How many parks and green spaces are in Rother? 29 public parks

Rother has 29 public parks among 335 green space sites. Green space covers 0.6% of the area: about 31 m² per resident, or 4.3 football pitches for every 1,000 people. More green space per resident than 51% of areas in England and Wales, where the typical area has 31 m².

Green space per resident
31 m²
More green space than
51% of areas
Football pitches per 1,000 people
4.3

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

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What are the largest parks in Rother?

Bexhill Down is the largest public park in Rother, at 16.2 hectares. 12 of the 29 public parks have a name.

Largest public parks in Rother
ParkSize
Bexhill Down16.2 hectares
Broad Oak Park7 hectares
Egerton Park5.3 hectares
Gillham Wood Nature Reserve3.4 hectares
West Promenade1.9 hectares
Lake Field1.2 hectares
Beaulieu Green4,212 m²
The Gorses3,242 m²
Rye Community Garden2,609 m²
Sidley Green1,961 m²
The Green1,113 m²
Crowhurst Art Garden338 m²

What kinds of green space are there in Rother?

Playing fields cover the most ground in Rother: 151 hectares. Golf courses are shown but left out of the green space total, because most need a membership.

Green space in Rother by type
TypeArea
Playing fields151 hectares · 61 sites
Public parks and gardens70.1 hectares · 29 sites
Other sports facilities26.2 hectares · 25 sites
Churchyards and religious grounds24.4 hectares · 58 sites
Allotments and community growing spaces17.2 hectares · 32 sites
Cemeteries16.6 hectares · 9 sites
Play spaces6.7 hectares · 77 sites
Bowling greens3.8 hectares · 15 sites
Tennis courts2 hectares · 22 sites
Golf coursesNot counted489 hectares · 7 sites

Does Rother have a lot of green space?

About average. Rother has 31 m² of green space per resident, against 31 m² in the typical area of England and Wales and 41 m² across East Sussex. More green space per resident than 51% of areas in England and Wales.

Green space per resident in Rother compared with other areas
AreaPer resident
RotherThis area31 m² per resident
East Sussex41 m² per resident
Typical area in England and Wales31 m² per resident

A full-size football pitch is about 7,140 m². 31 m² for every resident adds up to 4.3 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 Rother have the most green space?

Iden has the most green space per resident of the 34 areas of Rother, at about 220 m² per resident. The labels place each area among every area in England and Wales, in fifths from Very Low to Very High.

Green space per resident in each area of Rother
AreaPer resident
IdenVery High220 m² per resident
BodiamVery High153 m² per resident
FairlightVery High68 m² per resident
PenhurstVery High68 m² per resident
Rye ForeignHigh58 m² per resident
RyeHigh53 m² per resident
AshburnhamHigh51 m² per resident
MountfieldHigh47 m² per resident
IckleshamHigh47 m² per resident
DallingtonHigh39 m² per resident
BrightlingHigh39 m² per resident
East GuldefordHigh39 m² per resident
UdimoreHigh38 m² per resident
BeckleyHigh37 m² per resident
CatsfieldTypical36 m² per resident
CrowhurstTypical36 m² per resident
BattleTypical32 m² per resident
EwhurstTypical32 m² per resident
GuestlingTypical32 m² per resident
TicehurstTypical32 m² per resident
SedlescombeTypical29 m² per resident
Bexhill-on-SeaTypical27 m² per resident
PettTypical25 m² per resident
NorthiamTypical25 m² per resident
PlaydenLow24 m² per resident
Hurst GreenLow23 m² per resident
BurwashLow22 m² per resident
WestfieldLow20 m² per resident
PeasmarshLow18 m² per resident
Salehurst and RobertsbridgeLow16 m² per resident
EtchinghamLow15 m² per resident
WhatlingtonVery Low13 m² per resident
CamberVery Low10 m² per resident
BredeVery Low10 m² per resident

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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 03:03 with the latest Land Registry data (August 2026). The Rother dataset covers 4,249 postcodes.

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