Maryport’s biggest
The Green
Playing field
0.7 ha (2 acres)
0.5 mi eastfrom the centre
Directionsto the nearest entrance
Photo: Peter Wood · CC BY-SA 2.0A−Outdoors Grade
Outdoors in Maryport · parks, paths & countryside
Maryport is on the coast, on the King Charles III England Coast Path
The sea makes up 46% of the area within 5 km. The Solway Coast National Landscape reaches the edge of Maryport. Parks and playing fields in Maryport add up to 1.4 ha for every 1,000 residents; the typical UK town has 2.1. Maryport grades A− for the outdoors: #6 of 23 in Cumbria. A character grade: it isn’t part of the overall grade.
Green space
1.4 ha
per 1,000 residents
Typical UK town 2.1
Near a park
100%
of residents within 400 m
Typical UK town 83%
Footpaths
35 km
2.4 km per km², town + 1 km
Typical UK town 3.0 per km²
Protected landscape
5%
of the land within 5 km
Nearest: Solway Coast National Landscape
The sea
46%
of the area within 5 km
A coastal town
Character
What kind of outdoors town is Maryport?
Read from the data: what stands out first, good and bad.
On the coast46% of the area within 5 km is sea.A park on every doorstep100% of residents live within 400 m of a park or playing field.Countryside both waysSolway Coast starts 0.0 mi north, Lake District 5.0 mi east.Less park per person1.4 ha of parks and playing fields per 1,000 residents; the typical UK town has 2.1.
Maryport’s strongest suit is the sea, followed by parks close to every home. Where it falls short is park space per person.
Outdoors grade
Maryport grades A− for the outdoors
Each chart is every UK town of 1,000 or more on one measure: the green bar is Maryport, the dashed line the typical town. The number is the share of towns it beats; the five are averaged and the average ranked again.
A−
Better than 85% of UK towns#6 of 23 in Cumbria · 15th of 60 UK towns its size
Public green space1.4 haper 1,000 residents: parks, gardens, playing fields, play spaces
23out 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 Landscape5%of the land within 5 km
68out of
100
100
Footpaths2.4 kmper km², the town and 1 km around it
43out of
100
100
The sea46%of the area within 5 km
98out 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
Maryport is 15th of 60 UK towns its size for the outdoors
The 60 UK towns and cities of 8,100 to 8,900 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
Maryport2.4
Towns its size2.9
Cumbria towns2.1
All UK towns3.0
Green space, ha per 1,000 residents
Maryport1.4
Towns its size2.3
Cumbria towns2.0
All UK towns2.1
Residents within 400 m of a park
Maryport100%
Towns its size85%
Cumbria towns84%
All UK towns83%
Against towns its size, Maryport stands out most for homes near a park: none of the other 59 has more. It falls furthest behind on park space per resident, where 45 of the others do better.
Show as a table
| Town | Outdoors | Green space | Near a park | Path per km² | Protected | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Upton Dorset | A+ | 9.1 | 84% | 4.7 | 18% |
| 2 | Hawkinge Kent | A+ | 2.6 | 100% | 3.2 | 74% |
| 3 | Pool and Illogan Cornwall | A+ | 3.7 | 81% | 4 | 5% |
| 4 | Ecclesfield and Grenoside South Yorkshire | A+ | 5.1 | 94% | 5.2 | 2% |
| 5 | Stakeford Northumberland | A+ | 10 | 100% | 2.9 | 0% |
| 6 | Worsbrough South Yorkshire | A | 10.1 | 100% | 6 | 0% |
| 7 | Storrington West Sussex | A | 5.5 | 85% | 3.2 | 54% |
| 8 | Wallingford Oxfordshire | A | 3.1 | 85% | 3.7 | 61% |
| 9 | East Cowes Isle of Wight | A | 1.4 | 96% | 3 | 8% |
| 10 | Brecon Powys | A | 3.2 | 86% | 3.2 | 61% |
| 11 | Ledbury Herefordshire | A | 3.3 | 89% | 3.1 | 34% |
| 12 | Penistone South Yorkshire | A | 2.6 | 97% | 3.9 | 9% |
| 13 | Bearsted Kent | A | 5.5 | 76% | 3.5 | 39% |
| 14 | Stonehouse Gloucestershire | A | 1.8 | 94% | 4.6 | 36% |
| 15 | Maryport Cumbria | A− | 1.4 | 100% | 2.4 | 5% |
| 16 | Brightlingsea Essex | A− | 3 | 97% | 2.4 | 0% |
| 17 | Ryton Tyne and Wear | A− | 5.5 | 85% | 5.1 | 0% |
| 18 | Alfreton Derbyshire | B+ | 4.3 | 100% | 2.7 | 0% |
| 19 | Longridge Lancashire | B+ | 1.9 | 89% | 3 | 32% |
| 20 | Coppull Lancashire | B+ | 4.6 | 85% | 3.7 | 0% |
| 21 | Hadleigh Suffolk | B+ | 2.6 | 87% | 2.7 | 10% |
| 22 | Higham Ferrers Northamptonshire | B+ | 3.5 | 93% | 3.3 | 0% |
| 23 | Cinderford Gloucestershire | B+ | 1.7 | 80% | 4.7 | 4% |
| 24 | Pershore Worcestershire | B | 2.7 | 76% | 3.2 | 7% |
| 25 | Ashbourne Derbyshire | B | 1.9 | 92% | 2.7 | 14% |
| 26 | Cockermouth Cumbria | B | 2.6 | 81% | 2.2 | 42% |
| 27 | Ampthill Bedfordshire | B | 6.8 | 71% | 3.9 | 0% |
| 28 | South Kirkby West Yorkshire | B | 3 | 97% | 2.7 | 0% |
| 29 | Marlborough Wiltshire | B | 1.2 | 72% | 3.8 | 100% |
| 30 | Abergele Clwyd | B | 2.9 | 78% | 2.1 | 0% |
| 31 | Wendover Buckinghamshire | B | 1 | 58% | 5.6 | 60% |
| 32 | Hornsea East Riding of Yorkshire | B− | 2.7 | 90% | 0.6 | 0% |
| 33 | Alnwick Northumberland | B− | 2.2 | 67% | 3.4 | 7% |
| 34 | Meltham West Yorkshire | B− | 1 | 63% | 5.3 | 27% |
| 35 | Stansted Mountfitchet Essex | B− | 0.8 | 96% | 4.7 | 0% |
| 36 | West End and Chobham Surrey | B− | 3.3 | 65% | 3.6 | 0% |
| 37 | Hoo St Werburgh Kent | C+ | 1.4 | 92% | 1.9 | 0% |
| 38 | Fakenham Norfolk | C+ | 5.2 | 81% | 2 | 0% |
| 39 | Bewdley Worcestershire | C+ | 1.7 | 88% | 3.3 | 0% |
| 40 | Atherstone Warwickshire | C+ | 2.7 | 88% | 2 | 0% |
| 41 | Ammanford Dyfed | C+ | 2.8 | 70% | 1.5 | 9% |
| 42 | Brinsworth South Yorkshire | C | 1.3 | 76% | 4.5 | 0% |
| 43 | Faringdon Oxfordshire | C | 1.3 | 94% | 2.5 | 0% |
| 44 | Silsden West Yorkshire | C | 0.8 | 67% | 3.5 | 1% |
| 45 | Rothwell Northamptonshire | C | 2.2 | 91% | 1.5 | 0% |
| 46 | Burscough Lancashire | C | 2.6 | 76% | 2.1 | 0% |
| 47 | Sherburn in Elmet North Yorkshire | C− | 1.8 | 93% | 1.4 | 0% |
| 48 | Ferryhill County Durham | C− | 1.5 | 94% | 1.7 | 0% |
| 49 | Glastonbury Somerset | C− | 2 | 69% | 2.6 | 0% |
| 50 | Hilton Derbyshire | C− | 1.1 | 89% | 2.4 | 0% |
| 51 | East Leake Nottinghamshire | C− | 2.4 | 68% | 2.1 | 0% |
| 52 | Launceston Cornwall | C− | 2.1 | 66% | 0.9 | 1% |
| 53 | Penkridge Staffordshire | C− | 0.8 | 70% | 2.1 | 7% |
| 54 | Adlington Lancashire | C− | 1.3 | 64% | 3.1 | 0% |
| 55 | Swaffham Norfolk | D | 1 | 68% | 2.6 | 0% |
| 56 | Holbeach Lincolnshire | D | 1 | 91% | 0.5 | 0% |
| 57 | Ashford Common Surrey | D | 0.8 | 62% | 2.5 | 0% |
| 58 | Tarleton and Hesketh Bank Lancashire | D | 1.5 | 63% | 1.7 | 0% |
| 59 | Coxheath Kent | D | 1.2 | 48% | 2.4 | 0% |
| 60 | Clydach West Glamorgan | D | 1.7 | 68% | 0.8 | 0% |
The map
Parks, footpaths & countryside
Tap a number to zoom to a park. Tap a layer to hide it. The dashed line is Maryport’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 Maryport
The biggest is The Green, 0.7 ha (2 acres). Directions go to the park’s nearest public entrance where Ordnance Survey maps one.
Close to home
Everyone in Maryport lives 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 (100%)Further (0%)
Maryport100%
Towns its size85%
Cumbria towns84%
All UK towns83%
Playing fields count, so a park within reach isn’t always one with paths or trees; 10 playgrounds are mapped in and around the town, about one for every 853 residents.
National Parks & National Landscapes
Solway Coast and Lake District both start about 5 miles from Maryport
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 Landscape
Solway Coast
At the edge north123 km²since 19645% of the land within 5 km
Official site5% of the land within 5 km of Maryport is National Park or National Landscape, more than 67% of UK towns. Lake District National Park covers 2,362 km² and has been a National Park since 1951.
Footpaths & waymarked walks
Maryport is on the King Charles III England Coast Path
35 km of footpaths, bridleways and rights of way are mapped in Maryport and the kilometre around it, 2.4 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
King Charles III England Coast Path: Allonby to Whitehaven7.5 km
The King Charles III England Coast Path, a national route, passes Maryport.
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 Maryport: 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 | 16.1 | 17.3 | 16.8 | 14.9 | 12.6 | 10.4 | 8.3 | 7.3 |
| High (°C) | 7 | 8 | 9 | 12 | 15 | 17 | 19 | 19 | 17 | 14 | 10 | 8 |
| Rain (mm) | 100 | 79 | 73 | 57 | 62 | 73 | 83 | 93 | 90 | 120 | 109 | 107 |
April is the driest month (57 mm) and July the warmest (highs of 19 °C). Winter days are short, about 7 hours of daylight in December, and 120 mm of rain falls in October, the wettest month. Frost comes on about 40 nights a year. The climate in Maryport →
The coast
The coast and beaches near Maryport
46% of the area within 5 km of Maryport is sea.
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.
Things to do
10 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
Hills and peaks 1
Alavna Hill56 m (184 ft) · 0.1 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.
DearhamFlimbyGreat Broughton and Little BroughtonSeatonStainburnWorkingtonMaryport
ABCDOutdoors Grade
| Town | Outdoors | Green space, ha per 1,000 | Near a park | Protected within 5 km |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Maryport | A− | 1.4 | 100% | 5% |
| Dearham 1.6 mi | C | 0.6 | 72% | 6% |
| Flimby 1.8 mi | A | 1.7 | 100% | 2% |
| Great Broughton and Little Broughton 3.5 mi | C | 1.2 | 85% | 1% |
| Seaton 3.7 mi | B+ | 2.5 | 87% | 0% |
| Stainburn 4.8 mi | C− | 0.1 | 72% | 0% |
| Workington 5.9 mi | A− | 3.0 | 97% | 0% |
Flimby, 1.8 miles away, grades A, the best next door: every resident lives within 400 m of a park. Workington has at least twice Maryport’s green space per resident.
Questions about the outdoors in Maryport
What is the biggest park in Maryport?
The Green, 0.7 ha (2 acres). 1 named park, garden or playing field is in the town or within 400 m of it.
Is Maryport near a National Park?
Yes. Lake District National Park begins 5.0 mi east of the town’s edge. It covers 2,362 km² and has been a National Park since 1951. The nearest protected landscape of any kind is the Solway Coast National Landscape, at the edge of the town.
What are the best walks near Maryport?
1 waymarked walking route passes within 2 km of the town, including the King Charles III England Coast Path: Allonby to Whitehaven.
How many people in Maryport 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 Maryport?
May to September: the longest days, the warmest afternoons and the least rain of the year, from the Met Office 1991–2020 averages.
Is Maryport good for walking?
About average for paths: 2.4 km of footpath and right of way per square kilometre, more than 43% of UK towns. For park space per person it beats 23% (1.4 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 Maryport’s overall grade.
Sources
Where Maryport’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.