First pick
Base de Loisirs du Fort
Park or garden
12 ha2.1 km of path
30 minto walk all 2.1 km of path
1.6 km south-westfrom the center
Directionsto a point inside
Photo: Velvet · CC BY-SA 3.06.3%woodland
Outdoors in Verlinghem · protected areas, woods and footpaths
Almost every home in Verlinghem is within 800 m of a park or wood
No protected area reaches Verlinghem; the nearest, Le Héron nature reserve, is 13 km from the town center. 12 km of footpaths cross Verlinghem (1.1 km per km²). 6.3% of Verlinghem is mapped woodland. France has no Outdoors Grade yet: these are the figures, each beside the compared towns’ median.
Protected areas
0%
of the commune’s land
Nearest: Le Héron nature reserve, 13 km
Woodland
6.3%
of the land, mapped on OpenStreetMap
Compared town: 13%
Footpaths
12 km
1.1 km per km²
Compared town: 1.7 km per km²
Hiking routes
0.2 km
waymarked, GR and others
Compared town: 0.3 km per km²
Parks & woods
4
named, in or within 400 m of the commune
First: Base de Loisirs du Fort
Throughout this page, the Nord median and the France median are the median of compared communes (those with an overall grade), each figure its own median.
Against French towns
How Verlinghem compares with French towns
Each figure against the 3,798 compared French towns (communes with an overall grade): the marked bar is the town’s, the line the median. Described, not graded.
Protected areas0%Share of the land in a national park, regional nature park, nature reserve or Natura 2000 site
22out of 100
Woodland6.3%Share of the land mapped as forest or woods on OpenStreetMap
28out of 100
Footpaths1.1 km per km²Km of mapped footpath and track open on foot, per km² of the commune
36out of 100
Hiking routes0 km per km²Km of waymarked hiking routes (GR and others), per km² of the commune
26out of 100
Percentiles among compared French towns; ties count half.
Towns its size
Verlinghem has the 16th most footpaths per km² of 41 towns its size
The 40 compared French towns nearest in population (2,648 to 2,718 residents), by km of footpath per km². Hover for each one’s protected land and woods; click for its page.
From Guilvinec (6.2 km per km²) to Richebourg (0.1 km per km²).
Every town in the comparison
| Town | Paths (km/km²) | Woodland | Protected | Coast | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Guilvinec Finistère | 6.2 | 0.8% | 2.7% | On it |
| 2 | Étrembières Haute-Savoie | 4.1 | 32% | 22% | 284 km |
| 3 | Gassin Var | 3.5 | 46% | 0% | On it |
| 4 | La Richardais Ille-et-Vilaine | 3.4 | 9.9% | 100% | On it |
| 5 | Bagnoles de l'Orne Normandie Orne | 3.3 | 39% | 100% | 69 km |
| 6 | Morzine Haute-Savoie | 2.4 | 33% | 36% | 274 km |
| 7 | Roissy-en-France Val-d'Oise | 2.1 | 4.3% | 0% | 144 km |
| 8 | Les Vans Ardèche | 1.8 | 46% | 78% | 94 km |
| 9 | Vinassan Aude | 1.7 | 20% | 65% | 9.2 km |
| 10 | Souchez Pas-de-Calais | 1.7 | 9% | 0% | 75 km |
| 11 | Piriac-sur-Mer Loire-Atlantique | 1.5 | 9.1% | 0.8% | On it |
| 12 | Râches Nord | 1.5 | 25% | 99% | 86 km |
| 13 | Marmoutier Bas-Rhin | 1.3 | 28% | 0% | 423 km |
| 14 | Auboué Meurthe-et-Moselle | 1.2 | 21% | 0% | 311 km |
| 15 | Cauffry Oise | 1.2 | 17% | 0% | 110 km |
| 16 | Verlinghem Nord | 1.1 | 6.3% | 0% | 55 km |
| 17 | Vert-le-Petit Essonne | 1.1 | 17% | 11% | 177 km |
| 18 | Villaines-la-Juhel Mayenne | 1 | 0.4% | 0% | 85 km |
| 19 | Masnières Nord | 1 | 4% | 0% | 109 km |
| 20 | Montréjeau Haute-Garonne | 0.9 | 5.7% | 2.6% | 175 km |
| 21 | Bessines-sur-Gartempe Haute-Vienne | 0.9 | 36% | 0.4% | 181 km |
| 22 | Fourques Gard | 0.9 | 1.7% | 4.6% | 28 km |
| 23 | Marpent Nord | 0.7 | 15% | 0% | 133 km |
| 24 | Calenzana Haute-Corse | 0.7 | 12% | 100% | On it |
| 25 | Torcy Saône-et-Loire | 0.7 | 19% | 0% | 359 km |
| 26 | Le Bugue Dordogne | 0.7 | 53% | 5.1% | 120 km |
| 27 | Brienne-le-Château Aube | 0.6 | 40% | 100% | 287 km |
| 28 | Carignan Ardennes | 0.6 | 4% | 27% | 237 km |
| 29 | Caux Hérault | 0.4 | 12% | 0% | 25 km |
| 30 | Montayral Lot-et-Garonne | 0.4 | 10% | 8.3% | 137 km |
| 31 | Cubzac-les-Ponts Gironde | 0.4 | 5.8% | 10% | 12 km |
| 32 | Cadillac-sur-Garonne Gironde | 0.3 | 7.2% | 5.4% | 47 km |
| 33 | Magescq Landes | 0.3 | 77% | 2.4% | 16 km |
| 34 | Chanas Isère | 0.3 | 19% | 0% | 204 km |
| 35 | Criquetot-l'Esneval Seine-Maritime | 0.3 | 1.2% | 0% | 8.3 km |
| 36 | Villefranche-sur-Cher Loir-et-Cher | 0.2 | 60% | 45% | 247 km |
| 37 | Montholon Yonne | 0.2 | 36% | 0% | 279 km |
| 38 | Ailly-sur-Noye Somme | 0.2 | 22% | 0% | 68 km |
| 39 | Essômes-sur-Marne Aisne | 0.2 | 31% | 0% | 176 km |
| 40 | Ouveillan Aude | 0.2 | 1.4% | 0% | 22 km |
| 41 | Richebourg Pas-de-Calais | 0.1 | 0.9% | 0% | 57 km |
The map
Parks, woods, footpaths & countryside
Tap a number to zoom to a park or wood. Tap a layer to hide it. The dashed line is the commune’s boundary.
Green: parks, gardens and woods mapped on OpenStreetMap, named or not.© OpenStreetMap contributors · INPN / PatriNat · IGN
Places to walk
Parks and woods to walk in, in and around Verlinghem
Named parks, gardens and woods in the commune or within 400 m, the biggest and best-pathed first: Base de Loisirs du Fort leads, at 12 ha. Directions go to a point inside.
Château du Cliquenois
Park or garden · 50 m outside the commune
2.3 ha
1.9 km eastfrom the center
Directionsto a point inside
Parc Donat Agache
Park or garden · 390 m outside the commune
0.4 ha0.5 km of path
2.4 km south-westfrom the center
Directionsto a point inside
Orée du Bois
Park or garden
0.2 ha0.2 km of path
Centralin the middle of Verlinghem
Directionsto a point inside
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL): named parks, gardens and woods; sizes are the whole site.
Protected areas
Le Héron nature reserve is the nearest protected area, 13 km away
The protected areas reaching the commune, and the nearest: national parks, regional nature parks, nature reserves and Natura 2000 sites.
Nature reserve
Le Héron nature reserve
13 km from the town center
Share of the commune’s land
Any protected area0%
Designations overlap (a regional park can hold a Natura 2000 site), so the rows don’t add up; the first counts each piece of land once.
Source: INPN / PatriNat, protected areas July 2026, Natura 2000 December 2024; shares of IGN’s commune boundary.
Footpaths and woods
12 km of footpaths cross Verlinghem
Paths, bridleways, steps and tracks open on foot, and waymarked hiking routes, mapped on OpenStreetMap inside the commune; woods are mapped forest and woodland, private woods included.
Footpaths
12 km
1.1 km per km²
Hiking routes
0.2 km
waymarked: 0 km per km²
Woodland
6.3%
about 0.6 km² of mapped woods
Km per km² of the commune · mapped on OpenStreetMap
VerlinghemNord medianFrance median
Footpaths1.1
Hiking routes0
01.53 km per km²
Share of the land · mapped woods and forest
VerlinghemNord medianFrance median
Woodland6.3%
0%50%100%
That is less than in 64% of compared French towns for footpaths per km², and for woodland less than in 72% of compared French towns. Hiking routes often follow paths and lanes already counted, so the two lengths overlap: don’t add them. Every home in Verlinghem is within 800 m of a mapped park or wood, as in most French towns.
2 named hiking routes within 2 km
GR (long-distance)Other named walk
GR 121B4.7 km
Circuit du Genièvre4.7 km
GR 121B passes within 2 km of Verlinghem.
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), extracts of October 25, 2026 (Geofabrik).
When to get out
The best walking months in Verlinghem: April to September
Météo-France’s 1991–2020 normals at Lille-Lesquin, 14 km away, and the daylight at the town’s latitude. Outlined months have long days, highs of 15 to 30 °C and little rain for the place.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Daylight (h) | 8.4 | 10.0 | 11.7 | 13.7 | 15.5 | 16.5 | 16.1 | 14.5 | 12.5 | 10.6 | 8.9 | 8.0 |
| High (°C) | 7 | 8 | 11 | 15 | 18 | 21 | 24 | 24 | 20 | 15 | 10 | 7 |
| Rain (mm) | 58 | 51 | 52 | 45 | 62 | 64 | 68 | 71 | 57 | 64 | 75 | 73 |
April is the driest month (45 mm) and July the warmest (highs of 24 °C). 75 mm of rain falls in November, the wettest month. Frost comes on about 37 nights a year. The climate in Verlinghem →
Neighbors
Next to Verlinghem
The nearest towns of 2,500 or more, colored by the share of their land in protected areas.
PérenchiesWambrechiesQuesnoy-sur-DeûleLambersartMarquette-lez-LilleSaint-André-lez-LilleVerlinghem
Under 1%1–10 %10–25 %25–50 %50 %+
| Town | Protected | Woodland | Paths (km/km²) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Verlinghem | 0% | 6.3% | 1.1 |
| Pérenchies 8,455 · 2.5 km | 0% | 0.9% | 2.5 |
| Wambrechies 11,012 · 3.6 km | 0% | 2.9% | 1.9 |
| Quesnoy-sur-Deûle 6,805 · 3.6 km | 0% | 0.8% | 1 |
| Lambersart 27,090 · 3.9 km | 0% | 3.4% | 4.7 |
| Marquette-lez-Lille 12,622 · 4 km | 0% | 4.2% | 5.6 |
| Saint-André-lez-Lille 13,233 · 4.1 km | 0% | 2.7% | 8.6 |
How to read these numbers
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Protected areas. National-park cores, national parks’ outer areas, regional nature parks, nature reserves and Natura 2000 sites, from INPN. A national park’s core is strictly protected; its outer area and a regional park are charters between communes, not bans. Designations overlap, so the total counts each piece of land once.
- Woodland. Forest and woods as OpenStreetMap maps them, private woods included: woods nobody has mapped are missing, and a mapped wood isn’t necessarily open to walkers.
- Footpaths and hiking routes. Footpaths, bridleways, steps and tracks open on foot, then waymarked hiking routes (GR and others) measured apart. A route often follows a path or lane already counted: the two overlap. Paths nobody has mapped are missing.
- Green space nearby. The share of residents (INSEE’s 200 m grid) within 800 m, as the crow flies, of a mapped park, garden or wood edge. It measures nearness, not a way in. Guadeloupe and French Guiana have no grid: their pages say whether the town center is within 800 m.
- The coast. The straight-line distance from the town center to OpenStreetMap’s coastline, which follows the tide line into estuaries. A commune is on the coast when the coastline crosses its boundary.
- No grade yet. U.S. and UK towns have an Outdoors Grade; French towns don’t yet. Each figure is set beside the median of compared communes (those with an overall grade) in the département and in France, each figure its own median.
Questions about the outdoors in Verlinghem
Is Verlinghem in a national or regional nature park?
No. The nearest protected area is Le Héron nature reserve, 13 km from the town center.
Are there good walks in Verlinghem?
OpenStreetMap maps 12 km of footpaths and tracks open on foot in the commune, 1.1 km per km² (the median compared town: 1.7 km per km²).
How much of Verlinghem is woodland?
6.3% of the commune is mapped woodland, private woods included; the median compared French town has 13%.
Is Verlinghem near the sea?
No: the coast is 55 km from the town center, as the crow flies.
When is the best time for walking in Verlinghem?
April to September: long days, mild highs and little rain, from Météo-France’s 1991–2020 normals at the nearest suitable station.
Why is there no Outdoors Grade for French towns?
TownRatings grades the outdoors in the U.S. and the UK; the French figures are new and not graded yet. This page sets each one beside the median compared French town instead.
Sources: INPN / PatriNat (protected areas 2026, Natura 2000 2024) · © OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL (paths, hiking routes, woods, coast, gardens) · INSEE, Filosofi 2021 200 m grid (residents) · IGN Admin Express (boundaries) · Météo-France normals 1991–2020 · Medians and percentiles: TownRatings, over compared French towns, updated November 9, 2026. Under the Licence Ouverte / Open Licence 2.0 (Etalab).
Contains public sector information under the Licence Ouverte / Open Licence 2.0 (Etalab): INSEE, DGFiP, the Interior Ministry’s statistics service (SSMSI), the Ministry of Education (DEPP), the Health Ministry’s statistics service (DREES) and the Housing Ministry (Carte des loyers). Commune boundaries: IGN Admin Express.