight in December, and 93 mm of rain falls in November, the wettest month. Frost comes on about 55 nights a year. The climate in Aldbourne →
Things to do
2 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
Aldbourne is inland. These are the nearest named beaches, measured from the edge of the village.
The Leys Park21 mi from Aldbourne’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. Ewin's Hill, at 216 m, is the highest named top within 2 km of Aldbourne.
Every named place, with directions
Hills and peaks 1
Ewin's Hill216 m (709 ft) · 0.8 mi from town
DirectionsPlaygrounds 2
Plus 2 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.
RamsburyLambournChiseldonWanboroughMarlboroughHungerfordAldbourne
ABCDOutdoors Grade
| Town | Outdoors | Green space, ha per 1,000 | Near a park | Protected within 5 km |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aldbourne | B+ | 3.2 | 84% | 100% |
| Ramsbury 2.5 mi | B+ | 3.9 | 62% | 100% |
| Lambourn 4.4 mi | C+ | 1.2 | 61% | 100% |
| Chiseldon 5.4 mi | A | 1.8 | 100% | 69% |
| Wanborough 5.7 mi | A+ | 6.0 | 100% | 45% |
| Marlborough 6.2 mi | B | 1.2 | 72% | 100% |
| Hungerford 6.4 mi | A+ | 9.1 | 85% | 100% |
Wanborough, 5.7 miles away, grades A+, the best next door: every resident lives within 400 m of a park. Hungerford has at least twice Aldbourne’s green space per resident.
Questions about the outdoors in Aldbourne
What is the biggest park in Aldbourne?
The Green, 0.2 ha (0 acres). Claridge Close Play Area (0.0 ha) is second. 2 named parks, gardens and playing fields are in the village or within 400 m of it.
What are the best walks near Aldbourne?
2 waymarked walking routes pass within 2 km of the village, including the The Roman Way and Ridgeway Circular Route.
What is the nearest beach to Aldbourne?
The Leys Park, 21 mi from the edge of the village. Aldbourne itself is inland.
How many people in Aldbourne live near a park?
84% 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 Aldbourne?
May to September: the longest days, the warmest afternoons and the least rain of the year, from the Met Office 1991–2020 averages.
Is Aldbourne good for walking?
Paths are thinner than most towns: 1.8 km of footpath and right of way per square kilometre, more than 24% of UK towns. For park space per person it beats 72% (3.2 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 Aldbourne’s overall grade.
Sources
Where Aldbourne’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.