Photo: Peter Wood · CC BY-SA 2.0Parks and walks in Dyserth
The Bryniau Clwyd A Dyffryn Dyfrdwy/clwydian Range and Dee Valley National Landscape reaches the edge of Dyserth. Parks and playing fields in Dyserth add up to 0.5 ha for every 1,000 residents; the typical UK town has 2.1. Footpaths add up to 39 km in the village and the kilometre around it, 3.6 for every square kilometre. Dyserth grades B− for the outdoors. A character grade: it isn’t part of the overall grade.
What kind of outdoors village is Dyserth?
Read from the data: what stands out first, good and bad.
Dyserth’s strongest suit is the Bryniau Clwyd A Dyffryn Dyfrdwy/clwydian Range and Dee Valley National Landscape close by, followed by the Offa's Dyke Path. Where it falls short is park space per person.
Dyserth grades B− for the outdoors
Each chart is every UK town of 1,000 or more on one measure: the green bar is Dyserth, 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.
Dyserth is 21st of 60 UK villages its size for the outdoors
The 60 UK towns and cities of 2,000 to 2,100 people with an Outdoors Grade. Hover a dot for its figures; tap one for its page.
Against villages its size, Dyserth stands out most for path per km²: only 11 of the other 59 have more. It falls furthest behind on park space per resident, where 56 of the others do better.
Show as a table
| Town | Outdoors | Green space | Near a park | Path per km² | Protected | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Hay-on-Wye Powys | A+ | 9.3 | 100% | 3.8 | 21% |
| 2 | Vigo Village Kent | A+ | 33.3 | 100% | 2.9 | 44% |
| 3 | Wye Kent | A+ | 4.7 | 100% | 3.1 | 71% |
| 4 | Llanfoist Gwent | A+ | 10.7 | 86% | 4.2 | 57% |
| 5 | Seaview and Nettlestone Isle of Wight | A+ | 3.6 | 89% | 2.8 | 8% |
| 6 | Fowey Cornwall | A | 3.2 | 91% | 2.1 | 32% |
| 7 | Lower Kingswood Surrey | A | 4.7 | 75% | 6.6 | 22% |
| 8 | Chiseldon Wiltshire | A | 1.8 | 100% | 3.4 | 69% |
| 9 | Highfields Caldecote Cambridgeshire | A− | 4.1 | 100% | 3.7 | 0% |
| 10 | Bishops Lydeard Somerset | A− | 3.2 | 100% | 1.8 | 23% |
| 11 | Great Haywood Staffordshire | A− | 7.1 | 27% | 4.1 | 29% |
| 12 | Stowupland Suffolk | A− | 5.3 | 83% | 4.6 | 0% |
| 13 | Yealmpton Devon | B+ | 1.8 | 87% | 1.8 | 50% |
| 14 | Culverstone Green Kent | B+ | 5.3 | 61% | 2.7 | 42% |
| 15 | Brompton North Yorkshire | B+ | 4.7 | 100% | 2.4 | 0% |
| 16 | Bermuda Warwickshire | B | 4.7 | 100% | 2 | 0% |
| 17 | Sandford Dorset | B | 0.3 | 43% | 4.7 | 41% |
| 18 | Alveston Gloucestershire | B | 2.5 | 100% | 2.8 | 0% |
| 19 | Meppershall Bedfordshire | B | 2.3 | 83% | 3 | 2% |
| 20 | Needingworth Cambridgeshire | B− | 4.6 | 85% | 2.5 | 0% |
| 21 | Dyserth Clwyd | B− | 0.5 | 54% | 3.6 | 22% |
| 22 | Felbridge Surrey | B− | 2 | 80% | 2.4 | 25% |
| 23 | Trelewis Mid Glamorgan | B− | 2.6 | 100% | 1.9 | 0% |
| 24 | Uffculme Devon | B− | 2.8 | 86% | 1.3 | 14% |
| 25 | Edenfield Lancashire | B− | 2.7 | 69% | 4.4 | 0% |
| 26 | Rothbury Northumberland | B− | 1 | 76% | 3.8 | 21% |
| 27 | Exning Suffolk | B− | 3.6 | 82% | 2.5 | 0% |
| 28 | Ightham Kent | C+ | 2 | 30% | 3 | 56% |
| 29 | Kintbury Berkshire | C+ | 1.9 | 71% | 1.8 | 92% |
| 30 | Langtoft Lincolnshire | C+ | 2.8 | 100% | 1 | 0% |
| 31 | Read Lancashire | C+ | 1.6 | 71% | 2.5 | 21% |
| 32 | Wychbold Worcestershire | C | 2.1 | 100% | 1.4 | 0% |
| 33 | Clenchwarton Norfolk | C | 2.2 | 87% | 0.3 | 3% |
| 34 | Goodwick Dyfed | C | 0.2 | 47% | 1.9 | 25% |
| 35 | Marcham Oxfordshire | C | 1.2 | 100% | 2.2 | 0% |
| 36 | Bredon Worcestershire | C | 2.1 | 66% | 1.6 | 25% |
| 37 | Hightown Merseyside | C | 1.7 | 44% | 2.5 | 0% |
| 38 | Benllech Gwynedd | C | 0.1 | 17% | 1.8 | 27% |
| 39 | Barrowby Lincolnshire | C− | 3.5 | 66% | 1.8 | 0% |
| 40 | Keyingham East Riding of Yorkshire | C− | 1.7 | 100% | 0.5 | 0% |
| 41 | Micklefield West Yorkshire | C− | 2.1 | 48% | 3.2 | 0% |
| 42 | Cadnam and Bartley Hampshire | C− | 0.9 | 30% | 2.4 | 79% |
| 43 | Carlton North Yorkshire | C− | 0.7 | 100% | 1.8 | 0% |
| 44 | Sutton Bonington Nottinghamshire | C− | 2.7 | 28% | 2.6 | 0% |
| 45 | Crich Derbyshire | C− | 0.6 | 69% | 4.1 | 0% |
| 46 | Urpeth County Durham | C− | 1.3 | 0% | 4.8 | 0% |
| 47 | Winwick Cheshire | C− | 3.2 | 48% | 1.7 | 0% |
| 48 | Ilchester Somerset | C− | 3.5 | 40% | 1.7 | 0% |
| 49 | Hibaldstow Lincolnshire | C− | 1.7 | 89% | 0.7 | 0% |
| 50 | Stoke Golding Leicestershire | C− | 1.4 | 85% | 1.8 | 0% |
| 51 | Bishop Burton and Cherry Burton East Riding of Yorkshire | C− | 2.5 | 78% | 0.3 | 0% |
| 52 | Bardney Lincolnshire | D | 4.1 | 49% | 1 | 0% |
| 53 | Stretham Cambridgeshire | D | 1.4 | 60% | 2.8 | 0% |
| 54 | Merriott Somerset | D | 1.1 | 39% | 2.4 | 0% |
| 55 | Baschurch Shropshire | D | 2.3 | 72% | 1.1 | 0% |
| 56 | Curry Rivel Somerset | D | 1.9 | 33% | 2.1 | 0% |
| 57 | Haxey Lincolnshire | D | 1.6 | 46% | 2 | 0% |
| 58 | Great Eccleston Lancashire | D | 1.2 | 72% | 1.4 | 0% |
| 59 | Westwoodside Lincolnshire | D− | 1.2 | 33% | 1.6 | 0% |
| 60 | Wilberfoss East Riding of Yorkshire | D− | 0.7 | 69% | 0.3 | 0% |
Parks, footpaths & countryside
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5 in 10 Dyserth 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 900 people live further than that. Playing fields count, so a park within reach isn’t always one with paths or trees; 7 playgrounds are mapped in and around the village, about one for every 291 residents.
National Parks and National Landscapes around Dyserth
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.
Bryniau Clwyd A Dyffryn Dyfrdwy/clwydian Range and Dee Valley
Snowdonia
22% of the land within 5 km of Dyserth is National Park or National Landscape, more than 79% of UK towns. Snowdonia National Park covers 2,140 km² and has been a National Park since 1951.
Dyserth is on the Offa's Dyke Path
39 km of footpaths, bridleways and rights of way are mapped in Dyserth and the kilometre around it, 3.6 km for every square kilometre (the typical UK town has 3.0). Bars show each route’s kilometres within 2 km of the village.
The Offa's Dyke Path, a national route, passes Dyserth. 2 regional routes pass through, including the North Wales Path and Clwydian Way.
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 Dyserth: 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) | 8.0 | 9.7 | 11.7 | 13.9 | 15.8 | 17.0 | 16.5 | 14.8 | 12.6 | 10.4 | 8.5 | 7.5 |
| High (°C) | 8 | 9 | 10 | 13 | 16 | 19 | 20 | 20 | 18 | 14 | 11 | 9 |
| Rain (mm) | 66 | 52 | 46 | 47 | 47 | 55 | 62 | 64 | 64 | 82 | 76 | 86 |
March is the driest month (46 mm) and July the warmest (highs of 20 °C). Winter days are short, about 8 hours of daylight in December, and 86 mm of rain falls in December, the wettest month. Frost comes on about 26 nights a year. The climate in Dyserth →
Dyserth is near the sea
8% of the area within 5 km of Dyserth is sea. 12 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 the Environment Agency (England) and Natural Resources Wales; check it before swimming.
7 playgrounds
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.
Every named place, with directions
Viewpoints 1
Plus 1 viewpoint without a name on the map.
Hills and peaks 7
Waterfalls 3
Plus 3 waterfalls without a name on the map.
Nature reserves 1
Picnic sites 1
Plus 1 picnic site without a name on the map.
Playgrounds 7
Plus 6 playgrounds without a name on the map.
Campsites 1
Plus 1 campsite 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.
Meliden, 1.3 miles away, grades A+, the best next door: every resident lives within 400 m of a park. Meliden, Rhuddlan and Prestatyn have at least twice Dyserth’s green space per resident.
Questions about the outdoors in Dyserth
Is Dyserth near a National Park?
Yes. Snowdonia National Park begins 17 mi west of the village’s edge. It covers 2,140 km² and has been a National Park since 1951. The nearest protected landscape of any kind is the Bryniau Clwyd A Dyffryn Dyfrdwy/clwydian Range and Dee Valley National Landscape, at the edge of the village.
What are the best walks near Dyserth?
3 waymarked walking routes pass within 2 km of the village, including the North Wales Path, Clwydian Way and Offa's Dyke Path.
How many people in Dyserth live near a park?
54% 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 Dyserth?
May to September: the longest days, the warmest afternoons and the least rain of the year, from the Met Office 1991–2020 averages.
Is Dyserth good for walking?
For paths, yes: 3.6 km of footpath and right of way per square kilometre, more than 74% of UK towns. For park space per person it beats 4% (0.5 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 Dyserth’s overall grade.
Where Dyserth’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.
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