Photo: Chris Morgan · CC BY-SA 2.0Parks and walks in Moorends
7 km of footpaths run through the town and the kilometre around it, 0.8 for every square kilometre. A park or playing field is within a 5-minute walk for 39% of residents. Parks and playing fields in Moorends add up to 2.2 ha for every 1,000 residents; the typical UK town has 2.1. Moorends grades D for the outdoors: #60 of 63 in South Yorkshire. A character grade: it isn’t part of the overall grade.
Moorends grades D for the outdoors
Each chart is every UK town of 1,000 or more on one measure: the green bar is Moorends, the dashed line the typical town. The number is the share of towns it beats; the five are averaged and the average ranked again.
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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.
How Moorends compares with UK towns of 5,000 to 5,400
The 60 UK towns and cities of 5,000 to 5,400 people with an Outdoors Grade. Hover a dot for its figures; tap one for its page.
Moorends 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 | Cookham Berkshire | A+ | 8.3 | 96% | 4.3 | 19% |
| 2 | Weston Dorset | A+ | 2.5 | 95% | 7.6 | 0% |
| 3 | Whitehill Hampshire | A+ | 10.2 | 74% | 5.1 | 58% |
| 4 | Hungerford Berkshire | A+ | 9.1 | 85% | 3.2 | 100% |
| 5 | Budleigh Salterton Devon | A− | 2.7 | 70% | 2.3 | 38% |
| 6 | Needham Market Suffolk | A− | 7.2 | 88% | 4 | 0% |
| 7 | Edwinstowe Nottinghamshire | A− | 5.6 | 90% | 4 | 0% |
| 8 | Overseal and Castle Gresley Derbyshire | A− | 2.5 | 100% | 4.4 | 0% |
| 9 | Hoylake Merseyside | A− | 3.5 | 83% | 2.6 | 0% |
| 10 | Eynsham Oxfordshire | A− | 3 | 94% | 2.8 | 1% |
| 11 | Northam Devon | A− | 6.8 | 43% | 2 | 16% |
| 12 | Huthwaite Nottinghamshire | B+ | 8.1 | 75% | 4.9 | 0% |
| 13 | Sonning Common Oxfordshire | B+ | 2.6 | 60% | 3.7 | 74% |
| 14 | Llantwit Major South Glamorgan | B+ | 3.2 | 83% | 2.4 | 0% |
| 15 | Seaton Cumbria | B+ | 2.5 | 87% | 2.6 | 0% |
| 16 | Drighlington West Yorkshire | B+ | 4.1 | 92% | 3.3 | 0% |
| 17 | Whitchurch Hampshire | B+ | 2.3 | 75% | 3.3 | 43% |
| 18 | New Alresford Hampshire | B+ | 2 | 94% | 2.3 | 38% |
| 19 | Waverley and Catcliffe South Yorkshire | B+ | 8.8 | 65% | 5 | 0% |
| 20 | Shrivenham and Watchfield Oxfordshire | B+ | 3.5 | 96% | 1.7 | 6% |
| 21 | Long Ashton Somerset | B+ | 10.2 | 66% | 4.7 | 0% |
| 22 | Dartmouth Devon | B+ | 2.1 | 71% | 1.8 | 45% |
| 23 | Battle East Sussex | B+ | 1.7 | 64% | 4.3 | 84% |
| 24 | Fremington Devon | B+ | 1.4 | 88% | 2.1 | 10% |
| 25 | Easingwold North Yorkshire | B | 4.3 | 86% | 1.5 | 14% |
| 26 | Grimethorpe South Yorkshire | B | 2.5 | 100% | 2.8 | 0% |
| 27 | Benson Oxfordshire | B | 6 | 44% | 2.3 | 50% |
| 28 | Longstanton and Northstowe Cambridgeshire | B | 4.3 | 86% | 2.8 | 0% |
| 29 | Rowlands Gill Tyne and Wear | B | 4.9 | 84% | 2.8 | 0% |
| 30 | Redbourn Hertfordshire | B | 2.4 | 70% | 3.2 | 11% |
| 31 | Iver Heath Buckinghamshire | B | 28.9 | 53% | 3.8 | 0% |
| 32 | Virginia Water Surrey | B | 14.5 | 72% | 3 | 0% |
| 33 | Hebden Bridge West Yorkshire | B− | 1.6 | 84% | 7.8 | 0% |
| 34 | Abercarn Gwent | B− | 3 | 100% | 1.8 | 0% |
| 35 | Whitburn Tyne and Wear | B− | 2.5 | 46% | 2.5 | 0% |
| 36 | Wool Dorset | C+ | 2.3 | 51% | 2.5 | 33% |
| 37 | Brynmawr Gwent | C+ | 1.2 | 68% | 2.9 | 45% |
| 38 | Sacriston County Durham | C+ | 2.1 | 72% | 4 | 0% |
| 39 | Helsby Cheshire | C+ | 1.4 | 66% | 3.2 | 0% |
| 40 | Oakley Hampshire | C | 1.7 | 56% | 2.6 | 21% |
| 41 | Treharris Mid Glamorgan | C | 2.6 | 72% | 2.6 | 0% |
| 42 | Sutton on Sea and Trusthorpe Lincolnshire | C | 1.8 | 67% | 1.5 | 0% |
| 43 | Havercroft and Ryhill West Yorkshire | C | 1.6 | 81% | 2.8 | 0% |
| 44 | Bovingdon Hertfordshire | C | 1.4 | 55% | 2.3 | 26% |
| 45 | Shevington Greater Manchester | C | 1.8 | 73% | 2.9 | 0% |
| 46 | Odiham Hampshire | C | 1.9 | 72% | 2.8 | 0% |
| 47 | Looe Cornwall | C− | 0.1 | 47% | 1.7 | 6% |
| 48 | Long Stratton Norfolk | C− | 1 | 89% | 2.5 | 0% |
| 49 | Jaywick Essex | C− | 1.1 | 75% | 1.4 | 0% |
| 50 | Bayston Hill Shropshire | C− | 1.8 | 70% | 2.7 | 0% |
| 51 | Llangefni Gwynedd | C− | 1.8 | 95% | 0.8 | 0% |
| 52 | Littlestone-on-Sea Kent | C− | 1.4 | 37% | 1.8 | 0% |
| 53 | Potton Bedfordshire | D | 1.3 | 77% | 2.1 | 0% |
| 54 | Haslington Cheshire | D | 1.8 | 41% | 2.6 | 0% |
| 55 | Blackrod Greater Manchester | D | 1 | 83% | 1.9 | 0% |
| 56 | Moorends South Yorkshire | D | 2.2 | 39% | 0.8 | 0% |
| 57 | Winslow Buckinghamshire | D− | 1.4 | 59% | 1.5 | 0% |
| 58 | Harleston Norfolk | D− | 0.2 | 42% | 2.2 | 0% |
| 59 | Appley Bridge Greater Manchester | D− | 0.5 | 44% | 1.8 | 0% |
| 60 | Somerton Somerset | D− | 0.6 | 48% | 1 | 0% |
Parks, footpaths & countryside
Tap a number to zoom to a park. Tap a layer to hide it. The dashed line is Moorends’ built-up area.
4 in 10 Moorends 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).
About 3,200 people live further than that. Playing fields count, so a park within reach isn’t always one with paths or trees; 4 playgrounds are mapped in and around the town, about one for every 1,299 residents.
Footpaths in and around Moorends
7 km of footpaths, bridleways and rights of way are mapped in Moorends and the kilometre around it, 0.8 km for every square kilometre (the typical UK town has 3.0).
No named walking route is mapped within 2 km of Moorends; 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.
The best walking months in Moorends: May to July and 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) | 8.0 | 9.7 | 11.7 | 13.9 | 15.9 | 17.0 | 16.6 | 14.8 | 12.6 | 10.4 | 8.5 | 7.5 |
| High (°C) | 7 | 8 | 11 | 14 | 17 | 20 | 22 | 22 | 19 | 15 | 10 | 8 |
| Rain (mm) | 43 | 39 | 38 | 44 | 43 | 60 | 62 | 70 | 52 | 56 | 57 | 49 |
March is the driest month (38 mm) and July the warmest (highs of 22 °C). Winter days are short, about 7 hours of daylight in December, and 70 mm of rain falls in August, the wettest month. Frost comes on about 41 nights a year. The climate in Moorends →
4 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.
The nearest beaches
Moorends is inland. These are the nearest named beaches, measured from the edge of the town.
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 4
Plus 4 playgrounds without a name on the map.
The outdoors in nearby towns
The nearest towns of 1,000+ within 12 miles. Tap a town for its outdoors page.
| Town | Outdoors | Green space, ha per 1,000 | Near a park | Protected within 5 km |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Moorends | D | 2.2 | 39% | 0% |
| Thorne 1.3 mi | D− | 1.6 | 65% | 0% |
| Stainforth 4.0 mi | C− | 2.2 | 80% | 0% |
| Dunscroft and Hatfield 4.7 mi | C+ | 4.0 | 91% | 0% |
| Rawcliffe 4.7 mi | C− | 1.0 | 100% | 0% |
| Crowle 5.1 mi | D | 1.3 | 91% | 0% |
| Snaith 5.1 mi | D | 0.2 | 89% | 0% |
Dunscroft and Hatfield, 4.7 miles away, grades C+, the best next door: 91% of its residents live within 400 m of a park. None of the neighbours has a protected landscape within 5 km either.
Questions about the outdoors in Moorends
Is Moorends near a National Park?
No National Park or National Landscape is within 30 km (about 19 miles) of Moorends.
What is the nearest beach to Moorends?
Sea Lions, 9.3 mi from the edge of the town, then Beach at Doncaster Lakeside (10.0 mi). Moorends itself is inland.
How many people in Moorends live near a park?
39% 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 Moorends?
May to July and September: the longest days, the warmest afternoons and the least rain of the year, from the Met Office 1991–2020 averages.
Is Moorends good for walking?
Paths are thinner than most towns: 0.8 km of footpath and right of way per square kilometre, more than 4% 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 Moorends’ overall grade.
Where Moorends’ 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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