Lydiate’s biggest
Dodd's Park
Park or garden · 10 m outside town
1.2 ha (3 acres)0.4 km of path
2 pitchesfootball pitches would fit
0.5 mi south-eastfrom the centre
Directionsto the nearest entrance
Photo: John Bradley · CC BY-SA 3.0C−Outdoors Grade
Outdoors in Lydiate · parks, paths & countryside
90% of Lydiate’s residents live within a 5-minute walk of a park
Parks and playing fields in Lydiate add up to 1.5 ha for every 1,000 residents; the typical UK town has 2.1. Footpaths add up to 26 km in the town and the kilometre around it, 2.0 for every square kilometre. Lydiate grades C− for the outdoors: #23 of 25 in Merseyside. 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
90%
of residents within 400 m
Typical UK town 83%
Footpaths
26 km
2.0 km per km², town + 1 km
Typical UK town 3.0 per km²
Protected landscape
0%
of the land within 5 km
Outdoors grade
Lydiate grades C− for the outdoors
Each chart is every UK town of 1,000 or more on one measure: the green bar is Lydiate, the dashed line the typical town. The number is the share of towns it beats; the five are averaged and the average ranked again.
C−
Better than 23% of UK towns#23 of 25 in Merseyside · 47th of 60 UK towns its size
Public green space1.5 haper 1,000 residents: parks, gardens, playing fields, play spaces
29out of
100
100
A park within a walk90%of residents within 400 m (a 5-minute walk)
67out of
100
100
National Park or National Landscape0%of the land within 5 km · None within 5 km
31out of
100
100
Footpaths2.0 kmper km², the town and 1 km around it
29out 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
Lydiate is 47th of 60 UK towns its size for the outdoors
The 60 UK towns and cities of 6,200 to 6,800 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
Lydiate2.0
Towns its size3.0
Merseyside towns2.6
All UK towns3.0
Green space, ha per 1,000 residents
Lydiate1.5
Towns its size2.1
Merseyside towns3.0
All UK towns2.1
Residents within 400 m of a park
Lydiate90%
Towns its size80%
Merseyside towns87%
All UK towns83%
Against towns its size, Lydiate stands out most for homes near a park: only 20 of the other 59 have more. It falls furthest behind on path per km², where 49 of the others do better.
Show as a table
| Town | Outdoors | Green space | Near a park | Path per km² | Protected | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Netley Hampshire | A+ | 16.3 | 100% | 4.1 | 4% |
| 2 | Stone Kent | A+ | 3.1 | 100% | 6.2 | 0% |
| 3 | Filey North Yorkshire | A | 5.9 | 89% | 2.8 | 0% |
| 4 | Chalford Gloucestershire | A | 1.6 | 96% | 4.7 | 94% |
| 5 | Wingerworth Derbyshire | A | 9 | 86% | 4 | 0% |
| 6 | Shotton Clwyd | A | 4.5 | 100% | 4.7 | 0% |
| 7 | Barton on Sea Hampshire | A | 4.9 | 50% | 2.8 | 22% |
| 8 | Bedwas Gwent | A | 4.4 | 100% | 4 | 0% |
| 9 | Broad Blunsdon Wiltshire | A− | 5.2 | 93% | 4.4 | 0% |
| 10 | St Blazey Cornwall | A− | 2.4 | 78% | 2.8 | 17% |
| 11 | Marston Moretaine Bedfordshire | A− | 17.4 | 88% | 4.2 | 0% |
| 12 | Olney Buckinghamshire | A− | 6.3 | 100% | 3.2 | 0% |
| 13 | Alcester Warwickshire | A− | 4.1 | 100% | 3.5 | 0% |
| 14 | Ackworth Moor Top West Yorkshire | A− | 4.6 | 91% | 4.6 | 0% |
| 15 | Whitfield Kent | A− | 2.3 | 79% | 2.5 | 32% |
| 16 | Paulton Somerset | A− | 2.1 | 96% | 4.1 | 0% |
| 17 | Whitworth Lancashire | B+ | 2.5 | 96% | 4.7 | 0% |
| 18 | Broadbridge Heath West Sussex | B+ | 1.6 | 95% | 4.3 | 3% |
| 19 | Lightwater Surrey | B+ | 9.2 | 72% | 5.6 | 0% |
| 20 | Milford and Witley Surrey | B+ | 2.6 | 54% | 3.7 | 78% |
| 21 | Cawston Warwickshire | B+ | 3.6 | 98% | 3 | 0% |
| 22 | North Anston South Yorkshire | B+ | 2.6 | 100% | 3.3 | 0% |
| 23 | Cleator Moor Cumbria | B+ | 3.5 | 91% | 1.9 | 11% |
| 24 | Little Chalfont Buckinghamshire | B+ | 1.5 | 83% | 3.6 | 45% |
| 25 | Groby Leicestershire | B+ | 2.1 | 96% | 4.5 | 0% |
| 26 | Peasedown St John Somerset | B+ | 1.5 | 88% | 4 | 9% |
| 27 | Hindhead Surrey | B | 1.7 | 37% | 5.9 | 66% |
| 28 | Braunton Devon | B | 1.6 | 78% | 2.1 | 24% |
| 29 | Galleywood Essex | B | 10.3 | 61% | 4.2 | 0% |
| 30 | Hartford Cheshire | B | 2.2 | 95% | 3.7 | 0% |
| 31 | Rishton Lancashire | B− | 2.2 | 94% | 3 | 0% |
| 32 | Yapton West Sussex | B− | 1.8 | 63% | 2 | 15% |
| 33 | Wincanton Somerset | B− | 1.4 | 88% | 2.8 | 7% |
| 34 | Upton West Yorkshire | B− | 2.2 | 100% | 2.2 | 0% |
| 35 | Crigglestone and Durkar West Yorkshire | B− | 4.4 | 45% | 3.9 | 0% |
| 36 | Ushaw Moor and Bearpark County Durham | C+ | 1.6 | 82% | 4.6 | 0% |
| 37 | Chiswell Green Hertfordshire | C+ | 4 | 54% | 3.5 | 0% |
| 38 | Denmead Hampshire | C+ | 1.4 | 72% | 2.8 | 35% |
| 39 | Tetbury Gloucestershire | C+ | 1.2 | 66% | 2.6 | 88% |
| 40 | Malton North Yorkshire | C+ | 2.3 | 43% | 2.4 | 24% |
| 41 | Rawdon West Yorkshire | C+ | 1.7 | 67% | 5.1 | 0% |
| 42 | Bolton-le-Sands Lancashire | C+ | 1.1 | 58% | 1.6 | 23% |
| 43 | Brampton Cambridgeshire | C | 3.2 | 61% | 2.9 | 0% |
| 44 | Market Deeping Lincolnshire | C | 1.5 | 96% | 2.4 | 0% |
| 45 | Farnham Common and Farnham Royal Buckinghamshire | C | 1 | 55% | 4.1 | 0% |
| 46 | Cross Hands and Pen-y-groes Dyfed | C | 9.7 | 70% | 1.4 | 0% |
| 47 | Lydiate Merseyside | C− | 1.5 | 90% | 2 | 0% |
| 48 | Gildersome West Yorkshire | C− | 1.2 | 81% | 2.9 | 0% |
| 49 | Ashingdon Essex | C− | 1.3 | 61% | 2.2 | 0% |
| 50 | Culcheth Cheshire | C− | 1.7 | 67% | 2.6 | 0% |
| 51 | Boston Spa West Yorkshire | C− | 1.2 | 86% | 1.9 | 0% |
| 52 | Washingborough and Heighington Lincolnshire | D | 1.8 | 66% | 2.2 | 0% |
| 53 | Wem Shropshire | D | 1.2 | 77% | 1.5 | 0% |
| 54 | Holmes Chapel Cheshire | D | 0.8 | 72% | 2 | 0% |
| 55 | Pontarddulais West Glamorgan | D | 1.9 | 67% | 0.5 | 0% |
| 56 | Coleshill Warwickshire | D | 1.3 | 69% | 1.7 | 0% |
| 57 | Selston Nottinghamshire | D | 0.9 | 61% | 2.3 | 0% |
| 58 | Broughton Clwyd | D− | 0.8 | 80% | 1 | 0% |
| 59 | Abercynon Mid Glamorgan | D− | 1.1 | 55% | 1.6 | 0% |
| 60 | Tadcaster North Yorkshire | D− | 0.6 | 58% | 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 Lydiate’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 Lydiate
The biggest is Dodd's Park, 1.2 ha (3 acres). Directions go to the park’s nearest public entrance where Ordnance Survey maps one.
Ridgeway Park
Playing field
1.7 ha (4 acres)0.2 km of path
2 pitchesfootball pitches would fit
Centralin the middle of Lydiate
Directionsto the nearest entrance
Close to home
How close Lydiate’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 (90%)Further (10%)
Lydiate90%
Towns its size80%
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; 19 playgrounds are mapped in and around the town, about one for every 343 residents.
Footpaths & waymarked walks
1 waymarked walk passes through or near Lydiate
26 km of footpaths, bridleways and rights of way are mapped in Lydiate and the kilometre around it, 2.0 km for every square kilometre (the typical UK town has 3.0). Bars show each route’s kilometres within 2 km of the town.
Regional
Trans-Pennine Trail (Southport to Liverpool)6.0 km
The regional route here is the Trans-Pennine Trail (Southport to Liverpool).
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 Lydiate: 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) | 8 | 8 | 10 | 13 | 16 | 19 | 21 | 20 | 18 | 14 | 11 | 8 |
| Rain (mm) | 76 | 61 | 53 | 53 | 58 | 67 | 73 | 80 | 85 | 96 | 90 | 94 |
March is the driest month (53 mm) and July the warmest (highs of 21 °C). Winter days are short, about 7 hours of daylight in December, and 96 mm of rain falls in October, the wettest month. Frost comes on about 30 nights a year. The climate in Lydiate →
Things to do
19 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
Lydiate is inland. These are the nearest named beaches, measured from the edge of the town.
Crosby Beach4.8 mi from Lydiate’s edge
DirectionsTaylor's Bank6.1 mi from Lydiate’s edge
DirectionsBrazil Bank7.3 mi from Lydiate’s edge
DirectionsTranmere Beach9.9 mi from Lydiate’s edge
DirectionsEast Hoyle Bank13 mi from Lydiate’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
Viewpoints 1
Plus 1 viewpoint without a name on the map.
Picnic sites 1
Plus 1 picnic site without a name on the map.
Playgrounds 19
Plus 19 playgrounds without a name on the map.
Campsites 1
Hidden Corner Camp Site0.1 mi from town
DirectionsNext door
The outdoors in nearby towns
The nearest towns of 1,000+ within 12 miles. Tap a town for its outdoors page.
MaghullAintreeOrmskirkKirkbyCrosbyLitherlandLydiate
ABCDOutdoors Grade
Litherland, 4.2 miles away, grades A, the best next door: 94% of its residents live within 400 m of a park. Crosby and Litherland have at least twice Lydiate’s green space per resident. None of the neighbours has a protected landscape within 5 km either.
Questions about the outdoors in Lydiate
What is the biggest park in Lydiate?
Dodd's Park, 1.2 ha (3 acres), just outside the built-up area. Ridgeway Park (1.7 ha) is second. 2 named parks, gardens and playing fields are in the town or within 400 m of it.
Is Lydiate near a National Park?
No National Park or National Landscape is within 30 km (about 19 miles) of Lydiate.
What are the best walks near Lydiate?
1 waymarked walking route passes within 2 km of the town, including the Trans-Pennine Trail (Southport to Liverpool).
What is the nearest beach to Lydiate?
Crosby Beach, 4.8 mi from the edge of the town, then Taylor's Bank (6.1 mi). Lydiate itself is inland.
How many people in Lydiate live near a park?
90% 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 Lydiate?
May to September: the longest days, the warmest afternoons and the least rain of the year, from the Met Office 1991–2020 averages.
Is Lydiate good for walking?
Paths are thinner than most towns: 2.0 km of footpath and right of way per square kilometre, more than 29% of UK towns. For park space per person it beats 29% (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 Lydiate’s overall grade.
Sources
Where Lydiate’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.