Photo: Chris Heaton · CC BY-SA 2.0Almost everyone in Brinscall lives within a 5-minute walk of a park
Footpaths add up to 33 km in the village and the kilometre around it, 4.6 for every square kilometre. Parks and playing fields in Brinscall add up to 3.5 ha for every 1,000 residents; the typical UK town has 2.1. Brinscall grades A for the outdoors. A character grade: it isn’t part of the overall grade.
What kind of outdoors village is Brinscall?
Read from the data: what stands out first, good and bad.
Brinscall’s strongest suit is parks close to every home, followed by dense footpaths.
Brinscall grades A for the outdoors
Each chart is every UK town of 1,000 or more on one measure: the green bar is Brinscall, the dashed line the typical town. The number is the share of towns it beats; the five are averaged and the average ranked again.
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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.
Brinscall is 10th 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.
Against villages its size, Brinscall stands out most for path per km²: only 3 of the other 59 have more.
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 | Barleythorpe Rutland | B+ | 3.7 | 100% | 2.4 | 0% |
| 24 | Welland Worcestershire | B+ | 1.7 | 100% | 1.9 | 38% |
| 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 | Claverdon Warwickshire | C+ | 1.2 | 100% | 2.5 | 0% |
| 42 | Stoke Gabriel Devon | C+ | 1.2 | 70% | 1.2 | 30% |
| 43 | Quainton Buckinghamshire | C | 3.8 | 69% | 2.1 | 0% |
| 44 | Harpole Northamptonshire | C | 2.3 | 81% | 2.3 | 0% |
| 45 | Haughley Suffolk | C | 3 | 71% | 2.3 | 0% |
| 46 | Kislingbury Northamptonshire | C | 8.4 | 26% | 2.3 | 0% |
| 47 | Moretonhampstead Devon | C | 0.6 | 81% | 1.2 | 100% |
| 48 | Seaton Burn Tyne and Wear | C | 3.3 | 36% | 2.6 | 0% |
| 49 | Winkleigh Devon | C | 1.9 | 100% | 0.2 | 0% |
| 50 | Wingham Kent | C− | 2.2 | 53% | 1.3 | 0% |
| 51 | Northborough Cambridgeshire | C− | 1.7 | 68% | 2.5 | 0% |
| 52 | Llandysul Dyfed | C− | 5.2 | 47% | 1 | 0% |
| 53 | Ogmore-by-Sea South Glamorgan | C− | 0 | 0% | 2.6 | 0% |
| 54 | Todwick South Yorkshire | D | 2 | 51% | 1.9 | 0% |
| 55 | Staindrop County Durham | D | 1.4 | 82% | 1.1 | 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% |
Parks, footpaths & countryside
Tap a number to zoom to a park. Tap a layer to hide it. The dashed line is Brinscall’s built-up area.
How close Brinscall’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).
Playing fields count, so a park within reach isn’t always one with paths or trees; 4 playgrounds are mapped in and around the village, about one for every 333 residents.
The Forest Of Bowland National Landscape is 9.7 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.
1 waymarked walk passes through or near Brinscall
33 km of footpaths, bridleways and rights of way are mapped in Brinscall and the kilometre around it, 4.6 km for every square kilometre (the typical UK town has 3.0). Bars show each route’s kilometres within 2 km of the village.
Waymarked walks are OpenStreetMap walking routes. Public rights of way are only as complete as the map in each area.
The best walking months in Brinscall: 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 | |
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| Daylight (h) | 8.0 | 9.7 | 11.7 | 13.9 | 15.9 | 17.0 | 16.6 | 14.8 | 12.6 | 10.4 | 8.5 | 7.5 |
| High (°C) | 6 | 7 | 9 | 12 | 15 | 18 | 19 | 19 | 17 | 13 | 10 | 7 |
| Rain (mm) | 116 | 91 | 76 | 64 | 68 | 87 | 98 | 104 | 99 | 122 | 118 | 140 |
April is the driest month (64 mm) and July the warmest (highs of 19 °C). Winter days are short, about 7 hours of daylight in December, and 140 mm of rain falls in December, the wettest month. Frost comes on about 45 nights a year. The climate in Brinscall →
4 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
Brinscall is inland. These are the nearest named beaches, measured from the edge of the village.
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
Hills and peaks 1
Waterfalls 1
Playgrounds 4
Plus 4 playgrounds without a name on the map.
The outdoors in nearby towns
The nearest towns of 1,000+ within 12 miles. Tap a town for its outdoors page.
| Town | Outdoors | Green space, ha per 1,000 | Near a park | Protected within 5 km |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Brinscall | A | 3.5 | 100% | 0% |
| Whittle-le-Woods 2.9 mi | A− | 7.7 | 91% | 0% |
| Chorley 3.6 mi | A− | 5.0 | 88% | 0% |
| Gregson Lane 3.7 mi | C+ | 1.7 | 86% | 0% |
| Darwen 4.2 mi | B | 2.2 | 89% | 0% |
| Coup Green 4.2 mi | D | 0.6 | 70% | 0% |
| Euxton 4.3 mi | A− | 3.7 | 98% | 0% |
Brinscall grades higher for the outdoors than every neighbour in the table. Whittle-le-Woods has at least twice Brinscall’s green space per resident. None of the neighbours has a protected landscape within 5 km either.
Questions about the outdoors in Brinscall
Is Brinscall near a National Park?
The nearest protected landscape is the Forest Of Bowland National Landscape, 9.7 mi north of the village’s edge. It covers 806 km² and was designated in 1964.
What are the best walks near Brinscall?
1 waymarked walking route passes within 2 km of the village, including the Reelers Trail - Witton Weavers Way.
What is the nearest beach to Brinscall?
Creek Beach North, 12 mi from the edge of the village, then Creek Beach South (12 mi). Brinscall itself is inland.
How many people in Brinscall 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 Brinscall?
May to September: the longest days, the warmest afternoons and the least rain of the year, from the Met Office 1991–2020 averages.
Is Brinscall good for walking?
For paths, yes: 4.6 km of footpath and right of way per square kilometre, more than 89% of UK towns. For park space per person it beats 76% (3.5 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 Brinscall’s overall grade.
Where Brinscall’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.
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