Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
Wynyard Park · Photo: Unknown author · Public domainParks and playing fields in Wynyard add up to 10.7 ha for every 1,000 residents; the typical UK town has 2.1. 29 km of footpaths run through the town and the kilometre around it, 1.3 for every square kilometre. A park or playing field is within a 5-minute walk for 64% of residents. Wynyard grades C for the outdoors: #43 of 52 in County Durham. A character grade: it isn’t part of the overall grade.
Read from the data: what stands out first, good and bad.
Wynyard’s strongest suit is plenty of park space, followed by its historic parks. Where it falls short is footpaths.
Each chart is every UK town of 1,000 or more on one measure: the green bar is Wynyard, 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 3,900 to 4,200 people with an Outdoors Grade. Hover a dot for its figures; tap one for its page.
Against towns its size, Wynyard stands out most for park space per resident: only 1 of the other 59 has more. It falls furthest behind on path per km², where 51 of the others do better.
| Town | Outdoors | Green space | Near a park | Path per km² | Protected | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Hextable Kent | A+ | 6.7 | 100% | 5.1 | 9% |
| 2 | Darley Dale Derbyshire | A+ | 3.8 | 100% | 3.4 | 51% |
| 3 | Southbourne West Sussex | A | 1.3 | 92% | 3.3 | 64% |
| 4 | Pitstone Buckinghamshire | A | 1.6 | 100% | 4.2 | 40% |
| 5 | Cranbrook Kent | A | 5.8 | 82% | 2.9 | 65% |
| 6 | Tenby Dyfed | A | 2.1 | 88% | 2.5 | 21% |
| 7 | Chickerell Dorset | A | 1.5 | 88% | 3 | 27% |
| 8 | Bisley Surrey | A | 8 | 92% | 4.8 | 0% |
| 9 | Milton Cambridgeshire | A | 10.4 | 100% | 3.4 | 0% |
| 10 | Holt Norfolk | A | 8.5 | 84% | 2.4 | 40% |
| 11 | Old Sarum Wiltshire | A | 4.6 | 100% | 3.7 | 0% |
| 12 | Bowerhill Wiltshire | A− | 7.4 | 100% | 3 | 0% |
| 13 | Prestbury Gloucestershire | A− | 1.6 | 80% | 5.3 | 51% |
| 14 | Bearwood Dorset | B+ | 2.5 | 100% | 3.8 | 0% |
| 15 | Carbis Bay Cornwall | B+ | 0.5 | 88% | 2.8 | 20% |
| 16 | Cheddleton Staffordshire | B+ | 3.5 | 88% | 3.6 | 0% |
| 17 | Chirk Clwyd | B+ | 1.8 | 100% | 2.3 | 15% |
| 18 | Queenborough Kent | B | 1.6 | 100% | 2 | 0% |
| 19 | Tangmere West Sussex | B | 2.1 | 100% | 1.2 | 36% |
| 20 | Stoke Poges Buckinghamshire | B | 7.7 | 76% | 3.3 | 0% |
| 21 | Pirbright Surrey | B | 2 | 84% | 5.7 | 0% |
| 22 | Grange-over-Sands Cumbria | B | 1.5 | 46% | 2.6 | 40% |
| 23 | Calverley West Yorkshire | B | 1.5 | 92% | 6 | 0% |
| 24 | Saltford Somerset | B | 1.6 | 75% | 3.6 | 24% |
| 25 | Little Paxton Cambridgeshire | B− | 2.8 | 87% | 3 | 0% |
| 26 | Tumble Dyfed | B− | 19.5 | 93% | 1.5 | 0% |
| 27 | Stoney Stanton Leicestershire | B− | 2.5 | 100% | 2.2 | 0% |
| 28 | Martock Somerset | B− | 2.9 | 85% | 3 | 0% |
| 29 | Easington Lane Tyne and Wear | B− | 0.9 | 100% | 4 | 0% |
| 30 | South Cerney Gloucestershire | B− | 2.5 | 77% | 2.4 | 7% |
| 31 | Lower Stondon Bedfordshire | B− | 2.7 | 73% | 2.2 | 5% |
| 32 | Ystradgynlais Powys | C+ | 2.5 | 78% | 1.2 | 36% |
| 33 | Send Surrey | C+ | 2.6 | 28% | 3.3 | 5% |
| 34 | Chipping Ongar Essex | C+ | 2.5 | 83% | 2.9 | 0% |
| 35 | Thorpe Hesley South Yorkshire | C+ | 1.8 | 80% | 4 | 0% |
| 36 | Heacham Norfolk | C+ | 1.5 | 53% | 1.1 | 29% |
| 37 | Holmfield West Yorkshire | C+ | 2.8 | 74% | 2.7 | 0% |
| 38 | Shirland and Stonebroom Derbyshire | C | 3.7 | 43% | 3 | 0% |
| 39 | Kirkburton West Yorkshire | C | 1.4 | 86% | 3.3 | 0% |
| 40 | South Darenth and Sutton at Hone Kent | C | 1.8 | 43% | 2.7 | 10% |
| 41 | Silver End Essex | C | 2 | 88% | 2.1 | 0% |
| 42 | Brayton North Yorkshire | C | 0.8 | 100% | 2.4 | 0% |
| 43 | Langley Park County Durham | C | 0.8 | 84% | 3.8 | 0% |
| 44 | Tenbury Wells Worcestershire | C | 2.3 | 51% | 2.1 | 3% |
| 45 | Deanshanger Northamptonshire | C | 1.5 | 93% | 2.2 | 0% |
| 46 | Oaklands Hertfordshire | C | 2 | 7% | 4.3 | 0% |
| 47 | Wynyard County Durham | C | 10.7 | 64% | 1.3 | 0% |
| 48 | Beck Row Suffolk | C | 5.3 | 76% | 0.8 | 0% |
| 49 | Great Glen Leicestershire | C | 1.4 | 91% | 2.2 | 0% |
| 50 | Whiston South Yorkshire | C− | 1 | 75% | 3.8 | 0% |
| 51 | Brookmans Park Hertfordshire | C− | 2.5 | 43% | 2.5 | 0% |
| 52 | Swanland East Riding of Yorkshire | C− | 1.1 | 75% | 0.3 | 0% |
| 53 | Glyn-neath West Glamorgan | D | 1.3 | 57% | 1.1 | 22% |
| 54 | Crowle Lincolnshire | D | 1.3 | 91% | 1 | 0% |
| 55 | Doddinghurst Essex | D | 1.6 | 60% | 2.4 | 0% |
| 56 | Middleton Cheney Northamptonshire | D | 0.9 | 70% | 2.6 | 0% |
| 57 | North Ferriby East Riding of Yorkshire | D | 0.6 | 33% | 1 | 0% |
| 58 | Gnosall Staffordshire | D | 1.2 | 42% | 2.3 | 0% |
| 59 | Cricklade Wiltshire | D | 0.3 | 9% | 3 | 0% |
| 60 | Little Eriswell Suffolk | D− | 0.1 | 0% | 1.5 | 0% |
Tap a number to zoom to a park. Tap a layer to hide it. The dashed line is Wynyard’s built-up area.
The biggest is Wynyard Woodland Park, 178 ha (439 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 1,500 people live further than that. Playing fields count, so a park within reach isn’t always one with paths or trees; 5 playgrounds are mapped in and around the town, about one for every 808 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.
North York Moors National Park covers 1,441 km² and has been a National Park since 1952.
29 km of footpaths, bridleways and rights of way are mapped in Wynyard and the kilometre around it, 1.3 km for every square kilometre (the typical UK town has 3.0).
No named walking route is mapped within 2 km of Wynyard; its footpaths are on the map above.
Waymarked walks are OpenStreetMap walking routes. Public rights of way are only as complete as the map in each area.
Historic England’s register of parks and gardens, and the listed buildings and scheduled monuments that stand inside Wynyard’s named parks.
A listed building or monument counts when it sits inside the park’s OS Open Greenspace outline (to about 15 m), so a few at the boundary are included. Historic England, National Heritage List for England.
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 | 17.2 | 16.7 | 14.9 | 12.6 | 10.4 | 8.3 | 7.3 |
| High (°C) | 7 | 8 | 10 | 13 | 16 | 18 | 21 | 20 | 18 | 14 | 10 | 7 |
| Rain (mm) | 49 | 43 | 44 | 45 | 44 | 62 | 67 | 70 | 57 | 67 | 68 | 60 |
February is the driest month (43 mm) and July the warmest (highs of 21 °C). Winter days are short, about 7 hours of daylight in December, and 70 mm of rain falls in August, the wettest month. Frost comes on about 51 nights a year. The climate in Wynyard →
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.
Wynyard is inland. These are the nearest named beaches, measured from the edge of the town.
Check the water before you swim. The Environment Agency tests designated bathing waters from May to September and publishes a rating for each beach.
Plus 2 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wynyard | C | 10.7 | 64% | 0% |
| Billingham 3.1 mi | B | 4.7 | 86% | 0% |
| Stillington 3.5 mi | D | 1.4 | 77% | 0% |
| Sedgefield 4.3 mi | B | 6.2 | 81% | 0% |
| Stockton-on-Tees 4.4 mi | C+ | 2.0 | 83% | 0% |
| Fishburn 4.7 mi | D | 1.5 | 76% | 0% |
| Trimdon 5.4 mi | C | 1.0 | 100% | 0% |
Billingham, 3.1 miles away, grades B, the best next door: 86% of its residents live within 400 m of a park. None of the neighbours has a protected landscape within 5 km either.
Wynyard Woodland Park, 178 ha (439 acres), with 13.1 km of path, just outside the built-up area. Wynyard Woodland Park (178 ha) is second. 2 named parks, gardens and playing fields are in the town or within 400 m of it.
Yes. North York Moors National Park begins 11 mi south-east of the town’s edge. It covers 1,441 km² and has been a National Park since 1952.
Middleton Beach, 5.8 mi from the edge of the town, then Fish Sands (6.1 mi). Wynyard itself is inland.
64% 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%.
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.
Wynyard Park (Grade II*) is on Historic England’s register of parks and gardens.
Paths are thinner than most towns: 1.3 km of footpath and right of way per square kilometre, more than 13% of UK towns. For park space per person it beats 96% (10.7 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 Wynyard’s overall grade.
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