Photo: Alexander P Kapp · CC BY-SA 2.040% of the land within 5 km of Hurst Green is National Park or National Landscape
32% of residents live within a 5-minute walk of a park or playing field. Footpaths add up to 35 km in the village and the kilometre around it, 3.4 for every square kilometre. Parks and playing fields in Hurst Green add up to 2.4 ha for every 1,000 residents; the typical UK town has 2.1. Hurst Green has no Outdoors Grade (towns under 1,000 people aren’t graded).
What kind of outdoors village is Hurst Green?
Read from the data: what stands out first, good and bad.
Hurst Green’s strongest suit is protected countryside on the doorstep, followed by its historic parks. Where it falls short is how far some homes are from a park.
3 in 10 Hurst Green 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).
About 600 people live further than that. Playing fields count, so a park within reach isn’t always one with paths or trees.
Footpaths in and around Hurst Green
35 km of footpaths, bridleways and rights of way are mapped in Hurst Green and the kilometre around it, 3.4 km for every square kilometre (the typical UK town has 3.0).
No named walking route is mapped within 2 km of Hurst Green; its footpaths are on the map above.
Waymarked walks are OpenStreetMap walking routes. Public rights of way are only as complete as the map in each area.
A registered historic park in Hurst Green
Historic England’s register of parks and gardens, and the listed buildings and scheduled monuments that stand inside Hurst Green’s named parks.
A listed building or monument counts when it sits inside the park’s OS Open Greenspace outline (to about 15 m), so a few at the boundary are included. Historic England, National Heritage List for England.
The best walking months in Hurst Green: 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 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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) | 7 | 8 | 10 | 13 | 16 | 18 | 20 | 20 | 17 | 14 | 10 | 7 |
| Rain (mm) | 117 | 103 | 87 | 64 | 72 | 87 | 101 | 111 | 112 | 132 | 128 | 152 |
April is the driest month (64 mm) and July the warmest (highs of 20 °C). Winter days are short, about 7 hours of daylight in December, and 152 mm of rain falls in December, the wettest month. Frost comes on about 37 nights a year. The climate in Hurst Green →
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hurst Green | – | 2.4 | 32% | 40% |
| Old Langho 1.2 mi | A− | 7.6 | 73% | 20% |
| Whalley 2.5 mi | B | 1.2 | 88% | 23% |
| Billington 2.6 mi | C− | 0.5 | 0% | 14% |
| Langho 2.6 mi | C+ | 1.6 | 74% | 7% |
| Barrow 3.0 mi | B | 0.5 | 100% | 27% |
| Clitheroe 3.9 mi | A | 3.0 | 98% | 59% |
Clitheroe, 3.9 miles away, grades A, the best next door: 98% of its residents live within 400 m of a park. Old Langho has at least twice Hurst Green’s green space per resident.
Questions about the outdoors in Hurst Green
Is Hurst Green near a National Park?
No National Park or National Landscape is within 30 km (about 19 miles) of Hurst Green.
How many people in Hurst Green live near a park?
32% 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 Hurst Green?
May to September: the longest days, the warmest afternoons and the least rain of the year, from the Met Office 1991–2020 averages.
Which parks in Hurst Green are historic?
Stonyhurst College (Grade II*) is on Historic England’s register of parks and gardens.
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 Hurst Green’s overall grade.
Where Hurst Green’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.