How many parks and green spaces are in East Hertfordshire? 33 public parks
East Hertfordshire has 33 public parks among 458 green space sites. Green space covers 1.1% of the area: about 35 m² per resident, or 4.9 football pitches for every 1,000 people. More green space per resident than 57% of areas in England and Wales, where the typical area has 31 m².
- Green space per resident
- 35 m²
- More green space than
- 57% of areas
- Football pitches per 1,000 people
- 4.9
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 East HertfordshireWhat are the largest parks in East Hertfordshire?
Pishiobury Park is the largest public park in East Hertfordshire, at 35.9 hectares. 12 of the 33 public parks have a name.
| Park | Size |
|---|---|
| Pishiobury Park | 35.9 hectares |
| Southern Parkland Country Park | 24.6 hectares |
| Castle Gardens | 15.7 hectares |
| Terlings Park | 10.4 hectares |
| Red White and Blue | 8.2 hectares |
| Bat Willow Hurst Country Park | 5.4 hectares |
| Tewin Orchard | 3.9 hectares |
| Well Green | 8,427 m² |
| Layston Court Gardens | 7,314 m² |
| The Ridgeway Local Park | 6,158 m² |
| Lower Green | 3,605 m² |
| Fair Green | 1,042 m² |
What kinds of green space are there in East Hertfordshire?
Playing fields cover the most ground in East Hertfordshire: 177 hectares. Golf courses are shown but left out of the green space total, because most need a membership.
| Type | Area |
|---|---|
| Playing fields | 177 hectares · 82 sites |
| Public parks and gardens | 144 hectares · 33 sites |
| Other sports facilities | 102 hectares · 36 sites |
| Allotments and community growing spaces | 43.1 hectares · 53 sites |
| Churchyards and religious grounds | 32.7 hectares · 68 sites |
| Cemeteries | 29.1 hectares · 14 sites |
| Play spaces | 14.2 hectares · 123 sites |
| Tennis courts | 3.7 hectares · 24 sites |
| Bowling greens | 3.1 hectares · 13 sites |
| Golf coursesNot counted | 513 hectares · 12 sites |
Does East Hertfordshire have a lot of green space?
About average. East Hertfordshire has 35 m² of green space per resident, against 31 m² in the typical area of England and Wales and 40 m² across Hertfordshire. More green space per resident than 57% of areas in England and Wales.
| Area | Per resident |
|---|---|
| East HertfordshireThis area | 35 m² per resident |
| Hertfordshire | 40 m² per resident |
| Typical area in England and Wales | 31 m² per resident |
A full-size football pitch is about 7,140 m². 35 m² for every resident adds up to 4.9 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 East Hertfordshire have the most green space?
Thorley has the most green space per resident of the 50 areas of East Hertfordshire, at about 568 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 |
|---|---|
| ThorleyVery High | 568 m² per resident |
| DatchworthVery High | 162 m² per resident |
| WaresideVery High | 161 m² per resident |
| GilstonVery High | 142 m² per resident |
| AspendenVery High | 89 m² per resident |
| Much HadhamVery High | 86 m² per resident |
| BramfieldVery High | 82 m² per resident |
| WestmillVery High | 77 m² per resident |
| AstonVery High | 75 m² per resident |
| Bengeo RuralVery High | 66 m² per resident |
| Stocking PelhamVery High | 65 m² per resident |
| WidfordVery High | 64 m² per resident |
| AlburyHigh | 60 m² per resident |
| Stanstead St MargaretsHigh | 56 m² per resident |
| SawbridgeworthHigh | 56 m² per resident |
| WalkernHigh | 56 m² per resident |
| BraughingHigh | 54 m² per resident |
| TewinHigh | 53 m² per resident |
| CotteredHigh | 52 m² per resident |
| Brickendon LibertyHigh | 51 m² per resident |
| BayfordHigh | 51 m² per resident |
| HormeadHigh | 46 m² per resident |
| Little BerkhamstedHigh | 41 m² per resident |
| ThundridgeHigh | 40 m² per resident |
| Bishop's StortfordTypical | 35 m² per resident |
| Furneux PelhamTypical | 35 m² per resident |
| BeningtonTypical | 31 m² per resident |
| StaplefordTypical | 31 m² per resident |
| Stanstead AbbotsTypical | 28 m² per resident |
| WareTypical | 27 m² per resident |
| BucklandTypical | 25 m² per resident |
| SacombeLow | 24 m² per resident |
| EastwickLow | 23 m² per resident |
| Little MundenLow | 23 m² per resident |
| AnsteyLow | 21 m² per resident |
| Hertford HeathLow | 20 m² per resident |
| Little HadhamLow | 20 m² per resident |
| ArdeleyLow | 19 m² per resident |
| HertfordLow | 18 m² per resident |
| WyddialLow | 18 m² per resident |
| StandonLow | 17 m² per resident |
| BuntingfordLow | 17 m² per resident |
| Watton-at-StoneLow | 17 m² per resident |
| High WychLow | 16 m² per resident |
| HunsdonVery Low | 14 m² per resident |
| Brent PelhamVery Low | 14 m² per resident |
| MeesdenVery Low | 13 m² per resident |
| Great MundenVery Low | 12 m² per resident |
| Great AmwellVery Low | 4 m² per resident |
| HertingfordburyVery Low | 1 m² per resident |
What else do people ask about East Hertfordshire?
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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 03:04 with the latest Land Registry data (August 2026). The East Hertfordshire dataset covers 6,661 postcodes.
Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. This data is licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.