Coxhoe’s biggest
The Green
Park or garden · 370 m outside town
0.6 ha (2 acres)
0.8 mi south-westfrom the centre
Directionsto the nearest entrance
Photo: Robert Graham · CC BY-SA 2.0COutdoors Grade
Outdoors in Coxhoe · parks, paths & countryside
Coxhoe has more footpath per square kilometre than nearly 9 in 10 UK towns
53 km of footpaths run through the town and the kilometre around it, 4.4 for every square kilometre. Parks and playing fields in Coxhoe add up to 1.4 ha for every 1,000 residents; the typical UK town has 2.1. 66% of residents live within a 5-minute walk of a park or playing field. Coxhoe grades C for the outdoors: #42 of 52 in County Durham. A character grade: it isn’t part of the overall grade.
Green space
1.4 ha
per 1,000 residents
Typical UK town 2.1
Near a park
66%
of residents within 400 m
Typical UK town 83%
Footpaths
53 km
4.4 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
Character
What kind of outdoors town is Coxhoe?
Read from the data: what stands out first, good and bad.
A town of footpaths4.4 km of path per km², more than 86% of UK towns. The typical town has 3.0.Less park per person1.4 ha of parks and playing fields per 1,000 residents; the typical UK town has 2.1.
Coxhoe’s strongest suit is dense footpaths. Where it falls short is park space per person.
Outdoors grade
Coxhoe grades C for the outdoors
Each chart is every UK town of 1,000 or more on one measure: the green bar is Coxhoe, 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 27% of UK towns#42 of 52 in County Durham · 46th of 60 UK towns its size
Public green space1.4 haper 1,000 residents: parks, gardens, playing fields, play spaces
23out 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
Footpaths4.4 kmper km², the town and 1 km around it
86out 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.
Towns its size
Coxhoe is 46th of 60 UK towns its size for the outdoors
The 60 UK towns and cities of 4,400 to 4,700 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
Coxhoe4.4
Towns its size2.8
County Durham towns3.0
All UK towns3.0
Green space, ha per 1,000 residents
Coxhoe1.4
Towns its size2.2
County Durham towns2.1
All UK towns2.1
Residents within 400 m of a park
Coxhoe66%
Towns its size83%
County Durham towns88%
All UK towns83%
Against towns its size, Coxhoe stands out most for path per km²: only 9 of the other 59 have more. It falls furthest behind on park space per resident, where 46 of the others do better.
Show as a table
| Town | Outdoors | Green space | Near a park | Path per km² | Protected | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Keswick Cumbria | A+ | 9.1 | 100% | 4.1 | 100% |
| 2 | Lawford Essex | A+ | 3.4 | 94% | 2.8 | 40% |
| 3 | Chipstead and Woodmansterne Surrey | A+ | 10.3 | 92% | 4.8 | 12% |
| 4 | Hamble-le-Rice Hampshire | A+ | 12.7 | 67% | 3.6 | 7% |
| 5 | Monkton Heathfield Somerset | A | 2.4 | 100% | 4.4 | 8% |
| 6 | Fortuneswell Dorset | A | 1.1 | 100% | 4.6 | 0% |
| 7 | Kimberley Nottinghamshire | A− | 2.9 | 100% | 4.8 | 0% |
| 8 | Stanton Hill and Skegby Nottinghamshire | A− | 16.1 | 83% | 5.3 | 0% |
| 9 | Nantyglo Gwent | A− | 2.5 | 82% | 3.7 | 29% |
| 10 | Brampton South Yorkshire | A− | 4.4 | 100% | 3.1 | 0% |
| 11 | Wheathampstead Hertfordshire | A− | 3.1 | 93% | 4.2 | 0% |
| 12 | Hugglescote Leicestershire | B+ | 4.2 | 91% | 3.6 | 0% |
| 13 | Winscombe and Sandford Somerset | B+ | 3.5 | 52% | 3.6 | 38% |
| 14 | Kings Worthy Hampshire | B+ | 3.9 | 66% | 3 | 23% |
| 15 | Elmswell Suffolk | B | 2.5 | 100% | 2.9 | 0% |
| 16 | Sowerby Bridge West Yorkshire | B | 4.5 | 72% | 3.9 | 0% |
| 17 | Blackhall Colliery County Durham | B | 1.1 | 95% | 2.7 | 0% |
| 18 | Callington Cornwall | B | 2.1 | 100% | 1.1 | 21% |
| 19 | Whaley Bridge Derbyshire | B | 1.6 | 44% | 4.3 | 53% |
| 20 | Lyneham Wiltshire | B− | 1.5 | 94% | 2.7 | 6% |
| 21 | High Lane Greater Manchester | B− | 1.5 | 67% | 4.6 | 12% |
| 22 | Earby Lancashire | B− | 1.4 | 93% | 4.7 | 0% |
| 23 | Alderley Edge Cheshire | B− | 2.2 | 86% | 3.7 | 0% |
| 24 | Finedon Northamptonshire | B− | 3.9 | 95% | 1.9 | 0% |
| 25 | Bromham Bedfordshire | B− | 3.8 | 87% | 2.2 | 0% |
| 26 | Irchester Northamptonshire | B− | 8.2 | 83% | 2 | 0% |
| 27 | Cwmavon West Glamorgan | B− | 2.3 | 75% | 2.5 | 0% |
| 28 | Llay Clwyd | B− | 10.6 | 85% | 1.7 | 0% |
| 29 | Cleadon Tyne and Wear | B− | 2.1 | 63% | 2.8 | 0% |
| 30 | Toddington Bedfordshire | B− | 0.9 | 86% | 3.1 | 8% |
| 31 | Blaina Gwent | C+ | 2.1 | 53% | 3.1 | 13% |
| 32 | Loughor West Glamorgan | C+ | 2.1 | 70% | 1.2 | 6% |
| 33 | Stamford Bridge East Riding of Yorkshire | C+ | 2.5 | 100% | 1.4 | 0% |
| 34 | Brinsley and Underwood Nottinghamshire | C+ | 3.3 | 71% | 2.8 | 0% |
| 35 | Iwade Kent | C+ | 0.8 | 100% | 1.5 | 0% |
| 36 | Kennington Oxfordshire | C+ | 2.1 | 58% | 5.5 | 0% |
| 37 | Howden East Riding of Yorkshire | C+ | 3.6 | 94% | 1.2 | 0% |
| 38 | Southminster Essex | C+ | 1.8 | 92% | 1.1 | 0% |
| 39 | Queen's Hills Norfolk | C | 0.4 | 100% | 3 | 0% |
| 40 | Backworth Tyne and Wear | C | 2 | 59% | 4.4 | 0% |
| 41 | Eccleston Lancashire | C | 2.4 | 83% | 2.3 | 0% |
| 42 | Hope Clwyd | C | 8.5 | 64% | 2 | 0% |
| 43 | Clapham Bedfordshire | C | 1.3 | 94% | 2.7 | 0% |
| 44 | Kilburn and Horsley Woodhouse Derbyshire | C | 1.6 | 75% | 3.6 | 0% |
| 45 | Skelmanthorpe West Yorkshire | C | 1 | 88% | 3.2 | 0% |
| 46 | Coxhoe County Durham | C | 1.4 | 66% | 4.4 | 0% |
| 47 | Kinver Staffordshire | C | 3.1 | 60% | 2.3 | 0% |
| 48 | Wesham Lancashire | C− | 1.7 | 87% | 1.8 | 0% |
| 49 | Bricket Wood Hertfordshire | C− | 1.7 | 43% | 3.8 | 0% |
| 50 | Stretton Staffordshire | C− | 3.7 | 49% | 1.7 | 0% |
| 51 | Saxilby Lincolnshire | C− | 1.3 | 100% | 0.7 | 0% |
| 52 | Crowland Lincolnshire | C− | 2.8 | 70% | 1.2 | 0% |
| 53 | Freckleton Lancashire | D | 0.4 | 73% | 1.4 | 0% |
| 54 | Linton Cambridgeshire | D | 1.1 | 67% | 2.6 | 0% |
| 55 | Welton Lincolnshire | D | 2 | 57% | 1.4 | 0% |
| 56 | Ynysybwl Mid Glamorgan | D | 2.3 | 60% | 0.7 | 0% |
| 57 | Banks Lancashire | D | 0.3 | 33% | 1.7 | 0% |
| 58 | Lakenheath Suffolk | D | 1.1 | 57% | 2.4 | 0% |
| 59 | Broughton Lincolnshire | D | 0.9 | 39% | 2.7 | 0% |
| 60 | Elm and Emneth Norfolk | D | 2.2 | 45% | 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 Coxhoe’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 Coxhoe
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 Coxhoe 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%)
Coxhoe66%
Towns its size83%
County Durham towns88%
All UK towns83%
About 1,600 people live further than that. Playing fields count, so a park within reach isn’t always one with paths or trees; 12 playgrounds are mapped in and around the town, about one for every 379 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
6 waymarked walks pass through or near Coxhoe
53 km of footpaths, bridleways and rights of way are mapped in Coxhoe and the kilometre around it, 4.4 km for every square kilometre (the typical UK town has 3.0). Bars show each route’s kilometres within 2 km of the town.
RegionalLocal
West Bowburn Way5.7 km
Heritage 100 - Coxhoe5.4 km
Way of Love5.0 km
Cassop-cum-Quarrington circular walk4.0 km
Heritage 100 - Cassop, Quarrington Hill and Kelloe3.3 km
Crowtrees Heritage Walk (Red)1.6 km
Close to home, the West Bowburn Way has 6 km of local walk within 2 km of the town. 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 Coxhoe: May to July and September
The town’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) | 53 | 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 Coxhoe →
Things to do
12 playgrounds and the nearest beaches
Mapped within 2 km of the town in OpenStreetMap, against the typical UK town its size per resident. Named places are listed with directions; unnamed ones are only counted.
The nearest beaches
Coxhoe is inland. These are the nearest named beaches, measured from the edge of the town.
Shippersea Bay9.3 mi from Coxhoe’s edge
DirectionsHawthorn Hive9.5 mi from Coxhoe’s edge
DirectionsBlast Beach9.8 mi from Coxhoe’s edge
DirectionsNorth Sands12 mi from Coxhoe’s edge
DirectionsMiddleton Beach12 mi from Coxhoe’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
Kingswood Nature Reserve22 ha · 0.7 mi from town
DirectionsPlaygrounds 12
Plus 12 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.
CornforthKelloeBowburnBishop MiddlehamFerryhillHigh ShincliffeCoxhoe
ABCDOutdoors Grade
| Town | Outdoors | Green space, ha per 1,000 | Near a park | Protected within 5 km |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Coxhoe | C | 1.4 | 66% | 0% |
| Cornforth 1.0 mi | C− | 1.9 | 66% | 0% |
| Kelloe 1.4 mi | B | 5.6 | 42% | 0% |
| Bowburn 1.8 mi | C | 1.5 | 71% | 0% |
| Bishop Middleham 2.6 mi | B− | 2.6 | 100% | 0% |
| Ferryhill 2.7 mi | C− | 1.5 | 94% | 0% |
| High Shincliffe 2.9 mi | B− | 0.5 | 100% | 0% |
Kelloe, 1.4 miles away, grades B, the best next door: 42% of its residents live within 400 m of a park. Kelloe has at least twice Coxhoe’s green space per resident. None of the neighbours has a protected landscape within 5 km either.
Questions about the outdoors in Coxhoe
What is the biggest park in Coxhoe?
The Green, 0.6 ha (2 acres), just outside the built-up area. 1 named park, garden or playing field is in the town or within 400 m of it.
Is Coxhoe near a National Park?
The nearest protected landscape is the North Pennines National Landscape, 13 mi west of the town’s edge. It covers 1,985 km² and was designated in 1988.
What are the best walks near Coxhoe?
6 waymarked walking routes pass within 2 km of the town, including the West Bowburn Way, Heritage 100 - Coxhoe and Way of Love.
What is the nearest beach to Coxhoe?
Shippersea Bay, 9.3 mi from the edge of the town, then Hawthorn Hive (9.5 mi). Coxhoe itself is inland.
How many people in Coxhoe 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 Coxhoe?
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 Coxhoe good for walking?
For paths, yes: 4.4 km of footpath and right of way per square kilometre, more than 86% of UK towns. For park space per person it beats 23% (1.4 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 Coxhoe’s overall grade.
Sources
Where Coxhoe’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.