Photo: Ian Greig · CC BY-SA 2.0Penrhyn-side is on the coast
The sea makes up 58% of the area within 5 km. Footpaths add up to 23 km in the village and the kilometre around it, 4.2 for every square kilometre. Parks and playing fields in Penrhyn-side add up to 0.8 ha for every 1,000 residents; the typical UK town has 2.1. Penrhyn-side has no Outdoors Grade (towns under 1,000 people aren’t graded).
What kind of outdoors village is Penrhyn-side?
Read from the data: what stands out first, good and bad.
Penrhyn-side’s strongest suit is the sea, followed by its historic parks. Where it falls short is how far some homes are from a park.
Few Penrhyn-side 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 400 people live further than that. Playing fields count, so a park within reach isn’t always one with paths or trees.
Footpaths in and around Penrhyn-side
23 km of footpaths, bridleways and rights of way are mapped in Penrhyn-side and the kilometre around it, 4.2 km for every square kilometre (the typical UK town has 3.0).
No named walking route is mapped within 2 km of Penrhyn-side; its footpaths are on the map above.
Waymarked walks are OpenStreetMap walking routes. Public rights of way are only as complete as the map in each area.
A registered historic park in Penrhyn-side
Historic England’s register of parks and gardens, and the listed buildings and scheduled monuments that stand inside Penrhyn-side’s named parks.
A listed building or monument counts when it sits inside the park’s OS Open Greenspace outline (to about 15 m), so a few at the boundary are included. Historic England, National Heritage List for England.
The best walking months in Penrhyn-side: 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) | 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-side →
The coast and beaches near Penrhyn-side
58% of the area within 5 km of Penrhyn-side is sea.
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.
The outdoors in nearby towns
The nearest towns of 1,000+ within 12 miles. Tap a town for its outdoors page.
| Town | Outdoors | Green space, ha per 1,000 | Near a park | Protected within 5 km |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Penrhyn-side | – | 0.8 | 0% | 0% |
| Penrhyn Bay 0.7 mi | B− | 0.6 | 68% | 0% |
| Llandudno 1.5 mi | A+ | 2.1 | 83% | 3% |
| Conwy 2.6 mi | A+ | 2.9 | 82% | 13% |
| Colwyn Bay 3.1 mi | B+ | 1.9 | 77% | 0% |
| Llansanffraid Glan Conwy 3.9 mi | A+ | 10.8 | 100% | 8% |
| Dwygyfylchi 5.4 mi | A+ | 3.2 | 83% | 28% |
Dwygyfylchi, 5.4 miles away, grades A+, the best next door: 83% of its residents live within 400 m of a park. Llandudno, Conwy and Colwyn Bay have at least twice Penrhyn-side’s green space per resident.
Questions about the outdoors in Penrhyn-side
Is Penrhyn-side near a National Park?
No National Park or National Landscape is within 30 km (about 19 miles) of Penrhyn-side.
How many people in Penrhyn-side live near a park?
0% 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-side?
May to September: the longest days, the warmest afternoons and the least rain of the year, from the Met Office 1991–2020 averages.
Which parks in Penrhyn-side are historic?
Condover House (Grade II*) is on Historic England’s register of parks and gardens.
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-side’s overall grade.
Where Penrhyn-side’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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