Morton’s biggest
Doe Hill Community Park
Park or garden · 0 m outside town
32 ha (80 acres)3.0 km of path
40 minto walk all 3 km of path
45 pitchesfootball pitches would fit
1 mi eastfrom the centre
Directionsto the nearest entrance
Photo: Dave Bevis · CC BY-SA 2.0C+Outdoors Grade
Outdoors in Morton · parks, paths & countryside
Morton has more park space per resident than 9 in 10 UK towns
Parks and playing fields in Morton add up to 18.3 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 66% of residents. Footpaths add up to 23 km in the village and the kilometre around it, 2.5 for every square kilometre. Morton grades C+ for the outdoors. A character grade: it isn’t part of the overall grade.
Green space
18.3 ha
per 1,000 residents
Typical UK town 2.1
Near a park
66%
of residents within 400 m
Typical UK town 83%
Footpaths
23 km
2.5 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 Morton?
Read from the data: what stands out first, good and bad.
Room to roam18.3 ha of parks and playing fields per 1,000 residents, more than 98% of UK towns.Parks can be a walk away34% of residents live more than 400 m from a park or playing field.
Morton’s strongest suit is plenty of park space. Where it falls short is how far some homes are from a park.
Outdoors grade
Morton grades C+ for the outdoors
Each chart is every UK town of 1,000 or more on one measure: the green bar is Morton, the dashed line the typical town. The number is the share of towns it beats; the five are averaged and the average ranked again.
C+
Better than 44% of UK towns37th of 60 UK villages its size
Public green space18.3 haper 1,000 residents: parks, gardens, playing fields, play spaces
99out of
100
100
A park within a walk66%of residents within 400 m (a 5-minute walk)
26out of
100
100
National Park or National Landscape0%of the land within 5 km · None within 5 km
31out of
100
100
Footpaths2.5 kmper km², the town and 1 km around it
46out 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
Morton is 37th of 60 UK villages its size for the outdoors
The 60 UK towns and cities of 1,300 to 1,400 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
Morton2.5
Villages its size2.3
Derbyshire towns3.6
All UK towns3.0
Green space, ha per 1,000 residents
Morton18.3
Villages its size2.6
Derbyshire towns2.2
All UK towns2.1
Residents within 400 m of a park
Morton66%
Villages its size81%
Derbyshire towns86%
All UK towns83%
Against villages its size, Morton stands out most for park space per resident: only 4 of the other 59 have more. It falls furthest behind on homes near a park, where 44 of the others do better.
Show as a table
| Town | Outdoors | Green space | Near a park | Path per km² | Protected | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Worrall South Yorkshire | A+ | 3.7 | 100% | 5.4 | 21% |
| 2 | St Davids Dyfed | A+ | 5.2 | 84% | 2.5 | 47% |
| 3 | Pateley Bridge North Yorkshire | A+ | 2.4 | 100% | 3.4 | 100% |
| 4 | Wolvercote Oxfordshire | A | 32 | 100% | 5.5 | 0% |
| 5 | Crowmarsh Gifford Oxfordshire | A | 8 | 77% | 3.6 | 60% |
| 6 | Goldsithney Cornwall | A | 1.4 | 100% | 3.1 | 10% |
| 7 | Hurley Berkshire | A | 3.1 | 100% | 2.6 | 36% |
| 8 | Charmouth Dorset | A | 2.5 | 82% | 2.3 | 63% |
| 9 | Bere Regis Dorset | A | 39.2 | 100% | 3.5 | 0% |
| 10 | Brinscall Lancashire | A | 3.5 | 100% | 4.6 | 0% |
| 11 | Burbage Wiltshire | A | 2.7 | 100% | 1.9 | 100% |
| 12 | Biddenden Kent | A− | 4.2 | 100% | 1.9 | 20% |
| 13 | Cwmfelinfach Gwent | A− | 24.6 | 100% | 2.7 | 0% |
| 14 | Upper Caldecote Bedfordshire | A− | 3.7 | 100% | 3.4 | 0% |
| 15 | Bradley Clwyd | A− | 29.9 | 100% | 2.6 | 0% |
| 16 | Blean Kent | A− | 5.9 | 80% | 6.5 | 0% |
| 17 | Govilon Gwent | A− | 2.1 | 80% | 3.4 | 69% |
| 18 | Sherford Devon | A− | 3.2 | 100% | 1.5 | 28% |
| 19 | Auckley South Yorkshire | B+ | 4.9 | 100% | 2.6 | 0% |
| 20 | Riseley Bedfordshire | B+ | 2.4 | 100% | 3.9 | 0% |
| 21 | Layer-de-la-Haye Essex | B+ | 9.5 | 79% | 4.2 | 0% |
| 22 | Mynydd Marian Clwyd | B+ | 1.7 | 100% | 2.3 | 0% |
| 23 | Quintrell Downs Cornwall | B+ | 3.3 | 100% | 0.9 | 0% |
| 24 | Barleythorpe Rutland | B+ | 3.7 | 100% | 2.4 | 0% |
| 25 | Abbots Bromley Staffordshire | B | 6.9 | 100% | 1.6 | 0% |
| 26 | Marazion Cornwall | B | 1.4 | 80% | 2 | 14% |
| 27 | Seven Sisters West Glamorgan | B | 7 | 82% | 0.5 | 19% |
| 28 | Cwmllynfell and Ystradowen West Glamorgan | B | 4.1 | 79% | 1 | 40% |
| 29 | Lingdale North Yorkshire | B− | 1.4 | 100% | 1.7 | 31% |
| 30 | Burton-in-Kendal Cumbria | B− | 0.6 | 100% | 2.4 | 23% |
| 31 | Cockfield County Durham | B− | 2.3 | 81% | 3.9 | 0% |
| 32 | Burwash East Sussex | B− | 1.5 | 76% | 2.5 | 100% |
| 33 | St Merryn Cornwall | B− | 1.9 | 47% | 1.7 | 29% |
| 34 | Helmsley North Yorkshire | B− | 2.4 | 44% | 2.5 | 73% |
| 35 | Pensarn Clwyd | C+ | 13.1 | 45% | 1.1 | 0% |
| 36 | Mobberley Cheshire | C+ | 1.4 | 100% | 2.9 | 0% |
| 37 | Morton Derbyshire | C+ | 18.3 | 66% | 2.5 | 0% |
| 38 | Belford Northumberland | C+ | 1.2 | 83% | 0.9 | 21% |
| 39 | Littleton Panell Wiltshire | C+ | 5.3 | 39% | 3.3 | 0% |
| 40 | Stonnall Staffordshire | C+ | 11.5 | 82% | 1.1 | 0% |
| 41 | Stoke Gabriel Devon | C+ | 1.2 | 70% | 1.2 | 30% |
| 42 | Quainton Buckinghamshire | C | 3.8 | 69% | 2.1 | 0% |
| 43 | Harpole Northamptonshire | C | 2.3 | 81% | 2.3 | 0% |
| 44 | Haughley Suffolk | C | 3 | 71% | 2.3 | 0% |
| 45 | Kislingbury Northamptonshire | C | 8.4 | 26% | 2.3 | 0% |
| 46 | Moretonhampstead Devon | C | 0.6 | 81% | 1.2 | 100% |
| 47 | Seaton Burn Tyne and Wear | C | 3.3 | 36% | 2.6 | 0% |
| 48 | Winkleigh Devon | C | 1.9 | 100% | 0.2 | 0% |
| 49 | Wingham Kent | C− | 2.2 | 53% | 1.3 | 0% |
| 50 | Northborough Cambridgeshire | C− | 1.7 | 68% | 2.5 | 0% |
| 51 | Llandysul Dyfed | C− | 5.2 | 47% | 1 | 0% |
| 52 | Ogmore-by-Sea South Glamorgan | C− | 0 | 0% | 2.6 | 0% |
| 53 | Todwick South Yorkshire | D | 2 | 51% | 1.9 | 0% |
| 54 | Staindrop County Durham | D | 1.4 | 82% | 1.1 | 0% |
| 55 | Longframlington Northumberland | D | 1.3 | 78% | 1.3 | 0% |
| 56 | Hauxton Cambridgeshire | D− | 1.3 | 55% | 1.8 | 0% |
| 57 | Brandesburton East Riding of Yorkshire | D− | 2.2 | 0% | 0.5 | 0% |
| 58 | Claypole Lincolnshire | D− | 0.7 | 0% | 1.6 | 0% |
| 59 | Kilsby Northamptonshire | D− | 0.5 | 50% | 0.5 | 0% |
| 60 | Cock and End Suffolk | D− | 0 | 0% | 0.9 | 0% |
The map
Parks, footpaths & countryside
Tap a number to zoom to a park. Tap a layer to hide it. The dashed line is Morton’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 Morton
The biggest is Doe Hill Community Park, 32 ha (80 acres). Directions go to the park’s nearest public entrance where Ordnance Survey maps one.
Close to home
7 in 10 Morton 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 (66%)Further (34%)
Morton66%
Villages its size81%
Derbyshire towns86%
All UK towns83%
About 500 people live further than that. Playing fields count, so a park within reach isn’t always one with paths or trees; 13 playgrounds are mapped in and around the village, about one for every 103 residents.
National Parks & National Landscapes
The Peak District National Park is 6.3 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
1 waymarked walk passes through or near Morton
23 km of footpaths, bridleways and rights of way are mapped in Morton and the kilometre around it, 2.5 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
Tibshelf Walk1.7 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 Morton: 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 | 16.5 | 14.7 | 12.6 | 10.5 | 8.5 | 7.6 |
| High (°C) | 7 | 8 | 10 | 13 | 16 | 19 | 21 | 21 | 18 | 14 | 10 | 7 |
| Rain (mm) | 76 | 63 | 55 | 61 | 57 | 73 | 62 | 66 | 64 | 85 | 83 | 84 |
March is the driest month (55 mm) and July the warmest (highs of 21 °C). Winter days are short, about 8 hours of daylight in December, and 85 mm of rain falls in October, the wettest month. Frost comes on about 44 nights a year. The climate in Morton →
Things to do
13 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
Morton is inland. These are the nearest named beaches, measured from the edge of the village.
The Beach13 mi from Morton’s edge
DirectionsSea Lions29 mi from Morton’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
Playgrounds 13
Morton Recreation Ground Play Parkin town
DirectionsStonebroom Recreation Ground Play Park0.3 mi from town
DirectionsPlus 11 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.
Shirland and StonebroomPilsley and Lower PilsleyClay CrossNewton and BlackwellTibshelfAlfretonMorton
ABCDOutdoors Grade
| Town | Outdoors | Green space, ha per 1,000 | Near a park | Protected within 5 km |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Morton | C+ | 18.3 | 66% | 0% |
| Shirland and Stonebroom 1.0 mi | C | 3.7 | 43% | 0% |
| Pilsley and Lower Pilsley 1.6 mi | B− | 1.9 | 91% | 0% |
| Clay Cross 2.0 mi | B | 2.6 | 88% | 0% |
| Newton and Blackwell 2.1 mi | B | 2.6 | 91% | 0% |
| Tibshelf 2.2 mi | B− | 1.4 | 94% | 0% |
| Alfreton 2.9 mi | B+ | 4.3 | 100% | 0% |
Alfreton, 2.9 miles away, grades B+, the best next door: every resident lives within 400 m of a park. None of the neighbours has a protected landscape within 5 km either.
Questions about the outdoors in Morton
What is the biggest park in Morton?
Doe Hill Community Park, 32 ha (80 acres), with 3 km of path, just outside the built-up area. 1 named park, garden or playing field is in the village or within 400 m of it.
Is Morton near a National Park?
Yes. Peak District National Park begins 6.3 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 Morton?
1 waymarked walking route passes within 2 km of the village, including the Tibshelf Walk. Doe Hill Community Park alone has 3 km of path.
What is the nearest beach to Morton?
The Beach, 13 mi from the edge of the village, then Sea Lions (29 mi). Morton itself is inland.
How many people in Morton live near a park?
66% 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 Morton?
May to September: the longest days, the warmest afternoons and the least rain of the year, from the Met Office 1991–2020 averages.
Is Morton good for walking?
About average for paths: 2.5 km of footpath and right of way per square kilometre, more than 46% of UK towns. For park space per person it beats 99% (18.3 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 Morton’s overall grade.
Sources
Where Morton’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.