Corsham’s biggest
Corsham Rec Play Area
Play space
0.2 ha (0 acres)
Centralin the middle of Corsham
Directionsto the nearest entrance
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Outdoors in Corsham · parks, paths & countryside
31% of the land within 5 km of Corsham is National Park or National Landscape
The Cotswolds National Landscape begins 0.3 mi from the town’s edge. 50 km of footpaths run through the town and the kilometre around it, 3.0 for every square kilometre. Parks and playing fields in Corsham add up to 1.9 ha for every 1,000 residents; the typical UK town has 2.1. Corsham grades B for the outdoors: #15 of 30 in Wiltshire. A character grade: it isn’t part of the overall grade.
Green space
1.9 ha
per 1,000 residents
Typical UK town 2.1
Near a park
81%
of residents within 400 m
Typical UK town 83%
Footpaths
50 km
3.0 km per km², town + 1 km
Typical UK town 3.0 per km²
Protected landscape
31%
of the land within 5 km
Nearest: Cotswolds National Landscape
Character
What kind of outdoors town is Corsham?
Read from the data: what stands out first, good and bad.
Protected countryside31% of the land within 5 km is Cotswolds National Landscape.Historic parksCorsham Court is a registered historic park (Grade II*).
Corsham’s strongest suit is protected countryside on the doorstep, followed by its historic parks.
Outdoors grade
Corsham grades B for the outdoors
Each chart is every UK town of 1,000 or more on one measure: the green bar is Corsham, 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 63% of UK towns#15 of 30 in Wiltshire · 24th of 60 UK towns its size
Public green space1.9 haper 1,000 residents: parks, gardens, playing fields, play spaces
43out of
100
100
A park within a walk81%of residents within 400 m (a 5-minute walk)
49out of
100
100
National Park or National Landscape31%of the land within 5 km
84out of
100
100
Footpaths3.0 kmper km², the town and 1 km around it
59out 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
Corsham is 24th of 60 UK towns its size for the outdoors
The 60 UK towns and cities of 10,300 to 11,500 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
Corsham3.0
Towns its size3.1
Wiltshire towns3.0
All UK towns3.0
Green space, ha per 1,000 residents
Corsham1.9
Towns its size1.9
Wiltshire towns2.0
All UK towns2.1
Residents within 400 m of a park
Corsham81%
Towns its size82%
Wiltshire towns86%
All UK towns83%
Show as a table
| Town | Outdoors | Green space | Near a park | Path per km² | Protected | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Weybourne Surrey | A+ | 7.1 | 86% | 6.1 | 14% |
| 2 | West End Hampshire | A | 9.1 | 100% | 6.1 | 0% |
| 3 | Brierfield Lancashire | A | 2.1 | 92% | 5.6 | 18% |
| 4 | Penryn Cornwall | A | 1.9 | 91% | 2.6 | 31% |
| 5 | Great Harwood Lancashire | A | 2.2 | 97% | 4.3 | 4% |
| 6 | Godalming Surrey | A− | 4.6 | 73% | 3.1 | 66% |
| 7 | Soham Cambridgeshire | A− | 4.7 | 97% | 4.1 | 0% |
| 8 | Conisbrough South Yorkshire | A− | 5.3 | 99% | 3.8 | 0% |
| 9 | Platt Bridge and Abram Greater Manchester | A− | 3.7 | 98% | 4.3 | 0% |
| 10 | Royston South Yorkshire | A− | 7.9 | 97% | 3.4 | 0% |
| 11 | Romiley Greater Manchester | A− | 3.9 | 80% | 3.8 | 1% |
| 12 | Southwater West Sussex | A− | 3.4 | 82% | 3.7 | 3% |
| 13 | Sawbridgeworth Hertfordshire | A− | 4 | 85% | 5.4 | 0% |
| 14 | Chadwell St Mary Essex | A− | 3.2 | 97% | 2.2 | 0% |
| 15 | Whitwick Leicestershire | A− | 4.2 | 84% | 5.5 | 0% |
| 16 | Kearsley Greater Manchester | A− | 3.4 | 91% | 4.2 | 0% |
| 17 | Uppermill Greater Manchester | A− | 2.4 | 70% | 4.8 | 27% |
| 18 | Tidworth Wiltshire | B+ | 3.7 | 90% | 2.3 | 8% |
| 19 | Pelsall West Midlands | B+ | 6.1 | 95% | 2.9 | 0% |
| 20 | Ross-on-Wye Herefordshire | B+ | 1.9 | 76% | 3.4 | 56% |
| 21 | Barnoldswick Lancashire | B+ | 1.8 | 87% | 4 | 2% |
| 22 | South Elmsall West Yorkshire | B+ | 9 | 92% | 2.5 | 0% |
| 23 | Cranleigh Surrey | B | 2.5 | 20% | 4.3 | 38% |
| 24 | Corsham Wiltshire | B | 1.9 | 81% | 3 | 31% |
| 25 | Baldock Hertfordshire | B | 2.1 | 91% | 4.3 | 0% |
| 26 | Warmsworth South Yorkshire | B | 2.7 | 79% | 4.7 | 0% |
| 27 | Great Dunmow Essex | B | 2 | 92% | 4 | 0% |
| 28 | Gillingham Dorset | B | 1.9 | 91% | 2.6 | 3% |
| 29 | Sandbach Cheshire | B− | 2.5 | 87% | 3.4 | 0% |
| 30 | Helston Cornwall | B− | 1.3 | 61% | 2.7 | 21% |
| 31 | Mossley Greater Manchester | B− | 0.9 | 74% | 4.5 | 14% |
| 32 | Oswaldtwistle Lancashire | B− | 1.1 | 94% | 4.6 | 0% |
| 33 | Filton Gloucestershire | B− | 3.3 | 40% | 4.8 | 0% |
| 34 | Cambourne Cambridgeshire | B− | 0.7 | 91% | 7.1 | 0% |
| 35 | Baglan West Glamorgan | C+ | 2.5 | 69% | 1.9 | 0% |
| 36 | Liskeard Cornwall | C+ | 0.8 | 89% | 2.7 | 6% |
| 37 | Bolsover Derbyshire | C+ | 1.9 | 85% | 2.9 | 0% |
| 38 | Selsey West Sussex | C | 1.6 | 79% | 1.4 | 0% |
| 39 | Earl Shilton Leicestershire | C | 1.5 | 98% | 2.4 | 0% |
| 40 | Sandy Bedfordshire | C | 0.9 | 76% | 5.4 | 0% |
| 41 | Brimington Derbyshire | C | 1.2 | 72% | 4.5 | 0% |
| 42 | Ulverston Cumbria | C | 0.7 | 60% | 1.8 | 8% |
| 43 | Towcester Northamptonshire | C | 1.3 | 77% | 3.6 | 0% |
| 44 | Epping Essex | C− | 1.2 | 70% | 3.7 | 0% |
| 45 | Attleborough Norfolk | C− | 1.8 | 93% | 1.4 | 0% |
| 46 | Hexham Northumberland | C− | 1.5 | 64% | 2 | 9% |
| 47 | Cleveleys Lancashire | C− | 0.8 | 71% | 1.8 | 0% |
| 48 | Downham Market Norfolk | C− | 1.5 | 77% | 2.7 | 0% |
| 49 | Chatteris Cambridgeshire | C− | 1.4 | 94% | 1.7 | 0% |
| 50 | Lutterworth Leicestershire | C− | 1.7 | 83% | 2 | 0% |
| 51 | Cheadle Staffordshire | C− | 1.7 | 90% | 1.4 | 0% |
| 52 | West Moors Dorset | C− | 0.9 | 33% | 3.1 | 0% |
| 53 | New Ollerton and Ollerton Nottinghamshire | C− | 0.8 | 80% | 2.8 | 0% |
| 54 | Dinnington South Yorkshire | C− | 1.1 | 81% | 2.4 | 0% |
| 55 | Leominster Herefordshire | C− | 1.1 | 72% | 2.8 | 0% |
| 56 | Newtown Powys | D | 2.3 | 65% | 1.6 | 0% |
| 57 | Sherborne Dorset | D | 1.2 | 76% | 2.1 | 0% |
| 58 | Longton Lancashire | D | 1.7 | 60% | 2.1 | 0% |
| 59 | Burton Latimer Northamptonshire | D | 0.9 | 62% | 2.8 | 0% |
| 60 | Tonyrefail Mid Glamorgan | D− | 0.7 | 48% | 1.1 | 0% |
The map
Parks, footpaths & countryside
Tap a number to zoom to a park. Tap a layer to hide it. The dashed line is Corsham’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 Corsham
The biggest is Corsham Rec Play Area, 0.2 ha (0 acres). Directions go to the park’s nearest public entrance where Ordnance Survey maps one.
Close to home
8 in 10 Corsham 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 (81%)Further (19%)
Corsham81%
Towns its size82%
Wiltshire towns86%
All UK towns83%
About 2,100 people live further than that. Playing fields count, so a park within reach isn’t always one with paths or trees; 31 playgrounds are mapped in and around the town, about one for every 351 residents.
National Parks & National Landscapes
National Parks and National Landscapes around Corsham
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
31% of the land within 5 km of Corsham is National Park or National Landscape, more than 84% of UK towns.
Footpaths & waymarked walks
1 waymarked walk passes through or near Corsham
50 km of footpaths, bridleways and rights of way are mapped in Corsham and the kilometre around it, 3.0 km for every square kilometre (the typical UK town has 3.0). Bars show each route’s kilometres within 2 km of the town.
Regional
Macmillan Way3.3 km
The regional route here is the Macmillan 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 Corsham
Historic England’s register of parks and gardens, and the listed buildings and scheduled monuments that stand inside Corsham’s named parks.
Registered · Grade II*Corsham Court5.1 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 Corsham: 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) | 8.3 | 9.9 | 11.7 | 13.8 | 15.6 | 16.6 | 16.2 | 14.6 | 12.5 | 10.6 | 8.8 | 7.9 |
| High (°C) | 8 | 8 | 10 | 13 | 17 | 20 | 22 | 21 | 19 | 14 | 10 | 8 |
| Rain (mm) | 87 | 67 | 60 | 61 | 66 | 63 | 68 | 73 | 64 | 92 | 98 | 97 |
March is the driest month (60 mm) and July the warmest (highs of 22 °C). Winter days are short, about 8 hours of daylight in December, and 98 mm of rain falls in November, the wettest month. Frost comes on about 52 nights a year. The climate in Corsham →
Things to do
31 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
Corsham is inland. These are the nearest named beaches, measured from the edge of the town.
Fossil Beach23 mi from Corsham’s edge
DirectionsSugar Loaf Beach25 mi from Corsham’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
Viewpoints 1
Plus 1 viewpoint without a name on the map.
Nature reserves 1
Beechfield Nature Area2.3 ha · 0.0 mi from town
DirectionsPlaygrounds 31
Plus 31 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.
RudloeBoxAtworthColerneChippenhamMelkshamCorsham
ABCDOutdoors Grade
Box, 2.5 miles away, grades A+, the best next door: every resident lives within 400 m of a park. Rudloe has at least twice Corsham’s green space per resident.
Questions about the outdoors in Corsham
What is the biggest park in Corsham?
Corsham Rec 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 Corsham near a National Park?
The nearest protected landscape is the Cotswolds National Landscape, 0.3 mi north of the town’s edge. It covers 2,041 km² and was designated in 1966.
What are the best walks near Corsham?
1 waymarked walking route passes within 2 km of the town, including the Macmillan Way.
What is the nearest beach to Corsham?
Fossil Beach, 23 mi from the edge of the town, then Sugar Loaf Beach (25 mi). Corsham itself is inland.
How many people in Corsham live near a park?
81% 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 Corsham?
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 Corsham are historic?
Corsham Court (Grade II*) is on Historic England’s register of parks and gardens.
Is Corsham good for walking?
About average for paths: 3.0 km of footpath and right of way per square kilometre, more than 59% of UK towns. For park space per person it beats 43% (1.9 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 Corsham’s overall grade.
Sources
Where Corsham’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.