Hadfield’s biggest
Bankswood Park
Park or garden
10 ha (25 acres)0.9 km of path
10 minto walk all 0.9 km of path
14 pitchesfootball pitches would fit
0.7 mi eastfrom the centre
Directionsto the nearest entrance
Photo: Mikey from Somewhere in Greater Manchester, UK · CC BY 2.0AOutdoors Grade
Outdoors in Hadfield · parks, paths & countryside
36% of the land within 5 km of Hadfield is National Park or National Landscape
The Peak District National Park reaches the edge of Hadfield. 119 km of footpaths run through the town and the kilometre around it, 4.5 for every square kilometre. A park or playing field is within a 5-minute walk for 91% of residents. Hadfield grades A for the outdoors: #6 of 59 in Derbyshire. A character grade: it isn’t part of the overall grade.
Green space
2.4 ha
per 1,000 residents
Typical UK town 2.1
Near a park
91%
of residents within 400 m
Typical UK town 83%
Footpaths
119 km
4.5 km per km², town + 1 km
Typical UK town 3.0 per km²
Protected landscape
36%
of the land within 5 km
Nearest: Peak District National Park
Character
What kind of outdoors town is Hadfield?
Read from the data: what stands out first, good and bad.
Protected countryside36% of the land within 5 km is Peak District National Park.A town of footpaths4.5 km of path per km², more than 87% of UK towns. The typical town has 3.0.On a National TrailThe Pennine Bridleway Interim Route for Walkers passes through.
Hadfield’s strongest suit is protected countryside on the doorstep, followed by dense footpaths.
Outdoors grade
Hadfield grades A for the outdoors
Each chart is every UK town of 1,000 or more on one measure: the green bar is Hadfield, 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 92% of UK towns#6 of 59 in Derbyshire · 6th of 60 UK towns its size
Public green space2.4 haper 1,000 residents: parks, gardens, playing fields, play spaces
56out of
100
100
A park within a walk91%of residents within 400 m (a 5-minute walk)
69out of
100
100
National Park or National Landscape36%of the land within 5 km
86out of
100
100
Footpaths4.5 kmper km², the town and 1 km around it
87out 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.
Towns its size
Hadfield is 6th of 60 UK towns its size for the outdoors
The 60 UK towns and cities of 15,400 to 17,300 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
Hadfield4.5
Towns its size3.3
Derbyshire towns3.6
All UK towns3.0
Green space, ha per 1,000 residents
Hadfield2.4
Towns its size2.4
Derbyshire towns2.2
All UK towns2.1
Residents within 400 m of a park
Hadfield91%
Towns its size84%
Derbyshire towns86%
All UK towns83%
Against towns its size, Hadfield stands out most for path per km²: only 11 of the other 59 have more.
Show as a table
| Town | Outdoors | Green space | Near a park | Path per km² | Protected | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Saltash Cornwall | A+ | 2.4 | 96% | 3.6 | 44% |
| 2 | Prestatyn Clwyd | A+ | 3.3 | 92% | 2.9 | 14% |
| 3 | Conwy Clwyd | A+ | 2.9 | 82% | 3.6 | 13% |
| 4 | Swanscombe Kent | A+ | 3.3 | 90% | 8.5 | 0% |
| 5 | Clitheroe Lancashire | A | 3 | 98% | 3.1 | 59% |
| 6 | Hadfield Derbyshire | A | 2.4 | 91% | 4.5 | 36% |
| 7 | Shiney Row and Penshaw Tyne and Wear | A | 9.6 | 98% | 4.8 | 0% |
| 8 | Bishop's Cleeve Gloucestershire | A | 1.9 | 100% | 3.9 | 35% |
| 9 | Connah's Quay Clwyd | A | 5.8 | 97% | 2.8 | 0% |
| 10 | Bedlington Northumberland | A | 5.1 | 94% | 2.8 | 0% |
| 11 | Bredbury and Woodley Greater Manchester | A | 4.8 | 94% | 4.8 | 0% |
| 12 | Lewes East Sussex | A | 1.9 | 83% | 4.6 | 75% |
| 13 | Kidsgrove Staffordshire | A− | 8.6 | 87% | 4.3 | 0% |
| 14 | Porthcawl Mid Glamorgan | A− | 3.5 | 82% | 2.8 | 0% |
| 15 | Hessle East Riding of Yorkshire | A− | 5.3 | 96% | 1.8 | 0% |
| 16 | Worcester Park and Stoneleigh Surrey | B+ | 7.3 | 76% | 4.9 | 0% |
| 17 | South Woodham Ferrers Essex | B+ | 7.8 | 93% | 3 | 0% |
| 18 | Wath upon Dearne South Yorkshire | B+ | 5.5 | 85% | 3.6 | 0% |
| 19 | Peacehaven East Sussex | B+ | 1.1 | 51% | 3.6 | 44% |
| 20 | Weybridge Surrey | B+ | 3.9 | 80% | 4.4 | 0% |
| 21 | Burnham-on-Sea Somerset | B+ | 2.1 | 79% | 3.5 | 0% |
| 22 | Wombwell South Yorkshire | B+ | 2.4 | 92% | 4.5 | 0% |
| 23 | Swanley Kent | B+ | 1.8 | 78% | 4.2 | 20% |
| 24 | Whickham Tyne and Wear | B+ | 3.9 | 77% | 4.4 | 0% |
| 25 | Swinton South Yorkshire | B+ | 3 | 97% | 3.1 | 0% |
| 26 | Tyldesley Greater Manchester | B | 2.3 | 97% | 3.5 | 0% |
| 27 | Brackley Northamptonshire | B | 2.7 | 100% | 2.6 | 0% |
| 28 | Haydock Merseyside | B | 6.8 | 86% | 2.7 | 0% |
| 29 | Westbury Wiltshire | B | 1.4 | 97% | 3.3 | 1% |
| 30 | Patchway Gloucestershire | B | 2.5 | 80% | 5.4 | 0% |
| 31 | Haslingden Lancashire | B | 1.8 | 89% | 5.5 | 0% |
| 32 | Wimborne Minster Dorset | B | 2.7 | 51% | 3.6 | 17% |
| 33 | Penrith Cumbria | B | 1.6 | 91% | 2.9 | 9% |
| 34 | Bangor Gwynedd | B | 0.9 | 79% | 2.7 | 11% |
| 35 | Wymondham Norfolk | B | 2.8 | 97% | 2.6 | 0% |
| 36 | Minster (Swale) Kent | B | 2.5 | 89% | 1.2 | 0% |
| 37 | Bramhall Greater Manchester | B− | 4.7 | 71% | 3.4 | 0% |
| 38 | St Ives Cambridgeshire | B− | 1.7 | 95% | 3.7 | 0% |
| 39 | Redruth Cornwall | B− | 1.5 | 78% | 3.7 | 3% |
| 40 | Hoyland South Yorkshire | B− | 2.7 | 67% | 4.4 | 0% |
| 41 | Knaresborough North Yorkshire | B− | 2.3 | 87% | 3.1 | 0% |
| 42 | Baildon West Yorkshire | B− | 2 | 71% | 7.5 | 0% |
| 43 | Mexborough South Yorkshire | B− | 2 | 97% | 2.7 | 0% |
| 44 | Heysham Lancashire | B− | 1.4 | 83% | 2.2 | 0% |
| 45 | Ramsbottom Greater Manchester | C+ | 2.1 | 74% | 4.1 | 0% |
| 46 | South Normanton and Pinxton Derbyshire | C+ | 1.7 | 90% | 3.2 | 0% |
| 47 | Elland West Yorkshire | C+ | 2 | 69% | 4.7 | 0% |
| 48 | Aldridge West Midlands | C+ | 3 | 83% | 2.1 | 0% |
| 49 | Hockley and Hawkwell Essex | C+ | 1.6 | 85% | 3.3 | 0% |
| 50 | Bodmin Cornwall | C+ | 1.1 | 87% | 2.4 | 3% |
| 51 | Longfield, New Ash Green and Hartley Kent | C | 1.2 | 54% | 3.3 | 21% |
| 52 | Streetly West Midlands | C | 7.5 | 58% | 2 | 0% |
| 53 | Ripon North Yorkshire | C | 1 | 75% | 2.4 | 17% |
| 54 | Nailsea Somerset | C | 1.1 | 65% | 5.4 | 0% |
| 55 | Alsager Cheshire | C | 1.2 | 82% | 3.2 | 0% |
| 56 | Maltby South Yorkshire | C− | 1.8 | 78% | 2.5 | 0% |
| 57 | Hale Greater Manchester | C− | 2.4 | 50% | 2.6 | 0% |
| 58 | North Hykeham Lincolnshire | C− | 2.4 | 60% | 2.3 | 0% |
| 59 | Saffron Walden Essex | C− | 1.1 | 63% | 3.9 | 0% |
| 60 | Carmarthen Dyfed | D | 1.6 | 76% | 1.6 | 0% |
The map
Parks, footpaths & countryside
Tap a number to zoom to a park. Tap a layer to hide it. The dashed line is Hadfield’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 Hadfield
The biggest is Bankswood Park, 10 ha (25 acres). Directions go to the park’s nearest public entrance where Ordnance Survey maps one.
Wedneshough Green
Park or garden
2.0 ha (5 acres)0.2 km of path
3 pitchesfootball pitches would fit
0.6 mi westfrom the centre
1 listed
Directionsto the nearest entrance
Roman Gardens
Park or garden · 70 m outside town
0.3 ha (1 acres)
0.6 mi southfrom the centre
Directionsto the nearest entrance
Close to home
9 in 10 Hadfield 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 (91%)Further (9%)
Hadfield91%
Towns its size84%
Derbyshire towns86%
All UK towns83%
About 1,500 people live further than that. Playing fields count, so a park within reach isn’t always one with paths or trees; 26 playgrounds are mapped in and around the town, about one for every 626 residents.
National Parks & National Landscapes
National Parks and National Landscapes around Hadfield
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 Park
Peak District
At the edge north-east1,438 km²since 195136% of the land within 5 km
Official site36% of the land within 5 km of Hadfield is National Park or National Landscape, more than 86% of UK towns. Peak District National Park covers 1,438 km² and has been a National Park since 1951.
Footpaths & waymarked walks
Hadfield is on the Pennine Bridleway Interim Route for Walkers
119 km of footpaths, bridleways and rights of way are mapped in Hadfield and the kilometre around it, 4.5 km for every square kilometre (the typical UK town has 3.0). Bars show each route’s kilometres within 2 km of the town.
NationalRegionalLocal
Trans-Pennine Trail (Stockport to Silkstone Common)14.4 km
Pennine Bridleway Interim Route for Walkers11.2 km
GM Ringway Stage 88.6 km
Tameside Trail (East - Broadbottom to Mossley)8.0 km
Peak District Boundary Walk Stage 46.9 km
Peak District Boundary Walk Stage 34.7 km
GM Ringway Stage 73.2 km
Tameside Trail (West - Broadbottom to Mossley)3.0 km
Trans-Pennine Trail (Charlesworth alternative route)2.8 km
The Pennine Bridleway Interim Route for Walkers, a national route, passes Hadfield. Close to home, the Tameside Trail (East - Broadbottom to Mossley) has 8 km of local walk within 2 km of the town. 6 regional routes pass through, including the Trans-Pennine Trail (Stockport to Silkstone Common), GM Ringway Stage 8, Peak District Boundary Walk Stage 4 and Peak District Boundary Walk Stage 3.
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 Hadfield: 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) | 8.0 | 9.7 | 11.7 | 13.9 | 15.9 | 17.0 | 16.5 | 14.8 | 12.6 | 10.4 | 8.5 | 7.5 |
| High (°C) | 7 | 7 | 9 | 12 | 16 | 18 | 20 | 20 | 17 | 13 | 9 | 7 |
| Rain (mm) | 101 | 90 | 79 | 69 | 66 | 84 | 96 | 96 | 90 | 115 | 111 | 126 |
May is the driest month (66 mm) and July the warmest (highs of 20 °C). Winter days are short, about 8 hours of daylight in December, and 126 mm of rain falls in December, the wettest month. Frost comes on about 42 nights a year. The climate in Hadfield →
Things to do
26 playgrounds and the nearest beaches
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.
1Viewpoints7Hills and peaks7.3× towns its size5Waterfalls1Nature reserves26Playgroundsabout the same as towns its size1Dog parks2Campsites
The nearest beaches
Hadfield is inland. These are the nearest named beaches, measured from the edge of the town.
Stone Beach14 mi from Hadfield’s edge
DirectionsWader Point15 mi from Hadfield’s edge
DirectionsCar Park Beach15 mi from Hadfield’s edge
DirectionsCreek Beach South15 mi from Hadfield’s edge
DirectionsCreek Beach North15 mi from Hadfield’s 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.
Every named place, with directions
Viewpoints 1
Windy Harbour (Demolished Pub Site)1.2 mi from town
DirectionsHills and peaks 7
Harrop Edge0.2 mi from town
DirectionsMottram Hill0.3 mi from town
DirectionsGodley Hill0.8 mi from town
DirectionsWild Bank399 m (1,309 ft) · 0.8 mi from town
DirectionsTrevor Hill1.1 mi from town
DirectionsHough Hill1.2 mi from town
DirectionsPeak Naze385 m (1,263 ft) · 1.2 mi from town
DirectionsWaterfalls 5
Plus 5 waterfalls without a name on the map.
Nature reserves 1
Plus 1 nature reserve without a name on the map.
Playgrounds 26
Hollingworth Playgroundin town
DirectionsNewshaw Lane Parkin town
DirectionsTemple Street Recreation Area0.3 mi from town
DirectionsPlus 23 playgrounds without a name on the map.
Dog parks 1
Plus 1 dog park without a name on the map.
Campsites 2
Crossgate Farm Campsite0.1 mi from town
DirectionsBoarfold Scout Camp0.8 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.
GamesleyGlossopBroadbottomHattersleyStalybridgeHydeHadfield
ABCDOutdoors Grade
| Town | Outdoors | Green space, ha per 1,000 | Near a park | Protected within 5 km |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hadfield | A | 2.4 | 91% | 36% |
| Gamesley 0.9 mi | A− | 0.8 | 100% | 32% |
| Glossop 1.7 mi | B+ | 1.5 | 78% | 60% |
| Broadbottom 1.8 mi | A+ | 5.0 | 100% | 15% |
| Hattersley 2.2 mi | C | 0.9 | 52% | 7% |
| Stalybridge 3.1 mi | A | 5.0 | 82% | 12% |
| Hyde 3.7 mi | A | 4.3 | 91% | 1% |
Broadbottom, 1.8 miles away, grades A+, the best next door: every resident lives within 400 m of a park. Broadbottom and Stalybridge have at least twice Hadfield’s green space per resident.
Questions about the outdoors in Hadfield
What is the biggest park in Hadfield?
Bankswood Park, 10 ha (25 acres), with 0.9 km of path. Wedneshough Green (2.0 ha) is second. 3 named parks, gardens and playing fields are in the town or within 400 m of it.
Is Hadfield near a National Park?
Peak District National Park reaches the edge of Hadfield. It covers 1,438 km² and has been a National Park since 1951.
What are the best walks near Hadfield?
9 waymarked walking routes pass within 2 km of the town, including the Trans-Pennine Trail (Stockport to Silkstone Common), Pennine Bridleway Interim Route for Walkers and GM Ringway Stage 8.
What is the nearest beach to Hadfield?
Stone Beach, 14 mi from the edge of the town, then Wader Point (15 mi). Hadfield itself is inland.
How many people in Hadfield live near a park?
91% 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 Hadfield?
May to September: the longest days, the warmest afternoons and the least rain of the year, from the Met Office 1991–2020 averages.
Is Hadfield good for walking?
For paths, yes: 4.5 km of footpath and right of way per square kilometre, more than 87% of UK towns. For park space per person it beats 56% (2.4 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 Hadfield’s overall grade.
Sources
Where Hadfield’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.