Photo: Hoos-foos · Public domainChiseldon is inside the North Wessex Downs National Landscape
A park or playing field is within a 5-minute walk for 100% of residents. 32 km of footpaths run through the village and the kilometre around it, 3.4 for every square kilometre. Chiseldon grades A for the outdoors. A character grade: it isn’t part of the overall grade.
What kind of outdoors village is Chiseldon?
Read from the data: what stands out first, good and bad.
Chiseldon’s strongest suit is a protected landscape all round, followed by parks close to every home. Where it falls short is park space per person.
Chiseldon grades A for the outdoors
Each chart is every UK town of 1,000 or more on one measure: the green bar is Chiseldon, the dashed line the typical town. The number is the share of towns it beats; the five are averaged and the average ranked again.
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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.
Chiseldon is 10th of 60 UK villages its size for the outdoors
The 60 UK towns and cities of 1,900 to 2,100 people with an Outdoors Grade. Hover a dot for its figures; tap one for its page.
Against villages its size, Chiseldon stands out most for path per km²: only 12 of the other 59 have more. It falls furthest behind on park space per resident, where 41 of the others do better.
Show as a table
| Town | Outdoors | Green space | Near a park | Path per km² | Protected | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Meliden Clwyd | A+ | 4.2 | 100% | 4.2 | 21% |
| 2 | Hay-on-Wye Powys | A+ | 9.3 | 100% | 3.8 | 21% |
| 3 | Vigo Village Kent | A+ | 33.3 | 100% | 2.9 | 44% |
| 4 | Wye Kent | A+ | 4.7 | 100% | 3.1 | 71% |
| 5 | Llanfoist Gwent | A+ | 10.7 | 86% | 4.2 | 57% |
| 6 | Seaview and Nettlestone Isle of Wight | A+ | 3.6 | 89% | 2.8 | 8% |
| 7 | Ditchingham Norfolk | A+ | 17.2 | 100% | 2.9 | 13% |
| 8 | Fowey Cornwall | A | 3.2 | 91% | 2.1 | 32% |
| 9 | Lower Kingswood Surrey | A | 4.7 | 75% | 6.6 | 22% |
| 10 | Chiseldon Wiltshire | A | 1.8 | 100% | 3.4 | 69% |
| 11 | Upper Rissington Gloucestershire | A | 6.2 | 100% | 1.2 | 100% |
| 12 | Highfields Caldecote Cambridgeshire | A− | 4.1 | 100% | 3.7 | 0% |
| 13 | Bishops Lydeard Somerset | A− | 3.2 | 100% | 1.8 | 23% |
| 14 | Great Haywood Staffordshire | A− | 7.1 | 27% | 4.1 | 29% |
| 15 | Stowupland Suffolk | A− | 5.3 | 83% | 4.6 | 0% |
| 16 | Yealmpton Devon | B+ | 1.8 | 87% | 1.8 | 50% |
| 17 | Culverstone Green Kent | B+ | 5.3 | 61% | 2.7 | 42% |
| 18 | Brompton North Yorkshire | B+ | 4.7 | 100% | 2.4 | 0% |
| 19 | Valley Gwynedd | B+ | 5 | 33% | 1.2 | 37% |
| 20 | Sandford Dorset | B | 0.3 | 43% | 4.7 | 41% |
| 21 | Alveston Gloucestershire | B | 2.5 | 100% | 2.8 | 0% |
| 22 | Meppershall Bedfordshire | B | 2.3 | 83% | 3 | 2% |
| 23 | Needingworth Cambridgeshire | B− | 4.6 | 85% | 2.5 | 0% |
| 24 | Dyserth Clwyd | B− | 0.5 | 54% | 3.6 | 22% |
| 25 | Felbridge Surrey | B− | 2 | 80% | 2.4 | 25% |
| 26 | Trelewis Mid Glamorgan | B− | 2.6 | 100% | 1.9 | 0% |
| 27 | Uffculme Devon | B− | 2.8 | 86% | 1.3 | 14% |
| 28 | Edenfield Lancashire | B− | 2.7 | 69% | 4.4 | 0% |
| 29 | Rothbury Northumberland | B− | 1 | 76% | 3.8 | 21% |
| 30 | Exning Suffolk | B− | 3.6 | 82% | 2.5 | 0% |
| 31 | Ightham Kent | C+ | 2 | 30% | 3 | 56% |
| 32 | Axbridge Somerset | C+ | 1.3 | 72% | 2.8 | 51% |
| 33 | Kintbury Berkshire | C+ | 1.9 | 71% | 1.8 | 92% |
| 34 | Landkey Devon | C+ | 2.5 | 100% | 1.4 | 0% |
| 35 | Langtoft Lincolnshire | C+ | 2.8 | 100% | 1 | 0% |
| 36 | Read Lancashire | C+ | 1.6 | 71% | 2.5 | 21% |
| 37 | Wychbold Worcestershire | C | 2.1 | 100% | 1.4 | 0% |
| 38 | Clenchwarton Norfolk | C | 2.2 | 87% | 0.3 | 3% |
| 39 | Goodwick Dyfed | C | 0.2 | 47% | 1.9 | 25% |
| 40 | Marcham Oxfordshire | C | 1.2 | 100% | 2.2 | 0% |
| 41 | Hightown Merseyside | C | 1.7 | 44% | 2.5 | 0% |
| 42 | Barrowby Lincolnshire | C− | 3.5 | 66% | 1.8 | 0% |
| 43 | Keyingham East Riding of Yorkshire | C− | 1.7 | 100% | 0.5 | 0% |
| 44 | Micklefield West Yorkshire | C− | 2.1 | 48% | 3.2 | 0% |
| 45 | Cadnam and Bartley Hampshire | C− | 0.9 | 30% | 2.4 | 79% |
| 46 | Carlton North Yorkshire | C− | 0.7 | 100% | 1.8 | 0% |
| 47 | Sutton Bonington Nottinghamshire | C− | 2.7 | 28% | 2.6 | 0% |
| 48 | Urpeth County Durham | C− | 1.3 | 0% | 4.8 | 0% |
| 49 | Winwick Cheshire | C− | 3.2 | 48% | 1.7 | 0% |
| 50 | Ilchester Somerset | C− | 3.5 | 40% | 1.7 | 0% |
| 51 | Hibaldstow Lincolnshire | C− | 1.7 | 89% | 0.7 | 0% |
| 52 | Stoke Golding Leicestershire | C− | 1.4 | 85% | 1.8 | 0% |
| 53 | Bishop Burton and Cherry Burton East Riding of Yorkshire | C− | 2.5 | 78% | 0.3 | 0% |
| 54 | Bardney Lincolnshire | D | 4.1 | 49% | 1 | 0% |
| 55 | Merriott Somerset | D | 1.1 | 39% | 2.4 | 0% |
| 56 | Baschurch Shropshire | D | 2.3 | 72% | 1.1 | 0% |
| 57 | Curry Rivel Somerset | D | 1.9 | 33% | 2.1 | 0% |
| 58 | Haxey Lincolnshire | D | 1.6 | 46% | 2 | 0% |
| 59 | Westwoodside Lincolnshire | D− | 1.2 | 33% | 1.6 | 0% |
| 60 | Wilberfoss East Riding of Yorkshire | D− | 0.7 | 69% | 0.3 | 0% |
Parks, footpaths & countryside
Tap a number to zoom to a park. Tap a layer to hide it. The dashed line is Chiseldon’s built-up area.
Everyone in Chiseldon lives 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).
Playing fields count, so a park within reach isn’t always one with paths or trees; 8 playgrounds are mapped in and around the village, about one for every 254 residents.
National Parks and National Landscapes around Chiseldon
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.
North Wessex Downs
69% of the land within 5 km of Chiseldon is National Park or National Landscape, more than 95% of UK towns.
Chiseldon is on the The Ridgeway
32 km of footpaths, bridleways and rights of way are mapped in Chiseldon and the kilometre around it, 3.4 km for every square kilometre (the typical UK town has 3.0). Bars show each route’s kilometres within 2 km of the village.
The The Ridgeway, a national route, passes Chiseldon. Close to home, the Millennium Trail has 6 km of local walk within 2 km of the village. The regional route here is the Sarsen Way.
Waymarked walks are OpenStreetMap walking routes. Public rights of way are only as complete as the map in each area.
The best walking months in Chiseldon: 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 | |
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| Daylight (h) | 8.3 | 9.9 | 11.7 | 13.8 | 15.6 | 16.6 | 16.2 | 14.6 | 12.6 | 10.5 | 8.8 | 7.8 |
| High (°C) | 7 | 7 | 10 | 13 | 16 | 19 | 22 | 21 | 18 | 14 | 10 | 7 |
| Rain (mm) | 88 | 66 | 57 | 63 | 65 | 56 | 63 | 72 | 62 | 96 | 94 | 89 |
June is the driest month (56 mm) and July the warmest (highs of 22 °C). Winter days are short, about 8 hours of daylight in December, and 96 mm of rain falls in October, the wettest month. Frost comes on about 47 nights a year. The climate in Chiseldon →
8 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
Chiseldon is inland. These are the nearest named beaches, measured from the edge of the village.
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. Plough Hill, at 170 m, is the highest named top within 2 km of Chiseldon.
Every named place, with directions
Viewpoints 1
Plus 1 viewpoint without a name on the map.
Hills and peaks 2
Nature reserves 1
Playgrounds 8
Plus 7 playgrounds without a name on the map.
The outdoors in nearby towns
The nearest towns of 1,000+ within 12 miles. Tap a town for its outdoors page.
| Town | Outdoors | Green space, ha per 1,000 | Near a park | Protected within 5 km |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chiseldon | A | 1.8 | 100% | 69% |
| Wanborough 2.5 mi | A+ | 6.0 | 100% | 45% |
| Wroughton 2.6 mi | B | 1.1 | 78% | 52% |
| Stratton St Margaret 4.4 mi | A | 3.3 | 82% | 5% |
| Swindon 4.6 mi | A+ | 3.1 | 96% | 21% |
| Aldbourne 5.4 mi | B+ | 3.2 | 84% | 100% |
| Marlborough 6.7 mi | B | 1.2 | 72% | 100% |
Swindon, 4.6 miles away, grades A+, the best next door: 96% of its residents live within 400 m of a park. Wanborough has at least twice Chiseldon’s green space per resident.
Questions about the outdoors in Chiseldon
What are the best walks near Chiseldon?
5 waymarked walking routes pass within 2 km of the village, including the Millennium Trail, Sarsen Way and South Swindon Green Trail.
What is the nearest beach to Chiseldon?
The Leys Park, 20 mi from the edge of the village. Chiseldon itself is inland.
How many people in Chiseldon live near a park?
100% 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 Chiseldon?
May to September: the longest days, the warmest afternoons and the least rain of the year, from the Met Office 1991–2020 averages.
Is Chiseldon good for walking?
For paths, yes: 3.4 km of footpath and right of way per square kilometre, more than 68% of UK towns. For park space per person it beats 37% (1.8 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 Chiseldon’s overall grade.
Where Chiseldon’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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