Corby’s biggest
Weldon Woodland Park
Park or garden
19 ha (46 acres)1.0 km of path
15 minto walk all 1 km of path
26 pitchesfootball pitches would fit
2.7 mi eastfrom the centre
Directionsto the nearest entrance
Photo: Cj1340 · CC BY-SA 3.0BOutdoors Grade
Outdoors in Corby · parks, paths & countryside
Almost everyone in Corby lives within a 5-minute walk of a park
A park or playing field is within a 5-minute walk for 96% of residents. Parks and playing fields in Corby add up to 3.4 ha for every 1,000 residents; the typical UK town has 2.1. Footpaths add up to 151 km in the town and the kilometre around it, 2.6 for every square kilometre. Corby grades B for the outdoors: #6 of 31 in Northamptonshire. A character grade: it isn’t part of the overall grade.
Green space
3.4 ha
per 1,000 residents
Typical UK town 2.1
Near a park
96%
of residents within 400 m
Typical UK town 83%
Footpaths
151 km
2.6 km per km², town + 1 km
Typical UK town 3.0 per km²
Protected landscape
0%
of the land within 5 km
Character
What kind of outdoors town is Corby?
Read from the data: what stands out first, good and bad.
A park on every doorstep96% of residents live within 400 m of a park or playing field.Room to roam3.4 ha of parks and playing fields per 1,000 residents, more than 75% of UK towns.
Corby’s strongest suit is parks close to every home, followed by plenty of park space.
Outdoors grade
Corby grades B for the outdoors
Each chart is every UK town of 1,000 or more on one measure: the green bar is Corby, 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 61% of UK towns#6 of 31 in Northamptonshire · 39th of 60 UK towns its size
Public green space3.4 haper 1,000 residents: parks, gardens, playing fields, play spaces
75out of
100
100
A park within a walk96%of residents within 400 m (a 5-minute walk)
76out of
100
100
National Park or National Landscape0%of the land within 5 km · None within 5 km
31out of
100
100
Footpaths2.6 kmper km², the town and 1 km around it
48out 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
Corby is 39th of 60 UK towns its size for the outdoors
The 60 UK towns and cities of 55,300 to 83,600 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
Corby2.6
Towns its size3.7
Northamptonshire towns2.1
All UK towns3.0
Green space, ha per 1,000 residents
Corby3.4
Towns its size2.6
Northamptonshire towns2.3
All UK towns2.1
Residents within 400 m of a park
Corby96%
Towns its size86%
Northamptonshire towns83%
All UK towns83%
Against towns its size, Corby stands out most for park space per resident: only 12 of the other 59 have more. It falls furthest behind on path per km², where 51 of the others do better.
Show as a table
| Town | Outdoors | Green space | Near a park | Path per km² | Protected | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Rochester Kent | A+ | 2.4 | 92% | 4.6 | 23% |
| 2 | Burnley Lancashire | A+ | 3.4 | 95% | 5.7 | 7% |
| 3 | Dartford Kent | A | 3.9 | 72% | 5.1 | 1% |
| 4 | Runcorn Cheshire | A | 4.9 | 87% | 4.6 | 0% |
| 5 | Ashford Kent | A | 2.7 | 94% | 5.2 | 23% |
| 6 | Guildford Surrey | A | 2.8 | 86% | 6.1 | 31% |
| 7 | Cannock Staffordshire | A | 5.5 | 88% | 3.5 | 26% |
| 8 | Scarborough North Yorkshire | A | 2.4 | 86% | 3.1 | 17% |
| 9 | Gravesend Kent | A | 1.4 | 84% | 6.4 | 14% |
| 10 | Chatham Kent | A | 1.6 | 78% | 6.4 | 26% |
| 11 | Barry South Glamorgan | A | 2.9 | 94% | 3.3 | 0% |
| 12 | Weymouth Dorset | A | 2.6 | 55% | 3.5 | 35% |
| 13 | Barnsley South Yorkshire | A | 4.3 | 95% | 5.4 | 0% |
| 14 | Bracknell Berkshire | A | 3.7 | 97% | 5.3 | 0% |
| 15 | Gosport Hampshire | A | 3 | 85% | 3.4 | 0% |
| 16 | South Shields Tyne and Wear | A | 2.4 | 80% | 5.1 | 0% |
| 17 | Farnborough Hampshire | A | 4 | 77% | 4.9 | 3% |
| 18 | Paignton Devon | A | 1.8 | 84% | 3.1 | 20% |
| 19 | Tynemouth Tyne and Wear | A− | 2.2 | 85% | 4.6 | 0% |
| 20 | Chesterfield Derbyshire | A− | 2.7 | 86% | 4.4 | 4% |
| 21 | Hereford Herefordshire | A− | 2.6 | 92% | 3.6 | 6% |
| 22 | Newcastle-under-Lyme Staffordshire | A− | 5.2 | 94% | 4 | 0% |
| 23 | Lowestoft Suffolk | A− | 1.8 | 79% | 3 | 17% |
| 24 | Carlisle Cumbria | A− | 3.2 | 91% | 3.1 | 4% |
| 25 | St Albans Hertfordshire | A− | 3.7 | 95% | 4.2 | 0% |
| 26 | Dudley West Midlands | A− | 3.4 | 91% | 5.2 | 0% |
| 27 | Harrogate North Yorkshire | A− | 2.9 | 86% | 3.6 | 6% |
| 28 | Redditch Worcestershire | A− | 4.1 | 84% | 5.2 | 0% |
| 29 | Mansfield Nottinghamshire | B+ | 2.7 | 93% | 4.6 | 0% |
| 30 | High Wycombe Buckinghamshire | B+ | 1.6 | 68% | 5.4 | 67% |
| 31 | Dewsbury West Yorkshire | B+ | 3.3 | 92% | 3.7 | 0% |
| 32 | Maidenhead Berkshire | B+ | 1.8 | 83% | 4.1 | 3% |
| 33 | Bebington Merseyside | B+ | 3 | 86% | 2.2 | 0% |
| 34 | Huyton with Roby Merseyside | B+ | 3.7 | 89% | 3.2 | 0% |
| 35 | Ellesmere Port Cheshire | B | 2.8 | 90% | 1.9 | 0% |
| 36 | Widnes Cheshire | B | 3 | 86% | 2.1 | 0% |
| 37 | Taunton Somerset | B | 1.2 | 80% | 4.9 | 16% |
| 38 | Sale Greater Manchester | B | 2 | 86% | 5.8 | 0% |
| 39 | Corby Northamptonshire | B | 3.4 | 96% | 2.6 | 0% |
| 40 | Rotherham South Yorkshire | B | 3.1 | 73% | 4.9 | 0% |
| 41 | Wigan Greater Manchester | B | 2.7 | 81% | 4 | 0% |
| 42 | Margate Kent | B | 1.8 | 88% | 2.1 | 0% |
| 43 | Rugby Warwickshire | B− | 2.8 | 92% | 2.8 | 0% |
| 44 | Tamworth Staffordshire | B− | 2.7 | 89% | 3 | 0% |
| 45 | Brentwood Essex | B− | 3.9 | 69% | 3.7 | 0% |
| 46 | Bury Greater Manchester | B− | 2.4 | 82% | 3.8 | 0% |
| 47 | Kettering Northamptonshire | B− | 2.1 | 90% | 3.3 | 0% |
| 48 | Stafford Staffordshire | B− | 1.9 | 70% | 3.1 | 11% |
| 49 | Smethwick West Midlands | C+ | 2 | 88% | 3.1 | 0% |
| 50 | Halesowen West Midlands | C+ | 2.1 | 77% | 3.6 | 0% |
| 51 | Woking Surrey | C+ | 1.7 | 67% | 6.5 | 0% |
| 52 | Shrewsbury Shropshire | C+ | 1.6 | 87% | 3.4 | 0% |
| 53 | Walsall West Midlands | C+ | 2.5 | 75% | 3 | 0% |
| 54 | Bognor Regis West Sussex | C | 1.1 | 78% | 2.3 | 0% |
| 55 | Loughborough Leicestershire | C | 1.4 | 73% | 4.4 | 0% |
| 56 | Scunthorpe Lincolnshire | C | 2.2 | 91% | 1.7 | 0% |
| 57 | Stourbridge West Midlands | C | 1.9 | 72% | 3 | 0% |
| 58 | Crewe Cheshire | C | 1.6 | 88% | 2.3 | 0% |
| 59 | Burton upon Trent Staffordshire | C− | 1.9 | 74% | 2.4 | 0% |
| 60 | Kidderminster Worcestershire | D | 1.2 | 72% | 2.6 | 0% |
The map
Parks, footpaths & countryside
Tap a number to zoom to a park. Tap a layer to hide it. The dashed line is Corby’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 Corby
The biggest is Weldon Woodland Park, 19 ha (46 acres). Directions go to the park’s nearest public entrance where Ordnance Survey maps one.
All 6 named parks by size: 53 ha (130 acres) and 5 km of path
Parks & gardens 32 haPlaying fields 20 ha
The two biggest, Weldon Woodland Park and West Glebe Park, are 74% of the named green space and carry 4 km of path between them.
West Glebe Park
Playing field
20 ha (50 acres)2.8 km of path
40 minto walk all 2.8 km of path
28 pitchesfootball pitches would fit
0.6 mi north-eastfrom the centre
Playground
Directionsto the nearest entrance
Oakley Park
Park or garden
9.9 ha (25 acres)0.5 km of path
5 minto walk all 0.5 km of path
14 pitchesfootball pitches would fit
1.6 mi southfrom the centre
Directionsto the nearest entrance
Coronation Park
Park or garden
2.8 ha (7 acres)0.5 km of path
5 minto walk all 0.5 km of path
4 pitchesfootball pitches would fit
0.4 mi north-eastfrom the centre
Directionsto the nearest entrance
Exeter Open Space
Park or garden
0.7 ha (2 acres)0.3 km of path
0.4 mi south-eastfrom the centre
Directionsto the nearest entrance
The Green
Park or garden · 360 m outside town
0.2 ha (1 acres)
3.1 mi eastfrom the centre
Directionsto the nearest entrance
Close to home
How close Corby’s homes are to 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 (96%)Further (4%)
Corby96%
Towns its size86%
Northamptonshire towns83%
All UK towns83%
About 3,000 people live further than that. Playing fields count, so a park within reach isn’t always one with paths or trees; 48 playgrounds are mapped in and around the town, about one for every 1,420 residents.
Footpaths & waymarked walks
1 waymarked walk passes through or near Corby
151 km of footpaths, bridleways and rights of way are mapped in Corby and the kilometre around it, 2.6 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
Jurassic Way5.8 km
The regional route here is the Jurassic 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 Corby: 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) | 8.2 | 9.8 | 11.7 | 13.9 | 15.7 | 16.8 | 16.3 | 14.7 | 12.6 | 10.5 | 8.6 | 7.7 |
| High (°C) | 7 | 8 | 11 | 14 | 17 | 20 | 22 | 22 | 19 | 15 | 10 | 8 |
| Rain (mm) | 55 | 45 | 43 | 48 | 53 | 55 | 61 | 67 | 61 | 71 | 64 | 62 |
March is the driest month (43 mm) and July the warmest (highs of 22 °C). Winter days are short, about 8 hours of daylight in December, and 71 mm of rain falls in October, the wettest month. Frost comes on about 50 nights a year. The climate in Corby →
Things to do
48 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.
Every named place, with directions
Viewpoints 1
Plus 1 viewpoint without a name on the map.
Nature reserves 1
King's Wood31 ha · in town
DirectionsPicnic sites 1
Plus 1 picnic site without a name on the map.
Playgrounds 48
Stephenson Way Play Areain town
DirectionsWest Glebe Park Under 10'sin town
DirectionsPlus 46 playgrounds without a name on the map.
Campsites 1
Plus 1 campsite 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.
Cottingham and MiddletonWeldonGeddingtonGrettonBrigstockDesboroughCorby
ABCDOutdoors Grade
| Town | Outdoors | Green space, ha per 1,000 | Near a park | Protected within 5 km |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Corby | B | 3.4 | 96% | 0% |
| Cottingham and Middleton 2.6 mi | C− | 12.1 | 53% | 0% |
| Weldon 3.2 mi | B | 8.2 | 100% | 0% |
| Geddington 3.4 mi | C | 3.0 | 82% | 0% |
| Gretton 3.9 mi | C+ | 2.3 | 100% | 0% |
| Brigstock 4.5 mi | B− | 8.2 | 84% | 0% |
| Desborough 5.6 mi | D | 0.6 | 69% | 0% |
Corby grades higher for the outdoors than every neighbour in the table. Cottingham and Middleton, Weldon and Brigstock have at least twice Corby’s green space per resident. None of the neighbours has a protected landscape within 5 km either.
Questions about the outdoors in Corby
What is the biggest park in Corby?
Weldon Woodland Park, 19 ha (46 acres), with 1 km of path. West Glebe Park (20 ha) is second. 6 named parks, gardens and playing fields are in the town or within 400 m of it.
Is Corby near a National Park?
No National Park or National Landscape is within 30 km (about 19 miles) of Corby.
What are the best walks near Corby?
1 waymarked walking route passes within 2 km of the town, including the Jurassic Way.
How many people in Corby live near a park?
96% 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 Corby?
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 Corby good for walking?
About average for paths: 2.6 km of footpath and right of way per square kilometre, more than 48% of UK towns. For park space per person it beats 75% (3.4 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 Corby’s overall grade.
Sources
Where Corby’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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