Photo: Robin Webster · CC BY-SA 2.0Almost everyone in Sutton Benger lives within a 5-minute walk of a park
The Cotswolds National Landscape begins 4.5 mi from the village’s edge. Parks and playing fields in Sutton Benger add up to 2.7 ha for every 1,000 residents; the typical UK town has 2.1. 15 km of footpaths run through the village and the kilometre around it, 2.4 for every square kilometre. Sutton Benger grades B for the outdoors. A character grade: it isn’t part of the overall grade.
What kind of outdoors village is Sutton Benger?
Read from the data: what stands out first, good and bad.
Sutton Benger’s strongest suit is parks close to every home, followed by two protected landscapes close by.
Sutton Benger grades B for the outdoors
Each chart is every UK town of 1,000 or more on one measure: the green bar is Sutton Benger, 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.
Sutton Benger is 24th of 60 UK villages its size for the outdoors
The 60 UK towns and cities of 1,200 to 1,300 people with an Outdoors Grade. Hover a dot for its figures; tap one for its page.
Against villages its size, Sutton Benger stands out most for homes near a park: none of the other 59 has more.
Show as a table
| Town | Outdoors | Green space | Near a park | Path per km² | Protected | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Rough Common Kent | A+ | 11 | 100% | 9.2 | 1% |
| 2 | Box Wiltshire | A+ | 3.8 | 100% | 3.9 | 56% |
| 3 | Huncoat Lancashire | A+ | 10.1 | 100% | 4.9 | 1% |
| 4 | Clanfield Hampshire | A+ | 6.1 | 100% | 2.9 | 78% |
| 5 | Aldington Kent | A+ | 4.6 | 100% | 3.8 | 11% |
| 6 | Otterbourne Hampshire | A | 2.9 | 100% | 3.2 | 25% |
| 7 | Box Hill Surrey | A | 35.9 | 12% | 6 | 39% |
| 8 | Cliffs End Kent | A | 6.9 | 100% | 1.8 | 0% |
| 9 | Millhouse Green South Yorkshire | A | 1.9 | 100% | 3.6 | 18% |
| 10 | Harlech Gwynedd | A− | 1.9 | 36% | 3.5 | 67% |
| 11 | Bradpole Dorset | A− | 0.9 | 100% | 3.3 | 95% |
| 12 | South Heath Buckinghamshire | A− | 20.4 | 0% | 3 | 85% |
| 13 | Exton Devon | A− | 2.2 | 100% | 0.6 | 7% |
| 14 | Westfield East Sussex | B+ | 1.9 | 100% | 1.9 | 83% |
| 15 | Tregarth Gwynedd | B+ | 1.5 | 100% | 2.9 | 23% |
| 16 | New Brancepeth County Durham | B+ | 2.6 | 100% | 3.5 | 0% |
| 17 | Baddesley Ensor Warwickshire | B+ | 18.3 | 100% | 2.1 | 0% |
| 18 | Bierton Buckinghamshire | B+ | 5.8 | 70% | 7.7 | 0% |
| 19 | Farningham Kent | B+ | 1.7 | 100% | 2 | 33% |
| 20 | Billy Row County Durham | B | 2.3 | 100% | 3.1 | 0% |
| 21 | Bunbury Cheshire | B | 2.6 | 100% | 2.7 | 0% |
| 22 | Talgarth Powys | B | 5.7 | 71% | 1.5 | 52% |
| 23 | Minster Lovell Oxfordshire | B | 3.6 | 79% | 1.5 | 37% |
| 24 | Sutton Benger Wiltshire | B | 2.7 | 100% | 2.4 | 0% |
| 25 | Beer Devon | B | 1.6 | 50% | 2.2 | 43% |
| 26 | Eckington Worcestershire | B | 4.1 | 72% | 1.9 | 23% |
| 27 | Weir Lancashire | B | 0.6 | 100% | 6 | 0% |
| 28 | Codmore Hill West Sussex | B− | 3.5 | 0% | 2.7 | 46% |
| 29 | Potten End Hertfordshire | B− | 2.4 | 73% | 2.2 | 44% |
| 30 | Blindley Heath Surrey | B− | 3.2 | 79% | 2.2 | 1% |
| 31 | Marlpit Hill Kent | B− | 2.5 | 0% | 2.9 | 35% |
| 32 | Sutton Common Suffolk | C+ | 0.8 | 51% | 3.9 | 85% |
| 33 | Gaerwen Gwynedd | C+ | 1.5 | 100% | 0.4 | 7% |
| 34 | Weobley Herefordshire | C+ | 1.6 | 100% | 2.1 | 0% |
| 35 | Ashill Norfolk | C+ | 3.7 | 82% | 1.7 | 0% |
| 36 | Bradfield Essex | C | 1.4 | 27% | 1.5 | 35% |
| 37 | Biddulph Moor Staffordshire | C | 8.4 | 43% | 2.4 | 0% |
| 38 | Stoke Hampshire | C | 0.3 | 0% | 2 | 32% |
| 39 | Silkstone Common South Yorkshire | C | 1.5 | 63% | 4.9 | 0% |
| 40 | Ponthir Gwent | C | 2.9 | 78% | 1.8 | 0% |
| 41 | Coedhirwaun West Glamorgan | C | 2 | 100% | 0.4 | 0% |
| 42 | Nefyn Gwynedd | C | 0 | 0% | 2 | 24% |
| 43 | Foxton Cambridgeshire | C | 2.3 | 84% | 1.7 | 0% |
| 44 | Hanwood Shropshire | C− | 1.9 | 19% | 2.6 | 3% |
| 45 | Spratton Northamptonshire | C− | 2.3 | 85% | 0.4 | 0% |
| 46 | Weeley Essex | C− | 7.5 | 0% | 1.5 | 0% |
| 47 | Aldbrough East Riding of Yorkshire | C− | 2.1 | 26% | 0.8 | 0% |
| 48 | Blyth Nottinghamshire | D | 2.5 | 76% | 0.3 | 0% |
| 49 | Burton on the Wolds Leicestershire | D | 2.5 | 31% | 2 | 0% |
| 50 | Yardley Gobion Northamptonshire | D | 1.2 | 47% | 3 | 0% |
| 51 | East Markham Nottinghamshire | D | 2.2 | 46% | 1.9 | 0% |
| 52 | Pagham West Sussex | D | 0.3 | 0% | 2 | 0% |
| 53 | Southery Norfolk | D | 2 | 61% | 1.7 | 0% |
| 54 | Dishforth North Yorkshire | D | 2.3 | 68% | 0.7 | 0% |
| 55 | Fleet Hargate Lincolnshire | D | 1.7 | 76% | 0.7 | 0% |
| 56 | Saham Toney Norfolk | D | 3 | 18% | 0.7 | 0% |
| 57 | Hadham Cross Hertfordshire | D | 0 | 0% | 3.3 | 0% |
| 58 | Elvington North Yorkshire | D | 2.1 | 0% | 1.5 | 0% |
| 59 | Felton Northumberland | D− | 1.7 | 50% | 1.4 | 0% |
| 60 | Walsham le Willows Suffolk | D− | 0.4 | 0% | 2 | 0% |
Parks, footpaths & countryside
Tap a number to zoom to a park. Tap a layer to hide it. The dashed line is Sutton Benger’s built-up area.
How close Sutton Benger’s homes are to 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; 3 playgrounds are mapped in and around the village, about one for every 423 residents.
Cotswolds and North Wessex Downs both start about 6 miles from Sutton Benger
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.
Protected landscape begins just outside the 5 km ring the Outdoors Grade measures, so Sutton Benger scores 0% on it even though the Cotswolds National Landscape is 4.5 mi away.
Footpaths in and around Sutton Benger
15 km of footpaths, bridleways and rights of way are mapped in Sutton Benger and the kilometre around it, 2.4 km for every square kilometre (the typical UK town has 3.0).
No named walking route is mapped within 2 km of Sutton Benger; its footpaths are on the map above.
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 Sutton Benger: 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 | 7.9 |
| High (°C) | 8 | 9 | 11 | 14 | 17 | 20 | 22 | 22 | 19 | 15 | 11 | 8 |
| Rain (mm) | 78 | 62 | 56 | 54 | 55 | 55 | 65 | 70 | 57 | 82 | 86 | 84 |
April is the driest month (54 mm) and July the warmest (highs of 22 °C). Winter days are short, about 8 hours of daylight in December, and 86 mm of rain falls in November, the wettest month. Frost comes on about 42 nights a year. The climate in Sutton Benger →
3 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
Nature reserves 1
Playgrounds 3
Plus 3 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sutton Benger | B | 2.7 | 100% | 0% |
| Chippenham 3.9 mi | B+ | 2.8 | 76% | 7% |
| Lyneham 4.7 mi | B− | 1.5 | 94% | 6% |
| Derry Hill and Studley 4.8 mi | C+ | 1.2 | 100% | 1% |
| Malmesbury 5.6 mi | B | 2.0 | 86% | 26% |
| Calne 5.7 mi | B− | 1.3 | 88% | 33% |
| Sherston 7.3 mi | A | 3.7 | 100% | 75% |
Sherston, 7.3 miles away, grades A, the best next door: every resident lives within 400 m of a park.
Questions about the outdoors in Sutton Benger
Is Sutton Benger near a National Park?
The nearest protected landscape is the Cotswolds National Landscape, 4.5 mi west of the village’s edge. It covers 2,041 km² and was designated in 1966.
How many people in Sutton Benger 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 Sutton Benger?
May to September: the longest days, the warmest afternoons and the least rain of the year, from the Met Office 1991–2020 averages.
Is Sutton Benger good for walking?
About average for paths: 2.4 km of footpath and right of way per square kilometre, more than 41% of UK towns. For park space per person it beats 64% (2.7 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 Sutton Benger’s overall grade.
Where Sutton Benger’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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