Maghull’s biggest
Glenn Park
Park or garden
3.6 ha (9 acres)0.9 km of path
10 minto walk all 0.9 km of path
5 pitchesfootball pitches would fit
Centralin the middle of Maghull
Directionsto the nearest entrance
Photo: John Bradley · CC BY-SA 3.0C−Outdoors Grade
Outdoors in Maghull · parks, paths & countryside
86% of Maghull’s residents live within a 5-minute walk of a park
51 km of footpaths run through the town and the kilometre around it, 2.2 for every square kilometre. Parks and playing fields in Maghull add up to 1.6 ha for every 1,000 residents; the typical UK town has 2.1. Maghull grades C− for the outdoors: #22 of 25 in Merseyside. A character grade: it isn’t part of the overall grade.
Green space
1.6 ha
per 1,000 residents
Typical UK town 2.1
Near a park
86%
of residents within 400 m
Typical UK town 83%
Footpaths
51 km
2.2 km per km², town + 1 km
Typical UK town 3.0 per km²
Protected landscape
0%
of the land within 5 km
Outdoors grade
Maghull grades C− for the outdoors
Each chart is every UK town of 1,000 or more on one measure: the green bar is Maghull, 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 25% of UK towns#22 of 25 in Merseyside · 51st of 60 UK towns its size
Public green space1.6 haper 1,000 residents: parks, gardens, playing fields, play spaces
31out of
100
100
A park within a walk86%of residents within 400 m (a 5-minute walk)
60out of
100
100
National Park or National Landscape0%of the land within 5 km · None within 5 km
31out of
100
100
Footpaths2.2 kmper km², the town and 1 km around it
37out 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
Maghull is 51st of 60 UK towns its size for the outdoors
The 60 UK towns and cities of 19,100 to 21,700 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
Maghull2.2
Towns its size3.6
Merseyside towns2.6
All UK towns3.0
Green space, ha per 1,000 residents
Maghull1.6
Towns its size2.1
Merseyside towns3.0
All UK towns2.1
Residents within 400 m of a park
Maghull86%
Towns its size83%
Merseyside towns87%
All UK towns83%
Maghull falls furthest behind on path per km², where 49 of the 59 others do better.
Show as a table
| Town | Outdoors | Green space | Near a park | Path per km² | Protected | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Camborne Cornwall | A+ | 2.2 | 93% | 4 | 8% |
| 2 | Dronfield Derbyshire | A+ | 3.2 | 97% | 5.3 | 9% |
| 3 | Buxton Derbyshire | A | 3.5 | 86% | 3.8 | 61% |
| 4 | Faversham Kent | A | 2 | 88% | 3.5 | 24% |
| 5 | Hebburn Tyne and Wear | A | 6.6 | 99% | 5.8 | 0% |
| 6 | Quedgeley and Hardwicke Gloucestershire | A | 2.1 | 99% | 4.7 | 21% |
| 7 | Farnham Surrey | A | 5.1 | 73% | 4.3 | 35% |
| 8 | Hazlemere Buckinghamshire | A | 2.5 | 81% | 4.7 | 68% |
| 9 | Leek Staffordshire | A | 4.2 | 83% | 3.6 | 19% |
| 10 | Stratton St Margaret Wiltshire | A | 3.3 | 82% | 5.1 | 5% |
| 11 | Keynsham Somerset | A | 2.1 | 95% | 4.6 | 11% |
| 12 | Harwich Essex | A− | 1.7 | 95% | 2.1 | 20% |
| 13 | Peterlee County Durham | A− | 2.3 | 85% | 4.2 | 0% |
| 14 | Workington Cumbria | A− | 3 | 97% | 2.2 | 0% |
| 15 | Dukinfield Greater Manchester | A− | 4 | 95% | 3.9 | 0% |
| 16 | Ebbw Vale Gwent | A− | 2 | 92% | 3.3 | 29% |
| 17 | Rothwell West Yorkshire | A− | 3.4 | 91% | 4.7 | 0% |
| 18 | Mansfield Woodhouse Nottinghamshire | A− | 2.8 | 94% | 4.9 | 0% |
| 19 | Devizes Wiltshire | A− | 1.8 | 91% | 3.2 | 38% |
| 20 | Kirkby-in-Ashfield Nottinghamshire | B+ | 3 | 93% | 3.6 | 0% |
| 21 | Hythe and Dibden Purlieu Hampshire | B+ | 0.8 | 49% | 4.4 | 44% |
| 22 | Sandhurst Berkshire | B+ | 5.1 | 79% | 3.9 | 0% |
| 23 | Hazel Grove Greater Manchester | B+ | 2.9 | 62% | 4.2 | 3% |
| 24 | Brownhills West Midlands | B | 11 | 80% | 2 | 2% |
| 25 | Great Bookham and Fetcham Surrey | B | 1.7 | 68% | 4.4 | 33% |
| 26 | Mirfield West Yorkshire | B | 2.5 | 90% | 3.7 | 0% |
| 27 | Ripley Derbyshire | B | 2.4 | 91% | 3.7 | 0% |
| 28 | Irlam Greater Manchester | B | 3.1 | 95% | 2.8 | 0% |
| 29 | Penwortham Lancashire | B | 2.9 | 91% | 3.1 | 0% |
| 30 | Ely Cambridgeshire | B | 2.7 | 88% | 3.3 | 0% |
| 31 | Stanley County Durham | B | 1.7 | 88% | 5.2 | 0% |
| 32 | Old Trafford Greater Manchester | B | 2.5 | 79% | 4.5 | 0% |
| 33 | Dorchester Dorset | B | 1.6 | 78% | 2.9 | 53% |
| 34 | Stourport-on-Severn Worcestershire | B | 3.1 | 79% | 3.8 | 0% |
| 35 | Romsey Hampshire | B− | 1.2 | 82% | 4.5 | 2% |
| 36 | Ware Hertfordshire | B− | 2 | 81% | 4.9 | 0% |
| 37 | Bingley West Yorkshire | B− | 2.1 | 80% | 4.7 | 0% |
| 38 | Calne Wiltshire | B− | 1.3 | 88% | 2.4 | 33% |
| 39 | Berkhamsted Hertfordshire | B− | 1 | 69% | 3.6 | 56% |
| 40 | Staines-upon-Thames Surrey | B− | 3.4 | 67% | 3.6 | 0% |
| 41 | Wednesbury West Midlands | B− | 2.7 | 93% | 2.3 | 0% |
| 42 | Dereham Norfolk | B− | 1.8 | 90% | 3.4 | 0% |
| 43 | Failsworth Greater Manchester | C+ | 1.8 | 77% | 4.6 | 0% |
| 44 | Clevedon Somerset | C+ | 1.1 | 69% | 3.3 | 0% |
| 45 | Sunbury-on-Thames Surrey | C+ | 2 | 79% | 3.5 | 0% |
| 46 | Bideford Devon | C+ | 0.9 | 83% | 1 | 11% |
| 47 | Knowle and Dorridge West Midlands | C+ | 2.7 | 82% | 2.4 | 0% |
| 48 | Spennymoor County Durham | C+ | 2.1 | 84% | 2.7 | 0% |
| 49 | Thornton Lancashire | C | 2.1 | 71% | 1.6 | 0% |
| 50 | Horwich Greater Manchester | C | 1.8 | 67% | 3.4 | 0% |
| 51 | Maghull Merseyside | C− | 1.6 | 86% | 2.2 | 0% |
| 52 | Skegness Lincolnshire | C− | 0.9 | 58% | 2.5 | 0% |
| 53 | Stowmarket Suffolk | C− | 0.8 | 50% | 5.5 | 0% |
| 54 | Willerby and Anlaby East Riding of Yorkshire | C− | 1.6 | 46% | 1.7 | 0% |
| 55 | March Cambridgeshire | C− | 1.7 | 87% | 1.1 | 0% |
| 56 | Selby North Yorkshire | C− | 1.6 | 81% | 1.9 | 0% |
| 57 | Goole East Riding of Yorkshire | D | 1.7 | 81% | 1.4 | 0% |
| 58 | Stamford Lincolnshire | D | 1.3 | 64% | 2.7 | 0% |
| 59 | Tiverton Devon | D | 1.5 | 59% | 2.6 | 0% |
| 60 | Darlaston West Midlands | D | 1.3 | 78% | 1.9 | 0% |
The map
Parks, footpaths & countryside
Tap a number to zoom to a park. Tap a layer to hide it. The dashed line is Maghull’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 Maghull
The biggest is Glenn Park, 3.6 ha (9 acres). Directions go to the park’s nearest public entrance where Ordnance Survey maps one.
All 5 named parks by size: 9 ha (22 acres) and 2 km of path
Parks & gardens 5.1 haPlaying fields 4.0 ha
The two biggest, Glenn Park and Dodd's Park, are 53% of the named green space. 3 of the 5 are under 2 ha: small gardens, play spaces and pitches.
Dodd's Park
Park or garden
1.2 ha (3 acres)0.4 km of path
2 pitchesfootball pitches would fit
0.5 mi northfrom the centre
Directionsto the nearest entrance
Ridgeway Park
Playing field · 380 m outside town
1.7 ha (4 acres)0.2 km of path
2 pitchesfootball pitches would fit
0.8 mi northfrom the centre
Directionsto the nearest entrance
Old Hall Field
Playing field
2.3 ha (6 acres)
3 pitchesfootball pitches would fit
Centralin the middle of Maghull
Directionsto the park
Close to home
How close Maghull’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 (86%)Further (14%)
Maghull86%
Towns its size83%
Merseyside towns87%
All UK towns83%
About 3,000 people live further than that. Playing fields count, so a park within reach isn’t always one with paths or trees; 25 playgrounds are mapped in and around the town, about one for every 815 residents.
Footpaths & waymarked walks
1 waymarked walk passes through or near Maghull
51 km of footpaths, bridleways and rights of way are mapped in Maghull and the kilometre around it, 2.2 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)8.0 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 Maghull: May to August
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) | 74 | 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 Maghull →
Things to do
25 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.
1Viewpoints1Hills and peaks2Nature reserves25Playgroundsabout the same as towns its size1Dog parks1Campsites
The nearest beaches
Maghull is inland. These are the nearest named beaches, measured from the edge of the town.
Crosby Beach3.9 mi from Maghull’s edge
DirectionsBrazil Bank6.2 mi from Maghull’s edge
DirectionsTaylor's Bank6.4 mi from Maghull’s edge
DirectionsTranmere Beach8.4 mi from Maghull’s edge
DirectionsEast Hoyle Bank12 mi from Maghull’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. Melling Mount, at 36 m, is the highest named top within 2 km of Maghull.
Every named place, with directions
Viewpoints 1
Plus 1 viewpoint without a name on the map.
Hills and peaks 1
Melling Mount36 m (118 ft) · 0.6 mi from town
DirectionsPlaygrounds 25
Copy Farm Playground0.6 mi from town
DirectionsFernbank Playground0.8 mi from town
DirectionsPlus 23 playgrounds without a name on the map.
Dog parks 1
Copy Farm Dog Park0.7 mi from town
DirectionsCampsites 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.
LydiateAintreeKirkbyBootleLitherlandCrosbyMaghull
ABCDOutdoors Grade
Litherland, 3.5 miles away, grades A, the best next door: 94% of its residents live within 400 m of a park. Litherland and Crosby have at least twice Maghull’s green space per resident. None of the neighbours has a protected landscape within 5 km either.
Questions about the outdoors in Maghull
What is the biggest park in Maghull?
Glenn Park, 3.6 ha (9 acres), with 0.9 km of path. Dodd's Park (1.2 ha) is second. 5 named parks, gardens and playing fields are in the town or within 400 m of it.
Is Maghull near a National Park?
No National Park or National Landscape is within 30 km (about 19 miles) of Maghull.
What are the best walks near Maghull?
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 Maghull?
Crosby Beach, 3.9 mi from the edge of the town, then Brazil Bank (6.2 mi). Maghull itself is inland.
How many people in Maghull live near a park?
86% 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 Maghull?
May to August: the longest days, the warmest afternoons and the least rain of the year, from the Met Office 1991–2020 averages.
Is Maghull good for walking?
Paths are thinner than most towns: 2.2 km of footpath and right of way per square kilometre, more than 37% of UK towns. For park space per person it beats 31% (1.6 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 Maghull’s overall grade.
Sources
Where Maghull’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.