How many parks and green spaces are in Vale of White Horse? 66 public parks

Vale of White Horse has 66 public parks among 546 green space sites. Green space covers 0.9% of the area: about 36 m² per resident, or 5 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

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 Vale of White Horse?

Old Berkeley Golf Course is the largest public park in Vale of White Horse, at 18.1 hectares. 16 of the 66 public parks have a name.

Largest public parks in Vale of White Horse
ParkSize
Old Berkeley Golf Course18.1 hectares
Abbey Gardens9.4 hectares
Folly Park6.2 hectares
Albert Park5.7 hectares
Southern Town Park4.2 hectares
Abingdon Marina Park2.5 hectares
Jarn Field2.2 hectares
Lincombe Lane Field and Reserve1.7 hectares
Jarn Wild Gardens1.6 hectares
Betjeman Millennium Park6,281 m²
The Green3,795 m²
North Hinksey Nature Reserve3,712 m²
The Green1,821 m²
The Green1,377 m²
The Green1,251 m²
The Green743 m²

What kinds of green space are there in Vale of White Horse?

Playing fields cover the most ground in Vale of White Horse: 171 hectares. Golf courses are shown but left out of the green space total, because most need a membership.

Green space in Vale of White Horse by type
TypeArea
Playing fields171 hectares · 65 sites
Public parks and gardens121 hectares · 66 sites
Other sports facilities102 hectares · 37 sites
Allotments and community growing spaces57.7 hectares · 61 sites
Churchyards and religious grounds34.3 hectares · 84 sites
Play spaces17.1 hectares · 164 sites
Cemeteries16.1 hectares · 32 sites
Tennis courts3 hectares · 19 sites
Bowling greens2.9 hectares · 10 sites
Golf coursesNot counted428 hectares · 8 sites

Does Vale of White Horse have a lot of green space?

About average. Vale of White Horse has 36 m² of green space per resident, against 31 m² in the typical area of England and Wales and 40 m² across Oxfordshire. More green space per resident than 59% of areas in England and Wales.

Green space per resident in Vale of White Horse compared with other areas
AreaPer resident
Vale of White HorseThis area36 m² per resident
Oxfordshire40 m² per resident
Typical area in England and Wales31 m² per resident

A full-size football pitch is about 7,140 m². 36 m² for every resident adds up to 5 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 Vale of White Horse have the most green space?

Frilford has the most green space per resident of the 69 areas of Vale of White Horse, at about 522 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 Vale of White Horse
AreaPer resident
FrilfordVery High522 m² per resident
SunningwellVery High234 m² per resident
BuscotVery High168 m² per resident
Little CoxwellVery High163 m² per resident
ArdingtonVery High142 m² per resident
WythamVery High111 m² per resident
Appleford-on-ThamesVery High109 m² per resident
UffingtonVery High90 m² per resident
Letcombe RegisVery High84 m² per resident
Hinton WaldristVery High81 m² per resident
South HinkseyVery High72 m² per resident
North HinkseyVery High68 m² per resident
St. Helen WithoutVery High65 m² per resident
East HanneyVery High64 m² per resident
WatchfieldVery High61 m² per resident
Appleton-with-EatonHigh60 m² per resident
AshburyHigh58 m² per resident
LyfordHigh57 m² per resident
East ChallowHigh56 m² per resident
Great CoxwellHigh56 m² per resident
UptonHigh55 m² per resident
LockingeHigh50 m² per resident
ChiltonHigh47 m² per resident
Charney BassettHigh46 m² per resident
WoottonHigh45 m² per resident
ChildreyHigh44 m² per resident
HarwellHigh43 m² per resident
Eaton HastingsHigh43 m² per resident
LongworthHigh43 m² per resident
SteventonHigh42 m² per resident
BlewburyHigh42 m² per resident
East HendredHigh41 m² per resident
Compton BeauchampHigh41 m² per resident
ShrivenhamHigh39 m² per resident
Fyfield and TubneyTypical36 m² per resident
West HendredTypical34 m² per resident
DenchworthTypical34 m² per resident
Great FaringdonTypical33 m² per resident
LongcotTypical31 m² per resident
MiltonTypical31 m² per resident
GarfordTypical29 m² per resident
BaulkingTypical29 m² per resident
Abingdon on ThamesTypical28 m² per resident
CumnorTypical26 m² per resident
KenningtonTypical25 m² per resident
MarchamLow24 m² per resident
GroveLow23 m² per resident
WantageLow23 m² per resident
RadleyLow23 m² per resident
DraytonLow22 m² per resident
ColeshillLow22 m² per resident
LittleworthLow21 m² per resident
Kingston LisleLow21 m² per resident
PuseyLow19 m² per resident
Stanford in the ValeLow18 m² per resident
Sutton CourtenayLow16 m² per resident
SparsholtLow16 m² per resident
BucklandLow15 m² per resident
BesselsleighLow15 m² per resident
WoolstoneVery Low12 m² per resident
West HanneyVery Low12 m² per resident
ShellingfordVery Low12 m² per resident
GooseyVery Low12 m² per resident
HatfordVery Low11 m² per resident
West ChallowVery Low11 m² per resident
FernhamVery Low11 m² per resident
Letcombe BassettVery Low11 m² per resident
Kingston Bagpuize with SouthmoorVery Low10 m² per resident
BourtonVery Low5 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 02:48 with the latest Land Registry data (August 2026). The Vale of White Horse dataset covers 5,625 postcodes.

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