Seaton’s biggest
Lonsdale Park
Park or garden · 20 m outside town
7.4 ha (18 acres)
10 pitchesfootball pitches would fit
1.1 mi south-westfrom the centre
Directionsto the nearest entrance
Photo: Alexander P Kapp · CC BY-SA 2.0B+Outdoors Grade
Outdoors in Seaton · parks, paths & countryside
Seaton is on the coast, on the King Charles III England Coast Path
The sea makes up 34% of the area within 5 km. The Solway Coast National Landscape begins 3.5 mi from the town’s edge. A park or playing field is within a 5-minute walk for 87% of residents. Seaton grades B+ for the outdoors: #10 of 23 in Cumbria. A character grade: it isn’t part of the overall grade.
Green space
2.5 ha
per 1,000 residents
Typical UK town 2.1
Near a park
87%
of residents within 400 m
Typical UK town 83%
Footpaths
33 km
2.6 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 3.5 mi out, past the 5 km
The sea
34%
of the area within 5 km
A coastal town
Character
What kind of outdoors town is Seaton?
Read from the data: what stands out first, good and bad.
On the coast34% of the area within 5 km is sea.Countryside both waysSolway Coast starts 3.5 mi north, Lake District 5.4 mi south-east.On a National TrailThe King Charles III England Coast Path passes through.
Seaton’s strongest suit is the sea, followed by two protected landscapes close by.
Outdoors grade
Seaton grades B+ for the outdoors
Each chart is every UK town of 1,000 or more on one measure: the green bar is Seaton, 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 72% of UK towns#10 of 23 in Cumbria · 18th of 60 UK towns its size
Public green space2.5 haper 1,000 residents: parks, gardens, playing fields, play spaces
59out of
100
100
A park within a walk87%of residents within 400 m (a 5-minute walk)
62out of
100
100
National Park or National Landscape0%of the land within 5 km · Solway Coast begins just past 5 km
31out of
100
100
Footpaths2.6 kmper km², the town and 1 km around it
48out of
100
100
The sea34%of the area within 5 km
94out 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
Seaton is 18th of 60 UK towns its size for the outdoors
The 60 UK towns and cities of 4,900 to 5,200 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
Seaton2.6
Towns its size2.6
Cumbria towns2.1
All UK towns3.0
Green space, ha per 1,000 residents
Seaton2.5
Towns its size2.5
Cumbria towns2.0
All UK towns2.1
Residents within 400 m of a park
Seaton87%
Towns its size75%
Cumbria towns84%
All UK towns83%
Against towns its size, Seaton stands out most for homes near a park: only 17 of the other 59 have more.
Show as a table
| Town | Outdoors | Green space | Near a park | Path per km² | Protected | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Pill Somerset | A+ | 5.2 | 100% | 3.8 | 0% |
| 2 | Whitehill Hampshire | A+ | 10.2 | 74% | 5.1 | 58% |
| 3 | Hungerford Berkshire | A+ | 9.1 | 85% | 3.2 | 100% |
| 4 | Burry Port Dyfed | A+ | 11.8 | 75% | 2.8 | 17% |
| 5 | Moreton-in-Marsh Gloucestershire | A | 5 | 100% | 1.8 | 55% |
| 6 | Rhymney Gwent | A | 2.9 | 97% | 3.8 | 6% |
| 7 | Meols Merseyside | A | 3.1 | 100% | 2.2 | 0% |
| 8 | Holmfirth West Yorkshire | A | 2.2 | 88% | 4.6 | 27% |
| 9 | Fitzwilliam and Kinsley West Yorkshire | A− | 11.5 | 100% | 3 | 0% |
| 10 | Joyden's Wood Kent | A− | 2.7 | 82% | 5.6 | 4% |
| 11 | Fordingbridge Hampshire | A− | 3.6 | 92% | 2 | 56% |
| 12 | Coleford Gloucestershire | A− | 2.8 | 66% | 4.3 | 48% |
| 13 | Elvetham Heath Hampshire | A− | 8.7 | 100% | 2.8 | 0% |
| 14 | Needham Market Suffolk | A− | 7.2 | 88% | 4 | 0% |
| 15 | Overseal and Castle Gresley Derbyshire | A− | 2.5 | 100% | 4.4 | 0% |
| 16 | Northam Devon | A− | 6.8 | 43% | 2 | 16% |
| 17 | Huthwaite Nottinghamshire | B+ | 8.1 | 75% | 4.9 | 0% |
| 18 | Seaton Cumbria | B+ | 2.5 | 87% | 2.6 | 0% |
| 19 | Cranbrook Devon | B+ | 6.4 | 87% | 1.9 | 1% |
| 20 | Hildenborough Kent | B+ | 6.5 | 40% | 2.8 | 46% |
| 21 | Long Ashton Somerset | B+ | 10.2 | 66% | 4.7 | 0% |
| 22 | Stone Cross East Sussex | B+ | 1.4 | 86% | 2.3 | 9% |
| 23 | Aspull Greater Manchester | B | 7.6 | 92% | 2.4 | 0% |
| 24 | Easingwold North Yorkshire | B | 4.3 | 86% | 1.5 | 14% |
| 25 | Grimethorpe South Yorkshire | B | 2.5 | 100% | 2.8 | 0% |
| 26 | Market Rasen Lincolnshire | B | 2.6 | 94% | 1.6 | 16% |
| 27 | Sedgefield County Durham | B | 6.2 | 81% | 2.8 | 0% |
| 28 | Redbourn Hertfordshire | B | 2.4 | 70% | 3.2 | 11% |
| 29 | Iver Heath Buckinghamshire | B | 28.9 | 53% | 3.8 | 0% |
| 30 | Headley Down and Headley Hampshire | B | 2.1 | 55% | 3.4 | 44% |
| 31 | Virginia Water Surrey | B | 14.5 | 72% | 3 | 0% |
| 32 | Abercarn Gwent | B− | 3 | 100% | 1.8 | 0% |
| 33 | Whitburn Tyne and Wear | B− | 2.5 | 46% | 2.5 | 0% |
| 34 | Wotton-under-Edge Gloucestershire | C+ | 0.4 | 32% | 5.4 | 60% |
| 35 | Wool Dorset | C+ | 2.3 | 51% | 2.5 | 33% |
| 36 | Sacriston County Durham | C+ | 2.1 | 72% | 4 | 0% |
| 37 | Steeton West Yorkshire | C+ | 1.3 | 100% | 2.7 | 0% |
| 38 | Moulton Northamptonshire | C+ | 3.3 | 88% | 1.7 | 0% |
| 39 | Barton-le-Clay Bedfordshire | C+ | 1.3 | 43% | 3.2 | 38% |
| 40 | Church Lancashire | C | 1.5 | 79% | 3.9 | 0% |
| 41 | Billinge Merseyside | C | 0.9 | 94% | 3 | 0% |
| 42 | Treharris Mid Glamorgan | C | 2.6 | 72% | 2.6 | 0% |
| 43 | Copthorne West Sussex | C | 1.2 | 62% | 2.9 | 13% |
| 44 | Bungay Suffolk | C | 0.5 | 78% | 2.6 | 12% |
| 45 | Sutton on Sea and Trusthorpe Lincolnshire | C | 1.8 | 67% | 1.5 | 0% |
| 46 | Odiham Hampshire | C | 1.9 | 72% | 2.8 | 0% |
| 47 | Jaywick Essex | C− | 1.1 | 75% | 1.4 | 0% |
| 48 | Shavington Cheshire | C− | 1.1 | 87% | 2.1 | 0% |
| 49 | Halesworth Suffolk | C− | 1.4 | 55% | 1.9 | 5% |
| 50 | Haslington Cheshire | D | 1.8 | 41% | 2.6 | 0% |
| 51 | Gresford Clwyd | D | 1.4 | 76% | 1.8 | 0% |
| 52 | Fleckney Leicestershire | D | 0.8 | 63% | 2.3 | 0% |
| 53 | Moorends South Yorkshire | D | 2.2 | 39% | 0.8 | 0% |
| 54 | Lepton West Yorkshire | D− | 0.9 | 36% | 2.3 | 0% |
| 55 | Wingate County Durham | D− | 1 | 64% | 1.5 | 0% |
| 56 | Harleston Norfolk | D− | 0.2 | 42% | 2.2 | 0% |
| 57 | Bulford Wiltshire | D− | 0.9 | 51% | 1.6 | 0% |
| 58 | Appley Bridge Greater Manchester | D− | 0.5 | 44% | 1.8 | 0% |
| 59 | Shotton Colliery County Durham | D− | 0.9 | 40% | 1.5 | 0% |
| 60 | Somerton Somerset | D− | 0.6 | 48% | 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 Seaton’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 Seaton
The biggest is Lonsdale Park, 7.4 ha (18 acres). Directions go to the park’s nearest public entrance where Ordnance Survey maps one.
Springfield
Playing field
1.2 ha (3 acres)
2 pitchesfootball pitches would fit
Centralin the middle of Seaton
Directionsto the nearest entrance
Close to home
9 in 10 Seaton 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 (87%)Further (13%)
Seaton87%
Towns its size75%
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; 14 playgrounds are mapped in and around the town, about one for every 361 residents.
National Parks & National Landscapes
Solway Coast and Lake District both start about 5 miles from Seaton
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 Seaton scores 0% on it even though the Solway Coast National Landscape is 3.5 mi away. Lake District National Park covers 2,362 km² and has been a National Park since 1951.
Footpaths & waymarked walks
Seaton is on the King Charles III England Coast Path
33 km of footpaths, bridleways and rights of way are mapped in Seaton and the kilometre around it, 2.6 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 Whitehaven8.7 km
The King Charles III England Coast Path, a national route, passes Seaton.
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 Seaton: 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) | 8 | 8 | 10 | 13 | 16 | 18 | 19 | 19 | 17 | 14 | 10 | 8 |
| Rain (mm) | 98 | 82 | 79 | 56 | 64 | 69 | 85 | 94 | 94 | 128 | 113 | 117 |
April is the driest month (56 mm) and July the warmest (highs of 19 °C). Winter days are short, about 7 hours of daylight in December, and 128 mm of rain falls in October, the wettest month. Frost comes on about 40 nights a year. The climate in Seaton →
The coast
The coast and beaches near Seaton
34% of the area within 5 km of Seaton 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
14 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
Picnic sites 2
Plus 2 picnic sites without a name on the map.
Playgrounds 14
Plus 14 playgrounds without a name on the map.
Slipways 1
Plus 1 slipway 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.
StainburnFlimbyWorkingtonHigh HarringtonGreat Broughton and Little BroughtonMaryportSeaton
ABCDOutdoors Grade
| Town | Outdoors | Green space, ha per 1,000 | Near a park | Protected within 5 km |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Seaton | B+ | 2.5 | 87% | 0% |
| Stainburn 1.2 mi | C− | 0.1 | 72% | 0% |
| Flimby 2.1 mi | A | 1.7 | 100% | 2% |
| Workington 2.2 mi | A− | 3.0 | 97% | 0% |
| High Harrington 3.2 mi | C+ | 0.5 | 100% | 0% |
| Great Broughton and Little Broughton 3.7 mi | C | 1.2 | 85% | 1% |
| Maryport 3.7 mi | A− | 1.4 | 100% | 5% |
Flimby, 2.1 miles away, grades A, the best next door: every resident lives within 400 m of a park.
Questions about the outdoors in Seaton
What is the biggest park in Seaton?
Lonsdale Park, 7.4 ha (18 acres), just outside the built-up area. Springfield (1.2 ha) is second. 2 named parks, gardens and playing fields are in the town or within 400 m of it.
Is Seaton near a National Park?
Yes. Lake District National Park begins 5.4 mi south-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, 3.5 mi away.
What are the best walks near Seaton?
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 Seaton live near a park?
87% 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 Seaton?
May to September: the longest days, the warmest afternoons and the least rain of the year, from the Met Office 1991–2020 averages.
Is Seaton good for walking?
About average for paths: 2.6 km of footpath and right of way per square kilometre, more than 48% of UK towns. For park space per person it beats 59% (2.5 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 Seaton’s overall grade.
Sources
Where Seaton’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.