Dunnington’s biggest
The Green
Park or garden
0.4 ha (1 acres)
Centralin the middle of Dunnington
Directionsto the nearest entrance
Dunnington Lodge and Attached Stables and Coach House · Photo: Jonathan Thacker · CC BY-SA 2.0D−Outdoors Grade
Outdoors in Dunnington · parks, paths & countryside
Parks and walks in Dunnington
Parks and playing fields in Dunnington add up to 0.8 ha for every 1,000 residents; the typical UK town has 2.1. A park or playing field is within a 5-minute walk for 44% of residents. 17 km of footpaths run through the town and the kilometre around it, 1.6 for every square kilometre. Dunnington grades D− for the outdoors: #52 of 54 in North Yorkshire. A character grade: it isn’t part of the overall grade.
Green space
0.8 ha
per 1,000 residents
Typical UK town 2.1
Near a park
44%
of residents within 400 m
Typical UK town 83%
Footpaths
17 km
1.6 km per km², town + 1 km
Typical UK town 3.0 per km²
Protected landscape
0%
of the land within 5 km
Nearest: Howardian Hills National Landscape
Outdoors grade
Dunnington grades D− for the outdoors
Each chart is every UK town of 1,000 or more on one measure: the green bar is Dunnington, the dashed line the typical town. The number is the share of towns it beats; the five are averaged and the average ranked again.
D−
Better than 2% of UK towns#52 of 54 in North Yorkshire
Public green space0.8 haper 1,000 residents: parks, gardens, playing fields, play spaces
8out of
100
100
A park within a walk44%of residents within 400 m (a 5-minute walk)
10out of
100
100
National Park or National Landscape0%of the land within 5 km · None within 5 km
31out of
100
100
Footpaths1.6 kmper km², the town and 1 km around it
19out 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
How Dunnington compares with UK towns of 3,100 to 3,400
The 60 UK towns and cities of 3,100 to 3,400 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
Dunnington1.6
Towns its size2.4
North Yorkshire towns2.0
All UK towns3.0
Green space, ha per 1,000 residents
Dunnington0.8
Towns its size1.6
North Yorkshire towns1.7
All UK towns2.1
Residents within 400 m of a park
Dunnington44%
Towns its size79%
North Yorkshire towns80%
All UK towns83%
Dunnington falls furthest behind on park space per resident, where 52 of the 59 others do better.
Show as a table
| Town | Outdoors | Green space | Near a park | Path per km² | Protected | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Whyteleafe Surrey | A+ | 16.3 | 100% | 4.9 | 15% |
| 2 | Bakewell Derbyshire | A | 5.5 | 91% | 2.7 | 98% |
| 3 | Bignall End Staffordshire | A | 9.1 | 100% | 4.1 | 0% |
| 4 | Broadwell and Coalway Gloucestershire | A | 2.8 | 72% | 5.5 | 38% |
| 5 | Moira Leicestershire | A | 15.5 | 86% | 5.1 | 0% |
| 6 | Neyland Dyfed | A− | 3 | 93% | 1.2 | 13% |
| 7 | Netherton (Kirklees) West Yorkshire | A− | 2 | 88% | 5.5 | 6% |
| 8 | Birdwell South Yorkshire | A− | 3.6 | 90% | 4.6 | 0% |
| 9 | North Petherton Somerset | B+ | 3.8 | 91% | 2.3 | 5% |
| 10 | Amlwch Gwynedd | B+ | 1.6 | 87% | 2.1 | 14% |
| 11 | Addingham West Yorkshire | B+ | 1.8 | 93% | 3 | 32% |
| 12 | Newlyn Cornwall | B+ | 1.5 | 67% | 3.2 | 24% |
| 13 | St Agnes Cornwall | B+ | 1 | 81% | 3 | 5% |
| 14 | Markyate Hertfordshire | B+ | 1.4 | 100% | 2.2 | 53% |
| 15 | Wheatley Hill County Durham | B+ | 2.6 | 100% | 3 | 0% |
| 16 | Mickletown West Yorkshire | B+ | 3.3 | 93% | 3.2 | 0% |
| 17 | Elton Cheshire | B | 1.9 | 100% | 1.9 | 0% |
| 18 | Madeley Staffordshire | B | 3.8 | 100% | 2.1 | 0% |
| 19 | Walton West Yorkshire | B | 12.3 | 78% | 3 | 0% |
| 20 | Treeton South Yorkshire | B | 4.4 | 63% | 5.3 | 0% |
| 21 | Fernhill Heath Worcestershire | B | 3.2 | 88% | 3.1 | 0% |
| 22 | Caddington Bedfordshire | B | 1.3 | 81% | 3.6 | 33% |
| 23 | Ringmer East Sussex | B− | 1.9 | 91% | 1.8 | 37% |
| 24 | Pangbourne Berkshire | B− | 2.9 | 61% | 2 | 85% |
| 25 | Askam in Furness Cumbria | B− | 1.7 | 90% | 2 | 0% |
| 26 | Dunton Green Kent | B− | 1 | 82% | 2.7 | 69% |
| 27 | Healing Lincolnshire | B− | 2 | 78% | 1.3 | 1% |
| 28 | Highley Shropshire | C+ | 3.4 | 73% | 2.8 | 0% |
| 29 | Pegswood Northumberland | C+ | 1.3 | 100% | 2.7 | 0% |
| 30 | Milborne Port Somerset | C+ | 1.6 | 100% | 2.3 | 0% |
| 31 | Leadgate County Durham | C+ | 1.5 | 91% | 1.9 | 1% |
| 32 | West Bergholt Essex | C | 1.5 | 82% | 1.8 | 9% |
| 33 | Marlow Bottom Buckinghamshire | C | 0.5 | 40% | 3.4 | 50% |
| 34 | Somersham Cambridgeshire | C | 2.7 | 81% | 1.9 | 0% |
| 35 | Earls Colne Essex | C | 1.4 | 91% | 2.6 | 0% |
| 36 | Bedale North Yorkshire | C | 3.6 | 78% | 1.4 | 0% |
| 37 | Adderbury and Twyford Oxfordshire | C | 1.7 | 89% | 2.2 | 0% |
| 38 | Laceby Lincolnshire | C | 1.6 | 64% | 2.1 | 18% |
| 39 | Hadlow Kent | C− | 1.7 | 61% | 2 | 11% |
| 40 | Charvil Berkshire | C− | 0.7 | 68% | 2.7 | 6% |
| 41 | Sapcote Leicestershire | C− | 2.4 | 67% | 2.4 | 0% |
| 42 | Appleby-in-Westmorland Cumbria | C− | 1.2 | 63% | 2.1 | 24% |
| 43 | Bishopthorpe North Yorkshire | C− | 3.2 | 51% | 2.2 | 0% |
| 44 | Yarnton Oxfordshire | C− | 0.4 | 69% | 3 | 0% |
| 45 | Farnsfield Nottinghamshire | C− | 2 | 63% | 2.8 | 0% |
| 46 | Purton Wiltshire | C− | 0.8 | 60% | 4.3 | 0% |
| 47 | Rendlesham Suffolk | C− | 0.8 | 52% | 1.6 | 59% |
| 48 | Astwood Bank Worcestershire | C− | 0.9 | 79% | 2.6 | 0% |
| 49 | Navenby Lincolnshire | D | 1.2 | 81% | 2.1 | 0% |
| 50 | Talbot Green Mid Glamorgan | D | 0.7 | 66% | 3.3 | 0% |
| 51 | Eglwys-Brewis South Glamorgan | D | 0.3 | 0% | 2.2 | 0% |
| 52 | Iver Buckinghamshire | D | 1.3 | 60% | 2.5 | 0% |
| 53 | Tarporley Cheshire | D | 1 | 69% | 2.5 | 0% |
| 54 | Eccleshall Staffordshire | D | 1.1 | 74% | 1.4 | 0% |
| 55 | Heckington Lincolnshire | D | 1.4 | 68% | 1.2 | 0% |
| 56 | New Tredegar Gwent | D− | 1.4 | 68% | 1.2 | 0% |
| 57 | Headcorn Kent | D− | 1.6 | 48% | 1 | 0% |
| 58 | Dunnington North Yorkshire | D− | 0.8 | 44% | 1.6 | 0% |
| 59 | Upper Tean Staffordshire | D− | 0.6 | 60% | 0.8 | 0% |
| 60 | Donington Lincolnshire | D− | 0.8 | 54% | 0.8 | 0% |
The map
Parks, footpaths & countryside
Tap a number to zoom to a park. Tap a layer to hide it. The dashed line is Dunnington’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 Dunnington
The biggest is The Green, 0.4 ha (1 acres). Directions go to the park’s nearest public entrance where Ordnance Survey maps one.
Close to home
4 in 10 Dunnington 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 (44%)Further (56%)
Dunnington44%
Towns its size79%
North Yorkshire towns80%
All UK towns83%
About 1,800 people live further than that. Playing fields count, so a park within reach isn’t always one with paths or trees; 15 playgrounds are mapped in and around the town, about one for every 217 residents.
National Parks & National Landscapes
The Howardian Hills National Landscape is 6.6 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
North York Moors National Park covers 1,441 km² and has been a National Park since 1952.
Footpaths & waymarked walks
2 waymarked walks pass through or near Dunnington
17 km of footpaths, bridleways and rights of way are mapped in Dunnington and the kilometre around it, 1.6 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
Jorvic Way8.9 km
Minster Way4.7 km
2 regional routes pass through, including the Jorvic Way and Minster 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 Dunnington: May to July and 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 | 9.7 | 11.7 | 14.0 | 15.9 | 17.1 | 16.6 | 14.8 | 12.6 | 10.4 | 8.4 | 7.4 |
| High (°C) | 7 | 8 | 10 | 13 | 16 | 19 | 22 | 21 | 18 | 14 | 10 | 7 |
| Rain (mm) | 51 | 43 | 40 | 43 | 45 | 61 | 56 | 66 | 53 | 62 | 59 | 56 |
March is the driest month (40 mm) and July the warmest (highs of 22 °C). Winter days are short, about 7 hours of daylight in December, and 66 mm of rain falls in August, the wettest month. Frost comes on about 45 nights a year. The climate in Dunnington →
Things to do
15 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
Dunnington is inland. These are the nearest named beaches, measured from the edge of the town.
York Beach3.8 mi from Dunnington’s edge
DirectionsPebble Beach25 mi from Dunnington’s edge
DirectionsCayton Sands31 mi from Dunnington’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
Nature reserves 1
Hassacarr Nature Reserve0.9 ha · 0.0 mi from town
DirectionsPlaygrounds 15
Dunnington Playgroundin town
DirectionsCornstruction Zone1.0 mi from town
DirectionsCobweb Climbing Zone1.1 mi from town
DirectionsThe Cornival Show1.1 mi from town
DirectionsPopcorn Pillow1.1 mi from town
DirectionsAngry Crows1.1 mi from town
DirectionsMineshaft Maze1.1 mi from town
DirectionsUtter Cornage1.1 mi from town
DirectionsPlus 7 playgrounds without a name on the map.
Campsites 1
Belle Vista Glamping & Camping0.8 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.
OsbaldwickStockton on the ForestHeslingtonElvingtonStamford BridgeWilberfossDunnington
ABCDOutdoors Grade
| Town | Outdoors | Green space, ha per 1,000 | Near a park | Protected within 5 km |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dunnington | D− | 0.8 | 44% | 0% |
| Osbaldwick 2.2 mi | C+ | 1.9 | 70% | 0% |
| Stockton on the Forest 2.4 mi | D− | 0.2 | 0% | 0% |
| Heslington 3.2 mi | A− | 6.3 | 80% | 0% |
| Elvington 3.3 mi | D | 2.1 | 0% | 0% |
| Stamford Bridge 3.4 mi | C+ | 2.5 | 100% | 0% |
| Wilberfoss 3.8 mi | D− | 0.7 | 69% | 0% |
Heslington, 3.2 miles away, grades A−, the best next door: 80% of its residents live within 400 m of a park. Osbaldwick, Heslington and Elvington have at least twice Dunnington’s green space per resident. None of the neighbours has a protected landscape within 5 km either.
Questions about the outdoors in Dunnington
What is the biggest park in Dunnington?
The Green, 0.4 ha (1 acres). 1 named park, garden or playing field is in the town or within 400 m of it.
Is Dunnington near a National Park?
Yes. North York Moors National Park begins 16 mi north of the town’s edge. It covers 1,441 km² and has been a National Park since 1952. The nearest protected landscape of any kind is the Howardian Hills National Landscape, 6.6 mi away.
What are the best walks near Dunnington?
2 waymarked walking routes pass within 2 km of the town, including the Jorvic Way and Minster Way.
What is the nearest beach to Dunnington?
York Beach, 3.8 mi from the edge of the town, then Pebble Beach (25 mi). Dunnington itself is inland.
How many people in Dunnington live near a park?
44% 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 Dunnington?
May to July and September: the longest days, the warmest afternoons and the least rain of the year, from the Met Office 1991–2020 averages.
Is Dunnington good for walking?
Paths are thinner than most towns: 1.6 km of footpath and right of way per square kilometre, more than 19% of UK towns. For park space per person it beats 8% (0.8 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 Dunnington’s overall grade.
Sources
Where Dunnington’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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