Catterall’s biggest
Cross Fields Play Area
Play space
0.0 ha (0 acres)
Centralin the middle of Catterall
Directionsto the nearest entrance
Cross · Photo: Peter Worrell · CC BY-SA 2.0DOutdoors Grade
Outdoors in Catterall · parks, paths & countryside
Parks and walks in Catterall
The Forest Of Bowland National Landscape begins 1.1 mi from the town’s edge. A park or playing field is within a 5-minute walk for 47% of residents. Parks and playing fields in Catterall add up to 1.0 ha for every 1,000 residents; the typical UK town has 2.1. Catterall grades D for the outdoors: #60 of 65 in Lancashire. A character grade: it isn’t part of the overall grade.
Green space
1.0 ha
per 1,000 residents
Typical UK town 2.1
Near a park
47%
of residents within 400 m
Typical UK town 83%
Footpaths
19 km
1.9 km per km², town + 1 km
Typical UK town 3.0 per km²
Protected landscape
9%
of the land within 5 km
Nearest: Forest Of Bowland National Landscape
Character
What kind of outdoors town is Catterall?
Read from the data: what stands out first, good and bad.
Countryside close byThe Forest Of Bowland National Landscape starts 1.1 mi north-east.Less park per person1.0 ha of parks and playing fields per 1,000 residents; the typical UK town has 2.1.
Catterall’s strongest suit is the Forest Of Bowland National Landscape close by. Where it falls short is park space per person.
Outdoors grade
Catterall grades D for the outdoors
Each chart is every UK town of 1,000 or more on one measure: the green bar is Catterall, the dashed line the typical town. The number is the share of towns it beats; the five are averaged and the average ranked again.
D
Better than 12% of UK towns#60 of 65 in Lancashire · 48th of 60 UK towns its size
Public green space1.0 haper 1,000 residents: parks, gardens, playing fields, play spaces
13out of
100
100
A park within a walk47%of residents within 400 m (a 5-minute walk)
12out of
100
100
National Park or National Landscape9%of the land within 5 km
70out of
100
100
Footpaths1.9 kmper km², the town and 1 km around it
27out 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
Catterall is 48th of 60 UK towns its size for the outdoors
The 60 UK towns and cities of 2,700 to 2,900 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
Catterall1.9
Towns its size2.2
Lancashire towns3.0
All UK towns3.0
Green space, ha per 1,000 residents
Catterall1.0
Towns its size1.5
Lancashire towns2.0
All UK towns2.1
Residents within 400 m of a park
Catterall47%
Towns its size78%
Lancashire towns85%
All UK towns83%
Catterall falls furthest behind on homes near a park, where 49 of the 59 others do better.
Show as a table
| Town | Outdoors | Green space | Near a park | Path per km² | Protected | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Lindford Hampshire | A+ | 17.1 | 100% | 4.7 | 42% |
| 2 | Rudloe Wiltshire | A+ | 7.3 | 91% | 4 | 45% |
| 3 | Bruton Somerset | A | 9.3 | 100% | 2.5 | 1% |
| 4 | Penmaenmawr Clwyd | A | 1.7 | 78% | 3.4 | 39% |
| 5 | Hartshill Warwickshire | A | 19 | 100% | 3.5 | 0% |
| 6 | Stoke Mandeville Buckinghamshire | A− | 5.5 | 37% | 6.8 | 29% |
| 7 | Threemilestone Cornwall | A− | 3.1 | 100% | 2.6 | 1% |
| 8 | Congresbury Somerset | A− | 8.5 | 67% | 3.5 | 10% |
| 9 | Jacksdale and Westwood Nottinghamshire | A− | 2.7 | 100% | 3.9 | 0% |
| 10 | Holywell Green and Stainland West Yorkshire | A− | 4 | 89% | 4.1 | 0% |
| 11 | Charfield Gloucestershire | B+ | 1.3 | 100% | 3 | 22% |
| 12 | Perranporth Cornwall | B+ | 1.3 | 75% | 3.4 | 4% |
| 13 | Hertford Heath Hertfordshire | B+ | 1.6 | 100% | 4.4 | 0% |
| 14 | Mundesley Norfolk | B | 1.8 | 79% | 1.5 | 24% |
| 15 | Charlbury Oxfordshire | B | 3.1 | 66% | 2.4 | 65% |
| 16 | Barlborough Derbyshire | B | 4.4 | 100% | 2 | 0% |
| 17 | Boverton South Glamorgan | B | 4.3 | 52% | 2.5 | 0% |
| 18 | Ormesby St Margaret Norfolk | B | 2.1 | 79% | 0.8 | 21% |
| 19 | Rockwell Green Somerset | B | 1 | 90% | 3.2 | 24% |
| 20 | Tollesbury Essex | B− | 2 | 85% | 2.2 | 0% |
| 21 | Chalgrove Oxfordshire | B− | 4.1 | 85% | 1.2 | 4% |
| 22 | Aston Clwyd | B− | 4.4 | 37% | 4.7 | 0% |
| 23 | Denby Dale West Yorkshire | B− | 0.7 | 100% | 4 | 0% |
| 24 | Waltham Chase Hampshire | B− | 2 | 75% | 2.2 | 39% |
| 25 | Pimperne Dorset | C+ | 1.9 | 72% | 1.9 | 89% |
| 26 | Great Totham Essex | C+ | 2.8 | 100% | 1.3 | 0% |
| 27 | Hambrook and Nutbourne West Sussex | C+ | 1.2 | 28% | 2 | 69% |
| 28 | Rhostyllen Clwyd | C+ | 1.1 | 68% | 3.7 | 10% |
| 29 | Bluntisham and Colne Cambridgeshire | C+ | 2.3 | 88% | 2.2 | 0% |
| 30 | Asfordby Leicestershire | C | 4 | 57% | 2.5 | 0% |
| 31 | Woolton Hill and Highclere Hampshire | C | 1.2 | 60% | 2.3 | 70% |
| 32 | Kidwelly Dyfed | C | 2.8 | 56% | 1 | 0% |
| 33 | Barrow upon Humber Lincolnshire | C | 1.5 | 88% | 0.3 | 0% |
| 34 | Trimdon County Durham | C | 1 | 100% | 2.2 | 0% |
| 35 | Buckden Cambridgeshire | C | 2.9 | 85% | 1.4 | 0% |
| 36 | Maerdy Mid Glamorgan | C− | 1.1 | 100% | 1.8 | 0% |
| 37 | Swavesey Cambridgeshire | C− | 1.8 | 80% | 2.4 | 0% |
| 38 | Alrewas Staffordshire | C− | 1.5 | 66% | 3.6 | 0% |
| 39 | Cheswick Green West Midlands | C− | 1 | 77% | 3.4 | 0% |
| 40 | Tuxford Nottinghamshire | C− | 1.4 | 100% | 1 | 0% |
| 41 | Mere Wiltshire | C− | 1.6 | 34% | 1.5 | 54% |
| 42 | Gwaun-Cae-Gurwen West Glamorgan | C− | 1.1 | 80% | 0.8 | 26% |
| 43 | Tarvin Cheshire | C− | 1.2 | 90% | 1.9 | 0% |
| 44 | Clifton Bedfordshire | C− | 1.7 | 64% | 2.6 | 0% |
| 45 | Weedon Bec Northamptonshire | C− | 1.1 | 87% | 2 | 0% |
| 46 | Kirkbymoorside North Yorkshire | C− | 0.4 | 55% | 1.9 | 37% |
| 47 | Thorngumbald East Riding of Yorkshire | D | 1.3 | 69% | 0.5 | 0% |
| 48 | Catterall Lancashire | D | 1 | 47% | 1.9 | 9% |
| 49 | Croston Lancashire | D | 0.6 | 78% | 2.3 | 0% |
| 50 | Harbury Warwickshire | D | 1.6 | 73% | 1.7 | 0% |
| 51 | Ambrosden Oxfordshire | D | 1 | 78% | 2.1 | 0% |
| 52 | Sherburn County Durham | D | 0.2 | 0% | 4.1 | 0% |
| 53 | Berinsfield Oxfordshire | D | 0.1 | 0% | 2.1 | 11% |
| 54 | Terrington St Clement Norfolk | D | 1.5 | 53% | 0.4 | 0% |
| 55 | Seghill Northumberland | D | 0.2 | 41% | 3.1 | 0% |
| 56 | Repton Derbyshire | D | 0.8 | 36% | 2.8 | 0% |
| 57 | East Ayton and West Ayton North Yorkshire | D | 0.1 | 0% | 1.2 | 33% |
| 58 | West Winch Norfolk | D | 1.5 | 73% | 0.7 | 0% |
| 59 | Pickmere Cheshire | D− | 0.4 | 71% | 1.6 | 0% |
| 60 | Greetham Rutland | D− | 0.9 | 30% | 0.8 | 0% |
The map
Parks, footpaths & countryside
Tap a number to zoom to a park. Tap a layer to hide it. The dashed line is Catterall’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 Catterall
The biggest is Cross Fields Play Area, 0.0 ha (0 acres). Directions go to the park’s nearest public entrance where Ordnance Survey maps one.
Close to home
5 in 10 Catterall 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 (47%)Further (53%)
Catterall47%
Towns its size78%
Lancashire towns85%
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; 8 playgrounds are mapped in and around the town, about one for every 350 residents.
National Parks & National Landscapes
The Forest Of Bowland National Landscape is 1.1 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
National Landscape
Forest Of Bowland
1.1 mi north-east806 km²since 19649% of the land within 5 km
Official site9% of the land within 5 km of Catterall is National Park or National Landscape, more than 70% of UK towns.
Footpaths & waymarked walks
2 waymarked walks pass through or near Catterall
19 km of footpaths, bridleways and rights of way are mapped in Catterall and the kilometre around it, 1.9 km for every square kilometre (the typical UK town has 3.0). Bars show each route’s kilometres within 2 km of the town.
Regional
Wyre Way (Shard Bridge to Garstang)5.2 km
Wyre Way (Garstang to Abbeystead)0.5 km
2 regional routes pass through, including the Wyre Way (Shard Bridge to Garstang) and Wyre Way (Garstang to Abbeystead).
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 Catterall: 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) | 7.9 | 9.7 | 11.7 | 13.9 | 15.9 | 17.1 | 16.6 | 14.8 | 12.6 | 10.4 | 8.4 | 7.4 |
| High (°C) | 8 | 8 | 10 | 13 | 16 | 19 | 20 | 20 | 18 | 14 | 11 | 8 |
| Rain (mm) | 94 | 80 | 68 | 55 | 60 | 70 | 81 | 99 | 97 | 116 | 110 | 117 |
April is the driest month (55 mm) and July the warmest (highs of 20 °C). Winter days are short, about 7 hours of daylight in December, and 117 mm of rain falls in December, the wettest month. Frost comes on about 42 nights a year. The climate in Catterall →
Things to do
8 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
Catterall is inland. These are the nearest named beaches, measured from the edge of the town.
Half Moon Bay12 mi from Catterall’s edge
DirectionsMallows Bay14 mi from Catterall’s edge
DirectionsTreasure Beach24 mi from Catterall’s edge
DirectionsCar Park Beach27 mi from Catterall’s edge
DirectionsCreek Beach North27 mi from Catterall’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
Picnic sites 1
Plus 1 picnic site without a name on the map.
Playgrounds 8
Plus 8 playgrounds without a name on the map.
Campsites 1
Orchard Glamping0.4 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.
BondsGarstangBartonGreat EcclestonBroughtonGoosnarghCatterall
ABCDOutdoors Grade
Bonds, 1.2 miles away, grades A−, the best next door: every resident lives within 400 m of a park. Garstang, Barton and Goosnargh have at least twice Catterall’s green space per resident.
Questions about the outdoors in Catterall
What is the biggest park in Catterall?
Cross Fields Play Area, 0.0 ha (0 acres). 1 named park, garden or playing field is in the town or within 400 m of it.
Is Catterall near a National Park?
The nearest protected landscape is the Forest Of Bowland National Landscape, 1.1 mi north-east of the town’s edge. It covers 806 km² and was designated in 1964.
What are the best walks near Catterall?
2 waymarked walking routes pass within 2 km of the town, including the Wyre Way (Shard Bridge to Garstang) and Wyre Way (Garstang to Abbeystead).
What is the nearest beach to Catterall?
Half Moon Bay, 12 mi from the edge of the town, then Mallows Bay (14 mi). Catterall itself is inland.
How many people in Catterall live near a park?
47% 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 Catterall?
May to September: the longest days, the warmest afternoons and the least rain of the year, from the Met Office 1991–2020 averages.
Is Catterall good for walking?
Paths are thinner than most towns: 1.9 km of footpath and right of way per square kilometre, more than 27% of UK towns. For park space per person it beats 13% (1.0 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 Catterall’s overall grade.
Sources
Where Catterall’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.