Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
Photo: Alex McGregor · CC BY-SA 2.0Footpaths add up to 31 km in the village and the kilometre around it, 4.8 for every square kilometre. Parks and playing fields in Urpeth add up to 1.3 ha for every 1,000 residents; the typical UK town has 2.1. No park or playing field is mapped within a 5-minute walk of homes in Urpeth. Urpeth grades C− for the outdoors. A character grade: it isn’t part of the overall grade.
Read from the data: what stands out first, good and bad.
Urpeth’s strongest suit is dense footpaths. Where it falls short is how far some homes are from a park.
Each chart is every UK town of 1,000 or more on one measure: the green bar is Urpeth, the dashed line the typical town. The number is the share of towns it beats; the five are averaged and the average ranked again.
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.
The 60 UK towns and cities of 2,000 to 2,100 people with an Outdoors Grade. Hover a dot for its figures; tap one for its page.
Against villages its size, Urpeth stands out most for path per km²: only 1 of the other 59 has more. It falls furthest behind on homes near a park, where 58 of the others do better.
| Town | Outdoors | Green space | Near a park | Path per km² | Protected | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Hay-on-Wye Powys | A+ | 9.3 | 100% | 3.8 | 21% |
| 2 | Wye Kent | A+ | 4.7 | 100% | 3.1 | 71% |
| 3 | Seaview and Nettlestone Isle of Wight | A+ | 3.6 | 89% | 2.8 | 8% |
| 4 | Fowey Cornwall | A | 3.2 | 91% | 2.1 | 32% |
| 5 | Lower Kingswood Surrey | A | 4.7 | 75% | 6.6 | 22% |
| 6 | Chiseldon Wiltshire | A | 1.8 | 100% | 3.4 | 69% |
| 7 | Highfields Caldecote Cambridgeshire | A− | 4.1 | 100% | 3.7 | 0% |
| 8 | Marldon Devon | A− | 4.1 | 70% | 2.7 | 3% |
| 9 | Bishops Lydeard Somerset | A− | 3.2 | 100% | 1.8 | 23% |
| 10 | Great Haywood Staffordshire | A− | 7.1 | 27% | 4.1 | 29% |
| 11 | Stowupland Suffolk | A− | 5.3 | 83% | 4.6 | 0% |
| 12 | Culverstone Green Kent | B+ | 5.3 | 61% | 2.7 | 42% |
| 13 | Brompton North Yorkshire | B+ | 4.7 | 100% | 2.4 | 0% |
| 14 | Bermuda Warwickshire | B | 4.7 | 100% | 2 | 0% |
| 15 | Alveston Gloucestershire | B | 2.5 | 100% | 2.8 | 0% |
| 16 | Meppershall Bedfordshire | B | 2.3 | 83% | 3 | 2% |
| 17 | Needingworth Cambridgeshire | B− | 4.6 | 85% | 2.5 | 0% |
| 18 | Dyserth Clwyd | B− | 0.5 | 54% | 3.6 | 22% |
| 19 | Bishop's Tachbrook Warwickshire | B− | 2.5 | 100% | 2.1 | 0% |
| 20 | Felbridge Surrey | B− | 2 | 80% | 2.4 | 25% |
| 21 | Trelewis Mid Glamorgan | B− | 2.6 | 100% | 1.9 | 0% |
| 22 | Uffculme Devon | B− | 2.8 | 86% | 1.3 | 14% |
| 23 | Edenfield Lancashire | B− | 2.7 | 69% | 4.4 | 0% |
| 24 | Rothbury Northumberland | B− | 1 | 76% | 3.8 | 21% |
| 25 | Exning Suffolk | B− | 3.6 | 82% | 2.5 | 0% |
| 26 | Ightham Kent | C+ | 2 | 30% | 3 | 56% |
| 27 | Brantham Suffolk | C+ | 1 | 27% | 2.6 | 42% |
| 28 | Kintbury Berkshire | C+ | 1.9 | 71% | 1.8 | 92% |
| 29 | Gregson Lane Lancashire | C+ | 1.7 | 86% | 3.3 | 0% |
| 30 | Read Lancashire | C+ | 1.6 | 71% | 2.5 | 21% |
| 31 | Hixon Staffordshire | C+ | 0.8 | 100% | 1.3 | 11% |
| 32 | Clenchwarton Norfolk | C | 2.2 | 87% | 0.3 | 3% |
| 33 | Galgate Lancashire | C | 1.1 | 58% | 3.4 | 12% |
| 34 | Goodwick Dyfed | C | 0.2 | 47% | 1.9 | 25% |
| 35 | Marcham Oxfordshire | C | 1.2 | 100% | 2.2 | 0% |
| 36 | Bredon Worcestershire | C | 2.1 | 66% | 1.6 | 25% |
| 37 | Hightown Merseyside | C | 1.7 | 44% | 2.5 | 0% |
| 38 | Benllech Gwynedd | C | 0.1 | 17% | 1.8 | 27% |
| 39 | Barrowby Lincolnshire | C− | 3.5 | 66% | 1.8 | 0% |
| 40 | Keyingham East Riding of Yorkshire | C− | 1.7 | 100% | 0.5 | 0% |
| 41 | Micklefield West Yorkshire | C− | 2.1 | 48% | 3.2 | 0% |
| 42 | Cadnam and Bartley Hampshire | C− | 0.9 | 30% | 2.4 | 79% |
| 43 | Carlton North Yorkshire | C− | 0.7 | 100% | 1.8 | 0% |
| 44 | Sutton Bonington Nottinghamshire | C− | 2.7 | 28% | 2.6 | 0% |
| 45 | Crich Derbyshire | C− | 0.6 | 69% | 4.1 | 0% |
| 46 | Urpeth County Durham | C− | 1.3 | 0% | 4.8 | 0% |
| 47 | Radley Oxfordshire | C− | 2.1 | 36% | 2.8 | 0% |
| 48 | Winwick Cheshire | C− | 3.2 | 48% | 1.7 | 0% |
| 49 | Ilchester Somerset | C− | 3.5 | 40% | 1.7 | 0% |
| 50 | Hibaldstow Lincolnshire | C− | 1.7 | 89% | 0.7 | 0% |
| 51 | Bishop Burton and Cherry Burton East Riding of Yorkshire | C− | 2.5 | 78% | 0.3 | 0% |
| 52 | Bardney Lincolnshire | D | 4.1 | 49% | 1 | 0% |
| 53 | Stone Buckinghamshire | D | 2.2 | 57% | 2.2 | 0% |
| 54 | Stretham Cambridgeshire | D | 1.4 | 60% | 2.8 | 0% |
| 55 | Merriott Somerset | D | 1.1 | 39% | 2.4 | 0% |
| 56 | Haxey Lincolnshire | D | 1.6 | 46% | 2 | 0% |
| 57 | Great Eccleston Lancashire | D | 1.2 | 72% | 1.4 | 0% |
| 58 | Westwoodside Lincolnshire | D− | 1.2 | 33% | 1.6 | 0% |
| 59 | Wilberfoss East Riding of Yorkshire | D− | 0.7 | 69% | 0.3 | 0% |
| 60 | Wythall Worcestershire | D− | 0.2 | 0% | 2 | 0% |
Tap a number to zoom to a park. Tap a layer to hide it. The dashed line is Urpeth’s built-up area.
The biggest is Pelton and District Community Recreation Ground, 2.6 ha (6 acres). Directions go to the park’s nearest public entrance where Ordnance Survey maps one.
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).
About 2,000 people live further than that. Playing fields count, so a park within reach isn’t always one with paths or trees; 15 playgrounds are mapped in and around the village, about one for every 137 residents.
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.
31 km of footpaths, bridleways and rights of way are mapped in Urpeth and the kilometre around it, 4.8 km for every square kilometre (the typical UK town has 3.0). Bars show each route’s kilometres within 2 km of the village.
3 regional routes pass through, including the The Angel's Way, Tyne and Wear Heritage Way Section 7 and Tyne-Wear Trail.
Waymarked walks are OpenStreetMap walking routes. Public rights of way are only as complete as the map in each area.
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 | 19 | 17 | 13 | 9 | 7 |
| Rain (mm) | 56 | 45 | 57 | 59 | 54 | 74 | 66 | 78 | 70 | 67 | 71 | 66 |
February 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 78 mm of rain falls in August, the wettest month. Frost comes on about 41 nights a year. The climate in Urpeth →
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.
Urpeth 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. Rabbit Hills, at 139 m, is the highest named top within 2 km of Urpeth.
Plus 13 playgrounds without a name on the map.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Urpeth | C− | 1.3 | 0% | 0% |
| Pelton and Ouston 0.8 mi | C+ | 2.0 | 64% | 0% |
| Kibblesworth 1.2 mi | B− | 2.5 | 100% | 0% |
| Newfield 1.5 mi | A | 8.3 | 100% | 0% |
| Birtley 1.7 mi | C | 1.4 | 71% | 0% |
| Whitehill 2.1 mi | C− | 0.3 | 0% | 0% |
| Chester-le-Street 2.5 mi | C+ | 1.7 | 75% | 0% |
Newfield, 1.5 miles away, grades A, the best next door: every resident lives within 400 m of a park. Newfield has at least twice Urpeth’s green space per resident. None of the neighbours has a protected landscape within 5 km either.
Pelton and District Community Recreation Ground, 2.6 ha (6 acres), with 0.6 km of path, just outside the built-up area. 1 named park, garden or playing field is in the village or within 400 m of it.
The nearest protected landscape is the North Pennines National Landscape, 11 mi south-west of the village’s edge. It covers 1,985 km² and was designated in 1988.
4 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.
Shingles, 8.3 mi from the edge of the village, then Shingle Beach (8.7 mi). Urpeth itself is inland.
0% 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%.
June, July and September: the longest days, the warmest afternoons and the least rain of the year, from the Met Office 1991–2020 averages.
For paths, yes: 4.8 km of footpath and right of way per square kilometre, more than 91% of UK towns. For park space per person it beats 20% (1.3 ha per 1,000 residents).
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 Urpeth’s overall grade.
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