Silloth’s biggest
The Green
Park or garden
14 ha (35 acres)1.8 km of path
25 minto walk all 1.8 km of path
20 pitchesfootball pitches would fit
Centralin the middle of Silloth
3 playgrounds
Directionsto the nearest entrance
Photo: Rod Grealish · CC BY-SA 2.0A+Outdoors Grade
Outdoors in Silloth · parks, paths & countryside
Silloth is on the coast, on the King Charles III England Coast Path
The sea makes up 53% of the area within 5 km. The Solway Coast National Landscape reaches the edge of Silloth. Parks and playing fields in Silloth add up to 7.3 ha for every 1,000 residents; the typical UK town has 2.1. Silloth grades A+ for the outdoors: #3 of 23 in Cumbria. A character grade: it isn’t part of the overall grade.
Green space
7.3 ha
per 1,000 residents
Typical UK town 2.1
Near a park
100%
of residents within 400 m
Typical UK town 83%
Footpaths
25 km
1.4 km per km², town + 1 km
Typical UK town 3.0 per km²
Protected landscape
17%
of the land within 5 km
Nearest: Solway Coast National Landscape
The sea
53%
of the area within 5 km
A coastal town
Character
What kind of outdoors town is Silloth?
Read from the data: what stands out first, good and bad.
On the coast53% of the area within 5 km is sea; 1 beach mapped.Room to roam7.3 ha of parks and playing fields per 1,000 residents, more than 92% of UK towns.A park on every doorstep100% of residents live within 400 m of a park or playing field.Few mapped footpaths1.4 km of path per km²; the typical UK town has 3.0.
Silloth’s strongest suit is the sea, followed by plenty of park space. Where it falls short is footpaths.
Outdoors grade
Silloth grades A+ for the outdoors
Each chart is every UK town of 1,000 or more on one measure: the green bar is Silloth, 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 97% of UK towns#3 of 23 in Cumbria · 4th of 60 UK towns its size
Public green space7.3 haper 1,000 residents: parks, gardens, playing fields, play spaces
93out 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 Landscape17%of the land within 5 km
76out of
100
100
Footpaths1.4 kmper km², the town and 1 km around it
15out of
100
100
The sea53%of the area within 5 km
99out 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
Silloth is 4th of 60 UK towns its size for the outdoors
The 60 UK towns and cities of 2,400 to 2,600 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
Silloth1.4
Towns its size2.4
Cumbria towns2.1
All UK towns3.0
Green space, ha per 1,000 residents
Silloth7.3
Towns its size2.2
Cumbria towns2.0
All UK towns2.1
Residents within 400 m of a park
Silloth100%
Towns its size86%
Cumbria towns84%
All UK towns83%
Against towns its size, Silloth stands out most for park space per resident: only 7 of the other 59 have more. It falls furthest behind on path per km², where 48 of the others do better.
Show as a table
| Town | Outdoors | Green space | Near a park | Path per km² | Protected | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Petworth West Sussex | A+ | 29.6 | 100% | 4.1 | 93% |
| 2 | Tywardreath Cornwall | A+ | 4.6 | 100% | 2.5 | 26% |
| 3 | Shalford Surrey | A+ | 14.9 | 89% | 4.8 | 47% |
| 4 | Silloth Cumbria | A+ | 7.3 | 100% | 1.4 | 17% |
| 5 | Hopton on Sea Norfolk | A+ | 6.7 | 100% | 1.6 | 2% |
| 6 | Binley Woods Warwickshire | A | 5.5 | 100% | 4.3 | 0% |
| 7 | Rowhedge Essex | A | 1.6 | 100% | 6.4 | 0% |
| 8 | Maple Cross Hertfordshire | A | 3.1 | 100% | 2.9 | 14% |
| 9 | Hawley Hampshire | A | 6.9 | 92% | 5.8 | 0% |
| 10 | Chopwell Tyne and Wear | A | 7.5 | 100% | 3.4 | 0% |
| 11 | Longford Gloucestershire | A | 11.9 | 100% | 3.3 | 0% |
| 12 | Darenth Kent | A− | 1.8 | 100% | 4.3 | 1% |
| 13 | Drybrook Gloucestershire | A− | 3.9 | 83% | 3.4 | 10% |
| 14 | South Anston South Yorkshire | A− | 3.5 | 100% | 3.4 | 0% |
| 15 | Stewartby Bedfordshire | A− | 21 | 100% | 2.4 | 0% |
| 16 | Saundersfoot Dyfed | A− | 10.2 | 69% | 0.9 | 19% |
| 17 | Porthmadog Gwynedd | B+ | 0.9 | 94% | 2 | 41% |
| 18 | Thornley County Durham | B+ | 3.2 | 100% | 2.9 | 0% |
| 19 | Witton Gilbert County Durham | B+ | 2.1 | 100% | 3.9 | 0% |
| 20 | Craven Arms Shropshire | B | 1.3 | 87% | 2.9 | 59% |
| 21 | Barlestone Leicestershire | B | 3 | 100% | 2.3 | 0% |
| 22 | Oakley Bedfordshire | B | 3.2 | 100% | 2 | 0% |
| 23 | Pannal North Yorkshire | B− | 3.7 | 77% | 3 | 0% |
| 24 | Coundon and Leeholme County Durham | B− | 4.4 | 100% | 1 | 0% |
| 25 | Brewood Staffordshire | B− | 3 | 100% | 1.6 | 0% |
| 26 | Kelvedon Hatch Essex | B− | 7.3 | 77% | 2.5 | 0% |
| 27 | Seer Green Buckinghamshire | B− | 1.7 | 38% | 3.8 | 35% |
| 28 | Grimsargh Lancashire | B− | 2.6 | 67% | 2.8 | 2% |
| 29 | Ash Green Warwickshire | B− | 3.4 | 67% | 3.6 | 0% |
| 30 | Timsbury Somerset | B− | 2.7 | 68% | 4.1 | 0% |
| 31 | Bishop's Itchington Warwickshire | C+ | 1.5 | 100% | 2.8 | 0% |
| 32 | Crossways Dorset | C+ | 0.5 | 100% | 1.8 | 22% |
| 33 | Shepley West Yorkshire | C+ | 1.6 | 87% | 3.5 | 0% |
| 34 | Widdrington Station Northumberland | C+ | 1 | 88% | 2.4 | 0% |
| 35 | Caton Lancashire | C+ | 1.2 | 72% | 2.2 | 67% |
| 36 | Steeple Claydon Buckinghamshire | C+ | 1.5 | 100% | 2.2 | 0% |
| 37 | Stratton Gloucestershire | C | 0.7 | 46% | 3.3 | 70% |
| 38 | Great Houghton South Yorkshire | C | 1.8 | 100% | 1.7 | 0% |
| 39 | Heage Derbyshire | C | 1.9 | 78% | 3.1 | 0% |
| 40 | Watlington Norfolk | C | 2.3 | 100% | 0.6 | 0% |
| 41 | Llandybie Dyfed | C | 2.6 | 59% | 1.2 | 13% |
| 42 | Laleham Surrey | C | 9.8 | 34% | 2.1 | 0% |
| 43 | Ash (Dover) Kent | C | 2.3 | 72% | 2.4 | 0% |
| 44 | Hatton Derbyshire | C− | 3.3 | 61% | 1.7 | 0% |
| 45 | Loggerheads Staffordshire | C− | 1.2 | 86% | 2.1 | 0% |
| 46 | Cwm Gwent | C− | 2 | 12% | 3.1 | 0% |
| 47 | Cliffe Kent | C− | 1.1 | 55% | 1.9 | 0% |
| 48 | Probus Cornwall | C− | 0.6 | 75% | 1.5 | 15% |
| 49 | East Harling Norfolk | D | 1.7 | 85% | 0.9 | 0% |
| 50 | Lampeter Dyfed | D | 1.5 | 88% | 0.9 | 0% |
| 51 | Long Crendon Buckinghamshire | D | 1.4 | 86% | 0.8 | 0% |
| 52 | Mawsley Village Northamptonshire | D | 1.5 | 71% | 2 | 0% |
| 53 | Fordham Cambridgeshire | D | 2.3 | 35% | 1.7 | 0% |
| 54 | Long Itchington Warwickshire | D | 2.1 | 45% | 1.7 | 0% |
| 55 | Clophill Bedfordshire | D | 0.7 | 41% | 3.1 | 0% |
| 56 | Silverstone Northamptonshire | D | 1.1 | 0% | 2.8 | 0% |
| 57 | Holme upon Spalding Moor East Riding of Yorkshire | D− | 1.5 | 41% | 0.8 | 0% |
| 58 | Nafferton East Riding of Yorkshire | D− | 1.3 | 56% | 0.6 | 0% |
| 59 | Rhos West Glamorgan | D− | 1 | 58% | 0.8 | 0% |
| 60 | Cranwell Lincolnshire | D− | 0.5 | 57% | 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 Silloth’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 Silloth
The biggest is The Green, 14 ha (35 acres). Directions go to the park’s nearest public entrance where Ordnance Survey maps one.
Close to home
Everyone in Silloth 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%)
Silloth100%
Towns its size86%
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 town, about one for every 508 residents.
National Parks & National Landscapes
National Parks and National Landscapes around Silloth
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 east123 km²since 196417% of the land within 5 km
Official site17% of the land within 5 km of Silloth is National Park or National Landscape, more than 75% of UK towns. Lake District National Park covers 2,362 km² and has been a National Park since 1951.
Footpaths & waymarked walks
Silloth is on the King Charles III England Coast Path
25 km of footpaths, bridleways and rights of way are mapped in Silloth and the kilometre around it, 1.4 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: Gretna to Allonby13.4 km
The King Charles III England Coast Path, a national route, passes Silloth.
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 Silloth: 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 | 10.3 | 8.3 | 7.2 |
| High (°C) | 8 | 8 | 10 | 12 | 15 | 18 | 19 | 19 | 17 | 14 | 11 | 8 |
| Rain (mm) | 89 | 72 | 65 | 51 | 57 | 71 | 80 | 89 | 81 | 106 | 94 | 95 |
April is the driest month (51 mm) and July the warmest (highs of 19 °C). Winter days are short, about 7 hours of daylight in December, and 106 mm of rain falls in October, the wettest month. Frost comes on about 30 nights a year. The climate in Silloth →
The coast
The coast and beaches near Silloth
53% of the area within 5 km of Silloth is sea. 1 beach is 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.
Things to do
5 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
North Hill14 m (46 ft) · 1.0 mi from town
DirectionsNature reserves 1
Grune Point Nature Reserve162 ha · 0.8 mi from town
DirectionsPlaygrounds 5
Eden Street Play Areain town
DirectionsMulti Use Games Areain town
DirectionsPirate Ship Play Area0.0 mi from town
DirectionsWater Splash Pad0.0 mi from town
DirectionsWoodland Adventure Play Area0.0 mi from town
DirectionsCampsites 1
Stanwix Park holiday Centrein town
DirectionsNext door
The outdoors in nearby towns
The nearest towns of 1,000+ within 12 miles. Tap a town for its outdoors page.
AspatriaWigtonAnnanDearhamMaryportSilloth
ABCDOutdoors Grade
Silloth grades higher for the outdoors than every neighbour in the table.
Questions about the outdoors in Silloth
What is the biggest park in Silloth?
The Green, 14 ha (35 acres), with 1.8 km of path. 1 named park, garden or playing field is in the town or within 400 m of it.
Is Silloth near a National Park?
Yes. Lake District National Park begins 9.8 mi south 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 Silloth?
1 waymarked walking route passes within 2 km of the town, including the King Charles III England Coast Path: Gretna to Allonby.
How many people in Silloth 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 Silloth?
May to September: the longest days, the warmest afternoons and the least rain of the year, from the Met Office 1991–2020 averages.
Is Silloth good for walking?
Paths are thinner than most towns: 1.4 km of footpath and right of way per square kilometre, more than 15% of UK towns. For park space per person it beats 93% (7.3 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 Silloth’s overall grade.
Sources
Where Silloth’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.