Egremont’s biggest
Sasra Sports Ground
Playing field
2.0 ha (5 acres)
3 pitchesfootball pitches would fit
Centralin the middle of Egremont
Directionsto the nearest entrance
Photo: Humphrey Bolton · CC BY-SA 2.0COutdoors Grade
Outdoors in Egremont · parks, paths & countryside
Parks and walks in Egremont
The Lake District National Park begins 1.9 mi from the town’s edge. Parks and playing fields in Egremont add up to 1.1 ha for every 1,000 residents; the typical UK town has 2.1. The sea makes up 15% of the area within 5 km. Egremont grades C for the outdoors: #19 of 23 in Cumbria. A character grade: it isn’t part of the overall grade.
Green space
1.1 ha
per 1,000 residents
Typical UK town 2.1
Near a park
63%
of residents within 400 m
Typical UK town 83%
Footpaths
23 km
1.8 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
The sea
15%
of the area within 5 km
Character
What kind of outdoors town is Egremont?
Read from the data: what stands out first, good and bad.
Countryside close byThe Lake District National Park starts 1.9 mi north-east.On a National TrailThe Coast to Coast Walk passes through.Less park per person1.1 ha of parks and playing fields per 1,000 residents; the typical UK town has 2.1.
Egremont’s strongest suit is the Lake District National Park close by, followed by the Coast to Coast Walk. Where it falls short is park space per person.
Outdoors grade
Egremont grades C for the outdoors
Each chart is every UK town of 1,000 or more on one measure: the green bar is Egremont, the dashed line the typical town. The number is the share of towns it beats; the five are averaged and the average ranked again.
C
Better than 33% of UK towns#19 of 23 in Cumbria · 43rd of 60 UK towns its size
Public green space1.1 haper 1,000 residents: parks, gardens, playing fields, play spaces
14out of
100
100
A park within a walk63%of residents within 400 m (a 5-minute walk)
22out of
100
100
National Park or National Landscape11%of the land within 5 km
72out of
100
100
Footpaths1.8 kmper km², the town and 1 km around it
24out of
100
100
The sea15%of the area within 5 km
88out 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
Egremont is 43rd of 60 UK towns its size for the outdoors
The 60 UK towns and cities of 5,600 to 6,000 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
Egremont1.8
Towns its size2.6
Cumbria towns2.1
All UK towns3.0
Green space, ha per 1,000 residents
Egremont1.1
Towns its size2.0
Cumbria towns2.0
All UK towns2.1
Residents within 400 m of a park
Egremont63%
Towns its size86%
Cumbria towns84%
All UK towns83%
Egremont falls furthest behind on park space per resident, where 54 of the 59 others do better.
Show as a table
| Town | Outdoors | Green space | Near a park | Path per km² | Protected | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Blackfield and Langley Hampshire | A+ | 28.1 | 95% | 4.2 | 48% |
| 2 | Saltburn-by-the-Sea North Yorkshire | A | 4.7 | 92% | 2.5 | 0% |
| 3 | Bagshot Surrey | A | 10.5 | 100% | 5.2 | 0% |
| 4 | Deepcar South Yorkshire | A | 1.8 | 100% | 6.4 | 21% |
| 5 | Barrowford Lancashire | A | 4.2 | 82% | 5 | 22% |
| 6 | Wareham Dorset | A | 1.9 | 83% | 3.4 | 56% |
| 7 | Leiston Suffolk | A | 1.7 | 95% | 2.7 | 35% |
| 8 | Amble Northumberland | A | 2 | 100% | 2.2 | 5% |
| 9 | West Hallam Derbyshire | A | 4.8 | 100% | 4.3 | 0% |
| 10 | Haworth West Yorkshire | A | 4.1 | 100% | 4.3 | 0% |
| 11 | Millom Cumbria | A | 2 | 82% | 3.2 | 13% |
| 12 | Menston West Yorkshire | A | 2.4 | 90% | 4.1 | 18% |
| 13 | Shepperton Surrey | A | 8.7 | 89% | 4.6 | 0% |
| 14 | Carnforth Lancashire | A− | 1.2 | 89% | 3 | 39% |
| 15 | Barnard Castle County Durham | A− | 2.2 | 100% | 3.4 | 1% |
| 16 | Nailsworth Gloucestershire | A− | 1.3 | 86% | 5.9 | 88% |
| 17 | Botley Hampshire | A− | 14.6 | 70% | 3.6 | 2% |
| 18 | East Horsley Surrey | A− | 3.5 | 55% | 4.5 | 33% |
| 19 | Blaenavon Gwent | A− | 1.8 | 100% | 2.3 | 39% |
| 20 | Henfield West Sussex | A− | 3.8 | 51% | 4.4 | 17% |
| 21 | Kingsbridge Devon | B+ | 1.5 | 91% | 1.6 | 67% |
| 22 | Marchwood Hampshire | B+ | 2 | 87% | 1.3 | 38% |
| 23 | Creswell Derbyshire | B+ | 2.7 | 100% | 3.2 | 0% |
| 24 | Moor Park Hertfordshire | B+ | 4.5 | 46% | 4.5 | 1% |
| 25 | Thrybergh and Dalton South Yorkshire | B+ | 2.6 | 95% | 4 | 0% |
| 26 | Willington County Durham | B+ | 4.7 | 95% | 2.8 | 0% |
| 27 | Garstang Lancashire | B | 2.4 | 89% | 2.3 | 15% |
| 28 | East Tilbury Essex | B | 2.3 | 92% | 2 | 0% |
| 29 | Shipston-on-Stour Warwickshire | B | 2.3 | 94% | 1.6 | 20% |
| 30 | Brixworth Northamptonshire | B | 3.8 | 94% | 2.3 | 0% |
| 31 | Newbiggin-by-the-Sea Northumberland | B | 2.2 | 77% | 2.5 | 0% |
| 32 | Hemsby Norfolk | B | 2.5 | 51% | 1.4 | 22% |
| 33 | Bidford-on-Avon Warwickshire | B | 3.4 | 100% | 1.9 | 0% |
| 34 | Cheddar Somerset | B− | 2.3 | 41% | 3 | 56% |
| 35 | Thirsk North Yorkshire | B− | 1.8 | 100% | 2.8 | 0% |
| 36 | Great Torrington Devon | B− | 2.6 | 88% | 2.7 | 0% |
| 37 | Hullbridge Essex | C+ | 5.7 | 59% | 3 | 0% |
| 38 | Aylesham Kent | C+ | 0.3 | 76% | 3.4 | 33% |
| 39 | Bagillt Clwyd | C+ | 1.3 | 87% | 1.8 | 0% |
| 40 | Crawley Down West Sussex | C+ | 1.2 | 80% | 2.2 | 40% |
| 41 | Pontyclun Mid Glamorgan | C | 2.4 | 79% | 2.6 | 0% |
| 42 | Ruthin Clwyd | C | 2.7 | 51% | 1.5 | 31% |
| 43 | Egremont Cumbria | C | 1.1 | 63% | 1.8 | 11% |
| 44 | Wadebridge Cornwall | C | 1.8 | 74% | 1.8 | 17% |
| 45 | Bracebridge Heath Lincolnshire | C | 1.1 | 81% | 3.7 | 0% |
| 46 | Undy and Magor Gwent | C | 0.9 | 86% | 1.4 | 0% |
| 47 | Durrington Wiltshire | C | 1.1 | 90% | 2.7 | 0% |
| 48 | Red Lodge Suffolk | C | 1.5 | 100% | 1.5 | 0% |
| 49 | Ramsey Cambridgeshire | C | 2.5 | 72% | 2.3 | 0% |
| 50 | Pembury Kent | C− | 1.1 | 45% | 2 | 58% |
| 51 | Abertridwr and Senghenydd Gwent | C− | 1.8 | 87% | 1 | 0% |
| 52 | Purfleet-on-Thames Essex | C− | 0.9 | 64% | 1.9 | 0% |
| 53 | Cuddington Cheshire | C− | 1.5 | 66% | 2.6 | 0% |
| 54 | Withernsea East Riding of Yorkshire | D | 0.9 | 60% | 1.1 | 0% |
| 55 | Finningley South Yorkshire | D | 2 | 65% | 1.3 | 0% |
| 56 | Brigg Lincolnshire | D | 1.7 | 65% | 1.4 | 0% |
| 57 | Ruskington Lincolnshire | D | 1.3 | 70% | 1.7 | 0% |
| 58 | Bulkington Warwickshire | D | 0.9 | 76% | 1.5 | 0% |
| 59 | Sawtry Cambridgeshire | D | 1.3 | 40% | 2.2 | 0% |
| 60 | Burwell Cambridgeshire | D− | 1.5 | 44% | 1.8 | 0% |
The map
Parks, footpaths & countryside
Tap a number to zoom to a park. Tap a layer to hide it. The dashed line is Egremont’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 Egremont
The biggest is Sasra Sports Ground, 2.0 ha (5 acres). Directions go to the park’s nearest public entrance where Ordnance Survey maps one.
Close to home
6 in 10 Egremont residents live within a 5-minute walk of 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 (63%)Further (37%)
Egremont63%
Towns its size86%
Cumbria towns84%
All UK towns83%
About 2,200 people live further than that. 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 965 residents.
National Parks & National Landscapes
The Lake District National Park is 1.9 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.
National ParkNational LandscapeThe 5 km the grade counts
National Park
Lake District
1.9 mi north-east2,362 km²since 195111% of the land within 5 km
Official site11% of the land within 5 km of Egremont 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
Egremont is on the Coast to Coast Walk
23 km of footpaths, bridleways and rights of way are mapped in Egremont and the kilometre around it, 1.8 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)3.0 km
The Coast to Coast Walk, a national route, passes Egremont.
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 Egremont: 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 | 19 | 19 | 17 | 13 | 10 | 8 |
| Rain (mm) | 128 | 103 | 96 | 71 | 78 | 87 | 106 | 120 | 118 | 159 | 152 | 145 |
April is the driest month (71 mm) and July the warmest (highs of 19 °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 35 nights a year. The climate in Egremont →
The coast
Egremont is near the sea
15% of the area within 5 km of Egremont is sea. 2 beaches are mapped within 5 km, 0 with a name.
The 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
6 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
Nature reserves 1
Clints Quarry4.5 ha · 0.4 mi from town
DirectionsNext door
The outdoors in nearby towns
The nearest towns of 1,000+ within 12 miles. Tap a town for its outdoors page.
St BeesCleator MoorWhitehavenFrizingtonMoresby ParksSeascaleEgremont
ABCDOutdoors Grade
| Town | Outdoors | Green space, ha per 1,000 | Near a park | Protected within 5 km |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Egremont | C | 1.1 | 63% | 11% |
| St Bees 2.3 mi | B | 8.5 | 78% | 0% |
| Cleator Moor 2.8 mi | B+ | 3.5 | 91% | 11% |
| Whitehaven 4.3 mi | B+ | 1.8 | 91% | 1% |
| Frizington 4.5 mi | D | 1.4 | 52% | 15% |
| Moresby Parks 5.4 mi | B− | 1.2 | 100% | 0% |
| Seascale 6.2 mi | A− | 2.1 | 81% | 27% |
Seascale, 6.2 miles away, grades A−, the best next door: 81% of its residents live within 400 m of a park. St Bees and Cleator Moor have at least twice Egremont’s green space per resident.
Questions about the outdoors in Egremont
What is the biggest park in Egremont?
Sasra Sports Ground, 2.0 ha (5 acres). 1 named park, garden or playing field is in the town or within 400 m of it.
Is Egremont near a National Park?
Yes. Lake District National Park begins 1.9 mi north-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 Egremont?
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 Egremont live near a park?
63% 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 Egremont?
May to September: the longest days, the warmest afternoons and the least rain of the year, from the Met Office 1991–2020 averages.
Is Egremont good for walking?
Paths are thinner than most towns: 1.8 km of footpath and right of way per square kilometre, more than 24% of UK towns. For park space per person it beats 14% (1.1 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 Egremont’s overall grade.
Sources
Where Egremont’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.