Bradley’s biggest
Parc Gwledig Dyfroedd Alun
Park or garden
154 ha (381 acres)2.5 km of path
35 minto walk all 2.5 km of path
216 pitchesfootball pitches would fit
Centralin the middle of Bradley
Directionsto the nearest entrance
Photo: Eirian Evans · CC BY-SA 2.0A−Outdoors Grade
Outdoors in Bradley · parks, paths & countryside
Bradley has more park space per resident than 9 in 10 UK towns
Parks and playing fields in Bradley add up to 29.9 ha for every 1,000 residents; the typical UK town has 2.1. 100% of residents live within a 5-minute walk of a park or playing field. The Bryniau Clwyd A Dyffryn Dyfrdwy/clwydian Range and Dee Valley National Landscape begins 3.3 mi from the village’s edge. Bradley grades A− for the outdoors. A character grade: it isn’t part of the overall grade.
Green space
29.9 ha
per 1,000 residents
Typical UK town 2.1
Near a park
100%
of residents within 400 m
Typical UK town 83%
Footpaths
15 km
2.6 km per km², town + 1 km
Typical UK town 3.0 per km²
Protected landscape
0%
of the land within 5 km
Bryniau Clwyd A Dyffryn Dyfrdwy/clwydian Range and Dee Valley starts 3.3 mi out, past the 5 km
Character
What kind of outdoors village is Bradley?
Read from the data: what stands out first, good and bad.
Room to roam29.9 ha of parks and playing fields per 1,000 residents, more than 99% of UK towns.A park on every doorstep100% of residents live within 400 m of a park or playing field.Countryside close byThe Bryniau Clwyd A Dyffryn Dyfrdwy/clwydian Range and Dee Valley National Landscape starts 3.3 mi south-west.
Bradley’s strongest suit is plenty of park space, followed by parks close to every home.
Outdoors grade
Bradley grades A− for the outdoors
Each chart is every UK town of 1,000 or more on one measure: the green bar is Bradley, the dashed line the typical town. The number is the share of towns it beats; the five are averaged and the average ranked again.
A−
Better than 80% of UK towns15th of 60 UK villages its size
Public green space29.9 haper 1,000 residents: parks, gardens, playing fields, play spaces
100out of
100
100
A park within a walk100%of residents within 400 m (a 5-minute walk)
89out of
100
100
National Park or National Landscape0%of the land within 5 km · Bryniau Clwyd A Dyffryn Dyfrdwy/clwydian Range and Dee Valley begins just past 5 km
31out of
100
100
Footpaths2.6 kmper km², the town and 1 km around it
48out 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
Bradley is 15th of 60 UK villages its size for the outdoors
The 60 UK towns and cities of 1,200 to 1,400 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
Bradley2.6
Villages its size2.3
Clwyd towns2.3
All UK towns3.0
Green space, ha per 1,000 residents
Bradley29.9
Villages its size2.5
Clwyd towns1.9
All UK towns2.1
Residents within 400 m of a park
Bradley100%
Villages its size76%
Clwyd towns83%
All UK towns83%
Against villages its size, Bradley stands out most for park space per resident: only 2 of the other 59 have more.
Show as a table
| Town | Outdoors | Green space | Near a park | Path per km² | Protected | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Hightown Hampshire | A+ | 15.7 | 100% | 3.5 | 58% |
| 2 | Worrall South Yorkshire | A+ | 3.7 | 100% | 5.4 | 21% |
| 3 | Holybourne Hampshire | A+ | 12.2 | 100% | 2.7 | 23% |
| 4 | Wolvercote Oxfordshire | A | 32 | 100% | 5.5 | 0% |
| 5 | Crowmarsh Gifford Oxfordshire | A | 8 | 77% | 3.6 | 60% |
| 6 | Pwll Dyfed | A | 21.6 | 64% | 2.6 | 19% |
| 7 | Hurley Berkshire | A | 3.1 | 100% | 2.6 | 36% |
| 8 | Amberley Gloucestershire | A | 13.7 | 0% | 6.3 | 87% |
| 9 | Charmouth Dorset | A | 2.5 | 82% | 2.3 | 63% |
| 10 | Bere Regis Dorset | A | 39.2 | 100% | 3.5 | 0% |
| 11 | Brinscall Lancashire | A | 3.5 | 100% | 4.6 | 0% |
| 12 | Burbage Wiltshire | A | 2.7 | 100% | 1.9 | 100% |
| 13 | Compton Hampshire | A− | 18.8 | 61% | 3.6 | 28% |
| 14 | Upper Caldecote Bedfordshire | A− | 3.7 | 100% | 3.4 | 0% |
| 15 | Bradley Clwyd | A− | 29.9 | 100% | 2.6 | 0% |
| 16 | Blean Kent | A− | 5.9 | 80% | 6.5 | 0% |
| 17 | Sherford Devon | A− | 3.2 | 100% | 1.5 | 28% |
| 18 | Auckley South Yorkshire | B+ | 4.9 | 100% | 2.6 | 0% |
| 19 | Riseley Bedfordshire | B+ | 2.4 | 100% | 3.9 | 0% |
| 20 | Layer-de-la-Haye Essex | B+ | 9.5 | 79% | 4.2 | 0% |
| 21 | Marshfield Gloucestershire | B+ | 4.9 | 42% | 2.7 | 99% |
| 22 | Welland Worcestershire | B+ | 1.7 | 100% | 1.9 | 38% |
| 23 | Abbots Bromley Staffordshire | B | 6.9 | 100% | 1.6 | 0% |
| 24 | Lidlington Bedfordshire | B | 1.9 | 100% | 3.3 | 0% |
| 25 | Lingdale North Yorkshire | B− | 1.4 | 100% | 1.7 | 31% |
| 26 | Blakeney Gloucestershire | B− | 2.1 | 68% | 3.1 | 0% |
| 27 | Fowlmere Cambridgeshire | B− | 4.5 | 100% | 1.1 | 0% |
| 28 | Burwash East Sussex | B− | 1.5 | 76% | 2.5 | 100% |
| 29 | Pensarn Clwyd | C+ | 13.1 | 45% | 1.1 | 0% |
| 30 | Morton Derbyshire | C+ | 18.3 | 66% | 2.5 | 0% |
| 31 | Belford Northumberland | C+ | 1.2 | 83% | 0.9 | 21% |
| 32 | Perranarworthal Cornwall | C+ | 2.5 | 76% | 1.6 | 19% |
| 33 | Littleton Panell Wiltshire | C+ | 5.3 | 39% | 3.3 | 0% |
| 34 | Claverdon Warwickshire | C+ | 1.2 | 100% | 2.5 | 0% |
| 35 | North Duffield North Yorkshire | C | 2.6 | 100% | 0.4 | 0% |
| 36 | Quainton Buckinghamshire | C | 3.8 | 69% | 2.1 | 0% |
| 37 | Haughley Suffolk | C | 3 | 71% | 2.3 | 0% |
| 38 | Kislingbury Northamptonshire | C | 8.4 | 26% | 2.3 | 0% |
| 39 | Moretonhampstead Devon | C | 0.6 | 81% | 1.2 | 100% |
| 40 | Ninfield East Sussex | C− | 1.8 | 50% | 1.4 | 50% |
| 41 | Atworth Wiltshire | C− | 1.5 | 62% | 2.2 | 13% |
| 42 | Langthorpe North Yorkshire | C− | 0.3 | 100% | 1.6 | 0% |
| 43 | Wingham Kent | C− | 2.2 | 53% | 1.3 | 0% |
| 44 | Llandysul Dyfed | C− | 5.2 | 47% | 1 | 0% |
| 45 | Northborough Cambridgeshire | C− | 1.7 | 68% | 2.5 | 0% |
| 46 | Wooden Dyfed | D | 0.1 | 0% | 0.4 | 18% |
| 47 | Bampton Devon | D | 1.5 | 22% | 1.6 | 5% |
| 48 | Heddon-on-the-Wall Northumberland | D | 0.6 | 70% | 2.7 | 0% |
| 49 | Colsterworth Lincolnshire | D | 1.3 | 67% | 2.2 | 0% |
| 50 | Staindrop County Durham | D | 1.4 | 82% | 1.1 | 0% |
| 51 | Hockwold cum Wilton Norfolk | D | 1.6 | 75% | 1.4 | 0% |
| 52 | Garsington Oxfordshire | D | 0.4 | 65% | 2.6 | 0% |
| 53 | Appleby Magna Leicestershire | D | 1.7 | 46% | 2 | 0% |
| 54 | Byfield Northamptonshire | D | 1.9 | 48% | 1.5 | 0% |
| 55 | Croeserw West Glamorgan | D | 1.3 | 33% | 2.5 | 0% |
| 56 | Hauxton Cambridgeshire | D− | 1.3 | 55% | 1.8 | 0% |
| 57 | Brandesburton East Riding of Yorkshire | D− | 2.2 | 0% | 0.5 | 0% |
| 58 | Deeping St Nicholas Lincolnshire | D− | 0.7 | 80% | 0 | 0% |
| 59 | Hunger Hill Greater Manchester | D− | 0 | 0% | 2.4 | 0% |
| 60 | Witheridge Devon | D− | 0.5 | 36% | 1 | 0% |
The map
Parks, footpaths & countryside
Tap a number to zoom to a park. Tap a layer to hide it. The dashed line is Bradley’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 Bradley
The biggest is Parc Gwledig Dyfroedd Alun, 154 ha (381 acres). Directions go to the park’s nearest public entrance where Ordnance Survey maps one.
Close to home
Everyone in Bradley lives 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 (100%)Further (0%)
Bradley100%
Villages its size76%
Clwyd towns83%
All UK towns83%
Playing fields count, so a park within reach isn’t always one with paths or trees; 16 playgrounds are mapped in and around the village, about one for every 82 residents.
National Parks & National Landscapes
The Bryniau Clwyd A Dyffryn Dyfrdwy/clwydian Range and Dee Valley National Landscape is 3.3 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
National Landscape
Bryniau Clwyd A Dyffryn Dyfrdwy/clwydian Range and Dee Valley
3.3 mi south-west389 km²since 2011
Protected landscape begins just outside the 5 km ring the Outdoors Grade measures, so Bradley scores 0% on it even though the Bryniau Clwyd A Dyffryn Dyfrdwy/clwydian Range and Dee Valley National Landscape is 3.3 mi away.
Footpaths & waymarked walks
1 waymarked walk passes through or near Bradley
15 km of footpaths, bridleways and rights of way are mapped in Bradley and the kilometre around it, 2.6 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
Llwybr Clawdd Wat6.0 km
The regional route here is the Llwybr Clawdd Wat.
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 Bradley: 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) | 8.1 | 9.8 | 11.7 | 13.9 | 15.8 | 16.9 | 16.5 | 14.7 | 12.6 | 10.5 | 8.6 | 7.6 |
| High (°C) | 8 | 8 | 10 | 13 | 16 | 19 | 20 | 20 | 18 | 14 | 10 | 8 |
| Rain (mm) | 68 | 65 | 60 | 60 | 60 | 65 | 60 | 66 | 67 | 87 | 90 | 91 |
April is the driest month (60 mm) and July the warmest (highs of 20 °C). Winter days are short, about 8 hours of daylight in December, and 91 mm of rain falls in December, the wettest month. Frost comes on about 38 nights a year. The climate in Bradley →
Things to do
16 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
Bradley is inland. These are the nearest named beaches, measured from the edge of the village.
Tranmere Beach21 mi from Bradley’s edge
DirectionsEast Hoyle Bank23 mi from Bradley’s edge
DirectionsHorton's Nose Nature Reserve26 mi from Bradley’s edge
DirectionsRhyl Sands26 mi from Bradley’s edge
DirectionsGood to know
Check the water before you swim. Natural Resources Wales tests designated bathing waters from May to September and publishes a rating for each beach.
Up high. Bradley Hill, at 70 m, is the highest named top within 2 km of Bradley.
Every named place, with directions
Hills and peaks 5
Bradley Hill70 m (230 ft) · 0.2 mi from town
DirectionsGresford Bank105 m (344 ft) · 0.5 mi from town
DirectionsGwersyllt Hill150 m (492 ft) · 0.8 mi from town
DirectionsWindy Hill170 m (558 ft) · 1.1 mi from town
DirectionsCefn210 m (689 ft) · 1.2 mi from town
DirectionsNature reserves 1
Plus 1 nature reserve without a name on the map.
Picnic sites 2
Plus 2 picnic sites without a name on the map.
Playgrounds 16
Plus 16 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.
GwersylltLlayBryntegGresfordTanyfronWrexhamBradley
ABCDOutdoors Grade
Brynteg, 1.6 miles away, grades A, the best next door: every resident lives within 400 m of a park.
Questions about the outdoors in Bradley
What is the biggest park in Bradley?
Parc Gwledig Dyfroedd Alun, 154 ha (381 acres), with 2.5 km of path. 1 named park, garden or playing field is in the village or within 400 m of it.
Is Bradley near a National Park?
The nearest protected landscape is the Bryniau Clwyd A Dyffryn Dyfrdwy/clwydian Range and Dee Valley National Landscape, 3.3 mi south-west of the village’s edge. It covers 389 km² and was designated in 2011.
What are the best walks near Bradley?
1 waymarked walking route passes within 2 km of the village, including the Llwybr Clawdd Wat. Parc Gwledig Dyfroedd Alun alone has 2.5 km of path.
What is the nearest beach to Bradley?
Tranmere Beach, 21 mi from the edge of the village, then East Hoyle Bank (23 mi). Bradley itself is inland.
How many people in Bradley live near a park?
100% 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 Bradley?
May to September: the longest days, the warmest afternoons and the least rain of the year, from the Met Office 1991–2020 averages.
Is Bradley good for walking?
About average for paths: 2.6 km of footpath and right of way per square kilometre, more than 48% of UK towns. For park space per person it beats 100% (29.9 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 Bradley’s overall grade.
Sources
Where Bradley’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.