Crowle’s biggest
Jubilee Playing Field
Playing field · 10 m outside town
2.7 ha (7 acres)
4 pitchesfootball pitches would fit
Centralin the middle of Crowle
Playground
Directionsto the nearest entrance
Photo: Jeff Gogarty · CC BY-SA 2.0C−Outdoors Grade
Outdoors in Crowle · parks, paths & countryside
Parks and walks in Crowle
34% of residents live within a 5-minute walk of a park or playing field. Parks and playing fields in Crowle add up to 2.4 ha for every 1,000 residents; the typical UK town has 2.1. Footpaths add up to 17 km in the village and the kilometre around it, 2.8 for every square kilometre. Crowle grades C− for the outdoors. A character grade: it isn’t part of the overall grade.
Green space
2.4 ha
per 1,000 residents
Typical UK town 2.1
Near a park
34%
of residents within 400 m
Typical UK town 83%
Footpaths
17 km
2.8 km per km², town + 1 km
Typical UK town 3.0 per km²
Protected landscape
0%
of the land within 5 km
Nearest: Cotswolds National Landscape
Outdoors grade
Crowle grades C− for the outdoors
Each chart is every UK town of 1,000 or more on one measure: the green bar is Crowle, the dashed line the typical town. The number is the share of towns it beats; the five are averaged and the average ranked again.
C−
Better than 20% of UK towns43rd of 60 UK villages its size
Public green space2.4 haper 1,000 residents: parks, gardens, playing fields, play spaces
56out of
100
100
A park within a walk34%of residents within 400 m (a 5-minute walk)
7out of
100
100
National Park or National Landscape0%of the land within 5 km · None within 5 km
31out of
100
100
Footpaths2.8 kmper km², the town and 1 km around it
54out 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
Crowle is 43rd of 60 UK villages its size for the outdoors
The 60 UK towns and cities of 1,100 to 1,200 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
Crowle2.8
Villages its size2.0
Worcestershire towns2.8
All UK towns3.0
Green space, ha per 1,000 residents
Crowle2.4
Villages its size1.9
Worcestershire towns2.3
All UK towns2.1
Residents within 400 m of a park
Crowle34%
Villages its size79%
Worcestershire towns80%
All UK towns83%
Against villages its size, Crowle stands out most for path per km²: only 14 of the other 59 have more. It falls furthest behind on homes near a park, where 46 of the others do better.
Show as a table
| Town | Outdoors | Green space | Near a park | Path per km² | Protected | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Corton Suffolk | A+ | 4.4 | 100% | 3 | 5% |
| 2 | Bathford Somerset | A+ | 4.8 | 100% | 3.7 | 64% |
| 3 | Upton St Leonards Gloucestershire | A+ | 5.2 | 80% | 7.5 | 43% |
| 4 | Fairlands Surrey | A+ | 2.8 | 100% | 5 | 11% |
| 5 | Ditchling East Sussex | A | 7.4 | 77% | 4 | 57% |
| 6 | Horsted Keynes West Sussex | A− | 2.2 | 100% | 2.3 | 83% |
| 7 | Wenvoe South Glamorgan | A− | 5.9 | 100% | 2.9 | 0% |
| 8 | Chatburn Lancashire | A− | 1.7 | 100% | 2.6 | 59% |
| 9 | Boosbeck North Yorkshire | A− | 2.9 | 100% | 1.9 | 22% |
| 10 | Camber East Sussex | A− | 0.9 | 100% | 2.4 | 5% |
| 11 | Grange Moor West Yorkshire | A− | 4.3 | 100% | 2.8 | 0% |
| 12 | Gotherington Gloucestershire | B+ | 2.7 | 72% | 3.7 | 33% |
| 13 | St Erth Cornwall | B+ | 0.9 | 100% | 2.5 | 4% |
| 14 | Walton Somerset | B+ | 3 | 100% | 3.2 | 0% |
| 15 | Oakley Buckinghamshire | B | 2.9 | 100% | 2.5 | 0% |
| 16 | High Pittington County Durham | B | 1.6 | 100% | 3.9 | 0% |
| 17 | Cropston Leicestershire | B | 3.1 | 100% | 2.2 | 0% |
| 18 | Huntley Gloucestershire | B | 2.9 | 100% | 2.3 | 0% |
| 19 | Jacobs Well Surrey | B | 1.4 | 77% | 4.7 | 8% |
| 20 | Curdworth Warwickshire | B− | 2.9 | 100% | 2.1 | 0% |
| 21 | Bishop Middleham County Durham | B− | 2.6 | 100% | 2.2 | 0% |
| 22 | Plaxtol Kent | B− | 2.6 | 57% | 2.5 | 40% |
| 23 | Harpur Hill Derbyshire | B− | 3.1 | 31% | 2.3 | 60% |
| 24 | Kelly Bray Cornwall | B− | 1.2 | 100% | 1.8 | 22% |
| 25 | Thurlton Norfolk | B− | 1.5 | 100% | 0.7 | 39% |
| 26 | Beaumaris Gwynedd | B− | 2.7 | 30% | 0.8 | 18% |
| 27 | Romsley Worcestershire | B− | 1.4 | 100% | 3 | 0% |
| 28 | Latchingdon Essex | B− | 1.7 | 100% | 0.9 | 0% |
| 29 | Grovesend West Glamorgan | C+ | 3.5 | 100% | 0.9 | 0% |
| 30 | Gainford County Durham | C+ | 2.6 | 100% | 1.4 | 0% |
| 31 | Lacey Green and Loosley Row Buckinghamshire | C+ | 2.1 | 27% | 2.4 | 82% |
| 32 | Whimple Devon | C+ | 5.2 | 70% | 0.9 | 1% |
| 33 | Brinklow Warwickshire | C+ | 1.7 | 100% | 2 | 0% |
| 34 | St Cleer Cornwall | C | 3 | 29% | 1.6 | 32% |
| 35 | Three Legged Cross Dorset | C | 1.5 | 77% | 2.6 | 1% |
| 36 | Bow Devon | C | 1.9 | 100% | 1.1 | 0% |
| 37 | Swindon Staffordshire | C | 2.5 | 67% | 2.6 | 0% |
| 38 | Mannings Heath West Sussex | C | 1 | 71% | 1.9 | 44% |
| 39 | Baldwin's Gate Staffordshire | C− | 1.3 | 100% | 1.5 | 0% |
| 40 | North Newbald East Riding of Yorkshire | C− | 1.7 | 100% | 0.4 | 0% |
| 41 | Maiden Newton Dorset | C− | 1.1 | 27% | 2 | 100% |
| 42 | Wetheral Cumbria | C− | 3.8 | 51% | 1.9 | 0% |
| 43 | Crowle Worcestershire | C− | 2.4 | 34% | 2.8 | 0% |
| 44 | Eastrington East Riding of Yorkshire | C− | 3 | 65% | 1.5 | 0% |
| 45 | Beachley Gloucestershire | C− | 0.3 | 0% | 1.2 | 14% |
| 46 | Fochriw Gwent | C− | 1 | 73% | 2.9 | 0% |
| 47 | Capel Hendre Dyfed | D | 0.8 | 100% | 0.9 | 0% |
| 48 | Benwick Cambridgeshire | D | 0.3 | 100% | 0.2 | 0% |
| 49 | Orwell Cambridgeshire | D | 1.2 | 78% | 2 | 0% |
| 50 | Ramsey Island Essex | D | 1.4 | 39% | 1.1 | 0% |
| 51 | Pelynt Cornwall | D | 0 | 0% | 0.6 | 13% |
| 52 | Chawley Oxfordshire | D | 0.3 | 0% | 3.8 | 0% |
| 53 | Great Doddington Northamptonshire | D | 1.3 | 69% | 1.7 | 0% |
| 54 | High Legh Cheshire | D− | 1.9 | 50% | 0.8 | 0% |
| 55 | Moulton Chapel Lincolnshire | D− | 1.5 | 60% | 0 | 0% |
| 56 | Kentford Suffolk | D− | 1.9 | 0% | 0.5 | 0% |
| 57 | Austrey Warwickshire | D− | 1.7 | 0% | 0.7 | 0% |
| 58 | East Keswick West Yorkshire | D− | 0.2 | 0% | 1.7 | 0% |
| 59 | Clipsham Rutland | D− | 0 | 0% | 1.7 | 0% |
| 60 | Llanfyllin Powys | D− | 0 | 0% | 1.6 | 0% |
The map
Parks, footpaths & countryside
Tap a number to zoom to a park. Tap a layer to hide it. The dashed line is Crowle’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 Crowle
The biggest is Jubilee Playing Field, 2.7 ha (7 acres). Directions go to the park’s nearest public entrance where Ordnance Survey maps one.
Close to home
3 in 10 Crowle 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 (34%)Further (66%)
Crowle34%
Villages its size79%
Worcestershire towns80%
All UK towns83%
About 800 people live further than that. Playing fields count, so a park within reach isn’t always one with paths or trees.
National Parks & National Landscapes
The Cotswolds National Landscape is 8.0 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
Footpaths & waymarked walks
1 waymarked walk passes through or near Crowle
17 km of footpaths, bridleways and rights of way are mapped in Crowle and the kilometre around it, 2.8 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
Millennium Way (Warks)1.9 km
The regional route here is the Millennium Way (Warks).
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 Crowle: 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) | 8.2 | 9.8 | 11.7 | 13.8 | 15.7 | 16.7 | 16.3 | 14.7 | 12.6 | 10.5 | 8.7 | 7.7 |
| High (°C) | 8 | 9 | 11 | 14 | 17 | 20 | 23 | 22 | 19 | 15 | 11 | 8 |
| Rain (mm) | 58 | 43 | 43 | 50 | 54 | 56 | 57 | 60 | 52 | 70 | 64 | 60 |
February is the driest month (43 mm) and July the warmest (highs of 23 °C). Winter days are short, about 8 hours of daylight in December, and 70 mm of rain falls in October, the wettest month. Frost comes on about 47 nights a year. The climate in Crowle →
Things to do
Viewpoints, hills and nature near Crowle
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
Playgrounds 1
Crowle Parish Playground0.0 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.
Fernhill HeathNorton (Norton Juxta Kempsey)WorcesterDroitwich SpaDrakes BroughtonInkberrowCrowle
ABCDOutdoors Grade
| Town | Outdoors | Green space, ha per 1,000 | Near a park | Protected within 5 km |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Crowle | C− | 2.4 | 34% | 0% |
| Fernhill Heath 4.1 mi | B | 3.2 | 88% | 0% |
| Norton (Norton Juxta Kempsey) 4.5 mi | C+ | 0.9 | 100% | 0% |
| Worcester 4.5 mi | C | 1.5 | 77% | 0% |
| Droitwich Spa 4.5 mi | B | 2.5 | 84% | 0% |
| Drakes Broughton 4.6 mi | C− | 1.0 | 86% | 0% |
| Inkberrow 5.6 mi | B− | 5.3 | 83% | 0% |
Fernhill Heath, 4.1 miles away, grades B, the best next door: 88% of its residents live within 400 m of a park. Inkberrow has at least twice Crowle’s green space per resident. None of the neighbours has a protected landscape within 5 km either.
Questions about the outdoors in Crowle
What is the biggest park in Crowle?
Jubilee Playing Field, 2.7 ha (7 acres), just outside the built-up area. 1 named park, garden or playing field is in the village or within 400 m of it.
Is Crowle near a National Park?
The nearest protected landscape is the Cotswolds National Landscape, 8.0 mi south of the village’s edge. It covers 2,041 km² and was designated in 1966.
What are the best walks near Crowle?
1 waymarked walking route passes within 2 km of the village, including the Millennium Way (Warks).
How many people in Crowle live near a park?
34% 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 Crowle?
May to September: the longest days, the warmest afternoons and the least rain of the year, from the Met Office 1991–2020 averages.
Is Crowle good for walking?
About average for paths: 2.8 km of footpath and right of way per square kilometre, more than 54% of UK towns. For park space per person it beats 56% (2.4 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 Crowle’s overall grade.
Sources
Where Crowle’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.