Thorp Arch’s biggest
The Green
Park or garden
0.1 ha (0 acres)
0.8 mi south-westfrom the centre
Directionsto the nearest entrance
Photo: Chris Heaton · CC BY-SA 2.0DOutdoors Grade
Outdoors in Thorp Arch · parks, paths & countryside
Parks and walks in Thorp Arch
29% of residents live within a 5-minute walk of a park or playing field. Footpaths add up to 18 km in the village and the kilometre around it, 1.1 for every square kilometre. Parks and playing fields in Thorp Arch add up to 2.6 ha for every 1,000 residents; the typical UK town has 2.1. Thorp Arch grades D for the outdoors. A character grade: it isn’t part of the overall grade.
Green space
2.6 ha
per 1,000 residents
Typical UK town 2.1
Near a park
29%
of residents within 400 m
Typical UK town 83%
Footpaths
18 km
1.1 km per km², town + 1 km
Typical UK town 3.0 per km²
Protected landscape
0%
of the land within 5 km
Nearest: Nidderdale National Landscape
Outdoors grade
Thorp Arch grades D for the outdoors
Each chart is every UK town of 1,000 or more on one measure: the green bar is Thorp Arch, the dashed line the typical town. The number is the share of towns it beats; the five are averaged and the average ranked again.
D
Better than 8% of UK towns54th of 60 UK villages its size
Public green space2.6 haper 1,000 residents: parks, gardens, playing fields, play spaces
63out of
100
100
A park within a walk29%of residents within 400 m (a 5-minute walk)
6out of
100
100
National Park or National Landscape0%of the land within 5 km · None within 5 km
31out of
100
100
Footpaths1.1 kmper km², the town and 1 km around it
9out 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
Thorp Arch is 54th of 60 UK villages its size for the outdoors
The 60 UK towns and cities of 1,700 to 1,900 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
Thorp Arch1.1
Villages its size2.2
West Yorkshire towns3.5
All UK towns3.0
Green space, ha per 1,000 residents
Thorp Arch2.6
Villages its size2.2
West Yorkshire towns2.1
All UK towns2.1
Residents within 400 m of a park
Thorp Arch29%
Villages its size80%
West Yorkshire towns87%
All UK towns83%
Against villages its size, Thorp Arch stands out most for park space per resident: only 24 of the other 59 have more. It falls furthest behind on homes near a park, where 55 of the others do better.
Show as a table
| Town | Outdoors | Green space | Near a park | Path per km² | Protected | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Market Lavington Wiltshire | A+ | 9.9 | 100% | 4.1 | 1% |
| 2 | Llanbadarn Fawr Dyfed | A+ | 14.7 | 82% | 5.3 | 0% |
| 3 | Rogiet Gwent | A+ | 3.9 | 100% | 2.2 | 0% |
| 4 | Woodbury Devon | A | 3.3 | 100% | 0.9 | 26% |
| 5 | Malvern Wells Worcestershire | A | 10.8 | 37% | 5.3 | 57% |
| 6 | New Denham Buckinghamshire | A | 8.9 | 100% | 3.8 | 0% |
| 7 | Scalby North Yorkshire | A | 5.9 | 70% | 2 | 43% |
| 8 | New Hartley Northumberland | A− | 1.9 | 100% | 3.4 | 0% |
| 9 | Wembdon Somerset | A− | 7.4 | 88% | 4.1 | 0% |
| 10 | Heslington North Yorkshire | A− | 6.3 | 80% | 9.2 | 0% |
| 11 | Tow Law County Durham | A− | 4.1 | 100% | 1.3 | 21% |
| 12 | Ingleton North Yorkshire | B+ | 1.5 | 100% | 2.5 | 54% |
| 13 | Horam East Sussex | B+ | 3.9 | 91% | 1.4 | 46% |
| 14 | Compton Berkshire | B+ | 2.4 | 100% | 1.1 | 100% |
| 15 | Pendlebury Greater Manchester | B+ | 18.5 | 74% | 4 | 0% |
| 16 | Trimdon Colliery County Durham | B+ | 4.7 | 100% | 2.3 | 0% |
| 17 | Eight Ash Green Essex | B+ | 8.2 | 80% | 3.4 | 0% |
| 18 | Denby Bottles Derbyshire | B | 1.4 | 100% | 4.8 | 0% |
| 19 | Rackheath Norfolk | B | 2.6 | 100% | 1 | 14% |
| 20 | South Hiendley West Yorkshire | B | 13.4 | 87% | 2.4 | 0% |
| 21 | Hemingfield South Yorkshire | B | 3.3 | 80% | 3.7 | 0% |
| 22 | North Benfleet Essex | B | 11 | 56% | 4 | 0% |
| 23 | Hughenden Valley Buckinghamshire | B− | 2.1 | 32% | 3.4 | 76% |
| 24 | East Bridgford Nottinghamshire | B− | 1.4 | 100% | 3.7 | 0% |
| 25 | Llandeilo Dyfed | B− | 1.8 | 88% | 2.3 | 22% |
| 26 | Delabole Cornwall | B− | 1.1 | 76% | 2 | 35% |
| 27 | Holbrook Derbyshire | B− | 4.2 | 55% | 4.5 | 0% |
| 28 | Warton (Lancaster) Lancashire | B− | 0.3 | 32% | 3.5 | 43% |
| 29 | Blaengarw Mid Glamorgan | B− | 5 | 100% | 1.1 | 0% |
| 30 | Winkfield Row Berkshire | B− | 11 | 80% | 2.2 | 0% |
| 31 | Much Wenlock Shropshire | B− | 2.4 | 13% | 3.6 | 20% |
| 32 | Copford Essex | B− | 4 | 70% | 3.1 | 0% |
| 33 | North Tawton Devon | B− | 2.9 | 100% | 1.5 | 0% |
| 34 | Great Chesterford Essex | C+ | 2.5 | 100% | 1.5 | 0% |
| 35 | Cheddington Buckinghamshire | C+ | 2.2 | 35% | 3.1 | 16% |
| 36 | Kedington Suffolk | C+ | 3.3 | 83% | 2.1 | 0% |
| 37 | Bury Cambridgeshire | C+ | 1.1 | 100% | 2.7 | 0% |
| 38 | Duckmanton Derbyshire | C | 1.2 | 100% | 2.4 | 0% |
| 39 | Great Broughton and Little Broughton Cumbria | C | 1.2 | 85% | 2.3 | 1% |
| 40 | Doveridge Derbyshire | C | 1.7 | 100% | 1.6 | 0% |
| 41 | Bodelwyddan Clwyd | C | 1.9 | 100% | 0.8 | 0% |
| 42 | Shireoaks Nottinghamshire | C | 1.5 | 78% | 3.2 | 0% |
| 43 | Penygroes Gwynedd | C− | 0.7 | 66% | 0.6 | 26% |
| 44 | Drakes Broughton Worcestershire | C− | 1 | 86% | 2.8 | 0% |
| 45 | Deddington Oxfordshire | C− | 3.6 | 53% | 1.8 | 0% |
| 46 | Shilbottle Northumberland | C− | 1.8 | 49% | 1.9 | 7% |
| 47 | Middle Barton Oxfordshire | C− | 1.9 | 81% | 1.8 | 0% |
| 48 | Elmstead Market Essex | C− | 1.1 | 100% | 1.2 | 0% |
| 49 | Pattingham Staffordshire | C− | 2 | 80% | 1.7 | 0% |
| 50 | Hatfield Heath Essex | D | 1.3 | 76% | 2.4 | 0% |
| 51 | Frizington Cumbria | D | 1.4 | 52% | 0.9 | 15% |
| 52 | Aiskew North Yorkshire | D | 1.5 | 71% | 1.8 | 0% |
| 53 | Richings Park Buckinghamshire | D | 1 | 72% | 2.2 | 0% |
| 54 | Thorp Arch West Yorkshire | D | 2.6 | 29% | 1.1 | 0% |
| 55 | Johnston Dyfed | D | 1.4 | 55% | 0.6 | 5% |
| 56 | St Clears Dyfed | D− | 2 | 31% | 0.4 | 0% |
| 57 | Bramham West Yorkshire | D− | 1.4 | 47% | 1.4 | 0% |
| 58 | Pentre Maelor Clwyd | D− | 1.4 | 8% | 0.8 | 0% |
| 59 | Tockwith North Yorkshire | D− | 0.4 | 14% | 1.1 | 0% |
| 60 | Wainfleet All Saints Lincolnshire | D− | 0 | 0% | 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 Thorp Arch’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 Thorp Arch
The biggest is The Green, 0.1 ha (0 acres). Directions go to the park’s nearest public entrance where Ordnance Survey maps one.
Close to home
3 in 10 Thorp Arch 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 (29%)Further (71%)
Thorp Arch29%
Villages its size80%
West Yorkshire towns87%
All UK towns83%
About 1,300 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 149 residents.
National Parks & National Landscapes
The Nidderdale National Landscape is 12 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
North York Moors National Park covers 1,441 km² and has been a National Park since 1952.
Footpaths & waymarked walks
1 waymarked walk passes through or near Thorp Arch
18 km of footpaths, bridleways and rights of way are mapped in Thorp Arch and the kilometre around it, 1.1 km for every square kilometre (the typical UK town has 3.0). Bars show each route’s kilometres within 2 km of the village.
Regional
Ebor Way9.4 km
The regional route here is the Ebor Way.
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 Thorp Arch: 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) | 7.9 | 9.7 | 11.7 | 13.9 | 15.9 | 17.1 | 16.6 | 14.8 | 12.6 | 10.4 | 8.4 | 7.4 |
| High (°C) | 7 | 8 | 10 | 13 | 16 | 19 | 22 | 21 | 18 | 14 | 10 | 8 |
| Rain (mm) | 49 | 43 | 41 | 45 | 45 | 59 | 53 | 63 | 54 | 59 | 59 | 56 |
March is the driest month (41 mm) and July the warmest (highs of 22 °C). Winter days are short, about 7 hours of daylight in December, and 63 mm of rain falls in August, the wettest month. Frost comes on about 42 nights a year. The climate in Thorp Arch →
Things to do
12 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.
The nearest beaches
Thorp Arch is inland. These are the nearest named beaches, measured from the edge of the village.
York Beach9.4 mi from Thorp Arch’s edge
DirectionsPebble Beach18 mi from Thorp Arch’s edge
DirectionsGood 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
Playgrounds 12
Crazy Tykesin town
DirectionsJoon0.1 mi from town
DirectionsPlus 10 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.
Boston SpaWetherbyBramhamTadcasterCollinghamTockwithThorp Arch
ABCDOutdoors Grade
| Town | Outdoors | Green space, ha per 1,000 | Near a park | Protected within 5 km |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Thorp Arch | D | 2.6 | 29% | 0% |
| Boston Spa 1.5 mi | C− | 1.2 | 86% | 0% |
| Wetherby 2.7 mi | D | 0.5 | 14% | 0% |
| Bramham 2.7 mi | D− | 1.4 | 47% | 0% |
| Tadcaster 3.4 mi | D− | 0.6 | 58% | 0% |
| Collingham 3.6 mi | C− | 1.4 | 84% | 0% |
| Tockwith 3.7 mi | D− | 0.4 | 14% | 0% |
Collingham, 3.6 miles away, grades C−, the best next door: 84% 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 Thorp Arch
What is the biggest park in Thorp Arch?
The Green, 0.1 ha (0 acres). 1 named park, garden or playing field is in the village or within 400 m of it.
Is Thorp Arch near a National Park?
Yes. North York Moors National Park begins 19 mi north of the village’s edge. It covers 1,441 km² and has been a National Park since 1952. The nearest protected landscape of any kind is the Nidderdale National Landscape, 12 mi away.
What are the best walks near Thorp Arch?
1 waymarked walking route passes within 2 km of the village, including the Ebor Way.
What is the nearest beach to Thorp Arch?
York Beach, 9.4 mi from the edge of the village, then Pebble Beach (18 mi). Thorp Arch itself is inland.
How many people in Thorp Arch live near a park?
29% 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 Thorp Arch?
May to September: the longest days, the warmest afternoons and the least rain of the year, from the Met Office 1991–2020 averages.
Is Thorp Arch good for walking?
Paths are thinner than most towns: 1.1 km of footpath and right of way per square kilometre, more than 9% of UK towns. For park space per person it beats 63% (2.6 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 Thorp Arch’s overall grade.
Sources
Where Thorp Arch’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.