Felpham is wrapped in green and water. Average distance to a green space is about 136 metres. Roughly 16 green spaces sit within a kilometre. The sea is about 200 metres away. Five out of five for the surrounding area, no arguing with the maps.
On green space, the average distance from a Felpham postcode to the nearest piece is about 136 metres, which is short enough that walking out the door usually puts you in green space within a few minutes. There are about 16 green spaces within a kilometre of the average address, and the village is not short of routes through them. On blue space, the picture is similar: the sea is on average about 200 metres away from any given postcode, with around 58 named pieces of blue space within a kilometre. Cycle access into the wider area runs through the National Cycle Network, with about two-thirds of postcodes sitting close to a route and the average distance to a route at about 330 metres.
For character, Felpham sits on a flat coastal strip that runs east through Middleton-on-Sea and Elmer, and west into the wider Bognor Regis built-up area. The wider postcode footprint takes in inland villages including Ancton, Bilsham, Flansham, Lidsey, South Bersted, and Yapton, most of them small and farm-edged rather than urban. The dominant texture is low-rise housing, flat fields behind, and the sea in front. The conservation area covers the historic centre of Felpham around the church and contains Blake's Cottage, where William Blake wrote between 1800 and 1803. The other listed buildings in the area run to about twenty across the village, including the Church of St Mary at Grade II star and a Grade II group around the older core. The village has not been gentrified into a Whitstable equivalent, and the data on demographics, commute, and trade does not suggest it is heading that way.
On the area around Felpham, the rating is the page's best: five out of five. Green space close, blue space closer, flat farmland behind, a string of quieter villages to the east, and the parent town a short drive to the west. If you measure a place by what it sits inside rather than what it contains, this is as good as the south coast gets at this price.