Cleator Moor’s biggest
Longland Lake Country Park
Park or garden · 100 m outside town
13 ha (33 acres)1.7 km of path
25 minto walk all 1.7 km of path
19 pitchesfootball pitches would fit
1.3 mi southfrom the centre
Directionsto the nearest entrance
Photo: David Medcalf · CC BY-SA 2.0B+Outdoors Grade
Outdoors in Cleator Moor · parks, paths & countryside
91% of Cleator Moor’s residents live within a 5-minute walk of a park
The Lake District National Park begins 0.2 mi from the town’s edge. Parks and playing fields in Cleator Moor add up to 3.5 ha for every 1,000 residents; the typical UK town has 2.1. Footpaths add up to 30 km in the town and the kilometre around it, 1.9 for every square kilometre. Cleator Moor grades B+ for the outdoors: #11 of 23 in Cumbria. A character grade: it isn’t part of the overall grade.
Green space
3.5 ha
per 1,000 residents
Typical UK town 2.1
Near a park
91%
of residents within 400 m
Typical UK town 83%
Footpaths
30 km
1.9 km per km², town + 1 km
Typical UK town 3.0 per km²
Protected landscape
11%
of the land within 5 km
Nearest: Lake District National Park
Character
What kind of outdoors town is Cleator Moor?
Read from the data: what stands out first, good and bad.
Room to roam3.5 ha of parks and playing fields per 1,000 residents, more than 77% of UK towns.Countryside close byThe Lake District National Park starts 0.2 mi east.On a National TrailThe Coast to Coast Walk passes through.
Cleator Moor’s strongest suit is plenty of park space, followed by the Lake District National Park close by.
Outdoors grade
Cleator Moor grades B+ for the outdoors
Each chart is every UK town of 1,000 or more on one measure: the green bar is Cleator Moor, the dashed line the typical town. The number is the share of towns it beats; the five are averaged and the average ranked again.
B+
Better than 68% of UK towns#11 of 23 in Cumbria · 24th of 60 UK towns its size
Public green space3.5 haper 1,000 residents: parks, gardens, playing fields, play spaces
77out of
100
100
A park within a walk91%of residents within 400 m (a 5-minute walk)
69out of
100
100
National Park or National Landscape11%of the land within 5 km
72out of
100
100
Footpaths1.9 kmper km², the town and 1 km around it
26out of
100
100
The sea0%of the area within 5 km · Inland: 2.3% sea, under the 5% that counts
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
Cleator Moor is 24th of 60 UK towns its size for the outdoors
The 60 UK towns and cities of 6,400 to 7,000 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
Cleator Moor1.9
Towns its size3.1
Cumbria towns2.1
All UK towns3.0
Green space, ha per 1,000 residents
Cleator Moor3.5
Towns its size2.2
Cumbria towns2.0
All UK towns2.1
Residents within 400 m of a park
Cleator Moor91%
Towns its size81%
Cumbria towns84%
All UK towns83%
Against towns its size, Cleator Moor stands out most for park space per resident: only 16 of the other 59 have more. It falls furthest behind on path per km², where 51 of the others do better.
Show as a table
| Town | Outdoors | Green space | Near a park | Path per km² | Protected | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Stone Kent | A+ | 3.1 | 100% | 6.2 | 0% |
| 2 | Acrefair and Cefn-mawr Clwyd | A | 6.5 | 96% | 2.9 | 36% |
| 3 | Filey North Yorkshire | A | 5.9 | 89% | 2.8 | 0% |
| 4 | Chalford Gloucestershire | A | 1.6 | 96% | 4.7 | 94% |
| 5 | East Boldon and West Boldon Tyne and Wear | A | 3.4 | 96% | 3.4 | 0% |
| 6 | Wingerworth Derbyshire | A | 9 | 86% | 4 | 0% |
| 7 | Shotton Clwyd | A | 4.5 | 100% | 4.7 | 0% |
| 8 | Ibstock Leicestershire | A | 8.5 | 96% | 4.6 | 0% |
| 9 | Barton on Sea Hampshire | A | 4.9 | 50% | 2.8 | 22% |
| 10 | Bedwas Gwent | A | 4.4 | 100% | 4 | 0% |
| 11 | Broad Blunsdon Wiltshire | A− | 5.2 | 93% | 4.4 | 0% |
| 12 | St Blazey Cornwall | A− | 2.4 | 78% | 2.8 | 17% |
| 13 | Olney Buckinghamshire | A− | 6.3 | 100% | 3.2 | 0% |
| 14 | Alcester Warwickshire | A− | 4.1 | 100% | 3.5 | 0% |
| 15 | Whitfield Kent | A− | 2.3 | 79% | 2.5 | 32% |
| 16 | Horden County Durham | A− | 2.1 | 82% | 4.8 | 0% |
| 17 | Paulton Somerset | A− | 2.1 | 96% | 4.1 | 0% |
| 18 | Whitworth Lancashire | B+ | 2.5 | 96% | 4.7 | 0% |
| 19 | Lightwater Surrey | B+ | 9.2 | 72% | 5.6 | 0% |
| 20 | Fence Houses Tyne and Wear | B+ | 3.8 | 81% | 4.7 | 0% |
| 21 | Milford and Witley Surrey | B+ | 2.6 | 54% | 3.7 | 78% |
| 22 | Cawston Warwickshire | B+ | 3.6 | 98% | 3 | 0% |
| 23 | North Anston South Yorkshire | B+ | 2.6 | 100% | 3.3 | 0% |
| 24 | Cleator Moor Cumbria | B+ | 3.5 | 91% | 1.9 | 11% |
| 25 | Little Chalfont Buckinghamshire | B+ | 1.5 | 83% | 3.6 | 45% |
| 26 | Groby Leicestershire | B+ | 2.1 | 96% | 4.5 | 0% |
| 27 | Peasedown St John Somerset | B+ | 1.5 | 88% | 4 | 9% |
| 28 | Skelton (Redcar and Cleveland) North Yorkshire | B+ | 1.7 | 82% | 2.2 | 9% |
| 29 | Burley in Wharfedale West Yorkshire | B | 1.6 | 81% | 3.5 | 35% |
| 30 | Hindhead Surrey | B | 1.7 | 37% | 5.9 | 66% |
| 31 | Braunton Devon | B | 1.6 | 78% | 2.1 | 24% |
| 32 | Galleywood Essex | B | 10.3 | 61% | 4.2 | 0% |
| 33 | Hartford Cheshire | B | 2.2 | 95% | 3.7 | 0% |
| 34 | Barrow upon Soar Leicestershire | B− | 2.7 | 89% | 2.8 | 0% |
| 35 | Rishton Lancashire | B− | 2.2 | 94% | 3 | 0% |
| 36 | Wincanton Somerset | B− | 1.4 | 88% | 2.8 | 7% |
| 37 | Crigglestone and Durkar West Yorkshire | B− | 4.4 | 45% | 3.9 | 0% |
| 38 | Ushaw Moor and Bearpark County Durham | C+ | 1.6 | 82% | 4.6 | 0% |
| 39 | Blackheath West Midlands | C+ | 2.5 | 57% | 4.9 | 0% |
| 40 | Chiswell Green Hertfordshire | C+ | 4 | 54% | 3.5 | 0% |
| 41 | Denmead Hampshire | C+ | 1.4 | 72% | 2.8 | 35% |
| 42 | Tetbury Gloucestershire | C+ | 1.2 | 66% | 2.6 | 88% |
| 43 | Rawdon West Yorkshire | C+ | 1.7 | 67% | 5.1 | 0% |
| 44 | Bolton-le-Sands Lancashire | C+ | 1.1 | 58% | 1.6 | 23% |
| 45 | Brampton Cambridgeshire | C | 3.2 | 61% | 2.9 | 0% |
| 46 | Market Deeping Lincolnshire | C | 1.5 | 96% | 2.4 | 0% |
| 47 | Farnham Common and Farnham Royal Buckinghamshire | C | 1 | 55% | 4.1 | 0% |
| 48 | Waddington Lincolnshire | C | 2.3 | 87% | 1.7 | 0% |
| 49 | Rhoose South Glamorgan | C | 2 | 43% | 1.7 | 0% |
| 50 | Great Wakering Essex | C | 1.1 | 47% | 2.7 | 0% |
| 51 | Lydiate Merseyside | C− | 1.5 | 90% | 2 | 0% |
| 52 | Ashingdon Essex | C− | 1.3 | 61% | 2.2 | 0% |
| 53 | Hollywood Worcestershire | C− | 2.4 | 54% | 2.5 | 0% |
| 54 | Culcheth Cheshire | C− | 1.7 | 67% | 2.6 | 0% |
| 55 | Holmes Chapel Cheshire | D | 0.8 | 72% | 2 | 0% |
| 56 | Pontarddulais West Glamorgan | D | 1.9 | 67% | 0.5 | 0% |
| 57 | Coleshill Warwickshire | D | 1.3 | 69% | 1.7 | 0% |
| 58 | Broughton Clwyd | D− | 0.8 | 80% | 1 | 0% |
| 59 | Keyworth Nottinghamshire | D− | 1.3 | 58% | 1.7 | 0% |
| 60 | Blythe Bridge and Forsbrook Staffordshire | D− | 1.6 | 49% | 1.1 | 0% |
The map
Parks, footpaths & countryside
Tap a number to zoom to a park. Tap a layer to hide it. The dashed line is Cleator Moor’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 Cleator Moor
The biggest is Longland Lake Country Park, 13 ha (33 acres). Directions go to the park’s nearest public entrance where Ordnance Survey maps one.
King George's Field
Playing field
4.3 ha (11 acres)0.5 km of path
5 minto walk all 0.5 km of path
6 pitchesfootball pitches would fit
Centralin the middle of Cleator Moor
Directionsto the nearest entrance
Close to home
How close Cleator Moor’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 (91%)Further (9%)
Cleator Moor91%
Towns its size81%
Cumbria towns84%
All UK towns83%
About 600 people live further than that. Playing fields count, so a park within reach isn’t always one with paths or trees; 9 playgrounds are mapped in and around the town, about one for every 741 residents.
National Parks & National Landscapes
The Lake District National Park is 0.2 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
11% of the land within 5 km of Cleator Moor is National Park or National Landscape, more than 71% of UK towns. Lake District National Park covers 2,362 km² and has been a National Park since 1951.
Footpaths & waymarked walks
Cleator Moor is on the Coast to Coast Walk
30 km of footpaths, bridleways and rights of way are mapped in Cleator Moor and the kilometre around it, 1.9 km for every square kilometre (the typical UK town has 3.0). Bars show each route’s kilometres within 2 km of the town.
National
Coast to Coast Walk (St Bees to Shap)6.9 km
The Coast to Coast Walk, a national route, passes Cleator Moor.
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 Cleator Moor: May 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 | 16.0 | 17.2 | 16.7 | 14.9 | 12.6 | 10.4 | 8.3 | 7.3 |
| High (°C) | 7 | 7 | 9 | 12 | 15 | 17 | 18 | 18 | 16 | 13 | 10 | 7 |
| Rain (mm) | 113 | 108 | 100 | 75 | 82 | 93 | 107 | 124 | 123 | 159 | 157 | 143 |
April is the driest month (75 mm) and July the warmest (highs of 18 °C). Winter days are short, about 7 hours of daylight in December, and 159 mm of rain falls in October, the wettest month. Frost comes on about 34 nights a year. The climate in Cleator Moor →
The coast
Beaches near Cleator Moor
2% of the area within 5 km of Cleator Moor is sea, so the Outdoors Grade counts it as inland. 3 beaches are mapped within 5 km, 1 with a name.
North Beach2.6 mi from town
DirectionsThe Coast to Coast Walk passes the town.
Sea: the area outside the ONS coastline (mean high water). Bathing water quality is published by the Environment Agency (England) and Natural Resources Wales; check it before swimming.
Things to do
9 playgrounds
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.
Every named place, with directions
Viewpoints 1
Plus 1 viewpoint without a name on the map.
Hills and peaks 2
Kinniside Cop180 m (591 ft) · 0.7 mi from town
DirectionsDent (Wainwright summit)346 m (1,135 ft) · 1.0 mi from town
DirectionsNature reserves 1
Clints Quarry4.5 ha · 0.6 mi from town
DirectionsPlaygrounds 9
Brisco Playground1.0 mi from town
DirectionsPlus 8 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.
FrizingtonWhitehavenEgremontMoresby ParksSt BeesDistingtonCleator Moor
ABCDOutdoors Grade
| Town | Outdoors | Green space, ha per 1,000 | Near a park | Protected within 5 km |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cleator Moor | B+ | 3.5 | 91% | 11% |
| Frizington 1.7 mi | D | 1.4 | 52% | 15% |
| Whitehaven 2.7 mi | B+ | 1.8 | 91% | 1% |
| Egremont 2.8 mi | C | 1.1 | 63% | 11% |
| Moresby Parks 3.0 mi | B− | 1.2 | 100% | 0% |
| St Bees 3.7 mi | B | 8.5 | 78% | 0% |
| Distington 5.2 mi | A− | 4.2 | 100% | 0% |
Distington, 5.2 miles away, grades A−, the best next door: every resident lives within 400 m of a park. St Bees has at least twice Cleator Moor’s green space per resident.
Questions about the outdoors in Cleator Moor
What is the biggest park in Cleator Moor?
Longland Lake Country Park, 13 ha (33 acres), with 1.7 km of path, just outside the built-up area. King George's Field (4.3 ha) is second. 2 named parks, gardens and playing fields are in the town or within 400 m of it.
Is Cleator Moor near a National Park?
Yes. Lake District National Park begins 0.2 mi east of the town’s edge. It covers 2,362 km² and has been a National Park since 1951.
What are the best walks near Cleator Moor?
1 waymarked walking route passes within 2 km of the town, including the Coast to Coast Walk (St Bees to Shap).
How many people in Cleator Moor live near a park?
91% 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 Cleator Moor?
May to September: the longest days, the warmest afternoons and the least rain of the year, from the Met Office 1991–2020 averages.
Is Cleator Moor good for walking?
Paths are thinner than most towns: 1.9 km of footpath and right of way per square kilometre, more than 26% of UK towns. For park space per person it beats 77% (3.5 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 Cleator Moor’s overall grade.
Sources
Where Cleator Moor’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.