How many parks and green spaces are in North Dorset? 27 public parks
North Dorset has 27 public parks among 359 green space sites. Green space covers 0.4% of the area: about 36 m² per resident, or 5.1 football pitches for every 1,000 people. More green space per resident than 59% of areas in England and Wales, where the typical area has 31 m².
- Green space per resident
- 36 m²
- More green space than
- 59% of areas
- Football pitches per 1,000 people
- 5.1
Public green space from OS Open Greenspace; golf courses are listed but not counted. Per resident uses Census 2021 population. Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. How we calculate this
All house prices in North DorsetWhat are the largest parks in North Dorset?
Stour Park is the largest public park in North Dorset, at 15.4 hectares. 8 of the 27 public parks have a name.
| Park | Size |
|---|---|
| Stour Park | 15.4 hectares |
| Queen Elizabeth Field | 10.2 hectares |
| Breach Common | 6.8 hectares |
| The Park | 3.1 hectares |
| Stalbridge Nature Reserve | 2.2 hectares |
| The Railway Gardens | 3,552 m² |
| Woodhouse Garden | 1,906 m² |
| Rolt Millennium Green | 1,792 m² |
What kinds of green space are there in North Dorset?
Playing fields cover the most ground in North Dorset: 104 hectares. Golf courses are shown but left out of the green space total, because most need a membership.
| Type | Area |
|---|---|
| Playing fields | 104 hectares · 54 sites |
| Public parks and gardens | 60.7 hectares · 27 sites |
| Other sports facilities | 34.9 hectares · 18 sites |
| Churchyards and religious grounds | 22.5 hectares · 82 sites |
| Allotments and community growing spaces | 17.8 hectares · 39 sites |
| Cemeteries | 11.1 hectares · 26 sites |
| Play spaces | 7.5 hectares · 99 sites |
| Tennis courts | 1.4 hectares · 8 sites |
| Bowling greens | 7,549 m² · 3 sites |
| Golf coursesNot counted | 51.3 hectares · 3 sites |
Does North Dorset have a lot of green space?
About average. North Dorset has 36 m² of green space per resident, against 31 m² in the typical area of England and Wales and 65 m² across Dorset. More green space per resident than 59% of areas in England and Wales.
| Area | Per resident |
|---|---|
| North DorsetThis area | 36 m² per resident |
| Dorset | 65 m² per resident |
| Typical area in England and Wales | 31 m² per resident |
A full-size football pitch is about 7,140 m². 36 m² for every resident adds up to 5.1 football pitches of parks, playing fields and other public green space for every 1,000 people.
Typical means the middle fifth of areas in England and Wales. The bands split every area we cover into fifths by green space per resident, from Very Low to Very High.
Which parts of North Dorset have the most green space?
Tarrant Launceston has the most green space per resident of the 73 areas of North Dorset, at about 201 m² per resident. The labels place each area among every area in England and Wales, in fifths from Very Low to Very High.
| Area | Per resident |
|---|---|
| Tarrant LauncestonVery High | 201 m² per resident |
| Iwerne MinsterVery High | 184 m² per resident |
| IbbertonVery High | 149 m² per resident |
| Kington MagnaVery High | 125 m² per resident |
| Hinton St. MaryVery High | 110 m² per resident |
| AshmoreVery High | 109 m² per resident |
| MotcombeVery High | 96 m² per resident |
| CannVery High | 92 m² per resident |
| Blandford St. MaryVery High | 85 m² per resident |
| Tarrant CrawfordVery High | 83 m² per resident |
| Buckhorn WestonVery High | 82 m² per resident |
| Tarrant GunvilleVery High | 73 m² per resident |
| FarnhamVery High | 70 m² per resident |
| SiltonVery High | 67 m² per resident |
| Langton Long BlandfordVery High | 66 m² per resident |
| Iwerne Courtney or ShrotonVery High | 66 m² per resident |
| DurwestonVery High | 64 m² per resident |
| Tarrant MonktonHigh | 59 m² per resident |
| Okeford FitzpaineHigh | 53 m² per resident |
| StourpaineHigh | 53 m² per resident |
| Milton AbbasHigh | 51 m² per resident |
| Margaret MarshHigh | 48 m² per resident |
| Winterborne SticklandHigh | 43 m² per resident |
| Stour ProvostHigh | 42 m² per resident |
| Winterborne ClenstonHigh | 40 m² per resident |
| Milborne St. AndrewHigh | 39 m² per resident |
| Tarrant HintonHigh | 38 m² per resident |
| ShillingstoneTypical | 35 m² per resident |
| ShaftesburyTypical | 35 m² per resident |
| TurnworthTypical | 34 m² per resident |
| StalbridgeTypical | 34 m² per resident |
| Winterborne KingstonTypical | 34 m² per resident |
| East StourTypical | 33 m² per resident |
| PimperneTypical | 33 m² per resident |
| GillinghamTypical | 33 m² per resident |
| Tarrant RushtonTypical | 30 m² per resident |
| Fifehead MagdalenTypical | 27 m² per resident |
| Child OkefordTypical | 26 m² per resident |
| PulhamTypical | 25 m² per resident |
| Hazelbury BryanLow | 24 m² per resident |
| Compton AbbasLow | 23 m² per resident |
| MarnhullLow | 22 m² per resident |
| Tarrant KeynestonLow | 22 m² per resident |
| Blandford ForumLow | 21 m² per resident |
| HammoonLow | 21 m² per resident |
| Sutton WaldronLow | 19 m² per resident |
| Winterborne WhitechurchLow | 19 m² per resident |
| Sturminster NewtonLow | 18 m² per resident |
| AndersonLow | 18 m² per resident |
| Iwerne StepletonLow | 17 m² per resident |
| Fontmell MagnaLow | 17 m² per resident |
| East OrchardLow | 15 m² per resident |
| LydlinchLow | 15 m² per resident |
| Stoke WakeVery Low | 15 m² per resident |
| Winterborne ZelstonVery Low | 14 m² per resident |
| ManstonVery Low | 14 m² per resident |
| Stourton CaundleVery Low | 13 m² per resident |
| Fifehead NevilleVery Low | 13 m² per resident |
| West OrchardVery Low | 13 m² per resident |
| WoollandVery Low | 12 m² per resident |
| Winterborne HoughtonVery Low | 12 m² per resident |
| Glanvilles WoottonVery Low | 11 m² per resident |
| TodberVery Low | 11 m² per resident |
| MappowderVery Low | 11 m² per resident |
| Charlton MarshallVery Low | 10 m² per resident |
| Melbury AbbasVery Low | 9 m² per resident |
| HiltonVery Low | 9 m² per resident |
| West StourVery Low | 8 m² per resident |
| SpetisburyVery Low | 5 m² per resident |
| BourtonVery Low | 5 m² per resident |
| Tarrant RawstonVery Low | 0 m² per resident |
| BryanstonVery Low | 0 m² per resident |
| HanfordVery Low | 0 m² per resident |
What else do people ask about North Dorset?
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Where does this data come from?
Price information is from HM Land Registry, location boundaries are from OpenStreetMap, and households and population are from Nomis Census 2021 postcode estimates (21 March 2021). Parks and green space are from OS Open Greenspace. Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026.
Last updated 7 October 2026 at 02:48 with the latest Land Registry data (August 2026). The North Dorset dataset covers 3,222 postcodes.
Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. This data is licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.