Hope’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
1.6 mi southfrom the centre
Directionsto the nearest entrance
Church of St Cyngar · Photo: Rept0n1x · CC BY-SA 3.0COutdoors Grade
Outdoors in Hope · parks, paths & countryside
Hope has more park space per resident than 9 in 10 UK towns
Parks and playing fields in Hope add up to 8.5 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 3.3 mi from the town’s edge. A park or playing field is within a 5-minute walk for 64% of residents. Hope grades C for the outdoors: #31 of 39 in Clwyd. A character grade: it isn’t part of the overall grade.
Green space
8.5 ha
per 1,000 residents
Typical UK town 2.1
Near a park
64%
of residents within 400 m
Typical UK town 83%
Footpaths
37 km
2.0 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 town is Hope?
Read from the data: what stands out first, good and bad.
Room to roam8.5 ha of parks and playing fields per 1,000 residents, more than 94% of UK towns.Countryside close byThe Bryniau Clwyd A Dyffryn Dyfrdwy/clwydian Range and Dee Valley National Landscape starts 3.3 mi south-west.Parks can be a walk away37% of residents live more than 400 m from a park or playing field.
Hope’s strongest suit is plenty of park space, followed by the Bryniau Clwyd A Dyffryn Dyfrdwy/clwydian Range and Dee Valley National Landscape close by. Where it falls short is how far some homes are from a park.
Outdoors grade
Hope grades C for the outdoors
Each chart is every UK town of 1,000 or more on one measure: the green bar is Hope, the dashed line the typical town. The number is the share of towns it beats; the five are averaged and the average ranked again.
C
Better than 33% of UK towns#31 of 39 in Clwyd · 37th of 60 UK towns its size
Public green space8.5 haper 1,000 residents: parks, gardens, playing fields, play spaces
94out of
100
100
A park within a walk64%of residents within 400 m (a 5-minute walk)
23out 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
Footpaths2.0 kmper km², the town and 1 km around it
31out 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
Hope is 37th of 60 UK towns its size for the outdoors
The 60 UK towns and cities of 4,300 to 4,600 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
Hope2.0
Towns its size2.7
Clwyd towns2.3
All UK towns3.0
Green space, ha per 1,000 residents
Hope8.5
Towns its size1.8
Clwyd towns1.9
All UK towns2.1
Residents within 400 m of a park
Hope64%
Towns its size87%
Clwyd towns83%
All UK towns83%
Against towns its size, Hope stands out most for park space per resident: only 7 of the other 59 have more. It falls furthest behind on homes near a park, where 47 of the others do better.
Show as a table
| Town | Outdoors | Green space | Near a park | Path per km² | Protected | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Keswick Cumbria | A+ | 9.1 | 100% | 4.1 | 100% |
| 2 | Lawford Essex | A+ | 3.4 | 94% | 2.8 | 40% |
| 3 | Chipstead and Woodmansterne Surrey | A+ | 10.3 | 92% | 4.8 | 12% |
| 4 | Great Denham Bedfordshire | A | 14.7 | 100% | 5.3 | 0% |
| 5 | Aberbargoed Gwent | A | 22.8 | 95% | 5.6 | 0% |
| 6 | Denaby Main South Yorkshire | A | 10.4 | 100% | 3.8 | 0% |
| 7 | Overton Hampshire | A | 3.7 | 92% | 2.5 | 45% |
| 8 | Kimberley Nottinghamshire | A− | 2.9 | 100% | 4.8 | 0% |
| 9 | Whittle-le-Woods Lancashire | A− | 7.7 | 91% | 4 | 0% |
| 10 | Exminster Devon | A− | 2.5 | 100% | 2.7 | 0% |
| 11 | Arborfield Garrison Berkshire | A− | 10.4 | 95% | 3.3 | 0% |
| 12 | Stokenchurch Buckinghamshire | A− | 2.3 | 90% | 2.6 | 86% |
| 13 | Wheathampstead Hertfordshire | A− | 3.1 | 93% | 4.2 | 0% |
| 14 | Horsford Norfolk | B+ | 6.5 | 97% | 2.8 | 0% |
| 15 | Girton Cambridgeshire | B+ | 2.8 | 92% | 3.6 | 0% |
| 16 | Elmswell Suffolk | B | 2.5 | 100% | 2.9 | 0% |
| 17 | Clayton West and Scissett West Yorkshire | B | 1.4 | 100% | 4.2 | 0% |
| 18 | Winchcombe Gloucestershire | B | 2.2 | 60% | 3 | 81% |
| 19 | Sowerby Bridge West Yorkshire | B | 4.5 | 72% | 3.9 | 0% |
| 20 | Earby Lancashire | B− | 1.4 | 93% | 4.7 | 0% |
| 21 | Alderley Edge Cheshire | B− | 2.2 | 86% | 3.7 | 0% |
| 22 | Wilton Wiltshire | B− | 1.4 | 94% | 1.6 | 45% |
| 23 | Cwmavon West Glamorgan | B− | 2.3 | 75% | 2.5 | 0% |
| 24 | Irchester Northamptonshire | B− | 8.2 | 83% | 2 | 0% |
| 25 | Tibshelf Derbyshire | B− | 1.4 | 94% | 3.8 | 0% |
| 26 | Toddington Bedfordshire | B− | 0.9 | 86% | 3.1 | 8% |
| 27 | Ferndale Mid Glamorgan | B− | 3.6 | 88% | 2.1 | 0% |
| 28 | Woburn Sands Buckinghamshire | C+ | 1.1 | 94% | 4.1 | 0% |
| 29 | Milford on Sea Hampshire | C+ | 1.2 | 50% | 2.1 | 21% |
| 30 | Stamford Bridge East Riding of Yorkshire | C+ | 2.5 | 100% | 1.4 | 0% |
| 31 | Brinsley and Underwood Nottinghamshire | C+ | 3.3 | 71% | 2.8 | 0% |
| 32 | Iwade Kent | C+ | 0.8 | 100% | 1.5 | 0% |
| 33 | Backwell Somerset | C+ | 2.3 | 57% | 4.4 | 0% |
| 34 | Halfway Houses Kent | C | 1.8 | 71% | 1.8 | 0% |
| 35 | Queen's Hills Norfolk | C | 0.4 | 100% | 3 | 0% |
| 36 | Backworth Tyne and Wear | C | 2 | 59% | 4.4 | 0% |
| 37 | Hope Clwyd | C | 8.5 | 64% | 2 | 0% |
| 38 | Eccleston Lancashire | C | 2.4 | 83% | 2.3 | 0% |
| 39 | Clapham Bedfordshire | C | 1.3 | 94% | 2.7 | 0% |
| 40 | Kilburn and Horsley Woodhouse Derbyshire | C | 1.6 | 75% | 3.6 | 0% |
| 41 | Skelmanthorpe West Yorkshire | C | 1 | 88% | 3.2 | 0% |
| 42 | Brundall Norfolk | C | 1.6 | 62% | 2.3 | 20% |
| 43 | Meopham Kent | C | 1.3 | 53% | 2.5 | 35% |
| 44 | Coxhoe County Durham | C | 1.4 | 66% | 4.4 | 0% |
| 45 | Long Lawford Warwickshire | C | 1.2 | 91% | 2.6 | 0% |
| 46 | Cuffley Hertfordshire | C− | 13.6 | 19% | 1.9 | 0% |
| 47 | Wesham Lancashire | C− | 1.7 | 87% | 1.8 | 0% |
| 48 | Saxilby Lincolnshire | C− | 1.3 | 100% | 0.7 | 0% |
| 49 | Chudleigh Devon | C− | 0.3 | 83% | 1.4 | 15% |
| 50 | Epworth Lincolnshire | C− | 1.6 | 75% | 2.2 | 0% |
| 51 | Great Ayton North Yorkshire | C− | 0.2 | 48% | 2.2 | 31% |
| 52 | Freckleton Lancashire | D | 0.4 | 73% | 1.4 | 0% |
| 53 | West Kingsdown Kent | D | 0.8 | 28% | 1.6 | 52% |
| 54 | North Weald Bassett Essex | D | 1.4 | 67% | 2.4 | 0% |
| 55 | Linton Cambridgeshire | D | 1.1 | 67% | 2.6 | 0% |
| 56 | Shepperton Green Surrey | D | 1.4 | 73% | 1.7 | 0% |
| 57 | Banks Lancashire | D | 0.3 | 33% | 1.7 | 0% |
| 58 | Broughton Lincolnshire | D | 0.9 | 39% | 2.7 | 0% |
| 59 | Wheatley Oxfordshire | D− | 0.2 | 34% | 2.4 | 0% |
| 60 | Warboys Cambridgeshire | D− | 0.4 | 67% | 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 Hope’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 Hope
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
6 in 10 Hope 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 (64%)Further (37%)
Hope64%
Towns its size87%
Clwyd towns83%
All UK towns83%
About 1,600 people live further than that. Playing fields count, so a park within reach isn’t always one with paths or trees; 19 playgrounds are mapped in and around the town, about one for every 233 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 Hope 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
2 waymarked walks pass through or near Hope
37 km of footpaths, bridleways and rights of way are mapped in Hope and the kilometre around it, 2.0 km for every square kilometre (the typical UK town has 3.0). Bars show each route’s kilometres within 2 km of the town.
RegionalLocal
Llwybr Clawdd Wat11.1 km
Wales Link Path4.9 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 Hope: May to July and 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 | 8.5 | 7.6 |
| High (°C) | 7 | 8 | 10 | 13 | 16 | 19 | 21 | 20 | 18 | 14 | 10 | 8 |
| Rain (mm) | 70 | 59 | 57 | 53 | 57 | 60 | 65 | 105 | 70 | 81 | 78 | 79 |
April is the driest month (53 mm) and July the warmest (highs of 21 °C). Winter days are short, about 8 hours of daylight in December, and 105 mm of rain falls in August, the wettest month. Frost comes on about 44 nights a year. The climate in Hope →
Things to do
19 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
Hope is inland. These are the nearest named beaches, measured from the edge of the town.
Tranmere Beach18 mi from Hope’s edge
DirectionsEast Hoyle Bank19 mi from Hope’s edge
DirectionsBrazil Bank22 mi from Hope’s edge
DirectionsRhyl Sands23 mi from Hope’s edge
DirectionsHorton's Nose Nature Reserve23 mi from Hope’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. Caergwrle Castle, at 137 m, is the highest named top within 2 km of Hope.
Every named place, with directions
Viewpoints 1
Waun-y-Llyn1.0 mi from town
DirectionsHills and peaks 7
Caergwrle Castle137 m (449 ft) · 0.0 mi from town
DirectionsCaer Estyn150 m (492 ft) · 0.1 mi from town
DirectionsWindy Hill170 m (558 ft) · 0.3 mi from town
DirectionsHope Mountain327 m (1,073 ft) · 0.5 mi from town
DirectionsGwersyllt Hill150 m (492 ft) · 1.0 mi from town
DirectionsPen Rhiw100 m (328 ft) · 1.0 mi from town
DirectionsBradley Hill70 m (230 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 19
Willows Play Area0.0 mi from town
DirectionsPlus 18 playgrounds without a name on the map.
Dog parks 1
Plus 1 dog park 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.
LlayBradleyGwersylltLeeswoodPenyfforddHigher KinnertonHope
ABCDOutdoors Grade
| Town | Outdoors | Green space, ha per 1,000 | Near a park | Protected within 5 km |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hope | C | 8.5 | 64% | 0% |
| Llay 2.0 mi | B− | 10.6 | 85% | 0% |
| Bradley 2.5 mi | A− | 29.9 | 100% | 0% |
| Gwersyllt 2.6 mi | A | 14.6 | 96% | 2% |
| Leeswood 2.6 mi | C+ | 4.0 | 83% | 2% |
| Penyffordd 2.8 mi | D− | 0.7 | 36% | 0% |
| Higher Kinnerton 2.9 mi | C− | 0.7 | 100% | 0% |
Gwersyllt, 2.6 miles away, grades A, the best next door: 96% of its residents live within 400 m of a park. Bradley has at least twice Hope’s green space per resident.
Questions about the outdoors in Hope
What is the biggest park in Hope?
Parc Gwledig Dyfroedd Alun, 154 ha (381 acres), with 2.5 km of path. 1 named park, garden or playing field is in the town or within 400 m of it.
Is Hope 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 town’s edge. It covers 389 km² and was designated in 2011.
What are the best walks near Hope?
2 waymarked walking routes pass within 2 km of the town, including the Llwybr Clawdd Wat and Wales Link Path. Parc Gwledig Dyfroedd Alun alone has 2.5 km of path.
What is the nearest beach to Hope?
Tranmere Beach, 18 mi from the edge of the town, then East Hoyle Bank (19 mi). Hope itself is inland.
How many people in Hope live near a park?
64% 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 Hope?
May to July and September: the longest days, the warmest afternoons and the least rain of the year, from the Met Office 1991–2020 averages.
Is Hope good for walking?
Paths are thinner than most towns: 2.0 km of footpath and right of way per square kilometre, more than 31% of UK towns. For park space per person it beats 94% (8.5 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 Hope’s overall grade.
Sources
Where Hope’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.