Osbaldwick’s biggest
Hull Road Park
Park or garden · 400 m outside town
4.2 ha (10 acres)1.7 km of path
25 minto walk all 1.7 km of path
6 pitchesfootball pitches would fit
0.7 mi westfrom the centre
Directionsto the nearest entrance
Photo: DS Pugh · CC BY-SA 2.0C+Outdoors Grade
Outdoors in Osbaldwick · parks, paths & countryside
Osbaldwick has more footpath per square kilometre than 9 in 10 UK towns
Footpaths add up to 42 km in the village and the kilometre around it, 5.0 for every square kilometre. 70% of residents live within a 5-minute walk of a park or playing field. Parks and playing fields in Osbaldwick add up to 1.9 ha for every 1,000 residents; the typical UK town has 2.1. Osbaldwick grades C+ for the outdoors. A character grade: it isn’t part of the overall grade.
Green space
1.9 ha
per 1,000 residents
Typical UK town 2.1
Near a park
70%
of residents within 400 m
Typical UK town 83%
Footpaths
42 km
5.0 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
Osbaldwick grades C+ for the outdoors
Each chart is every UK town of 1,000 or more on one measure: the green bar is Osbaldwick, the dashed line the typical town. The number is the share of towns it beats; the five are averaged and the average ranked again.
C+
Better than 42% of UK towns21st of 60 UK villages its size
Public green space1.9 haper 1,000 residents: parks, gardens, playing fields, play spaces
43out of
100
100
A park within a walk70%of residents within 400 m (a 5-minute walk)
31out of
100
100
National Park or National Landscape0%of the land within 5 km · None within 5 km
31out of
100
100
Footpaths5.0 kmper km², the town and 1 km around it
93out 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.
Villages its size
Osbaldwick is 21st of 60 UK villages its size for the outdoors
The 60 UK towns and cities of 2,200 to 2,400 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
Osbaldwick5.0
Villages its size2.2
North Yorkshire towns2.0
All UK towns3.0
Green space, ha per 1,000 residents
Osbaldwick1.9
Villages its size1.8
North Yorkshire towns1.7
All UK towns2.1
Residents within 400 m of a park
Osbaldwick70%
Villages its size75%
North Yorkshire towns80%
All UK towns83%
Against villages its size, Osbaldwick stands out most for path per km²: only 2 of the other 59 have more.
Show as a table
| Town | Outdoors | Green space | Near a park | Path per km² | Protected | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Radford Semele Warwickshire | A | 12.3 | 100% | 4.4 | 0% |
| 2 | Westcott Surrey | A | 1.8 | 86% | 5.5 | 78% |
| 3 | Harlington Bedfordshire | A− | 2.7 | 100% | 2.7 | 16% |
| 4 | Millbrook Cornwall | A− | 2 | 100% | 1.1 | 19% |
| 5 | Picket Piece Hampshire | A− | 3.9 | 100% | 1.3 | 33% |
| 6 | Cannington Somerset | A− | 2.8 | 88% | 3.2 | 3% |
| 7 | Clare Suffolk | A− | 7.7 | 100% | 2.5 | 0% |
| 8 | Y Felinheli Gwynedd | B+ | 4.9 | 65% | 1.9 | 10% |
| 9 | Acle Norfolk | B+ | 1.6 | 89% | 3.1 | 43% |
| 10 | Hall Green West Yorkshire | B+ | 7.5 | 82% | 3.6 | 0% |
| 11 | Tisbury Wiltshire | B+ | 1.5 | 86% | 2.9 | 100% |
| 12 | Bowness-on-Windermere Cumbria | B | 1.7 | 76% | 2.8 | 100% |
| 13 | Pen-y-fai Mid Glamorgan | B | 3.8 | 100% | 1.8 | 0% |
| 14 | Creech St Michael Somerset | B− | 1.2 | 88% | 3.4 | 0% |
| 15 | Dormansland Surrey | B− | 2.5 | 70% | 2.3 | 33% |
| 16 | Upper Halliford Surrey | B− | 5.1 | 44% | 4.1 | 0% |
| 17 | Bickershaw Greater Manchester | B− | 5 | 13% | 4.7 | 0% |
| 18 | Bassingbourn Cambridgeshire | B− | 3.8 | 85% | 2.5 | 0% |
| 19 | Wiveliscombe Somerset | B− | 2.3 | 100% | 2.1 | 0% |
| 20 | Debenham Suffolk | C+ | 1 | 100% | 3.4 | 0% |
| 21 | Osbaldwick North Yorkshire | C+ | 1.9 | 70% | 5 | 0% |
| 22 | Delph Greater Manchester | C+ | 0.7 | 72% | 3.9 | 17% |
| 23 | Padstow Cornwall | C+ | 0.6 | 33% | 2.5 | 37% |
| 24 | Bramford Suffolk | C+ | 3.2 | 76% | 2.7 | 0% |
| 25 | Mickleton Gloucestershire | C+ | 2.2 | 52% | 2.1 | 45% |
| 26 | Boughton under Blean Kent | C+ | 2.7 | 24% | 2.5 | 18% |
| 27 | Cold Ash Berkshire | C+ | 1.5 | 7% | 3.1 | 60% |
| 28 | Bishopsteignton Devon | C | 3 | 62% | 1.1 | 0% |
| 29 | Stanton Suffolk | C | 2.6 | 87% | 1.7 | 0% |
| 30 | Caistor Lincolnshire | C | 2.8 | 39% | 1.3 | 33% |
| 31 | Hawkesbury Warwickshire | C | 1 | 78% | 4.2 | 0% |
| 32 | Woolavington Somerset | C | 1.6 | 100% | 1.5 | 0% |
| 33 | Dearham Cumbria | C | 0.6 | 72% | 1.4 | 6% |
| 34 | West Rainton County Durham | C | 2.1 | 73% | 2.7 | 0% |
| 35 | Tatworth Somerset | C | 1.3 | 71% | 1.7 | 44% |
| 36 | Whaddon Wiltshire | C | 2.6 | 55% | 1.3 | 10% |
| 37 | Wardley Greater Manchester | C− | 0.6 | 88% | 3 | 0% |
| 38 | Stanford in the Vale Oxfordshire | C− | 1.3 | 100% | 1.5 | 0% |
| 39 | Credenhill Herefordshire | C− | 1.5 | 87% | 2.3 | 0% |
| 40 | Roche Cornwall | C− | 2.8 | 81% | 1 | 0% |
| 41 | Hathern Leicestershire | C− | 1.8 | 50% | 3.3 | 0% |
| 42 | Knowsley Merseyside | C− | 3.1 | 77% | 1 | 0% |
| 43 | Creigiau South Glamorgan | C− | 1.7 | 85% | 1.8 | 0% |
| 44 | Kings Sutton Northamptonshire | C− | 1.8 | 79% | 2.1 | 0% |
| 45 | Collingham West Yorkshire | C− | 1.4 | 84% | 2.2 | 0% |
| 46 | Reepham Norfolk | C− | 2.3 | 66% | 2.1 | 0% |
| 47 | Coates and Eastrea Cambridgeshire | C− | 0.9 | 100% | 1.3 | 0% |
| 48 | Goxhill Lincolnshire | C− | 1.5 | 69% | 0.5 | 0% |
| 49 | Usk Gwent | C− | 3.5 | 56% | 1.3 | 0% |
| 50 | Netherton (Wakefield) West Yorkshire | D | 0.7 | 27% | 4.5 | 0% |
| 51 | Scholes (Leeds) West Yorkshire | D | 0 | 0% | 5.5 | 0% |
| 52 | St Stephen Cornwall | D | 1.2 | 88% | 1.2 | 0% |
| 53 | Bicknacre Essex | D | 1 | 56% | 2.6 | 0% |
| 54 | Belton Lincolnshire | D | 1.5 | 67% | 1.2 | 0% |
| 55 | Tattenhall Cheshire | D− | 1.8 | 28% | 1.4 | 0% |
| 56 | Ixworth Suffolk | D− | 1 | 73% | 0.9 | 0% |
| 57 | Hingham Norfolk | D− | 1.9 | 13% | 1 | 0% |
| 58 | Norton South Yorkshire | D− | 1.3 | 63% | 0.7 | 0% |
| 59 | Leven East Riding of Yorkshire | D− | 1.2 | 64% | 0.7 | 0% |
| 60 | Isleham Cambridgeshire | D− | 0.2 | 71% | 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 Osbaldwick’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 Osbaldwick
The biggest is Hull Road Park, 4.2 ha (10 acres). Directions go to the park’s nearest public entrance where Ordnance Survey maps one.
Close to home
7 in 10 Osbaldwick 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 (70%)Further (30%)
Osbaldwick70%
Villages 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; 23 playgrounds are mapped in and around the village, about one for every 101 residents.
National Parks & National Landscapes
The Howardian Hills National Landscape is 8.1 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
5 waymarked walks pass through or near Osbaldwick
42 km of footpaths, bridleways and rights of way are mapped in Osbaldwick and the kilometre around it, 5.0 km for every square kilometre (the typical UK town has 3.0). Bars show each route’s kilometres within 2 km of the village.
RegionalLocal
Millennium Way9.1 km
YorActive Trail5.0 km
Campus Tree Trail4.0 km
Wilberforce Way3.1 km
Foss Walk0.9 km
Close to home, the Millennium Way has 9 km of local walk within 2 km of the village. 2 regional routes pass through, including the Wilberforce Way and 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 Osbaldwick: May to September
The village’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 | 17 | 19 | 22 | 21 | 18 | 14 | 10 | 7 |
| Rain (mm) | 50 | 41 | 39 | 42 | 46 | 60 | 58 | 63 | 52 | 63 | 57 | 56 |
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 63 mm of rain falls in October, the wettest month. Frost comes on about 42 nights a year. The climate in Osbaldwick →
The coast
Beaches near Osbaldwick
0% of the area within 5 km of Osbaldwick is sea, so the Outdoors Grade counts it as inland. 2 beaches are mapped within 5 km, 1 with a name.
York Beach1.7 mi from town
DirectionsSea: 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
23 playgrounds
Mapped within 2 km of the village in OpenStreetMap, against the typical UK village its size per resident. Named places are listed with directions; unnamed ones are only counted.
Every named place, with directions
Hills and peaks 1
Kimberlow Hill0.1 mi from town
DirectionsNature reserves 2
Hempland Lane Wildlife Area0.3 ha · 0.8 mi from town
DirectionsFoss Islands Nature Reserve0.2 ha · 1.2 mi from town
DirectionsPlaygrounds 23
Outgang Lane Play Area1.0 mi from town
DirectionsPlus 22 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.
HeslingtonDunningtonYorkHuntingtonStockton on the ForestBishopthorpeOsbaldwick
ABCDOutdoors Grade
| Town | Outdoors | Green space, ha per 1,000 | Near a park | Protected within 5 km |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Osbaldwick | C+ | 1.9 | 70% | 0% |
| Heslington 1.2 mi | A− | 6.3 | 80% | 0% |
| Dunnington 2.2 mi | D− | 0.8 | 44% | 0% |
| York 2.3 mi | B | 2.3 | 89% | 0% |
| Huntington 2.6 mi | C+ | 2.0 | 72% | 0% |
| Stockton on the Forest 3.0 mi | D− | 0.2 | 0% | 0% |
| Bishopthorpe 3.7 mi | C− | 3.2 | 51% | 0% |
Heslington, 1.2 miles away, grades A−, the best next door: 80% of its residents live within 400 m of a park. Heslington has at least twice Osbaldwick’s green space per resident. None of the neighbours has a protected landscape within 5 km either.
Questions about the outdoors in Osbaldwick
What is the biggest park in Osbaldwick?
Hull Road Park, 4.2 ha (10 acres), with 1.7 km of path, just outside the built-up area. 1 named park, garden or playing field is in the village or within 400 m of it.
Is Osbaldwick near a National Park?
Yes. North York Moors National Park begins 16 mi north-west of the village’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, 8.1 mi away.
What are the best walks near Osbaldwick?
5 waymarked walking routes pass within 2 km of the village, including the Millennium Way, YorActive Trail and Campus Tree Trail.
How many people in Osbaldwick live near a park?
70% 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 Osbaldwick?
May to September: the longest days, the warmest afternoons and the least rain of the year, from the Met Office 1991–2020 averages.
Is Osbaldwick good for walking?
For paths, yes: 5.0 km of footpath and right of way per square kilometre, more than 93% of UK towns. For park space per person it beats 43% (1.9 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 Osbaldwick’s overall grade.
Sources
Where Osbaldwick’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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