Photo: David Stowell · CC BY-SA 2.0Parks and walks in Wythall
Parks and playing fields in Wythall add up to 0.2 ha for every 1,000 residents; the typical UK town has 2.1. No park or playing field is mapped within a 5-minute walk of homes in Wythall. Footpaths add up to 20 km in the village and the kilometre around it, 2.0 for every square kilometre. Wythall grades D− for the outdoors. A character grade: it isn’t part of the overall grade.
Wythall grades D− for the outdoors
Each chart is every UK town of 1,000 or more on one measure: the green bar is Wythall, 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.
How Wythall compares with UK villages of 2,000 to 2,200
The 60 UK towns and cities of 2,000 to 2,200 people with an Outdoors Grade. Hover a dot for its figures; tap one for its page.
Wythall falls furthest behind on homes near a park, where 57 of the 59 others do better.
Show as a table
| Town | Outdoors | Green space | Near a park | Path per km² | Protected | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Hay-on-Wye Powys | A+ | 9.3 | 100% | 3.8 | 21% |
| 2 | Wye Kent | A+ | 4.7 | 100% | 3.1 | 71% |
| 3 | Crickhowell Powys | A+ | 4.3 | 100% | 2.9 | 100% |
| 4 | Seaview and Nettlestone Isle of Wight | A+ | 3.6 | 89% | 2.8 | 8% |
| 5 | Chigwell Row Essex | A | 30.3 | 100% | 4.7 | 0% |
| 6 | Highfields Caldecote Cambridgeshire | A− | 4.1 | 100% | 3.7 | 0% |
| 7 | Marldon Devon | A− | 4.1 | 70% | 2.7 | 3% |
| 8 | Bishops Lydeard Somerset | A− | 3.2 | 100% | 1.8 | 23% |
| 9 | Chipping Campden Gloucestershire | A− | 2.1 | 100% | 2 | 74% |
| 10 | Culverstone Green Kent | B+ | 5.3 | 61% | 2.7 | 42% |
| 11 | Brompton North Yorkshire | B+ | 4.7 | 100% | 2.4 | 0% |
| 12 | Bermuda Warwickshire | B | 4.7 | 100% | 2 | 0% |
| 13 | Alveston Gloucestershire | B | 2.5 | 100% | 2.8 | 0% |
| 14 | Bickington Devon | B | 1.4 | 100% | 2.6 | 0% |
| 15 | Meppershall Bedfordshire | B | 2.3 | 83% | 3 | 2% |
| 16 | Needingworth Cambridgeshire | B− | 4.6 | 85% | 2.5 | 0% |
| 17 | Dyserth Clwyd | B− | 0.5 | 54% | 3.6 | 22% |
| 18 | Bishop's Tachbrook Warwickshire | B− | 2.5 | 100% | 2.1 | 0% |
| 19 | Uffculme Devon | B− | 2.8 | 86% | 1.3 | 14% |
| 20 | Edenfield Lancashire | B− | 2.7 | 69% | 4.4 | 0% |
| 21 | Wardle Greater Manchester | B− | 1 | 100% | 3.7 | 0% |
| 22 | Exning Suffolk | B− | 3.6 | 82% | 2.5 | 0% |
| 23 | Westoning Bedfordshire | B− | 1.1 | 100% | 1.9 | 10% |
| 24 | Aspley Guise Bedfordshire | B− | 2.2 | 69% | 4.9 | 0% |
| 25 | Ightham Kent | C+ | 2 | 30% | 3 | 56% |
| 26 | Brantham Suffolk | C+ | 1 | 27% | 2.6 | 42% |
| 27 | Kintbury Berkshire | C+ | 1.9 | 71% | 1.8 | 92% |
| 28 | Gregson Lane Lancashire | C+ | 1.7 | 86% | 3.3 | 0% |
| 29 | Pembrey Dyfed | C+ | 0.3 | 48% | 2.6 | 11% |
| 30 | Read Lancashire | C+ | 1.6 | 71% | 2.5 | 21% |
| 31 | Hixon Staffordshire | C+ | 0.8 | 100% | 1.3 | 11% |
| 32 | Market Bosworth Leicestershire | C | 10.9 | 25% | 2.4 | 0% |
| 33 | Galgate Lancashire | C | 1.1 | 58% | 3.4 | 12% |
| 34 | Bredon Worcestershire | C | 2.1 | 66% | 1.6 | 25% |
| 35 | Benllech Gwynedd | C | 0.1 | 17% | 1.8 | 27% |
| 36 | Maesycwmmer Gwent | C− | 1.9 | 73% | 2.7 | 0% |
| 37 | Barrowby Lincolnshire | C− | 3.5 | 66% | 1.8 | 0% |
| 38 | Micklefield West Yorkshire | C− | 2.1 | 48% | 3.2 | 0% |
| 39 | Seamer (Scarborough) North Yorkshire | C− | 2.2 | 58% | 1 | 18% |
| 40 | Carlton North Yorkshire | C− | 0.7 | 100% | 1.8 | 0% |
| 41 | Crich Derbyshire | C− | 0.6 | 69% | 4.1 | 0% |
| 42 | Sutton Bonington Nottinghamshire | C− | 2.7 | 28% | 2.6 | 0% |
| 43 | Stainburn Cumbria | C− | 0.1 | 72% | 2 | 0% |
| 44 | Urpeth County Durham | C− | 1.3 | 0% | 4.8 | 0% |
| 45 | Radley Oxfordshire | C− | 2.1 | 36% | 2.8 | 0% |
| 46 | Winwick Cheshire | C− | 3.2 | 48% | 1.7 | 0% |
| 47 | Ilchester Somerset | C− | 3.5 | 40% | 1.7 | 0% |
| 48 | Scholar Green Cheshire | C− | 0.7 | 65% | 3.5 | 0% |
| 49 | Stone Buckinghamshire | D | 2.2 | 57% | 2.2 | 0% |
| 50 | Bardney Lincolnshire | D | 4.1 | 49% | 1 | 0% |
| 51 | Stretham Cambridgeshire | D | 1.4 | 60% | 2.8 | 0% |
| 52 | Merriott Somerset | D | 1.1 | 39% | 2.4 | 0% |
| 53 | Hersden Kent | D | 2 | 63% | 1.5 | 0% |
| 54 | Meden Vale Nottinghamshire | D | 0.3 | 58% | 2.8 | 0% |
| 55 | Haxey Lincolnshire | D | 1.6 | 46% | 2 | 0% |
| 56 | Great Eccleston Lancashire | D | 1.2 | 72% | 1.4 | 0% |
| 57 | West Hill Devon | D | 0 | 0% | 1.2 | 27% |
| 58 | Wymott Lancashire | D− | 0.3 | 10% | 2.7 | 0% |
| 59 | Keelby Lincolnshire | D− | 1 | 71% | 1.1 | 0% |
| 60 | Wythall Worcestershire | D− | 0.2 | 0% | 2 | 0% |
Parks, footpaths & countryside
Tap a number to zoom to a park. Tap a layer to hide it. The dashed line is Wythall’s built-up area.
Few Wythall 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).
About 2,100 people live further than that. Playing fields count, so a park within reach isn’t always one with paths or trees; 15 playgrounds are mapped in and around the village, about one for every 138 residents.
The Cotswolds National Landscape is 18 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.
6 waymarked walks pass through or near Wythall
20 km of footpaths, bridleways and rights of way are mapped in Wythall and the kilometre around it, 2.0 km for every square kilometre (the typical UK town has 3.0). Bars show each route’s kilometres within 2 km of the village.
The regional route here is the North Worcestershire Path.
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 Wythall: 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) | 8.2 | 9.8 | 11.7 | 13.8 | 15.7 | 16.8 | 16.3 | 14.7 | 12.6 | 10.5 | 8.6 | 7.7 |
| High (°C) | 7 | 8 | 10 | 13 | 17 | 20 | 22 | 21 | 19 | 14 | 10 | 8 |
| Rain (mm) | 68 | 54 | 53 | 58 | 61 | 64 | 65 | 69 | 66 | 77 | 77 | 76 |
March is the driest month (53 mm) and July the warmest (highs of 22 °C). Winter days are short, about 8 hours of daylight in December, and 77 mm of rain falls in October, the wettest month. Frost comes on about 50 nights a year. The climate in Wythall →
15 playgrounds and the nearest beaches
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.
The nearest beaches
Wythall is inland. These are the nearest named beaches, measured from the edge of the village.
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
Hills and peaks 1
Nature reserves 3
Playgrounds 15
Plus 12 playgrounds without a name on the map.
Campsites 1
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wythall | D− | 0.2 | 0% | 0% |
| Tidbury Green 0.9 mi | C− | 2.4 | 49% | 0% |
| Hollywood 0.9 mi | C− | 2.4 | 54% | 0% |
| Dickens Heath 1.6 mi | C+ | 3.2 | 82% | 0% |
| Cheswick Green 2.5 mi | C− | 1.0 | 77% | 0% |
| Solihull 4.2 mi | C | 2.9 | 54% | 0% |
| Hockley Heath 4.3 mi | C+ | 2.6 | 86% | 0% |
Dickens Heath, 1.6 miles away, grades C+, the best next door: 82% of its residents live within 400 m of a park. Tidbury Green, Hollywood and Dickens Heath have at least twice Wythall’s green space per resident. None of the neighbours has a protected landscape within 5 km either.
Questions about the outdoors in Wythall
Is Wythall near a National Park?
The nearest protected landscape is the Cotswolds National Landscape, 18 mi south of the village’s edge. It covers 2,041 km² and was designated in 1966.
What are the best walks near Wythall?
6 waymarked walking routes pass within 2 km of the village, including the North Worcestershire Path, Rail Trail: Wythall > Shirley and Rail Trail: Earlswood > Wythall.
What is the nearest beach to Wythall?
library, 19 mi from the edge of the village. Wythall itself is inland.
How many people in Wythall 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 Wythall?
May to September: the longest days, the warmest afternoons and the least rain of the year, from the Met Office 1991–2020 averages.
Is Wythall good for walking?
Paths are thinner than most towns: 2.0 km of footpath and right of way per square kilometre, more than 31% of UK towns. For park space per person it beats 2% (0.2 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 Wythall’s overall grade.
Where Wythall’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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