Freckleton’s biggest
Freckleton Memorial Playing Fields
Park or garden
1.5 ha (4 acres)0.4 km of path
2 pitchesfootball pitches would fit
Centralin the middle of Freckleton
Playground
Directionsto the nearest entrance
Photo: Alexander P Kapp · CC BY-SA 2.0DOutdoors Grade
Outdoors in Freckleton · parks, paths & countryside
Parks and walks in Freckleton
Parks and playing fields in Freckleton add up to 0.4 ha for every 1,000 residents; the typical UK town has 2.1. 16 km of footpaths run through the town and the kilometre around it, 1.4 for every square kilometre. 73% of residents live within a 5-minute walk of a park or playing field. Freckleton grades D for the outdoors: #59 of 65 in Lancashire. A character grade: it isn’t part of the overall grade.
Green space
0.4 ha
per 1,000 residents
Typical UK town 2.1
Near a park
73%
of residents within 400 m
Typical UK town 83%
Footpaths
16 km
1.4 km per km², town + 1 km
Typical UK town 3.0 per km²
Protected landscape
0%
of the land within 5 km
Nearest: Forest Of Bowland National Landscape
The sea
6%
of the area within 5 km
Outdoors grade
Freckleton grades D for the outdoors
Each chart is every UK town of 1,000 or more on one measure: the green bar is Freckleton, 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 13% of UK towns#59 of 65 in Lancashire · 52nd of 60 UK towns its size
Public green space0.4 haper 1,000 residents: parks, gardens, playing fields, play spaces
4out of
100
100
A park within a walk73%of residents within 400 m (a 5-minute walk)
35out of
100
100
National Park or National Landscape0%of the land within 5 km · None within 5 km
31out of
100
100
Footpaths1.4 kmper km², the town and 1 km around it
15out of
100
100
The sea6%of the area within 5 km
84out 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
Freckleton is 52nd of 60 UK towns its size for the outdoors
The 60 UK towns and cities of 4,300 to 4,700 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
Freckleton1.4
Towns its size2.8
Lancashire towns3.0
All UK towns3.0
Green space, ha per 1,000 residents
Freckleton0.4
Towns its size2.1
Lancashire towns2.0
All UK towns2.1
Residents within 400 m of a park
Freckleton73%
Towns its size86%
Lancashire towns85%
All UK towns83%
Freckleton falls furthest behind on park space per resident, where 56 of the 59 others do better.
Show as a table
| Town | Outdoors | Green space | Near a park | Path per km² | Protected | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Keswick Cumbria | A+ | 9.1 | 100% | 4.1 | 100% |
| 2 | Lawford Essex | A+ | 3.4 | 94% | 2.8 | 40% |
| 3 | Chipstead and Woodmansterne Surrey | A+ | 10.3 | 92% | 4.8 | 12% |
| 4 | Great Denham Bedfordshire | A | 14.7 | 100% | 5.3 | 0% |
| 5 | Monkton Heathfield Somerset | A | 2.4 | 100% | 4.4 | 8% |
| 6 | Aberbargoed Gwent | A | 22.8 | 95% | 5.6 | 0% |
| 7 | Fortuneswell Dorset | A | 1.1 | 100% | 4.6 | 0% |
| 8 | Kimberley Nottinghamshire | A− | 2.9 | 100% | 4.8 | 0% |
| 9 | Stanton Hill and Skegby Nottinghamshire | A− | 16.1 | 83% | 5.3 | 0% |
| 10 | Whittle-le-Woods Lancashire | A− | 7.7 | 91% | 4 | 0% |
| 11 | Exminster Devon | A− | 2.5 | 100% | 2.7 | 0% |
| 12 | Nantyglo Gwent | A− | 2.5 | 82% | 3.7 | 29% |
| 13 | Wheathampstead Hertfordshire | A− | 3.1 | 93% | 4.2 | 0% |
| 14 | Horsford Norfolk | B+ | 6.5 | 97% | 2.8 | 0% |
| 15 | Winscombe and Sandford Somerset | B+ | 3.5 | 52% | 3.6 | 38% |
| 16 | Girton Cambridgeshire | B+ | 2.8 | 92% | 3.6 | 0% |
| 17 | Elmswell Suffolk | B | 2.5 | 100% | 2.9 | 0% |
| 18 | Clayton West and Scissett West Yorkshire | B | 1.4 | 100% | 4.2 | 0% |
| 19 | Sowerby Bridge West Yorkshire | B | 4.5 | 72% | 3.9 | 0% |
| 20 | Blackhall Colliery County Durham | B | 1.1 | 95% | 2.7 | 0% |
| 21 | Earby Lancashire | B− | 1.4 | 93% | 4.7 | 0% |
| 22 | Alderley Edge Cheshire | B− | 2.2 | 86% | 3.7 | 0% |
| 23 | Finedon Northamptonshire | B− | 3.9 | 95% | 1.9 | 0% |
| 24 | Cwmavon West Glamorgan | B− | 2.3 | 75% | 2.5 | 0% |
| 25 | Irchester Northamptonshire | B− | 8.2 | 83% | 2 | 0% |
| 26 | Cleadon Tyne and Wear | B− | 2.1 | 63% | 2.8 | 0% |
| 27 | Tibshelf Derbyshire | B− | 1.4 | 94% | 3.8 | 0% |
| 28 | Toddington Bedfordshire | B− | 0.9 | 86% | 3.1 | 8% |
| 29 | Milford on Sea Hampshire | C+ | 1.2 | 50% | 2.1 | 21% |
| 30 | Blaina Gwent | C+ | 2.1 | 53% | 3.1 | 13% |
| 31 | Stamford Bridge East Riding of Yorkshire | C+ | 2.5 | 100% | 1.4 | 0% |
| 32 | Brinsley and Underwood Nottinghamshire | C+ | 3.3 | 71% | 2.8 | 0% |
| 33 | Iwade Kent | C+ | 0.8 | 100% | 1.5 | 0% |
| 34 | Kennington Oxfordshire | C+ | 2.1 | 58% | 5.5 | 0% |
| 35 | Howden East Riding of Yorkshire | C+ | 3.6 | 94% | 1.2 | 0% |
| 36 | Southminster Essex | C+ | 1.8 | 92% | 1.1 | 0% |
| 37 | Halfway Houses Kent | C | 1.8 | 71% | 1.8 | 0% |
| 38 | Queen's Hills Norfolk | C | 0.4 | 100% | 3 | 0% |
| 39 | Backworth Tyne and Wear | C | 2 | 59% | 4.4 | 0% |
| 40 | Hope Clwyd | C | 8.5 | 64% | 2 | 0% |
| 41 | Eccleston Lancashire | C | 2.4 | 83% | 2.3 | 0% |
| 42 | Clapham Bedfordshire | C | 1.3 | 94% | 2.7 | 0% |
| 43 | Kilburn and Horsley Woodhouse Derbyshire | C | 1.6 | 75% | 3.6 | 0% |
| 44 | Skelmanthorpe West Yorkshire | C | 1 | 88% | 3.2 | 0% |
| 45 | Brundall Norfolk | C | 1.6 | 62% | 2.3 | 20% |
| 46 | Coxhoe County Durham | C | 1.4 | 66% | 4.4 | 0% |
| 47 | Long Lawford Warwickshire | C | 1.2 | 91% | 2.6 | 0% |
| 48 | Wesham Lancashire | C− | 1.7 | 87% | 1.8 | 0% |
| 49 | Saxilby Lincolnshire | C− | 1.3 | 100% | 0.7 | 0% |
| 50 | Chudleigh Devon | C− | 0.3 | 83% | 1.4 | 15% |
| 51 | Epworth Lincolnshire | C− | 1.6 | 75% | 2.2 | 0% |
| 52 | Freckleton Lancashire | D | 0.4 | 73% | 1.4 | 0% |
| 53 | Linton Cambridgeshire | D | 1.1 | 67% | 2.6 | 0% |
| 54 | Shepperton Green Surrey | D | 1.4 | 73% | 1.7 | 0% |
| 55 | Welton Lincolnshire | D | 2 | 57% | 1.4 | 0% |
| 56 | Ynysybwl Mid Glamorgan | D | 2.3 | 60% | 0.7 | 0% |
| 57 | Banks Lancashire | D | 0.3 | 33% | 1.7 | 0% |
| 58 | Lakenheath Suffolk | D | 1.1 | 57% | 2.4 | 0% |
| 59 | Broughton Lincolnshire | D | 0.9 | 39% | 2.7 | 0% |
| 60 | Elm and Emneth Norfolk | D | 2.2 | 45% | 0.7 | 0% |
The map
Parks, footpaths & countryside
Tap a number to zoom to a park. Tap a layer to hide it. The dashed line is Freckleton’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 Freckleton
The biggest is Freckleton Memorial Playing Fields, 1.5 ha (4 acres). Directions go to the park’s nearest public entrance where Ordnance Survey maps one.
Close to home
7 in 10 Freckleton 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 (73%)Further (27%)
Freckleton73%
Towns its size86%
Lancashire towns85%
All UK towns83%
About 1,200 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 560 residents.
National Parks & National Landscapes
The Forest Of Bowland National Landscape is 10.0 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
Footpaths & waymarked walks
1 waymarked walk passes through or near Freckleton
16 km of footpaths, bridleways and rights of way are mapped in Freckleton and the kilometre around it, 1.4 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
Lancashire Coastal Way5.4 km
The regional route here is the Lancashire Coastal Way.
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 Freckleton: May to July and 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 | 15.9 | 17.1 | 16.6 | 14.8 | 12.6 | 10.4 | 8.5 | 7.4 |
| High (°C) | 7 | 8 | 10 | 13 | 16 | 19 | 20 | 20 | 18 | 14 | 10 | 8 |
| Rain (mm) | 76 | 68 | 56 | 50 | 57 | 65 | 72 | 89 | 85 | 102 | 90 | 99 |
April is the driest month (50 mm) and July the warmest (highs of 20 °C). Winter days are short, about 7 hours of daylight in December, and 102 mm of rain falls in October, the wettest month. Frost comes on about 39 nights a year. The climate in Freckleton →
The coast
Freckleton is near the sea
6% of the area within 5 km of Freckleton is sea.
Sea: the area outside the ONS coastline (mean high water). Bathing water quality is published by the Environment Agency (England) and Natural Resources Wales; check it before swimming.
Things to do
8 playgrounds
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.
Every named place, with directions
Playgrounds 8
Freckleton Playground for childrenin town
DirectionsPlus 7 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.
Warton (Fylde)Newton-with-ScalesKirkhamWrea GreenCliftonWeshamFreckleton
ABCDOutdoors Grade
| Town | Outdoors | Green space, ha per 1,000 | Near a park | Protected within 5 km |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Freckleton | D | 0.4 | 73% | 0% |
| Warton (Fylde) 1.0 mi | C | 1.3 | 92% | 0% |
| Newton-with-Scales 1.8 mi | D | 1.4 | 76% | 0% |
| Kirkham 2.1 mi | D− | 1.3 | 66% | 0% |
| Wrea Green 2.4 mi | B− | 3.5 | 100% | 0% |
| Clifton 2.5 mi | C | 1.8 | 100% | 0% |
| Wesham 2.8 mi | C− | 1.7 | 87% | 0% |
Wrea Green, 2.4 miles away, grades B−, the best next door: every resident lives within 400 m of a park. Warton (Fylde), Newton-with-Scales and Kirkham have at least twice Freckleton’s green space per resident. None of the neighbours has a protected landscape within 5 km either.
Questions about the outdoors in Freckleton
What is the biggest park in Freckleton?
Freckleton Memorial Playing Fields, 1.5 ha (4 acres). 1 named park, garden or playing field is in the town or within 400 m of it.
Is Freckleton near a National Park?
The nearest protected landscape is the Forest Of Bowland National Landscape, 10.0 mi north-east of the town’s edge. It covers 806 km² and was designated in 1964.
What are the best walks near Freckleton?
1 waymarked walking route passes within 2 km of the town, including the Lancashire Coastal Way.
How many people in Freckleton live near a park?
73% 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 Freckleton?
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.
Is Freckleton good for walking?
Paths are thinner than most towns: 1.4 km of footpath and right of way per square kilometre, more than 15% of UK towns. For park space per person it beats 4% (0.4 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 Freckleton’s overall grade.
Sources
Where Freckleton’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.