Filey’s biggest
Filey Country Park
Park or garden
24 ha (60 acres)1.5 km of path
20 minto walk all 1.5 km of path
34 pitchesfootball pitches would fit
Centralin the middle of Filey
Long Lane
Directionsto the nearest entrance
Photo: Stephen Craven · CC BY-SA 2.0AOutdoors Grade
Outdoors in Filey · parks, paths & countryside
Filey is on the coast, on the King Charles III England Coast Path
The sea makes up 48% of the area within 5 km. Parks and playing fields in Filey add up to 5.9 ha for every 1,000 residents; the typical UK town has 2.1. 89% of residents live within a 5-minute walk of a park or playing field. Filey grades A for the outdoors: #5 of 54 in North Yorkshire. A character grade: it isn’t part of the overall grade.
Green space
5.9 ha
per 1,000 residents
Typical UK town 2.1
Near a park
89%
of residents within 400 m
Typical UK town 83%
Footpaths
36 km
2.8 km per km², town + 1 km
Typical UK town 3.0 per km²
Protected landscape
0%
of the land within 5 km
Nearest: North York Moors National Park
The sea
48%
of the area within 5 km
A coastal town
Character
What kind of outdoors town is Filey?
Read from the data: what stands out first, good and bad.
On the coast48% of the area within 5 km is sea; 5 beaches mapped.Room to roam5.9 ha of parks and playing fields per 1,000 residents, more than 90% of UK towns.On a National TrailThe Yorkshire Wolds Way passes through.
Filey’s strongest suit is the sea, followed by plenty of park space.
Outdoors grade
Filey grades A for the outdoors
Each chart is every UK town of 1,000 or more on one measure: the green bar is Filey, the dashed line the typical town. The number is the share of towns it beats; the five are averaged and the average ranked again.
A
Better than 92% of UK towns#5 of 54 in North Yorkshire · 3rd of 60 UK towns its size
Public green space5.9 haper 1,000 residents: parks, gardens, playing fields, play spaces
90out of
100
100
A park within a walk89%of residents within 400 m (a 5-minute walk)
66out of
100
100
National Park or National Landscape0%of the land within 5 km · None within 5 km
31out of
100
100
Footpaths2.8 kmper km², the town and 1 km around it
55out of
100
100
The sea48%of the area within 5 km
98out 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
Filey is 3rd of 60 UK towns its size for the outdoors
The 60 UK towns and cities of 6,400 to 7,000 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
Filey2.8
Towns its size3.1
North Yorkshire towns2.0
All UK towns3.0
Green space, ha per 1,000 residents
Filey5.9
Towns its size2.2
North Yorkshire towns1.7
All UK towns2.1
Residents within 400 m of a park
Filey89%
Towns its size81%
North Yorkshire towns80%
All UK towns83%
Against towns its size, Filey stands out most for park space per resident: only 6 of the other 59 have more.
Show as a table
| Town | Outdoors | Green space | Near a park | Path per km² | Protected | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Stone Kent | A+ | 3.1 | 100% | 6.2 | 0% |
| 2 | Acrefair and Cefn-mawr Clwyd | A | 6.5 | 96% | 2.9 | 36% |
| 3 | Filey North Yorkshire | A | 5.9 | 89% | 2.8 | 0% |
| 4 | Chalford Gloucestershire | A | 1.6 | 96% | 4.7 | 94% |
| 5 | East Boldon and West Boldon Tyne and Wear | A | 3.4 | 96% | 3.4 | 0% |
| 6 | Wingerworth Derbyshire | A | 9 | 86% | 4 | 0% |
| 7 | Shotton Clwyd | A | 4.5 | 100% | 4.7 | 0% |
| 8 | Ibstock Leicestershire | A | 8.5 | 96% | 4.6 | 0% |
| 9 | Barton on Sea Hampshire | A | 4.9 | 50% | 2.8 | 22% |
| 10 | Bedwas Gwent | A | 4.4 | 100% | 4 | 0% |
| 11 | Broad Blunsdon Wiltshire | A− | 5.2 | 93% | 4.4 | 0% |
| 12 | St Blazey Cornwall | A− | 2.4 | 78% | 2.8 | 17% |
| 13 | Olney Buckinghamshire | A− | 6.3 | 100% | 3.2 | 0% |
| 14 | Alcester Warwickshire | A− | 4.1 | 100% | 3.5 | 0% |
| 15 | Whitfield Kent | A− | 2.3 | 79% | 2.5 | 32% |
| 16 | Horden County Durham | A− | 2.1 | 82% | 4.8 | 0% |
| 17 | Paulton Somerset | A− | 2.1 | 96% | 4.1 | 0% |
| 18 | Whitworth Lancashire | B+ | 2.5 | 96% | 4.7 | 0% |
| 19 | Lightwater Surrey | B+ | 9.2 | 72% | 5.6 | 0% |
| 20 | Fence Houses Tyne and Wear | B+ | 3.8 | 81% | 4.7 | 0% |
| 21 | Milford and Witley Surrey | B+ | 2.6 | 54% | 3.7 | 78% |
| 22 | Cawston Warwickshire | B+ | 3.6 | 98% | 3 | 0% |
| 23 | North Anston South Yorkshire | B+ | 2.6 | 100% | 3.3 | 0% |
| 24 | Cleator Moor Cumbria | B+ | 3.5 | 91% | 1.9 | 11% |
| 25 | Little Chalfont Buckinghamshire | B+ | 1.5 | 83% | 3.6 | 45% |
| 26 | Groby Leicestershire | B+ | 2.1 | 96% | 4.5 | 0% |
| 27 | Peasedown St John Somerset | B+ | 1.5 | 88% | 4 | 9% |
| 28 | Skelton (Redcar and Cleveland) North Yorkshire | B+ | 1.7 | 82% | 2.2 | 9% |
| 29 | Burley in Wharfedale West Yorkshire | B | 1.6 | 81% | 3.5 | 35% |
| 30 | Hindhead Surrey | B | 1.7 | 37% | 5.9 | 66% |
| 31 | Braunton Devon | B | 1.6 | 78% | 2.1 | 24% |
| 32 | Galleywood Essex | B | 10.3 | 61% | 4.2 | 0% |
| 33 | Hartford Cheshire | B | 2.2 | 95% | 3.7 | 0% |
| 34 | Barrow upon Soar Leicestershire | B− | 2.7 | 89% | 2.8 | 0% |
| 35 | Rishton Lancashire | B− | 2.2 | 94% | 3 | 0% |
| 36 | Wincanton Somerset | B− | 1.4 | 88% | 2.8 | 7% |
| 37 | Crigglestone and Durkar West Yorkshire | B− | 4.4 | 45% | 3.9 | 0% |
| 38 | Ushaw Moor and Bearpark County Durham | C+ | 1.6 | 82% | 4.6 | 0% |
| 39 | Blackheath West Midlands | C+ | 2.5 | 57% | 4.9 | 0% |
| 40 | Chiswell Green Hertfordshire | C+ | 4 | 54% | 3.5 | 0% |
| 41 | Denmead Hampshire | C+ | 1.4 | 72% | 2.8 | 35% |
| 42 | Tetbury Gloucestershire | C+ | 1.2 | 66% | 2.6 | 88% |
| 43 | Rawdon West Yorkshire | C+ | 1.7 | 67% | 5.1 | 0% |
| 44 | Bolton-le-Sands Lancashire | C+ | 1.1 | 58% | 1.6 | 23% |
| 45 | Brampton Cambridgeshire | C | 3.2 | 61% | 2.9 | 0% |
| 46 | Market Deeping Lincolnshire | C | 1.5 | 96% | 2.4 | 0% |
| 47 | Farnham Common and Farnham Royal Buckinghamshire | C | 1 | 55% | 4.1 | 0% |
| 48 | Waddington Lincolnshire | C | 2.3 | 87% | 1.7 | 0% |
| 49 | Rhoose South Glamorgan | C | 2 | 43% | 1.7 | 0% |
| 50 | Great Wakering Essex | C | 1.1 | 47% | 2.7 | 0% |
| 51 | Lydiate Merseyside | C− | 1.5 | 90% | 2 | 0% |
| 52 | Ashingdon Essex | C− | 1.3 | 61% | 2.2 | 0% |
| 53 | Hollywood Worcestershire | C− | 2.4 | 54% | 2.5 | 0% |
| 54 | Culcheth Cheshire | C− | 1.7 | 67% | 2.6 | 0% |
| 55 | Holmes Chapel Cheshire | D | 0.8 | 72% | 2 | 0% |
| 56 | Pontarddulais West Glamorgan | D | 1.9 | 67% | 0.5 | 0% |
| 57 | Coleshill Warwickshire | D | 1.3 | 69% | 1.7 | 0% |
| 58 | Broughton Clwyd | D− | 0.8 | 80% | 1 | 0% |
| 59 | Keyworth Nottinghamshire | D− | 1.3 | 58% | 1.7 | 0% |
| 60 | Blythe Bridge and Forsbrook Staffordshire | D− | 1.6 | 49% | 1.1 | 0% |
The map
Parks, footpaths & countryside
Tap a number to zoom to a park. Tap a layer to hide it. The dashed line is Filey’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 Filey
The biggest is Filey Country Park, 24 ha (60 acres). Directions go to the park’s nearest public entrance where Ordnance Survey maps one.
Glen Gardens
Park or garden
5.1 ha (13 acres)1.9 km of path
25 minto walk all 1.9 km of path
7 pitchesfootball pitches would fit
0.6 mi south-eastfrom the centre
Directionsto the nearest entrance
Crescent Gardens
Park or garden
0.8 ha (2 acres)0.6 km of path
10 minto walk all 0.6 km of path
0.5 mi south-eastfrom the centre
Directionsto the nearest entrance
Close to home
9 in 10 Filey 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 (89%)Further (11%)
Filey89%
Towns its size81%
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; 26 playgrounds are mapped in and around the town, about one for every 256 residents.
National Parks & National Landscapes
The North York Moors National Park is 7.4 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
Filey is on the Yorkshire Wolds Way
36 km of footpaths, bridleways and rights of way are mapped in Filey and the kilometre around it, 2.8 km for every square kilometre (the typical UK town has 3.0). Bars show each route’s kilometres within 2 km of the town.
NationalRegional
Centenary Way6.2 km
Yorkshire Wolds Way5.4 km
King Charles III England Coast Path: Filey Brigg to Newport Bridge3.6 km
Cleveland Way3.5 km
King Charles III England Coast Path: Easington to Filey Brigg1.0 km
The Yorkshire Wolds Way, a national route, passes Filey. The regional route here is the Centenary 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 Filey: June, 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 | 16.0 | 17.2 | 16.7 | 14.9 | 12.6 | 10.4 | 8.4 | 7.4 |
| High (°C) | 7 | 8 | 10 | 12 | 15 | 17 | 20 | 20 | 17 | 14 | 10 | 7 |
| Rain (mm) | 57 | 46 | 43 | 50 | 44 | 61 | 55 | 70 | 53 | 64 | 67 | 68 |
March is the driest month (43 mm) and July the warmest (highs of 20 °C). Winter days are short, about 7 hours of daylight in December, and 70 mm of rain falls in August, the wettest month. Frost comes on about 29 nights a year. The climate in Filey →
The coast
The coast and beaches near Filey
48% of the area within 5 km of Filey is sea. 5 beaches are mapped within 5 km.
Filey Sands0.1 mi from town
DirectionsMuston Sands0.4 mi from town
DirectionsHunmanby Sands1.1 mi from town
DirectionsGristhorpe Sands1.8 mi from town
DirectionsReighton Sands2.2 mi from town
DirectionsThe King Charles III England Coast Path passes the town.
Sea: the area outside the ONS coastline (mean high water). Bathing water quality is published by the Environment Agency (England) and Natural Resources Wales; check it before swimming.
Things to do
2 viewpoints and 26 playgrounds
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.
2Viewpoints3Nature reserves3.1× towns its size2Picnic sites26Playgrounds1.5× towns its size1Campsites3Slipways
Every named place, with directions
Nature reserves 3
Filey Dams Nature Reserve6.9 ha · 0.0 mi from town
DirectionsEast Lea3.0 ha · 0.1 mi from town
DirectionsThe Old Tip6.2 ha · 0.1 mi from town
DirectionsPicnic sites 2
Plus 2 picnic sites without a name on the map.
Playgrounds 26
Plus 26 playgrounds without a name on the map.
Campsites 1
Ivy Cottage Campsite0.3 mi from town
DirectionsSlipways 3
Plus 3 slipways 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.
HunmanbySeamer (Scarborough)ScarboroughBemptonEast Ayton and West AytonScalbyFiley
ABCDOutdoors Grade
| Town | Outdoors | Green space, ha per 1,000 | Near a park | Protected within 5 km |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Filey | A | 5.9 | 89% | 0% |
| Hunmanby 2.4 mi | D | 0.3 | 33% | 0% |
| Seamer (Scarborough) 6.2 mi | C− | 2.2 | 58% | 18% |
| Scarborough 6.3 mi | A | 2.4 | 86% | 17% |
| Bempton 7.2 mi | C | 0.6 | 100% | 0% |
| East Ayton and West Ayton 8.0 mi | D | 0.1 | 0% | 33% |
| Scalby 8.6 mi | A | 5.9 | 70% | 43% |
Scarborough, 6.3 miles away, grades A, the best next door: 86% of its residents live within 400 m of a park.
Questions about the outdoors in Filey
What is the biggest park in Filey?
Filey Country Park, 24 ha (60 acres), with 1.5 km of path. Glen Gardens (5.1 ha) is second. 3 named parks, gardens and playing fields are in the town or within 400 m of it.
Is Filey near a National Park?
Yes. North York Moors National Park begins 7.4 mi north-west of the town’s edge. It covers 1,441 km² and has been a National Park since 1952.
What are the best walks near Filey?
5 waymarked walking routes pass within 2 km of the town, including the Centenary Way, Yorkshire Wolds Way and King Charles III England Coast Path: Filey Brigg to Newport Bridge.
How many people in Filey live near a park?
89% 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 Filey?
June, July and September: the longest days, the warmest afternoons and the least rain of the year, from the Met Office 1991–2020 averages.
Is Filey good for walking?
About average for paths: 2.8 km of footpath and right of way per square kilometre, more than 55% of UK towns. For park space per person it beats 90% (5.9 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 Filey’s overall grade.
Sources
Where Filey’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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