Catterick Garrison’s biggest
Coronation Park
Park or garden
9.0 ha (22 acres)1.7 km of path
20 minto walk all 1.7 km of path
13 pitchesfootball pitches would fit
Centralin the middle of Catterick Garrison
Directionsto the nearest entrance
Photo: Cpl Ian Forsyth RLC · OGL v1.0B−Outdoors Grade
Outdoors in Catterick Garrison · parks, paths & countryside
Catterick Garrison has more park space per resident than nearly 9 in 10 UK towns
Parks and playing fields in Catterick Garrison add up to 4.9 ha for every 1,000 residents; the typical UK town has 2.1. The Yorkshire Dales National Park begins 0.9 mi from the town’s edge. 56 km of footpaths run through the town and the kilometre around it, 1.8 for every square kilometre. Catterick Garrison grades B− for the outdoors. A character grade: it isn’t part of the overall grade.
Green space
4.9 ha
per 1,000 residents
Typical UK town 2.1
Near a park
78%
of residents within 400 m
Typical UK town 83%
Footpaths
56 km
1.8 km per km², town + 1 km
Typical UK town 3.0 per km²
Protected landscape
6%
of the land within 5 km
Nearest: Yorkshire Dales National Park
Character
What kind of outdoors town is Catterick Garrison?
Read from the data: what stands out first, good and bad.
Room to roam4.9 ha of parks and playing fields per 1,000 residents, more than 86% of UK towns.Countryside both waysYorkshire Dales starts 0.9 mi north-west, Nidderdale 5.8 mi south.On a National TrailThe Coast to Coast Walk passes through.
Catterick Garrison’s strongest suit is plenty of park space, followed by two protected landscapes close by.
Outdoors grade
Catterick Garrison grades B− for the outdoors
Each chart is every UK town of 1,000 or more on one measure: the green bar is Catterick Garrison, the dashed line the typical town. The number is the share of towns it beats; the five are averaged and the average ranked again.
B−
Better than 54% of UK towns32nd of 60 UK towns its size
Public green space4.9 haper 1,000 residents: parks, gardens, playing fields, play spaces
86out of
100
100
A park within a walk78%of residents within 400 m (a 5-minute walk)
42out of
100
100
National Park or National Landscape6%of the land within 5 km
68out of
100
100
Footpaths1.8 kmper km², the town and 1 km around it
24out 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
Catterick Garrison is 32nd of 60 UK towns its size for the outdoors
The 60 UK towns and cities of 13,500 to 14,900 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
Catterick Garrison1.8
Towns its size3.4
North Yorkshire towns2.0
All UK towns3.0
Green space, ha per 1,000 residents
Catterick Garrison4.9
Towns its size2.4
North Yorkshire towns1.7
All UK towns2.1
Residents within 400 m of a park
Catterick Garrison78%
Towns its size81%
North Yorkshire towns80%
All UK towns83%
Against towns its size, Catterick Garrison stands out most for park space per resident: only 10 of the other 59 have more. It falls furthest behind on path per km², where 53 of the others do better.
Show as a table
| Town | Outdoors | Green space | Near a park | Path per km² | Protected | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Lymington Hampshire | A+ | 2.8 | 89% | 3.3 | 56% |
| 2 | Hythe Kent | A+ | 3.7 | 76% | 4 | 31% |
| 3 | Otley West Yorkshire | A+ | 5.8 | 93% | 4.4 | 26% |
| 4 | Tadley Hampshire | A+ | 11.4 | 96% | 4.2 | 9% |
| 5 | Llandudno Clwyd | A+ | 2.1 | 83% | 4.9 | 3% |
| 6 | Yeadon West Yorkshire | A | 3.5 | 94% | 4.6 | 2% |
| 7 | Cheadle Greater Manchester | A | 6.5 | 96% | 4.3 | 0% |
| 8 | Abergavenny Gwent | A | 3.2 | 83% | 3.1 | 60% |
| 9 | Wellington Somerset | A | 2.2 | 99% | 3.5 | 24% |
| 10 | Hassocks and Hurstpierpoint West Sussex | A− | 1.9 | 84% | 4.7 | 42% |
| 11 | Yateley Hampshire | A− | 14.9 | 85% | 4.5 | 0% |
| 12 | Addlestone Surrey | A− | 4.3 | 90% | 4.8 | 0% |
| 13 | Honley West Yorkshire | A− | 2.1 | 87% | 5.1 | 8% |
| 14 | Blaydon Tyne and Wear | A− | 7.9 | 88% | 4.2 | 0% |
| 15 | Tredegar Gwent | A− | 6.9 | 78% | 2.8 | 20% |
| 16 | Thornbury Gloucestershire | A− | 2.5 | 97% | 5.3 | 0% |
| 17 | Chertsey Surrey | A− | 6.2 | 84% | 4.2 | 0% |
| 18 | Birstall Leicestershire | A− | 6 | 80% | 4.7 | 0% |
| 19 | Tewkesbury Gloucestershire | B+ | 2.2 | 84% | 4 | 6% |
| 20 | Ilkley West Yorkshire | B+ | 1.6 | 76% | 5.7 | 37% |
| 21 | Verwood Dorset | B+ | 5.7 | 41% | 3.9 | 13% |
| 22 | Buckingham Buckinghamshire | B+ | 3.4 | 96% | 3.3 | 0% |
| 23 | Chalfont St Peter Buckinghamshire | B+ | 2.2 | 80% | 3.5 | 18% |
| 24 | Marlow Buckinghamshire | B+ | 1.9 | 73% | 4 | 39% |
| 25 | Ashtead Surrey | B+ | 2.7 | 62% | 4.3 | 13% |
| 26 | Armthorpe South Yorkshire | B+ | 6.4 | 92% | 2.7 | 0% |
| 27 | Humberston and New Waltham Lincolnshire | B+ | 4.1 | 44% | 2.2 | 1% |
| 28 | Tilbury Essex | B | 1.4 | 98% | 1.9 | 0% |
| 29 | Morpeth Northumberland | B | 3.7 | 80% | 3.6 | 0% |
| 30 | Gomersal and Birkenshaw West Yorkshire | B | 3.2 | 83% | 3.5 | 0% |
| 31 | Blaby and Whetstone Leicestershire | B | 3 | 79% | 3.7 | 0% |
| 32 | Catterick Garrison North Yorkshire | B− | 4.9 | 78% | 1.8 | 6% |
| 33 | Newport Shropshire | B− | 3.3 | 95% | 2.3 | 0% |
| 34 | Hawarden Clwyd | B− | 3.7 | 81% | 3 | 0% |
| 35 | Chard Somerset | B− | 1.6 | 94% | 1.9 | 34% |
| 36 | Gorseinon West Glamorgan | B− | 3.7 | 83% | 1.3 | 2% |
| 37 | Midsomer Norton Somerset | B− | 1.9 | 90% | 3.4 | 0% |
| 38 | Leicester Forest East and Kirby Muxloe Leicestershire | B− | 3.4 | 73% | 3.2 | 0% |
| 39 | Davenham Cheshire | B− | 1.3 | 88% | 4.5 | 0% |
| 40 | Aberystwyth Dyfed | B− | 1.8 | 51% | 3.4 | 0% |
| 41 | Cowes Isle of Wight | C+ | 1.1 | 50% | 2.2 | 15% |
| 42 | Herne Kent | C+ | 1.2 | 54% | 3.8 | 0% |
| 43 | Beaconsfield Buckinghamshire | C+ | 1.9 | 57% | 2.6 | 31% |
| 44 | Byfleet Surrey | C+ | 3.1 | 59% | 3.4 | 0% |
| 45 | Buckley Clwyd | C+ | 2.6 | 82% | 2.5 | 0% |
| 46 | Dunscroft and Hatfield South Yorkshire | C+ | 4 | 91% | 1.1 | 0% |
| 47 | Kidlington Oxfordshire | C+ | 0.9 | 81% | 3 | 2% |
| 48 | Milford Haven Dyfed | C | 0.8 | 70% | 0.9 | 30% |
| 49 | Birtley Tyne and Wear | C | 1.4 | 71% | 4.6 | 0% |
| 50 | Flitwick Bedfordshire | C | 0.8 | 59% | 3.9 | 3% |
| 51 | Syston Leicestershire | C | 1.4 | 84% | 2.7 | 0% |
| 52 | Pyle Mid Glamorgan | C− | 1 | 78% | 1.2 | 0% |
| 53 | Uttoxeter Staffordshire | C− | 1.1 | 79% | 2.6 | 0% |
| 54 | Cottingham East Riding of Yorkshire | C− | 2.1 | 73% | 1.8 | 0% |
| 55 | Middlewich Cheshire | D | 1.4 | 81% | 1.8 | 0% |
| 56 | Halstead Essex | D | 0.6 | 73% | 2.8 | 0% |
| 57 | New Rossington and Rossington South Yorkshire | D | 0.8 | 50% | 3.3 | 0% |
| 58 | Whittlesey Cambridgeshire | D | 1.7 | 73% | 1.5 | 0% |
| 59 | Shepshed Leicestershire | D | 1.1 | 69% | 2.2 | 0% |
| 60 | Church Village Mid Glamorgan | D | 0.7 | 72% | 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 Catterick Garrison’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 Catterick Garrison
The biggest is Coronation Park, 9.0 ha (22 acres). Directions go to the park’s nearest public entrance where Ordnance Survey maps one.
All 5 named parks by size: 28 ha (70 acres) and 2 km of path
Parks & gardens 20 haPlaying fields 8.2 ha
The two biggest, Coronation Park and Scotton Park, are 58% of the named green space.
Scotton Park
Park or garden
7.5 ha (19 acres)
11 pitchesfootball pitches would fit
0.6 mi southfrom the centre
Directionsto the nearest entrance
Jutland Recreation Ground
Playing field
8.2 ha (20 acres)0.2 km of path
12 pitchesfootball pitches would fit
1 mi north-westfrom the centre
Directionsto the nearest entrance
Linear Park
Park or garden
3.1 ha (8 acres)0.2 km of path
4 pitchesfootball pitches would fit
Centralin the middle of Catterick Garrison
Directionsto the nearest entrance
The Green
Park or garden
0.4 ha (1 acres)
Centralin the middle of Catterick Garrison
Directionsto the nearest entrance
Close to home
8 in 10 Catterick Garrison 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 (78%)Further (22%)
Catterick Garrison78%
Towns its size81%
North Yorkshire towns80%
All UK towns83%
About 3,200 people live further than that. Playing fields count, so a park within reach isn’t always one with paths or trees; 65 playgrounds are mapped in and around the town, about one for every 219 residents.
National Parks & National Landscapes
Yorkshire Dales and Nidderdale both start about 6 miles from Catterick Garrison
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 Park
Yorkshire Dales
0.9 mi north-west2,185 km²since 19546% of the land within 5 km
Official site6% of the land within 5 km of Catterick Garrison is National Park or National Landscape, more than 67% of UK towns. Yorkshire Dales National Park covers 2,185 km² and has been a National Park since 1954.
Footpaths & waymarked walks
Catterick Garrison is on the Coast to Coast Walk
56 km of footpaths, bridleways and rights of way are mapped in Catterick Garrison 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.
NationalLocal
Coast to Coast Walk (Richmond to Robin Hood’s Bay)8.1 km
Hudswell Woods Trail2.6 km
Round Howe and Billy Bank Woods Trail, Hudswell2.2 km
Low and Billy Bank Woods trail, Hudswell1.4 km
Coast to Coast Walk (Shap to Richmond)0.8 km
Castle Walk0.6 km
The Coast to Coast Walk, a national route, passes Catterick Garrison.
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 Catterick Garrison: 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) | 7.9 | 9.6 | 11.7 | 14.0 | 16.0 | 17.2 | 16.7 | 14.9 | 12.6 | 10.4 | 8.4 | 7.3 |
| High (°C) | 6 | 7 | 9 | 12 | 15 | 18 | 20 | 20 | 17 | 13 | 9 | 7 |
| Rain (mm) | 69 | 63 | 52 | 52 | 50 | 67 | 64 | 75 | 66 | 73 | 78 | 77 |
May is the driest month (50 mm) and July the warmest (highs of 20 °C). Winter days are short, about 7 hours of daylight in December, and 78 mm of rain falls in November, the wettest month. Frost comes on about 58 nights a year. The climate in Catterick Garrison →
Things to do
65 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
Catterick Garrison is inland. These are the nearest named beaches, measured from the edge of the town.
Pebble Beach16 mi from Catterick Garrison’s edge
DirectionsCoatham Sands29 mi from Catterick Garrison’s edge
DirectionsMiddleton Beach29 mi from Catterick Garrison’s edge
DirectionsFish Sands29 mi from Catterick Garrison’s edge
DirectionsNorth Sands29 mi from Catterick Garrison’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
Hills and peaks 1
Hill Top0.2 mi from town
DirectionsWaterfalls 1
Richmond Falls0.9 mi from town
DirectionsPicnic sites 1
Plus 1 picnic site without a name on the map.
Playgrounds 65
Plus 65 playgrounds 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.
Brompton-on-SwaleRichmondCatterickScortonLeyburnAiskewCatterick Garrison
ABCDOutdoors Grade
Richmond, 2.4 miles away, grades A, the best next door: 96% of its residents live within 400 m of a park.
Questions about the outdoors in Catterick Garrison
What is the biggest park in Catterick Garrison?
Coronation Park, 9.0 ha (22 acres), with 1.7 km of path. Scotton Park (7.5 ha) is second. 5 named parks, gardens and playing fields are in the town or within 400 m of it.
Is Catterick Garrison near a National Park?
Yes. Yorkshire Dales National Park begins 0.9 mi north-west of the town’s edge. It covers 2,185 km² and has been a National Park since 1954.
What are the best walks near Catterick Garrison?
6 waymarked walking routes pass within 2 km of the town, including the Coast to Coast Walk (Richmond to Robin Hood’s Bay), Hudswell Woods Trail and Round Howe and Billy Bank Woods Trail, Hudswell.
What is the nearest beach to Catterick Garrison?
Pebble Beach, 16 mi from the edge of the town, then Coatham Sands (29 mi). Catterick Garrison itself is inland.
How many people in Catterick Garrison live near a park?
78% 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 Catterick Garrison?
May to September: the longest days, the warmest afternoons and the least rain of the year, from the Met Office 1991–2020 averages.
Is Catterick Garrison good for walking?
Paths are thinner than most towns: 1.8 km of footpath and right of way per square kilometre, more than 24% of UK towns. For park space per person it beats 86% (4.9 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 Catterick Garrison’s overall grade.
Sources
Where Catterick Garrison’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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