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Photo: Richard West · CC BY-SA 2.071 km of footpaths run through the town and the kilometre around it, 3.4 for every square kilometre. The sea makes up 13% of the area within 5 km. Parks and playing fields in Linlithgow add up to 2.2 ha for every 1,000 residents; the typical town in England and Wales has 2.1. Linlithgow has no Outdoors Grade: Scottish towns aren’t graded on the outdoors yet.
Tap a number to zoom to a park. Tap a layer to hide it. The dashed line is Linlithgow’s locality.
The biggest is Linlithgow Peel, 6.3 ha (16 acres). Directions go to the park’s nearest public entrance where Ordnance Survey maps one.
The two biggest, Linlithgow Peel and Linlithgow Rugby Club, are 79% of the named green space and carry 2 km of path between them.
Each square is 1 in 100 residents: green lives within 400 m of a public park, garden or playing field (NRS Census 2022 output areas against OS Open Greenspace).
About 900 people live further than that. Playing fields count, so a park within reach isn’t always one with paths or trees; 22 playgrounds are mapped in and around the town, about one for every 569 residents.
71 km of footpaths, tracks and core paths are mapped in Linlithgow and the kilometre around it, 3.4 km for every square kilometre (the typical town in England and Wales has 3.0). Bars show each route’s kilometres within 2 km of the town.
The Forth & Clyde/Union Canal Towpath, a national route, passes Linlithgow. The regional route here is the River Avon Heritage Trail.
Waymarked walks are OpenStreetMap walking routes. Scotland has no rights-of-way register: everyone has a right of responsible access to most land, so tracks and councils’ core paths count. Paths are only as complete as the map in each area.
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) | 7.6 | 9.5 | 11.6 | 14.1 | 16.3 | 17.6 | 17.0 | 15.1 | 12.6 | 10.3 | 8.1 | 7.0 |
| High (°C) | 7 | 7 | 9 | 11 | 14 | 17 | 19 | 18 | 16 | 13 | 9 | 7 |
| Rain (mm) | 94 | 82 | 71 | 53 | 56 | 74 | 74 | 83 | 72 | 103 | 94 | 100 |
April 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 103 mm of rain falls in October, the wettest month. Frost comes on about 48 nights a year. The climate in Linlithgow →
13% of the area within 5 km of Linlithgow is sea. 4 beaches are mapped within 5 km, 0 with a name.
Sea: the area outside the ONS coastline (mean high water). Bathing water quality is published by SEPA; check it before swimming.
Mapped within 2 km of the town in OpenStreetMap. Named places are listed with directions; unnamed ones are only counted.
Plus 1 waterfall without a name on the map.
Plus 8 picnic sites without a name on the map.
Plus 22 playgrounds without a name on the map.
Plus 1 slipway without a name on the map.
The nearest towns of 1,000+ within 12 miles. Tap a town for its outdoors page.
Bo'ness, Polmont and Brightons have at least twice Linlithgow’s green space per resident. None of the neighbours has a protected landscape within 5 km either.
Linlithgow Peel, 6.3 ha (16 acres), with 1.7 km of path. Linlithgow Rugby Club (4.9 ha) is second. 4 named parks, gardens and playing fields are in the town or within 400 m of it.
No National Park or National Scenic Area is within 30 km (about 19 miles) of Linlithgow.
7 waymarked walking routes pass within 2 km of the town, including the Forth & Clyde/Union Canal Towpath, Linlithgow Marches Perambulation route and Linlithgow Loch Circular.
93% of residents live within 400 m, about a 5-minute walk, of a public park, garden or playing field (NRS Census 2022 output areas against OS Open Greenspace). The typical town in England and Wales is 83%.
June to September: the longest days, the warmest afternoons and the least rain of the year, from the Met Office 1991–2020 averages.
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 Scenic Area within 5 km, footpaths per square kilometre, and the sea within 5 km. It is a character grade and isn’t part of Linlithgow’s overall grade.
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