Kelsall’s biggest
Chapel Green
Park or garden
0.1 ha (0 acres)
Centralin the middle of Kelsall
Directionsto the nearest entrance
Photo: David Smith · CC BY-SA 2.0DOutdoors Grade
Outdoors in Kelsall · parks, paths & countryside
Parks and walks in Kelsall
Parks and playing fields in Kelsall add up to 1.0 ha for every 1,000 residents; the typical UK town has 2.1. 57% of residents live within a 5-minute walk of a park or playing field. Footpaths add up to 35 km in the town and the kilometre around it, 3.1 for every square kilometre. Kelsall grades D for the outdoors: #41 of 46 in Cheshire. A character grade: it isn’t part of the overall grade.
Green space
1.0 ha
per 1,000 residents
Typical UK town 2.1
Near a park
57%
of residents within 400 m
Typical UK town 83%
Footpaths
35 km
3.1 km per km², town + 1 km
Typical UK town 3.0 per km²
Protected landscape
0%
of the land within 5 km
Nearest: Bryniau Clwyd A Dyffryn Dyfrdwy/clwydian Range and Dee Valley National Landscape
Outdoors grade
Kelsall grades D for the outdoors
Each chart is every UK town of 1,000 or more on one measure: the green bar is Kelsall, the dashed line the typical town. The number is the share of towns it beats; the five are averaged and the average ranked again.
D
Better than 13% of UK towns#41 of 46 in Cheshire · 49th of 60 UK towns its size
Public green space1.0 haper 1,000 residents: parks, gardens, playing fields, play spaces
14out of
100
100
A park within a walk57%of residents within 400 m (a 5-minute walk)
18out of
100
100
National Park or National Landscape0%of the land within 5 km · None within 5 km
31out of
100
100
Footpaths3.1 kmper km², the town and 1 km around it
63out 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
Kelsall is 49th of 60 UK towns its size for the outdoors
The 60 UK towns and cities of 2,900 to 3,100 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
Kelsall3.1
Towns its size2.4
Cheshire towns2.5
All UK towns3.0
Green space, ha per 1,000 residents
Kelsall1.0
Towns its size2.2
Cheshire towns1.8
All UK towns2.1
Residents within 400 m of a park
Kelsall57%
Towns its size85%
Cheshire towns82%
All UK towns83%
Against towns its size, Kelsall stands out most for path per km²: only 21 of the other 59 have more. It falls furthest behind on park space per resident, where 51 of the others do better.
Show as a table
| Town | Outdoors | Green space | Near a park | Path per km² | Protected | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Rowlands Castle Hampshire | A+ | 26.1 | 100% | 5 | 48% |
| 2 | Halling Kent | A+ | 3.8 | 100% | 4.6 | 54% |
| 3 | Arundel West Sussex | A+ | 4.4 | 100% | 3.8 | 56% |
| 4 | Theale Berkshire | A+ | 5 | 100% | 3.8 | 39% |
| 5 | Cuxton Kent | A+ | 25.2 | 90% | 4 | 44% |
| 6 | Horton Heath Hampshire | A+ | 10 | 100% | 3.3 | 13% |
| 7 | Beaminster Dorset | A | 4.1 | 89% | 3.4 | 100% |
| 8 | Ebbsfleet Valley Kent | A | 9 | 77% | 8.3 | 0% |
| 9 | Downton Wiltshire | A | 4.3 | 100% | 2 | 59% |
| 10 | Langwith Derbyshire | A | 19.6 | 100% | 3.7 | 0% |
| 11 | Ellistown Leicestershire | A | 7.5 | 100% | 3.8 | 0% |
| 12 | Llangollen Clwyd | A | 3.5 | 91% | 2.5 | 76% |
| 13 | Mortimer Berkshire | A | 2.4 | 100% | 3.8 | 0% |
| 14 | Menai Bridge Gwynedd | A | 1.8 | 100% | 2.4 | 7% |
| 15 | New Marske North Yorkshire | A− | 4.4 | 90% | 1.3 | 0% |
| 16 | Knighton Powys | A− | 2.7 | 81% | 3.4 | 34% |
| 17 | Seaton Sluice Northumberland | A− | 2.2 | 100% | 2 | 0% |
| 18 | Rhodes Greater Manchester | B+ | 16.6 | 78% | 4.2 | 0% |
| 19 | Milton-under-Wychwood and Shipton-under-Wychwood Oxfordshire | B+ | 4.1 | 87% | 1.3 | 100% |
| 20 | Welham Green Hertfordshire | B+ | 2.5 | 93% | 4.4 | 0% |
| 21 | Almondsbury Gloucestershire | B+ | 7.9 | 77% | 4 | 0% |
| 22 | Wing Buckinghamshire | B | 2.4 | 100% | 3 | 0% |
| 23 | Newton and Blackwell Derbyshire | B | 2.6 | 91% | 3.7 | 0% |
| 24 | Camelford Cornwall | B | 2 | 100% | 1.5 | 33% |
| 25 | Newport Essex | B | 2.5 | 100% | 2.8 | 0% |
| 26 | Denholme West Yorkshire | B | 1.6 | 100% | 3.6 | 0% |
| 27 | Weldon Northamptonshire | B | 8.2 | 100% | 1.1 | 0% |
| 28 | Bugbrooke Northamptonshire | B− | 3.7 | 80% | 3 | 0% |
| 29 | Long Hanborough Oxfordshire | B− | 1.3 | 89% | 2.7 | 18% |
| 30 | Harwell Oxfordshire | B− | 1.4 | 85% | 2.3 | 42% |
| 31 | Crumbles East Sussex | B− | 0.3 | 44% | 3.6 | 0% |
| 32 | Henley-in-Arden Warwickshire | C+ | 4.6 | 58% | 3.1 | 0% |
| 33 | Etwall Derbyshire | C+ | 2.3 | 100% | 1.5 | 0% |
| 34 | Capel St Mary Suffolk | C+ | 1.5 | 59% | 3 | 24% |
| 35 | Rolleston on Dove Staffordshire | C+ | 3.8 | 84% | 1.7 | 0% |
| 36 | Swillington West Yorkshire | C | 2.2 | 68% | 3.3 | 0% |
| 37 | Hendy and Fforest Dyfed | C | 2.1 | 100% | 0.8 | 0% |
| 38 | Sutton Courtenay Oxfordshire | C | 1.2 | 23% | 4 | 6% |
| 39 | Llanfair Pwllgwyngyll Gwynedd | C | 0.8 | 71% | 1.6 | 8% |
| 40 | West Chiltington West Sussex | C | 1.5 | 18% | 2.7 | 38% |
| 41 | Bottesford Leicestershire | C | 3.9 | 69% | 1.9 | 0% |
| 42 | Haddenham Cambridgeshire | C | 2.2 | 86% | 1.9 | 0% |
| 43 | Fenstanton Cambridgeshire | C− | 0.8 | 100% | 2 | 0% |
| 44 | Great Leighs Essex | C− | 1.5 | 87% | 2.2 | 0% |
| 45 | Lostwithiel Cornwall | C− | 1.6 | 67% | 1.5 | 11% |
| 46 | Burnopfield County Durham | C− | 1.5 | 50% | 3.3 | 0% |
| 47 | St Mary's Bay Kent | D | 0 | 0% | 1.3 | 0% |
| 48 | Cleobury Mortimer Shropshire | D | 0.8 | 64% | 2 | 2% |
| 49 | Kelsall Cheshire | D | 1 | 57% | 3.1 | 0% |
| 50 | Gamlingay Cambridgeshire | D | 2.1 | 32% | 2 | 0% |
| 51 | Scotter Lincolnshire | D | 2.6 | 61% | 0.5 | 0% |
| 52 | Gobowen Shropshire | D | 1.2 | 50% | 1.2 | 2% |
| 53 | Gilberdyke East Riding of Yorkshire | D | 0.7 | 90% | 0.3 | 0% |
| 54 | Thurston Suffolk | D | 1.6 | 39% | 2.1 | 0% |
| 55 | Bampton Oxfordshire | D | 1.1 | 63% | 2 | 0% |
| 56 | Queniborough Leicestershire | D | 1.4 | 48% | 1.9 | 0% |
| 57 | Kirton in Lindsey Lincolnshire | D− | 1.7 | 57% | 0.8 | 0% |
| 58 | Boroughbridge North Yorkshire | D− | 0.4 | 60% | 1.6 | 0% |
| 59 | Langstone Gwent | D− | 0.1 | 46% | 1.9 | 0% |
| 60 | Feltwell Norfolk | D− | 1.1 | 63% | 0.4 | 0% |
The map
Parks, footpaths & countryside
Tap a number to zoom to a park. Tap a layer to hide it. The dashed line is Kelsall’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 Kelsall
The biggest is Chapel Green, 0.1 ha (0 acres). Directions go to the park’s nearest public entrance where Ordnance Survey maps one.
Close to home
6 in 10 Kelsall 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 (57%)Further (43%)
Kelsall57%
Towns its size85%
Cheshire towns82%
All UK towns83%
About 1,300 people live further than that. Playing fields count, so a park within reach isn’t always one with paths or trees; 4 playgrounds are mapped in and around the town, about one for every 749 residents.
National Parks & National Landscapes
The Bryniau Clwyd A Dyffryn Dyfrdwy/clwydian Range and Dee Valley National Landscape is 18 mi away
Protected landscapes within 30 km, by direction and distance from the edge of the built-up area; circle size shows each one’s area. National Landscapes were called Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty until 2023.
National ParkNational LandscapeThe 5 km the grade counts
National Landscape
Bryniau Clwyd A Dyffryn Dyfrdwy/clwydian Range and Dee Valley
18 mi south-west389 km²since 2011
Footpaths & waymarked walks
11 waymarked walks pass through or near Kelsall
35 km of footpaths, bridleways and rights of way are mapped in Kelsall and the kilometre around it, 3.1 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
Eddisbury Way6.7 km
Cheshire Circuit6.4 km
Sandstone Trail6.4 km
Mount Pleasant Circular Walk4.5 km
Baker Way4.2 km
Utkinton Loop3.8 km
Old Pale Trail3.1 km
Blakemere Trail1.8 km
Whitemoor Trail1.6 km
Hunger Hill Trail1.4 km
Linmere Trail1.4 km
3 regional routes pass through, including the Eddisbury Way, Cheshire Circuit and Sandstone Trail.
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 Kelsall: May to July and 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) | 8.1 | 9.7 | 11.7 | 13.9 | 15.8 | 16.9 | 16.5 | 14.8 | 12.6 | 10.5 | 8.5 | 7.5 |
| High (°C) | 7 | 8 | 11 | 14 | 17 | 19 | 21 | 20 | 18 | 14 | 10 | 8 |
| Rain (mm) | 66 | 53 | 53 | 55 | 59 | 74 | 64 | 82 | 75 | 86 | 78 | 82 |
February is the driest month (53 mm) and July the warmest (highs of 21 °C). Winter days are short, about 8 hours of daylight in December, and 86 mm of rain falls in October, the wettest month. Frost comes on about 55 nights a year. The climate in Kelsall →
Things to do
4 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
Kelsall is inland. These are the nearest named beaches, measured from the edge of the town.
Tranmere Beach17 mi from Kelsall’s edge
DirectionsBrazil Bank22 mi from Kelsall’s edge
DirectionsEast Hoyle Bank23 mi from Kelsall’s edge
DirectionsCrosby Beach23 mi from Kelsall’s edge
DirectionsTaylor's Bank28 mi from Kelsall’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
Viewpoints 1
Plus 1 viewpoint without a name on the map.
Hills and peaks 4
Hangingstone Hill0.3 mi from town
DirectionsPale Heights176 m (577 ft) · 0.6 mi from town
DirectionsThe Old Pale0.8 mi from town
DirectionsEddisbury Hill1.0 mi from town
DirectionsPlaygrounds 4
Ashton Childrens Playground1.0 mi from town
DirectionsPlus 3 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.
TarvinTarporleyKingsleyGuilden SuttonCuddingtonMickle TraffordKelsall
ABCDOutdoors Grade
| Town | Outdoors | Green space, ha per 1,000 | Near a park | Protected within 5 km |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kelsall | D | 1.0 | 57% | 0% |
| Tarvin 2.3 mi | C− | 1.2 | 90% | 0% |
| Tarporley 4.0 mi | D | 1.0 | 69% | 0% |
| Kingsley 4.5 mi | C | 3.4 | 81% | 0% |
| Guilden Sutton 4.9 mi | D− | 0.3 | 56% | 0% |
| Cuddington 5.1 mi | C− | 1.5 | 66% | 0% |
| Mickle Trafford 5.1 mi | D− | 0.5 | 70% | 0% |
Kingsley, 4.5 miles away, grades C, the best next door: 81% of its residents live within 400 m of a park. Kingsley has at least twice Kelsall’s green space per resident. None of the neighbours has a protected landscape within 5 km either.
Questions about the outdoors in Kelsall
What is the biggest park in Kelsall?
Chapel Green, 0.1 ha (0 acres). 1 named park, garden or playing field is in the town or within 400 m of it.
Is Kelsall near a National Park?
The nearest protected landscape is the Bryniau Clwyd A Dyffryn Dyfrdwy/clwydian Range and Dee Valley National Landscape, 18 mi south-west of the town’s edge. It covers 389 km² and was designated in 2011.
What are the best walks near Kelsall?
11 waymarked walking routes pass within 2 km of the town, including the Eddisbury Way, Cheshire Circuit and Sandstone Trail.
What is the nearest beach to Kelsall?
Tranmere Beach, 17 mi from the edge of the town, then Brazil Bank (22 mi). Kelsall itself is inland.
How many people in Kelsall live near a park?
57% 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 Kelsall?
May to July and September: the longest days, the warmest afternoons and the least rain of the year, from the Met Office 1991–2020 averages.
Is Kelsall good for walking?
For paths, yes: 3.1 km of footpath and right of way per square kilometre, more than 63% of UK towns. For park space per person it beats 14% (1.0 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 Kelsall’s overall grade.
Sources
Where Kelsall’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.