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Photo: Callum Black · CC BY-SA 2.0Parks and playing fields in Redding add up to 11.7 ha for every 1,000 residents; the typical town in England and Wales has 2.1. 80 km of footpaths run through the town and the kilometre around it, 6.7 for every square kilometre. Redding has no Outdoors Grade: Scottish towns aren’t graded on the outdoors yet.
Read from the data: what stands out first, good and bad.
Redding’s strongest suit is parks close to every home, followed by the John Muir Way.
Tap a number to zoom to a park. Tap a layer to hide it. The dashed line is Redding’s locality.
The biggest is Callendar Park, 70 ha (174 acres). Directions go to the park’s nearest public entrance where Ordnance Survey maps one.
The two biggest, Callendar Park and Gray Buchanan Park, are 94% of the named green space and carry 11 km of path between them.
Each square is 1 in 100 residents: green lives within 400 m of a public park, garden or playing field (NRS Census 2022 output areas against OS Open Greenspace).
Playing fields count, so a park within reach isn’t always one with paths or trees; 68 playgrounds are mapped in and around the town, about one for every 56 residents.
80 km of footpaths, tracks and core paths are mapped in Redding and the kilometre around it, 6.7 km for every square kilometre (the typical town in England and Wales has 3.0). Bars show each route’s kilometres within 2 km of the town.
The John Muir Way, a national route, passes Redding.
Waymarked walks are OpenStreetMap walking routes. Scotland has no rights-of-way register: everyone has a right of responsible access to most land, so tracks and councils’ core paths count. Paths are only as complete as the map in each area.
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) | 7.6 | 9.5 | 11.6 | 14.1 | 16.3 | 17.6 | 17.0 | 15.1 | 12.6 | 10.3 | 8.1 | 7.0 |
| High (°C) | 7 | 8 | 10 | 12 | 15 | 18 | 20 | 19 | 17 | 13 | 9 | 7 |
| Rain (mm) | 114 | 109 | 74 | 63 | 60 | 68 | 86 | 108 | 81 | 100 | 107 | 104 |
May is the driest month (60 mm) and July the warmest (highs of 20 °C). Winter days are short, about 7 hours of daylight in December, and 114 mm of rain falls in January, the wettest month. Frost comes on about 46 nights a year. The climate in Redding →
Mapped within 2 km of the town in OpenStreetMap. Named places are listed with directions; unnamed ones are only counted.
Redding is inland. These are the nearest named beaches, measured from the edge of the town.
Check the water before you swim. SEPA tests designated bathing waters from May to September and publishes a rating for each beach.
Plus 2 viewpoints without a name on the map.
Plus 2 picnic sites without a name on the map.
Plus 65 playgrounds without a name on the map.
The nearest towns of 1,000+ within 12 miles. Tap a town for its outdoors page.
None of the neighbours has a protected landscape within 5 km either.
Callendar Park, 70 ha (174 acres), with 8.6 km of path, just outside the locality. Gray Buchanan Park (17 ha) is second. 4 named parks, gardens and playing fields are in the town or within 400 m of it.
No National Park or National Scenic Area is within 30 km (about 19 miles) of Redding.
6 waymarked walking routes pass within 2 km of the town, including the John Muir Way (Falkirk to Linlithgow), Forth & Clyde/Union Canal Towpath and blue. Callendar Park alone has 8.6 km of path.
Drum Sands, 15 mi from the edge of the town, then Black Sands (17 mi). Redding itself is inland.
100% of residents live within 400 m, about a 5-minute walk, of a public park, garden or playing field (NRS Census 2022 output areas against OS Open Greenspace). The typical town in England and Wales is 83%.
May to July and September: the longest days, the warmest afternoons and the least rain of the year, from the Met Office 1991–2020 averages.
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 Scenic Area within 5 km, footpaths per square kilometre, and the sea within 5 km. It is a character grade and isn’t part of Redding’s overall grade.
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