Wylam’s biggest
Jubilee Field Recreation Ground
Playing field
1.7 ha (4 acres)0.2 km of path
2 pitchesfootball pitches would fit
Centralin the middle of Wylam
Directionsto the nearest entrance
Wylam Hall · Photo: Andrew Curtis · CC BY-SA 2.0C−Outdoors Grade
Outdoors in Wylam · parks, paths & countryside
Parks and walks in Wylam
Footpaths add up to 29 km in the village and the kilometre around it, 3.8 for every square kilometre. Parks and playing fields in Wylam add up to 1.1 ha for every 1,000 residents; the typical UK town has 2.1. A park or playing field is within a 5-minute walk for 74% of residents. Wylam grades C− for the outdoors. A character grade: it isn’t part of the overall grade.
Green space
1.1 ha
per 1,000 residents
Typical UK town 2.1
Near a park
74%
of residents within 400 m
Typical UK town 83%
Footpaths
29 km
3.8 km per km², town + 1 km
Typical UK town 3.0 per km²
Protected landscape
0%
of the land within 5 km
Nearest: North Pennines National Landscape
Character
What kind of outdoors village is Wylam?
Read from the data: what stands out first, good and bad.
A village of footpaths3.8 km of path per km², more than 77% of UK towns. The typical town has 3.0.On a National TrailThe Hadrian's Wall Path passes through.Less park per person1.1 ha of parks and playing fields per 1,000 residents; the typical UK town has 2.1.
Wylam’s strongest suit is dense footpaths, followed by the Hadrian's Wall Path. Where it falls short is park space per person.
Outdoors grade
Wylam grades C− for the outdoors
Each chart is every UK town of 1,000 or more on one measure: the green bar is Wylam, 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 24% of UK towns41st of 60 UK villages its size
Public green space1.1 haper 1,000 residents: parks, gardens, playing fields, play spaces
14out of
100
100
A park within a walk74%of residents within 400 m (a 5-minute walk)
37out of
100
100
National Park or National Landscape0%of the land within 5 km · None within 5 km
31out of
100
100
Footpaths3.8 kmper km², the town and 1 km around it
77out 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
Wylam is 41st of 60 UK villages its size for the outdoors
The 60 UK towns and cities of 1,600 to 1,700 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
Wylam3.8
Villages its size2.1
Northumberland towns2.3
All UK towns3.0
Green space, ha per 1,000 residents
Wylam1.1
Villages its size2.1
Northumberland towns2.0
All UK towns2.1
Residents within 400 m of a park
Wylam74%
Villages its size78%
Northumberland towns80%
All UK towns83%
Against villages its size, Wylam stands out most for path per km²: only 5 of the other 59 have more. It falls furthest behind on park space per resident, where 48 of the others do better.
Show as a table
| Town | Outdoors | Green space | Near a park | Path per km² | Protected | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Pease Pottage West Sussex | A+ | 4.1 | 100% | 7.4 | 65% |
| 2 | Portskewett Gwent | A+ | 10 | 100% | 2.9 | 3% |
| 3 | Manningtree Essex | A+ | 5.6 | 100% | 2.5 | 43% |
| 4 | Guston Kent | A+ | 5.8 | 100% | 2.5 | 25% |
| 5 | Llansanffraid Glan Conwy Clwyd | A+ | 10.8 | 100% | 1.6 | 8% |
| 6 | Pen-clawdd West Glamorgan | A | 4 | 100% | 0.5 | 42% |
| 7 | Hutton Somerset | A | 1.8 | 100% | 2.2 | 22% |
| 8 | Lynemouth Northumberland | A− | 3.5 | 100% | 1.7 | 0% |
| 9 | Hemyock Devon | A− | 3.2 | 100% | 1.3 | 82% |
| 10 | Shillington Bedfordshire | A− | 3.7 | 83% | 3.2 | 14% |
| 11 | Bean Kent | A− | 17 | 72% | 3.1 | 0% |
| 12 | Harrold Bedfordshire | A− | 19.1 | 100% | 2.5 | 0% |
| 13 | Hampton Magna Warwickshire | A− | 6.8 | 100% | 2.6 | 0% |
| 14 | Starcross Devon | B+ | 1.9 | 100% | 0.9 | 1% |
| 15 | Aldbourne Wiltshire | B+ | 3.2 | 84% | 1.8 | 100% |
| 16 | Kingsdown Kent | B+ | 1.1 | 67% | 3.4 | 12% |
| 17 | Great Kingshill Buckinghamshire | B | 2.7 | 55% | 2.9 | 84% |
| 18 | Abridge Essex | B | 3 | 100% | 2.4 | 0% |
| 19 | Ardingly West Sussex | B | 1.7 | 53% | 4.1 | 83% |
| 20 | Silkstone South Yorkshire | B | 1 | 100% | 5.2 | 0% |
| 21 | Edgworth Lancashire | B | 3.2 | 100% | 2.1 | 0% |
| 22 | Normandy Surrey | B− | 3.2 | 23% | 3.1 | 26% |
| 23 | Streethouse West Yorkshire | B− | 2.2 | 100% | 2.5 | 0% |
| 24 | Eynsford Kent | B− | 2.1 | 81% | 1.9 | 46% |
| 25 | Woodsetts South Yorkshire | B− | 2 | 100% | 2.6 | 0% |
| 26 | Allhallows Kent | B− | 3.2 | 76% | 1.1 | 0% |
| 27 | Onley Northamptonshire | B− | 2.3 | 100% | 2.2 | 0% |
| 28 | West Horndon Essex | C+ | 2.2 | 100% | 1.9 | 0% |
| 29 | Seahouses and North Sunderland Northumberland | C+ | 1.6 | 17% | 1.7 | 21% |
| 30 | Chipperfield Hertfordshire | C+ | 2.4 | 37% | 2.8 | 17% |
| 31 | Bartestree Herefordshire | C+ | 2.1 | 81% | 1.9 | 10% |
| 32 | Rocester Staffordshire | C+ | 15.2 | 58% | 2.5 | 0% |
| 33 | Templecombe Somerset | C+ | 2 | 100% | 1.7 | 0% |
| 34 | Clutton Somerset | C+ | 0.9 | 74% | 3.3 | 11% |
| 35 | New Arley Warwickshire | C+ | 2.4 | 100% | 1.1 | 0% |
| 36 | High Littleton Somerset | C+ | 1 | 58% | 4.9 | 1% |
| 37 | Potterspury Northamptonshire | C | 1.4 | 100% | 2.1 | 0% |
| 38 | Acton Suffolk | C | 1.6 | 100% | 1.8 | 0% |
| 39 | Stonesfield Oxfordshire | C | 1.9 | 60% | 1.8 | 38% |
| 40 | Earith Cambridgeshire | C | 1.2 | 78% | 3.6 | 0% |
| 41 | Wylam Northumberland | C− | 1.1 | 74% | 3.8 | 0% |
| 42 | Thorney Cambridgeshire | C− | 3.4 | 74% | 0.7 | 0% |
| 43 | Lower Quinton Warwickshire | C− | 2 | 49% | 1.3 | 18% |
| 44 | Modbury Devon | C− | 1.7 | 39% | 1.2 | 41% |
| 45 | Creunant West Glamorgan | C− | 1.7 | 79% | 0.3 | 0% |
| 46 | Pensilva Cornwall | C− | 1.6 | 60% | 1.3 | 15% |
| 47 | Whitehill County Durham | C− | 0.3 | 0% | 7.7 | 0% |
| 48 | Sywell and Overstone Northamptonshire | D | 3.1 | 62% | 1.2 | 0% |
| 49 | Upper Arncott Oxfordshire | D | 3.1 | 59% | 1.2 | 0% |
| 50 | Thurcaston Leicestershire | D | 1.1 | 33% | 3.6 | 0% |
| 51 | Leverington Cambridgeshire | D | 2.8 | 59% | 0.8 | 0% |
| 52 | Dobwalls Cornwall | D | 1.4 | 28% | 1.5 | 15% |
| 53 | Tiddington Warwickshire | D | 0.2 | 79% | 2.2 | 0% |
| 54 | Soughton Clwyd | D | 0.4 | 67% | 1.3 | 3% |
| 55 | Skirlaugh East Riding of Yorkshire | D | 1 | 85% | 0.7 | 0% |
| 56 | Woodborough Nottinghamshire | D− | 1 | 45% | 2 | 0% |
| 57 | Ulceby Lincolnshire | D− | 1.2 | 72% | 0.5 | 0% |
| 58 | Scarcroft West Yorkshire | D− | 0.5 | 15% | 2.4 | 0% |
| 59 | Welford-on-Avon Warwickshire | D− | 0.4 | 48% | 1.5 | 0% |
| 60 | Church Fenton North Yorkshire | D− | 0.3 | 50% | 0.7 | 0% |
The map
Parks, footpaths & countryside
Tap a number to zoom to a park. Tap a layer to hide it. The dashed line is Wylam’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 Wylam
The biggest is Jubilee Field Recreation Ground, 1.7 ha (4 acres). Directions go to the park’s nearest public entrance where Ordnance Survey maps one.
Close to home
7 in 10 Wylam 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 (74%)Further (26%)
Wylam74%
Villages its size78%
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; 12 playgrounds are mapped in and around the village, about one for every 138 residents.
National Parks & National Landscapes
The North Pennines National Landscape is 8.0 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
Northumberland National Park covers 1,051 km² and has been a National Park since 1957.
Footpaths & waymarked walks
Wylam is on the Hadrian's Wall Path
29 km of footpaths, bridleways and rights of way are mapped in Wylam and the kilometre around it, 3.8 km for every square kilometre (the typical UK town has 3.0). Bars show each route’s kilometres within 2 km of the village.
National
Hadrian's Wall Path3.8 km
The Hadrian's Wall Path, a national route, passes Wylam.
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 Wylam: May, July and 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) | 7.7 | 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 | 8 | 10 | 12 | 15 | 18 | 20 | 20 | 17 | 14 | 10 | 7 |
| Rain (mm) | 49 | 51 | 45 | 51 | 45 | 69 | 60 | 67 | 56 | 67 | 70 | 63 |
March is the driest month (45 mm) and July the warmest (highs of 20 °C). Winter days are short, about 7 hours of daylight in December, and 70 mm of rain falls in November, the wettest month. Frost comes on about 41 nights a year. The climate in Wylam →
The coast
Beaches near Wylam
0% of the area within 5 km of Wylam is sea, so the Outdoors Grade counts it as inland. 3 beaches are mapped within 5 km.
Shingle Beach2.0 mi from town
DirectionsShingles2.3 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
12 playgrounds
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.
Every named place, with directions
Nature reserves 5
Wylam Haughs Nature Reserve2.4 ha · 0.1 mi from town
DirectionsTyne Riverside Country Park0.1 mi from town
DirectionsClose House Riverside Nature Reserve5.9 ha · 0.5 mi from town
DirectionsClara Vale Local Nature Reserve4.6 ha · 0.5 mi from town
DirectionsPriestclose Wood21 ha · 1.2 mi from town
DirectionsPlaygrounds 12
Waterworld Play Area1.1 mi from town
DirectionsCastlefields Swing1.2 mi from town
DirectionsPlus 10 playgrounds without a name on the map.
Campsites 3
High Hermitage Caravan Park0.9 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.
Heddon-on-the-WallPrudhoeOvinghamCrawcrook and GreensideRytonThrockleyWylam
ABCDOutdoors Grade
| Town | Outdoors | Green space, ha per 1,000 | Near a park | Protected within 5 km |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wylam | C− | 1.1 | 74% | 0% |
| Heddon-on-the-Wall 1.7 mi | D | 0.6 | 70% | 0% |
| Prudhoe 1.8 mi | C− | 1.7 | 37% | 0% |
| Ovingham 1.8 mi | A | 6.5 | 100% | 0% |
| Crawcrook and Greenside 1.9 mi | B− | 3.2 | 86% | 0% |
| Ryton 2.8 mi | A− | 5.5 | 85% | 0% |
| Throckley 2.8 mi | B | 3.1 | 89% | 0% |
Ovingham, 1.8 miles away, grades A, the best next door: every resident lives within 400 m of a park. Ovingham, Crawcrook and Greenside and Ryton have at least twice Wylam’s green space per resident. None of the neighbours has a protected landscape within 5 km either.
Questions about the outdoors in Wylam
What is the biggest park in Wylam?
Jubilee Field Recreation Ground, 1.7 ha (4 acres). 1 named park, garden or playing field is in the village or within 400 m of it.
Is Wylam near a National Park?
Yes. Northumberland National Park begins 14 mi west of the village’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, 8.0 mi away.
What are the best walks near Wylam?
1 waymarked walking route passes within 2 km of the village, including the Hadrian's Wall Path.
How many people in Wylam live near a park?
74% 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 Wylam?
May, July and September: the longest days, the warmest afternoons and the least rain of the year, from the Met Office 1991–2020 averages.
Is Wylam good for walking?
For paths, yes: 3.8 km of footpath and right of way per square kilometre, more than 77% of UK towns. For park space per person it beats 14% (1.1 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 Wylam’s overall grade.
Sources
Where Wylam’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.