Photo: Robert Graham · CC BY-SA 2.0Almost everyone in Newfield lives within a 5-minute walk of a park
Parks and playing fields in Newfield add up to 8.3 ha for every 1,000 residents; the typical UK town has 2.1. 26 km of footpaths run through the village and the kilometre around it, 4.5 for every square kilometre. Newfield grades A for the outdoors. A character grade: it isn’t part of the overall grade.
What kind of outdoors village is Newfield?
Read from the data: what stands out first, good and bad.
Newfield’s strongest suit is parks close to every home, followed by plenty of park space.
Newfield grades A for the outdoors
Each chart is every UK town of 1,000 or more on one measure: the green bar is Newfield, 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.
Newfield is 3rd of 60 UK villages its size for the outdoors
The 60 UK towns and cities of 1,500 to 1,600 people with an Outdoors Grade. Hover a dot for its figures; tap one for its page.
Against villages its size, Newfield stands out most for park space per resident: none of the other 59 has more.
Show as a table
| Town | Outdoors | Green space | Near a park | Path per km² | Protected | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ashurst Wood West Sussex | A+ | 4 | 100% | 3.4 | 81% |
| 2 | Ewhurst Surrey | A | 4.3 | 76% | 4.6 | 46% |
| 3 | Newfield County Durham | A | 8.3 | 100% | 4.5 | 0% |
| 4 | Haverigg Cumbria | A | 4.7 | 67% | 2.5 | 11% |
| 5 | Collett's Green Worcestershire | A | 3.5 | 100% | 4.3 | 0% |
| 6 | Littleton Hampshire | A− | 7.8 | 100% | 1.1 | 10% |
| 7 | Llanrug Gwynedd | A− | 1.7 | 100% | 1.7 | 6% |
| 8 | Longwick Buckinghamshire | B+ | 2 | 100% | 2.3 | 31% |
| 9 | Temple Cloud Somerset | B+ | 2.6 | 77% | 3.9 | 15% |
| 10 | Blackhall Mill County Durham | B+ | 3.4 | 100% | 2.9 | 0% |
| 11 | Kimpton Hertfordshire | B+ | 3.7 | 100% | 2.7 | 0% |
| 12 | Castleside County Durham | B+ | 0.9 | 100% | 3 | 42% |
| 13 | Caer-went Gwent | B+ | 1.8 | 100% | 0.8 | 8% |
| 14 | Great Bowden Leicestershire | B+ | 6.1 | 100% | 2.1 | 0% |
| 15 | Ramsbury Wiltshire | B+ | 3.9 | 62% | 2.3 | 100% |
| 16 | Offenham Worcestershire | B+ | 2.4 | 100% | 3.1 | 0% |
| 17 | Kensworth Bedfordshire | B | 1.8 | 79% | 3 | 59% |
| 18 | Burford Oxfordshire | B | 3.5 | 84% | 1.2 | 53% |
| 19 | Tideswell Derbyshire | B | 1.5 | 100% | 1.6 | 97% |
| 20 | Sturminster Marshall Dorset | B | 2 | 100% | 1.4 | 30% |
| 21 | Potterne Wiltshire | B | 1.3 | 77% | 5.1 | 8% |
| 22 | South Godstone Surrey | B | 2 | 100% | 1.8 | 5% |
| 23 | Bridge Kent | B− | 2.2 | 60% | 2.7 | 44% |
| 24 | Foxhole Cornwall | B− | 2.9 | 100% | 1.7 | 0% |
| 25 | Collingtree and Milton Malsor Northamptonshire | B− | 4.9 | 83% | 2.3 | 0% |
| 26 | Carharrack Cornwall | C+ | 0.7 | 80% | 4.2 | 2% |
| 27 | Gilfach Goch Mid Glamorgan | C+ | 2.9 | 100% | 1.4 | 0% |
| 28 | Trinant Gwent | C+ | 2.5 | 100% | 1.5 | 0% |
| 29 | Mylor Bridge Cornwall | C+ | 1.1 | 63% | 1.2 | 49% |
| 30 | Langley Vale Surrey | C+ | 0.8 | 53% | 5.5 | 7% |
| 31 | Gretton Northamptonshire | C+ | 2.3 | 100% | 1.3 | 0% |
| 32 | Nether Heyford Northamptonshire | C+ | 1.4 | 100% | 2.3 | 0% |
| 33 | Bassingham Lincolnshire | C+ | 2.2 | 100% | 1.2 | 0% |
| 34 | Sibsey Lincolnshire | C | 2.4 | 100% | 0.2 | 0% |
| 35 | Kingsley Cheshire | C | 3.4 | 81% | 1.8 | 0% |
| 36 | Flitton Bedfordshire | C | 1.4 | 49% | 3.3 | 6% |
| 37 | Geddington Northamptonshire | C | 3 | 82% | 1.5 | 0% |
| 38 | Horndon on the Hill Essex | C | 3.5 | 81% | 1.1 | 0% |
| 39 | Freeland Oxfordshire | C | 1.4 | 53% | 2.6 | 17% |
| 40 | Waresley Worcestershire | C | 1.7 | 100% | 1 | 0% |
| 41 | Alveley Shropshire | C− | 5.4 | 51% | 1.6 | 0% |
| 42 | Haslingfield Cambridgeshire | C− | 2 | 80% | 1.8 | 0% |
| 43 | Yalding Kent | C− | 7.1 | 21% | 1.5 | 0% |
| 44 | Sandleheath Hampshire | C− | 0.1 | 0% | 2.6 | 52% |
| 45 | Tidbury Green West Midlands | C− | 2.4 | 49% | 2.4 | 0% |
| 46 | Greens Norton Northamptonshire | C− | 1.2 | 66% | 3.1 | 0% |
| 47 | Dalston Cumbria | C− | 3.4 | 66% | 0.9 | 0% |
| 48 | Braunston Northamptonshire | D | 1.8 | 50% | 2.4 | 0% |
| 49 | Croft Cheshire | D | 1.1 | 79% | 1.9 | 0% |
| 50 | Heighington County Durham | D | 2.6 | 64% | 0.4 | 0% |
| 51 | Tetney Lincolnshire | D | 1.5 | 79% | 1.1 | 0% |
| 52 | Broadclyst Devon | D | 1.4 | 78% | 1.4 | 0% |
| 53 | Stockton Warwickshire | D | 1.5 | 44% | 2.3 | 0% |
| 54 | Newton-with-Scales Lancashire | D | 1.4 | 76% | 1.3 | 0% |
| 55 | Aberford West Yorkshire | D− | 1.3 | 22% | 2.1 | 0% |
| 56 | Gayton Norfolk | D− | 1.6 | 62% | 0.8 | 0% |
| 57 | Tilney St Lawrence Norfolk | D− | 1.5 | 53% | 0.3 | 0% |
| 58 | Leasingham Lincolnshire | D− | 1.3 | 50% | 0.9 | 0% |
| 59 | South Broomhill Northumberland | D− | 0 | 0% | 0.5 | 0% |
| 60 | Great Bricett Suffolk | D− | 1.2 | 0% | 1.4 | 0% |
Parks, footpaths & countryside
Tap a number to zoom to a park. Tap a layer to hide it. The dashed line is Newfield’s built-up area.
How close Newfield’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; 12 playgrounds are mapped in and around the village, about one for every 127 residents.
The North Pennines National Landscape is 9.9 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.
5 waymarked walks pass through or near Newfield
26 km of footpaths, bridleways and rights of way are mapped in Newfield and the kilometre around it, 4.5 km for every square kilometre (the typical UK town has 3.0). Bars show each route’s kilometres within 2 km of the village.
4 regional routes pass through, including the The Angel's Way, Tyne and Wear Heritage Way Section 7, Tyne-Wear Trail and Tyne and Wear Heritage Way Section 6.
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 Newfield: June, 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 | 10.3 | 8.3 | 7.2 |
| High (°C) | 7 | 7 | 9 | 12 | 15 | 17 | 20 | 20 | 17 | 13 | 9 | 7 |
| Rain (mm) | 54 | 48 | 45 | 52 | 49 | 67 | 60 | 69 | 61 | 67 | 75 | 60 |
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 75 mm of rain falls in November, the wettest month. Frost comes on about 44 nights a year. The climate in Newfield →
12 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
Newfield is inland. These are the nearest named beaches, measured from the edge of the village.
Check the water before you swim. The Environment Agency tests designated bathing waters from May to September and publishes a rating for each beach.
Up high. Pelton Hills, at 133 m, is the highest named top within 2 km of Newfield.
Every named place, with directions
Hills and peaks 2
Playgrounds 12
Plus 10 playgrounds 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.
| Town | Outdoors | Green space, ha per 1,000 | Near a park | Protected within 5 km |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Newfield | A | 8.3 | 100% | 0% |
| Whitehill 0.7 mi | C− | 0.3 | 0% | 0% |
| Pelton and Ouston 1.0 mi | C+ | 2.0 | 64% | 0% |
| Urpeth 1.5 mi | C− | 1.3 | 0% | 0% |
| Chester-le-Street 1.7 mi | C+ | 1.7 | 75% | 0% |
| Kibblesworth 2.6 mi | B− | 2.5 | 100% | 0% |
| Birtley 2.8 mi | C | 1.4 | 71% | 0% |
Newfield 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 Newfield
Is Newfield near a National Park?
The nearest protected landscape is the North Pennines National Landscape, 9.9 mi west of the village’s edge. It covers 1,985 km² and was designated in 1988.
What are the best walks near Newfield?
5 waymarked walking routes pass within 2 km of the village, including the The Angel's Way, Tyne and Wear Heritage Way Section 7 and H100 - Beamish Valley.
What is the nearest beach to Newfield?
Shingles, 9.1 mi from the edge of the village, then Shingle Beach (9.4 mi). Newfield itself is inland.
How many people in Newfield 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 Newfield?
June, July and September: the longest days, the warmest afternoons and the least rain of the year, from the Met Office 1991–2020 averages.
Is Newfield good for walking?
For paths, yes: 4.5 km of footpath and right of way per square kilometre, more than 88% of UK towns. For park space per person it beats 94% (8.3 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 Newfield’s overall grade.
Where Newfield’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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