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Outdoors in Blyth · parks, paths & countryside

76% of Blyth’s residents live within a 5-minute walk of a park

4 km of footpaths run through the village and the kilometre around it, 0.3 for every square kilometre. Parks and playing fields in Blyth add up to 2.5 ha for every 1,000 residents; the typical UK town has 2.1. Blyth grades D for the outdoors. A character grade: it isn’t part of the overall grade.

1named park

Green space

2.5 ha

per 1,000 residents

Typical UK town 2.1

Near a park

76%

of residents within 400 m

Typical UK town 83%

Footpaths

4 km

0.3 km per km², town + 1 km

Typical UK town 3.0 per km²

Protected landscape

of the land within 5 km

Outdoors grade

Blyth grades D for the outdoors

Each chart is every UK town of 1,000 or more on one measure: the green bar is Blyth, 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 14% of UK towns47th of 60 UK villages its size

Public green space2.5 haper 1,000 residents: parks, gardens, playing fields, play spaces

59out of
100

A park within a walk76%of residents within 400 m (a 5-minute walk)

39out of
100

National Park or National Landscape0%of the land within 5 km · None within 5 km

31out of
100

Footpaths0.3 kmper km², the town and 1 km around it

1out 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.

Villages its size

Blyth is 47th of 60 UK villages its size for the outdoors

The 60 UK towns and cities of 1,200 to 1,300 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

Blyth0.3

Villages its size2.0

Nottinghamshire towns3.0

All UK towns3.0

Green space, ha per 1,000 residents

Blyth2.5

Villages its size2.3

Nottinghamshire towns2.4

All UK towns2.1

Residents within 400 m of a park

Blyth76%

Villages its size73%

Nottinghamshire towns81%

All UK towns83%

Blyth falls furthest behind on path per km², where 59 of the 59 others do better.

Show as a table

	Town	Outdoors	Green space	Near a park	Path per km²	Protected
1	Huncoat Lancashire	A⁺	10.1	100%	4.9	1%
2	Clanfield Hampshire	A⁺	6.1	100%	2.9	78%
3	Aldington Kent	A⁺	4.6	100%	3.8	11%
4	Kirton Suffolk	A⁺	2.5	100%	2.3	50%
5	Otterbourne Hampshire	A	2.9	100%	3.2	25%
6	Box Hill Surrey	A	35.9	12%	6	39%
7	Cliffs End Kent	A	6.9	100%	1.8	0%
8	Chew Magna Somerset	A	2.4	100%	3	15%
9	Millhouse Green South Yorkshire	A	1.9	100%	3.6	18%
10	Harlech Gwynedd	A⁻	1.9	36%	3.5	67%
11	Bradpole Dorset	A⁻	0.9	100%	3.3	95%
12	South Heath Buckinghamshire	A⁻	20.4	0%	3	85%
13	Westfield East Sussex	B⁺	1.9	100%	1.9	83%
14	Tregarth Gwynedd	B⁺	1.5	100%	2.9	23%
15	New Brancepeth County Durham	B⁺	2.6	100%	3.5	0%
16	Baddesley Ensor Warwickshire	B⁺	18.3	100%	2.1	0%
17	Bierton Buckinghamshire	B⁺	5.8	70%	7.7	0%
18	Farningham Kent	B⁺	1.7	100%	2	33%
19	Billy Row County Durham	B	2.3	100%	3.1	0%
20	Horton Kirby Kent	B	5.9	78%	1.7	21%
21	Bunbury Cheshire	B	2.6	100%	2.7	0%
22	Talgarth Powys	B	5.7	71%	1.5	52%
23	Kilgetty Dyfed	B	1	100%	0.9	18%
24	Minster Lovell Oxfordshire	B	3.6	79%	1.5	37%
25	Sutton Benger Wiltshire	B	2.7	100%	2.4	0%
26	Beer Devon	B	1.6	50%	2.2	43%
27	Eckington Worcestershire	B	4.1	72%	1.9	23%
28	Potten End Hertfordshire	B⁻	2.4	73%	2.2	44%
29	Brightwell-cum-Sotwell Oxfordshire	B⁻	2.5	72%	2.2	40%
30	Wyton Cambridgeshire	B⁻	4.9	100%	0.8	0%
31	Marlpit Hill Kent	B⁻	2.5	0%	2.9	35%
32	Sutton Common Suffolk	C⁺	0.8	51%	3.9	85%
33	Gaerwen Gwynedd	C⁺	1.5	100%	0.4	7%
34	Weobley Herefordshire	C⁺	1.6	100%	2.1	0%
35	Ashill Norfolk	C⁺	3.7	82%	1.7	0%
36	Bradfield Essex	C	1.4	27%	1.5	35%
37	Biddulph Moor Staffordshire	C	8.4	43%	2.4	0%
38	Stoke Hampshire	C	0.3	0%	2	32%
39	Silkstone Common South Yorkshire	C	1.5	63%	4.9	0%
40	Ponthir Gwent	C	2.9	78%	1.8	0%
41	Coedhirwaun West Glamorgan	C	2	100%	0.4	0%
42	Foxton Cambridgeshire	C	2.3	84%	1.7	0%
43	Hanwood Shropshire	C⁻	1.9	19%	2.6	3%
44	Weeley Essex	C⁻	7.5	0%	1.5	0%
45	Aldbrough East Riding of Yorkshire	C⁻	2.1	26%	0.8	0%
46	Trewoon Cornwall	D	0.9	71%	1.7	6%
47	Blyth Nottinghamshire	D	2.5	76%	0.3	0%
48	Burton on the Wolds Leicestershire	D	2.5	31%	2	0%
49	Yardley Gobion Northamptonshire	D	1.2	47%	3	0%
50	East Markham Nottinghamshire	D	2.2	46%	1.9	0%
51	Southery Norfolk	D	2	61%	1.7	0%
52	Dishforth North Yorkshire	D	2.3	68%	0.7	0%
53	Fleet Hargate Lincolnshire	D	1.7	76%	0.7	0%
54	Saham Toney Norfolk	D	3	18%	0.7	0%
55	Hadham Cross Hertfordshire	D	0	0%	3.3	0%
56	Elvington North Yorkshire	D	2.1	0%	1.5	0%
57	Felton Northumberland	D⁻	1.7	50%	1.4	0%
58	Sutton on Trent Nottinghamshire	D⁻	0.5	39%	1.9	0%
59	Walsham le Willows Suffolk	D⁻	0.4	0%	2	0%
60	Helpston Cambridgeshire	D⁻	0	0%	1.7	0%

The map

Parks, footpaths & countryside

Tap a number to zoom to a park. Tap a layer to hide it. The dashed line is Blyth’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 Blyth

The biggest is Church Green, 0.3 ha (1 acres). Directions go to the park’s nearest public entrance where Ordnance Survey maps one.

Blyth’s biggest

Church Green

Park or garden

0.3 ha (1 acres)

Centralin the middle of Blyth

1 listed

Directionsto the nearest entrance

Close to home

How close Blyth’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 (76%)Further (24%)

Blyth76%

Villages its size73%

Nottinghamshire towns81%

All UK towns83%

About 300 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 253 residents.

Footpaths & waymarked walks

Footpaths in and around Blyth

4 km of footpaths, bridleways and rights of way are mapped in Blyth and the kilometre around it, 0.3 km for every square kilometre (the typical UK town has 3.0).

No named walking route is mapped within 2 km of Blyth; its footpaths are on the map above.

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 Blyth: 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)	8.0	9.7	11.7	13.9	15.9	17.0	16.5	14.8	12.6	10.4	8.5	7.5
High (°C)	7	8	11	14	17	20	22	22	19	14	10	8
Rain (mm)	48	38	36	48	44	56	64	61	53	60	63	53

March is the driest month (36 mm) and July the warmest (highs of 22 °C). Winter days are short, about 8 hours of daylight in December, and 64 mm of rain falls in July, the wettest month. Frost comes on about 43 nights a year. The climate in Blyth →

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.

1Hills and peaks 1Picnic sites 5Playgroundsabout the same as villages its size

The nearest beaches

Blyth is inland. These are the nearest named beaches, measured from the edge of the village.

Sea Lions6.8 mi from Blyth’s edge

Directions

Beach at Doncaster Lakeside7.7 mi from Blyth’s edge

Directions

Doncaster Lakeside Beach7.7 mi from Blyth’s edge

Directions

The Beach14 mi from Blyth’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

Hills and peaks 1

Harworth Spoil Heap0.4 mi from town

Directions

Picnic sites 1

Plus 1 picnic site without a name on the map.

Playgrounds 5

Plus 5 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.

RanskillLangoldCarlton in LindrickHarworth and BircotesBawtryRanbyBlyth

ABCDOutdoors Grade

Town	Outdoors	Green space, ha per 1,000	Near a park	Protected within 5 km
Blyth	D	2.5	76%	0%
Ranskill 2.2 mi	D	0.4	100%	0%
Langold 2.5 mi	B⁺	13.0	100%	0%
Carlton in Lindrick 2.7 mi	B⁺	9.0	95%	0%
Harworth and Bircotes 3.2 mi	D	1.9	64%	0%
Bawtry 4.3 mi	D⁻	0.5	49%	0%
Ranby 4.5 mi	D⁻	0.0	0%	0%

Langold, 2.5 miles away, grades B+, the best next door: every resident lives within 400 m of a park. Langold and Carlton in Lindrick have at least twice Blyth’s green space per resident. None of the neighbours has a protected landscape within 5 km either.

Questions about the outdoors in Blyth

What is the biggest park in Blyth?

Church Green, 0.3 ha (1 acres). 1 named park, garden or playing field is in the village or within 400 m of it.

Is Blyth near a National Park?

No National Park or National Landscape is within 30 km (about 19 miles) of Blyth.

What is the nearest beach to Blyth?

Sea Lions, 6.8 mi from the edge of the village, then Beach at Doncaster Lakeside (7.7 mi). Blyth itself is inland.

How many people in Blyth live near a park?

76% 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 Blyth?

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

Is Blyth good for walking?

Paths are thinner than most towns: 0.3 km of footpath and right of way per square kilometre, more than 1% of UK towns. For park space per person it beats 59% (2.5 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 Blyth’s overall grade.

Sources

Where Blyth’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.