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.
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 RotherBexhill Down is the largest public park in Rother, at 16.2 hectares. 12 of the 29 public parks have a name.
| Park | Size |
|---|---|
| Bexhill Down | 16.2 hectares |
| Broad Oak Park | 7 hectares |
| Egerton Park | 5.3 hectares |
| Gillham Wood Nature Reserve | 3.4 hectares |
| West Promenade | 1.9 hectares |
| Lake Field | 1.2 hectares |
| Beaulieu Green | 4,212 m² |
| The Gorses | 3,242 m² |
| Rye Community Garden | 2,609 m² |
| Sidley Green | 1,961 m² |
| The Green | 1,113 m² |
| Crowhurst Art Garden | 338 m² |
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.
| Type | Area |
|---|---|
| Playing fields | 151 hectares · 61 sites |
| Public parks and gardens | 70.1 hectares · 29 sites |
| Other sports facilities | 26.2 hectares · 25 sites |
| Churchyards and religious grounds | 24.4 hectares · 58 sites |
| Allotments and community growing spaces | 17.2 hectares · 32 sites |
| Cemeteries | 16.6 hectares · 9 sites |
| Play spaces | 6.7 hectares · 77 sites |
| Bowling greens | 3.8 hectares · 15 sites |
| Tennis courts | 2 hectares · 22 sites |
| Golf coursesNot counted | 489 hectares · 7 sites |
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.
| Area | Per resident |
|---|---|
| RotherThis area | 31 m² per resident |
| East Sussex | 41 m² per resident |
| Typical area in England and Wales | 31 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.
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.
| Area | Per resident |
|---|---|
| IdenVery High | 220 m² per resident |
| BodiamVery High | 153 m² per resident |
| FairlightVery High | 68 m² per resident |
| PenhurstVery High | 68 m² per resident |
| Rye ForeignHigh | 58 m² per resident |
| RyeHigh | 53 m² per resident |
| AshburnhamHigh | 51 m² per resident |
| MountfieldHigh | 47 m² per resident |
| IckleshamHigh | 47 m² per resident |
| DallingtonHigh | 39 m² per resident |
| BrightlingHigh | 39 m² per resident |
| East GuldefordHigh | 39 m² per resident |
| UdimoreHigh | 38 m² per resident |
| BeckleyHigh | 37 m² per resident |
| CatsfieldTypical | 36 m² per resident |
| CrowhurstTypical | 36 m² per resident |
| BattleTypical | 32 m² per resident |
| EwhurstTypical | 32 m² per resident |
| GuestlingTypical | 32 m² per resident |
| TicehurstTypical | 32 m² per resident |
| SedlescombeTypical | 29 m² per resident |
| Bexhill-on-SeaTypical | 27 m² per resident |
| PettTypical | 25 m² per resident |
| NorthiamTypical | 25 m² per resident |
| PlaydenLow | 24 m² per resident |
| Hurst GreenLow | 23 m² per resident |
| BurwashLow | 22 m² per resident |
| WestfieldLow | 20 m² per resident |
| PeasmarshLow | 18 m² per resident |
| Salehurst and RobertsbridgeLow | 16 m² per resident |
| EtchinghamLow | 15 m² per resident |
| WhatlingtonVery Low | 13 m² per resident |
| CamberVery Low | 10 m² per resident |
| BredeVery Low | 10 m² per resident |
More quick answers on house prices, sales, areas and green space in Rother.
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.
Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. This data is licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.