Denby Bottles’ biggest
Drury Lowe Millenium Green
Park or garden
0.5 ha (1 acres)0.2 km of path
Centralin the middle of Denby Bottles
Millennium Green
Directionsto the nearest entrance
Photo: Michael Patterson · CC BY-SA 2.0BOutdoors Grade
Outdoors in Denby Bottles · parks, paths & countryside
Almost everyone in Denby Bottles lives within a 5-minute walk of a park
42 km of footpaths run through the village and the kilometre around it, 4.8 for every square kilometre. Parks and playing fields in Denby Bottles add up to 1.4 ha for every 1,000 residents; the typical UK town has 2.1. Denby Bottles grades B for the outdoors. 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
42 km
4.8 km per km², town + 1 km
Typical UK town 3.0 per km²
Protected landscape
0%
of the land within 5 km
Nearest: Peak District National Park
Character
What kind of outdoors village is Denby Bottles?
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.A village of footpaths4.8 km of path per km², more than 91% of UK towns. The typical town has 3.0.Less park per person1.4 ha of parks and playing fields per 1,000 residents; the typical UK town has 2.1.
Denby Bottles’ strongest suit is parks close to every home, followed by dense footpaths. Where it falls short is park space per person.
Outdoors grade
Denby Bottles grades B for the outdoors
Each chart is every UK town of 1,000 or more on one measure: the green bar is Denby Bottles, 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 towns16th of 60 UK villages 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 Landscape0%of the land within 5 km · None within 5 km
31out of
100
100
Footpaths4.8 kmper km², the town and 1 km around it
91out 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
Denby Bottles is 16th of 60 UK villages its size for the outdoors
The 60 UK towns and cities of 1,700 to 1,800 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
Denby Bottles4.8
Villages its size2.0
Derbyshire towns3.6
All UK towns3.0
Green space, ha per 1,000 residents
Denby Bottles1.4
Villages its size2.1
Derbyshire towns2.2
All UK towns2.1
Residents within 400 m of a park
Denby Bottles100%
Villages its size83%
Derbyshire towns86%
All UK towns83%
Against villages its size, Denby Bottles stands out most for path per km²: only 2 of the other 59 have more. It falls furthest behind on park space per resident, where 47 of the others do better.
Show as a table
| Town | Outdoors | Green space | Near a park | Path per km² | Protected | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Llanbadarn Fawr Dyfed | A+ | 14.7 | 82% | 5.3 | 0% |
| 2 | Wanborough Wiltshire | A+ | 6 | 100% | 2.7 | 45% |
| 3 | Woodbury Devon | A | 3.3 | 100% | 0.9 | 26% |
| 4 | Malvern Wells Worcestershire | A | 10.8 | 37% | 5.3 | 57% |
| 5 | Elstree Hertfordshire | A | 22 | 100% | 3.5 | 0% |
| 6 | Grain Kent | A | 13 | 100% | 1.1 | 0% |
| 7 | Upchurch Kent | A | 4 | 76% | 2.3 | 7% |
| 8 | New Hartley Northumberland | A− | 1.9 | 100% | 3.4 | 0% |
| 9 | Hamstreet Kent | A− | 2.3 | 100% | 3.4 | 0% |
| 10 | Wembdon Somerset | A− | 7.4 | 88% | 4.1 | 0% |
| 11 | Ingleton North Yorkshire | B+ | 1.5 | 100% | 2.5 | 54% |
| 12 | Harthill South Yorkshire | B+ | 3.6 | 100% | 2.9 | 0% |
| 13 | Pendlebury Greater Manchester | B+ | 18.5 | 74% | 4 | 0% |
| 14 | Eight Ash Green Essex | B+ | 8.2 | 80% | 3.4 | 0% |
| 15 | Criccieth Gwynedd | B | 2.9 | 75% | 1.3 | 4% |
| 16 | Denby Bottles Derbyshire | B | 1.4 | 100% | 4.8 | 0% |
| 17 | Rackheath Norfolk | B | 2.6 | 100% | 1 | 14% |
| 18 | South Hiendley West Yorkshire | B | 13.4 | 87% | 2.4 | 0% |
| 19 | North Benfleet Essex | B | 11 | 56% | 4 | 0% |
| 20 | East Bridgford Nottinghamshire | B− | 1.4 | 100% | 3.7 | 0% |
| 21 | Great Bentley Essex | B− | 6.4 | 100% | 1.1 | 0% |
| 22 | Delabole Cornwall | B− | 1.1 | 76% | 2 | 35% |
| 23 | Bryn Dyfed | B− | 2.9 | 67% | 1.4 | 1% |
| 24 | Blaengarw Mid Glamorgan | B− | 5 | 100% | 1.1 | 0% |
| 25 | Flockton West Yorkshire | B− | 2.4 | 100% | 2.2 | 0% |
| 26 | Winkfield Row Berkshire | B− | 11 | 80% | 2.2 | 0% |
| 27 | Much Wenlock Shropshire | B− | 2.4 | 13% | 3.6 | 20% |
| 28 | Summit Greater Manchester | B− | 1.9 | 100% | 2.5 | 0% |
| 29 | North Tawton Devon | B− | 2.9 | 100% | 1.5 | 0% |
| 30 | Dunvant West Glamorgan | C+ | 4.3 | 36% | 1.8 | 30% |
| 31 | Great Chesterford Essex | C+ | 2.5 | 100% | 1.5 | 0% |
| 32 | Cheddington Buckinghamshire | C+ | 2.2 | 35% | 3.1 | 16% |
| 33 | North Leigh Oxfordshire | C+ | 2.3 | 56% | 2.4 | 26% |
| 34 | Sharnbrook Bedfordshire | C+ | 1.6 | 100% | 2.3 | 0% |
| 35 | Kedington Suffolk | C+ | 3.3 | 83% | 2.1 | 0% |
| 36 | Bury Cambridgeshire | C+ | 1.1 | 100% | 2.7 | 0% |
| 37 | Duckmanton Derbyshire | C | 1.2 | 100% | 2.4 | 0% |
| 38 | Great Broughton and Little Broughton Cumbria | C | 1.2 | 85% | 2.3 | 1% |
| 39 | Doveridge Derbyshire | C | 1.7 | 100% | 1.6 | 0% |
| 40 | Bodelwyddan Clwyd | C | 1.9 | 100% | 0.8 | 0% |
| 41 | Shireoaks Nottinghamshire | C | 1.5 | 78% | 3.2 | 0% |
| 42 | Billington Lancashire | C− | 0.5 | 0% | 3.9 | 14% |
| 43 | Poyle Berkshire | C− | 0.7 | 100% | 2 | 0% |
| 44 | West Thorney West Sussex | C− | 0.4 | 0% | 0.9 | 55% |
| 45 | Deddington Oxfordshire | C− | 3.6 | 53% | 1.8 | 0% |
| 46 | Middle Barton Oxfordshire | C− | 1.9 | 81% | 1.8 | 0% |
| 47 | Elmstead Market Essex | C− | 1.1 | 100% | 1.2 | 0% |
| 48 | Pattingham Staffordshire | C− | 2 | 80% | 1.7 | 0% |
| 49 | Higher Kinnerton Clwyd | C− | 0.7 | 100% | 1.2 | 0% |
| 50 | Sudbrooke Lincolnshire | C− | 1.5 | 82% | 1.8 | 0% |
| 51 | Croft Leicestershire | C− | 1.4 | 84% | 1.8 | 0% |
| 52 | Charminster Dorset | D | 0.3 | 0% | 2 | 56% |
| 53 | Glinton Cambridgeshire | D | 1.3 | 79% | 1.8 | 0% |
| 54 | Frizington Cumbria | D | 1.4 | 52% | 0.9 | 15% |
| 55 | Aiskew North Yorkshire | D | 1.5 | 71% | 1.8 | 0% |
| 56 | Houghton on the Hill Leicestershire | D | 1.8 | 60% | 1.7 | 0% |
| 57 | Thorp Arch West Yorkshire | D | 2.6 | 29% | 1.1 | 0% |
| 58 | Johnston Dyfed | D | 1.4 | 55% | 0.6 | 5% |
| 59 | Bramham West Yorkshire | D− | 1.4 | 47% | 1.4 | 0% |
| 60 | Necton Norfolk | D− | 1.5 | 17% | 0.5 | 0% |
The map
Parks, footpaths & countryside
Tap a number to zoom to a park. Tap a layer to hide it. The dashed line is Denby Bottles’ 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 Denby Bottles
The biggest is Drury Lowe Millenium Green, 0.5 ha (1 acres). Directions go to the park’s nearest public entrance where Ordnance Survey maps one.
Close to home
How close Denby Bottles’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%)
Denby Bottles100%
Villages its size83%
Derbyshire towns86%
All UK towns83%
Playing fields count, so a park within reach isn’t always one with paths or trees; 27 playgrounds are mapped in and around the village, about one for every 65 residents.
National Parks & National Landscapes
The Peak District National Park is 8.7 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
Peak District National Park covers 1,438 km² and has been a National Park since 1951.
Footpaths & waymarked walks
4 waymarked walks pass through or near Denby Bottles
42 km of footpaths, bridleways and rights of way are mapped in Denby Bottles and the kilometre around it, 4.8 km for every square kilometre (the typical UK town has 3.0). Bars show each route’s kilometres within 2 km of the village.
Local
Amber Valley Routeway Walk 212.7 km
Amber Valley Routeways Walk 112.1 km
Amber Valley Routeway Walk 20.8 km
Amber Valley Routeways Walk 200.7 km
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 Denby Bottles: 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) | 8.1 | 9.8 | 11.7 | 13.9 | 15.8 | 16.9 | 16.4 | 14.7 | 12.6 | 10.5 | 8.6 | 7.6 |
| High (°C) | 7 | 8 | 10 | 13 | 16 | 19 | 21 | 21 | 18 | 14 | 10 | 7 |
| Rain (mm) | 63 | 50 | 50 | 50 | 52 | 71 | 67 | 67 | 61 | 76 | 73 | 73 |
March is the driest month (50 mm) and July the warmest (highs of 21 °C). Winter days are short, about 8 hours of daylight in December, and 76 mm of rain falls in October, the wettest month. Frost comes on about 46 nights a year. The climate in Denby Bottles →
Things to do
27 playgrounds and the nearest beaches
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.
The nearest beaches
Denby Bottles is inland. These are the nearest named beaches, measured from the edge of the village.
The Beach18 mi from Denby Bottles’ edge
DirectionsGood to know
Check the water before you swim. The Environment Agency tests designated bathing waters from May to September and publishes a rating for each beach.
Up high. Pinchom's Hill, at 171 m, is the highest named top within 2 km of Denby Bottles.
Every named place, with directions
Hills and peaks 1
Pinchom's Hill171 m (561 ft) · 0.6 mi from town
DirectionsPlaygrounds 27
Marehay Park Play Area1.0 mi from town
DirectionsPlus 26 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.
Kilburn and Horsley WoodhouseHolbrookBelperSmalleyMilfordHeageDenby Bottles
ABCDOutdoors Grade
Smalley, 1.9 miles away, grades A−, the best next door: every resident lives within 400 m of a park. Holbrook and Smalley have at least twice Denby Bottles’ green space per resident. None of the neighbours has a protected landscape within 5 km either.
Questions about the outdoors in Denby Bottles
What is the biggest park in Denby Bottles?
Drury Lowe Millenium Green, 0.5 ha (1 acres). 1 named park, garden or playing field is in the village or within 400 m of it.
Is Denby Bottles near a National Park?
Yes. Peak District National Park begins 8.7 mi north-west of the village’s edge. It covers 1,438 km² and has been a National Park since 1951.
What are the best walks near Denby Bottles?
4 waymarked walking routes pass within 2 km of the village, including the Amber Valley Routeway Walk 21, Amber Valley Routeways Walk 11 and Amber Valley Routeway Walk 2.
What is the nearest beach to Denby Bottles?
The Beach, 18 mi from the edge of the village. Denby Bottles itself is inland.
How many people in Denby Bottles 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 Denby Bottles?
May to September: the longest days, the warmest afternoons and the least rain of the year, from the Met Office 1991–2020 averages.
Is Denby Bottles good for walking?
For paths, yes: 4.8 km of footpath and right of way per square kilometre, more than 91% 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 Denby Bottles’ overall grade.
Sources
Where Denby Bottles’ 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.