Penrhyn Bay’s biggest
Prince's Green
Park or garden
1.0 ha (2 acres)0.2 km of path
Centralin the middle of Penrhyn Bay
Directionsto the nearest entrance
Photo: NoelWalley at en.wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0B−Outdoors Grade
Outdoors in Penrhyn Bay · parks, paths & countryside
Penrhyn Bay is on the coast, on the Wales Coast Path
The sea makes up 54% of the area within 5 km. Snowdonia National Park begins 2.9 mi from the town’s edge. Parks and playing fields in Penrhyn Bay add up to 0.6 ha for every 1,000 residents; the typical UK town has 2.1. Penrhyn Bay grades B− for the outdoors: #21 of 39 in Clwyd. A character grade: it isn’t part of the overall grade.
Green space
0.6 ha
per 1,000 residents
Typical UK town 2.1
Near a park
68%
of residents within 400 m
Typical UK town 83%
Footpaths
36 km
3.3 km per km², town + 1 km
Typical UK town 3.0 per km²
Protected landscape
0%
of the land within 5 km
Snowdonia starts 2.9 mi out, past the 5 km
The sea
54%
of the area within 5 km
A coastal town
Character
What kind of outdoors town is Penrhyn Bay?
Read from the data: what stands out first, good and bad.
On the coast54% of the area within 5 km is sea; 9 beaches mapped.Countryside close bySnowdonia National Park starts 2.9 mi south-west.On a National TrailThe Wales Coast Path passes through.Less park per person0.6 ha of parks and playing fields per 1,000 residents; the typical UK town has 2.1.
Penrhyn Bay’s strongest suit is the sea, followed by Snowdonia National Park close by. Where it falls short is park space per person.
Outdoors grade
Penrhyn Bay grades B− for the outdoors
Each chart is every UK town of 1,000 or more on one measure: the green bar is Penrhyn Bay, the dashed line the typical town. The number is the share of towns it beats; the five are averaged and the average ranked again.
B−
Better than 54% of UK towns#21 of 39 in Clwyd · 22nd of 60 UK towns its size
Public green space0.6 haper 1,000 residents: parks, gardens, playing fields, play spaces
6out of
100
100
A park within a walk68%of residents within 400 m (a 5-minute walk)
28out of
100
100
National Park or National Landscape0%of the land within 5 km · Snowdonia begins just past 5 km
61out of
100
100
Footpaths3.3 kmper km², the town and 1 km around it
66out of
100
100
The sea54%of the area within 5 km
99out 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
Penrhyn Bay is 22nd of 60 UK towns its size for the outdoors
The 60 UK towns and cities of 4,000 to 4,400 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
Penrhyn Bay3.3
Towns its size2.6
Clwyd towns2.3
All UK towns3.0
Green space, ha per 1,000 residents
Penrhyn Bay0.6
Towns its size1.8
Clwyd towns1.9
All UK towns2.1
Residents within 400 m of a park
Penrhyn Bay68%
Towns its size80%
Clwyd towns83%
All UK towns83%
Against towns its size, Penrhyn Bay stands out most for path per km²: only 20 of the other 59 have more. It falls furthest behind on park space per resident, where 53 of the others do better.
Show as a table
| Town | Outdoors | Green space | Near a park | Path per km² | Protected | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Hextable Kent | A+ | 6.7 | 100% | 5.1 | 9% |
| 2 | West Malling Kent | A+ | 8.7 | 100% | 3.4 | 21% |
| 3 | Telscombe Cliffs East Sussex | A+ | 3 | 58% | 5.1 | 42% |
| 4 | Southbourne West Sussex | A | 1.3 | 92% | 3.3 | 64% |
| 5 | Pitstone Buckinghamshire | A | 1.6 | 100% | 4.2 | 40% |
| 6 | Denaby Main South Yorkshire | A | 10.4 | 100% | 3.8 | 0% |
| 7 | Tenby Dyfed | A | 2.1 | 88% | 2.5 | 21% |
| 8 | Milton Cambridgeshire | A | 10.4 | 100% | 3.4 | 0% |
| 9 | Loftus North Yorkshire | A− | 1.9 | 90% | 2 | 31% |
| 10 | Arborfield Garrison Berkshire | A− | 10.4 | 95% | 3.3 | 0% |
| 11 | Hunstanton Norfolk | A− | 3.7 | 71% | 1.4 | 31% |
| 12 | Prestbury Gloucestershire | A− | 1.6 | 80% | 5.3 | 51% |
| 13 | Fairford Gloucestershire | A− | 3.4 | 100% | 1.8 | 17% |
| 14 | Lofthouse and Robin Hood West Yorkshire | B+ | 3.4 | 93% | 3.8 | 0% |
| 15 | Bearwood Dorset | B+ | 2.5 | 100% | 3.8 | 0% |
| 16 | Ratby Leicestershire | B+ | 1.7 | 100% | 4.8 | 0% |
| 17 | Bramley and Wonersh Surrey | B+ | 1.7 | 77% | 3.5 | 59% |
| 18 | Winchcombe Gloucestershire | B | 2.2 | 60% | 3 | 81% |
| 19 | Brampton Cumbria | B | 2 | 92% | 2.2 | 9% |
| 20 | Saltford Somerset | B | 1.6 | 75% | 3.6 | 24% |
| 21 | Bourton-on-the-Water Gloucestershire | B | 0.9 | 79% | 3.3 | 100% |
| 22 | Penrhyn Bay Clwyd | B− | 0.6 | 68% | 3.3 | 0% |
| 23 | Stoney Stanton Leicestershire | B− | 2.5 | 100% | 2.2 | 0% |
| 24 | Woodford Halse Northamptonshire | B− | 3.6 | 100% | 1.6 | 0% |
| 25 | Topsham Devon | B− | 1.9 | 76% | 2.9 | 0% |
| 26 | Martock Somerset | B− | 2.9 | 85% | 3 | 0% |
| 27 | Easington Lane Tyne and Wear | B− | 0.9 | 100% | 4 | 0% |
| 28 | Wilton Wiltshire | B− | 1.4 | 94% | 1.6 | 45% |
| 29 | Ferndale Mid Glamorgan | B− | 3.6 | 88% | 2.1 | 0% |
| 30 | Woburn Sands Buckinghamshire | C+ | 1.1 | 94% | 4.1 | 0% |
| 31 | Kessingland Suffolk | C+ | 0.9 | 70% | 1.9 | 19% |
| 32 | Send Surrey | C+ | 2.6 | 28% | 3.3 | 5% |
| 33 | Old Tupton Derbyshire | C+ | 2.3 | 73% | 3.9 | 0% |
| 34 | Eaton Bray and Edlesborough Bedfordshire | C+ | 2.6 | 72% | 1.7 | 29% |
| 35 | Thorpe Hesley South Yorkshire | C+ | 1.8 | 80% | 4 | 0% |
| 36 | Sandwich Kent | C+ | 2.1 | 51% | 2.5 | 0% |
| 37 | Sible Hedingham Essex | C+ | 0.9 | 100% | 2.9 | 0% |
| 38 | Holmfield West Yorkshire | C+ | 2.8 | 74% | 2.7 | 0% |
| 39 | Knebworth Hertfordshire | C+ | 1.5 | 81% | 3.8 | 0% |
| 40 | Warton (Fylde) Lancashire | C | 1.3 | 92% | 1.1 | 0% |
| 41 | South Darenth and Sutton at Hone Kent | C | 1.8 | 43% | 2.7 | 10% |
| 42 | Brayton North Yorkshire | C | 0.8 | 100% | 2.4 | 0% |
| 43 | Deanshanger Northamptonshire | C | 1.5 | 93% | 2.2 | 0% |
| 44 | Uppingham Rutland | C | 2.2 | 89% | 1.6 | 0% |
| 45 | Branston Lincolnshire | C | 2.1 | 86% | 1.8 | 0% |
| 46 | Beck Row Suffolk | C | 5.3 | 76% | 0.8 | 0% |
| 47 | Llangennech Dyfed | C | 1.6 | 82% | 1.1 | 0% |
| 48 | Nelson Gwent | C | 2.1 | 88% | 1.5 | 0% |
| 49 | Ellesmere Shropshire | C− | 12.5 | 54% | 1.3 | 0% |
| 50 | Doddington and Wimblington Cambridgeshire | C− | 2.5 | 73% | 1.2 | 0% |
| 51 | West Kingsdown Kent | D | 0.8 | 28% | 1.6 | 52% |
| 52 | North Weald Bassett Essex | D | 1.4 | 67% | 2.4 | 0% |
| 53 | Middleton Cheney Northamptonshire | D | 0.9 | 70% | 2.6 | 0% |
| 54 | Blidworth Nottinghamshire | D | 0.5 | 23% | 3.2 | 0% |
| 55 | Kegworth Leicestershire | D | 0.4 | 54% | 2.6 | 0% |
| 56 | Llantrisant Mid Glamorgan | D− | 0.6 | 42% | 2.3 | 0% |
| 57 | Wheatley Oxfordshire | D− | 0.2 | 34% | 2.4 | 0% |
| 58 | Warboys Cambridgeshire | D− | 0.4 | 67% | 1 | 0% |
| 59 | Pinchbeck Lincolnshire | D− | 1 | 49% | 1 | 0% |
| 60 | Little Eriswell Suffolk | D− | 0.1 | 0% | 1.5 | 0% |
The map
Parks, footpaths & countryside
Tap a number to zoom to a park. Tap a layer to hide it. The dashed line is Penrhyn Bay’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 Penrhyn Bay
The biggest is Prince's Green, 1.0 ha (2 acres). Directions go to the park’s nearest public entrance where Ordnance Survey maps one.
Close to home
7 in 10 Penrhyn Bay 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 (68%)Further (32%)
Penrhyn Bay68%
Towns its size80%
Clwyd towns83%
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; 18 playgrounds are mapped in and around the town, about one for every 233 residents.
National Parks & National Landscapes
Snowdonia National Park is 2.9 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 Park
Snowdonia
2.9 mi south-west2,140 km²since 1951
National Landscape
Ynys Mon/anglesey
9.6 mi west219 km²since 1967
National Landscape
Bryniau Clwyd A Dyffryn Dyfrdwy/clwydian Range and Dee Valley
14 mi east389 km²since 2011
Protected landscape begins just outside the 5 km ring the Outdoors Grade measures, so Penrhyn Bay scores 0% on it even though Snowdonia National Park is 2.9 mi away. Snowdonia National Park covers 2,140 km² and has been a National Park since 1951.
Footpaths & waymarked walks
Penrhyn Bay is on the Wales Coast Path
36 km of footpaths, bridleways and rights of way are mapped in Penrhyn Bay and the kilometre around it, 3.3 km for every square kilometre (the typical UK town has 3.0). Bars show each route’s kilometres within 2 km of the town.
NationalRegionalLocal
Wales Coast Path (North Wales) main route7.5 km
North Wales Path7.5 km
Woodland Trail2.1 km
Summit Trail1.8 km
The Wales Coast Path, a national route, passes Penrhyn Bay. The regional route here is the North Wales Path.
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 Penrhyn Bay: 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) | 8.0 | 9.7 | 11.7 | 13.9 | 15.8 | 17.0 | 16.5 | 14.8 | 12.6 | 10.4 | 8.5 | 7.5 |
| High (°C) | 9 | 9 | 11 | 13 | 16 | 18 | 20 | 20 | 18 | 15 | 12 | 9 |
| Rain (mm) | 82 | 62 | 57 | 53 | 53 | 56 | 65 | 67 | 72 | 91 | 95 | 114 |
April is the driest month (53 mm) and July the warmest (highs of 20 °C). Winter days are short, about 8 hours of daylight in December, and 114 mm of rain falls in December, the wettest month. Frost comes on about 13 nights a year. The climate in Penrhyn Bay →
The coast
The coast and beaches near Penrhyn Bay
54% of the area within 5 km of Penrhyn Bay is sea. 9 beaches are mapped within 5 km, 3 with a name.
Porth Dyniewaid0.3 mi from town
DirectionsNorth Shore Beach1.2 mi from town
DirectionsConwy Sands3.1 mi from town
DirectionsThe Wales Coast Path passes the town.
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.
Things to do
18 playgrounds
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.
Every named place, with directions
Viewpoints 1
Plus 1 viewpoint without a name on the map.
Hills and peaks 7
Mynydd Penygarreg80 m (262 ft) · 0.0 mi from town
DirectionsMynydd Pant130 m (427 ft) · 0.1 mi from town
DirectionsLittle Orme141 m (463 ft) · 0.3 mi from town
DirectionsBryn Pydew120 m (394 ft) · 0.8 mi from town
DirectionsCoed Gaer127 m (417 ft) · 0.8 mi from town
DirectionsBryn Euryn131 m (430 ft) · 0.9 mi from town
DirectionsBryn Maelgwyn100 m (328 ft) · 1.0 mi from town
DirectionsNature reserves 2
Bryn Pydew6.4 ha · 0.2 mi from town
DirectionsRhiwledyn Nature Reserve4.7 ha · 0.2 mi from town
DirectionsPlaygrounds 18
Plus 18 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.
LlandudnoColwyn BayConwyLlansanffraid Glan ConwyMynydd MarianDwygyfylchiPenrhyn Bay
ABCDOutdoors Grade
| Town | Outdoors | Green space, ha per 1,000 | Near a park | Protected within 5 km |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Penrhyn Bay | B− | 0.6 | 68% | 0% |
| Llandudno 2.1 mi | A+ | 2.1 | 83% | 3% |
| Colwyn Bay 2.4 mi | B+ | 1.9 | 77% | 0% |
| Conwy 2.6 mi | A+ | 2.9 | 82% | 13% |
| Llansanffraid Glan Conwy 3.6 mi | A+ | 10.8 | 100% | 8% |
| Mynydd Marian 5.5 mi | B+ | 1.7 | 100% | 0% |
| Dwygyfylchi 5.7 mi | A+ | 3.2 | 83% | 28% |
Dwygyfylchi, 5.7 miles away, grades A+, the best next door: 83% of its residents live within 400 m of a park. Llandudno, Colwyn Bay and Conwy have at least twice Penrhyn Bay’s green space per resident.
Questions about the outdoors in Penrhyn Bay
What is the biggest park in Penrhyn Bay?
Prince's Green, 1.0 ha (2 acres). 1 named park, garden or playing field is in the town or within 400 m of it.
Is Penrhyn Bay near a National Park?
Yes. Snowdonia National Park begins 2.9 mi south-west of the town’s edge. It covers 2,140 km² and has been a National Park since 1951.
What are the best walks near Penrhyn Bay?
4 waymarked walking routes pass within 2 km of the town, including the Wales Coast Path (North Wales) main route, North Wales Path and Woodland Trail.
How many people in Penrhyn Bay live near a park?
68% 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 Penrhyn Bay?
May to September: the longest days, the warmest afternoons and the least rain of the year, from the Met Office 1991–2020 averages.
Is Penrhyn Bay good for walking?
For paths, yes: 3.3 km of footpath and right of way per square kilometre, more than 66% of UK towns. For park space per person it beats 6% (0.6 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 Penrhyn Bay’s overall grade.
Sources
Where Penrhyn Bay’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.