Caldy’s biggest
Wirral Country Park
Park or garden
45 ha (110 acres)11.6 km of path
2 h 35 minto walk all 11.6 km of path
62 pitchesfootball pitches would fit
Centralin the middle of Caldy
Wirral Way
Directionsto the nearest entrance
Photo: Rosalind Mitchell · CC BY-SA 2.0A−Outdoors Grade
Outdoors in Caldy · parks, paths & countryside
Caldy is on the coast, on the King Charles III England Coast Path
The sea makes up 45% of the area within 5 km. Parks and playing fields in Caldy add up to 19.3 ha for every 1,000 residents; the typical UK town has 2.1. Footpaths add up to 39 km in the village and the kilometre around it, 3.6 for every square kilometre. Caldy grades A− for the outdoors. A character grade: it isn’t part of the overall grade.
Green space
19.3 ha
per 1,000 residents
Typical UK town 2.1
Near a park
47%
of residents within 400 m
Typical UK town 83%
Footpaths
39 km
3.6 km per km², town + 1 km
Typical UK town 3.0 per km²
Protected landscape
0%
of the land within 5 km
Nearest: Bryniau Clwyd A Dyffryn Dyfrdwy/clwydian Range and Dee Valley National Landscape
The sea
45%
of the area within 5 km
A coastal town
Character
What kind of outdoors village is Caldy?
Read from the data: what stands out first, good and bad.
On the coast45% of the area within 5 km is sea; 23 beaches mapped.Room to roam19.3 ha of parks and playing fields per 1,000 residents, more than 98% of UK towns.On a National TrailThe King Charles III England Coast Path passes through.Parks can be a walk away53% of residents live more than 400 m from a park or playing field.
Caldy’s strongest suit is the sea, followed by plenty of park space. Where it falls short is how far some homes are from a park.
Outdoors grade
Caldy grades A− for the outdoors
Each chart is every UK town of 1,000 or more on one measure: the green bar is Caldy, 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 81% of UK towns12th of 60 UK villages its size
Public green space19.3 haper 1,000 residents: parks, gardens, playing fields, play spaces
99out of
100
100
A park within a walk47%of residents within 400 m (a 5-minute walk)
12out of
100
100
National Park or National Landscape0%of the land within 5 km · None within 5 km
31out of
100
100
Footpaths3.6 kmper km², the town and 1 km around it
73out of
100
100
The sea45%of the area within 5 km
97out 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
Caldy is 12th 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
Caldy3.6
Villages its size1.9
Merseyside towns2.6
All UK towns3.0
Green space, ha per 1,000 residents
Caldy19.3
Villages its size2.5
Merseyside towns3.0
All UK towns2.1
Residents within 400 m of a park
Caldy47%
Villages its size94%
Merseyside towns87%
All UK towns83%
Against villages its size, Caldy stands out most for park space per resident: none of the other 59 has more. It falls furthest behind on homes near a park, where 49 of the others do better.
Show as a table
| Town | Outdoors | Green space | Near a park | Path per km² | Protected | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Eastington Gloucestershire | A+ | 4.2 | 100% | 3.7 | 22% |
| 2 | Holmbridge West Yorkshire | A+ | 2.5 | 100% | 4.2 | 45% |
| 3 | Kirton Suffolk | A+ | 2.5 | 100% | 2.3 | 50% |
| 4 | Hoddlesden Lancashire | A | 11.4 | 100% | 4.5 | 0% |
| 5 | Rotherfield East Sussex | A | 5.6 | 100% | 1.7 | 91% |
| 6 | Thurgoland South Yorkshire | A | 2.5 | 100% | 4.1 | 1% |
| 7 | Haydon Bridge Northumberland | A | 7.2 | 100% | 1.7 | 26% |
| 8 | Cronton Merseyside | A | 6.8 | 100% | 3.5 | 0% |
| 9 | Lower Halstow Kent | A− | 1.5 | 100% | 2.5 | 4% |
| 10 | Nutley East Sussex | A− | 2.2 | 75% | 4.5 | 80% |
| 11 | East Hanney Oxfordshire | A− | 5.7 | 100% | 1.8 | 4% |
| 12 | Caldy Merseyside | A− | 19.3 | 47% | 3.6 | 0% |
| 13 | Thorpe Surrey | A− | 5.2 | 100% | 3.1 | 0% |
| 14 | Bonds Lancashire | A− | 1.7 | 100% | 3.5 | 16% |
| 15 | Herstmonceux East Sussex | A− | 3.4 | 100% | 1.5 | 36% |
| 16 | Foulridge Lancashire | A− | 9.4 | 23% | 5.4 | 4% |
| 17 | Felsted Essex | A− | 7.5 | 81% | 4.4 | 0% |
| 18 | Walberton West Sussex | B+ | 1.8 | 100% | 1.9 | 39% |
| 19 | Toll Bar South Yorkshire | B+ | 10.9 | 100% | 1.8 | 0% |
| 20 | Sharpness Gloucestershire | B+ | 2.1 | 100% | 1.8 | 0% |
| 21 | Canewdon Essex | B | 2.5 | 100% | 1.4 | 0% |
| 22 | Stoke Holy Cross Norfolk | B | 2.2 | 100% | 2.1 | 0% |
| 23 | Horton Kirby Kent | B | 5.9 | 78% | 1.7 | 21% |
| 24 | Keinton Mandeville Somerset | B | 3.8 | 100% | 2.1 | 0% |
| 25 | Kilgetty Dyfed | B | 1 | 100% | 0.9 | 18% |
| 26 | Alconbury Weald Cambridgeshire | B | 5 | 100% | 1.6 | 0% |
| 27 | Portreath Cornwall | B | 1.1 | 78% | 2.3 | 8% |
| 28 | Corse Gloucestershire | B | 2.3 | 100% | 1.4 | 1% |
| 29 | Clarborough Nottinghamshire | B | 4 | 100% | 1.7 | 0% |
| 30 | Brightwell-cum-Sotwell Oxfordshire | B− | 2.5 | 72% | 2.2 | 40% |
| 31 | Wyton Cambridgeshire | B− | 4.9 | 100% | 0.8 | 0% |
| 32 | Gilmorton Leicestershire | B− | 3.3 | 100% | 1.4 | 0% |
| 33 | Chulmleigh Devon | C+ | 3.5 | 100% | 0.9 | 0% |
| 34 | East Morton West Yorkshire | C+ | 2.1 | 89% | 2.9 | 0% |
| 35 | Trimdon Grange County Durham | C+ | 2.1 | 100% | 2.1 | 0% |
| 36 | Crondall Hampshire | C+ | 3.6 | 73% | 1.8 | 1% |
| 37 | Husbands Bosworth Leicestershire | C+ | 3 | 100% | 1 | 0% |
| 38 | Clehonger Herefordshire | C+ | 0.6 | 100% | 3.3 | 0% |
| 39 | Thorpe on the Hill West Yorkshire | C+ | 2.2 | 64% | 4 | 0% |
| 40 | Westhampnett West Sussex | C | 0.2 | 79% | 2.6 | 33% |
| 41 | Lavenham Suffolk | C | 4.2 | 59% | 2.6 | 0% |
| 42 | Ampleforth North Yorkshire | C | 2.3 | 27% | 1.7 | 95% |
| 43 | Medomsley County Durham | C | 1.6 | 100% | 1.9 | 0% |
| 44 | Warwick Bridge Cumbria | C | 6.5 | 78% | 1.3 | 0% |
| 45 | West Clandon Surrey | C | 1.9 | 49% | 2.1 | 28% |
| 46 | Clifton upon Dunsmore Warwickshire | C | 2.2 | 79% | 2.3 | 0% |
| 47 | South Killingholme Lincolnshire | C | 1.7 | 68% | 1.8 | 0% |
| 48 | Wolverley Worcestershire | C− | 7.2 | 23% | 1.9 | 0% |
| 49 | Crays Hill Essex | C− | 10.6 | 0% | 1.7 | 0% |
| 50 | Little Downham Cambridgeshire | C− | 2.8 | 61% | 1.8 | 0% |
| 51 | Sproatley East Riding of Yorkshire | C− | 8.6 | 47% | 0.5 | 0% |
| 52 | Kirby-le-Soken Essex | C− | 0.7 | 0% | 2.5 | 0% |
| 53 | Trewoon Cornwall | D | 0.9 | 71% | 1.7 | 6% |
| 54 | Coup Green Lancashire | D | 0.6 | 70% | 2.8 | 0% |
| 55 | Horton and Broadway Somerset | D | 0.5 | 45% | 1.9 | 14% |
| 56 | Beckingham Nottinghamshire | D | 2.6 | 28% | 0.9 | 0% |
| 57 | Walesby Nottinghamshire | D− | 1.1 | 50% | 1.9 | 0% |
| 58 | Blackwell Worcestershire | D− | 0.7 | 29% | 2 | 0% |
| 59 | Sutton on Trent Nottinghamshire | D− | 0.5 | 39% | 1.9 | 0% |
| 60 | Prees Higher Heath Shropshire | D− | 0.7 | 26% | 0.9 | 0% |
The map
Parks, footpaths & countryside
Tap a number to zoom to a park. Tap a layer to hide it. The dashed line is Caldy’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 Caldy
The biggest is Wirral Country Park, 45 ha (110 acres). Directions go to the park’s nearest public entrance where Ordnance Survey maps one.
All 4 named parks by size: 162 ha (399 acres) and 39 km of path
Parks & gardens 162 ha
The two biggest, Wirral Country Park and Wirral Country Park, are 55% of the named green space and carry 23 km of path between them.
Wirral Country Park
Park or garden
45 ha (110 acres)11.6 km of path
2 h 35 minto walk all 11.6 km of path
62 pitchesfootball pitches would fit
Centralin the middle of Caldy
Wirral Way
Directionsto the nearest entrance
Wirral Country Park
Park or garden
45 ha (110 acres)11.6 km of path
2 h 35 minto walk all 11.6 km of path
62 pitchesfootball pitches would fit
Centralin the middle of Caldy
Wirral Way
Directionsto the nearest entrance
Royden Park
Park or garden
28 ha (69 acres)4.3 km of path
1 hto walk all 4.3 km of path
39 pitchesfootball pitches would fit
1 mi eastfrom the centre
Directionsto the nearest entrance
Close to home
5 in 10 Caldy 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 (47%)Further (53%)
Caldy47%
Villages its size94%
Merseyside towns87%
All UK towns83%
About 600 people live further than that. Playing fields count, so a park within reach isn’t always one with paths or trees; 13 playgrounds are mapped in and around the village, about one for every 94 residents.
National Parks & National Landscapes
The Bryniau Clwyd A Dyffryn Dyfrdwy/clwydian Range and Dee Valley National Landscape is 7.0 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
National Landscape
Bryniau Clwyd A Dyffryn Dyfrdwy/clwydian Range and Dee Valley
7.0 mi west389 km²since 2011
Footpaths & waymarked walks
Caldy is on the King Charles III England Coast Path
39 km of footpaths, bridleways and rights of way are mapped in Caldy and the kilometre around it, 3.6 km for every square kilometre (the typical UK town has 3.0). Bars show each route’s kilometres within 2 km of the village.
NationalRegional
King Charles III England Coast Path: Birkenhead to Welsh Border8.2 km
Wirral Circular Trail6.1 km
Wirral Way5.3 km
The King Charles III England Coast Path, a national route, passes Caldy. 2 regional routes pass through, including the Wirral Circular Trail and Wirral 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 Caldy: 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) | 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) | 8 | 8 | 11 | 13 | 17 | 19 | 21 | 21 | 18 | 14 | 11 | 8 |
| Rain (mm) | 65 | 51 | 51 | 51 | 52 | 65 | 70 | 73 | 75 | 86 | 82 | 84 |
March is the driest month (51 mm) and July the warmest (highs of 21 °C). Winter days are short, about 8 hours of daylight in December, and 86 mm of rain falls in October, the wettest month. Frost comes on about 23 nights a year. The climate in Caldy →
The coast
The coast and beaches near Caldy
45% of the area within 5 km of Caldy is sea. 23 beaches are mapped within 5 km, 2 with a name.
East Hoyle Bank2.1 mi from town
DirectionsThe King Charles III England Coast Path passes the town.
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
6 viewpoints and 13 playgrounds
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.
6Viewpoints3Hills and peaks1Nature reserves1Picnic sites13Playgrounds2.4× villages its size1Campsites6Slipways
Every named place, with directions
Hills and peaks 3
Caldy Hill77 m (253 ft) · 0.0 mi from town
DirectionsThurstaston Hill91 m (299 ft) · 0.5 mi from town
DirectionsGrange Hill0.9 mi from town
DirectionsNature reserves 1
Thurstaston Common38 ha · 0.6 mi from town
DirectionsPicnic sites 1
Plus 1 picnic site without a name on the map.
Playgrounds 13
Upper Cage0.2 mi from town
DirectionsMiddle Cage0.3 mi from town
DirectionsLower Cage0.3 mi from town
DirectionsAshton Park Play Area0.8 mi from town
DirectionsPlus 9 playgrounds without a name on the map.
Campsites 1
Plus 1 campsite without a name on the map.
Slipways 6
Plus 6 slipways 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.
West KirbyHoylakeGreasbyMeolsHeswallBirkenheadCaldy
ABCDOutdoors Grade
| Town | Outdoors | Green space, ha per 1,000 | Near a park | Protected within 5 km |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Caldy | A− | 19.3 | 47% | 0% |
| West Kirby 0.9 mi | B | 1.9 | 68% | 0% |
| Hoylake 2.4 mi | A− | 3.5 | 83% | 0% |
| Greasby 2.5 mi | A | 5.9 | 74% | 0% |
| Meols 2.9 mi | A | 3.1 | 100% | 0% |
| Heswall 3.1 mi | C− | 1.1 | 56% | 0% |
| Birkenhead 4.9 mi | B+ | 3.1 | 71% | 0% |
Meols, 2.9 miles away, grades A, the best next door: every resident lives within 400 m of a park. None of the neighbours has a protected landscape within 5 km either.
Questions about the outdoors in Caldy
What is the biggest park in Caldy?
Wirral Country Park, 45 ha (110 acres), with 11.6 km of path. Wirral Country Park (45 ha) is second. 4 named parks, gardens and playing fields are in the village or within 400 m of it.
Is Caldy near a National Park?
The nearest protected landscape is the Bryniau Clwyd A Dyffryn Dyfrdwy/clwydian Range and Dee Valley National Landscape, 7.0 mi west of the village’s edge. It covers 389 km² and was designated in 2011.
What are the best walks near Caldy?
3 waymarked walking routes pass within 2 km of the village, including the King Charles III England Coast Path: Birkenhead to Welsh Border, Wirral Circular Trail and Wirral Way. Wirral Country Park alone has 11.6 km of path.
How many people in Caldy live near a park?
47% 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 Caldy?
May to September: the longest days, the warmest afternoons and the least rain of the year, from the Met Office 1991–2020 averages.
Is Caldy good for walking?
For paths, yes: 3.6 km of footpath and right of way per square kilometre, more than 73% of UK towns. For park space per person it beats 99% (19.3 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 Caldy’s overall grade.
Sources
Where Caldy’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.