Photo: Iantresman · CC BY-SA 4.0Almost everyone in Wheelock lives within a 5-minute walk of a park
Parks and playing fields in Wheelock add up to 2.4 ha for every 1,000 residents; the typical UK town has 2.1. Footpaths add up to 22 km in the village and the kilometre around it, 2.8 for every square kilometre. Wheelock grades B for the outdoors. A character grade: it isn’t part of the overall grade.
Wheelock grades B for the outdoors
Each chart is every UK town of 1,000 or more on one measure: the green bar is Wheelock, 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.
Wheelock is 25th of 60 UK villages its size for the outdoors
The 60 UK towns and cities of 2,100 to 2,200 people with an Outdoors Grade. Hover a dot for its figures; tap one for its page.
Against villages its size, Wheelock stands out most for path per km²: only 20 of the other 59 have more.
Show as a table
| Town | Outdoors | Green space | Near a park | Path per km² | Protected | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mullion Cornwall | A+ | 3.7 | 100% | 2.5 | 64% |
| 2 | Broughton Buckinghamshire | A+ | 8 | 100% | 6.5 | 0% |
| 3 | Charlton Hampshire | A+ | 5.6 | 87% | 5.2 | 19% |
| 4 | Bestwood Village Nottinghamshire | A | 43.8 | 100% | 5.2 | 0% |
| 5 | Deepcut Surrey | A | 8.4 | 100% | 6.8 | 0% |
| 6 | Springwell Tyne and Wear | A | 5 | 100% | 6.7 | 0% |
| 7 | Eton Wick Berkshire | A | 17.4 | 100% | 4.1 | 0% |
| 8 | Carlton South Yorkshire | A | 23.1 | 87% | 4.7 | 0% |
| 9 | Streethay Staffordshire | A− | 10.1 | 100% | 2.6 | 0% |
| 10 | Chipping Campden Gloucestershire | A− | 2.1 | 100% | 2 | 74% |
| 11 | Gilwern Gwent | A− | 1.9 | 100% | 2 | 83% |
| 12 | Hanslope Buckinghamshire | B+ | 1.9 | 100% | 4.9 | 0% |
| 13 | Church Warsop Nottinghamshire | B+ | 4.1 | 85% | 4.2 | 0% |
| 14 | Chiddingfold Surrey | B+ | 2.2 | 87% | 2.5 | 68% |
| 15 | Wells-next-the-Sea Norfolk | B+ | 2 | 70% | 1.9 | 65% |
| 16 | Charing Kent | B+ | 2.7 | 85% | 2.1 | 56% |
| 17 | Brimscombe and Thrupp Gloucestershire | B+ | 2.1 | 12% | 5.9 | 89% |
| 18 | Sharlston West Yorkshire | B+ | 4.9 | 93% | 3 | 0% |
| 19 | Gamston (Rushcliffe) Nottinghamshire | B+ | 2.7 | 86% | 4.7 | 0% |
| 20 | Holbrook Suffolk | B+ | 1.1 | 74% | 2.7 | 52% |
| 21 | Banwell Somerset | B+ | 1.7 | 100% | 2 | 38% |
| 22 | Carnon Downs and Devoran Cornwall | B+ | 0.3 | 87% | 2.5 | 36% |
| 23 | Yarnfield Staffordshire | B | 6.6 | 100% | 1.8 | 0% |
| 24 | Longtown Cumbria | B | 4.3 | 100% | 0.1 | 0% |
| 25 | Wheelock Cheshire | B | 2.4 | 100% | 2.8 | 0% |
| 26 | Ellington Northumberland | B | 2.5 | 86% | 2 | 0% |
| 27 | Trowell Nottinghamshire | B | 7.7 | 56% | 4.5 | 0% |
| 28 | Evercreech Somerset | B | 3.5 | 100% | 2 | 0% |
| 29 | Rayne Essex | B− | 4.3 | 64% | 4 | 0% |
| 30 | Resolven West Glamorgan | B− | 2.4 | 100% | 2.3 | 0% |
| 31 | East Peckham Kent | B− | 14.5 | 66% | 2 | 1% |
| 32 | Hutton Lancashire | B− | 6.6 | 90% | 1.8 | 0% |
| 33 | Swanton Morley Norfolk | C+ | 3.5 | 94% | 1.6 | 0% |
| 34 | Burgh le Marsh Lincolnshire | C+ | 3.2 | 74% | 1.3 | 7% |
| 35 | Hook Norton Oxfordshire | C+ | 2 | 70% | 2 | 28% |
| 36 | Luddenden Foot West Yorkshire | C+ | 2.2 | 68% | 3.9 | 0% |
| 37 | Machynlleth Powys | C+ | 2.6 | 45% | 2 | 29% |
| 38 | Huncote Leicestershire | C+ | 0.8 | 100% | 2.9 | 0% |
| 39 | Trimsaran Dyfed | C | 2.4 | 31% | 1 | 2% |
| 40 | Linton Derbyshire | C | 1.8 | 76% | 3.2 | 0% |
| 41 | Mitcheldean Gloucestershire | C | 1.5 | 80% | 1.9 | 1% |
| 42 | Barwick in Elmet West Yorkshire | C | 1.5 | 87% | 2.5 | 0% |
| 43 | Aspatria Cumbria | C− | 3.1 | 60% | 0.8 | 1% |
| 44 | Great Blakenham Suffolk | C− | 3.6 | 70% | 1.5 | 0% |
| 45 | Rudgwick West Sussex | C− | 2.5 | 16% | 3.1 | 0% |
| 46 | Seamer (Scarborough) North Yorkshire | C− | 2.2 | 58% | 1 | 18% |
| 47 | Lanner Cornwall | C− | 1.3 | 65% | 3.6 | 0% |
| 48 | Stainburn Cumbria | C− | 0.1 | 72% | 2 | 0% |
| 49 | Long Bennington Lincolnshire | C− | 1.6 | 82% | 1.9 | 0% |
| 50 | Underwood Gwent | C− | 1.9 | 87% | 1 | 0% |
| 51 | Wickham Hampshire | D | 0.8 | 26% | 2 | 13% |
| 52 | Hersden Kent | D | 2 | 63% | 1.5 | 0% |
| 53 | Thurlby Lincolnshire | D | 1.3 | 54% | 2.2 | 0% |
| 54 | Preston East Riding of Yorkshire | D | 0.6 | 52% | 1.1 | 0% |
| 55 | Morton Lincolnshire | D | 0.2 | 28% | 3 | 0% |
| 56 | Misterton Nottinghamshire | D− | 1.4 | 47% | 1.7 | 0% |
| 57 | Bozeat Northamptonshire | D− | 1.3 | 13% | 1.3 | 0% |
| 58 | Cilfrew West Glamorgan | D− | 0.8 | 44% | 1.3 | 0% |
| 59 | Aslockton Nottinghamshire | D− | 1 | 11% | 1.4 | 0% |
| 60 | Ipplepen Devon | D− | 0.8 | 42% | 1.1 | 0% |
Parks, footpaths & countryside
Tap a number to zoom to a park. Tap a layer to hide it. The dashed line is Wheelock’s built-up area.
How close Wheelock’s homes are to 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).
Playing fields count, so a park within reach isn’t always one with paths or trees; 26 playgrounds are mapped in and around the village, about one for every 83 residents.
The Peak District National Park 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.
Peak District National Park covers 1,438 km² and has been a National Park since 1951.
4 waymarked walks pass through or near Wheelock
22 km of footpaths, bridleways and rights of way are mapped in Wheelock and the kilometre around it, 2.8 km for every square kilometre (the typical UK town has 3.0). Bars show each route’s kilometres within 2 km of the village.
Close to home, the Crewe and Nantwich Circular Walk has 5 km of local walk within 2 km of the village. 2 regional routes pass through, including the South Cheshire Market Towns Trail and South Cheshire Way.
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 Wheelock: 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 | 16.5 | 14.7 | 12.6 | 10.5 | 8.5 | 7.6 |
| High (°C) | 7 | 8 | 10 | 13 | 16 | 19 | 21 | 21 | 18 | 14 | 10 | 8 |
| Rain (mm) | 59 | 51 | 48 | 50 | 54 | 65 | 67 | 73 | 65 | 79 | 70 | 77 |
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 79 mm of rain falls in October, the wettest month. Frost comes on about 42 nights a year. The climate in Wheelock →
26 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
Plus 1 viewpoint without a name on the map.
Playgrounds 26
Plus 19 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.
Wheelock grades higher for the outdoors than every neighbour in the table. None of the neighbours has a protected landscape within 5 km either.
Questions about the outdoors in Wheelock
Is Wheelock near a National Park?
Yes. Peak District National Park begins 12 mi east of the village’s edge. It covers 1,438 km² and has been a National Park since 1951.
What are the best walks near Wheelock?
4 waymarked walking routes pass within 2 km of the village, including the Cheshire Ring Canal Walk, South Cheshire Market Towns Trail and Crewe and Nantwich Circular Walk.
How many people in Wheelock live near a park?
100% 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 Wheelock?
May to September: the longest days, the warmest afternoons and the least rain of the year, from the Met Office 1991–2020 averages.
Is Wheelock good for walking?
About average for paths: 2.8 km of footpath and right of way per square kilometre, more than 55% of UK towns. For park space per person it beats 58% (2.4 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 Wheelock’s overall grade.
Where Wheelock’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.
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