Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
Photo: Bill Harrison · CC BY-SA 2.0Footpaths add up to 22 km in the town and the kilometre around it, 1.5 for every square kilometre. Parks and playing fields in Brechin add up to 2.8 ha for every 1,000 residents; the typical town in England and Wales has 2.1. 74% of residents live within a 5-minute walk of a park or playing field. Brechin has no Outdoors Grade: Scottish towns aren’t graded on the outdoors yet.
Tap a number to zoom to a park. Tap a layer to hide it. The dashed line is Brechin’s locality.
The biggest is Brechin Public Park, 8.6 ha (21 acres). Directions go to the park’s nearest public entrance where Ordnance Survey maps one.
The two biggest, Brechin Public Park and Inch Park, are 71% of the named green space and carry 3 km of path between them.
Each square is 1 in 100 residents: green lives within 400 m of a public park, garden or playing field (NRS Census 2022 output areas against OS Open Greenspace).
About 1,900 people live further than that. Playing fields count, so a park within reach isn’t always one with paths or trees; 11 playgrounds are mapped in and around the town, about one for every 653 residents.
Protected landscapes within 30 km, by direction and distance from the edge of the locality; circle size shows each one’s area. National Scenic Areas are Scotland’s finest landscapes, chosen by NatureScot.
Cairngorms National Park covers 4,528 km² and has been a National Park since 2003.
22 km of footpaths, tracks and core paths are mapped in Brechin and the kilometre around it, 1.5 km for every square kilometre (the typical town in England and Wales has 3.0). Bars show each route’s kilometres within 2 km of the town.
Close to home, the Trinity Circuit has 10 km of local walk within 2 km of the town.
Waymarked walks are OpenStreetMap walking routes. Scotland has no rights-of-way register: everyone has a right of responsible access to most land, so tracks and councils’ core paths count. Paths are only as complete as the map in each area.
Historic Environment Scotland’s Inventory of Gardens and Designed Landscapes, and the listed buildings and scheduled monuments that stand inside Brechin’s named parks.
A listed building or monument counts when it sits inside the park’s OS Open Greenspace outline (to about 15 m), so a few at the boundary are included. Historic Environment Scotland designations.
The town’s 1991–2020 averages (Met Office HadUK-Grid) and the daylight at its latitude. Outlined months have 12½+ hours of daylight, highs of 15 °C or more and little rain for the town.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Daylight (h) | 7.4 | 9.4 | 11.6 | 14.2 | 16.4 | 17.8 | 17.2 | 15.2 | 12.7 | 10.2 | 8.0 | 6.8 |
| High (°C) | 6 | 7 | 9 | 12 | 14 | 17 | 19 | 19 | 17 | 13 | 9 | 6 |
| Rain (mm) | 81 | 59 | 55 | 53 | 61 | 68 | 79 | 78 | 59 | 94 | 94 | 78 |
April is the driest month (53 mm) and July the warmest (highs of 19 °C). Winter days are short, about 7 hours of daylight in December, and 94 mm of rain falls in October, the wettest month. Frost comes on about 69 nights a year. The climate in Brechin →
Mapped within 2 km of the town in OpenStreetMap. Named places are listed with directions; unnamed ones are only counted.
Brechin is inland. These are the nearest named beaches, measured from the edge of the town.
Check the water before you swim. SEPA tests designated bathing waters from May to September and publishes a rating for each beach.
Plus 1 peak without a name on the map.
Plus 1 picnic site without a name on the map.
Plus 6 playgrounds without a name on the map.
The nearest towns of 1,000+ within 12 miles. Tap a town for its outdoors page.
| Town | Outdoors | Green space, ha per 1,000 | Near a park | Protected within 5 km |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Brechin | – | 2.8 | 74% | 0% |
| Montrose 7.2 mi | – | 2.8 | 94% | 0% |
| Laurencekirk 9.9 mi | – | 2.0 | 60% | 0% |
| Forfar 10.7 mi | – | 7.1 | 95% | 0% |
| Arbroath 11.8 mi | – | 3.7 | 86% | 0% |
Forfar has at least twice Brechin’s green space per resident. None of the neighbours has a protected landscape within 5 km either.
Brechin Public Park, 8.6 ha (21 acres), with 2.1 km of path. Inch Park (3.4 ha) is second. 4 named parks, gardens and playing fields are in the town or within 400 m of it.
Yes. Cairngorms National Park begins 12 mi north-west of the town’s edge. It covers 4,528 km² and has been a National Park since 2003.
5 waymarked walking routes pass within 2 km of the town, including the Trinity Circuit, Burghill Circuit and Brechin Town Circuit. Brechin Public Park alone has 2.1 km of path.
Montrose Beach, 7.1 mi from the edge of the town, then Sands of St Cyrus (8.9 mi). Brechin itself is inland.
74% of residents live within 400 m, about a 5-minute walk, of a public park, garden or playing field (NRS Census 2022 output areas against OS Open Greenspace). The typical town in England and Wales is 83%.
June to September: the longest days, the warmest afternoons and the least rain of the year, from the Met Office 1991–2020 averages.
Brechin Castle (Grade ) is on Historic Environment Scotland’s Inventory of Gardens and Designed Landscapes.
From five measures, each placed among UK towns of 1,000 or more: public green space per resident, the share living near a park, National Park or National Scenic Area within 5 km, footpaths per square kilometre, and the sea within 5 km. It is a character grade and isn’t part of Brechin’s overall grade.
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