Delabole’s biggest
King Georges Field
Playing field
2.0 ha (5 acres)0.3 km of path
3 pitchesfootball pitches would fit
Centralin the middle of Delabole
Directionsto the nearest entrance
Photo: Tony Atkin · CC BY-SA 2.0B−Outdoors Grade
Outdoors in Delabole · parks, paths & countryside
35% of the land within 5 km of Delabole is National Park or National Landscape
The Cornwall National Landscape reaches the edge of Delabole. Parks and playing fields in Delabole add up to 1.1 ha for every 1,000 residents; the typical UK town has 2.1. The sea makes up 16% of the area within 5 km. Delabole grades B− for the outdoors. A character grade: it isn’t part of the overall grade.
Green space
1.1 ha
per 1,000 residents
Typical UK town 2.1
Near a park
76%
of residents within 400 m
Typical UK town 83%
Footpaths
20 km
2.0 km per km², town + 1 km
Typical UK town 3.0 per km²
Protected landscape
35%
of the land within 5 km
Nearest: Cornwall National Landscape
The sea
16%
of the area within 5 km
Character
What kind of outdoors village is Delabole?
Read from the data: what stands out first, good and bad.
Protected countryside35% of the land within 5 km is Cornwall National Landscape.Less park per person1.1 ha of parks and playing fields per 1,000 residents; the typical UK town has 2.1.
Delabole’s strongest suit is protected countryside on the doorstep. Where it falls short is park space per person.
Outdoors grade
Delabole grades B− for the outdoors
Each chart is every UK town of 1,000 or more on one measure: the green bar is Delabole, the dashed line the typical town. The number is the share of towns it beats; the five are averaged and the average ranked again.
B−
Better than 54% of UK towns26th of 60 UK villages its size
Public green space1.1 haper 1,000 residents: parks, gardens, playing fields, play spaces
15out of
100
100
A park within a walk76%of residents within 400 m (a 5-minute walk)
40out of
100
100
National Park or National Landscape35%of the land within 5 km
86out of
100
100
Footpaths2.0 kmper km², the town and 1 km around it
31out of
100
100
The sea16%of the area within 5 km
88out 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
Delabole is 26th 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.
Outdoors score: the share of UK towns each one beats
Footpath, km per km²
Delabole2.0
Villages its size2.2
Cornwall towns2.3
All UK towns3.0
Green space, ha per 1,000 residents
Delabole1.1
Villages its size2.2
Cornwall towns1.6
All UK towns2.1
Residents within 400 m of a park
Delabole76%
Villages its size82%
Cornwall towns81%
All UK towns83%
Delabole falls furthest behind on park space per resident, where 51 of the 59 others do better.
Show as a table
| Town | Outdoors | Green space | Near a park | Path per km² | Protected | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Market Lavington Wiltshire | A+ | 9.9 | 100% | 4.1 | 1% |
| 2 | Llanbadarn Fawr Dyfed | A+ | 14.7 | 82% | 5.3 | 0% |
| 3 | Rogiet Gwent | A+ | 3.9 | 100% | 2.2 | 0% |
| 4 | Woodbury Devon | A | 3.3 | 100% | 0.9 | 26% |
| 5 | Malvern Wells Worcestershire | A | 10.8 | 37% | 5.3 | 57% |
| 6 | New Denham Buckinghamshire | A | 8.9 | 100% | 3.8 | 0% |
| 7 | Scalby North Yorkshire | A | 5.9 | 70% | 2 | 43% |
| 8 | New Hartley Northumberland | A− | 1.9 | 100% | 3.4 | 0% |
| 9 | Wembdon Somerset | A− | 7.4 | 88% | 4.1 | 0% |
| 10 | Heslington North Yorkshire | A− | 6.3 | 80% | 9.2 | 0% |
| 11 | Tow Law County Durham | A− | 4.1 | 100% | 1.3 | 21% |
| 12 | Ingleton North Yorkshire | B+ | 1.5 | 100% | 2.5 | 54% |
| 13 | Horam East Sussex | B+ | 3.9 | 91% | 1.4 | 46% |
| 14 | Compton Berkshire | B+ | 2.4 | 100% | 1.1 | 100% |
| 15 | Pendlebury Greater Manchester | B+ | 18.5 | 74% | 4 | 0% |
| 16 | Trimdon Colliery County Durham | B+ | 4.7 | 100% | 2.3 | 0% |
| 17 | Eight Ash Green Essex | B+ | 8.2 | 80% | 3.4 | 0% |
| 18 | Denby Bottles Derbyshire | B | 1.4 | 100% | 4.8 | 0% |
| 19 | Rackheath Norfolk | B | 2.6 | 100% | 1 | 14% |
| 20 | South Hiendley West Yorkshire | B | 13.4 | 87% | 2.4 | 0% |
| 21 | North Benfleet Essex | B | 11 | 56% | 4 | 0% |
| 22 | Hughenden Valley Buckinghamshire | B− | 2.1 | 32% | 3.4 | 76% |
| 23 | East Bridgford Nottinghamshire | B− | 1.4 | 100% | 3.7 | 0% |
| 24 | Great Bentley Essex | B− | 6.4 | 100% | 1.1 | 0% |
| 25 | Llandeilo Dyfed | B− | 1.8 | 88% | 2.3 | 22% |
| 26 | Delabole Cornwall | B− | 1.1 | 76% | 2 | 35% |
| 27 | Holbrook Derbyshire | B− | 4.2 | 55% | 4.5 | 0% |
| 28 | Warton (Lancaster) Lancashire | B− | 0.3 | 32% | 3.5 | 43% |
| 29 | Blaengarw Mid Glamorgan | B− | 5 | 100% | 1.1 | 0% |
| 30 | Winkfield Row Berkshire | B− | 11 | 80% | 2.2 | 0% |
| 31 | Much Wenlock Shropshire | B− | 2.4 | 13% | 3.6 | 20% |
| 32 | Copford Essex | B− | 4 | 70% | 3.1 | 0% |
| 33 | North Tawton Devon | B− | 2.9 | 100% | 1.5 | 0% |
| 34 | Great Chesterford Essex | C+ | 2.5 | 100% | 1.5 | 0% |
| 35 | Cheddington Buckinghamshire | C+ | 2.2 | 35% | 3.1 | 16% |
| 36 | Kedington Suffolk | C+ | 3.3 | 83% | 2.1 | 0% |
| 37 | Bury Cambridgeshire | C+ | 1.1 | 100% | 2.7 | 0% |
| 38 | Duckmanton Derbyshire | C | 1.2 | 100% | 2.4 | 0% |
| 39 | Great Broughton and Little Broughton Cumbria | C | 1.2 | 85% | 2.3 | 1% |
| 40 | Doveridge Derbyshire | C | 1.7 | 100% | 1.6 | 0% |
| 41 | Bodelwyddan Clwyd | C | 1.9 | 100% | 0.8 | 0% |
| 42 | Shireoaks Nottinghamshire | C | 1.5 | 78% | 3.2 | 0% |
| 43 | Penygroes Gwynedd | C− | 0.7 | 66% | 0.6 | 26% |
| 44 | Drakes Broughton Worcestershire | C− | 1 | 86% | 2.8 | 0% |
| 45 | Deddington Oxfordshire | C− | 3.6 | 53% | 1.8 | 0% |
| 46 | Shilbottle Northumberland | C− | 1.8 | 49% | 1.9 | 7% |
| 47 | Middle Barton Oxfordshire | C− | 1.9 | 81% | 1.8 | 0% |
| 48 | Elmstead Market Essex | C− | 1.1 | 100% | 1.2 | 0% |
| 49 | Pattingham Staffordshire | C− | 2 | 80% | 1.7 | 0% |
| 50 | Croft Leicestershire | C− | 1.4 | 84% | 1.8 | 0% |
| 51 | Hatfield Heath Essex | D | 1.3 | 76% | 2.4 | 0% |
| 52 | Frizington Cumbria | D | 1.4 | 52% | 0.9 | 15% |
| 53 | Aiskew North Yorkshire | D | 1.5 | 71% | 1.8 | 0% |
| 54 | Richings Park Buckinghamshire | D | 1 | 72% | 2.2 | 0% |
| 55 | Thorp Arch West Yorkshire | D | 2.6 | 29% | 1.1 | 0% |
| 56 | Johnston Dyfed | D | 1.4 | 55% | 0.6 | 5% |
| 57 | St Clears Dyfed | D− | 2 | 31% | 0.4 | 0% |
| 58 | Bramham West Yorkshire | D− | 1.4 | 47% | 1.4 | 0% |
| 59 | Tockwith North Yorkshire | D− | 0.4 | 14% | 1.1 | 0% |
| 60 | Wainfleet All Saints Lincolnshire | D− | 0 | 0% | 0.7 | 0% |
The map
Parks, footpaths & countryside
Tap a number to zoom to a park. Tap a layer to hide it. The dashed line is Delabole’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 Delabole
The biggest is King Georges Field, 2.0 ha (5 acres). Directions go to the park’s nearest public entrance where Ordnance Survey maps one.
Close to home
8 in 10 Delabole 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 (76%)Further (24%)
Delabole76%
Villages its size82%
Cornwall towns81%
All UK towns83%
About 400 people live further than that. Playing fields count, so a park within reach isn’t always one with paths or trees.
National Parks & National Landscapes
National Parks and National Landscapes around Delabole
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
Cornwall
At the edge north-west964 km²since 195935% of the land within 5 km
Official site35% of the land within 5 km of Delabole is National Park or National Landscape, more than 85% of UK towns.
Footpaths & waymarked walks
Footpaths in and around Delabole
20 km of footpaths, bridleways and rights of way are mapped in Delabole and the kilometre around it, 2.0 km for every square kilometre (the typical UK town has 3.0).
No named walking route is mapped within 2 km of Delabole; 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.
When to get out
The best walking months in Delabole: 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) | 8.4 | 10.0 | 11.7 | 13.7 | 15.5 | 16.4 | 16.0 | 14.5 | 12.5 | 10.6 | 8.9 | 8.0 |
| High (°C) | 8 | 9 | 10 | 13 | 15 | 17 | 19 | 19 | 18 | 14 | 11 | 9 |
| Rain (mm) | 125 | 95 | 80 | 71 | 67 | 83 | 92 | 94 | 84 | 128 | 144 | 131 |
May is the driest month (67 mm) and August the warmest (highs of 19 °C). Winter days are short, about 8 hours of daylight in December, and 144 mm of rain falls in November, the wettest month. Frost comes on about 17 nights a year. The climate in Delabole →
The coast
Delabole is near the sea
16% of the area within 5 km of Delabole is sea. 15 beaches are mapped within 5 km, 3 with a name.
Tregardock1.4 mi from town
DirectionsBenoath Cove2.7 mi from town
DirectionsBossiney haven2.7 mi from town
DirectionsSea: the area outside the ONS coastline (mean high water). Bathing water quality is published by the Environment Agency (England) and Natural Resources Wales; check it before swimming.
Things to do
2 viewpoints and 2 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 2
Viewing Platform0.0 mi from town
DirectionsSlate Henge0.1 mi from town
DirectionsPicnic sites 1
Plus 1 picnic site without a name on the map.
Playgrounds 2
Plus 2 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.
CamelfordEgloshayleWadebridgeRockBodminPadstowDelabole
ABCDOutdoors Grade
| Town | Outdoors | Green space, ha per 1,000 | Near a park | Protected within 5 km |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Delabole | B− | 1.1 | 76% | 35% |
| Camelford 2.0 mi | B | 2.0 | 100% | 33% |
| Egloshayle 8.4 mi | A | 7.3 | 100% | 12% |
| Wadebridge 8.8 mi | C | 1.8 | 74% | 17% |
| Rock 9.2 mi | A− | 3.2 | 39% | 37% |
| Bodmin 10.6 mi | C+ | 1.1 | 87% | 3% |
| Padstow 11.1 mi | C+ | 0.6 | 33% | 37% |
Egloshayle, 8.4 miles away, grades A, the best next door: every resident lives within 400 m of a park. Egloshayle and Rock have at least twice Delabole’s green space per resident.
Questions about the outdoors in Delabole
What is the biggest park in Delabole?
King Georges Field, 2.0 ha (5 acres). 1 named park, garden or playing field is in the village or within 400 m of it.
Is Delabole near a National Park?
It covers 964 km² and was designated in 1959.
How many people in Delabole live near a park?
76% 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 Delabole?
May to September: the longest days, the warmest afternoons and the least rain of the year, from the Met Office 1991–2020 averages.
Is Delabole good for walking?
Paths are thinner than most towns: 2.0 km of footpath and right of way per square kilometre, more than 31% of UK towns. For park space per person it beats 15% (1.1 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 Delabole’s overall grade.
Sources
Where Delabole’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.