Wooler’s biggest
Scott Park
Playing field
2.5 ha (6 acres)
3 pitchesfootball pitches would fit
Centralin the middle of Wooler
Playground
Directionsto the nearest entrance
Photo: Richard Webb · CC BY-SA 2.0B−Outdoors Grade
Outdoors in Wooler · parks, paths & countryside
26% of the land within 5 km of Wooler is National Park or National Landscape
Northumberland National Park begins 0.5 mi from the village’s edge. Footpaths add up to 8 km in the village and the kilometre around it, 0.8 for every square kilometre. Parks and playing fields in Wooler add up to 3.3 ha for every 1,000 residents; the typical UK town has 2.1. Wooler grades B− for the outdoors. A character grade: it isn’t part of the overall grade.
Green space
3.3 ha
per 1,000 residents
Typical UK town 2.1
Near a park
81%
of residents within 400 m
Typical UK town 83%
Footpaths
8 km
0.8 km per km², town + 1 km
Typical UK town 3.0 per km²
Protected landscape
26%
of the land within 5 km
Nearest: Northumberland National Park
Character
What kind of outdoors village is Wooler?
Read from the data: what stands out first, good and bad.
Protected countryside26% of the land within 5 km is Northumberland National Park.Few mapped footpaths0.8 km of path per km²; the typical UK town has 3.0.
Wooler’s strongest suit is protected countryside on the doorstep. Where it falls short is footpaths.
Outdoors grade
Wooler grades B− for the outdoors
Each chart is every UK town of 1,000 or more on one measure: the green bar is Wooler, 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 48% of UK towns30th of 60 UK villages its size
Public green space3.3 haper 1,000 residents: parks, gardens, playing fields, play spaces
74out of
100
100
A park within a walk81%of residents within 400 m (a 5-minute walk)
48out of
100
100
National Park or National Landscape26%of the land within 5 km
82out of
100
100
Footpaths0.8 kmper km², the town and 1 km around it
3out 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
Wooler is 30th of 60 UK villages its size for the outdoors
The 60 UK towns and cities of 1,800 to 2,000 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
Wooler0.8
Villages its size2.3
Northumberland towns2.3
All UK towns3.0
Green space, ha per 1,000 residents
Wooler3.3
Villages its size2.3
Northumberland towns2.0
All UK towns2.1
Residents within 400 m of a park
Wooler81%
Villages its size80%
Northumberland towns80%
All UK towns83%
Against villages its size, Wooler stands out most for park space per resident: only 19 of the other 59 have more. It falls furthest behind on path per km², where 58 of the others do better.
Show as a table
| Town | Outdoors | Green space | Near a park | Path per km² | Protected | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Westbourne West Sussex | A+ | 9.6 | 100% | 4.1 | 57% |
| 2 | Capel-le-Ferne Kent | A+ | 21.8 | 88% | 4 | 52% |
| 3 | Kirkby Stephen Cumbria | A+ | 4.9 | 100% | 3.7 | 65% |
| 4 | Colyton Devon | A+ | 3.5 | 100% | 2.2 | 79% |
| 5 | Brading Isle of Wight | A+ | 2.9 | 84% | 4.2 | 21% |
| 6 | Chilworth Surrey | A+ | 10.8 | 80% | 6.1 | 59% |
| 7 | Scholes (near Hade Edge) West Yorkshire | A+ | 3.8 | 100% | 4.7 | 16% |
| 8 | Ickleford Hertfordshire | A− | 3.7 | 82% | 3.7 | 11% |
| 9 | South Nutfield Surrey | A− | 2.5 | 100% | 2.7 | 11% |
| 10 | Lower Broadheath Worcestershire | A− | 6 | 100% | 2.9 | 0% |
| 11 | Goosnargh Lancashire | A− | 2.4 | 100% | 2.5 | 6% |
| 12 | Lyminge Kent | A− | 3.5 | 83% | 2.1 | 90% |
| 13 | Little Haywood Staffordshire | A− | 1.3 | 100% | 3.3 | 34% |
| 14 | Kirkby Lonsdale Cumbria | B+ | 9.2 | 74% | 2.2 | 40% |
| 15 | Pontesbury Shropshire | B+ | 3.1 | 63% | 3.8 | 28% |
| 16 | Highnam Gloucestershire | B+ | 12 | 100% | 2.1 | 0% |
| 17 | Polesworth Warwickshire | B+ | 13.5 | 100% | 2 | 0% |
| 18 | Wingates Greater Manchester | B+ | 2.6 | 100% | 3.2 | 0% |
| 19 | Ingoldmells Lincolnshire | B+ | 2.8 | 83% | 2.3 | 0% |
| 20 | Southgate West Glamorgan | B+ | 1.1 | 21% | 3.7 | 56% |
| 21 | Chinley Derbyshire | B+ | 1.2 | 78% | 4.4 | 53% |
| 22 | Partridge Green West Sussex | B | 2.1 | 100% | 3.3 | 0% |
| 23 | Wrotham Kent | B | 1.6 | 100% | 1.6 | 49% |
| 24 | Beare Green Surrey | B | 1.6 | 70% | 3.9 | 30% |
| 25 | Stanwick Northamptonshire | B− | 7.9 | 82% | 2.3 | 0% |
| 26 | Dilton Marsh Wiltshire | B− | 2.1 | 67% | 3.5 | 4% |
| 27 | Hutton Cranswick East Riding of Yorkshire | B− | 5 | 100% | 0.9 | 0% |
| 28 | Wrea Green Lancashire | B− | 3.5 | 100% | 1.3 | 0% |
| 29 | Whitland Dyfed | B− | 4.4 | 100% | 0.8 | 0% |
| 30 | Wooler Northumberland | B− | 3.3 | 81% | 0.8 | 26% |
| 31 | Stow-on-the-Wold Gloucestershire | B− | 3.4 | 64% | 1.2 | 88% |
| 32 | Oxenhope West Yorkshire | B− | 1.8 | 80% | 4.5 | 0% |
| 33 | Leeswood Clwyd | C+ | 4 | 83% | 0.7 | 2% |
| 34 | Wickham Bishops Essex | C+ | 3.4 | 91% | 1.8 | 0% |
| 35 | Hockley Heath West Midlands | C+ | 2.6 | 86% | 2.5 | 0% |
| 36 | Northiam East Sussex | C+ | 2.2 | 76% | 0.8 | 100% |
| 37 | Stratton Cornwall | C+ | 0.8 | 23% | 3 | 8% |
| 38 | High Spen Tyne and Wear | C+ | 3.3 | 74% | 2.4 | 0% |
| 39 | Hatton Warwickshire | C | 1.6 | 100% | 2 | 0% |
| 40 | Ramsden Heath Essex | C | 2.3 | 82% | 2.4 | 0% |
| 41 | Presteigne Powys | C | 3.2 | 61% | 2.8 | 0% |
| 42 | Sleights North Yorkshire | C | 0.9 | 30% | 1.5 | 80% |
| 43 | Rode Heath Cheshire | C | 0.9 | 100% | 2.4 | 0% |
| 44 | Newton Poppleford Devon | C | 1.4 | 44% | 2.3 | 60% |
| 45 | Barrow Suffolk | C− | 1.1 | 100% | 1.6 | 0% |
| 46 | Chivenor and Wrafton Devon | C− | 0.6 | 0% | 1.7 | 17% |
| 47 | Black Notley Essex | C− | 1.6 | 36% | 3.9 | 0% |
| 48 | Littlethorpe Leicestershire | C− | 0.4 | 57% | 4.7 | 0% |
| 49 | Stocksfield Northumberland | C− | 2.2 | 40% | 2.6 | 0% |
| 50 | Cookley Worcestershire | D | 2.3 | 52% | 1.8 | 0% |
| 51 | Brompton-on-Swale North Yorkshire | D | 2.1 | 71% | 1.4 | 0% |
| 52 | Manby Lincolnshire | D | 1.4 | 68% | 0.8 | 2% |
| 53 | Cropwell Bishop Nottinghamshire | D | 0.7 | 45% | 3.5 | 0% |
| 54 | Hutton Rudby North Yorkshire | D | 1.6 | 35% | 1.1 | 13% |
| 55 | Little Plumstead Norfolk | D | 0.6 | 64% | 1 | 16% |
| 56 | Shawbury Shropshire | D− | 2.2 | 30% | 0.9 | 0% |
| 57 | Wheldrake North Yorkshire | D− | 1.4 | 72% | 0.8 | 0% |
| 58 | Colnbrook Berkshire | D− | 0.6 | 68% | 1.7 | 0% |
| 59 | Goostrey Cheshire | D− | 0.3 | 42% | 1.7 | 0% |
| 60 | Shippon Oxfordshire | D− | 0.4 | 0% | 2 | 0% |
The map
Parks, footpaths & countryside
Tap a number to zoom to a park. Tap a layer to hide it. The dashed line is Wooler’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 Wooler
The biggest is Scott Park, 2.5 ha (6 acres). Directions go to the park’s nearest public entrance where Ordnance Survey maps one.
Close to home
8 in 10 Wooler 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 (81%)Further (20%)
Wooler81%
Villages its size80%
Northumberland towns80%
All UK towns83%
About 400 people live further than that. Playing fields count, so a park within reach isn’t always one with paths or trees; 5 playgrounds are mapped in and around the village, about one for every 386 residents.
National Parks & National Landscapes
National Parks and National Landscapes around Wooler
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 Park
Northumberland
0.5 mi south-west1,051 km²since 195726% of the land within 5 km
Official site26% of the land within 5 km of Wooler is National Park or National Landscape, more than 81% of UK towns. 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 Wooler
8 km of footpaths, bridleways and rights of way are mapped in Wooler and the kilometre around it, 0.8 km for every square kilometre (the typical UK town has 3.0). Bars show each route’s kilometres within 2 km of the village.
Regional
Saint Cuthbert's Way (Kirk Yetholm to Lindisfarne)7.9 km
The regional route here is the Saint Cuthbert's Way (Kirk Yetholm to Lindisfarne).
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 Wooler: 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) | 7.6 | 9.5 | 11.6 | 14.1 | 16.2 | 17.5 | 16.9 | 15.0 | 12.6 | 10.3 | 8.2 | 7.1 |
| High (°C) | 7 | 8 | 10 | 12 | 15 | 18 | 20 | 19 | 16 | 14 | 10 | 7 |
| Rain (mm) | 70 | 50 | 47 | 51 | 48 | 64 | 59 | 66 | 53 | 74 | 82 | 69 |
March is the driest month (47 mm) and July the warmest (highs of 20 °C). Winter days are short, about 7 hours of daylight in December, and 82 mm of rain falls in November, the wettest month. Frost comes on about 58 nights a year. The climate in Wooler →
Things to do
5 playgrounds and the nearest beaches
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.
The nearest beaches
Wooler is inland. These are the nearest named beaches, measured from the edge of the village.
Ross Back Sands11 mi from Wooler’s edge
DirectionsCheswick Sands12 mi from Wooler’s edge
DirectionsCocklawburn Beach12 mi from Wooler’s edge
DirectionsSalt Pan13 mi from Wooler’s edge
DirectionsSpittal Beach14 mi from Wooler’s edge
DirectionsGood 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
Viewpoints 1
Viewpoint south of Wooler0.2 mi from town
DirectionsHills and peaks 7
Horsden0.3 mi from town
DirectionsWeetwood Moor166 m (545 ft) · 0.6 mi from town
DirectionsKenterdale Hill0.6 mi from town
DirectionsBrown's Law237 m (778 ft) · 0.8 mi from town
DirectionsEarle Whin240 m (787 ft) · 0.8 mi from town
DirectionsColdberry Hill278 m (912 ft) · 1.0 mi from town
DirectionsHumbleton Hill298 m (978 ft) · 1.0 mi from town
DirectionsPicnic sites 1
Humbleton Burn Picnic Area0.6 mi from town
DirectionsNext door
The outdoors in nearby towns
The nearest towns of 1,000+ within 12 miles. Tap a town for its outdoors page.
BelfordWooler
ABCDOutdoors Grade
| Town | Outdoors | Green space, ha per 1,000 | Near a park | Protected within 5 km |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wooler | B− | 3.3 | 81% | 26% |
| Belford 7.9 mi | C+ | 1.2 | 83% | 21% |
Wooler grades higher for the outdoors than every neighbour in the table.
Questions about the outdoors in Wooler
What is the biggest park in Wooler?
Scott Park, 2.5 ha (6 acres). 1 named park, garden or playing field is in the village or within 400 m of it.
Is Wooler near a National Park?
Yes. Northumberland National Park begins 0.5 mi south-west of the village’s edge. It covers 1,051 km² and has been a National Park since 1957.
What are the best walks near Wooler?
1 waymarked walking route passes within 2 km of the village, including the Saint Cuthbert's Way (Kirk Yetholm to Lindisfarne).
What is the nearest beach to Wooler?
Ross Back Sands, 11 mi from the edge of the village, then Cheswick Sands (12 mi). Wooler itself is inland.
How many people in Wooler live near a park?
81% 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 Wooler?
May to September: the longest days, the warmest afternoons and the least rain of the year, from the Met Office 1991–2020 averages.
Is Wooler good for walking?
Paths are thinner than most towns: 0.8 km of footpath and right of way per square kilometre, more than 3% of UK towns. For park space per person it beats 74% (3.3 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 Wooler’s overall grade.
Sources
Where Wooler’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.