Photo: Mark Winterbourne from Leeds. West Yorkshire, United Kingdom · CC BY 2.0Haverigg is on the coast, on the King Charles III England Coast Path
The sea makes up 55% of the area within 5 km. Parks and playing fields in Haverigg add up to 4.7 ha for every 1,000 residents; the typical UK town has 2.1. The Lake District National Park begins 0.9 mi from the village’s edge. Haverigg grades A for the outdoors. A character grade: it isn’t part of the overall grade.
What kind of outdoors village is Haverigg?
Read from the data: what stands out first, good and bad.
Haverigg’s strongest suit is the sea, followed by plenty of park space. Where it falls short is how far some homes are from a park.
Haverigg grades A for the outdoors
Each chart is every UK town of 1,000 or more on one measure: the green bar is Haverigg, 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.
Haverigg is 7th 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, Haverigg stands out most for park space per resident: only 7 of the other 59 have more. It falls furthest behind on homes near a park, where 39 of the others do better.
Show as a table
| Town | Outdoors | Green space | Near a park | Path per km² | Protected | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Stanhope County Durham | A+ | 7.7 | 100% | 3.5 | 86% |
| 2 | Finberry Kent | A+ | 4 | 100% | 5.1 | 2% |
| 3 | Fairlight East Sussex | A+ | 39.6 | 50% | 3.3 | 42% |
| 4 | Dobcross Greater Manchester | A+ | 2.8 | 100% | 4.8 | 22% |
| 5 | Crockenhill Kent | A+ | 5.2 | 100% | 3.1 | 27% |
| 6 | Newfield County Durham | A | 8.3 | 100% | 4.5 | 0% |
| 7 | Haverigg Cumbria | A | 4.7 | 67% | 2.5 | 11% |
| 8 | North Bradley Wiltshire | A | 3.4 | 100% | 4.6 | 0% |
| 9 | Middle Winterslow Wiltshire | A | 7 | 100% | 3.5 | 0% |
| 10 | Collett's Green Worcestershire | A | 3.5 | 100% | 4.3 | 0% |
| 11 | Oakenshaw West Yorkshire | A− | 7.4 | 100% | 3 | 0% |
| 12 | Llanrug Gwynedd | A− | 1.7 | 100% | 1.7 | 6% |
| 13 | Longwick Buckinghamshire | B+ | 2 | 100% | 2.3 | 31% |
| 14 | Blackhall Mill County Durham | B+ | 3.4 | 100% | 2.9 | 0% |
| 15 | Kimpton Hertfordshire | B+ | 3.7 | 100% | 2.7 | 0% |
| 16 | Castleside County Durham | B+ | 0.9 | 100% | 3 | 42% |
| 17 | Ambergate Derbyshire | B+ | 2.4 | 100% | 3.4 | 0% |
| 18 | Caer-went Gwent | B+ | 1.8 | 100% | 0.8 | 8% |
| 19 | Ramsbury Wiltshire | B+ | 3.9 | 62% | 2.3 | 100% |
| 20 | Tideswell Derbyshire | B | 1.5 | 100% | 1.6 | 97% |
| 21 | Potterne Wiltshire | B | 1.3 | 77% | 5.1 | 8% |
| 22 | South Godstone Surrey | B | 2 | 100% | 1.8 | 5% |
| 23 | Wick Gloucestershire | B− | 1.8 | 56% | 3.6 | 39% |
| 24 | Bridge Kent | B− | 2.2 | 60% | 2.7 | 44% |
| 25 | Mundford Norfolk | B− | 3.1 | 100% | 1.6 | 0% |
| 26 | Foxhole Cornwall | B− | 2.9 | 100% | 1.7 | 0% |
| 27 | Gotham Nottinghamshire | B− | 3.9 | 83% | 2.4 | 0% |
| 28 | Carharrack Cornwall | C+ | 0.7 | 80% | 4.2 | 2% |
| 29 | High Harrington Cumbria | C+ | 0.5 | 100% | 1.9 | 0% |
| 30 | Gilfach Goch Mid Glamorgan | C+ | 2.9 | 100% | 1.4 | 0% |
| 31 | Mylor Bridge Cornwall | C+ | 1.1 | 63% | 1.2 | 49% |
| 32 | Bacton and Cotton Suffolk | C+ | 4.4 | 70% | 2.5 | 0% |
| 33 | Rufford Lancashire | C | 2.8 | 70% | 2.8 | 0% |
| 34 | Anna Valley and Upper Clatford Hampshire | C | 2.2 | 77% | 3 | 0% |
| 35 | Four Lanes Cornwall | C | 0.6 | 100% | 2.8 | 0% |
| 36 | Kingsley Cheshire | C | 3.4 | 81% | 1.8 | 0% |
| 37 | Stock Essex | C | 2.2 | 62% | 3.3 | 0% |
| 38 | Flitton Bedfordshire | C | 1.4 | 49% | 3.3 | 6% |
| 39 | Geddington Northamptonshire | C | 3 | 82% | 1.5 | 0% |
| 40 | Waresley Worcestershire | C | 1.7 | 100% | 1 | 0% |
| 41 | Arksey South Yorkshire | C− | 1.1 | 88% | 2.4 | 0% |
| 42 | Glapwell Derbyshire | C− | 2.2 | 60% | 2.6 | 0% |
| 43 | Haslingfield Cambridgeshire | C− | 2 | 80% | 1.8 | 0% |
| 44 | Yalding Kent | C− | 7.1 | 21% | 1.5 | 0% |
| 45 | Sandleheath Hampshire | C− | 0.1 | 0% | 2.6 | 52% |
| 46 | Tidbury Green West Midlands | C− | 2.4 | 49% | 2.4 | 0% |
| 47 | Dalston Cumbria | C− | 3.4 | 66% | 0.9 | 0% |
| 48 | Greens Norton Northamptonshire | C− | 1.2 | 66% | 3.1 | 0% |
| 49 | Baston Lincolnshire | C− | 2.3 | 78% | 1 | 0% |
| 50 | Heighington County Durham | D | 2.6 | 64% | 0.4 | 0% |
| 51 | Tetney Lincolnshire | D | 1.5 | 79% | 1.1 | 0% |
| 52 | Henstridge Somerset | D | 1.8 | 47% | 2 | 0% |
| 53 | Broadclyst Devon | D | 1.4 | 78% | 1.4 | 0% |
| 54 | Wood End (North Warwickshire) Warwickshire | D | 1.1 | 74% | 1.7 | 0% |
| 55 | Camblesforth North Yorkshire | D | 0.3 | 81% | 1.3 | 0% |
| 56 | Aberford West Yorkshire | D− | 1.3 | 22% | 2.1 | 0% |
| 57 | Burton Green Warwickshire | D− | 0 | 0% | 2.9 | 0% |
| 58 | Edgmond Shropshire | D− | 1.7 | 33% | 1.4 | 0% |
| 59 | Walpole St Peter and Walpole St Andrew Norfolk | D− | 1.7 | 52% | 0.2 | 0% |
| 60 | Leasingham Lincolnshire | D− | 1.3 | 50% | 0.9 | 0% |
Parks, footpaths & countryside
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7 in 10 Haverigg 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).
About 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 village, about one for every 310 residents.
The Lake District National Park is 0.9 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.
Lake District
11% of the land within 5 km of Haverigg 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.
Haverigg is on the King Charles III England Coast Path
32 km of footpaths, bridleways and rights of way are mapped in Haverigg and the kilometre around it, 2.5 km for every square kilometre (the typical UK town has 3.0). Bars show each route’s kilometres within 2 km of the village.
The King Charles III England Coast Path, a national route, passes Haverigg. The regional route here is the Cumbria Coastal Way.
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 Haverigg: May to 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) | 7.9 | 9.7 | 11.7 | 14.0 | 16.0 | 17.1 | 16.7 | 14.9 | 12.6 | 10.4 | 8.4 | 7.4 |
| High (°C) | 7 | 8 | 10 | 13 | 16 | 18 | 20 | 19 | 17 | 14 | 11 | 8 |
| Rain (mm) | 135 | 103 | 93 | 71 | 73 | 85 | 105 | 119 | 117 | 151 | 152 | 149 |
April is the driest month (71 mm) and July the warmest (highs of 20 °C). Winter days are short, about 7 hours of daylight in December, and 152 mm of rain falls in November, the wettest month. Frost comes on about 26 nights a year. The climate in Haverigg →
The coast and beaches near Haverigg
55% of the area within 5 km of Haverigg is sea. 14 beaches are mapped within 5 km, 0 with a name.
The King Charles III England Coast Path 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.
2 viewpoints and 5 playgrounds
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.
Every named place, with directions
Viewpoints 2
Plus 2 viewpoints without a name on the map.
Playgrounds 5
Plus 5 playgrounds without a name on the map.
Campsites 2
Slipways 2
Plus 2 slipways 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Haverigg | A | 4.7 | 67% | 11% |
| Millom 1.3 mi | A | 2.0 | 82% | 13% |
| Askam in Furness 3.7 mi | B− | 1.7 | 90% | 0% |
| Dalton-in-Furness 5.5 mi | C | 0.9 | 74% | 0% |
| Barrow-in-Furness 6.2 mi | B | 2.0 | 91% | 0% |
| Swarthmoor 7.3 mi | C− | 0.2 | 79% | 0% |
| Ulverston 8.2 mi | C | 0.7 | 60% | 8% |
Haverigg grades higher for the outdoors than every neighbour in the table.
Questions about the outdoors in Haverigg
Is Haverigg near a National Park?
Yes. Lake District National Park begins 0.9 mi north-west of the village’s edge. It covers 2,362 km² and has been a National Park since 1951.
What are the best walks near Haverigg?
2 waymarked walking routes pass within 2 km of the village, including the Cumbria Coastal Way and King Charles III England Coast Path: Silecroft to Silverdale.
How many people in Haverigg live near a park?
67% 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 Haverigg?
May to September: the longest days, the warmest afternoons and the least rain of the year, from the Met Office 1991–2020 averages.
Is Haverigg good for walking?
About average for paths: 2.5 km of footpath and right of way per square kilometre, more than 46% of UK towns. For park space per person it beats 85% (4.7 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 Haverigg’s overall grade.
Where Haverigg’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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