Cuddington’s biggest
Delamere Park
Park or garden
0.8 ha (2 acres)
0.9 mi north-westfrom the centre
Directionsto the nearest entrance
Photo: Sandy Gerrard · CC BY-SA 2.0C−Outdoors Grade
Outdoors in Cuddington · parks, paths & countryside
Parks and walks in Cuddington
A park or playing field is within a 5-minute walk for 66% of residents. Parks and playing fields in Cuddington add up to 1.5 ha for every 1,000 residents; the typical UK town has 2.1. 45 km of footpaths run through the town and the kilometre around it, 2.6 for every square kilometre. Cuddington grades C− for the outdoors: #37 of 46 in Cheshire. A character grade: it isn’t part of the overall grade.
Green space
1.5 ha
per 1,000 residents
Typical UK town 2.1
Near a park
66%
of residents within 400 m
Typical UK town 83%
Footpaths
45 km
2.6 km per km², town + 1 km
Typical UK town 3.0 per km²
Protected landscape
0%
of the land within 5 km
Outdoors grade
Cuddington grades C− for the outdoors
Each chart is every UK town of 1,000 or more on one measure: the green bar is Cuddington, the dashed line the typical town. The number is the share of towns it beats; the five are averaged and the average ranked again.
C−
Better than 15% of UK towns#37 of 46 in Cheshire · 54th of 60 UK towns its size
Public green space1.5 haper 1,000 residents: parks, gardens, playing fields, play spaces
28out of
100
100
A park within a walk66%of residents within 400 m (a 5-minute walk)
25out of
100
100
National Park or National Landscape0%of the land within 5 km · None within 5 km
31out of
100
100
Footpaths2.6 kmper km², the town and 1 km around it
49out of
100
100
The sea0%of the area within 5 km · Inland
42out of
100
100
Graded, never part of the overall grade (like History and Civic life). It measures what is mapped: OS Open Greenspace leaves out woodland and open-access land that isn’t a park, and OpenStreetMap’s rural paths are more complete in some places than others.
Towns its size
Cuddington is 54th of 60 UK towns its size for the outdoors
The 60 UK towns and cities of 5,600 to 6,100 people with an Outdoors Grade. Hover a dot for its figures; tap one for its page.
Outdoors score: the share of UK towns each one beats
Footpath, km per km²
Cuddington2.6
Towns its size2.6
Cheshire towns2.5
All UK towns3.0
Green space, ha per 1,000 residents
Cuddington1.5
Towns its size2.2
Cheshire towns1.8
All UK towns2.1
Residents within 400 m of a park
Cuddington66%
Towns its size82%
Cheshire towns82%
All UK towns83%
Cuddington falls furthest behind on park space per resident, where 41 of the 59 others do better.
Show as a table
| Town | Outdoors | Green space | Near a park | Path per km² | Protected | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Blackfield and Langley Hampshire | A+ | 28.1 | 95% | 4.2 | 48% |
| 2 | Saltburn-by-the-Sea North Yorkshire | A | 4.7 | 92% | 2.5 | 0% |
| 3 | Bagshot Surrey | A | 10.5 | 100% | 5.2 | 0% |
| 4 | Barrowford Lancashire | A | 4.2 | 82% | 5 | 22% |
| 5 | Wareham Dorset | A | 1.9 | 83% | 3.4 | 56% |
| 6 | Leiston Suffolk | A | 1.7 | 95% | 2.7 | 35% |
| 7 | Amble Northumberland | A | 2 | 100% | 2.2 | 5% |
| 8 | West Hallam Derbyshire | A | 4.8 | 100% | 4.3 | 0% |
| 9 | Haworth West Yorkshire | A | 4.1 | 100% | 4.3 | 0% |
| 10 | Millom Cumbria | A | 2 | 82% | 3.2 | 13% |
| 11 | Menston West Yorkshire | A | 2.4 | 90% | 4.1 | 18% |
| 12 | Shepperton Surrey | A | 8.7 | 89% | 4.6 | 0% |
| 13 | Carnforth Lancashire | A− | 1.2 | 89% | 3 | 39% |
| 14 | Barnard Castle County Durham | A− | 2.2 | 100% | 3.4 | 1% |
| 15 | Botley Hampshire | A− | 14.6 | 70% | 3.6 | 2% |
| 16 | East Horsley Surrey | A− | 3.5 | 55% | 4.5 | 33% |
| 17 | Dodworth South Yorkshire | A− | 2.3 | 97% | 5.5 | 0% |
| 18 | Kingsbridge Devon | B+ | 1.5 | 91% | 1.6 | 67% |
| 19 | Marchwood Hampshire | B+ | 2 | 87% | 1.3 | 38% |
| 20 | Moor Park Hertfordshire | B+ | 4.5 | 46% | 4.5 | 1% |
| 21 | Creswell Derbyshire | B+ | 2.7 | 100% | 3.2 | 0% |
| 22 | Thrybergh and Dalton South Yorkshire | B+ | 2.6 | 95% | 4 | 0% |
| 23 | Willington County Durham | B+ | 4.7 | 95% | 2.8 | 0% |
| 24 | Garstang Lancashire | B | 2.4 | 89% | 2.3 | 15% |
| 25 | East Tilbury Essex | B | 2.3 | 92% | 2 | 0% |
| 26 | Wixams Bedfordshire | B | 5.3 | 100% | 1.6 | 0% |
| 27 | Shipston-on-Stour Warwickshire | B | 2.3 | 94% | 1.6 | 20% |
| 28 | Brixworth Northamptonshire | B | 3.8 | 94% | 2.3 | 0% |
| 29 | Newbiggin-by-the-Sea Northumberland | B | 2.2 | 77% | 2.5 | 0% |
| 30 | Hemsby Norfolk | B | 2.5 | 51% | 1.4 | 22% |
| 31 | Bidford-on-Avon Warwickshire | B | 3.4 | 100% | 1.9 | 0% |
| 32 | Cheddar Somerset | B− | 2.3 | 41% | 3 | 56% |
| 33 | Thirsk North Yorkshire | B− | 1.8 | 100% | 2.8 | 0% |
| 34 | Great Torrington Devon | B− | 2.6 | 88% | 2.7 | 0% |
| 35 | Hullbridge Essex | C+ | 5.7 | 59% | 3 | 0% |
| 36 | Kirby Cross Essex | C+ | 2.4 | 44% | 2.5 | 0% |
| 37 | Aylesham Kent | C+ | 0.3 | 76% | 3.4 | 33% |
| 38 | Bagillt Clwyd | C+ | 1.3 | 87% | 1.8 | 0% |
| 39 | Crawley Down West Sussex | C+ | 1.2 | 80% | 2.2 | 40% |
| 40 | Pontyclun Mid Glamorgan | C | 2.4 | 79% | 2.6 | 0% |
| 41 | Ruthin Clwyd | C | 2.7 | 51% | 1.5 | 31% |
| 42 | Egremont Cumbria | C | 1.1 | 63% | 1.8 | 11% |
| 43 | Bracebridge Heath Lincolnshire | C | 1.1 | 81% | 3.7 | 0% |
| 44 | Undy and Magor Gwent | C | 0.9 | 86% | 1.4 | 0% |
| 45 | Durrington Wiltshire | C | 1.1 | 90% | 2.7 | 0% |
| 46 | Red Lodge Suffolk | C | 1.5 | 100% | 1.5 | 0% |
| 47 | Ramsey Cambridgeshire | C | 2.5 | 72% | 2.3 | 0% |
| 48 | Ilminster Somerset | C− | 2.3 | 61% | 2.8 | 0% |
| 49 | Ottery St Mary Devon | C− | 1.2 | 71% | 1.7 | 34% |
| 50 | Studley Warwickshire | C− | 1.6 | 63% | 3.3 | 0% |
| 51 | Pembury Kent | C− | 1.1 | 45% | 2 | 58% |
| 52 | Stainforth South Yorkshire | C− | 2.2 | 80% | 1.5 | 0% |
| 53 | Purfleet-on-Thames Essex | C− | 0.9 | 64% | 1.9 | 0% |
| 54 | Cuddington Cheshire | C− | 1.5 | 66% | 2.6 | 0% |
| 55 | Withernsea East Riding of Yorkshire | D | 0.9 | 60% | 1.1 | 0% |
| 56 | Arlesey Bedfordshire | D | 0.9 | 51% | 3.2 | 0% |
| 57 | Finningley South Yorkshire | D | 2 | 65% | 1.3 | 0% |
| 58 | Werrington Staffordshire | D | 1.1 | 42% | 2.9 | 0% |
| 59 | Sawtry Cambridgeshire | D | 1.3 | 40% | 2.2 | 0% |
| 60 | Burwell Cambridgeshire | D− | 1.5 | 44% | 1.8 | 0% |
The map
Parks, footpaths & countryside
Tap a number to zoom to a park. Tap a layer to hide it. The dashed line is Cuddington’s built-up area.
Green space: parks, gardens, playing fields and play spaces, named or not.© OpenStreetMap contributors · Contains OS data © Crown copyright · Natural England / NRW
Places to walk
Parks to walk in, in and around Cuddington
The biggest is Delamere Park, 0.8 ha (2 acres). Directions go to the park’s nearest public entrance where Ordnance Survey maps one.
Close to home
7 in 10 Cuddington residents live within a 5-minute walk of a park
Each square is 1 in 100 residents: green lives within 400 m of a public park, garden or playing field (Census 2021 output areas against OS Open Greenspace).
Within 400 m (66%)Further (35%)
Cuddington66%
Towns its size82%
Cheshire towns82%
All UK towns83%
About 2,000 people live further than that. Playing fields count, so a park within reach isn’t always one with paths or trees; 10 playgrounds are mapped in and around the town, about one for every 586 residents.
Footpaths & waymarked walks
4 waymarked walks pass through or near Cuddington
45 km of footpaths, bridleways and rights of way are mapped in Cuddington and the kilometre around it, 2.6 km for every square kilometre (the typical UK town has 3.0). Bars show each route’s kilometres within 2 km of the town.
RegionalLocalOther waymarked
Delamere Way6.4 km
Weaver Parkway3.7 km
Norley Wildflower Memorial Walk3.0 km
Delamere Way (alternative)0.6 km
The regional route here is the Delamere Way.
Waymarked walks are OpenStreetMap walking routes. Public rights of way are only as complete as the map in each area.
When to get out
The best walking months in Cuddington: May to September
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) | 8.0 | 9.7 | 11.7 | 13.9 | 15.8 | 16.9 | 16.5 | 14.8 | 12.6 | 10.4 | 8.5 | 7.5 |
| High (°C) | 8 | 9 | 12 | 15 | 18 | 20 | 22 | 22 | 19 | 15 | 11 | 9 |
| Rain (mm) | 69 | 54 | 50 | 51 | 55 | 65 | 65 | 71 | 66 | 82 | 75 | 80 |
March is the driest month (50 mm) and July the warmest (highs of 22 °C). Winter days are short, about 8 hours of daylight in December, and 82 mm of rain falls in October, the wettest month. Frost comes on about 41 nights a year. The climate in Cuddington →
Things to do
10 playgrounds and the nearest beaches
Mapped within 2 km of the town in OpenStreetMap, against the typical UK town its size per resident. Named places are listed with directions; unnamed ones are only counted.
The nearest beaches
Cuddington is inland. These are the nearest named beaches, measured from the edge of the town.
Tranmere Beach18 mi from Cuddington’s edge
DirectionsBrazil Bank23 mi from Cuddington’s edge
DirectionsCrosby Beach24 mi from Cuddington’s edge
DirectionsWader Point25 mi from Cuddington’s edge
DirectionsEast Hoyle Bank26 mi from Cuddington’s edge
DirectionsGood to know
Check the water before you swim. The Environment Agency tests designated bathing waters from May to September and publishes a rating for each beach.
Every named place, with directions
Hills and peaks 1
Gallowsclough Hill1.1 mi from town
DirectionsPicnic sites 1
Plus 1 picnic site without a name on the map.
Playgrounds 10
Plus 10 playgrounds without a name on the map.
Campsites 1
stones ford Cl0.5 mi from town
DirectionsNext door
The outdoors in nearby towns
The nearest towns of 1,000+ within 12 miles. Tap a town for its outdoors page.
WeaverhamHartfordBarntonDavenhamNorthwichKingsleyCuddington
ABCDOutdoors Grade
Northwich, 3.7 miles away, grades A, the best next door: 92% of its residents live within 400 m of a park. Barnton, Northwich and Kingsley have at least twice Cuddington’s green space per resident. None of the neighbours has a protected landscape within 5 km either.
Questions about the outdoors in Cuddington
What is the biggest park in Cuddington?
Delamere Park, 0.8 ha (2 acres). 1 named park, garden or playing field is in the town or within 400 m of it.
Is Cuddington near a National Park?
No National Park or National Landscape is within 30 km (about 19 miles) of Cuddington.
What are the best walks near Cuddington?
4 waymarked walking routes pass within 2 km of the town, including the Delamere Way, Weaver Parkway and Norley Wildflower Memorial Walk.
What is the nearest beach to Cuddington?
Tranmere Beach, 18 mi from the edge of the town, then Brazil Bank (23 mi). Cuddington itself is inland.
How many people in Cuddington live near a park?
66% of residents live within 400 m, about a 5-minute walk, of a public park, garden or playing field (Census 2021 output areas against OS Open Greenspace). The typical UK town is 83%.
When is the best time of year for walking in Cuddington?
May to September: the longest days, the warmest afternoons and the least rain of the year, from the Met Office 1991–2020 averages.
Is Cuddington good for walking?
About average for paths: 2.6 km of footpath and right of way per square kilometre, more than 49% of UK towns. For park space per person it beats 28% (1.5 ha per 1,000 residents).
How is the Outdoors Grade worked out?
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 Landscape within 5 km, footpaths per square kilometre, and the sea within 5 km. It is a character grade and isn’t part of Cuddington’s overall grade.
Sources
Where Cuddington’s outdoors figures come from
- Parks and green space: Ordnance Survey OS Open Greenspace (parks and gardens, playing fields, play spaces, and their access points). Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0.
- National Parks and National Landscapes: Natural England and Natural Resources Wales boundaries, areas and designation dates, Open Government Licence v3.0.
- Footpaths, walking routes, beaches and things to do: © OpenStreetMap contributors, Open Database License (ODbL), via Geofabrik, 16 October 2026.
- Historic parks, listed buildings and monuments: Historic England, National Heritage List for England, Open Government Licence v3.0.
- Rain and temperature: Met Office HadUK-Grid 1991–2020 averages for the town; daylight calculated from its latitude.
- The sea: ONS Countries (December 2024) boundaries clipped to mean high water. Residents near a park: ONS Census 2021 output areas.
- Grade: TownRatings’ Outdoors Grade, ranked against UK towns only.
Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026 (ONS boundaries). Northern Ireland: Source: NISRA; contains Land & Property Services data and Ordnance Survey of Northern Ireland information, © Crown copyright, licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Scotland: contains National Records of Scotland data, Registers of Scotland data and SEPA data, © Crown copyright / © SEPA 2025, licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.