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Photo: Tim Heaton · CC BY-SA 2.0A park or playing field is within a 5-minute walk for 96% of residents. 114 km of footpaths run through the town and the kilometre around it, 11.5 for every square kilometre. Parks and playing fields in Mid Calder add up to 32.5 ha for every 1,000 residents; the typical town in England and Wales has 2.1. Mid Calder 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 Mid Calder’s locality.
The biggest is Almondell and Calder Wood Country Park, 153 ha (378 acres). Directions go to the park’s nearest public entrance where Ordnance Survey maps one.
The two biggest, Almondell and Calder Wood Country Park and Almond Park, are 91% of the named green space and carry 22 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 100 people live further than that. Playing fields count, so a park within reach isn’t always one with paths or trees; 52 playgrounds are mapped in and around the town, about one for every 62 residents.
Protected landscapes within 30 km, by direction and distance from the edge of the locality; circle size shows each one’s area. National Scenic Areas are Scotland’s finest landscapes, chosen by NatureScot.
114 km of footpaths, tracks and core paths are mapped in Mid Calder and the kilometre around it, 11.5 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.
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 | 17.5 | 17.0 | 15.0 | 12.6 | 10.3 | 8.1 | 7.0 |
| High (°C) | 6 | 7 | 9 | 12 | 15 | 18 | 19 | 19 | 17 | 13 | 9 | 7 |
| Rain (mm) | 96 | 62 | 60 | 46 | 51 | 63 | 68 | 71 | 63 | 89 | 87 | 84 |
April is the driest month (46 mm) and July the warmest (highs of 19 °C). Winter days are short, about 7 hours of daylight in December, and 96 mm of rain falls in January, the wettest month. Frost comes on about 64 nights a year. The climate in Mid Calder →
Mapped within 2 km of the town in OpenStreetMap. Named places are listed with directions; unnamed ones are only counted.
Mid Calder is inland. These are the nearest named beaches, measured from the edge of the town.
Check the water before you swim. SEPA tests designated bathing waters from May to September and publishes a rating for each beach.
Plus 6 picnic sites without a name on the map.
Plus 50 playgrounds without a name on the map.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mid Calder | – | 32.5 | 96% | 0% |
| East Calder 1.3 mi | – | 13.6 | 90% | 0% |
| Livingston 1.5 mi | – | 4.6 | 95% | 0% |
| Polbeth 3.1 mi | – | 4.7 | 86% | 0% |
| Broxburn 3.1 mi | – | 1.8 | 83% | 0% |
| West Calder 4.1 mi | – | 2.1 | 85% | 0% |
| Winchburgh 5.0 mi | – | 6.0 | 84% | 0% |
None of the neighbours has a protected landscape within 5 km either.
Almondell and Calder Wood Country Park, 153 ha (378 acres), with 18.4 km of path. Almond Park (18 ha) is second. 5 named parks, gardens and playing fields are in the town or within 400 m of it.
The nearest protected landscape is the Upper Tweeddale National Scenic Area, 16 mi south-east of the town’s edge. It covers 128 km² and was designated in 1980.
3 waymarked walking routes pass within 2 km of the town, including the Green Path, Red Walk and Yellow Walk. Almondell and Calder Wood Country Park alone has 18.4 km of path.
Drum Sands, 8.9 mi from the edge of the town, then Royston Beach (11 mi). Mid Calder itself is inland.
96% 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 Mid Calder’s overall grade.
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