Photo: Jim Osley · CC BY-SA 2.0Parks and walks in Malpas
A park or playing field is within a 5-minute walk for 61% of residents. 19 km of footpaths run through the village and the kilometre around it, 2.2 for every square kilometre. Parks and playing fields in Malpas add up to 1.6 ha for every 1,000 residents; the typical UK town has 2.1. Malpas grades D for the outdoors. A character grade: it isn’t part of the overall grade.
Malpas grades D for the outdoors
Each chart is every UK town of 1,000 or more on one measure: the green bar is Malpas, the dashed line the typical town. The number is the share of towns it beats; the five are averaged and the average ranked again.
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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.
Malpas is 53rd of 60 UK villages its size for the outdoors
The 60 UK towns and cities of 1,300 to 1,400 people with an Outdoors Grade. Hover a dot for its figures; tap one for its page.
Malpas falls furthest behind on park space per resident, where 42 of the 59 others do better.
Show as a table
| Town | Outdoors | Green space | Near a park | Path per km² | Protected | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | St Davids Dyfed | A+ | 5.2 | 84% | 2.5 | 47% |
| 2 | Tatsfield Surrey | A+ | 7.5 | 100% | 3.1 | 34% |
| 3 | Pateley Bridge North Yorkshire | A+ | 2.4 | 100% | 3.4 | 100% |
| 4 | Winsley Wiltshire | A | 12.4 | 79% | 4.2 | 38% |
| 5 | Chilton Oxfordshire | A | 5.4 | 88% | 2.8 | 70% |
| 6 | Cowfold West Sussex | A | 2.6 | 100% | 3.6 | 15% |
| 7 | Gomshall Surrey | A | 1.9 | 89% | 4.8 | 87% |
| 8 | Goldsithney Cornwall | A | 1.4 | 100% | 3.1 | 10% |
| 9 | West Horsley Surrey | A | 3 | 74% | 5.2 | 40% |
| 10 | Maresfield East Sussex | A | 2.3 | 100% | 2.7 | 44% |
| 11 | Biddenden Kent | A− | 4.2 | 100% | 1.9 | 20% |
| 12 | Distington Cumbria | A− | 4.2 | 100% | 1.6 | 0% |
| 13 | Cwmfelinfach Gwent | A− | 24.6 | 100% | 2.7 | 0% |
| 14 | Stoke sub Hamdon Somerset | A− | 25.1 | 81% | 4.7 | 0% |
| 15 | Bradwell Derbyshire | A− | 1.2 | 100% | 2.9 | 100% |
| 16 | Mynydd Marian Clwyd | B+ | 1.7 | 100% | 2.3 | 0% |
| 17 | Quintrell Downs Cornwall | B+ | 3.3 | 100% | 0.9 | 0% |
| 18 | Barleythorpe Rutland | B+ | 3.7 | 100% | 2.4 | 0% |
| 19 | Appleton Thorn Cheshire | B+ | 5.6 | 100% | 2 | 0% |
| 20 | Wymeswold Leicestershire | B | 2.9 | 100% | 2.4 | 0% |
| 21 | Motcombe Dorset | B | 9.5 | 74% | 1.5 | 25% |
| 22 | Marazion Cornwall | B | 1.4 | 80% | 2 | 14% |
| 23 | Seven Sisters West Glamorgan | B | 7 | 82% | 0.5 | 19% |
| 24 | Cwmllynfell and Ystradowen West Glamorgan | B | 4.1 | 79% | 1 | 40% |
| 25 | Cefn Cribwr Mid Glamorgan | B | 6.5 | 100% | 1.2 | 0% |
| 26 | Sampford Peverell Devon | B− | 3 | 100% | 2 | 0% |
| 27 | Holymoorside Derbyshire | B− | 1.1 | 82% | 3.8 | 14% |
| 28 | Narborough Norfolk | B− | 3.8 | 100% | 1.5 | 0% |
| 29 | Cockfield County Durham | B− | 2.3 | 81% | 3.9 | 0% |
| 30 | Kingswood Kent | B− | 3.8 | 23% | 2.7 | 11% |
| 31 | St Merryn Cornwall | B− | 1.9 | 47% | 1.7 | 29% |
| 32 | Helmsley North Yorkshire | B− | 2.4 | 44% | 2.5 | 73% |
| 33 | Steeple Bumpstead Essex | B− | 1.9 | 100% | 2.4 | 0% |
| 34 | Mobberley Cheshire | C+ | 1.4 | 100% | 2.9 | 0% |
| 35 | Houghton Cambridgeshire | C+ | 2.2 | 81% | 3.4 | 0% |
| 36 | Launton Oxfordshire | C+ | 0.7 | 100% | 3 | 0% |
| 37 | Great Waldingfield Suffolk | C | 2 | 100% | 1.5 | 0% |
| 38 | East Hendred Oxfordshire | C | 1.4 | 29% | 2.8 | 47% |
| 39 | Great Bardfield Essex | C | 2 | 81% | 2.6 | 0% |
| 40 | Harpole Northamptonshire | C | 2.3 | 81% | 2.3 | 0% |
| 41 | Ringstead Northamptonshire | C | 1.8 | 100% | 1.3 | 0% |
| 42 | Winterley Cheshire | C | 0.9 | 100% | 2.3 | 0% |
| 43 | Chelford Cheshire | C | 1.8 | 82% | 2.5 | 0% |
| 44 | Seaton Burn Tyne and Wear | C | 3.3 | 36% | 2.6 | 0% |
| 45 | Walkern Hertfordshire | C− | 2.4 | 52% | 2.7 | 0% |
| 46 | Cottingham and Middleton Northamptonshire | C− | 12.1 | 53% | 1.1 | 0% |
| 47 | Newton St Loe Somerset | C− | 0 | 0% | 3.5 | 17% |
| 48 | Cowbit Lincolnshire | C− | 0.9 | 100% | 1.1 | 0% |
| 49 | Ogmore-by-Sea South Glamorgan | C− | 0 | 0% | 2.6 | 0% |
| 50 | Penrhyn-coch Dyfed | D | 0.7 | 100% | 0.8 | 0% |
| 51 | Butterwick Lincolnshire | D | 1.8 | 40% | 0.3 | 0% |
| 52 | Todwick South Yorkshire | D | 2 | 51% | 1.9 | 0% |
| 53 | Malpas Cheshire | D | 1.6 | 61% | 2.2 | 0% |
| 54 | North Cave East Riding of Yorkshire | D | 2.5 | 47% | 1.4 | 0% |
| 55 | Skelton (York) North Yorkshire | D | 1.4 | 77% | 1.6 | 0% |
| 56 | Longframlington Northumberland | D | 1.3 | 78% | 1.3 | 0% |
| 57 | Bomere Heath Shropshire | D− | 1.8 | 0% | 1.7 | 0% |
| 58 | Claypole Lincolnshire | D− | 0.7 | 0% | 1.6 | 0% |
| 59 | Griston Norfolk | D− | 0.8 | 15% | 0.5 | 0% |
| 60 | Cock and End Suffolk | D− | 0 | 0% | 0.9 | 0% |
Parks, footpaths & countryside
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6 in 10 Malpas 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).
About 500 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 village, about one for every 340 residents.
The Bryniau Clwyd A Dyffryn Dyfrdwy/clwydian Range and Dee Valley National Landscape is 12 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.
Bryniau Clwyd A Dyffryn Dyfrdwy/clwydian Range and Dee Valley
1 waymarked walk passes through or near Malpas
19 km of footpaths, bridleways and rights of way are mapped in Malpas and the kilometre around it, 2.2 km for every square kilometre (the typical UK town has 3.0). Bars show each route’s kilometres within 2 km of the village.
Waymarked walks are OpenStreetMap walking routes. Public rights of way are only as complete as the map in each area.
The best walking months in Malpas: 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) | 8.1 | 9.8 | 11.7 | 13.9 | 15.8 | 16.9 | 16.4 | 14.7 | 12.6 | 10.5 | 8.6 | 7.6 |
| High (°C) | 7 | 8 | 10 | 13 | 16 | 19 | 21 | 20 | 18 | 14 | 10 | 8 |
| Rain (mm) | 62 | 54 | 48 | 53 | 56 | 66 | 72 | 66 | 66 | 76 | 72 | 75 |
March is the driest month (48 mm) and July the warmest (highs of 21 °C). Winter days are short, about 8 hours of daylight in December, and 76 mm of rain falls in October, the wettest month. Frost comes on about 41 nights a year. The climate in Malpas →
4 playgrounds
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.
Every named place, with directions
Viewpoints 1
Hills and peaks 2
Playgrounds 4
Plus 4 playgrounds without a name on the map.
The outdoors in nearby towns
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Malpas | D | 1.6 | 61% | 0% |
| Whitchurch 4.9 mi | B− | 2.7 | 86% | 0% |
| Holt 6.3 mi | B | 0.9 | 100% | 0% |
| Farndon 6.3 mi | C+ | 1.2 | 82% | 0% |
| Pentre Maelor 6.8 mi | D− | 1.4 | 8% | 0% |
| Tattenhall 7.1 mi | D− | 1.8 | 28% | 0% |
| Bunbury 8.0 mi | B | 2.6 | 100% | 0% |
Bunbury, 8 miles away, grades B, the best next door: every resident lives within 400 m of a park. None of the neighbours has a protected landscape within 5 km either.
Questions about the outdoors in Malpas
Is Malpas near a National Park?
The nearest protected landscape is the Bryniau Clwyd A Dyffryn Dyfrdwy/clwydian Range and Dee Valley National Landscape, 12 mi west of the village’s edge. It covers 389 km² and was designated in 2011.
What are the best walks near Malpas?
1 waymarked walking route passes within 2 km of the village, including the Marches Way.
How many people in Malpas live near a park?
61% 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 Malpas?
May to September: the longest days, the warmest afternoons and the least rain of the year, from the Met Office 1991–2020 averages.
Is Malpas good for walking?
Paths are thinner than most towns: 2.2 km of footpath and right of way per square kilometre, more than 36% of UK towns. For park space per person it beats 30% (1.6 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 Malpas’ overall grade.
Where Malpas’ 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.
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