Warminster’s biggest
Portway Field
Playing field
6.3 ha (16 acres)0.5 km of path
9 pitchesfootball pitches would fit
Centralin the middle of Warminster
Directionsto the nearest entrance
Photo: Colin Smith · CC BY-SA 2.0B+Outdoors Grade
Outdoors in Warminster · parks, paths & countryside
44% of the land within 5 km of Warminster is National Park or National Landscape
The Cranborne Chase & West Wiltshire Downs National Landscape reaches the edge of Warminster. Parks and playing fields in Warminster add up to 1.7 ha for every 1,000 residents; the typical UK town has 2.1. Footpaths add up to 97 km in the town and the kilometre around it, 3.0 for every square kilometre. Warminster grades B+ for the outdoors: #14 of 30 in Wiltshire. A character grade: it isn’t part of the overall grade.
Green space
1.7 ha
per 1,000 residents
Typical UK town 2.1
Near a park
86%
of residents within 400 m
Typical UK town 83%
Footpaths
97 km
3.0 km per km², town + 1 km
Typical UK town 3.0 per km²
Protected landscape
44%
of the land within 5 km
Nearest: Cranborne Chase & West Wiltshire Downs National Landscape
Character
What kind of outdoors town is Warminster?
Read from the data: what stands out first, good and bad.
Protected countryside44% of the land within 5 km is Cranborne Chase & West Wiltshire Downs National Landscape.Hills with a view5 mapped viewpoints, about 5× as many per resident as the typical town its size.Historic parksLongleat is a registered historic park (Grade I).Less park per person1.7 ha of parks and playing fields per 1,000 residents; the typical UK town has 2.1.
Warminster’s strongest suit is protected countryside on the doorstep, followed by its views. Where it falls short is park space per person.
Outdoors grade
Warminster grades B+ for the outdoors
Each chart is every UK town of 1,000 or more on one measure: the green bar is Warminster, 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 66% of UK towns#14 of 30 in Wiltshire · 26th of 60 UK towns its size
Public green space1.7 haper 1,000 residents: parks, gardens, playing fields, play spaces
34out of
100
100
A park within a walk86%of residents within 400 m (a 5-minute walk)
58out of
100
100
National Park or National Landscape44%of the land within 5 km
90out of
100
100
Footpaths3.0 kmper km², the town and 1 km around it
58out 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
Warminster is 26th of 60 UK towns its size for the outdoors
The 60 UK towns and cities of 16,700 to 19,400 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
Warminster3.0
Towns its size3.4
Wiltshire towns3.0
All UK towns3.0
Green space, ha per 1,000 residents
Warminster1.7
Towns its size2.3
Wiltshire towns2.0
All UK towns2.1
Residents within 400 m of a park
Warminster86%
Towns its size86%
Wiltshire towns86%
All UK towns83%
Warminster falls furthest behind on park space per resident, where 46 of the 59 others do better.
Show as a table
| Town | Outdoors | Green space | Near a park | Path per km² | Protected | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Cirencester Gloucestershire | A+ | 4.3 | 95% | 4.1 | 48% |
| 2 | Littlehampton West Sussex | A+ | 2.1 | 99% | 3.1 | 18% |
| 3 | Dorking Surrey | A | 4.4 | 75% | 7 | 57% |
| 4 | Litherland Merseyside | A | 7.3 | 94% | 3.3 | 0% |
| 5 | Houghton Regis Bedfordshire | A | 3.5 | 81% | 8 | 20% |
| 6 | Brixham Devon | A | 3.1 | 76% | 2.5 | 30% |
| 7 | Waltham Abbey Essex | A | 11.9 | 92% | 6.7 | 0% |
| 8 | Colne Lancashire | A | 3.2 | 86% | 5.3 | 8% |
| 9 | Shiney Row and Penshaw Tyne and Wear | A | 9.6 | 98% | 4.8 | 0% |
| 10 | Connah's Quay Clwyd | A | 5.8 | 97% | 2.8 | 0% |
| 11 | Forest Town Nottinghamshire | A | 6.4 | 94% | 5.7 | 0% |
| 12 | Northwich Cheshire | A | 8.8 | 92% | 4.8 | 0% |
| 13 | Keynsham Somerset | A | 2.1 | 95% | 4.6 | 11% |
| 14 | Clifton Greater Manchester | A | 10 | 92% | 4.4 | 0% |
| 15 | Abbots Langley and Kings Langley Hertfordshire | A | 3.8 | 88% | 3.6 | 3% |
| 16 | Bredbury and Woodley Greater Manchester | A | 4.8 | 94% | 4.8 | 0% |
| 17 | Euxton Lancashire | A− | 3.7 | 98% | 3.5 | 0% |
| 18 | Alton Hampshire | B+ | 2.6 | 82% | 3 | 27% |
| 19 | Wath upon Dearne South Yorkshire | B+ | 5.5 | 85% | 3.6 | 0% |
| 20 | Glossop Derbyshire | B+ | 1.5 | 78% | 4.2 | 60% |
| 21 | Walkden Greater Manchester | B+ | 3.4 | 92% | 3.4 | 0% |
| 22 | Wombwell South Yorkshire | B+ | 2.4 | 92% | 4.5 | 0% |
| 23 | Belper Derbyshire | B+ | 2.4 | 94% | 4.1 | 0% |
| 24 | Eastwood Nottinghamshire | B+ | 2.6 | 93% | 3.9 | 0% |
| 25 | Swanley Kent | B+ | 1.8 | 78% | 4.2 | 20% |
| 26 | Warminster Wiltshire | B+ | 1.7 | 86% | 3 | 44% |
| 27 | Liversedge West Yorkshire | B+ | 2 | 98% | 4.3 | 0% |
| 28 | Amersham Buckinghamshire | B | 1.8 | 62% | 3.7 | 64% |
| 29 | Cradley Heath West Midlands | B | 3.3 | 76% | 4.3 | 0% |
| 30 | Cobham Surrey | B | 3.1 | 49% | 4 | 1% |
| 31 | Ely Cambridgeshire | B | 2.7 | 88% | 3.3 | 0% |
| 32 | Bangor Gwynedd | B | 0.9 | 79% | 2.7 | 11% |
| 33 | Shaw Greater Manchester | B | 1.9 | 96% | 3.7 | 0% |
| 34 | Bramhall Greater Manchester | B− | 4.7 | 71% | 3.4 | 0% |
| 35 | St Ives Cambridgeshire | B− | 1.7 | 95% | 3.7 | 0% |
| 36 | Biddulph Staffordshire | B− | 3.3 | 86% | 2.7 | 0% |
| 37 | Guisborough North Yorkshire | B− | 1.5 | 80% | 2.6 | 35% |
| 38 | Baildon West Yorkshire | B− | 2 | 71% | 7.5 | 0% |
| 39 | Carterton Oxfordshire | B− | 2.1 | 82% | 2 | 13% |
| 40 | Ramsbottom Greater Manchester | C+ | 2.1 | 74% | 4.1 | 0% |
| 41 | Rawmarsh South Yorkshire | C+ | 2 | 84% | 3.2 | 0% |
| 42 | Maesteg Mid Glamorgan | C+ | 2 | 94% | 2.5 | 0% |
| 43 | Melksham Wiltshire | C+ | 2.2 | 87% | 2.7 | 0% |
| 44 | Newmarket Suffolk | C+ | 1.9 | 91% | 2.6 | 0% |
| 45 | Royston Hertfordshire | C+ | 1.3 | 83% | 4.1 | 0% |
| 46 | Knowle and Dorridge West Midlands | C+ | 2.7 | 82% | 2.4 | 0% |
| 47 | Adwick le Street South Yorkshire | C+ | 2.8 | 89% | 1.8 | 0% |
| 48 | Bodmin Cornwall | C+ | 1.1 | 87% | 2.4 | 3% |
| 49 | Thornton Lancashire | C | 2.1 | 71% | 1.6 | 0% |
| 50 | Nantwich Cheshire | C | 2.2 | 86% | 2.3 | 0% |
| 51 | Streetly West Midlands | C | 7.5 | 58% | 2 | 0% |
| 52 | Bourne Lincolnshire | C | 1.3 | 70% | 4.6 | 0% |
| 53 | Sleaford Lincolnshire | C | 1.7 | 93% | 2 | 0% |
| 54 | Tonypandy Mid Glamorgan | C | 1.5 | 85% | 2.5 | 0% |
| 55 | Stone Staffordshire | C− | 1.5 | 86% | 2.1 | 0% |
| 56 | North Hykeham Lincolnshire | C− | 2.4 | 60% | 2.3 | 0% |
| 57 | Louth Lincolnshire | C− | 0.6 | 76% | 1.3 | 47% |
| 58 | Oswestry Shropshire | C− | 1.3 | 88% | 2 | 0% |
| 59 | Willerby and Anlaby East Riding of Yorkshire | C− | 1.6 | 46% | 1.7 | 0% |
| 60 | Great Wyrley and Cheslyn Hay Staffordshire | C− | 1.5 | 60% | 1.6 | 3% |
The map
Parks, footpaths & countryside
Tap a number to zoom to a park. Tap a layer to hide it. The dashed line is Warminster’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 Warminster
The biggest is Portway Field, 6.3 ha (16 acres). Directions go to the park’s nearest public entrance where Ordnance Survey maps one.
All 4 named parks by size: 10 ha (26 acres) and 1 km of path
Parks & gardens 2.5 haPlaying fields 7.9 ha
The two biggest, Portway Field and Warminster Community Orchard, are 84% of the named green space.
Warminster Community Orchard
Park or garden
2.5 ha (6 acres)0.7 km of path
10 minto walk all 0.7 km of path
3 pitchesfootball pitches would fit
0.9 mi eastfrom the centre
Directionsto the nearest entrance
King George's Field
Playing field
0.8 ha (2 acres)
Centralin the middle of Warminster
Directionsto the park
Warminster Highbury Youth Football Club
Playing field
0.9 ha (2 acres)
0.7 mi eastfrom the centre
Directionsto the nearest entrance
Close to home
9 in 10 Warminster 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 (86%)Further (15%)
Warminster86%
Towns its size86%
Wiltshire towns86%
All UK towns83%
About 2,600 people live further than that. Playing fields count, so a park within reach isn’t always one with paths or trees; 16 playgrounds are mapped in and around the town, about one for every 1,126 residents.
National Parks & National Landscapes
National Parks and National Landscapes around Warminster
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
At the edge south986 km²since 198344% of the land within 5 km
Official site44% of the land within 5 km of Warminster is National Park or National Landscape, more than 89% of UK towns.
Footpaths & waymarked walks
2 waymarked walks pass through or near Warminster
97 km of footpaths, bridleways and rights of way are mapped in Warminster 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.
RegionalLocal
Wessex Ridgeway10.5 km
Imber Range Perimeter Path10.5 km
Close to home, the Imber Range Perimeter Path has 11 km of local walk within 2 km of the town. The regional route here is the Wessex Ridgeway.
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 Warminster
Historic England’s register of parks and gardens, and the listed buildings and scheduled monuments that stand inside Warminster’s named parks.
Registered · Grade ILongleat0.6 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 Warminster: 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) | 8.4 | 9.9 | 11.7 | 13.8 | 15.5 | 16.5 | 16.1 | 14.6 | 12.5 | 10.6 | 8.8 | 7.9 |
| High (°C) | 8 | 8 | 11 | 14 | 17 | 20 | 22 | 21 | 19 | 15 | 11 | 8 |
| Rain (mm) | 108 | 81 | 70 | 63 | 60 | 60 | 68 | 74 | 71 | 105 | 118 | 110 |
May 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 118 mm of rain falls in November, the wettest month. Frost comes on about 48 nights a year. The climate in Warminster →
Things to do
5 viewpoints and 16 playgrounds
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.
5Viewpoints5.1× towns its size7Hills and peaks6.8× towns its size1Nature reserves1Picnic sites16Playgrounds0.6× towns its size2Dog parks2Campsites
Every named place, with directions
Viewpoints 5
Plus 5 viewpoints without a name on the map.
Hills and peaks 7
Arn Hill Down212 m (696 ft) · 0.3 mi from town
DirectionsBattlesbury Hill208 m (682 ft) · 0.4 mi from town
DirectionsCley Hill244 m (801 ft) · 0.7 mi from town
DirectionsLittle Cley Hill180 m (591 ft) · 0.7 mi from town
DirectionsMiddle Hill179 m (587 ft) · 0.8 mi from town
DirectionsScratchbury Hill198 m (650 ft) · 1.0 mi from town
DirectionsPlus 1 peak without a name on the map.
Nature reserves 1
Smallbrook Meadows6.1 ha · 0.1 mi from town
DirectionsPicnic sites 1
Plus 1 picnic site without a name on the map.
Playgrounds 16
Sutton Veny Play Area1.1 mi from town
DirectionsPlus 15 playgrounds without a name on the map.
Dog parks 2
Plus 2 dog parks without a name on the map.
Campsites 2
Botany Camping & Glamping0.2 mi from town
DirectionsCoopers Bottom0.4 mi from town
DirectionsNext door
The outdoors in nearby towns
The nearest towns of 1,000+ within 12 miles. Tap a town for its outdoors page.
Dilton MarshWestburyBrattonFromeBeckingtonNorth BradleyWarminster
ABCDOutdoors Grade
| Town | Outdoors | Green space, ha per 1,000 | Near a park | Protected within 5 km |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Warminster | B+ | 1.7 | 86% | 44% |
| Dilton Marsh 3.3 mi | B− | 2.1 | 67% | 4% |
| Westbury 4.0 mi | B | 1.4 | 97% | 1% |
| Bratton 5.3 mi | C− | 1.9 | 25% | 0% |
| Frome 6.1 mi | C | 1.3 | 78% | 9% |
| Beckington 6.2 mi | B− | 2.7 | 100% | 0% |
| North Bradley 6.4 mi | A | 3.4 | 100% | 0% |
North Bradley, 6.4 miles away, grades A, the best next door: every resident lives within 400 m of a park. North Bradley has at least twice Warminster’s green space per resident.
Questions about the outdoors in Warminster
What is the biggest park in Warminster?
Portway Field, 6.3 ha (16 acres). Warminster Community Orchard (2.5 ha) is second. 4 named parks, gardens and playing fields are in the town or within 400 m of it.
Is Warminster near a National Park?
It covers 986 km² and was designated in 1983.
What are the best walks near Warminster?
2 waymarked walking routes pass within 2 km of the town, including the Wessex Ridgeway and Imber Range Perimeter Path.
How many people in Warminster live near a park?
86% 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 Warminster?
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 Warminster are historic?
Longleat (Grade I) is on Historic England’s register of parks and gardens.
Is Warminster good for walking?
About average for paths: 3.0 km of footpath and right of way per square kilometre, more than 58% of UK towns. For park space per person it beats 34% (1.7 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 Warminster’s overall grade.
Sources
Where Warminster’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.