Ormskirk’s biggest
Coronation Park
Park or garden
6.4 ha (16 acres)2.5 km of path
35 minto walk all 2.5 km of path
9 pitchesfootball pitches would fit
Centralin the middle of Ormskirk
1 listed
Directionsto the nearest entrance
Photo: Small-town hero · Public domainDOutdoors Grade
Outdoors in Ormskirk · parks, paths & countryside
80% of Ormskirk’s residents live within a 5-minute walk of a park
Footpaths add up to 52 km in the town and the kilometre around it, 1.8 for every square kilometre. Parks and playing fields in Ormskirk add up to 1.5 ha for every 1,000 residents; the typical UK town has 2.1. Ormskirk grades D for the outdoors: #58 of 65 in Lancashire. A character grade: it isn’t part of the overall grade.
Green space
1.5 ha
per 1,000 residents
Typical UK town 2.1
Near a park
80%
of residents within 400 m
Typical UK town 83%
Footpaths
52 km
1.8 km per km², town + 1 km
Typical UK town 3.0 per km²
Protected landscape
0%
of the land within 5 km
Outdoors grade
Ormskirk grades D for the outdoors
Each chart is every UK town of 1,000 or more on one measure: the green bar is Ormskirk, 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 14% of UK towns#58 of 65 in Lancashire
Public green space1.5 haper 1,000 residents: parks, gardens, playing fields, play spaces
28out of
100
100
A park within a walk80%of residents within 400 m (a 5-minute walk)
47out of
100
100
National Park or National Landscape0%of the land within 5 km · None within 5 km
31out of
100
100
Footpaths1.8 kmper km², the town and 1 km around it
25out 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
How Ormskirk compares with UK towns of 25,700 to 29,900
The 60 UK towns and cities of 25,700 to 29,900 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
Ormskirk1.8
Towns its size3.4
Lancashire towns3.0
All UK towns3.0
Green space, ha per 1,000 residents
Ormskirk1.5
Towns its size2.5
Lancashire towns2.0
All UK towns2.1
Residents within 400 m of a park
Ormskirk80%
Towns its size83%
Lancashire towns85%
All UK towns83%
Ormskirk falls furthest behind on path per km², where 56 of the 59 others do better.
Show as a table
| Town | Outdoors | Green space | Near a park | Path per km² | Protected | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yate Gloucestershire | A+ | 4.3 | 99% | 6.8 | 11% |
| 2 | Jarrow Tyne and Wear | A+ | 5.3 | 90% | 6.1 | 0% |
| 3 | Stroud Gloucestershire | A+ | 4.6 | 79% | 5.8 | 70% |
| 4 | Sevenoaks Kent | A | 8.1 | 76% | 3.8 | 70% |
| 5 | Stalybridge Greater Manchester | A | 5 | 82% | 4.8 | 12% |
| 6 | Ashington Northumberland | A | 5.6 | 83% | 3.9 | 0% |
| 7 | Penarth South Glamorgan | A | 3.5 | 83% | 4.1 | 0% |
| 8 | Woodley Berkshire | A | 5 | 81% | 4.3 | 1% |
| 9 | Lancing and Sompting West Sussex | A | 1.8 | 80% | 3 | 37% |
| 10 | Totton Hampshire | A | 1.6 | 94% | 4.4 | 50% |
| 11 | Burntwood Staffordshire | A− | 5.3 | 81% | 3.4 | 12% |
| 12 | Larkfield Kent | A− | 5.6 | 75% | 3.4 | 27% |
| 13 | Ewell Surrey | A− | 7.5 | 89% | 4.4 | 0% |
| 14 | Rickmansworth Hertfordshire | A− | 2.9 | 81% | 4.4 | 11% |
| 15 | Stretford Greater Manchester | A− | 3.7 | 92% | 4.9 | 0% |
| 16 | Tadworth and Epsom Downs Surrey | A− | 3.4 | 65% | 5.3 | 16% |
| 17 | Great Yarmouth Norfolk | A− | 1.7 | 73% | 3.2 | 18% |
| 18 | Little Hulton Greater Manchester | A− | 8.6 | 87% | 3.8 | 0% |
| 19 | East Grinstead West Sussex | A− | 1.6 | 87% | 3.7 | 58% |
| 20 | Cleethorpes Lincolnshire | A− | 3 | 84% | 2.7 | 0% |
| 21 | Daventry Northamptonshire | A− | 4.1 | 99% | 3.3 | 0% |
| 22 | Eston North Yorkshire | B+ | 2.9 | 93% | 2.8 | 2% |
| 23 | Cramlington Northumberland | B+ | 2.3 | 91% | 6.6 | 0% |
| 24 | Portishead Somerset | B+ | 2 | 82% | 3.3 | 0% |
| 25 | Haverhill Suffolk | B+ | 2.4 | 91% | 5 | 0% |
| 26 | Longbenton Tyne and Wear | B+ | 3.3 | 80% | 6.2 | 0% |
| 27 | Fleetwood Lancashire | B+ | 2.7 | 92% | 1.8 | 0% |
| 28 | Deal Kent | B+ | 1 | 86% | 2.7 | 6% |
| 29 | Farnworth Greater Manchester | B+ | 3 | 85% | 4.4 | 0% |
| 30 | Pontypool Gwent | B+ | 3.6 | 93% | 1.8 | 7% |
| 31 | Colwyn Bay Clwyd | B+ | 1.9 | 77% | 2.4 | 0% |
| 32 | Shipley West Yorkshire | B | 2.1 | 87% | 6 | 0% |
| 33 | Consett County Durham | B | 1.7 | 87% | 3.1 | 19% |
| 34 | Darwen Lancashire | B | 2.2 | 89% | 4.5 | 0% |
| 35 | Newton Aycliffe County Durham | B | 2.1 | 94% | 4.1 | 0% |
| 36 | Rugeley Staffordshire | B | 1.2 | 94% | 2.7 | 37% |
| 37 | Witham Essex | B | 1.9 | 94% | 4.1 | 0% |
| 38 | Egham Surrey | B | 4.1 | 63% | 4.9 | 0% |
| 39 | Broadstairs Kent | B | 1.7 | 76% | 3.1 | 0% |
| 40 | Atherton Greater Manchester | B | 3.8 | 83% | 3.1 | 0% |
| 41 | Bushey Hertfordshire | B | 3.1 | 77% | 4 | 0% |
| 42 | Rhyl Clwyd | B | 1 | 84% | 2.2 | 7% |
| 43 | Droitwich Spa Worcestershire | B | 2.5 | 84% | 3.8 | 0% |
| 44 | Evesham Worcestershire | B− | 1.7 | 80% | 3.5 | 4% |
| 45 | Stanford-le-Hope Essex | B− | 2.6 | 84% | 1.4 | 0% |
| 46 | Ashton-in-Makerfield Greater Manchester | B− | 2.6 | 93% | 2.5 | 0% |
| 47 | Melton Mowbray Leicestershire | B− | 3.3 | 84% | 2.4 | 0% |
| 48 | Kendal Cumbria | C+ | 0.9 | 67% | 4 | 33% |
| 49 | Horley Surrey | C+ | 1.9 | 84% | 3.4 | 0% |
| 50 | Newton Abbot Devon | C+ | 2.6 | 62% | 2.3 | 6% |
| 51 | Stratford-upon-Avon Warwickshire | C | 1.6 | 84% | 3.2 | 0% |
| 52 | Newark-on-Trent Nottinghamshire | C | 2.2 | 91% | 2 | 0% |
| 53 | Walton-on-Thames Surrey | C | 1.6 | 81% | 3.4 | 0% |
| 54 | Frome Somerset | C | 1.3 | 78% | 2.4 | 9% |
| 55 | Wickford Essex | C | 2.4 | 59% | 3 | 0% |
| 56 | Hertford Hertfordshire | C | 0.9 | 65% | 5.3 | 0% |
| 57 | Heywood Greater Manchester | C− | 1.3 | 80% | 2.8 | 0% |
| 58 | Heswall Merseyside | C− | 1.1 | 56% | 2.3 | 0% |
| 59 | Ormskirk Lancashire | D | 1.5 | 80% | 1.8 | 0% |
| 60 | Wisbech Cambridgeshire | D | 1.2 | 79% | 1.4 | 0% |
The map
Parks, footpaths & countryside
Tap a number to zoom to a park. Tap a layer to hide it. The dashed line is Ormskirk’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 Ormskirk
The biggest is Coronation Park, 6.4 ha (16 acres). Directions go to the park’s nearest public entrance where Ordnance Survey maps one.
All 5 named parks by size: 8 ha (21 acres) and 3 km of path
Parks & gardens 8.2 haPlay spaces 0.2 ha
The two biggest, Coronation Park and St Helens Road Park, are 82% of the named green space and carry 3 km of path between them. 4 of the 5 are under 2 ha: small gardens, play spaces and pitches.
St Helens Road Park
Park or garden
0.5 ha (1 acres)0.5 km of path
5 minto walk all 0.5 km of path
Centralin the middle of Ormskirk
2 listed
Directionsto the nearest entrance
Sandfield Park
Park or garden
0.9 ha (2 acres)
0.7 mi southfrom the centre
Directionsto the nearest entrance
Halsall Lane Park
Park or garden
0.4 ha (1 acres)0.1 km of path
0.6 mi north-westfrom the centre
Directionsto the nearest entrance
Rachel Taylor Children's Playground
Play space
0.2 ha (0 acres)
1.1 mi south-westfrom the centre
Directionsto the nearest entrance
Close to home
How close Ormskirk’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 (80%)Further (20%)
Ormskirk80%
Towns its size83%
Lancashire towns85%
All UK towns83%
About 5,000 people live further than that. Playing fields count, so a park within reach isn’t always one with paths or trees; 32 playgrounds are mapped in and around the town, about one for every 866 residents.
Footpaths & waymarked walks
Footpaths in and around Ormskirk
52 km of footpaths, bridleways and rights of way are mapped in Ormskirk and the kilometre around it, 1.8 km for every square kilometre (the typical UK town has 3.0).
No named walking route is mapped within 2 km of Ormskirk; 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.
When to get out
The best walking months in Ormskirk: 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) | 8.0 | 9.7 | 11.7 | 13.9 | 15.9 | 17.0 | 16.5 | 14.8 | 12.6 | 10.4 | 8.5 | 7.5 |
| High (°C) | 7 | 8 | 10 | 13 | 16 | 18 | 20 | 20 | 18 | 14 | 10 | 8 |
| Rain (mm) | 81 | 63 | 57 | 56 | 56 | 69 | 76 | 88 | 90 | 103 | 92 | 98 |
April is the driest month (56 mm) and July the warmest (highs of 20 °C). Winter days are short, about 7 hours of daylight in December, and 103 mm of rain falls in October, the wettest month. Frost comes on about 32 nights a year. The climate in Ormskirk →
Things to do
32 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
Ormskirk is inland. These are the nearest named beaches, measured from the edge of the town.
Crosby Beach7.0 mi from Ormskirk’s edge
DirectionsTaylor's Bank8.2 mi from Ormskirk’s edge
DirectionsBrazil Bank9.4 mi from Ormskirk’s edge
DirectionsTranmere Beach12 mi from Ormskirk’s edge
DirectionsEast Hoyle Bank15 mi from Ormskirk’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.
Up high. Gaw Hill, at 81 m, is the highest named top within 2 km of Ormskirk.
Every named place, with directions
Viewpoints 1
Plus 1 viewpoint without a name on the map.
Hills and peaks 2
Gaw Hill81 m (266 ft) · 0.3 mi from town
DirectionsClieves Hills56 m (184 ft) · 0.6 mi from town
DirectionsPicnic sites 1
Plus 1 picnic site without a name on the map.
Playgrounds 32
William Arnold Silcock Memorial Playing Field Play Areain town
DirectionsPlus 31 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.
BurscoughLydiateMaghullSkelmersdaleParboldKirkbyOrmskirk
ABCDOutdoors Grade
Skelmersdale, 5 miles away, grades A, the best next door: 91% of its residents live within 400 m of a park. Skelmersdale has at least twice Ormskirk’s green space per resident. None of the neighbours has a protected landscape within 5 km either.
Questions about the outdoors in Ormskirk
What is the biggest park in Ormskirk?
Coronation Park, 6.4 ha (16 acres), with 2.5 km of path. St Helens Road Park (0.5 ha) is second. 5 named parks, gardens and playing fields are in the town or within 400 m of it.
Is Ormskirk near a National Park?
No National Park or National Landscape is within 30 km (about 19 miles) of Ormskirk.
What is the nearest beach to Ormskirk?
Crosby Beach, 7.0 mi from the edge of the town, then Taylor's Bank (8.2 mi). Ormskirk itself is inland.
How many people in Ormskirk live near a park?
80% 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 Ormskirk?
May to September: the longest days, the warmest afternoons and the least rain of the year, from the Met Office 1991–2020 averages.
Is Ormskirk good for walking?
Paths are thinner than most towns: 1.8 km of footpath and right of way per square kilometre, more than 25% of UK towns. For park space per person it beats 28% (1.5 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 Ormskirk’s overall grade.
Sources
Where Ormskirk’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.