Thrapston’s biggest
Castle Playing Fields
Playing field
2.7 ha (7 acres)0.3 km of path
4 pitchesfootball pitches would fit
Centralin the middle of Thrapston
Directionsto the nearest entrance
Photo: Des Blenkinsopp · CC BY-SA 2.0COutdoors Grade
Outdoors in Thrapston · parks, paths & countryside
Almost everyone in Thrapston lives within a 5-minute walk of a park
Parks and playing fields in Thrapston add up to 1.2 ha for every 1,000 residents; the typical UK town has 2.1. 28 km of footpaths run through the town and the kilometre around it, 2.4 for every square kilometre. Thrapston grades C for the outdoors: #19 of 31 in Northamptonshire. A character grade: it isn’t part of the overall grade.
Green space
1.2 ha
per 1,000 residents
Typical UK town 2.1
Near a park
100%
of residents within 400 m
Typical UK town 83%
Footpaths
28 km
2.4 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 Thrapston?
Read from the data: what stands out first, good and bad.
A park on every doorstep100% of residents live within 400 m of a park or playing field.Less park per person1.2 ha of parks and playing fields per 1,000 residents; the typical UK town has 2.1.
Thrapston’s strongest suit is parks close to every home. Where it falls short is park space per person.
Outdoors grade
Thrapston grades C for the outdoors
Each chart is every UK town of 1,000 or more on one measure: the green bar is Thrapston, 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 34% of UK towns#19 of 31 in Northamptonshire · 38th of 60 UK towns its size
Public green space1.2 haper 1,000 residents: parks, gardens, playing fields, play spaces
19out of
100
100
A park within a walk100%of residents within 400 m (a 5-minute walk)
89out of
100
100
National Park or National Landscape0%of the land within 5 km · None within 5 km
31out of
100
100
Footpaths2.4 kmper km², the town and 1 km around it
41out 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
Thrapston is 38th of 60 UK towns its size for the outdoors
The 60 UK towns and cities of 6,900 to 7,500 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
Thrapston2.4
Towns its size3.1
Northamptonshire towns2.1
All UK towns3.0
Green space, ha per 1,000 residents
Thrapston1.2
Towns its size1.9
Northamptonshire towns2.3
All UK towns2.1
Residents within 400 m of a park
Thrapston100%
Towns its size78%
Northamptonshire towns83%
All UK towns83%
Against towns its size, Thrapston stands out most for homes near a park: none of the other 59 has more. It falls furthest behind on park space per resident, where 44 of the others do better.
Show as a table
| Town | Outdoors | Green space | Near a park | Path per km² | Protected | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Holbury Hampshire | A+ | 5.5 | 89% | 3.1 | 42% |
| 2 | Sheringham Norfolk | A+ | 11.6 | 74% | 3.4 | 32% |
| 3 | Stocksbridge South Yorkshire | A | 2.2 | 100% | 4.4 | 30% |
| 4 | Ruddington Nottinghamshire | A | 9.7 | 100% | 5.1 | 0% |
| 5 | Bude Cornwall | A | 3.1 | 78% | 3.3 | 9% |
| 6 | Anstey Leicestershire | A | 12.9 | 100% | 4.3 | 0% |
| 7 | Liphook Hampshire | A | 3.1 | 86% | 3.8 | 64% |
| 8 | Bolton upon Dearne South Yorkshire | A | 5.6 | 100% | 3.9 | 0% |
| 9 | Bourne End Buckinghamshire | A | 2.9 | 87% | 4 | 19% |
| 10 | Gwersyllt Clwyd | A | 14.6 | 96% | 2.5 | 2% |
| 11 | Ashley Heath Dorset | A | 24.2 | 68% | 4 | 15% |
| 12 | Darfield South Yorkshire | A | 4 | 100% | 3.9 | 0% |
| 13 | Seaton Devon | A− | 1.1 | 84% | 2.5 | 55% |
| 14 | Otford and Kemsing Kent | A− | 3.3 | 53% | 3.6 | 73% |
| 15 | Torpoint Cornwall | A− | 2.2 | 84% | 1.6 | 26% |
| 16 | Goldthorpe South Yorkshire | A− | 8.4 | 84% | 3.8 | 0% |
| 17 | Blackwater Hampshire | B+ | 10.6 | 74% | 4.7 | 0% |
| 18 | Chinnor Oxfordshire | B+ | 1.5 | 88% | 3.7 | 37% |
| 19 | Kiveton Park South Yorkshire | B+ | 2.8 | 100% | 3.2 | 0% |
| 20 | Gowerton West Glamorgan | B+ | 3.2 | 79% | 1.2 | 14% |
| 21 | Malmesbury Wiltshire | B | 2 | 86% | 2.5 | 26% |
| 22 | Wroughton Wiltshire | B | 1.1 | 78% | 3.9 | 52% |
| 23 | Chapel-en-le-Frith Derbyshire | B− | 1 | 75% | 3.8 | 58% |
| 24 | Woodville Derbyshire | B− | 3.7 | 78% | 3.4 | 0% |
| 25 | Eckington Derbyshire | B− | 1.8 | 80% | 6 | 0% |
| 26 | Balsall Common West Midlands | B− | 3.7 | 81% | 2.6 | 0% |
| 27 | Cranfield Bedfordshire | B− | 2.3 | 72% | 4.4 | 0% |
| 28 | Borrowash Derbyshire | B− | 2.8 | 85% | 2.7 | 0% |
| 29 | Bollington Cheshire | B− | 1.3 | 56% | 4.1 | 31% |
| 30 | Abersychan Gwent | B− | 2.8 | 83% | 1.1 | 17% |
| 31 | North Baddesley Hampshire | C+ | 1.7 | 91% | 3.3 | 0% |
| 32 | Chipping Norton Oxfordshire | C+ | 1.5 | 67% | 2.4 | 73% |
| 33 | Wrecclesham Surrey | C+ | 1.2 | 50% | 3.8 | 37% |
| 34 | Poringland Norfolk | C+ | 1.3 | 91% | 2.1 | 5% |
| 35 | Pelton and Ouston County Durham | C+ | 2 | 64% | 4.7 | 0% |
| 36 | Murton County Durham | C+ | 2.1 | 54% | 2.6 | 0% |
| 37 | West Mersea Essex | C+ | 1.9 | 69% | 2 | 0% |
| 38 | Thrapston Northamptonshire | C | 1.2 | 100% | 2.4 | 0% |
| 39 | Caerleon Gwent | C | 1.9 | 64% | 4.2 | 0% |
| 40 | Horncastle Lincolnshire | C | 0.6 | 60% | 3.9 | 10% |
| 41 | Radcliffe on Trent Nottinghamshire | C | 2.5 | 76% | 2.6 | 0% |
| 42 | Sawston Cambridgeshire | C | 1.4 | 97% | 2.3 | 0% |
| 43 | Hagley Worcestershire | C | 1.7 | 90% | 2.2 | 0% |
| 44 | Castle Donington Leicestershire | C | 1.8 | 85% | 2.4 | 0% |
| 45 | Crewkerne Somerset | C | 0.5 | 66% | 2.8 | 21% |
| 46 | Aylsham Norfolk | C | 2.6 | 74% | 2 | 0% |
| 47 | Hethersett Norfolk | C | 2.1 | 65% | 2.9 | 0% |
| 48 | Wivenhoe Essex | C− | 0.9 | 65% | 5.1 | 0% |
| 49 | Kibworth Beauchamp and Kibworth Harcourt Leicestershire | C− | 2.1 | 82% | 2 | 0% |
| 50 | Southwell Nottinghamshire | C− | 1.7 | 59% | 3.5 | 0% |
| 51 | Calverton Nottinghamshire | C− | 1.7 | 62% | 3 | 0% |
| 52 | Breaston and Draycott Derbyshire | C− | 1.1 | 73% | 3.2 | 0% |
| 53 | Pickering North Yorkshire | C− | 1.7 | 39% | 1.7 | 19% |
| 54 | Shefford Bedfordshire | D | 1.1 | 67% | 3 | 0% |
| 55 | Wellesbourne Warwickshire | D | 1.1 | 88% | 1.4 | 0% |
| 56 | Deeping St James Lincolnshire | D | 0.5 | 73% | 2.4 | 0% |
| 57 | Beddau Mid Glamorgan | D | 1 | 77% | 1.2 | 0% |
| 58 | Market Weighton East Riding of Yorkshire | D− | 0.7 | 79% | 1 | 0% |
| 59 | Featherstone Staffordshire | D− | 1.2 | 52% | 1.5 | 0% |
| 60 | Albrighton Shropshire | D− | 0.8 | 32% | 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 Thrapston’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 Thrapston
The biggest is Castle Playing Fields, 2.7 ha (7 acres). Directions go to the park’s nearest public entrance where Ordnance Survey maps one.
Peace Memorial Park
Park or garden
1.1 ha (3 acres)0.3 km of path
2 pitchesfootball pitches would fit
Centralin the middle of Thrapston
Directionsto the nearest entrance
Coronation Gardens
Park or garden
0.0 ha (0 acres)
Centralin the middle of Thrapston
Directionsto the nearest entrance
Close to home
How close Thrapston’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 (100%)Further (0%)
Thrapston100%
Towns its size78%
Northamptonshire towns83%
All UK towns83%
Playing fields count, so a park within reach isn’t always one with paths or trees; 13 playgrounds are mapped in and around the town, about one for every 557 residents.
Footpaths & waymarked walks
1 waymarked walk passes through or near Thrapston
28 km of footpaths, bridleways and rights of way are mapped in Thrapston and the kilometre around it, 2.4 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
Nene Way9.6 km
The regional route here is the Nene 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 Thrapston: 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) | 8.2 | 9.8 | 11.7 | 13.8 | 15.7 | 16.8 | 16.3 | 14.7 | 12.6 | 10.5 | 8.6 | 7.7 |
| High (°C) | 7 | 8 | 11 | 14 | 17 | 20 | 23 | 23 | 19 | 15 | 10 | 8 |
| Rain (mm) | 49 | 42 | 38 | 47 | 53 | 52 | 60 | 58 | 50 | 64 | 62 | 51 |
March is the driest month (38 mm) and July the warmest (highs of 23 °C). Winter days are short, about 8 hours of daylight in December, and 64 mm of rain falls in October, the wettest month. Frost comes on about 46 nights a year. The climate in Thrapston →
Things to do
13 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
Nature reserves 1
Titchmarsh NR77 ha · 0.8 mi from town
DirectionsPlaygrounds 13
Plus 13 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.
RingsteadWoodfordRaundsStanwickBrigstockIrthlingboroughThrapston
ABCDOutdoors Grade
Irthlingborough, 5.9 miles away, grades A−, the best next door: 94% of its residents live within 400 m of a park. Raunds, Stanwick and Brigstock have at least twice Thrapston’s green space per resident. None of the neighbours has a protected landscape within 5 km either.
Questions about the outdoors in Thrapston
What is the biggest park in Thrapston?
Castle Playing Fields, 2.7 ha (7 acres). Peace Memorial Park (1.1 ha) is second. 3 named parks, gardens and playing fields are in the town or within 400 m of it.
Is Thrapston near a National Park?
No National Park or National Landscape is within 30 km (about 19 miles) of Thrapston.
What are the best walks near Thrapston?
1 waymarked walking route passes within 2 km of the town, including the Nene Way.
How many people in Thrapston live near a park?
100% 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 Thrapston?
May to September: the longest days, the warmest afternoons and the least rain of the year, from the Met Office 1991–2020 averages.
Is Thrapston good for walking?
About average for paths: 2.4 km of footpath and right of way per square kilometre, more than 41% of UK towns. For park space per person it beats 19% (1.2 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 Thrapston’s overall grade.
Sources
Where Thrapston’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.