Barlby Hall · Photo: Chris Heaton · CC BY-SA 2.0Parks and walks in Barlby
Parks and playing fields in Barlby add up to 0.2 ha for every 1,000 residents; the typical UK town has 2.1. 15 km of footpaths run through the town and the kilometre around it, 1.8 for every square kilometre. No park or playing field is mapped within a 5-minute walk of homes in Barlby. Barlby grades D− for the outdoors. A character grade: it isn’t part of the overall grade.
Barlby grades D− for the outdoors
Each chart is every UK town of 1,000 or more on one measure: the green bar is Barlby, 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.
How Barlby compares with UK towns of 3,400 to 3,600
The 60 UK towns and cities of 3,400 to 3,600 people with an Outdoors Grade. Hover a dot for its figures; tap one for its page.
Barlby falls furthest behind on homes near a park, where 59 of the 59 others do better.
Show as a table
| Town | Outdoors | Green space | Near a park | Path per km² | Protected | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Minchinhampton Gloucestershire | A+ | 5.6 | 91% | 5.3 | 90% |
| 2 | Lane End Buckinghamshire | A+ | 3.1 | 92% | 4.7 | 90% |
| 3 | Silsoe Bedfordshire | A+ | 6.6 | 100% | 3.8 | 2% |
| 4 | Goring Oxfordshire | A+ | 3 | 100% | 3.2 | 98% |
| 5 | Leonard Stanley and King's Stanley Gloucestershire | A | 2 | 100% | 4.6 | 51% |
| 6 | Talke and Talke Pits Staffordshire | A | 16.6 | 100% | 3.5 | 0% |
| 7 | Bishopston West Glamorgan | A | 3 | 47% | 3.1 | 41% |
| 8 | Kingsbury Warwickshire | A− | 17.2 | 100% | 2.9 | 0% |
| 9 | Shenley Hertfordshire | A− | 6.1 | 100% | 3.2 | 0% |
| 10 | Elsenham Essex | A− | 3 | 100% | 4.3 | 0% |
| 11 | Westward Ho! Devon | A− | 12.3 | 63% | 1.7 | 18% |
| 12 | Taff's Well Mid Glamorgan | A− | 2.3 | 100% | 6.2 | 0% |
| 13 | Grassmoor Derbyshire | A− | 6.8 | 85% | 4.7 | 0% |
| 14 | Church Stretton Shropshire | A− | 2.2 | 68% | 4.7 | 92% |
| 15 | Essington Staffordshire | B+ | 6.8 | 100% | 2.4 | 0% |
| 16 | Blaenau Ffestiniog Gwynedd | B+ | 3.6 | 70% | 2.5 | 78% |
| 17 | St Asaph Clwyd | B+ | 3.2 | 100% | 1.6 | 9% |
| 18 | Water Orton Warwickshire | B+ | 5.3 | 82% | 3.4 | 0% |
| 19 | Hartley Wintney Hampshire | B+ | 6.1 | 82% | 3.3 | 0% |
| 20 | Chartham Kent | B | 2.3 | 67% | 3.3 | 44% |
| 21 | Roade Northamptonshire | B | 2.6 | 100% | 2.7 | 0% |
| 22 | Brockenhurst Hampshire | B | 1.8 | 63% | 3.3 | 98% |
| 23 | Llanfairfechan Clwyd | B | 1 | 48% | 2.9 | 38% |
| 24 | Sturminster Newton Dorset | B | 1.4 | 85% | 3.6 | 5% |
| 25 | Sunniside Tyne and Wear | B | 2.1 | 87% | 4 | 0% |
| 26 | Gunnislake and St Ann's Chapel Cornwall | B− | 2.5 | 64% | 2.3 | 66% |
| 27 | Ruabon Clwyd | B− | 3.8 | 69% | 1.9 | 20% |
| 28 | Burtonwood Cheshire | B− | 3.3 | 93% | 2.2 | 0% |
| 29 | Theydon Bois Essex | B− | 2.4 | 70% | 5.1 | 0% |
| 30 | Castle Cary Somerset | B− | 2.2 | 91% | 3 | 0% |
| 31 | Pilsley and Lower Pilsley Derbyshire | B− | 1.9 | 91% | 3.3 | 0% |
| 32 | Bembridge Isle of Wight | B− | 1.5 | 50% | 2.3 | 7% |
| 33 | Penllergaer West Glamorgan | B− | 21 | 83% | 1.7 | 0% |
| 34 | Langport Somerset | B− | 2.3 | 94% | 2.5 | 0% |
| 35 | Kirkheaton West Yorkshire | C+ | 1.8 | 92% | 3 | 0% |
| 36 | Broomfield Essex | C+ | 2.7 | 45% | 5 | 0% |
| 37 | Fishguard Dyfed | C+ | 0.8 | 64% | 2.1 | 23% |
| 38 | Woodstock Oxfordshire | C+ | 1 | 80% | 3 | 11% |
| 39 | Boreham Essex | C+ | 1.1 | 100% | 2.8 | 0% |
| 40 | Thorpe Willoughby North Yorkshire | C | 0.4 | 92% | 3.5 | 0% |
| 41 | Cosby Leicestershire | C | 1.6 | 93% | 2.2 | 0% |
| 42 | Marden Kent | C | 1.8 | 71% | 2.1 | 3% |
| 43 | Upper Poppleton North Yorkshire | C | 2.9 | 82% | 1.7 | 0% |
| 44 | Alvechurch Worcestershire | C | 2.2 | 84% | 1.9 | 0% |
| 45 | Nettleham Lincolnshire | C | 4.2 | 74% | 1.3 | 0% |
| 46 | Goff's Oak Hertfordshire | C− | 2.4 | 41% | 3.1 | 0% |
| 47 | Holsworthy Devon | C− | 2.7 | 84% | 0.8 | 0% |
| 48 | Lytchett Matravers Dorset | C− | 1.2 | 83% | 1.2 | 5% |
| 49 | Tylorstown and Pontygwaith Mid Glamorgan | C− | 2.3 | 63% | 2.2 | 0% |
| 50 | Willand Devon | C− | 0.9 | 88% | 0.6 | 1% |
| 51 | Snaith East Riding of Yorkshire | D | 0.2 | 89% | 2 | 0% |
| 52 | Witham St Hughs Lincolnshire | D | 0.7 | 91% | 1.7 | 0% |
| 53 | Chapel St Leonards Lincolnshire | D | 0.4 | 53% | 1.5 | 0% |
| 54 | Lanchester County Durham | D | 1.4 | 70% | 2.1 | 0% |
| 55 | Bilsthorpe Nottinghamshire | D | 0.7 | 88% | 1.2 | 0% |
| 56 | Metheringham Lincolnshire | D | 0.8 | 44% | 3 | 0% |
| 57 | Cherry Willingham Lincolnshire | D | 1 | 79% | 1.6 | 0% |
| 58 | Spixworth Norfolk | D | 0.6 | 59% | 1.2 | 5% |
| 59 | Wollaston Northamptonshire | D− | 1.2 | 11% | 1.2 | 0% |
| 60 | Barlby North Yorkshire | D− | 0.2 | 0% | 1.8 | 0% |
Parks, footpaths & countryside
Tap a number to zoom to a park. Tap a layer to hide it. The dashed line is Barlby’s built-up area.
Few Barlby 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).
About 3,500 people live further than that. Playing fields count, so a park within reach isn’t always one with paths or trees; 9 playgrounds are mapped in and around the town, about one for every 389 residents.
The Howardian Hills National Landscape is 18 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.
5 waymarked walks pass through or near Barlby
15 km of footpaths, bridleways and rights of way are mapped in Barlby and the kilometre around it, 1.8 km for every square kilometre (the typical UK town has 3.0). Bars show each route’s kilometres within 2 km of the town.
4 regional routes pass through, including the Trans-Pennine Trail (Selby to York), Trans-Pennine Trail (Selby to Hull), Camino Ingles to Santiago and Trans-Pennine Trail (Wombwell to Selby).
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 Barlby: 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 | |
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| Daylight (h) | 8.0 | 9.7 | 11.7 | 13.9 | 15.9 | 17.1 | 16.6 | 14.8 | 12.6 | 10.4 | 8.4 | 7.4 |
| High (°C) | 7 | 8 | 10 | 13 | 17 | 19 | 22 | 21 | 18 | 14 | 10 | 8 |
| Rain (mm) | 46 | 41 | 39 | 42 | 44 | 55 | 57 | 61 | 54 | 58 | 58 | 52 |
March is the driest month (39 mm) and July the warmest (highs of 22 °C). Winter days are short, about 7 hours of daylight in December, and 61 mm of rain falls in August, the wettest month. Frost comes on about 44 nights a year. The climate in Barlby →
9 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
Barlby is inland. These are the nearest named beaches, measured from the edge of the town.
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
Playgrounds 9
Plus 9 playgrounds without a name on the map.
Campsites 1
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Barlby | D− | 0.2 | 0% | 0% |
| Selby 1.9 mi | C− | 1.6 | 81% | 0% |
| Riccall 2.3 mi | B− | 2.9 | 100% | 0% |
| Brayton 3.1 mi | C | 0.8 | 100% | 0% |
| North Duffield 3.6 mi | C | 2.6 | 100% | 0% |
| Hemingbrough 3.6 mi | C− | 1.3 | 100% | 0% |
| Thorpe Willoughby 4.0 mi | C | 0.4 | 92% | 0% |
Riccall, 2.3 miles away, grades B−, the best next door: every resident lives within 400 m of a park. Selby, Riccall and Brayton have at least twice Barlby’s green space per resident. None of the neighbours has a protected landscape within 5 km either.
Questions about the outdoors in Barlby
Is Barlby near a National Park?
The nearest protected landscape is the Howardian Hills National Landscape, 18 mi north of the town’s edge. It covers 204 km² and was designated in 1987.
What are the best walks near Barlby?
5 waymarked walking routes pass within 2 km of the town, including the Trans-Pennine Trail (Selby to York), Trans-Pennine Trail (Selby to Hull) and Camino Ingles to Santiago.
What is the nearest beach to Barlby?
York Beach, 10 mi from the edge of the town, then Beach at Doncaster Lakeside (20 mi). Barlby itself is inland.
How many people in Barlby live near a park?
0% 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 Barlby?
May to September: the longest days, the warmest afternoons and the least rain of the year, from the Met Office 1991–2020 averages.
Is Barlby good for walking?
Paths are thinner than most towns: 1.8 km of footpath and right of way per square kilometre, more than 23% of UK towns. For park space per person it beats 2% (0.2 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 Barlby’s overall grade.
Where Barlby’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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