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Outdoors in Corbridge · parks, paths & countryside

79% of Corbridge’s residents live within a 5-minute walk of a park

The North Pennines National Landscape begins 4.8 mi from the town’s edge. Footpaths add up to 21 km in the town and the kilometre around it, 2.1 for every square kilometre. Parks and playing fields in Corbridge add up to 2.2 ha for every 1,000 residents; the typical UK town has 2.1. Corbridge grades C for the outdoors: #16 of 20 in Northumberland. A character grade: it isn’t part of the overall grade.

3named parks 4.8 mito North Pennines 2waymarked walks

Green space

2.2 ha

per 1,000 residents

Typical UK town 2.1

Near a park

79%

of residents within 400 m

Typical UK town 83%

Footpaths

21 km

2.1 km per km², town + 1 km

Typical UK town 3.0 per km²

Protected landscape

of the land within 5 km

North Pennines starts 4.8 mi out, past the 5 km

Outdoors grade

Corbridge grades C for the outdoors

Each chart is every UK town of 1,000 or more on one measure: the green bar is Corbridge, the dashed line the typical town. The number is the share of towns it beats; the five are averaged and the average ranked again.

Better than 25% of UK towns#16 of 20 in Northumberland · 41st of 60 UK towns its size

Public green space2.2 haper 1,000 residents: parks, gardens, playing fields, play spaces

51out of
100

A park within a walk79%of residents within 400 m (a 5-minute walk)

46out of
100

National Park or National Landscape0%of the land within 5 km · North Pennines begins just past 5 km

31out of
100

Footpaths2.1 kmper km², the town and 1 km around it

34out of
100

The sea0%of the area within 5 km · Inland

42out of
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

Corbridge is 41st of 60 UK towns its size for the outdoors

The 60 UK towns and cities of 2,800 to 3,000 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

Corbridge2.1

Towns its size2.2

Northumberland towns2.3

All UK towns3.0

Green space, ha per 1,000 residents

Corbridge2.2

Towns its size2.1

Northumberland towns2.0

All UK towns2.1

Residents within 400 m of a park

Corbridge79%

Towns its size85%

Northumberland towns80%

All UK towns83%

Show as a table

	Town	Outdoors	Green space	Near a park	Path per km²	Protected
1	Rowlands Castle Hampshire	A⁺	26.1	100%	5	48%
2	Halling Kent	A⁺	3.8	100%	4.6	54%
3	Rudloe Wiltshire	A⁺	7.3	91%	4	45%
4	Downton Wiltshire	A	4.3	100%	2	59%
5	Bruton Somerset	A	9.3	100%	2.5	1%
6	Ellistown Leicestershire	A	7.5	100%	3.8	0%
7	Hartshill Warwickshire	A	19	100%	3.5	0%
8	Mortimer Berkshire	A	2.4	100%	3.8	0%
9	Stoke Mandeville Buckinghamshire	A⁻	5.5	37%	6.8	29%
10	Kingsclere Hampshire	A⁻	2.2	100%	2.5	50%
11	Wargrave Berkshire	A⁻	4	100%	2	11%
12	Threemilestone Cornwall	A⁻	3.1	100%	2.6	1%
13	Knighton Powys	A⁻	2.7	81%	3.4	34%
14	East Saltdean East Sussex	A⁻	1.6	0%	4.9	44%
15	Seaton Sluice Northumberland	A⁻	2.2	100%	2	0%
16	Rhodes Greater Manchester	B⁺	16.6	78%	4.2	0%
17	Milton-under-Wychwood and Shipton-under-Wychwood Oxfordshire	B⁺	4.1	87%	1.3	100%
18	Welham Green Hertfordshire	B⁺	2.5	93%	4.4	0%
19	Charfield Gloucestershire	B⁺	1.3	100%	3	22%
20	Almondsbury Gloucestershire	B⁺	7.9	77%	4	0%
21	South Hetton County Durham	B⁺	3.4	100%	2.5	0%
22	Hertford Heath Hertfordshire	B⁺	1.6	100%	4.4	0%
23	Charlbury Oxfordshire	B	3.1	66%	2.4	65%
24	Barlborough Derbyshire	B	4.4	100%	2	0%
25	Newport Essex	B	2.5	100%	2.8	0%
26	Rockwell Green Somerset	B	1	90%	3.2	24%
27	Denholme West Yorkshire	B	1.6	100%	3.6	0%
28	Scholes (near Cleckheaton) West Yorkshire	B	4	89%	2.5	0%
29	Tollesbury Essex	B⁻	2	85%	2.2	0%
30	Chalgrove Oxfordshire	B⁻	4.1	85%	1.2	4%
31	Aston Clwyd	B⁻	4.4	37%	4.7	0%
32	Waltham Chase Hampshire	B⁻	2	75%	2.2	39%
33	Over Cambridgeshire	C⁺	1.3	100%	2.7	0%
34	Rolleston on Dove Staffordshire	C⁺	3.8	84%	1.7	0%
35	Alderholt Dorset	C	1.9	43%	2.3	31%
36	Collingham Nottinghamshire	C	2.4	78%	2.4	0%
37	Llanfair Pwllgwyngyll Gwynedd	C	0.8	71%	1.6	8%
38	Barrow upon Humber Lincolnshire	C	1.5	88%	0.3	0%
39	Trimdon County Durham	C	1	100%	2.2	0%
40	East Goscote Leicestershire	C	2.9	75%	1.8	0%
41	Corbridge Northumberland	C	2.2	79%	2.1	0%
42	Maerdy Mid Glamorgan	C⁻	1.1	100%	1.8	0%
43	Alrewas Staffordshire	C⁻	1.5	66%	3.6	0%
44	Great Leighs Essex	C⁻	1.5	87%	2.2	0%
45	Tuxford Nottinghamshire	C⁻	1.4	100%	1	0%
46	Mere Wiltshire	C⁻	1.6	34%	1.5	54%
47	Weedon Bec Northamptonshire	C⁻	1.1	87%	2	0%
48	St Mary's Bay Kent	D	0	0%	1.3	0%
49	Thorngumbald East Riding of Yorkshire	D	1.3	69%	0.5	0%
50	Cleobury Mortimer Shropshire	D	0.8	64%	2	2%
51	Catterall Lancashire	D	1	47%	1.9	9%
52	Gamlingay Cambridgeshire	D	2.1	32%	2	0%
53	Scotter Lincolnshire	D	2.6	61%	0.5	0%
54	Pevensey Bay East Sussex	D	0.5	0%	1.1	0%
55	East Ayton and West Ayton North Yorkshire	D	0.1	0%	1.2	33%
56	West Winch Norfolk	D	1.5	73%	0.7	0%
57	Hunmanby North Yorkshire	D	0.3	33%	1.2	0%
58	Langstone Gwent	D⁻	0.1	46%	1.9	0%
59	Feltwell Norfolk	D⁻	1.1	63%	0.4	0%
60	Greetham Rutland	D⁻	0.9	30%	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 Corbridge’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 Corbridge

The biggest is Tynedale Park, 13 ha (32 acres). Directions go to the park’s nearest public entrance where Ordnance Survey maps one.

Corbridge’s biggest

Tynedale Park

Playing field · 340 m outside town

13 ha (32 acres)0.2 km of path

18 pitchesfootball pitches would fit

0.6 mi southfrom the centre

Directionsto the nearest entrance

West Green

Park or garden

0.8 ha (2 acres)0.4 km of path

Centralin the middle of Corbridge

Directionsto the nearest entrance

Daniel Stephens Memorial Sports Ground

Playing field · 290 m outside town

1.8 ha (5 acres)

3 pitchesfootball pitches would fit

0.5 mi southfrom the centre

Directionsto the nearest entrance

Close to home

How close Corbridge’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 (79%)Further (21%)

Corbridge79%

Towns its size85%

Northumberland towns80%

All UK towns83%

About 600 people live further than that. Playing fields count, so a park within reach isn’t always one with paths or trees; 8 playgrounds are mapped in and around the town, about one for every 361 residents.

National Parks & National Landscapes

The North Pennines National Landscape is 4.8 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

National Landscape

North Pennines

4.8 mi south-west1,985 km²since 1988

Official site

National Park

Northumberland

6.4 mi north-west1,051 km²since 1957

Official site

Protected landscape begins just outside the 5 km ring the Outdoors Grade measures, so Corbridge scores 0% on it even though the North Pennines National Landscape is 4.8 mi away. Northumberland National Park covers 1,051 km² and has been a National Park since 1957.

Footpaths & waymarked walks

2 waymarked walks pass through or near Corbridge

21 km of footpaths, bridleways and rights of way are mapped in Corbridge and the kilometre around it, 2.1 km for every square kilometre (the typical UK town has 3.0). Bars show each route’s kilometres within 2 km of the town.

Local

Historic Fortifications Trail8.8 km

Historic Dilston Trail7.3 km

Close to home, the Historic Fortifications Trail has 9 km of local walk within 2 km of the town.

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 Corbridge: 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)	7.7	9.6	11.7	14.0	16.1	17.3	16.8	14.9	12.6	10.3	8.3	7.2
High (°C)	7	7	10	12	15	18	20	20	17	14	10	7
Rain (mm)	44	46	41	38	43	51	57	64	53	52	67	58

April is the driest month (38 mm) and July the warmest (highs of 20 °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 55 nights a year. The climate in Corbridge →

Things to do

8 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.

8Playgroundsabout the same as towns its size 1Campsites 1Slipways

The nearest beaches

Corbridge is inland. These are the nearest named beaches, measured from the edge of the town.

Shingle Beach9.4 mi from Corbridge’s edge

Directions

Shingles9.8 mi from Corbridge’s edge

Directions

South Beach22 mi from Corbridge’s edge

Directions

North Beach22 mi from Corbridge’s edge

Directions

Whitley Sands22 mi from Corbridge’s edge

Directions

Good 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

Playgrounds 8

Plus 8 playgrounds without a name on the map.

Campsites 1

Dilston Scout Camp1.1 mi from town

Directions

Slipways 1

Plus 1 slipway 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.

HexhamAcombStocksfieldOvinghamPrudhoeWylamCorbridge

ABCDOutdoors Grade

Town	Outdoors	Green space, ha per 1,000	Near a park	Protected within 5 km
Corbridge	C	2.2	79%	0%
Hexham 3.7 mi	C⁻	1.5	64%	9%
Acomb 4.0 mi	B	2.0	100%	0%
Stocksfield 5.2 mi	C⁻	2.2	40%	0%
Ovingham 5.9 mi	A	6.5	100%	0%
Prudhoe 6.5 mi	C⁻	1.7	37%	0%
Wylam 7.6 mi	C⁻	1.1	74%	0%

Ovingham, 5.9 miles away, grades A, the best next door: every resident lives within 400 m of a park. Ovingham has at least twice Corbridge’s green space per resident.

Questions about the outdoors in Corbridge

What is the biggest park in Corbridge?

Tynedale Park, 13 ha (32 acres), just outside the built-up area. West Green (0.8 ha) is second. 3 named parks, gardens and playing fields are in the town or within 400 m of it.

Is Corbridge near a National Park?

Yes. Northumberland National Park begins 6.4 mi north-west of the town’s edge. It covers 1,051 km² and has been a National Park since 1957. The nearest protected landscape of any kind is the North Pennines National Landscape, 4.8 mi away.

What are the best walks near Corbridge?

2 waymarked walking routes pass within 2 km of the town, including the Historic Fortifications Trail and Historic Dilston Trail.

What is the nearest beach to Corbridge?

Shingle Beach, 9.4 mi from the edge of the town, then Shingles (9.8 mi). Corbridge itself is inland.

How many people in Corbridge live near a park?

79% 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 Corbridge?

May to September: the longest days, the warmest afternoons and the least rain of the year, from the Met Office 1991–2020 averages.

Is Corbridge good for walking?

Paths are thinner than most towns: 2.1 km of footpath and right of way per square kilometre, more than 34% of UK towns. For park space per person it beats 51% (2.2 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 Corbridge’s overall grade.

Sources

Where Corbridge’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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