Cornforth’s biggest
The Green
Park or garden
0.6 ha (2 acres)
Centralin the middle of Cornforth
Directionsto the nearest entrance
Photo: Robert Graham · CC BY-SA 2.0C−Outdoors Grade
Outdoors in Cornforth · parks, paths & countryside
Parks and walks in Cornforth
A park or playing field is within a 5-minute walk for 66% of residents. Parks and playing fields in Cornforth add up to 1.9 ha for every 1,000 residents; the typical UK town has 2.1. 24 km of footpaths run through the village and the kilometre around it, 2.6 for every square kilometre. Cornforth grades C− for the outdoors. A character grade: it isn’t part of the overall grade.
Green space
1.9 ha
per 1,000 residents
Typical UK town 2.1
Near a park
66%
of residents within 400 m
Typical UK town 83%
Footpaths
24 km
2.6 km per km², town + 1 km
Typical UK town 3.0 per km²
Protected landscape
0%
of the land within 5 km
Nearest: North Pennines National Landscape
Outdoors grade
Cornforth grades C− for the outdoors
Each chart is every UK town of 1,000 or more on one measure: the green bar is Cornforth, the dashed line the typical town. The number is the share of towns it beats; the five are averaged and the average ranked again.
C−
Better than 20% of UK towns49th of 60 UK villages its size
Public green space1.9 haper 1,000 residents: parks, gardens, playing fields, play spaces
43out of
100
100
A park within a walk66%of residents within 400 m (a 5-minute walk)
26out of
100
100
National Park or National Landscape0%of the land within 5 km · None within 5 km
31out of
100
100
Footpaths2.6 kmper km², the town and 1 km around it
49out 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.
Villages its size
Cornforth is 49th of 60 UK villages its size for the outdoors
The 60 UK towns and cities of 2,300 to 2,500 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
Cornforth2.6
Villages its size2.2
County Durham towns3.0
All UK towns3.0
Green space, ha per 1,000 residents
Cornforth1.9
Villages its size2.2
County Durham towns2.1
All UK towns2.1
Residents within 400 m of a park
Cornforth66%
Villages its size88%
County Durham towns88%
All UK towns83%
Against villages its size, Cornforth stands out most for path per km²: only 22 of the other 59 have more. It falls furthest behind on homes near a park, where 44 of the others do better.
Show as a table
| Town | Outdoors | Green space | Near a park | Path per km² | Protected | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Rawnsley Staffordshire | A+ | 17.7 | 100% | 3.7 | 36% |
| 2 | Wolsingham County Durham | A+ | 2.7 | 100% | 3.9 | 55% |
| 3 | Eton Berkshire | A | 22.9 | 100% | 4.5 | 0% |
| 4 | Aldeburgh Suffolk | A | 2.3 | 88% | 2.3 | 41% |
| 5 | Lyndhurst Hampshire | A | 3.6 | 73% | 4.3 | 100% |
| 6 | St Margaret's at Cliffe Kent | A | 2.3 | 90% | 2.4 | 15% |
| 7 | Old Stratford Northamptonshire | A | 9.8 | 100% | 3.8 | 0% |
| 8 | Little Clacton Essex | A− | 3.6 | 100% | 2.2 | 0% |
| 9 | Awsworth Nottinghamshire | A− | 2.4 | 100% | 5.6 | 0% |
| 10 | Upton upon Severn Worcestershire | A− | 4.9 | 90% | 2.8 | 2% |
| 11 | Colerne Wiltshire | A− | 3.1 | 86% | 2.4 | 84% |
| 12 | West Wick Somerset | A− | 1.6 | 100% | 3.5 | 16% |
| 13 | Tanfield Lea County Durham | A− | 3.8 | 89% | 4.4 | 0% |
| 14 | Higher Folds Greater Manchester | A− | 2.8 | 90% | 5.4 | 0% |
| 15 | Sway Hampshire | B+ | 2.9 | 38% | 4 | 74% |
| 16 | Kington Herefordshire | B+ | 3.9 | 89% | 3.6 | 0% |
| 17 | Williton Somerset | B+ | 1.1 | 88% | 2.1 | 31% |
| 18 | Cotford St Luke Somerset | B+ | 2.2 | 100% | 2.2 | 6% |
| 19 | Henlow Bedfordshire | B | 2.4 | 100% | 2.7 | 0% |
| 20 | Nant-y-moel Mid Glamorgan | B | 7 | 100% | 1.3 | 0% |
| 21 | Chattenden Kent | B | 1.4 | 100% | 2.2 | 0% |
| 22 | Farndon Nottinghamshire | B | 3.8 | 100% | 1.8 | 0% |
| 23 | Middlestown and Overton West Yorkshire | B− | 1.5 | 100% | 3.5 | 0% |
| 24 | Alresford Essex | B− | 1.3 | 100% | 2.1 | 0% |
| 25 | Watlington Oxfordshire | B− | 2.3 | 67% | 2.4 | 55% |
| 26 | Wootton (Vale of White Horse) Oxfordshire | B− | 3.4 | 84% | 2.8 | 0% |
| 27 | Redlynch and Woodfalls Wiltshire | B− | 2.1 | 34% | 3.1 | 59% |
| 28 | Riccall North Yorkshire | B− | 2.9 | 100% | 1.7 | 0% |
| 29 | Llanrwst Clwyd | C+ | 2.2 | 75% | 1.6 | 45% |
| 30 | Renishaw Derbyshire | C+ | 0.6 | 100% | 3.4 | 0% |
| 31 | Pentyrch South Glamorgan | C+ | 2.6 | 50% | 4.5 | 0% |
| 32 | Shelley Essex | C+ | 0.7 | 100% | 3.3 | 0% |
| 33 | Hendreforgan Mid Glamorgan | C+ | 2.7 | 100% | 1.1 | 0% |
| 34 | Witchford Cambridgeshire | C+ | 1.9 | 100% | 1.9 | 0% |
| 35 | Grendon Warwickshire | C+ | 8.1 | 71% | 2 | 0% |
| 36 | Coven Staffordshire | C+ | 3.6 | 87% | 1.5 | 0% |
| 37 | Ruspidge Gloucestershire | C+ | 2 | 46% | 5.6 | 0% |
| 38 | Whittington Staffordshire | C | 7.5 | 77% | 1.5 | 0% |
| 39 | Pontycymer Mid Glamorgan | C | 2.2 | 100% | 1 | 0% |
| 40 | South Milford North Yorkshire | C | 1.7 | 100% | 1.4 | 0% |
| 41 | Bletchingley Surrey | C | 0.5 | 10% | 3.9 | 18% |
| 42 | Bugle Cornwall | C− | 1.8 | 92% | 1.5 | 0% |
| 43 | Hambleton Lancashire | C− | 2.3 | 14% | 1.9 | 0% |
| 44 | Eggborough North Yorkshire | C− | 1.5 | 100% | 1 | 0% |
| 45 | Wilstead Bedfordshire | C− | 1.7 | 88% | 1.8 | 0% |
| 46 | Willaston (Cheshire West and Chester) Cheshire | C− | 4.2 | 60% | 1.6 | 0% |
| 47 | Marshfield Gwent | C− | 1 | 85% | 0.3 | 0% |
| 48 | Aberfan Mid Glamorgan | C− | 4.5 | 58% | 1.4 | 0% |
| 49 | Cornforth County Durham | C− | 1.9 | 66% | 2.6 | 0% |
| 50 | Brown Edge Staffordshire | C− | 1.1 | 88% | 2.1 | 0% |
| 51 | Eastry Kent | D | 2 | 77% | 1.4 | 0% |
| 52 | Llanhilleth Gwent | D | 1.3 | 71% | 2.2 | 0% |
| 53 | Leyburn North Yorkshire | D | 0.6 | 22% | 2 | 16% |
| 54 | Broughton Lancashire | D | 1.7 | 45% | 2.2 | 0% |
| 55 | Fishburn County Durham | D | 1.5 | 76% | 1.2 | 0% |
| 56 | Parbold Lancashire | D | 1.5 | 36% | 2.4 | 0% |
| 57 | Aston-on-Trent Derbyshire | D | 1.5 | 44% | 2.3 | 0% |
| 58 | Myerscough Smithy Lancashire | D | 0.5 | 45% | 3 | 0% |
| 59 | Garden City Clwyd | D− | 1.5 | 58% | 1.4 | 0% |
| 60 | Shipdham Norfolk | D− | 1 | 59% | 0.8 | 0% |
The map
Parks, footpaths & countryside
Tap a number to zoom to a park. Tap a layer to hide it. The dashed line is Cornforth’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 Cornforth
The biggest is The Green, 0.6 ha (2 acres). Directions go to the park’s nearest public entrance where Ordnance Survey maps one.
Close to home
7 in 10 Cornforth 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 (66%)Further (34%)
Cornforth66%
Villages its size88%
County Durham towns88%
All UK towns83%
About 800 people live further than that. Playing fields count, so a park within reach isn’t always one with paths or trees; 9 playgrounds are mapped in and around the village, about one for every 269 residents.
National Parks & National Landscapes
The North Pennines National Landscape is 13 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
Footpaths & waymarked walks
2 waymarked walks pass through or near Cornforth
24 km of footpaths, bridleways and rights of way are mapped in Cornforth and the kilometre around it, 2.6 km for every square kilometre (the typical UK town has 3.0). Bars show each route’s kilometres within 2 km of the village.
RegionalLocal
Heritage 100 - Coxhoe5.4 km
Way of Love2.1 km
Close to home, the Heritage 100 - Coxhoe has 5 km of local walk within 2 km of the village. The regional route here is the Way of Love.
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 Cornforth: May to July and 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) | 7.8 | 9.6 | 11.7 | 14.0 | 16.1 | 17.3 | 16.8 | 14.9 | 12.6 | 10.4 | 8.3 | 7.3 |
| High (°C) | 7 | 7 | 10 | 12 | 15 | 18 | 20 | 20 | 17 | 13 | 9 | 7 |
| Rain (mm) | 55 | 50 | 45 | 53 | 48 | 67 | 67 | 74 | 59 | 72 | 77 | 67 |
March is the driest month (45 mm) and July the warmest (highs of 20 °C). Winter days are short, about 7 hours of daylight in December, and 77 mm of rain falls in November, the wettest month. Frost comes on about 53 nights a year. The climate in Cornforth →
Things to do
9 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
Cornforth is inland. These are the nearest named beaches, measured from the edge of the village.
Shippersea Bay10 mi from Cornforth’s edge
DirectionsHawthorn Hive11 mi from Cornforth’s edge
DirectionsBlast Beach11 mi from Cornforth’s edge
DirectionsNorth Sands12 mi from Cornforth’s edge
DirectionsMiddleton Beach12 mi from Cornforth’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.
Nature reserves 1
Bishop Middleham Quarry Nature Reserve8.9 ha · 1.0 mi from town
DirectionsPlaygrounds 9
Plus 9 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.
CoxhoeFerryhillBishop MiddlehamKelloeBowburnChiltonCornforth
ABCDOutdoors Grade
Kelloe, 2.1 miles away, grades B, the best next door: 42% of its residents live within 400 m of a park. Kelloe has at least twice Cornforth’s green space per resident. None of the neighbours has a protected landscape within 5 km either.
Questions about the outdoors in Cornforth
What is the biggest park in Cornforth?
The Green, 0.6 ha (2 acres). 1 named park, garden or playing field is in the village or within 400 m of it.
Is Cornforth near a National Park?
The nearest protected landscape is the North Pennines National Landscape, 13 mi west of the village’s edge. It covers 1,985 km² and was designated in 1988.
What are the best walks near Cornforth?
2 waymarked walking routes pass within 2 km of the village, including the Heritage 100 - Coxhoe and Way of Love.
What is the nearest beach to Cornforth?
Shippersea Bay, 10 mi from the edge of the village, then Hawthorn Hive (11 mi). Cornforth itself is inland.
How many people in Cornforth live near a park?
66% 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 Cornforth?
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 Cornforth good for walking?
About average for paths: 2.6 km of footpath and right of way per square kilometre, more than 49% of UK towns. For park space per person it beats 43% (1.9 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 Cornforth’s overall grade.
Sources
Where Cornforth’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.