Langwith’s biggest
Poulter Country Park
Park or garden
76 ha (187 acres)12.2 km of path
2 h 40 minto walk all 12.2 km of path
106 pitchesfootball pitches would fit
Centralin the middle of Langwith
Archaeological Way
Directionsto the nearest entrance
Photo: Ian S · CC BY-SA 2.0AOutdoors Grade
Outdoors in Langwith · parks, paths & countryside
Langwith has more park space per resident than 9 in 10 UK towns
Parks and playing fields in Langwith add up to 19.6 ha for every 1,000 residents; the typical UK town has 2.1. A park or playing field is within a 5-minute walk for 100% of residents. 39 km of footpaths run through the town and the kilometre around it, 3.7 for every square kilometre. Langwith grades A for the outdoors: #8 of 59 in Derbyshire. A character grade: it isn’t part of the overall grade.
Green space
19.6 ha
per 1,000 residents
Typical UK town 2.1
Near a park
100%
of residents within 400 m
Typical UK town 83%
Footpaths
39 km
3.7 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 town is Langwith?
Read from the data: what stands out first, good and bad.
Room to roam19.6 ha of parks and playing fields per 1,000 residents, more than 98% of UK towns.A park on every doorstep100% of residents live within 400 m of a park or playing field.A town of footpaths3.7 km of path per km², more than 75% of UK towns. The typical town has 3.0.
Langwith’s strongest suit is plenty of park space, followed by parks close to every home.
Outdoors grade
Langwith grades A for the outdoors
Each chart is every UK town of 1,000 or more on one measure: the green bar is Langwith, 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 90% of UK towns#8 of 59 in Derbyshire · 10th of 60 UK towns its size
Public green space19.6 haper 1,000 residents: parks, gardens, playing fields, play spaces
99out 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
Footpaths3.7 kmper km², the town and 1 km around it
75out 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
Langwith is 10th of 60 UK towns its size for the outdoors
The 60 UK towns and cities of 2,900 to 3,100 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
Langwith3.7
Towns its size2.7
Derbyshire towns3.6
All UK towns3.0
Green space, ha per 1,000 residents
Langwith19.6
Towns its size2.2
Derbyshire towns2.2
All UK towns2.1
Residents within 400 m of a park
Langwith100%
Towns its size86%
Derbyshire towns86%
All UK towns83%
Against towns its size, Langwith stands out most for park space per resident: only 2 of the other 59 have more.
Show as a table
| Town | Outdoors | Green space | Near a park | Path per km² | Protected | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Rowlands Castle Hampshire | A+ | 26.1 | 100% | 5 | 48% |
| 2 | Halling Kent | A+ | 3.8 | 100% | 4.6 | 54% |
| 3 | Arundel West Sussex | A+ | 4.4 | 100% | 3.8 | 56% |
| 4 | Theale Berkshire | A+ | 5 | 100% | 3.8 | 39% |
| 5 | Cuxton Kent | A+ | 25.2 | 90% | 4 | 44% |
| 6 | Horton Heath Hampshire | A+ | 10 | 100% | 3.3 | 13% |
| 7 | Beaminster Dorset | A | 4.1 | 89% | 3.4 | 100% |
| 8 | Ebbsfleet Valley Kent | A | 9 | 77% | 8.3 | 0% |
| 9 | Downton Wiltshire | A | 4.3 | 100% | 2 | 59% |
| 10 | Langwith Derbyshire | A | 19.6 | 100% | 3.7 | 0% |
| 11 | Ellistown Leicestershire | A | 7.5 | 100% | 3.8 | 0% |
| 12 | Llangollen Clwyd | A | 3.5 | 91% | 2.5 | 76% |
| 13 | Mortimer Berkshire | A | 2.4 | 100% | 3.8 | 0% |
| 14 | Menai Bridge Gwynedd | A | 1.8 | 100% | 2.4 | 7% |
| 15 | New Marske North Yorkshire | A− | 4.4 | 90% | 1.3 | 0% |
| 16 | Seaton Sluice Northumberland | A− | 2.2 | 100% | 2 | 0% |
| 17 | Rhodes Greater Manchester | B+ | 16.6 | 78% | 4.2 | 0% |
| 18 | Milton-under-Wychwood and Shipton-under-Wychwood Oxfordshire | B+ | 4.1 | 87% | 1.3 | 100% |
| 19 | Welham Green Hertfordshire | B+ | 2.5 | 93% | 4.4 | 0% |
| 20 | Almondsbury Gloucestershire | B+ | 7.9 | 77% | 4 | 0% |
| 21 | Wing Buckinghamshire | B | 2.4 | 100% | 3 | 0% |
| 22 | Newton and Blackwell Derbyshire | B | 2.6 | 91% | 3.7 | 0% |
| 23 | Camelford Cornwall | B | 2 | 100% | 1.5 | 33% |
| 24 | Newport Essex | B | 2.5 | 100% | 2.8 | 0% |
| 25 | Upper Beeding West Sussex | B | 0.6 | 83% | 3.9 | 62% |
| 26 | Denholme West Yorkshire | B | 1.6 | 100% | 3.6 | 0% |
| 27 | Weldon Northamptonshire | B | 8.2 | 100% | 1.1 | 0% |
| 28 | Newbold Verdon Leicestershire | B− | 2.3 | 100% | 2.5 | 0% |
| 29 | Bugbrooke Northamptonshire | B− | 3.7 | 80% | 3 | 0% |
| 30 | Long Hanborough Oxfordshire | B− | 1.3 | 89% | 2.7 | 18% |
| 31 | Harwell Oxfordshire | B− | 1.4 | 85% | 2.3 | 42% |
| 32 | Crumbles East Sussex | B− | 0.3 | 44% | 3.6 | 0% |
| 33 | Henley-in-Arden Warwickshire | C+ | 4.6 | 58% | 3.1 | 0% |
| 34 | Etwall Derbyshire | C+ | 2.3 | 100% | 1.5 | 0% |
| 35 | Capel St Mary Suffolk | C+ | 1.5 | 59% | 3 | 24% |
| 36 | Dymchurch Kent | C+ | 1.6 | 58% | 1 | 13% |
| 37 | Swillington West Yorkshire | C | 2.2 | 68% | 3.3 | 0% |
| 38 | Hendy and Fforest Dyfed | C | 2.1 | 100% | 0.8 | 0% |
| 39 | Sutton Courtenay Oxfordshire | C | 1.2 | 23% | 4 | 6% |
| 40 | West Chiltington West Sussex | C | 1.5 | 18% | 2.7 | 38% |
| 41 | Bottesford Leicestershire | C | 3.9 | 69% | 1.9 | 0% |
| 42 | Haddenham Cambridgeshire | C | 2.2 | 86% | 1.9 | 0% |
| 43 | Ogmore Vale Mid Glamorgan | C | 4.3 | 79% | 0.9 | 0% |
| 44 | Fenstanton Cambridgeshire | C− | 0.8 | 100% | 2 | 0% |
| 45 | Cullingworth West Yorkshire | C− | 1.1 | 72% | 3.9 | 0% |
| 46 | Great Leighs Essex | C− | 1.5 | 87% | 2.2 | 0% |
| 47 | Lostwithiel Cornwall | C− | 1.6 | 67% | 1.5 | 11% |
| 48 | Burnopfield County Durham | C− | 1.5 | 50% | 3.3 | 0% |
| 49 | South Petherton Somerset | C− | 1.1 | 61% | 3.4 | 0% |
| 50 | St Mary's Bay Kent | D | 0 | 0% | 1.3 | 0% |
| 51 | Cleobury Mortimer Shropshire | D | 0.8 | 64% | 2 | 2% |
| 52 | Kelsall Cheshire | D | 1 | 57% | 3.1 | 0% |
| 53 | Scotter Lincolnshire | D | 2.6 | 61% | 0.5 | 0% |
| 54 | Gobowen Shropshire | D | 1.2 | 50% | 1.2 | 2% |
| 55 | Gilberdyke East Riding of Yorkshire | D | 0.7 | 90% | 0.3 | 0% |
| 56 | Thurston Suffolk | D | 1.6 | 39% | 2.1 | 0% |
| 57 | Bampton Oxfordshire | D | 1.1 | 63% | 2 | 0% |
| 58 | Queniborough Leicestershire | D | 1.4 | 48% | 1.9 | 0% |
| 59 | Kirton in Lindsey Lincolnshire | D− | 1.7 | 57% | 0.8 | 0% |
| 60 | Boroughbridge North Yorkshire | D− | 0.4 | 60% | 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 Langwith’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 Langwith
The biggest is Poulter Country Park, 76 ha (187 acres). Directions go to the park’s nearest public entrance where Ordnance Survey maps one.
Close to home
Everyone in Langwith 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%)
Langwith100%
Towns its size86%
Derbyshire towns86%
All UK towns83%
Playing fields count, so a park within reach isn’t always one with paths or trees; 9 playgrounds are mapped in and around the town, about one for every 334 residents.
National Parks & National Landscapes
The Peak District National Park is 12 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
2 waymarked walks pass through or near Langwith
39 km of footpaths, bridleways and rights of way are mapped in Langwith and the kilometre around it, 3.7 km for every square kilometre (the typical UK town has 3.0). Bars show each route’s kilometres within 2 km of the town.
Other waymarked
Archaeological Way (old route)6.7 km
Dukeries Trail0.9 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 Langwith: May and July 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 | 15.8 | 16.9 | 16.5 | 14.8 | 12.6 | 10.4 | 8.5 | 7.5 |
| High (°C) | 7 | 8 | 10 | 13 | 16 | 19 | 21 | 21 | 18 | 14 | 10 | 7 |
| Rain (mm) | 57 | 50 | 43 | 50 | 50 | 72 | 60 | 63 | 56 | 71 | 74 | 65 |
March is the driest month (43 mm) and July the warmest (highs of 21 °C). Winter days are short, about 8 hours of daylight in December, and 74 mm of rain falls in November, the wettest month. Frost comes on about 45 nights a year. The climate in Langwith →
Things to do
9 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.
The nearest beaches
Langwith is inland. These are the nearest named beaches, measured from the edge of the town.
The Beach7.1 mi from Langwith’s edge
DirectionsDoncaster Lakeside Beach19 mi from Langwith’s edge
DirectionsBeach at Doncaster Lakeside19 mi from Langwith’s edge
DirectionsSea Lions19 mi from Langwith’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
Waterfalls 1
Plus 1 waterfall without a name on the map.
Playgrounds 9
Plus 9 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.
ShirebrookChurch WarsopCreswellMarket WarsopMeden ValeBolsoverLangwith
ABCDOutdoors Grade
| Town | Outdoors | Green space, ha per 1,000 | Near a park | Protected within 5 km |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Langwith | A | 19.6 | 100% | 0% |
| Shirebrook 1.6 mi | B | 1.8 | 100% | 0% |
| Church Warsop 2.3 mi | B+ | 4.1 | 85% | 0% |
| Creswell 2.5 mi | B+ | 2.7 | 100% | 0% |
| Market Warsop 2.8 mi | C | 2.1 | 67% | 0% |
| Meden Vale 3.2 mi | D | 0.3 | 58% | 0% |
| Bolsover 3.3 mi | C+ | 1.9 | 85% | 0% |
Langwith grades higher for the outdoors than every neighbour in the table. None of the neighbours has a protected landscape within 5 km either.
Questions about the outdoors in Langwith
What is the biggest park in Langwith?
Poulter Country Park, 76 ha (187 acres), with 12.2 km of path. 1 named park, garden or playing field is in the town or within 400 m of it.
Is Langwith near a National Park?
Yes. Peak District National Park begins 12 mi west of the town’s edge. It covers 1,438 km² and has been a National Park since 1951.
What are the best walks near Langwith?
2 waymarked walking routes pass within 2 km of the town, including the Archaeological Way (old route) and Dukeries Trail. Poulter Country Park alone has 12.2 km of path.
What is the nearest beach to Langwith?
The Beach, 7.1 mi from the edge of the town, then Doncaster Lakeside Beach (19 mi). Langwith itself is inland.
How many people in Langwith 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 Langwith?
May and July to September: the longest days, the warmest afternoons and the least rain of the year, from the Met Office 1991–2020 averages.
Is Langwith good for walking?
For paths, yes: 3.7 km of footpath and right of way per square kilometre, more than 75% of UK towns. For park space per person it beats 99% (19.6 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 Langwith’s overall grade.
Sources
Where Langwith’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.