Huncoat’s biggest
Huncoat Peace Garden
Park or garden
0.0 ha (0 acres)
Centralin the middle of Huncoat
Directionsto the nearest entrance
Photo: Alexander P Kapp · CC BY-SA 2.0A+Outdoors Grade
Outdoors in Huncoat · parks, paths & countryside
Almost everyone in Huncoat lives within a 5-minute walk of a park
Parks and playing fields in Huncoat add up to 10.1 ha for every 1,000 residents; the typical UK town has 2.1. 35 km of footpaths run through the village and the kilometre around it, 4.9 for every square kilometre. The Forest Of Bowland National Landscape begins 2.7 mi from the village’s edge. Huncoat grades A+ for the outdoors. A character grade: it isn’t part of the overall grade.
Green space
10.1 ha
per 1,000 residents
Typical UK town 2.1
Near a park
100%
of residents within 400 m
Typical UK town 83%
Footpaths
35 km
4.9 km per km², town + 1 km
Typical UK town 3.0 per km²
Protected landscape
1%
of the land within 5 km
Nearest: Forest Of Bowland National Landscape
Character
What kind of outdoors village is Huncoat?
Read from the data: what stands out first, good and bad.
A park on every doorstep100% of residents live within 400 m of a park or playing field.Room to roam10.1 ha of parks and playing fields per 1,000 residents, more than 96% of UK towns.A village of footpaths4.9 km of path per km², more than 91% of UK towns. The typical town has 3.0.Countryside close byThe Forest Of Bowland National Landscape starts 2.7 mi north.
Huncoat’s strongest suit is parks close to every home, followed by plenty of park space.
Outdoors grade
Huncoat grades A+ for the outdoors
Each chart is every UK town of 1,000 or more on one measure: the green bar is Huncoat, the dashed line the typical town. The number is the share of towns it beats; the five are averaged and the average ranked again.
A+
Better than 98% of UK towns1st of 60 UK villages its size
Public green space10.1 haper 1,000 residents: parks, gardens, playing fields, play spaces
96out of
100
100
A park within a walk100%of residents within 400 m (a 5-minute walk)
89out of
100
100
National Park or National Landscape1%of the land within 5 km
63out of
100
100
Footpaths4.9 kmper km², the town and 1 km around it
92out 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
Huncoat is 1st of 60 UK villages its size for the outdoors
The 60 UK towns and cities of 1,200 to 1,300 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
Huncoat4.9
Villages its size2.1
Lancashire towns3.0
All UK towns3.0
Green space, ha per 1,000 residents
Huncoat10.1
Villages its size2.2
Lancashire towns2.0
All UK towns2.1
Residents within 400 m of a park
Huncoat100%
Villages its size78%
Lancashire towns85%
All UK towns83%
Against villages its size, Huncoat stands out most for park space per resident: only 2 of the other 59 have more.
Show as a table
| Town | Outdoors | Green space | Near a park | Path per km² | Protected | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Huncoat Lancashire | A+ | 10.1 | 100% | 4.9 | 1% |
| 2 | Clanfield Hampshire | A+ | 6.1 | 100% | 2.9 | 78% |
| 3 | Kirton Suffolk | A+ | 2.5 | 100% | 2.3 | 50% |
| 4 | Aldington Kent | A+ | 4.6 | 100% | 3.8 | 11% |
| 5 | Otterbourne Hampshire | A | 2.9 | 100% | 3.2 | 25% |
| 6 | Thurgoland South Yorkshire | A | 2.5 | 100% | 4.1 | 1% |
| 7 | Box Hill Surrey | A | 35.9 | 12% | 6 | 39% |
| 8 | Chew Magna Somerset | A | 2.4 | 100% | 3 | 15% |
| 9 | Millhouse Green South Yorkshire | A | 1.9 | 100% | 3.6 | 18% |
| 10 | Harlech Gwynedd | A− | 1.9 | 36% | 3.5 | 67% |
| 11 | Bonds Lancashire | A− | 1.7 | 100% | 3.5 | 16% |
| 12 | Bradpole Dorset | A− | 0.9 | 100% | 3.3 | 95% |
| 13 | South Heath Buckinghamshire | A− | 20.4 | 0% | 3 | 85% |
| 14 | Westfield East Sussex | B+ | 1.9 | 100% | 1.9 | 83% |
| 15 | Tregarth Gwynedd | B+ | 1.5 | 100% | 2.9 | 23% |
| 16 | New Brancepeth County Durham | B+ | 2.6 | 100% | 3.5 | 0% |
| 17 | Bierton Buckinghamshire | B+ | 5.8 | 70% | 7.7 | 0% |
| 18 | Farningham Kent | B+ | 1.7 | 100% | 2 | 33% |
| 19 | Sharpness Gloucestershire | B+ | 2.1 | 100% | 1.8 | 0% |
| 20 | Billy Row County Durham | B | 2.3 | 100% | 3.1 | 0% |
| 21 | Stoke Holy Cross Norfolk | B | 2.2 | 100% | 2.1 | 0% |
| 22 | Horton Kirby Kent | B | 5.9 | 78% | 1.7 | 21% |
| 23 | Bunbury Cheshire | B | 2.6 | 100% | 2.7 | 0% |
| 24 | Talgarth Powys | B | 5.7 | 71% | 1.5 | 52% |
| 25 | Kilgetty Dyfed | B | 1 | 100% | 0.9 | 18% |
| 26 | Minster Lovell Oxfordshire | B | 3.6 | 79% | 1.5 | 37% |
| 27 | Sutton Benger Wiltshire | B | 2.7 | 100% | 2.4 | 0% |
| 28 | Beer Devon | B | 1.6 | 50% | 2.2 | 43% |
| 29 | Eckington Worcestershire | B | 4.1 | 72% | 1.9 | 23% |
| 30 | Potten End Hertfordshire | B− | 2.4 | 73% | 2.2 | 44% |
| 31 | Brightwell-cum-Sotwell Oxfordshire | B− | 2.5 | 72% | 2.2 | 40% |
| 32 | Wyton Cambridgeshire | B− | 4.9 | 100% | 0.8 | 0% |
| 33 | Gilmorton Leicestershire | B− | 3.3 | 100% | 1.4 | 0% |
| 34 | Marlpit Hill Kent | B− | 2.5 | 0% | 2.9 | 35% |
| 35 | Sutton Common Suffolk | C+ | 0.8 | 51% | 3.9 | 85% |
| 36 | Gaerwen Gwynedd | C+ | 1.5 | 100% | 0.4 | 7% |
| 37 | Weobley Herefordshire | C+ | 1.6 | 100% | 2.1 | 0% |
| 38 | Ashill Norfolk | C+ | 3.7 | 82% | 1.7 | 0% |
| 39 | Westhampnett West Sussex | C | 0.2 | 79% | 2.6 | 33% |
| 40 | Ampleforth North Yorkshire | C | 2.3 | 27% | 1.7 | 95% |
| 41 | Bradfield Essex | C | 1.4 | 27% | 1.5 | 35% |
| 42 | Stoke Hampshire | C | 0.3 | 0% | 2 | 32% |
| 43 | Silkstone Common South Yorkshire | C | 1.5 | 63% | 4.9 | 0% |
| 44 | Ponthir Gwent | C | 2.9 | 78% | 1.8 | 0% |
| 45 | Coedhirwaun West Glamorgan | C | 2 | 100% | 0.4 | 0% |
| 46 | Foxton Cambridgeshire | C | 2.3 | 84% | 1.7 | 0% |
| 47 | Hanwood Shropshire | C− | 1.9 | 19% | 2.6 | 3% |
| 48 | Trewoon Cornwall | D | 0.9 | 71% | 1.7 | 6% |
| 49 | Blyth Nottinghamshire | D | 2.5 | 76% | 0.3 | 0% |
| 50 | Burton on the Wolds Leicestershire | D | 2.5 | 31% | 2 | 0% |
| 51 | East Markham Nottinghamshire | D | 2.2 | 46% | 1.9 | 0% |
| 52 | Southery Norfolk | D | 2 | 61% | 1.7 | 0% |
| 53 | Dishforth North Yorkshire | D | 2.3 | 68% | 0.7 | 0% |
| 54 | Fleet Hargate Lincolnshire | D | 1.7 | 76% | 0.7 | 0% |
| 55 | Hadham Cross Hertfordshire | D | 0 | 0% | 3.3 | 0% |
| 56 | Elvington North Yorkshire | D | 2.1 | 0% | 1.5 | 0% |
| 57 | Felton Northumberland | D− | 1.7 | 50% | 1.4 | 0% |
| 58 | Sutton on Trent Nottinghamshire | D− | 0.5 | 39% | 1.9 | 0% |
| 59 | Walsham le Willows Suffolk | D− | 0.4 | 0% | 2 | 0% |
| 60 | Helpston Cambridgeshire | D− | 0 | 0% | 1.7 | 0% |
The map
Parks, footpaths & countryside
Tap a number to zoom to a park. Tap a layer to hide it. The dashed line is Huncoat’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 Huncoat
The biggest is Huncoat Peace Garden, 0.0 ha (0 acres). Directions go to the park’s nearest public entrance where Ordnance Survey maps one.
Close to home
How close Huncoat’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).
Within 400 m (100%)Further (0%)
Huncoat100%
Villages its size78%
Lancashire towns85%
All UK towns83%
Playing fields count, so a park within reach isn’t always one with paths or trees; 10 playgrounds are mapped in and around the village, about one for every 126 residents.
National Parks & National Landscapes
The Forest Of Bowland National Landscape is 2.7 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.
National ParkNational LandscapeThe 5 km the grade counts
Yorkshire Dales National Park covers 2,185 km² and has been a National Park since 1954.
Footpaths & waymarked walks
2 waymarked walks pass through or near Huncoat
35 km of footpaths, bridleways and rights of way are mapped in Huncoat and the kilometre around it, 4.9 km for every square kilometre (the typical UK town has 3.0). Bars show each route’s kilometres within 2 km of the village.
RegionalLocal
Huncoat Trail14.7 km
Burnley Way5.0 km
Close to home, the Huncoat Trail has 15 km of local walk within 2 km of the village. The regional route here is the Burnley 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 Huncoat: June 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) | 8.0 | 9.7 | 11.7 | 13.9 | 15.9 | 17.1 | 16.6 | 14.8 | 12.6 | 10.4 | 8.5 | 7.4 |
| High (°C) | 6 | 6 | 8 | 11 | 14 | 17 | 18 | 18 | 16 | 12 | 8 | 6 |
| Rain (mm) | 121 | 111 | 96 | 77 | 78 | 93 | 102 | 112 | 111 | 133 | 138 | 153 |
April is the driest month (77 mm) and July the warmest (highs of 18 °C). Winter days are short, about 7 hours of daylight in December, and 153 mm of rain falls in December, the wettest month. Frost comes on about 41 nights a year. The climate in Huncoat →
Things to do
10 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
Huncoat is inland. These are the nearest named beaches, measured from the edge of the village.
Treasure Beach9.0 mi from Huncoat’s edge
DirectionsCar Park Beach13 mi from Huncoat’s edge
DirectionsCreek Beach North13 mi from Huncoat’s edge
DirectionsCreek Beach South13 mi from Huncoat’s edge
DirectionsStone Beach13 mi from Huncoat’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
Hills and peaks 1
Hameldon Scouts0.9 mi from town
DirectionsPlaygrounds 10
Higham Playing Fields Play Area0.5 mi from town
DirectionsPlus 9 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.
HaptonAccringtonClayton-le-MoorsChurchPadihamReadHuncoat
ABCDOutdoors Grade
| Town | Outdoors | Green space, ha per 1,000 | Near a park | Protected within 5 km |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Huncoat | A+ | 10.1 | 100% | 1% |
| Hapton 1.3 mi | A | 2.6 | 87% | 2% |
| Accrington 1.6 mi | A− | 2.6 | 79% | 0% |
| Clayton-le-Moors 1.7 mi | B | 1.1 | 86% | 2% |
| Church 1.8 mi | C | 1.5 | 79% | 0% |
| Padiham 2.3 mi | A− | 1.5 | 95% | 18% |
| Read 2.6 mi | C+ | 1.6 | 71% | 21% |
Huncoat grades higher for the outdoors than every neighbour in the table.
Questions about the outdoors in Huncoat
What is the biggest park in Huncoat?
Huncoat Peace Garden, 0.0 ha (0 acres). 1 named park, garden or playing field is in the village or within 400 m of it.
Is Huncoat near a National Park?
Yes. Yorkshire Dales National Park begins 17 mi north of the village’s edge. It covers 2,185 km² and has been a National Park since 1954. The nearest protected landscape of any kind is the Forest Of Bowland National Landscape, 2.7 mi away.
What are the best walks near Huncoat?
2 waymarked walking routes pass within 2 km of the village, including the Huncoat Trail and Burnley Way.
What is the nearest beach to Huncoat?
Treasure Beach, 9.0 mi from the edge of the village, then Car Park Beach (13 mi). Huncoat itself is inland.
How many people in Huncoat 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 Huncoat?
June to September: the longest days, the warmest afternoons and the least rain of the year, from the Met Office 1991–2020 averages.
Is Huncoat good for walking?
For paths, yes: 4.9 km of footpath and right of way per square kilometre, more than 92% of UK towns. For park space per person it beats 96% (10.1 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 Huncoat’s overall grade.
Sources
Where Huncoat’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.