Tendring has 69 public parks among 387 green space sites. Green space covers 1.3% of the area: about 33 m² per resident, or 4.7 football pitches for every 1,000 people. More green space per resident than 55% 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 TendringHolland Haven is the largest public park in Tendring, at 42.9 hectares. 21 of the 69 public parks have a name.
| Park | Size |
|---|---|
| Holland Haven | 42.9 hectares |
| Martin's Farm Country Park | 37.4 hectares |
| Brook County Park | 14 hectares |
| Western Promenade | 11.3 hectares |
| Cliff Park | 7.9 hectares |
| Bentley Green | 6.8 hectares |
| Welfare Park | 4 hectares |
| Gravel Field | 1.5 hectares |
| Jubilee Ground | 1.5 hectares |
| Mistley Place Park | 8,665 m² |
| Cranleigh Close Open Space | 7,884 m² |
| The Green | 7,632 m² |
| Little Clacton Meadow Millennium Green | 6,196 m² |
| The Mayor's Gardens | 5,245 m² |
| Springmead Garden | 3,027 m² |
| Haven Gardens | 2,747 m² |
| Station Gardens | 1,981 m² |
| Round Garden of Rest | 1,361 m² |
| The Green | 1,356 m² |
| The Green | 837 m² |
| Magdalen Green | 748 m² |
Public parks and gardens cover the most ground in Tendring: 214 hectares. Golf courses are shown but left out of the green space total, because most need a membership.
| Type | Area |
|---|---|
| Public parks and gardens | 214 hectares · 69 sites |
| Playing fields | 146 hectares · 52 sites |
| Other sports facilities | 64.3 hectares · 38 sites |
| Allotments and community growing spaces | 33.7 hectares · 40 sites |
| Cemeteries | 25.6 hectares · 15 sites |
| Churchyards and religious grounds | 24.1 hectares · 47 sites |
| Play spaces | 9.2 hectares · 96 sites |
| Tennis courts | 4 hectares · 13 sites |
| Bowling greens | 3.6 hectares · 12 sites |
| Golf coursesNot counted | 162 hectares · 5 sites |
About average. Tendring has 33 m² of green space per resident, against 31 m² in the typical area of England and Wales and 52 m² across Essex. More green space per resident than 55% of areas in England and Wales.
| Area | Per resident |
|---|---|
| TendringThis area | 33 m² per resident |
| Essex | 52 m² per resident |
| Typical area in England and Wales | 31 m² per resident |
A full-size football pitch is about 7,140 m². 33 m² for every resident adds up to 4.7 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.
Wrabness has the most green space per resident of the 26 areas of Tendring, at about 87 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 |
|---|---|
| WrabnessVery High | 87 m² per resident |
| St. OsythVery High | 86 m² per resident |
| Great BentleyHigh | 56 m² per resident |
| MistleyHigh | 49 m² per resident |
| WeeleyHigh | 48 m² per resident |
| LawfordHigh | 42 m² per resident |
| Frinton and WaltonHigh | 42 m² per resident |
| Thorpe-le-SokenHigh | 41 m² per resident |
| WixHigh | 39 m² per resident |
| Great BromleyTypical | 37 m² per resident |
| Great OakleyTypical | 36 m² per resident |
| BrightlingseaTypical | 36 m² per resident |
| Little OakleyTypical | 34 m² per resident |
| Beaumont-cum-MozeTypical | 31 m² per resident |
| ArdleighTypical | 30 m² per resident |
| Little ClactonTypical | 29 m² per resident |
| HarwichTypical | 28 m² per resident |
| BradfieldTypical | 27 m² per resident |
| Ramsey and ParkestonTypical | 26 m² per resident |
| ThorringtonLow | 21 m² per resident |
| AlresfordLow | 17 m² per resident |
| Little BromleyVery Low | 14 m² per resident |
| ElmsteadVery Low | 13 m² per resident |
| ManningtreeVery Low | 12 m² per resident |
| Little BentleyVery Low | 12 m² per resident |
| FratingVery Low | 1 m² per resident |
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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 02:21 with the latest Land Registry data (August 2026). The Tendring dataset covers 5,842 postcodes.
Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. This data is licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.