Prudhoe’s biggest
Village Green
Park or garden · 70 m outside town
2.4 ha (6 acres)0.7 km of path
10 minto walk all 0.7 km of path
3 pitchesfootball pitches would fit
0.8 mi north-westfrom the centre
Directionsto the nearest entrance
Photo: Anthony Foster · CC BY-SA 2.0C−Outdoors Grade
Outdoors in Prudhoe · parks, paths & countryside
Prudhoe has more footpath per square kilometre than 8 in 10 UK towns
Footpaths add up to 71 km in the town and the kilometre around it, 4.1 for every square kilometre. The North Pennines National Landscape begins 5.8 mi from the town’s edge. A park or playing field is within a 5-minute walk for 37% of residents. Prudhoe grades C− for the outdoors: #17 of 20 in Northumberland. A character grade: it isn’t part of the overall grade.
Green space
1.7 ha
per 1,000 residents
Typical UK town 2.1
Near a park
37%
of residents within 400 m
Typical UK town 83%
Footpaths
71 km
4.1 km per km², town + 1 km
Typical UK town 3.0 per km²
Protected landscape
0%
of the land within 5 km
North Pennines starts 5.8 mi out, past the 5 km
Character
What kind of outdoors town is Prudhoe?
Read from the data: what stands out first, good and bad.
A town of footpaths4.1 km of path per km², more than 82% of UK towns. The typical town has 3.0.Countryside close byThe North Pennines National Landscape starts 5.8 mi south-west.Less park per person1.7 ha of parks and playing fields per 1,000 residents; the typical UK town has 2.1.
Prudhoe’s strongest suit is dense footpaths, followed by the North Pennines National Landscape close by. Where it falls short is park space per person.
Outdoors grade
Prudhoe grades C− for the outdoors
Each chart is every UK town of 1,000 or more on one measure: the green bar is Prudhoe, 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 23% of UK towns#17 of 20 in Northumberland · 48th of 60 UK towns its size
Public green space1.7 haper 1,000 residents: parks, gardens, playing fields, play spaces
35out of
100
100
A park within a walk37%of residents within 400 m (a 5-minute walk)
8out of
100
100
National Park or National Landscape0%of the land within 5 km · North Pennines begins just past 5 km
31out of
100
100
Footpaths4.1 kmper km², the town and 1 km around it
82out 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
Prudhoe is 48th of 60 UK towns its size for the outdoors
The 60 UK towns and cities of 9,700 to 11,000 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
Prudhoe4.1
Towns its size3.1
Northumberland towns2.3
All UK towns3.0
Green space, ha per 1,000 residents
Prudhoe1.7
Towns its size2.1
Northumberland towns2.0
All UK towns2.1
Residents within 400 m of a park
Prudhoe37%
Towns its size84%
Northumberland towns80%
All UK towns83%
Against towns its size, Prudhoe stands out most for path per km²: only 10 of the other 59 have more. It falls furthest behind on homes near a park, where 56 of the others do better.
Show as a table
| Town | Outdoors | Green space | Near a park | Path per km² | Protected | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Caldicot Gwent | A+ | 4.2 | 92% | 3 | 2% |
| 2 | West End Hampshire | A | 9.1 | 100% | 6.1 | 0% |
| 3 | Brierfield Lancashire | A | 2.1 | 92% | 5.6 | 18% |
| 4 | South Merstham Surrey | A | 3.7 | 84% | 3.7 | 20% |
| 5 | Beccles Suffolk | A | 4.5 | 87% | 3.2 | 20% |
| 6 | Bradford-on-Avon Wiltshire | A | 2.8 | 88% | 3.7 | 21% |
| 7 | Godalming Surrey | A− | 4.6 | 73% | 3.1 | 66% |
| 8 | Soham Cambridgeshire | A− | 4.7 | 97% | 4.1 | 0% |
| 9 | Platt Bridge and Abram Greater Manchester | A− | 3.7 | 98% | 4.3 | 0% |
| 10 | Royston South Yorkshire | A− | 7.9 | 97% | 3.4 | 0% |
| 11 | Kings Hill Kent | A− | 2.4 | 100% | 2.8 | 7% |
| 12 | Romiley Greater Manchester | A− | 3.9 | 80% | 3.8 | 1% |
| 13 | Padiham Lancashire | A− | 1.5 | 95% | 4.5 | 18% |
| 14 | Bingham Nottinghamshire | A− | 3.4 | 100% | 3.4 | 0% |
| 15 | Sawbridgeworth Hertfordshire | A− | 4 | 85% | 5.4 | 0% |
| 16 | Whitwick Leicestershire | A− | 4.2 | 84% | 5.5 | 0% |
| 17 | Chadwell St Mary Essex | A− | 3.2 | 97% | 2.2 | 0% |
| 18 | Egglescliffe County Durham | A− | 4.9 | 94% | 3.6 | 0% |
| 19 | Tidworth Wiltshire | B+ | 3.7 | 90% | 2.3 | 8% |
| 20 | Pelsall West Midlands | B+ | 6.1 | 95% | 2.9 | 0% |
| 21 | Corfe Mullen Dorset | B+ | 3.1 | 72% | 3.5 | 13% |
| 22 | Woodbridge Suffolk | B+ | 1.7 | 80% | 3.9 | 30% |
| 23 | Barnoldswick Lancashire | B+ | 1.8 | 87% | 4 | 2% |
| 24 | Cranleigh Surrey | B | 2.5 | 20% | 4.3 | 38% |
| 25 | Corsham Wiltshire | B | 1.9 | 81% | 3 | 31% |
| 26 | Baldock Hertfordshire | B | 2.1 | 91% | 4.3 | 0% |
| 27 | Ludlow Shropshire | B | 2.3 | 92% | 2.1 | 16% |
| 28 | Great Dunmow Essex | B | 2 | 92% | 4 | 0% |
| 29 | Queensbury West Yorkshire | B | 2.6 | 91% | 3.2 | 0% |
| 30 | Immingham Lincolnshire | B | 2 | 100% | 1.1 | 0% |
| 31 | Caernarfon Gwynedd | B− | 1.7 | 83% | 1.4 | 14% |
| 32 | Horbury West Yorkshire | B− | 2.5 | 75% | 4.5 | 0% |
| 33 | Monmouth Gwent | B− | 1.5 | 69% | 3.1 | 45% |
| 34 | Oswaldtwistle Lancashire | B− | 1.1 | 94% | 4.6 | 0% |
| 35 | Radstock Somerset | B− | 1.1 | 93% | 2.9 | 1% |
| 36 | Whitchurch Shropshire | B− | 2.7 | 86% | 2.6 | 0% |
| 37 | Mold Clwyd | C+ | 1.9 | 86% | 1.6 | 17% |
| 38 | Baglan West Glamorgan | C+ | 2.5 | 69% | 1.9 | 0% |
| 39 | Liskeard Cornwall | C+ | 0.8 | 89% | 2.7 | 6% |
| 40 | Raunds Northamptonshire | C+ | 4.7 | 74% | 2.1 | 0% |
| 41 | Crook County Durham | C+ | 1.5 | 85% | 3.5 | 0% |
| 42 | Abertillery Gwent | C | 2.4 | 69% | 2.1 | 0% |
| 43 | Selsey West Sussex | C | 1.6 | 79% | 1.4 | 0% |
| 44 | Earl Shilton Leicestershire | C | 1.5 | 98% | 2.4 | 0% |
| 45 | Barnham West Sussex | C | 1.3 | 70% | 2.3 | 32% |
| 46 | Kippax West Yorkshire | C | 1.4 | 80% | 3.4 | 0% |
| 47 | Catshill Worcestershire | C | 1.4 | 82% | 2.9 | 0% |
| 48 | Prudhoe Northumberland | C− | 1.7 | 37% | 4.1 | 0% |
| 49 | Epping Essex | C− | 1.2 | 70% | 3.7 | 0% |
| 50 | Polegate East Sussex | C− | 0.8 | 64% | 2.2 | 24% |
| 51 | Lutterworth Leicestershire | C− | 1.7 | 83% | 2 | 0% |
| 52 | West Moors Dorset | C− | 0.9 | 33% | 3.1 | 0% |
| 53 | New Ollerton and Ollerton Nottinghamshire | C− | 0.8 | 80% | 2.8 | 0% |
| 54 | Haxby North Yorkshire | D | 0.6 | 59% | 3.6 | 0% |
| 55 | Newtown Powys | D | 2.3 | 65% | 1.6 | 0% |
| 56 | Sherborne Dorset | D | 1.2 | 76% | 2.1 | 0% |
| 57 | Longton Lancashire | D | 1.7 | 60% | 2.1 | 0% |
| 58 | Burton Latimer Northamptonshire | D | 0.9 | 62% | 2.8 | 0% |
| 59 | Pocklington East Riding of Yorkshire | D | 1.6 | 65% | 1.3 | 0% |
| 60 | Ponteland Northumberland | D− | 1.1 | 36% | 1.4 | 0% |
The map
Parks, footpaths & countryside
Tap a number to zoom to a park. Tap a layer to hide it. The dashed line is Prudhoe’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 Prudhoe
The biggest is Village Green, 2.4 ha (6 acres). Directions go to the park’s nearest public entrance where Ordnance Survey maps one.
Eastwoods Park
Playing field
4.2 ha (10 acres)
6 pitchesfootball pitches would fit
0.9 mi eastfrom the centre
Directionsto the nearest entrance
Highfield Park
Playing field
3.9 ha (10 acres)
5 pitchesfootball pitches would fit
Centralin the middle of Prudhoe
Playground
Directionsto the nearest entrance
Close to home
4 in 10 Prudhoe 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 (37%)Further (63%)
Prudhoe37%
Towns its size84%
Northumberland towns80%
All UK towns83%
About 6,500 people live further than that. Playing fields count, so a park within reach isn’t always one with paths or trees; 17 playgrounds are mapped in and around the town, about one for every 605 residents.
National Parks & National Landscapes
The North Pennines National Landscape is 5.8 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
Protected landscape begins just outside the 5 km ring the Outdoors Grade measures, so Prudhoe scores 0% on it even though the North Pennines National Landscape is 5.8 mi away. Northumberland National Park covers 1,051 km² and has been a National Park since 1957.
Footpaths & waymarked walks
1 waymarked walk passes through or near Prudhoe
71 km of footpaths, bridleways and rights of way are mapped in Prudhoe and the kilometre around it, 4.1 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
Burnside Close1.7 km
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 Prudhoe: June 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) | 7.8 | 9.6 | 11.7 | 14.0 | 16.1 | 17.3 | 16.8 | 14.9 | 12.6 | 10.3 | 8.3 | 7.2 |
| High (°C) | 6 | 7 | 8 | 11 | 14 | 17 | 19 | 19 | 16 | 12 | 9 | 6 |
| Rain (mm) | 63 | 58 | 53 | 62 | 53 | 79 | 74 | 80 | 72 | 78 | 86 | 75 |
March is the driest month (53 mm) and July the warmest (highs of 19 °C). Winter days are short, about 7 hours of daylight in December, and 86 mm of rain falls in November, the wettest month. Frost comes on about 47 nights a year. The climate in Prudhoe →
The coast
Beaches near Prudhoe
0% of the area within 5 km of Prudhoe is sea, so the Outdoors Grade counts it as inland. 1 beach is mapped within 5 km.
Shingle Beach2.8 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
17 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.
3Nature reserves3.2× towns its size2Picnic sites17Playgroundsabout the same as towns its size3Campsites
Every named place, with directions
Nature reserves 3
Priestclose Wood21 ha · 0.0 mi from town
DirectionsTyne Riverside Country Park0.3 mi from town
DirectionsWylam Haughs Nature Reserve2.4 ha · 0.4 mi from town
DirectionsPicnic sites 2
Plus 2 picnic sites without a name on the map.
Playgrounds 17
Highfield Parkin town
DirectionsWaterworld Play Areain town
DirectionsCastlefields Swing0.0 mi from town
DirectionsPlus 14 playgrounds without a name on the map.
Campsites 3
High Hermitage Caravan Park0.3 mi from town
DirectionsPlus 2 campsites 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.
OvinghamWylamStocksfieldCrawcrook and GreensideChopwellHeddon-on-the-WallPrudhoe
ABCDOutdoors Grade
| Town | Outdoors | Green space, ha per 1,000 | Near a park | Protected within 5 km |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Prudhoe | C− | 1.7 | 37% | 0% |
| Ovingham 0.9 mi | A | 6.5 | 100% | 0% |
| Wylam 1.8 mi | C− | 1.1 | 74% | 0% |
| Stocksfield 2.2 mi | C− | 2.2 | 40% | 0% |
| Crawcrook and Greenside 2.7 mi | B− | 3.2 | 86% | 0% |
| Chopwell 3.2 mi | A | 7.5 | 100% | 0% |
| Heddon-on-the-Wall 3.4 mi | D | 0.6 | 70% | 0% |
Ovingham, 0.9 miles away, grades A, the best next door: every resident lives within 400 m of a park. Ovingham and Chopwell have at least twice Prudhoe’s green space per resident. None of the neighbours has a protected landscape within 5 km either.
Questions about the outdoors in Prudhoe
What is the biggest park in Prudhoe?
Village Green, 2.4 ha (6 acres), with 0.7 km of path, just outside the built-up area. Eastwoods Park (4.2 ha) is second. 3 named parks, gardens and playing fields are in the town or within 400 m of it.
Is Prudhoe near a National Park?
Yes. Northumberland National Park begins 12 mi 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, 5.8 mi away.
What are the best walks near Prudhoe?
1 waymarked walking route passes within 2 km of the town, including the Burnside Close.
How many people in Prudhoe live near a park?
37% 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 Prudhoe?
June to September: the longest days, the warmest afternoons and the least rain of the year, from the Met Office 1991–2020 averages.
Is Prudhoe good for walking?
For paths, yes: 4.1 km of footpath and right of way per square kilometre, more than 82% of UK towns. For park space per person it beats 35% (1.7 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 Prudhoe’s overall grade.
Sources
Where Prudhoe’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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