Esh Winning’s biggest
Dene Park
Park or garden
6.4 ha (16 acres)1.0 km of path
15 minto walk all 1 km of path
9 pitchesfootball pitches would fit
Centralin the middle of Esh Winning
Directionsto the nearest entrance
Photo: Robert Graham · CC BY-SA 2.0A−Outdoors Grade
Outdoors in Esh Winning · parks, paths & countryside
Almost everyone in Esh Winning lives within a 5-minute walk of a park
The North Pennines National Landscape begins 5.1 mi from the town’s edge. Parks and playing fields in Esh Winning add up to 3.2 ha for every 1,000 residents; the typical UK town has 2.1. Footpaths add up to 34 km in the town and the kilometre around it, 3.5 for every square kilometre. Esh Winning grades A− for the outdoors: #6 of 52 in County Durham. A character grade: it isn’t part of the overall grade.
Green space
3.2 ha
per 1,000 residents
Typical UK town 2.1
Near a park
100%
of residents within 400 m
Typical UK town 83%
Footpaths
34 km
3.5 km per km², town + 1 km
Typical UK town 3.0 per km²
Protected landscape
0%
of the land within 5 km
North Pennines starts 5.1 mi out, past the 5 km
Character
What kind of outdoors town is Esh Winning?
Read from the data: what stands out first, good and bad.
A park on every doorstep100% of residents live within 400 m of a park or playing field.Countryside close byThe North Pennines National Landscape starts 5.1 mi west.
Esh Winning’s strongest suit is parks close to every home, followed by the North Pennines National Landscape close by.
Outdoors grade
Esh Winning grades A− for the outdoors
Each chart is every UK town of 1,000 or more on one measure: the green bar is Esh Winning, the dashed line the typical town. The number is the share of towns it beats; the five are averaged and the average ranked again.
A−
Better than 78% of UK towns#6 of 52 in County Durham · 10th of 60 UK towns its size
Public green space3.2 haper 1,000 residents: parks, gardens, playing fields, play spaces
72out of
100
100
A park within a walk100%of residents within 400 m (a 5-minute walk)
89out of
100
100
National Park or National Landscape0%of the land within 5 km · North Pennines begins just past 5 km
31out of
100
100
Footpaths3.5 kmper km², the town and 1 km around it
71out 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
Esh Winning is 10th of 60 UK towns its size for the outdoors
The 60 UK towns and cities of 3,700 to 4,000 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
Esh Winning3.5
Towns its size2.4
County Durham towns3.0
All UK towns3.0
Green space, ha per 1,000 residents
Esh Winning3.2
Towns its size1.9
County Durham towns2.1
All UK towns2.1
Residents within 400 m of a park
Esh Winning100%
Towns its size82%
County Durham towns88%
All UK towns83%
Against towns its size, Esh Winning stands out most for park space per resident: only 12 of the other 59 have more.
Show as a table
| Town | Outdoors | Green space | Near a park | Path per km² | Protected | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Darley Dale Derbyshire | A+ | 3.8 | 100% | 3.4 | 51% |
| 2 | Batheaston Somerset | A | 3 | 84% | 4.6 | 71% |
| 3 | Cranbrook Kent | A | 5.8 | 82% | 2.9 | 65% |
| 4 | Chickerell Dorset | A | 1.5 | 88% | 3 | 27% |
| 5 | Walter's Ash and Naphill Buckinghamshire | A | 3.7 | 50% | 5.3 | 79% |
| 6 | Disley Cheshire | A− | 1.2 | 100% | 4.6 | 22% |
| 7 | Bowerhill Wiltshire | A− | 7.4 | 100% | 3 | 0% |
| 8 | Mulbarton Norfolk | A− | 7 | 100% | 3 | 0% |
| 9 | Welwyn Hertfordshire | A− | 2.6 | 100% | 4 | 0% |
| 10 | Esh Winning County Durham | A− | 3.2 | 100% | 3.5 | 0% |
| 11 | Old Basing Hampshire | A− | 13.6 | 92% | 3.1 | 0% |
| 12 | Colden Common Hampshire | B+ | 2.7 | 82% | 2.8 | 35% |
| 13 | Barnt Green Worcestershire | B+ | 37.8 | 81% | 3.7 | 0% |
| 14 | Carbis Bay Cornwall | B+ | 0.5 | 88% | 2.8 | 20% |
| 15 | Long Melford Suffolk | B+ | 6.9 | 87% | 3.3 | 0% |
| 16 | Papworth Everard Cambridgeshire | B+ | 4.3 | 100% | 2.5 | 0% |
| 17 | Chirk Clwyd | B+ | 1.8 | 100% | 2.3 | 15% |
| 18 | Locking Somerset | B+ | 2.7 | 84% | 2.4 | 23% |
| 19 | Greasbrough South Yorkshire | B | 2.9 | 80% | 4.7 | 0% |
| 20 | Queenborough Kent | B | 1.6 | 100% | 2 | 0% |
| 21 | Stoke Poges Buckinghamshire | B | 7.7 | 76% | 3.3 | 0% |
| 22 | Romanby North Yorkshire | B | 3.1 | 100% | 2.3 | 0% |
| 23 | Mytholmroyd West Yorkshire | B | 1.8 | 88% | 5.8 | 0% |
| 24 | Framlingham Suffolk | B | 3.7 | 73% | 4.2 | 0% |
| 25 | Pirbright Surrey | B | 2 | 84% | 5.7 | 0% |
| 26 | Rhuddlan Clwyd | B− | 1.8 | 85% | 0.9 | 8% |
| 27 | Glanaman Dyfed | B− | 3.3 | 83% | 0.8 | 29% |
| 28 | Cholsey Oxfordshire | B− | 2.3 | 55% | 2.5 | 81% |
| 29 | Alford Lincolnshire | B− | 2.1 | 85% | 1.5 | 26% |
| 30 | Lower Stondon Bedfordshire | B− | 2.7 | 73% | 2.2 | 5% |
| 31 | New Romney Kent | C+ | 2.5 | 79% | 1.6 | 0% |
| 32 | Chipping Ongar Essex | C+ | 2.5 | 83% | 2.9 | 0% |
| 33 | Bar Hill Cambridgeshire | C+ | 1.4 | 93% | 3.5 | 0% |
| 34 | Pewsey Wiltshire | C+ | 1 | 64% | 3 | 91% |
| 35 | Troedyrhiw and Pentrebach Mid Glamorgan | C+ | 2.5 | 84% | 1.5 | 0% |
| 36 | Norton Fitzwarren Somerset | C+ | 1.3 | 35% | 5.2 | 6% |
| 37 | Heacham Norfolk | C+ | 1.5 | 53% | 1.1 | 29% |
| 38 | Forest Row East Sussex | C+ | 0.3 | 51% | 3.4 | 94% |
| 39 | Silver End Essex | C | 2 | 88% | 2.1 | 0% |
| 40 | Cubbington Warwickshire | C | 1.5 | 100% | 1.7 | 0% |
| 41 | Tenbury Wells Worcestershire | C | 2.3 | 51% | 2.1 | 3% |
| 42 | Oaklands Hertfordshire | C | 2 | 7% | 4.3 | 0% |
| 43 | Bromyard Herefordshire | C | 0.9 | 100% | 2.1 | 0% |
| 44 | Whiston South Yorkshire | C− | 1 | 75% | 3.8 | 0% |
| 45 | Desford Leicestershire | C− | 1.6 | 90% | 2 | 0% |
| 46 | Holton le Clay Lincolnshire | C− | 2 | 59% | 1.4 | 8% |
| 47 | Lydd Kent | C− | 1.7 | 66% | 0.9 | 0% |
| 48 | Kingston Bagpuize Oxfordshire | C− | 0.8 | 100% | 1.3 | 0% |
| 49 | Swanland East Riding of Yorkshire | C− | 1.1 | 75% | 0.3 | 0% |
| 50 | Sutton Cambridgeshire | D | 1.9 | 82% | 1.1 | 0% |
| 51 | Glyn-neath West Glamorgan | D | 1.3 | 57% | 1.1 | 22% |
| 52 | Pen-pedair-heol Gwent | D | 0.9 | 80% | 2.3 | 0% |
| 53 | Crowle Lincolnshire | D | 1.3 | 91% | 1 | 0% |
| 54 | Puckeridge and Standon Hertfordshire | D | 0.9 | 59% | 3.2 | 0% |
| 55 | Sutton Bridge Lincolnshire | D | 1.3 | 79% | 0.8 | 0% |
| 56 | North Ferriby East Riding of Yorkshire | D | 0.6 | 33% | 1 | 0% |
| 57 | Willingham Cambridgeshire | D | 1.4 | 73% | 0.8 | 0% |
| 58 | Long Buckby Northamptonshire | D− | 0.6 | 52% | 1.9 | 0% |
| 59 | Penyffordd Clwyd | D− | 0.7 | 36% | 1.6 | 0% |
| 60 | Indian Queens, Fraddon and St Columb Road Cornwall | D− | 0.7 | 27% | 1.6 | 0% |
The map
Parks, footpaths & countryside
Tap a number to zoom to a park. Tap a layer to hide it. The dashed line is Esh Winning’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 Esh Winning
The biggest is Dene Park, 6.4 ha (16 acres). Directions go to the park’s nearest public entrance where Ordnance Survey maps one.
Close to home
How close Esh Winning’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).
Within 400 m (100%)Further (0%)
Esh Winning100%
Towns its size82%
County Durham towns88%
All UK towns83%
Playing fields count, so a park within reach isn’t always one with paths or trees; 6 playgrounds are mapped in and around the town, about one for every 646 residents.
National Parks & National Landscapes
The North Pennines National Landscape is 5.1 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
Protected landscape begins just outside the 5 km ring the Outdoors Grade measures, so Esh Winning scores 0% on it even though the North Pennines National Landscape is 5.1 mi away.
Footpaths & waymarked walks
3 waymarked walks pass through or near Esh Winning
34 km of footpaths, bridleways and rights of way are mapped in Esh Winning and the kilometre around it, 3.5 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
Heritage 100 - Ushaw Moor7.1 km
H100 - Esh Winning and Waterhouses5.3 km
Way of Light5.0 km
Close to home, the Heritage 100 - Ushaw Moor has 7 km of local walk within 2 km of the town. The regional route here is the Way of Light.
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 Esh Winning: June to 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 | 7.2 |
| High (°C) | 6 | 7 | 9 | 11 | 15 | 17 | 19 | 19 | 16 | 13 | 9 | 6 |
| Rain (mm) | 70 | 64 | 56 | 64 | 55 | 78 | 77 | 80 | 72 | 83 | 90 | 80 |
May is the driest month (55 mm) and July the warmest (highs of 19 °C). Winter days are short, about 7 hours of daylight in December, and 90 mm of rain falls in November, the wettest month. Frost comes on about 51 nights a year. The climate in Esh Winning →
Things to do
6 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
Esh Winning is inland. These are the nearest named beaches, measured from the edge of the town.
Shingles14 mi from Esh Winning’s edge
DirectionsShingle Beach14 mi from Esh Winning’s edge
DirectionsBlast Beach15 mi from Esh Winning’s edge
DirectionsHawthorn Hive15 mi from Esh Winning’s edge
DirectionsShippersea Bay15 mi from Esh Winning’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
Nature reserves 1
Steely Hill Local Nature Reserve18 ha · 1.0 mi from town
DirectionsPlaygrounds 6
Quebec Play Area0.6 mi from town
DirectionsPlus 5 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.
Langley ParkNew BrancepethBilly RowUshaw Moor and BearparkLanchesterBrandonEsh Winning
ABCDOutdoors Grade
| Town | Outdoors | Green space, ha per 1,000 | Near a park | Protected within 5 km |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Esh Winning | A− | 3.2 | 100% | 0% |
| Langley Park 2.3 mi | C | 0.8 | 84% | 0% |
| New Brancepeth 2.5 mi | B+ | 2.6 | 100% | 0% |
| Billy Row 2.9 mi | B | 2.3 | 100% | 0% |
| Ushaw Moor and Bearpark 3.0 mi | C+ | 1.6 | 82% | 0% |
| Lanchester 3.7 mi | D | 1.4 | 70% | 0% |
| Brandon 3.7 mi | C+ | 2.2 | 72% | 0% |
Esh Winning 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 Esh Winning
What is the biggest park in Esh Winning?
Dene Park, 6.4 ha (16 acres), with 1 km of path. 1 named park, garden or playing field is in the town or within 400 m of it.
Is Esh Winning near a National Park?
The nearest protected landscape is the North Pennines National Landscape, 5.1 mi west of the town’s edge. It covers 1,985 km² and was designated in 1988.
What are the best walks near Esh Winning?
3 waymarked walking routes pass within 2 km of the town, including the Heritage 100 - Ushaw Moor, H100 - Esh Winning and Waterhouses and Way of Light.
What is the nearest beach to Esh Winning?
Shingles, 14 mi from the edge of the town, then Shingle Beach (14 mi). Esh Winning itself is inland.
How many people in Esh Winning 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 Esh Winning?
June to September: the longest days, the warmest afternoons and the least rain of the year, from the Met Office 1991–2020 averages.
Is Esh Winning good for walking?
For paths, yes: 3.5 km of footpath and right of way per square kilometre, more than 71% of UK towns. For park space per person it beats 72% (3.2 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 Esh Winning’s overall grade.
Sources
Where Esh Winning’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.