Gwersyllt’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
0.5 mi north-eastfrom the centre
Directionsto the nearest entrance
Photo: Eirian Evans · CC BY-SA 2.0AOutdoors Grade
Outdoors in Gwersyllt · parks, paths & countryside
Gwersyllt has more park space per resident than 9 in 10 UK towns
Parks and playing fields in Gwersyllt add up to 14.6 ha for every 1,000 residents; the typical UK town has 2.1. The Bryniau Clwyd A Dyffryn Dyfrdwy/clwydian Range and Dee Valley National Landscape begins 2.4 mi from the town’s edge. A park or playing field is within a 5-minute walk for 96% of residents. Gwersyllt grades A for the outdoors: #12 of 39 in Clwyd. A character grade: it isn’t part of the overall grade.
Green space
14.6 ha
per 1,000 residents
Typical UK town 2.1
Near a park
96%
of residents within 400 m
Typical UK town 83%
Footpaths
32 km
2.5 km per km², town + 1 km
Typical UK town 3.0 per km²
Protected landscape
2%
of the land within 5 km
Nearest: Bryniau Clwyd A Dyffryn Dyfrdwy/clwydian Range and Dee Valley National Landscape
Character
What kind of outdoors town is Gwersyllt?
Read from the data: what stands out first, good and bad.
Room to roam14.6 ha of parks and playing fields per 1,000 residents, more than 97% of UK towns.A park on every doorstep96% 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 2.4 mi south-west.
Gwersyllt’s strongest suit is plenty of park space, followed by parks close to every home.
Outdoors grade
Gwersyllt grades A for the outdoors
Each chart is every UK town of 1,000 or more on one measure: the green bar is Gwersyllt, 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 87% of UK towns#12 of 39 in Clwyd · 10th of 60 UK towns its size
Public green space14.6 haper 1,000 residents: parks, gardens, playing fields, play spaces
98out of
100
100
A park within a walk96%of residents within 400 m (a 5-minute walk)
76out of
100
100
National Park or National Landscape2%of the land within 5 km
65out of
100
100
Footpaths2.5 kmper km², the town and 1 km around it
46out 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.
Towns its size
Gwersyllt is 10th of 60 UK towns its size for the outdoors
The 60 UK towns and cities of 6,800 to 7,400 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
Gwersyllt2.5
Towns its size3.0
Clwyd towns2.3
All UK towns3.0
Green space, ha per 1,000 residents
Gwersyllt14.6
Towns its size2.1
Clwyd towns1.9
All UK towns2.1
Residents within 400 m of a park
Gwersyllt96%
Towns its size78%
Clwyd towns83%
All UK towns83%
Against towns its size, Gwersyllt stands out most for park space per resident: only 1 of the other 59 has more. It falls furthest behind on path per km², where 40 of the others do better.
Show as a table
| Town | Outdoors | Green space | Near a park | Path per km² | Protected | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Holbury Hampshire | A+ | 5.5 | 89% | 3.1 | 42% |
| 2 | Sheringham Norfolk | A+ | 11.6 | 74% | 3.4 | 32% |
| 3 | Stocksbridge South Yorkshire | A | 2.2 | 100% | 4.4 | 30% |
| 4 | Acrefair and Cefn-mawr Clwyd | A | 6.5 | 96% | 2.9 | 36% |
| 5 | Bude Cornwall | A | 3.1 | 78% | 3.3 | 9% |
| 6 | Anstey Leicestershire | A | 12.9 | 100% | 4.3 | 0% |
| 7 | Liphook Hampshire | A | 3.1 | 86% | 3.8 | 64% |
| 8 | Bishop's Waltham Hampshire | A | 2.6 | 93% | 3.4 | 55% |
| 9 | Bourne End Buckinghamshire | A | 2.9 | 87% | 4 | 19% |
| 10 | Gwersyllt Clwyd | A | 14.6 | 96% | 2.5 | 2% |
| 11 | Ashley Heath Dorset | A | 24.2 | 68% | 4 | 15% |
| 12 | Darfield South Yorkshire | A | 4 | 100% | 3.9 | 0% |
| 13 | Easington County Durham | A− | 5 | 94% | 2.2 | 0% |
| 14 | Walton-on-the-Naze Essex | A− | 3.2 | 96% | 2.3 | 0% |
| 15 | Shiremoor Tyne and Wear | A− | 2.5 | 76% | 5.3 | 0% |
| 16 | Otford and Kemsing Kent | A− | 3.3 | 53% | 3.6 | 73% |
| 17 | Torpoint Cornwall | A− | 2.2 | 84% | 1.6 | 26% |
| 18 | Blackwater Hampshire | B+ | 10.6 | 74% | 4.7 | 0% |
| 19 | Chinnor Oxfordshire | B+ | 1.5 | 88% | 3.7 | 37% |
| 20 | Kiveton Park South Yorkshire | B+ | 2.8 | 100% | 3.2 | 0% |
| 21 | Fence Houses Tyne and Wear | B+ | 3.8 | 81% | 4.7 | 0% |
| 22 | Skelton (Redcar and Cleveland) North Yorkshire | B+ | 1.7 | 82% | 2.2 | 9% |
| 23 | Malmesbury Wiltshire | B | 2 | 86% | 2.5 | 26% |
| 24 | Wroughton Wiltshire | B | 1.1 | 78% | 3.9 | 52% |
| 25 | Chapel-en-le-Frith Derbyshire | B− | 1 | 75% | 3.8 | 58% |
| 26 | Woodville Derbyshire | B− | 3.7 | 78% | 3.4 | 0% |
| 27 | Balsall Common West Midlands | B− | 3.7 | 81% | 2.6 | 0% |
| 28 | Cranfield Bedfordshire | B− | 2.3 | 72% | 4.4 | 0% |
| 29 | Borrowash Derbyshire | B− | 2.8 | 85% | 2.7 | 0% |
| 30 | Bollington Cheshire | B− | 1.3 | 56% | 4.1 | 31% |
| 31 | Blackheath West Midlands | C+ | 2.5 | 57% | 4.9 | 0% |
| 32 | Allerton Bywater West Yorkshire | C+ | 2.1 | 78% | 3.9 | 0% |
| 33 | North Baddesley Hampshire | C+ | 1.7 | 91% | 3.3 | 0% |
| 34 | Chipping Norton Oxfordshire | C+ | 1.5 | 67% | 2.4 | 73% |
| 35 | Wrecclesham Surrey | C+ | 1.2 | 50% | 3.8 | 37% |
| 36 | Poringland Norfolk | C+ | 1.3 | 91% | 2.1 | 5% |
| 37 | Pelton and Ouston County Durham | C+ | 2 | 64% | 4.7 | 0% |
| 38 | Murton County Durham | C+ | 2.1 | 54% | 2.6 | 0% |
| 39 | West Mersea Essex | C+ | 1.9 | 69% | 2 | 0% |
| 40 | Thrapston Northamptonshire | C | 1.2 | 100% | 2.4 | 0% |
| 41 | Caerleon Gwent | C | 1.9 | 64% | 4.2 | 0% |
| 42 | Horncastle Lincolnshire | C | 0.6 | 60% | 3.9 | 10% |
| 43 | Radcliffe on Trent Nottinghamshire | C | 2.5 | 76% | 2.6 | 0% |
| 44 | Hattersley Greater Manchester | C | 0.9 | 52% | 3.9 | 7% |
| 45 | Sawston Cambridgeshire | C | 1.4 | 97% | 2.3 | 0% |
| 46 | Hagley Worcestershire | C | 1.7 | 90% | 2.2 | 0% |
| 47 | Castle Donington Leicestershire | C | 1.8 | 85% | 2.4 | 0% |
| 48 | Crewkerne Somerset | C | 0.5 | 66% | 2.8 | 21% |
| 49 | Aylsham Norfolk | C | 2.6 | 74% | 2 | 0% |
| 50 | Hethersett Norfolk | C | 2.1 | 65% | 2.9 | 0% |
| 51 | Market Warsop Nottinghamshire | C | 2.1 | 67% | 2.8 | 0% |
| 52 | Kibworth Beauchamp and Kibworth Harcourt Leicestershire | C− | 2.1 | 82% | 2 | 0% |
| 53 | Calverton Nottinghamshire | C− | 1.7 | 62% | 3 | 0% |
| 54 | Hollywood Worcestershire | C− | 2.4 | 54% | 2.5 | 0% |
| 55 | Pickering North Yorkshire | C− | 1.7 | 39% | 1.7 | 19% |
| 56 | Shefford Bedfordshire | D | 1.1 | 67% | 3 | 0% |
| 57 | Wellesbourne Warwickshire | D | 1.1 | 88% | 1.4 | 0% |
| 58 | Deeping St James Lincolnshire | D | 0.5 | 73% | 2.4 | 0% |
| 59 | Featherstone Staffordshire | D− | 1.2 | 52% | 1.5 | 0% |
| 60 | Albrighton Shropshire | D− | 0.8 | 32% | 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 Gwersyllt’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 Gwersyllt
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.
Moss Valley
Park or garden
56 ha (138 acres)2.2 km of path
30 minto walk all 2.2 km of path
78 pitchesfootball pitches would fit
0.4 mi westfrom the centre
Directionsto the nearest entrance
Close to home
Almost everyone in Gwersyllt 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 (96%)Further (4%)
Gwersyllt96%
Towns its size78%
Clwyd towns83%
All UK towns83%
About 300 people live further than that. Playing fields count, so a park within reach isn’t always one with paths or trees; 36 playgrounds are mapped in and around the town, about one for every 198 residents.
National Parks & National Landscapes
The Bryniau Clwyd A Dyffryn Dyfrdwy/clwydian Range and Dee Valley National Landscape is 2.4 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
2.4 mi south-west389 km²since 20112% of the land within 5 km
2% of the land within 5 km of Gwersyllt is National Park or National Landscape, more than 65% of UK towns.
Footpaths & waymarked walks
1 waymarked walk passes through or near Gwersyllt
32 km of footpaths, bridleways and rights of way are mapped in Gwersyllt and the kilometre around it, 2.5 km for every square kilometre (the typical UK town has 3.0). Bars show each route’s kilometres within 2 km of the town.
Regional
Llwybr Clawdd Wat7.3 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 Gwersyllt: May to September
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) | 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) | 7 | 8 | 10 | 13 | 16 | 19 | 20 | 20 | 18 | 14 | 10 | 8 |
| Rain (mm) | 77 | 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 41 nights a year. The climate in Gwersyllt →
Things to do
36 playgrounds and the nearest beaches
Mapped within 2 km of the town in OpenStreetMap, against the typical UK town its size per resident. Named places are listed with directions; unnamed ones are only counted.
The nearest beaches
Gwersyllt is inland. These are the nearest named beaches, measured from the edge of the town.
Tranmere Beach21 mi from Gwersyllt’s edge
DirectionsEast Hoyle Bank22 mi from Gwersyllt’s edge
DirectionsHorton's Nose Nature Reserve26 mi from Gwersyllt’s edge
DirectionsRhyl Sands26 mi from Gwersyllt’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. Gwersyllt Hill, at 150 m, is the highest named top within 2 km of Gwersyllt.
Every named place, with directions
Hills and peaks 5
Gwersyllt Hill150 m (492 ft) · 0.1 mi from town
DirectionsCefn210 m (689 ft) · 0.3 mi from town
DirectionsBradley Hill70 m (230 ft) · 0.4 mi from town
DirectionsWindy Hill170 m (558 ft) · 0.5 mi from town
DirectionsGresford Bank105 m (344 ft) · 0.7 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 36
Erddig Place play area1.0 mi from town
DirectionsPlus 35 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.
BradleyBryntegTanyfronLlayWrexhamCoedpoethGwersyllt
ABCDOutdoors Grade
Brynteg, 0.9 miles away, grades A, the best next door: every resident lives within 400 m of a park. Bradley has at least twice Gwersyllt’s green space per resident.
Questions about the outdoors in Gwersyllt
What is the biggest park in Gwersyllt?
Parc Gwledig Dyfroedd Alun, 154 ha (381 acres), with 2.5 km of path. Moss Valley (56 ha) is second. 2 named parks, gardens and playing fields are in the town or within 400 m of it.
Is Gwersyllt near a National Park?
The nearest protected landscape is the Bryniau Clwyd A Dyffryn Dyfrdwy/clwydian Range and Dee Valley National Landscape, 2.4 mi south-west of the town’s edge. It covers 389 km² and was designated in 2011.
What are the best walks near Gwersyllt?
1 waymarked walking route passes within 2 km of the town, including the Llwybr Clawdd Wat. Parc Gwledig Dyfroedd Alun alone has 2.5 km of path.
What is the nearest beach to Gwersyllt?
Tranmere Beach, 21 mi from the edge of the town, then East Hoyle Bank (22 mi). Gwersyllt itself is inland.
How many people in Gwersyllt live near a park?
96% 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 Gwersyllt?
May to September: the longest days, the warmest afternoons and the least rain of the year, from the Met Office 1991–2020 averages.
Is Gwersyllt good for walking?
About average for paths: 2.5 km of footpath and right of way per square kilometre, more than 46% of UK towns. For park space per person it beats 98% (14.6 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 Gwersyllt’s overall grade.
Sources
Where Gwersyllt’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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