Photo: DS Pugh · CC BY-SA 2.0Almost everyone in Northop Hall lives within a 5-minute walk of a park
The Bryniau Clwyd A Dyffryn Dyfrdwy/clwydian Range and Dee Valley National Landscape begins 3.9 mi from the village’s edge. Parks and playing fields in Northop Hall add up to 2.6 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, 2.7 for every square kilometre. Northop Hall grades B for the outdoors. A character grade: it isn’t part of the overall grade.
What kind of outdoors village is Northop Hall?
Read from the data: what stands out first, good and bad.
Northop Hall’s strongest suit is parks close to every home, followed by the Bryniau Clwyd A Dyffryn Dyfrdwy/clwydian Range and Dee Valley National Landscape close by.
Northop Hall grades B for the outdoors
Each chart is every UK town of 1,000 or more on one measure: the green bar is Northop Hall, 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.
Northop Hall is 19th of 60 UK villages its size for the outdoors
The 60 UK towns and cities of 1,700 to 1,900 people with an Outdoors Grade. Hover a dot for its figures; tap one for its page.
Against villages its size, Northop Hall stands out most for homes near a park: none of the other 59 has more.
Show as a table
| Town | Outdoors | Green space | Near a park | Path per km² | Protected | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Llanberis Gwynedd | A+ | 33.7 | 100% | 3.9 | 49% |
| 2 | St Just Cornwall | A+ | 1.8 | 100% | 4.2 | 50% |
| 3 | Southwick Wiltshire | A+ | 22.2 | 100% | 5.2 | 1% |
| 4 | Market Lavington Wiltshire | A+ | 9.9 | 100% | 4.1 | 1% |
| 5 | Mistley Essex | A | 4.3 | 86% | 1.9 | 41% |
| 6 | Colwall Stone Herefordshire | A | 4.5 | 67% | 5.5 | 64% |
| 7 | Wembury Devon | A− | 2.4 | 53% | 2.7 | 41% |
| 8 | Tow Law County Durham | A− | 4.1 | 100% | 1.3 | 21% |
| 9 | Horam East Sussex | B+ | 3.9 | 91% | 1.4 | 46% |
| 10 | Painswick Gloucestershire | B+ | 1.3 | 81% | 4.3 | 83% |
| 11 | Waddesdon Buckinghamshire | B+ | 3 | 100% | 3 | 0% |
| 12 | Tongwynlais South Glamorgan | B+ | 8.6 | 65% | 5.8 | 0% |
| 13 | Marks Tey Essex | B+ | 5.5 | 92% | 2.7 | 0% |
| 14 | Findon West Sussex | B+ | 1.7 | 74% | 3.7 | 70% |
| 15 | Bishop's Castle Shropshire | B+ | 2 | 100% | 1.3 | 53% |
| 16 | Weston Turville Buckinghamshire | B | 2.9 | 64% | 3.1 | 30% |
| 17 | Fernhurst West Sussex | B | 3.1 | 37% | 3 | 92% |
| 18 | Ironville Derbyshire | B | 1.6 | 100% | 4.1 | 0% |
| 19 | Northop Hall Clwyd | B | 2.6 | 100% | 2.7 | 0% |
| 20 | Rhayader Powys | B | 5.5 | 100% | 1.6 | 0% |
| 21 | Hemingfield South Yorkshire | B | 3.3 | 80% | 3.7 | 0% |
| 22 | Hughenden Valley Buckinghamshire | B− | 2.1 | 32% | 3.4 | 76% |
| 23 | Chilcompton Somerset | B− | 6.5 | 40% | 2.9 | 1% |
| 24 | Yelverton Devon | B− | 3.6 | 72% | 1.1 | 85% |
| 25 | Holbrook Derbyshire | B− | 4.2 | 55% | 4.5 | 0% |
| 26 | Warton (Lancaster) Lancashire | B− | 0.3 | 32% | 3.5 | 43% |
| 27 | Meldreth Cambridgeshire | B− | 4.7 | 82% | 2.6 | 0% |
| 28 | Inkberrow Worcestershire | B− | 5.3 | 83% | 2.4 | 0% |
| 29 | Ingrave and Herongate Essex | B− | 5 | 51% | 4 | 0% |
| 30 | Newcastle Emlyn Dyfed | B− | 5.9 | 100% | 0.4 | 0% |
| 31 | Warden Kent | B− | 1.4 | 100% | 0.9 | 0% |
| 32 | High Halstow Kent | B− | 1.7 | 76% | 2.8 | 0% |
| 33 | Copford Essex | B− | 4 | 70% | 3.1 | 0% |
| 34 | Barnburgh and Harlington South Yorkshire | B− | 1.8 | 100% | 2.5 | 0% |
| 35 | Great Yeldham Essex | C+ | 3.1 | 86% | 2.3 | 0% |
| 36 | Lowdham Nottinghamshire | C+ | 3.7 | 85% | 1.8 | 0% |
| 37 | Pontlottyn Gwent | C+ | 1.8 | 70% | 4.2 | 0% |
| 38 | Withnoe Cornwall | C+ | 1.4 | 100% | 0.9 | 3% |
| 39 | Ryton-on-Dunsmore Warwickshire | C | 1.2 | 100% | 2.5 | 0% |
| 40 | Walkington East Riding of Yorkshire | C | 2.3 | 100% | 1 | 0% |
| 41 | Dunkeswell Devon | C | 1.4 | 83% | 0.7 | 87% |
| 42 | Lympstone Devon | C | 1 | 66% | 1.3 | 16% |
| 43 | Penygroes Gwynedd | C− | 0.7 | 66% | 0.6 | 26% |
| 44 | Scotby Cumbria | C− | 3 | 75% | 1.6 | 0% |
| 45 | Drakes Broughton Worcestershire | C− | 1 | 86% | 2.8 | 0% |
| 46 | Woolpit Suffolk | C− | 4.3 | 54% | 1.7 | 0% |
| 47 | Branton South Yorkshire | C− | 1.1 | 71% | 3 | 0% |
| 48 | Bradninch Devon | D | 2.3 | 73% | 1.1 | 0% |
| 49 | Thornton-le-Dale North Yorkshire | D | 1.1 | 58% | 1.1 | 29% |
| 50 | Rickinghall and Botesdale Suffolk | D | 1.7 | 61% | 1.9 | 0% |
| 51 | Harston Cambridgeshire | D | 1.6 | 45% | 2.1 | 0% |
| 52 | Stainton North Yorkshire | D | 0.5 | 0% | 3.2 | 0% |
| 53 | Barnetby le Wold Lincolnshire | D | 1.8 | 59% | 1.2 | 0% |
| 54 | Wragby Lincolnshire | D | 1.3 | 69% | 1.4 | 0% |
| 55 | Mickle Trafford Cheshire | D− | 0.5 | 70% | 1.8 | 0% |
| 56 | Audlem Cheshire | D− | 0.6 | 50% | 2.2 | 0% |
| 57 | Great Barton Suffolk | D− | 1.6 | 19% | 0.5 | 0% |
| 58 | Pentre Maelor Clwyd | D− | 1.4 | 8% | 0.8 | 0% |
| 59 | Bardsey West Yorkshire | D− | 0.1 | 0% | 1.5 | 0% |
| 60 | Wainfleet All Saints Lincolnshire | D− | 0 | 0% | 0.7 | 0% |
Parks, footpaths & countryside
Tap a number to zoom to a park. Tap a layer to hide it. The dashed line is Northop Hall’s built-up area.
How close Northop Hall’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; 13 playgrounds are mapped in and around the village, about one for every 140 residents.
The Bryniau Clwyd A Dyffryn Dyfrdwy/clwydian Range and Dee Valley National Landscape is 3.9 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
Protected landscape begins just outside the 5 km ring the Outdoors Grade measures, so Northop Hall scores 0% on it even though the Bryniau Clwyd A Dyffryn Dyfrdwy/clwydian Range and Dee Valley National Landscape is 3.9 mi away.
Footpaths in and around Northop Hall
22 km of footpaths, bridleways and rights of way are mapped in Northop Hall and the kilometre around it, 2.7 km for every square kilometre (the typical UK town has 3.0).
No named walking route is mapped within 2 km of Northop Hall; its footpaths are on the map above.
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 Northop Hall: 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 | |
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| Daylight (h) | 8.1 | 9.7 | 11.7 | 13.9 | 15.8 | 16.9 | 16.5 | 14.8 | 12.6 | 10.5 | 8.5 | 7.6 |
| High (°C) | 8 | 8 | 10 | 13 | 16 | 18 | 20 | 20 | 18 | 14 | 10 | 8 |
| Rain (mm) | 67 | 58 | 59 | 59 | 60 | 66 | 61 | 64 | 71 | 89 | 86 | 97 |
February is the driest month (58 mm) and July the warmest (highs of 20 °C). Winter days are short, about 8 hours of daylight in December, and 97 mm of rain falls in December, the wettest month. Frost comes on about 38 nights a year. The climate in Northop Hall →
13 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
Northop Hall is inland. These are the nearest named beaches, measured from the edge of the village.
Check the water before you swim. Natural Resources Wales tests designated bathing waters from May to September and publishes a rating for each beach.
Every named place, with directions
Waterfalls 1
Plus 1 waterfall 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.
Shotton, 2.2 miles away, grades A, the best next door: every resident lives within 400 m of a park. Connah's Quay has at least twice Northop Hall’s green space per resident.
Questions about the outdoors in Northop Hall
Is Northop Hall near a National Park?
The nearest protected landscape is the Bryniau Clwyd A Dyffryn Dyfrdwy/clwydian Range and Dee Valley National Landscape, 3.9 mi south-west of the village’s edge. It covers 389 km² and was designated in 2011.
What is the nearest beach to Northop Hall?
Tranmere Beach, 13 mi from the edge of the village, then East Hoyle Bank (13 mi). Northop Hall itself is inland.
How many people in Northop Hall 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 Northop Hall?
May to September: the longest days, the warmest afternoons and the least rain of the year, from the Met Office 1991–2020 averages.
Is Northop Hall good for walking?
About average for paths: 2.7 km of footpath and right of way per square kilometre, more than 51% of UK towns. For park space per person it beats 62% (2.6 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 Northop Hall’s overall grade.
Where Northop Hall’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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