Glazebury’s biggest
Lately Common
Park or garden
2.5 ha (6 acres)
4 pitchesfootball pitches would fit
0.6 mi northfrom the centre
Directionsto the nearest entrance
Light Oaks Hall · Photo: Ian Greig · CC BY-SA 2.0C−Outdoors Grade
Outdoors in Glazebury · parks, paths & countryside
Glazebury has more park space per resident than nearly 9 in 10 UK towns
Parks and playing fields in Glazebury add up to 5.1 ha for every 1,000 residents; the typical UK town has 2.1. 16 km of footpaths run through the village and the kilometre around it, 1.5 for every square kilometre. 58% of residents live within a 5-minute walk of a park or playing field. Glazebury grades C− for the outdoors. A character grade: it isn’t part of the overall grade.
Green space
5.1 ha
per 1,000 residents
Typical UK town 2.1
Near a park
58%
of residents within 400 m
Typical UK town 83%
Footpaths
16 km
1.5 km per km², town + 1 km
Typical UK town 3.0 per km²
Protected landscape
0%
of the land within 5 km
Character
What kind of outdoors village is Glazebury?
Read from the data: what stands out first, good and bad.
Room to roam5.1 ha of parks and playing fields per 1,000 residents, more than 87% of UK towns.Few mapped footpaths1.5 km of path per km²; the typical UK town has 3.0.
Glazebury’s strongest suit is plenty of park space. Where it falls short is footpaths.
Outdoors grade
Glazebury grades C− for the outdoors
Each chart is every UK town of 1,000 or more on one measure: the green bar is Glazebury, 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 23% of UK towns45th of 60 UK villages its size
Public green space5.1 haper 1,000 residents: parks, gardens, playing fields, play spaces
87out of
100
100
A park within a walk58%of residents within 400 m (a 5-minute walk)
19out of
100
100
National Park or National Landscape0%of the land within 5 km · None within 5 km
31out of
100
100
Footpaths1.5 kmper km², the town and 1 km around it
18out 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.
Villages its size
Glazebury is 45th of 60 UK villages its size for the outdoors
The 60 UK towns and cities of 1,000 to 1,200 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
Glazebury1.5
Villages its size2.2
Cheshire towns2.5
All UK towns3.0
Green space, ha per 1,000 residents
Glazebury5.1
Villages its size2.4
Cheshire towns1.8
All UK towns2.1
Residents within 400 m of a park
Glazebury58%
Villages its size76%
Cheshire towns82%
All UK towns83%
Against villages its size, Glazebury stands out most for park space per resident: only 9 of the other 59 have more. It falls furthest behind on path per km², where 42 of the others do better.
Show as a table
| Town | Outdoors | Green space | Near a park | Path per km² | Protected | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Giggleswick North Yorkshire | A+ | 14.2 | 100% | 4.1 | 75% |
| 2 | Lympne Kent | A+ | 4 | 100% | 2.7 | 34% |
| 3 | Illogan Cornwall | A+ | 3 | 100% | 3.2 | 7% |
| 4 | Polgooth Cornwall | A+ | 7 | 100% | 2 | 13% |
| 5 | Chagford Devon | A+ | 4.7 | 100% | 2.5 | 98% |
| 6 | Masham North Yorkshire | A+ | 3.7 | 100% | 3 | 44% |
| 7 | Alston Cumbria | A | 5.8 | 100% | 2.1 | 100% |
| 8 | Tolvaddon Cornwall | A | 11.9 | 24% | 4.5 | 9% |
| 9 | Leigh Kent | A | 3 | 100% | 2.6 | 49% |
| 10 | Moston Cheshire | A | 7.8 | 100% | 3.8 | 0% |
| 11 | Charnock Richard Lancashire | A | 29.8 | 100% | 3.3 | 0% |
| 12 | Barns Green West Sussex | A | 6.6 | 100% | 3.5 | 0% |
| 13 | Mayfield Staffordshire | A− | 1.9 | 100% | 3.3 | 14% |
| 14 | Winford Isle of Wight | A− | 1.7 | 0% | 4.4 | 39% |
| 15 | Llanddulas Clwyd | B+ | 1.7 | 100% | 2.4 | 0% |
| 16 | North Thoresby Lincolnshire | B+ | 3.7 | 100% | 0.8 | 21% |
| 17 | Bethel Gwynedd | B+ | 1.6 | 100% | 1.4 | 10% |
| 18 | Grassington North Yorkshire | B+ | 1.3 | 79% | 4.1 | 100% |
| 19 | Groombridge East Sussex | B+ | 2.3 | 77% | 2.8 | 92% |
| 20 | South Bents Tyne and Wear | B+ | 4.9 | 62% | 2.6 | 0% |
| 21 | Upperthong West Yorkshire | B | 1.7 | 65% | 4.7 | 26% |
| 22 | Fishtoft Lincolnshire | B | 2.3 | 100% | 1.1 | 0% |
| 23 | Barwick and Stoford Somerset | B | 6.4 | 71% | 2.2 | 5% |
| 24 | Holt Clwyd | B | 0.9 | 100% | 5.1 | 0% |
| 25 | Milborne St Andrew Dorset | B | 3.3 | 71% | 2.1 | 33% |
| 26 | Pentre Halkyn Clwyd | B | 1.3 | 59% | 3.6 | 3% |
| 27 | Nanpean Cornwall | B | 4.4 | 100% | 1.5 | 0% |
| 28 | Bedlinog Mid Glamorgan | B | 4.1 | 100% | 1.6 | 0% |
| 29 | Goudhurst Kent | B | 1.5 | 100% | 1.2 | 65% |
| 30 | Challock Kent | B− | 3 | 62% | 2 | 88% |
| 31 | Twyning Gloucestershire | B− | 1 | 100% | 2.5 | 10% |
| 32 | Shipham Somerset | B− | 1.2 | 63% | 4 | 55% |
| 33 | South Wingfield Derbyshire | B− | 5.4 | 75% | 2.8 | 0% |
| 34 | Beeford East Riding of Yorkshire | C+ | 3.9 | 100% | 0.4 | 0% |
| 35 | Chillington Devon | C+ | 0.6 | 78% | 1.3 | 55% |
| 36 | Milford Derbyshire | C+ | 1.4 | 100% | 2.8 | 0% |
| 37 | Easton on the Hill Northamptonshire | C+ | 2.5 | 100% | 1.7 | 0% |
| 38 | Castlethorpe Buckinghamshire | C+ | 3.5 | 72% | 2.9 | 0% |
| 39 | Upper Basildon Berkshire | C+ | 2.3 | 0% | 2 | 97% |
| 40 | Lower Shiplake Oxfordshire | C+ | 3 | 0% | 2 | 28% |
| 41 | Ashchurch Gloucestershire | C | 2 | 59% | 2.2 | 21% |
| 42 | Bow Street Dyfed | C | 3.1 | 33% | 1.6 | 0% |
| 43 | Woodhouses Greater Manchester | C | 2.6 | 40% | 3.5 | 0% |
| 44 | Charlton Marshall Dorset | C | 0.5 | 78% | 2 | 50% |
| 45 | Glazebury Cheshire | C− | 5.1 | 58% | 1.5 | 0% |
| 46 | Milverton Somerset | C− | 2.1 | 70% | 2.4 | 0% |
| 47 | Pattishall and Astcote Northamptonshire | C− | 2.9 | 39% | 2.4 | 0% |
| 48 | North Leverton with Habblesthorpe Nottinghamshire | C− | 0.5 | 100% | 1.4 | 0% |
| 49 | Bildeston Suffolk | C− | 0.5 | 100% | 1.3 | 0% |
| 50 | Farmborough Somerset | C− | 2 | 38% | 2.6 | 0% |
| 51 | Cawston Norfolk | D | 2.7 | 71% | 0.8 | 0% |
| 52 | Broad Oak (Wealden) East Sussex | D | 0.1 | 0% | 1.4 | 96% |
| 53 | Wattstown Mid Glamorgan | D | 3.1 | 26% | 0.8 | 0% |
| 54 | Landrake Cornwall | D | 0.9 | 0% | 0.6 | 38% |
| 55 | Aberporth Dyfed | D | 0.6 | 38% | 0.8 | 0% |
| 56 | Stickney Lincolnshire | D | 2.4 | 0% | 1 | 0% |
| 57 | Berryfield Wiltshire | D− | 0.4 | 53% | 2.1 | 0% |
| 58 | Pilton Somerset | D− | 1.2 | 28% | 1.9 | 0% |
| 59 | Great Horwood Buckinghamshire | D− | 0.8 | 0% | 1 | 0% |
| 60 | Whaplode Lincolnshire | D− | 0.4 | 0% | 0.2 | 0% |
The map
Parks, footpaths & countryside
Tap a number to zoom to a park. Tap a layer to hide it. The dashed line is Glazebury’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 Glazebury
The biggest is Lately Common, 2.5 ha (6 acres). Directions go to the park’s nearest public entrance where Ordnance Survey maps one.
Low Common
Park or garden · 320 m outside town
0.7 ha (2 acres)
1 mi northfrom the centre
Directionsto the nearest entrance
Close to home
6 in 10 Glazebury 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 (58%)Further (42%)
Glazebury58%
Villages its size76%
Cheshire towns82%
All UK towns83%
About 500 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 village, about one for every 99 residents.
Footpaths & waymarked walks
2 waymarked walks pass through or near Glazebury
16 km of footpaths, bridleways and rights of way are mapped in Glazebury and the kilometre around it, 1.5 km for every square kilometre (the typical UK town has 3.0). Bars show each route’s kilometres within 2 km of the village.
Regional
GM Ringway Stage 179.7 km
GM Ringway Stage 161.9 km
2 regional routes pass through, including the GM Ringway Stage 17 and GM Ringway Stage 16.
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 Glazebury: May to September
The village’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 | 15.9 | 17.0 | 16.5 | 14.8 | 12.6 | 10.4 | 8.5 | 7.5 |
| High (°C) | 8 | 8 | 11 | 14 | 17 | 19 | 21 | 21 | 18 | 14 | 10 | 8 |
| Rain (mm) | 75 | 62 | 55 | 55 | 61 | 72 | 72 | 79 | 75 | 91 | 83 | 91 |
March is the driest month (55 mm) and July the warmest (highs of 21 °C). Winter days are short, about 7 hours of daylight in December, and 91 mm of rain falls in October, the wettest month. Frost comes on about 36 nights a year. The climate in Glazebury →
Things to do
11 playgrounds and the nearest beaches
Mapped within 2 km of the village in OpenStreetMap, against the typical UK village its size per resident. Named places are listed with directions; unnamed ones are only counted.
The nearest beaches
Glazebury is inland. These are the nearest named beaches, measured from the edge of the village.
Wader Point9.9 mi from Glazebury’s edge
DirectionsCreek Beach South10 mi from Glazebury’s edge
DirectionsCreek Beach North10 mi from Glazebury’s edge
DirectionsStone Beach10 mi from Glazebury’s edge
DirectionsCar Park Beach10 mi from Glazebury’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
Nature reserves 2
Hope Carr Nature Reserve36 ha · 0.3 mi from town
DirectionsRisley, Holcroft and Chat Moss National Nature Reserve163 ha · 1.0 mi from town
DirectionsPlaygrounds 11
Plus 11 playgrounds without a name on the map.
Next door
The outdoors in nearby towns
The nearest towns of 1,000+ within 12 miles. Tap a town for its outdoors page.
CulchethLeighHigher FoldsAstleyTyldesleyCroftGlazebury
ABCDOutdoors Grade
Higher Folds, 2.4 miles away, grades A−, the best next door: 90% of its residents live within 400 m of a park. None of the neighbours has a protected landscape within 5 km either.
Questions about the outdoors in Glazebury
What is the biggest park in Glazebury?
Lately Common, 2.5 ha (6 acres). Low Common (0.7 ha) is second. 2 named parks, gardens and playing fields are in the village or within 400 m of it.
Is Glazebury near a National Park?
No National Park or National Landscape is within 30 km (about 19 miles) of Glazebury.
What are the best walks near Glazebury?
2 waymarked walking routes pass within 2 km of the village, including the GM Ringway Stage 17 and GM Ringway Stage 16.
What is the nearest beach to Glazebury?
Wader Point, 9.9 mi from the edge of the village, then Creek Beach South (10 mi). Glazebury itself is inland.
How many people in Glazebury live near a park?
58% 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 Glazebury?
May to September: the longest days, the warmest afternoons and the least rain of the year, from the Met Office 1991–2020 averages.
Is Glazebury good for walking?
Paths are thinner than most towns: 1.5 km of footpath and right of way per square kilometre, more than 18% of UK towns. For park space per person it beats 87% (5.1 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 Glazebury’s overall grade.
Sources
Where Glazebury’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.