Longtown’s biggest
Riverside Doilies Brae
Park or garden
1.8 ha (4 acres)0.6 km of path
10 minto walk all 0.6 km of path
2 pitchesfootball pitches would fit
Centralin the middle of Longtown
Directionsto the nearest entrance
Photo: Mike Faherty · CC BY-SA 2.0BOutdoors Grade
Outdoors in Longtown · parks, paths & countryside
Almost everyone in Longtown lives within a 5-minute walk of a park
The Solway Coast National Landscape begins 2.6 mi from the village’s edge. Parks and playing fields in Longtown add up to 4.3 ha for every 1,000 residents; the typical UK town has 2.1. 3 km of footpaths run through the village and the kilometre around it, 0.1 for every square kilometre. Longtown grades B for the outdoors. A character grade: it isn’t part of the overall grade.
Green space
4.3 ha
per 1,000 residents
Typical UK town 2.1
Near a park
100%
of residents within 400 m
Typical UK town 83%
Footpaths
3 km
0.1 km per km², town + 1 km
Typical UK town 3.0 per km²
Protected landscape
0%
of the land within 5 km
Solway Coast starts 2.6 mi out, past the 5 km
Character
What kind of outdoors village is Longtown?
Read from the data: what stands out first, good and bad.
A park on every doorstep100% of residents live within 400 m of a park or playing field.Room to roam4.3 ha of parks and playing fields per 1,000 residents, more than 83% of UK towns.Countryside close byThe Solway Coast National Landscape starts 2.6 mi south-west.Few mapped footpaths0.1 km of path per km²; the typical UK town has 3.0.
Longtown’s strongest suit is parks close to every home, followed by plenty of park space. Where it falls short is footpaths.
Outdoors grade
Longtown grades B for the outdoors
Each chart is every UK town of 1,000 or more on one measure: the green bar is Longtown, 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 63% of UK towns22nd of 60 UK villages its size
Public green space4.3 haper 1,000 residents: parks, gardens, playing fields, play spaces
84out of
100
100
A park within a walk100%of residents within 400 m (a 5-minute walk)
89out of
100
100
National Park or National Landscape0%of the land within 5 km · Solway Coast begins just past 5 km
62out of
100
100
Footpaths0.1 kmper km², the town and 1 km around it
0out of
100
100
The sea0%of the area within 5 km · Inland
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.
Villages its size
Longtown is 22nd of 60 UK villages its size for the outdoors
The 60 UK towns and cities of 2,100 to 2,300 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
Longtown0.1
Villages its size2.1
Cumbria towns2.1
All UK towns3.0
Green space, ha per 1,000 residents
Longtown4.3
Villages its size2.2
Cumbria towns2.0
All UK towns2.1
Residents within 400 m of a park
Longtown100%
Villages its size75%
Cumbria towns84%
All UK towns83%
Against villages its size, Longtown stands out most for park space per resident: only 12 of the other 59 have more. It falls furthest behind on path per km², where 59 of the others do better.
Show as a table
| Town | Outdoors | Green space | Near a park | Path per km² | Protected | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mullion Cornwall | A+ | 3.7 | 100% | 2.5 | 64% |
| 2 | Broughton Buckinghamshire | A+ | 8 | 100% | 6.5 | 0% |
| 3 | Brockham Surrey | A+ | 7.4 | 94% | 4.4 | 38% |
| 4 | Bestwood Village Nottinghamshire | A | 43.8 | 100% | 5.2 | 0% |
| 5 | Deepcut Surrey | A | 8.4 | 100% | 6.8 | 0% |
| 6 | Severn Beach Gloucestershire | A− | 5.8 | 100% | 1.5 | 0% |
| 7 | Smalley Derbyshire | A− | 2.9 | 100% | 4.1 | 0% |
| 8 | Streethay Staffordshire | A− | 10.1 | 100% | 2.6 | 0% |
| 9 | Gilwern Gwent | A− | 1.9 | 100% | 2 | 83% |
| 10 | Newstead Nottinghamshire | B+ | 2.6 | 100% | 3.7 | 0% |
| 11 | Woodcote Oxfordshire | B+ | 1.6 | 84% | 3.5 | 99% |
| 12 | Hanslope Buckinghamshire | B+ | 1.9 | 100% | 4.9 | 0% |
| 13 | Chiddingfold Surrey | B+ | 2.2 | 87% | 2.5 | 68% |
| 14 | Wells-next-the-Sea Norfolk | B+ | 2 | 70% | 1.9 | 65% |
| 15 | Charing Kent | B+ | 2.7 | 85% | 2.1 | 56% |
| 16 | Brimscombe and Thrupp Gloucestershire | B+ | 2.1 | 12% | 5.9 | 89% |
| 17 | Sharlston West Yorkshire | B+ | 4.9 | 93% | 3 | 0% |
| 18 | Gamston (Rushcliffe) Nottinghamshire | B+ | 2.7 | 86% | 4.7 | 0% |
| 19 | Holbrook Suffolk | B+ | 1.1 | 74% | 2.7 | 52% |
| 20 | Banwell Somerset | B+ | 1.7 | 100% | 2 | 38% |
| 21 | Yarnfield Staffordshire | B | 6.6 | 100% | 1.8 | 0% |
| 22 | Longtown Cumbria | B | 4.3 | 100% | 0.1 | 0% |
| 23 | Wheelock Cheshire | B | 2.4 | 100% | 2.8 | 0% |
| 24 | Trowell Nottinghamshire | B | 7.7 | 56% | 4.5 | 0% |
| 25 | Evercreech Somerset | B | 3.5 | 100% | 2 | 0% |
| 26 | Rayne Essex | B− | 4.3 | 64% | 4 | 0% |
| 27 | Resolven West Glamorgan | B− | 2.4 | 100% | 2.3 | 0% |
| 28 | East Peckham Kent | B− | 14.5 | 66% | 2 | 1% |
| 29 | Lechlade-on-Thames Gloucestershire | B− | 6.7 | 66% | 1.5 | 6% |
| 30 | Swanton Morley Norfolk | C+ | 3.5 | 94% | 1.6 | 0% |
| 31 | Burgh le Marsh Lincolnshire | C+ | 3.2 | 74% | 1.3 | 7% |
| 32 | Hook Norton Oxfordshire | C+ | 2 | 70% | 2 | 28% |
| 33 | Luddenden Foot West Yorkshire | C+ | 2.2 | 68% | 3.9 | 0% |
| 34 | Machynlleth Powys | C+ | 2.6 | 45% | 2 | 29% |
| 35 | Huncote Leicestershire | C+ | 0.8 | 100% | 2.9 | 0% |
| 36 | East Bergholt Suffolk | C | 1.9 | 26% | 2.4 | 46% |
| 37 | Trimsaran Dyfed | C | 2.4 | 31% | 1 | 2% |
| 38 | Linton Derbyshire | C | 1.8 | 76% | 3.2 | 0% |
| 39 | Mitcheldean Gloucestershire | C | 1.5 | 80% | 1.9 | 1% |
| 40 | Barwick in Elmet West Yorkshire | C | 1.5 | 87% | 2.5 | 0% |
| 41 | Llanidloes Powys | C | 2.4 | 89% | 1.3 | 0% |
| 42 | Eye Suffolk | C | 2 | 66% | 3 | 0% |
| 43 | Aspatria Cumbria | C− | 3.1 | 60% | 0.8 | 1% |
| 44 | Great Blakenham Suffolk | C− | 3.6 | 70% | 1.5 | 0% |
| 45 | Rudgwick West Sussex | C− | 2.5 | 16% | 3.1 | 0% |
| 46 | Meriden West Midlands | C− | 1.8 | 70% | 2.6 | 0% |
| 47 | Lanner Cornwall | C− | 1.3 | 65% | 3.6 | 0% |
| 48 | Hatfield Woodhouse South Yorkshire | C− | 0.6 | 100% | 1.6 | 0% |
| 49 | Long Bennington Lincolnshire | C− | 1.6 | 82% | 1.9 | 0% |
| 50 | Wickham Hampshire | D | 0.8 | 26% | 2 | 13% |
| 51 | Morton Lincolnshire | D | 0.2 | 28% | 3 | 0% |
| 52 | Leconfield East Riding of Yorkshire | D− | 1.6 | 51% | 1.3 | 0% |
| 53 | Mattishall Norfolk | D− | 1.4 | 58% | 1.5 | 0% |
| 54 | Misterton Nottinghamshire | D− | 1.4 | 47% | 1.7 | 0% |
| 55 | Billinghay Lincolnshire | D− | 1.8 | 41% | 0.7 | 0% |
| 56 | Bozeat Northamptonshire | D− | 1.3 | 13% | 1.3 | 0% |
| 57 | Shenstone Staffordshire | D− | 1 | 55% | 1 | 0% |
| 58 | Cilfrew West Glamorgan | D− | 0.8 | 44% | 1.3 | 0% |
| 59 | Aslockton Nottinghamshire | D− | 1 | 11% | 1.4 | 0% |
| 60 | Ipplepen Devon | D− | 0.8 | 42% | 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 Longtown’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 Longtown
The biggest is Riverside Doilies Brae, 1.8 ha (4 acres). Directions go to the park’s nearest public entrance where Ordnance Survey maps one.
Close to home
How close Longtown’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 (100%)Further (0%)
Longtown100%
Villages its size75%
Cumbria towns84%
All UK towns83%
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 435 residents.
National Parks & National Landscapes
The Solway Coast National Landscape is 2.6 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
Protected landscape begins just outside the 5 km ring the Outdoors Grade measures, so Longtown scores 0% on it even though the Solway Coast National Landscape is 2.6 mi away. Northumberland National Park covers 1,051 km² and has been a National Park since 1957.
Footpaths & waymarked walks
Footpaths in and around Longtown
3 km of footpaths, bridleways and rights of way are mapped in Longtown and the kilometre around it, 0.1 km for every square kilometre (the typical UK town has 3.0).
No named walking route is mapped within 2 km of Longtown; 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.
When to get out
The best walking months in Longtown: May to July and 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) | 7.7 | 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 | 8 | 10 | 13 | 16 | 18 | 20 | 20 | 18 | 14 | 10 | 7 |
| Rain (mm) | 85 | 70 | 65 | 54 | 59 | 72 | 83 | 95 | 80 | 100 | 89 | 97 |
April is the driest month (54 mm) and July the warmest (highs of 20 °C). Winter days are short, about 7 hours of daylight in December, and 100 mm of rain falls in October, the wettest month. Frost comes on about 47 nights a year. The climate in Longtown →
Things to do
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
Playgrounds 5
Plus 5 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.
GretnaHoughtonCarlisleScotbyWarwick BridgeWetheralLongtown
ABCDOutdoors Grade
Carlisle, 8.4 miles away, grades A−, the best next door: 91% of its residents live within 400 m of a park.
Questions about the outdoors in Longtown
What is the biggest park in Longtown?
Riverside Doilies Brae, 1.8 ha (4 acres), with 0.6 km of path. 1 named park, garden or playing field is in the village or within 400 m of it.
Is Longtown near a National Park?
Yes. Northumberland National Park begins 14 mi east of the village’s edge. It covers 1,051 km² and has been a National Park since 1957. The nearest protected landscape of any kind is the Solway Coast National Landscape, 2.6 mi away.
How many people in Longtown live near a park?
100% 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 Longtown?
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.
Is Longtown good for walking?
Paths are thinner than most towns: 0.1 km of footpath and right of way per square kilometre, more than 0% of UK towns. For park space per person it beats 84% (4.3 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 Longtown’s overall grade.
Sources
Where Longtown’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.