Leicester Tops Britain’s Best Towns & Cities for Families to Spend Outdoors!

With children excited to get back outside, after a summer spent indoors.The Entertainer took a look at the best towns and cities for families to spend outdoors based on how many family-friendly outdoor space they have, from parks and playgrounds to beaches and botanical gardens.

• Leicester comes out on top – with an impressive 524 family-friendly outdoor spaces every 10 square miles – 956 in total!
• Norwich follows second with 415 family-friendly outdoor spaces per 10 square miles
• Bronze goes to Oxford with 225 family-friendly spaces per 10 square miles

The ranking was created by using data from the Ordnance Survey and Sygic Maps.

The Best Towns and Cities for Families to Spend Outdoors – outdoor spaces per 10 square miles:

1. Leicester
2. Norwich
3. Oxford
4. Reading
5. Ipswich
6. Southampton
7. Bristol
8. Stoke-on-Trent
9. Nottingham
10. Glasgow
11. Plymouth
12. Portsmouth
13. Dundee
14. Wolverhampton
15. Luton
16. Torbay
17. Derby
18. Eastleigh
19. Liverpool
20. Bournemouth

But what happens when we take population into account? Looking again at our list of towns and cities, we then added in population figures, to calculate how many other people you’ll be sharing your outdoor spaces with:

The Best Towns and Cities for Families to Spend Outdoors – outdoor spaces per 10,000 people:

1. Highland
2. Falkirk
3. Norwich
4. Bedford
5. Leicester
6. Milton Keynes
7. Renfrewshire
8. South Oxfordshire
9. Isle of Wight
10. West Lothian
11. Flintshire
12. Perth and Kinross
13. Aberdeen
14. Stafford
15. Camanthenshire
16. South Lanarkshire
17. Bath & North East Somerset
18. Lancaster
19. York
20. North Hertfordshire

All data credits to The Entertainer, and for the full data click here.