Netheravon’s biggest
Old School Close Play Area
Play space
0.0 ha (0 acres)
Centralin the middle of Netheravon
Directionsto the nearest entrance
Photo: Trish Steel · CC BY-SA 2.0D−Outdoors Grade
Outdoors in Netheravon · parks, paths & countryside
Parks and walks in Netheravon
The North Wessex Downs National Landscape begins 3.9 mi from the village’s edge. Parks and playing fields in Netheravon add up to 0.4 ha for every 1,000 residents; the typical UK town has 2.1. Footpaths add up to 8 km in the village and the kilometre around it, 1.3 for every square kilometre. Netheravon grades D− for the outdoors. A character grade: it isn’t part of the overall grade.
Green space
0.4 ha
per 1,000 residents
Typical UK town 2.1
Near a park
0%
of residents within 400 m
Typical UK town 83%
Footpaths
8 km
1.3 km per km², town + 1 km
Typical UK town 3.0 per km²
Protected landscape
0%
of the land within 5 km
North Wessex Downs starts 3.9 mi out, past the 5 km
Character
What kind of outdoors village is Netheravon?
Read from the data: what stands out first, good and bad.
Countryside close byThe North Wessex Downs National Landscape starts 3.9 mi north.Parks can be a walk away100% of residents live more than 400 m from a park or playing field.
Netheravon’s strongest suit is the North Wessex Downs National Landscape close by. Where it falls short is how far some homes are from a park.
Outdoors grade
Netheravon grades D− for the outdoors
Each chart is every UK town of 1,000 or more on one measure: the green bar is Netheravon, 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−
Behind almost every UK town
Public green space0.4 haper 1,000 residents: parks, gardens, playing fields, play spaces
4out of
100
100
A park within a walk0%of residents within 400 m (a 5-minute walk)
2out of
100
100
National Park or National Landscape0%of the land within 5 km · North Wessex Downs begins just past 5 km
31out of
100
100
Footpaths1.3 kmper km², the town and 1 km around it
12out 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
How Netheravon compares with UK villages of 1,000 to 1,100
The 60 UK towns and cities of 1,000 to 1,100 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
Netheravon1.3
Villages its size2.5
Wiltshire towns3.0
All UK towns3.0
Green space, ha per 1,000 residents
Netheravon0.4
Villages its size2.4
Wiltshire towns2.0
All UK towns2.1
Residents within 400 m of a park
Netheravon0%
Villages its size78%
Wiltshire towns86%
All UK towns83%
Netheravon falls furthest behind on homes near a park, where 53 of the 59 others do better.
Show as a table
| Town | Outdoors | Green space | Near a park | Path per km² | Protected | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Giggleswick North Yorkshire | A+ | 14.2 | 100% | 4.1 | 75% |
| 2 | Lympne Kent | A+ | 4 | 100% | 2.7 | 34% |
| 3 | Uplyme Devon | A+ | 2.4 | 100% | 3 | 61% |
| 4 | Frampton on Severn Gloucestershire | A+ | 11 | 100% | 3.6 | 0% |
| 5 | Bromham Wiltshire | A+ | 5.8 | 100% | 3.3 | 13% |
| 6 | Blagdon Somerset | A | 3.3 | 100% | 2.9 | 62% |
| 7 | Colney Heath Hertfordshire | A | 8.7 | 100% | 7.4 | 0% |
| 8 | Alston Cumbria | A | 5.8 | 100% | 2.1 | 100% |
| 9 | Newnham Gloucestershire | A | 4.2 | 100% | 3.2 | 0% |
| 10 | Heather Leicestershire | A | 16.9 | 100% | 4.7 | 0% |
| 11 | Blockley Gloucestershire | A | 2.9 | 100% | 2.5 | 86% |
| 12 | Silverdale Lancashire | A | 2.3 | 46% | 3.9 | 76% |
| 13 | North Curry Somerset | A | 6.2 | 100% | 3.5 | 0% |
| 14 | Furness Vale Derbyshire | A− | 2 | 78% | 5 | 36% |
| 15 | Old Langho Lancashire | A− | 7.6 | 73% | 2.9 | 20% |
| 16 | Chedgrave Norfolk | A− | 3 | 100% | 1.7 | 26% |
| 17 | Plumpton Green East Sussex | A− | 4.6 | 54% | 3.6 | 37% |
| 18 | Winford Isle of Wight | A− | 1.7 | 0% | 4.4 | 39% |
| 19 | Cwmgwrach West Glamorgan | B+ | 3.2 | 100% | 1.7 | 6% |
| 20 | Calver Derbyshire | B+ | 2.2 | 44% | 4.8 | 99% |
| 21 | Groombridge East Sussex | B+ | 2.3 | 77% | 2.8 | 92% |
| 22 | Crowlas Cornwall | B+ | 3.3 | 73% | 1.1 | 23% |
| 23 | Blackfordby Leicestershire | B+ | 3.5 | 100% | 2.6 | 0% |
| 24 | Five Ash Down East Sussex | B+ | 2.8 | 0% | 4.1 | 43% |
| 25 | Avening Gloucestershire | B | 0.9 | 100% | 2.3 | 97% |
| 26 | Flamstead Hertfordshire | B | 2.1 | 82% | 2.7 | 33% |
| 27 | Fishtoft Lincolnshire | B | 2.3 | 100% | 1.1 | 0% |
| 28 | Pentre Halkyn Clwyd | B | 1.3 | 59% | 3.6 | 3% |
| 29 | Nanpean Cornwall | B | 4.4 | 100% | 1.5 | 0% |
| 30 | Sharnford Leicestershire | B− | 1.9 | 100% | 2.9 | 0% |
| 31 | Tackley Oxfordshire | B− | 1.9 | 100% | 2.8 | 0% |
| 32 | Twyning Gloucestershire | B− | 1 | 100% | 2.5 | 10% |
| 33 | Ettington Warwickshire | B− | 3.3 | 100% | 1.6 | 0% |
| 34 | South Wingfield Derbyshire | B− | 5.4 | 75% | 2.8 | 0% |
| 35 | Coopersale Essex | B− | 1.1 | 100% | 3.5 | 0% |
| 36 | Carleton-in-Craven North Yorkshire | C+ | 0.4 | 100% | 2.3 | 10% |
| 37 | Chillington Devon | C+ | 0.6 | 78% | 1.3 | 55% |
| 38 | Milford Derbyshire | C+ | 1.4 | 100% | 2.8 | 0% |
| 39 | Draycott Somerset | C+ | 2.1 | 68% | 2.1 | 46% |
| 40 | Sutterton Lincolnshire | C+ | 2.8 | 100% | 0.4 | 0% |
| 41 | Upper Basildon Berkshire | C+ | 2.3 | 0% | 2 | 97% |
| 42 | Weston Staffordshire | C+ | 1.3 | 100% | 1 | 4% |
| 43 | Simister Greater Manchester | C | 16.6 | 0% | 2.7 | 0% |
| 44 | Huby (Hambleton) North Yorkshire | C | 2.4 | 75% | 1.5 | 2% |
| 45 | Kimbolton Cambridgeshire | C− | 2.4 | 50% | 2.8 | 0% |
| 46 | Pattishall and Astcote Northamptonshire | C− | 2.9 | 39% | 2.4 | 0% |
| 47 | Stebbing Essex | C− | 2.4 | 70% | 2 | 0% |
| 48 | North Leverton with Habblesthorpe Nottinghamshire | C− | 0.5 | 100% | 1.4 | 0% |
| 49 | Tolleshunt Knights Essex | C− | 3.4 | 41% | 1.8 | 0% |
| 50 | Gorefield Cambridgeshire | D | 2.9 | 67% | 0.5 | 0% |
| 51 | Snitterfield Warwickshire | D | 2.4 | 63% | 0.8 | 0% |
| 52 | Crundale Dyfed | D | 1.5 | 57% | 0.5 | 5% |
| 53 | Napton on the Hill Warwickshire | D | 0.4 | 69% | 2.5 | 0% |
| 54 | Aberporth Dyfed | D | 0.6 | 38% | 0.8 | 0% |
| 55 | Wisbech St Mary Cambridgeshire | D | 1.8 | 69% | 0.2 | 0% |
| 56 | Hockliffe Bedfordshire | D− | 1.2 | 49% | 1.8 | 0% |
| 57 | South Hykeham Lincolnshire | D− | 0.2 | 0% | 2.3 | 0% |
| 58 | Pencader Dyfed | D− | 1.2 | 30% | 0.1 | 0% |
| 59 | Netheravon Wiltshire | D− | 0.4 | 0% | 1.3 | 0% |
| 60 | Leeming Bar North Yorkshire | D− | 0.7 | 0% | 0.9 | 0% |
The map
Parks, footpaths & countryside
Tap a number to zoom to a park. Tap a layer to hide it. The dashed line is Netheravon’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 Netheravon
The biggest is Old School Close Play Area, 0.0 ha (0 acres). Directions go to the park’s nearest public entrance where Ordnance Survey maps one.
Close to home
Few Netheravon 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 (0%)Further (100%)
Netheravon0%
Villages its size78%
Wiltshire towns86%
All UK towns83%
About 1,100 people live further than that. Playing fields count, so a park within reach isn’t always one with paths or trees; 4 playgrounds are mapped in and around the village, about one for every 267 residents.
National Parks & National Landscapes
The North Wessex Downs National Landscape is 3.9 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
National Landscape
Cranborne Chase & West Wiltshire Downs
8.5 mi south-west986 km²since 1983
Official siteProtected landscape begins just outside the 5 km ring the Outdoors Grade measures, so Netheravon scores 0% on it even though the North Wessex Downs National Landscape is 3.9 mi away. New Forest National Park covers 567 km² and has been a National Park since 2006.
Footpaths & waymarked walks
1 waymarked walk passes through or near Netheravon
8 km of footpaths, bridleways and rights of way are mapped in Netheravon and the kilometre around it, 1.3 km for every square kilometre (the typical UK town has 3.0). Bars show each route’s kilometres within 2 km of the village.
Regional
Sarsen Way7.1 km
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.
When to get out
The best walking months in Netheravon: 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) | 8.4 | 9.9 | 11.7 | 13.8 | 15.5 | 16.6 | 16.1 | 14.6 | 12.5 | 10.6 | 8.8 | 7.9 |
| High (°C) | 8 | 8 | 11 | 14 | 17 | 20 | 22 | 22 | 19 | 15 | 11 | 8 |
| Rain (mm) | 77 | 54 | 52 | 53 | 51 | 55 | 58 | 58 | 57 | 81 | 85 | 81 |
May is the driest month (51 mm) and July the warmest (highs of 22 °C). Winter days are short, about 8 hours of daylight in December, and 85 mm of rain falls in November, the wettest month. Frost comes on about 51 nights a year. The climate in Netheravon →
Things to do
4 playgrounds
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.
Every named place, with directions
Hills and peaks 1
Plus 1 peak without a name on the map.
Playgrounds 4
Plus 4 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.
DurringtonLarkhillBulfordAmesburyShipton BellingerTidworthNetheravon
ABCDOutdoors Grade
| Town | Outdoors | Green space, ha per 1,000 | Near a park | Protected within 5 km |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Netheravon | D− | 0.4 | 0% | 0% |
| Durrington 2.9 mi | C | 1.1 | 90% | 0% |
| Larkhill 3.1 mi | D | 1.1 | 68% | 0% |
| Bulford 3.9 mi | D− | 0.9 | 51% | 0% |
| Amesbury 5.0 mi | D | 1.8 | 73% | 0% |
| Shipton Bellinger 5.6 mi | D | 1.5 | 79% | 0% |
| Tidworth 5.7 mi | B+ | 3.7 | 90% | 8% |
Tidworth, 5.7 miles away, grades B+, the best next door: 90% of its residents live within 400 m of a park. Durrington, Larkhill and Bulford have at least twice Netheravon’s green space per resident.
Questions about the outdoors in Netheravon
What is the biggest park in Netheravon?
Old School Close Play Area, 0.0 ha (0 acres). 1 named park, garden or playing field is in the village or within 400 m of it.
Is Netheravon near a National Park?
Yes. New Forest National Park begins 17 mi south of the village’s edge. It covers 567 km² and has been a National Park since 2006. The nearest protected landscape of any kind is the North Wessex Downs National Landscape, 3.9 mi away.
What are the best walks near Netheravon?
1 waymarked walking route passes within 2 km of the village, including the Sarsen Way.
How many people in Netheravon live near a park?
0% 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 Netheravon?
May to September: the longest days, the warmest afternoons and the least rain of the year, from the Met Office 1991–2020 averages.
Is Netheravon good for walking?
Paths are thinner than most towns: 1.3 km of footpath and right of way per square kilometre, more than 12% of UK towns. For park space per person it beats 4% (0.4 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 Netheravon’s overall grade.
Sources
Where Netheravon’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.