Photo: Malcolm Street · CC BY-SA 2.0Almost everyone in Weir lives within a 5-minute walk of a park
Footpaths add up to 38 km in the village and the kilometre around it, 6.0 for every square kilometre. Parks and playing fields in Weir add up to 0.6 ha for every 1,000 residents; the typical UK town has 2.1. Weir grades B for the outdoors. A character grade: it isn’t part of the overall grade.
What kind of outdoors village is Weir?
Read from the data: what stands out first, good and bad.
Weir’s strongest suit is parks close to every home, followed by dense footpaths. Where it falls short is park space per person.
Weir grades B for the outdoors
Each chart is every UK town of 1,000 or more on one measure: the green bar is Weir, the dashed line the typical town. The number is the share of towns it beats; the five are averaged and the average ranked again.
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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.
Weir is 21st of 60 UK villages its size for the outdoors
The 60 UK towns and cities of 1,200 to 1,400 people with an Outdoors Grade. Hover a dot for its figures; tap one for its page.
Against villages its size, Weir stands out most for path per km²: only 2 of the other 59 have more. It falls furthest behind on park space per resident, where 51 of the others do better.
Show as a table
| Town | Outdoors | Green space | Near a park | Path per km² | Protected | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Hightown Hampshire | A+ | 15.7 | 100% | 3.5 | 58% |
| 2 | Rough Common Kent | A+ | 11 | 100% | 9.2 | 1% |
| 3 | Box Wiltshire | A+ | 3.8 | 100% | 3.9 | 56% |
| 4 | Aldington Kent | A+ | 4.6 | 100% | 3.8 | 11% |
| 5 | Holybourne Hampshire | A+ | 12.2 | 100% | 2.7 | 23% |
| 6 | Pwll Dyfed | A | 21.6 | 64% | 2.6 | 19% |
| 7 | Amberley Gloucestershire | A | 13.7 | 0% | 6.3 | 87% |
| 8 | Box Hill Surrey | A | 35.9 | 12% | 6 | 39% |
| 9 | Cliffs End Kent | A | 6.9 | 100% | 1.8 | 0% |
| 10 | Compton Hampshire | A− | 18.8 | 61% | 3.6 | 28% |
| 11 | South Heath Buckinghamshire | A− | 20.4 | 0% | 3 | 85% |
| 12 | Exton Devon | A− | 2.2 | 100% | 0.6 | 7% |
| 13 | Westfield East Sussex | B+ | 1.9 | 100% | 1.9 | 83% |
| 14 | New Brancepeth County Durham | B+ | 2.6 | 100% | 3.5 | 0% |
| 15 | Baddesley Ensor Warwickshire | B+ | 18.3 | 100% | 2.1 | 0% |
| 16 | Marshfield Gloucestershire | B+ | 4.9 | 42% | 2.7 | 99% |
| 17 | Welland Worcestershire | B+ | 1.7 | 100% | 1.9 | 38% |
| 18 | Farningham Kent | B+ | 1.7 | 100% | 2 | 33% |
| 19 | Lidlington Bedfordshire | B | 1.9 | 100% | 3.3 | 0% |
| 20 | Beer Devon | B | 1.6 | 50% | 2.2 | 43% |
| 21 | Weir Lancashire | B | 0.6 | 100% | 6 | 0% |
| 22 | Codmore Hill West Sussex | B− | 3.5 | 0% | 2.7 | 46% |
| 23 | Blindley Heath Surrey | B− | 3.2 | 79% | 2.2 | 1% |
| 24 | Blakeney Gloucestershire | B− | 2.1 | 68% | 3.1 | 0% |
| 25 | Fowlmere Cambridgeshire | B− | 4.5 | 100% | 1.1 | 0% |
| 26 | Marlpit Hill Kent | B− | 2.5 | 0% | 2.9 | 35% |
| 27 | Burham Kent | C+ | 1.4 | 77% | 2.8 | 35% |
| 28 | Perranarworthal Cornwall | C+ | 2.5 | 76% | 1.6 | 19% |
| 29 | Gaerwen Gwynedd | C+ | 1.5 | 100% | 0.4 | 7% |
| 30 | Claverdon Warwickshire | C+ | 1.2 | 100% | 2.5 | 0% |
| 31 | Weobley Herefordshire | C+ | 1.6 | 100% | 2.1 | 0% |
| 32 | North Duffield North Yorkshire | C | 2.6 | 100% | 0.4 | 0% |
| 33 | Biddulph Moor Staffordshire | C | 8.4 | 43% | 2.4 | 0% |
| 34 | Silkstone Common South Yorkshire | C | 1.5 | 63% | 4.9 | 0% |
| 35 | Nefyn Gwynedd | C | 0 | 0% | 2 | 24% |
| 36 | Foxton Cambridgeshire | C | 2.3 | 84% | 1.7 | 0% |
| 37 | Atworth Wiltshire | C− | 1.5 | 62% | 2.2 | 13% |
| 38 | Ninfield East Sussex | C− | 1.8 | 50% | 1.4 | 50% |
| 39 | Spratton Northamptonshire | C− | 2.3 | 85% | 0.4 | 0% |
| 40 | Weeley Essex | C− | 7.5 | 0% | 1.5 | 0% |
| 41 | Langthorpe North Yorkshire | C− | 0.3 | 100% | 1.6 | 0% |
| 42 | Aldbrough East Riding of Yorkshire | C− | 2.1 | 26% | 0.8 | 0% |
| 43 | Wooden Dyfed | D | 0.1 | 0% | 0.4 | 18% |
| 44 | Yardley Gobion Northamptonshire | D | 1.2 | 47% | 3 | 0% |
| 45 | East Markham Nottinghamshire | D | 2.2 | 46% | 1.9 | 0% |
| 46 | Bampton Devon | D | 1.5 | 22% | 1.6 | 5% |
| 47 | Pagham West Sussex | D | 0.3 | 0% | 2 | 0% |
| 48 | Heddon-on-the-Wall Northumberland | D | 0.6 | 70% | 2.7 | 0% |
| 49 | Colsterworth Lincolnshire | D | 1.3 | 67% | 2.2 | 0% |
| 50 | Hockwold cum Wilton Norfolk | D | 1.6 | 75% | 1.4 | 0% |
| 51 | Garsington Oxfordshire | D | 0.4 | 65% | 2.6 | 0% |
| 52 | Appleby Magna Leicestershire | D | 1.7 | 46% | 2 | 0% |
| 53 | Saham Toney Norfolk | D | 3 | 18% | 0.7 | 0% |
| 54 | Croeserw West Glamorgan | D | 1.3 | 33% | 2.5 | 0% |
| 55 | Byfield Northamptonshire | D | 1.9 | 48% | 1.5 | 0% |
| 56 | Hadham Cross Hertfordshire | D | 0 | 0% | 3.3 | 0% |
| 57 | Elvington North Yorkshire | D | 2.1 | 0% | 1.5 | 0% |
| 58 | Deeping St Nicholas Lincolnshire | D− | 0.7 | 80% | 0 | 0% |
| 59 | Hunger Hill Greater Manchester | D− | 0 | 0% | 2.4 | 0% |
| 60 | Witheridge Devon | D− | 0.5 | 36% | 1 | 0% |
Parks, footpaths & countryside
Tap a number to zoom to a park. Tap a layer to hide it. The dashed line is Weir’s built-up area.
How close Weir’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).
Playing fields count, so a park within reach isn’t always one with paths or trees; 4 playgrounds are mapped in and around the village, about one for every 323 residents.
The Forest Of Bowland National Landscape is 7.8 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.
Peak District National Park covers 1,438 km² and has been a National Park since 1951.
3 waymarked walks pass through or near Weir
38 km of footpaths, bridleways and rights of way are mapped in Weir and the kilometre around it, 6.0 km for every square kilometre (the typical UK town has 3.0). Bars show each route’s kilometres within 2 km of the village.
3 regional routes pass through, including the Rossendale Way, Irwell Sculpture Trail and Burnley Way.
Waymarked walks are OpenStreetMap walking routes. Public rights of way are only as complete as the map in each area.
The best walking months in Weir: 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 | |
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| Daylight (h) | 8.0 | 9.7 | 11.7 | 13.9 | 15.9 | 17.0 | 16.6 | 14.8 | 12.6 | 10.4 | 8.5 | 7.5 |
| High (°C) | 5 | 6 | 8 | 11 | 14 | 17 | 18 | 18 | 16 | 12 | 8 | 6 |
| Rain (mm) | 150 | 121 | 104 | 81 | 82 | 96 | 107 | 114 | 116 | 139 | 146 | 164 |
April is the driest month (81 mm) and July the warmest (highs of 18 °C). Winter days are short, about 7 hours of daylight in December, and 164 mm of rain falls in December, the wettest month. Frost comes on about 62 nights a year. The climate in Weir →
4 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
Weir is inland. These are the nearest named beaches, measured from the edge of the village.
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. Thieveley Pike, at 448 m, is the highest named top within 2 km of Weir.
Every named place, with directions
Hills and peaks 3
Plus 1 peak without a name on the map.
Playgrounds 4
Plus 4 playgrounds without a name on the map.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weir | B | 0.6 | 100% | 0% |
| Bacup 1.9 mi | A− | 2.5 | 94% | 0% |
| Rawtenstall 3.7 mi | B | 1.9 | 83% | 0% |
| Todmorden 4.1 mi | C | 0.8 | 72% | 0% |
| Whitworth 4.6 mi | B+ | 2.5 | 96% | 0% |
| Burnley 5.3 mi | A+ | 3.4 | 95% | 7% |
| Haslingden 5.6 mi | B | 1.8 | 89% | 0% |
Burnley, 5.3 miles away, grades A+, the best next door: 95% of its residents live within 400 m of a park. Bacup, Rawtenstall and Whitworth have at least twice Weir’s green space per resident.
Questions about the outdoors in Weir
Is Weir near a National Park?
Yes. Peak District National Park begins 13 mi south-east of the village’s edge. It covers 1,438 km² and has been a National Park since 1951. The nearest protected landscape of any kind is the Forest Of Bowland National Landscape, 7.8 mi away.
What are the best walks near Weir?
3 waymarked walking routes pass within 2 km of the village, including the Rossendale Way, Irwell Sculpture Trail and Burnley Way.
What is the nearest beach to Weir?
Treasure Beach, 8.6 mi from the edge of the village, then Car Park Beach (11 mi). Weir itself is inland.
How many people in Weir 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 Weir?
June to September: the longest days, the warmest afternoons and the least rain of the year, from the Met Office 1991–2020 averages.
Is Weir good for walking?
For paths, yes: 6.0 km of footpath and right of way per square kilometre, more than 97% of UK towns. For park space per person it beats 6% (0.6 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 Weir’s overall grade.
Where Weir’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.
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