Easingwold’s biggest
Millfields Park
Park or garden
15 ha (36 acres)2.4 km of path
30 minto walk all 2.4 km of path
20 pitchesfootball pitches would fit
Centralin the middle of Easingwold
Directionsto the nearest entrance
Photo: Les Hull · CC BY-SA 2.0BOutdoors Grade
Outdoors in Easingwold · parks, paths & countryside
Easingwold has more park space per resident than 8 in 10 UK towns
Parks and playing fields in Easingwold add up to 4.3 ha for every 1,000 residents; the typical UK town has 2.1. The Howardian Hills National Landscape begins 1.0 mi from the town’s edge. Footpaths add up to 19 km in the town and the kilometre around it, 1.5 for every square kilometre. Easingwold grades B for the outdoors: #19 of 54 in North Yorkshire. A character grade: it isn’t part of the overall grade.
Green space
4.3 ha
per 1,000 residents
Typical UK town 2.1
Near a park
86%
of residents within 400 m
Typical UK town 83%
Footpaths
19 km
1.5 km per km², town + 1 km
Typical UK town 3.0 per km²
Protected landscape
14%
of the land within 5 km
Nearest: Howardian Hills National Landscape
Character
What kind of outdoors town is Easingwold?
Read from the data: what stands out first, good and bad.
Room to roam4.3 ha of parks and playing fields per 1,000 residents, more than 83% of UK towns.Countryside both waysHowardian Hills starts 1.0 mi east, North York Moors 3.6 mi north.Few mapped footpaths1.5 km of path per km²; the typical UK town has 3.0.
Easingwold’s strongest suit is plenty of park space, followed by two protected landscapes close by. Where it falls short is footpaths.
Outdoors grade
Easingwold grades B for the outdoors
Each chart is every UK town of 1,000 or more on one measure: the green bar is Easingwold, 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 62% of UK towns#19 of 54 in North Yorkshire · 24th of 60 UK towns its size
Public green space4.3 haper 1,000 residents: parks, gardens, playing fields, play spaces
84out of
100
100
A park within a walk86%of residents within 400 m (a 5-minute walk)
58out of
100
100
National Park or National Landscape14%of the land within 5 km
74out of
100
100
Footpaths1.5 kmper km², the town and 1 km around it
18out 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
Easingwold is 24th of 60 UK towns its size for the outdoors
The 60 UK towns and cities of 4,900 to 5,200 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
Easingwold1.5
Towns its size2.6
North Yorkshire towns2.0
All UK towns3.0
Green space, ha per 1,000 residents
Easingwold4.3
Towns its size2.4
North Yorkshire towns1.7
All UK towns2.1
Residents within 400 m of a park
Easingwold86%
Towns its size75%
North Yorkshire towns80%
All UK towns83%
Against towns its size, Easingwold stands out most for park space per resident: only 16 of the other 59 have more. It falls furthest behind on path per km², where 54 of the others do better.
Show as a table
| Town | Outdoors | Green space | Near a park | Path per km² | Protected | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Pill Somerset | A+ | 5.2 | 100% | 3.8 | 0% |
| 2 | Whitehill Hampshire | A+ | 10.2 | 74% | 5.1 | 58% |
| 3 | Hungerford Berkshire | A+ | 9.1 | 85% | 3.2 | 100% |
| 4 | Burry Port Dyfed | A+ | 11.8 | 75% | 2.8 | 17% |
| 5 | Moreton-in-Marsh Gloucestershire | A | 5 | 100% | 1.8 | 55% |
| 6 | Wirksworth Derbyshire | A | 2 | 100% | 4.6 | 8% |
| 7 | Rhymney Gwent | A | 2.9 | 97% | 3.8 | 6% |
| 8 | Meols Merseyside | A | 3.1 | 100% | 2.2 | 0% |
| 9 | Holmfirth West Yorkshire | A | 2.2 | 88% | 4.6 | 27% |
| 10 | Fitzwilliam and Kinsley West Yorkshire | A− | 11.5 | 100% | 3 | 0% |
| 11 | Joyden's Wood Kent | A− | 2.7 | 82% | 5.6 | 4% |
| 12 | Fordingbridge Hampshire | A− | 3.6 | 92% | 2 | 56% |
| 13 | Coleford Gloucestershire | A− | 2.8 | 66% | 4.3 | 48% |
| 14 | Elvetham Heath Hampshire | A− | 8.7 | 100% | 2.8 | 0% |
| 15 | Needham Market Suffolk | A− | 7.2 | 88% | 4 | 0% |
| 16 | Overseal and Castle Gresley Derbyshire | A− | 2.5 | 100% | 4.4 | 0% |
| 17 | Huthwaite Nottinghamshire | B+ | 8.1 | 75% | 4.9 | 0% |
| 18 | Seaton Cumbria | B+ | 2.5 | 87% | 2.6 | 0% |
| 19 | Cranbrook Devon | B+ | 6.4 | 87% | 1.9 | 1% |
| 20 | Hildenborough Kent | B+ | 6.5 | 40% | 2.8 | 46% |
| 21 | Long Ashton Somerset | B+ | 10.2 | 66% | 4.7 | 0% |
| 22 | Stone Cross East Sussex | B+ | 1.4 | 86% | 2.3 | 9% |
| 23 | Aspull Greater Manchester | B | 7.6 | 92% | 2.4 | 0% |
| 24 | Easingwold North Yorkshire | B | 4.3 | 86% | 1.5 | 14% |
| 25 | Grimethorpe South Yorkshire | B | 2.5 | 100% | 2.8 | 0% |
| 26 | Market Rasen Lincolnshire | B | 2.6 | 94% | 1.6 | 16% |
| 27 | Sedgefield County Durham | B | 6.2 | 81% | 2.8 | 0% |
| 28 | Iver Heath Buckinghamshire | B | 28.9 | 53% | 3.8 | 0% |
| 29 | Headley Down and Headley Hampshire | B | 2.1 | 55% | 3.4 | 44% |
| 30 | Virginia Water Surrey | B | 14.5 | 72% | 3 | 0% |
| 31 | Abercarn Gwent | B− | 3 | 100% | 1.8 | 0% |
| 32 | Whitburn Tyne and Wear | B− | 2.5 | 46% | 2.5 | 0% |
| 33 | Wotton-under-Edge Gloucestershire | C+ | 0.4 | 32% | 5.4 | 60% |
| 34 | Stokesley North Yorkshire | C+ | 0.9 | 100% | 1.7 | 16% |
| 35 | Wool Dorset | C+ | 2.3 | 51% | 2.5 | 33% |
| 36 | Steeton West Yorkshire | C+ | 1.3 | 100% | 2.7 | 0% |
| 37 | Moulton Northamptonshire | C+ | 3.3 | 88% | 1.7 | 0% |
| 38 | Barton-le-Clay Bedfordshire | C+ | 1.3 | 43% | 3.2 | 38% |
| 39 | Church Lancashire | C | 1.5 | 79% | 3.9 | 0% |
| 40 | Billinge Merseyside | C | 0.9 | 94% | 3 | 0% |
| 41 | Treharris Mid Glamorgan | C | 2.6 | 72% | 2.6 | 0% |
| 42 | Copthorne West Sussex | C | 1.2 | 62% | 2.9 | 13% |
| 43 | Bungay Suffolk | C | 0.5 | 78% | 2.6 | 12% |
| 44 | Sutton on Sea and Trusthorpe Lincolnshire | C | 1.8 | 67% | 1.5 | 0% |
| 45 | Odiham Hampshire | C | 1.9 | 72% | 2.8 | 0% |
| 46 | Jaywick Essex | C− | 1.1 | 75% | 1.4 | 0% |
| 47 | Shavington Cheshire | C− | 1.1 | 87% | 2.1 | 0% |
| 48 | Halesworth Suffolk | C− | 1.4 | 55% | 1.9 | 5% |
| 49 | Tickhill South Yorkshire | D | 1.7 | 69% | 2.2 | 0% |
| 50 | Haslington Cheshire | D | 1.8 | 41% | 2.6 | 0% |
| 51 | Gresford Clwyd | D | 1.4 | 76% | 1.8 | 0% |
| 52 | Melbourn Cambridgeshire | D | 1.2 | 45% | 2.7 | 0% |
| 53 | Fleckney Leicestershire | D | 0.8 | 63% | 2.3 | 0% |
| 54 | Lepton West Yorkshire | D− | 0.9 | 36% | 2.3 | 0% |
| 55 | Wingate County Durham | D− | 1 | 64% | 1.5 | 0% |
| 56 | Harleston Norfolk | D− | 0.2 | 42% | 2.2 | 0% |
| 57 | Bulford Wiltshire | D− | 0.9 | 51% | 1.6 | 0% |
| 58 | Appley Bridge Greater Manchester | D− | 0.5 | 44% | 1.8 | 0% |
| 59 | Shotton Colliery County Durham | D− | 0.9 | 40% | 1.5 | 0% |
| 60 | Somerton Somerset | D− | 0.6 | 48% | 1 | 0% |
The map
Parks, footpaths & countryside
Tap a number to zoom to a park. Tap a layer to hide it. The dashed line is Easingwold’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 Easingwold
The biggest is Millfields Park, 15 ha (36 acres). Directions go to the park’s nearest public entrance where Ordnance Survey maps one.
Memorial Park
Playing field
2.9 ha (7 acres)0.1 km of path
4 pitchesfootball pitches would fit
Centralin the middle of Easingwold
Directionsto the nearest entrance
Close to home
9 in 10 Easingwold 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 (86%)Further (14%)
Easingwold86%
Towns its size75%
North Yorkshire towns80%
All UK towns83%
About 700 people live further than that. Playing fields count, so a park within reach isn’t always one with paths or trees; 3 playgrounds are mapped in and around the town, about one for every 1,679 residents.
National Parks & National Landscapes
Howardian Hills and North York Moors both start about 4 miles from Easingwold
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 Landscape
Howardian Hills
1.0 mi east204 km²since 198714% of the land within 5 km
Official site14% of the land within 5 km of Easingwold is National Park or National Landscape, more than 73% of UK towns. North York Moors National Park covers 1,441 km² and has been a National Park since 1952.
Footpaths & waymarked walks
1 waymarked walk passes through or near Easingwold
19 km of footpaths, bridleways and rights of way are mapped in Easingwold and the kilometre around it, 1.5 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
Foss Walk3.9 km
The regional route here is the Foss Walk.
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 Easingwold: 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 | 9.7 | 11.7 | 14.0 | 16.0 | 17.1 | 16.6 | 14.8 | 12.6 | 10.4 | 8.4 | 7.4 |
| High (°C) | 7 | 8 | 10 | 13 | 16 | 19 | 21 | 21 | 18 | 14 | 10 | 7 |
| Rain (mm) | 58 | 46 | 41 | 43 | 49 | 62 | 57 | 65 | 55 | 65 | 67 | 59 |
March is the driest month (41 mm) and July the warmest (highs of 21 °C). Winter days are short, about 7 hours of daylight in December, and 67 mm of rain falls in November, the wettest month. Frost comes on about 51 nights a year. The climate in Easingwold →
Things to do
3 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
Easingwold is inland. These are the nearest named beaches, measured from the edge of the town.
York Beach11 mi from Easingwold’s edge
DirectionsPebble Beach13 mi from Easingwold’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
Plus 1 nature reserve without a name on the map.
Playgrounds 3
Plus 3 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.
Huby (Hambleton)AmpleforthWiggintonBoroughbridgeStrensallLangthorpeEasingwold
ABCDOutdoors Grade
| Town | Outdoors | Green space, ha per 1,000 | Near a park | Protected within 5 km |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Easingwold | B | 4.3 | 86% | 14% |
| Huby (Hambleton) 3.4 mi | C | 2.4 | 75% | 2% |
| Ampleforth 6.5 mi | C | 2.3 | 27% | 95% |
| Wigginton 8.1 mi | A− | 4.1 | 100% | 0% |
| Boroughbridge 8.6 mi | D− | 0.4 | 60% | 0% |
| Strensall 8.6 mi | C | 1.3 | 89% | 0% |
| Langthorpe 8.7 mi | C− | 0.3 | 100% | 0% |
Wigginton, 8.1 miles away, grades A−, the best next door: every resident lives within 400 m of a park.
Questions about the outdoors in Easingwold
What is the biggest park in Easingwold?
Millfields Park, 15 ha (36 acres), with 2.4 km of path. Memorial Park (2.9 ha) is second. 2 named parks, gardens and playing fields are in the town or within 400 m of it.
Is Easingwold near a National Park?
Yes. North York Moors National Park begins 3.6 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, 1.0 mi away.
What are the best walks near Easingwold?
1 waymarked walking route passes within 2 km of the town, including the Foss Walk. Millfields Park alone has 2.4 km of path.
What is the nearest beach to Easingwold?
York Beach, 11 mi from the edge of the town, then Pebble Beach (13 mi). Easingwold itself is inland.
How many people in Easingwold 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 Easingwold?
May to September: the longest days, the warmest afternoons and the least rain of the year, from the Met Office 1991–2020 averages.
Is Easingwold good for walking?
Paths are thinner than most towns: 1.5 km of footpath and right of way per square kilometre, more than 18% of UK towns. For park space per person it beats 84% (4.3 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 Easingwold’s overall grade.
Sources
Where Easingwold’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.