Photo: David Dixon · CC BY-SA 2.0Parks and walks in Pelynt
The Cornwall National Landscape begins 1.3 mi from the village’s edge. Parks and playing fields in Pelynt add up to 0.0 ha for every 1,000 residents; the typical UK town has 2.1. Footpaths add up to 4 km in the village and the kilometre around it, 0.6 for every square kilometre. Pelynt grades D for the outdoors. A character grade: it isn’t part of the overall grade.
What kind of outdoors village is Pelynt?
Read from the data: what stands out first, good and bad.
Pelynt’s strongest suit is the Cornwall National Landscape close by. Where it falls short is how far some homes are from a park.
Pelynt grades D for the outdoors
Each chart is every UK town of 1,000 or more on one measure: the green bar is Pelynt, 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.
Pelynt is 54th of 60 UK villages its size for the outdoors
The 60 UK towns and cities of 1,100 to 1,200 people with an Outdoors Grade. Hover a dot for its figures; tap one for its page.
Pelynt falls furthest behind on homes near a park, where 54 of the 59 others do better.
Show as a table
| Town | Outdoors | Green space | Near a park | Path per km² | Protected | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Corton Suffolk | A+ | 4.4 | 100% | 3 | 5% |
| 2 | Bathford Somerset | A+ | 4.8 | 100% | 3.7 | 64% |
| 3 | Upton St Leonards Gloucestershire | A+ | 5.2 | 80% | 7.5 | 43% |
| 4 | Halmer End and Alsagers Bank Staffordshire | A | 33.2 | 100% | 5.2 | 0% |
| 5 | Ovingham Northumberland | A | 6.5 | 100% | 4.8 | 0% |
| 6 | Dove Holes Derbyshire | A | 5.1 | 100% | 1.5 | 52% |
| 7 | Wenvoe South Glamorgan | A− | 5.9 | 100% | 2.9 | 0% |
| 8 | Rock Cornwall | A− | 3.2 | 39% | 2.5 | 37% |
| 9 | Camber East Sussex | A− | 0.9 | 100% | 2.4 | 5% |
| 10 | Gotherington Gloucestershire | B+ | 2.7 | 72% | 3.7 | 33% |
| 11 | St Erth Cornwall | B+ | 0.9 | 100% | 2.5 | 4% |
| 12 | Walton Somerset | B+ | 3 | 100% | 3.2 | 0% |
| 13 | Slinfold West Sussex | B | 2.4 | 100% | 2.9 | 0% |
| 14 | Oakley Buckinghamshire | B | 2.9 | 100% | 2.5 | 0% |
| 15 | High Pittington County Durham | B | 1.6 | 100% | 3.9 | 0% |
| 16 | Huntley Gloucestershire | B | 2.9 | 100% | 2.3 | 0% |
| 17 | Acomb Northumberland | B | 2 | 100% | 2 | 0% |
| 18 | Curdworth Warwickshire | B− | 2.9 | 100% | 2.1 | 0% |
| 19 | Bishop Middleham County Durham | B− | 2.6 | 100% | 2.2 | 0% |
| 20 | Plaxtol Kent | B− | 2.6 | 57% | 2.5 | 40% |
| 21 | Kelly Bray Cornwall | B− | 1.2 | 100% | 1.8 | 22% |
| 22 | Thurlton Norfolk | B− | 1.5 | 100% | 0.7 | 39% |
| 23 | Romsley Worcestershire | B− | 1.4 | 100% | 3 | 0% |
| 24 | Latchingdon Essex | B− | 1.7 | 100% | 0.9 | 0% |
| 25 | Grovesend West Glamorgan | C+ | 3.5 | 100% | 0.9 | 0% |
| 26 | Child Okeford Dorset | C+ | 1.7 | 45% | 3.3 | 42% |
| 27 | Grampound Road Cornwall | C+ | 3.6 | 100% | 0.4 | 0% |
| 28 | Gainford County Durham | C+ | 2.6 | 100% | 1.4 | 0% |
| 29 | Lacey Green and Loosley Row Buckinghamshire | C+ | 2.1 | 27% | 2.4 | 82% |
| 30 | Wadworth South Yorkshire | C+ | 2.7 | 100% | 1.2 | 0% |
| 31 | St Cleer Cornwall | C | 3 | 29% | 1.6 | 32% |
| 32 | Hunston West Sussex | C | 1.8 | 65% | 2.4 | 17% |
| 33 | Three Legged Cross Dorset | C | 1.5 | 77% | 2.6 | 1% |
| 34 | Stoke Hammond Buckinghamshire | C | 1.8 | 100% | 1.5 | 0% |
| 35 | Llanerchymedd Gwynedd | C | 4.2 | 64% | 0.6 | 4% |
| 36 | Cold Norton Essex | C | 1.3 | 100% | 2.1 | 0% |
| 37 | Swindon Staffordshire | C | 2.5 | 67% | 2.6 | 0% |
| 38 | Mannings Heath West Sussex | C | 1 | 71% | 1.9 | 44% |
| 39 | Hordle Hampshire | C− | 0 | 0% | 1.6 | 41% |
| 40 | North Newbald East Riding of Yorkshire | C− | 1.7 | 100% | 0.4 | 0% |
| 41 | Maiden Newton Dorset | C− | 1.1 | 27% | 2 | 100% |
| 42 | Wetheral Cumbria | C− | 3.8 | 51% | 1.9 | 0% |
| 43 | Owston Ferry Lincolnshire | C− | 1.6 | 100% | 0.4 | 0% |
| 44 | Crowle Worcestershire | C− | 2.4 | 34% | 2.8 | 0% |
| 45 | Eastrington East Riding of Yorkshire | C− | 3 | 65% | 1.5 | 0% |
| 46 | Guilsfield Powys | C− | 3.6 | 71% | 0.6 | 0% |
| 47 | Fochriw Gwent | C− | 1 | 73% | 2.9 | 0% |
| 48 | Capel Hendre Dyfed | D | 0.8 | 100% | 0.9 | 0% |
| 49 | Long Whatton Leicestershire | D | 2.8 | 63% | 0.9 | 0% |
| 50 | Ullesthorpe Leicestershire | D | 1.5 | 75% | 1.9 | 0% |
| 51 | Benwick Cambridgeshire | D | 0.3 | 100% | 0.2 | 0% |
| 52 | Orwell Cambridgeshire | D | 1.2 | 78% | 2 | 0% |
| 53 | Ramsey Island Essex | D | 1.4 | 39% | 1.1 | 0% |
| 54 | Pelynt Cornwall | D | 0 | 0% | 0.6 | 13% |
| 55 | Chawley Oxfordshire | D | 0.3 | 0% | 3.8 | 0% |
| 56 | Great Doddington Northamptonshire | D | 1.3 | 69% | 1.7 | 0% |
| 57 | High Legh Cheshire | D− | 1.9 | 50% | 0.8 | 0% |
| 58 | Austrey Warwickshire | D− | 1.7 | 0% | 0.7 | 0% |
| 59 | East Keswick West Yorkshire | D− | 0.2 | 0% | 1.7 | 0% |
| 60 | Clipsham Rutland | D− | 0 | 0% | 1.7 | 0% |
Parks, footpaths & countryside
Tap a number to zoom to a park. Tap a layer to hide it. The dashed line is Pelynt’s built-up area.
Few Pelynt 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 1,100 people live further than that. Playing fields count, so a park within reach isn’t always one with paths or trees.
The Cornwall National Landscape is 1.3 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.
Cornwall
13% of the land within 5 km of Pelynt is National Park or National Landscape, more than 73% of UK towns.
Footpaths in and around Pelynt
4 km of footpaths, bridleways and rights of way are mapped in Pelynt and the kilometre around it, 0.6 km for every square kilometre (the typical UK town has 3.0).
No named walking route is mapped within 2 km of Pelynt; 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.
The best walking months in Pelynt: 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) | 8.5 | 10.0 | 11.7 | 13.7 | 15.4 | 16.4 | 16.0 | 14.5 | 12.5 | 10.6 | 8.9 | 8.0 |
| High (°C) | 9 | 9 | 10 | 13 | 15 | 18 | 20 | 20 | 18 | 15 | 11 | 9 |
| Rain (mm) | 137 | 100 | 89 | 97 | 68 | 81 | 84 | 113 | 87 | 126 | 145 | 152 |
May is the driest month (68 mm) and July the warmest (highs of 20 °C). Winter days are short, about 8 hours of daylight in December, and 152 mm of rain falls in December, the wettest month. Frost comes on about 16 nights a year. The climate in Pelynt →
Pelynt is near the sea
6% of the area within 5 km of Pelynt is sea. 10 beaches are mapped within 5 km, 5 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.
Viewpoints, hills and nature near Pelynt
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
Nature reserves 1
Playgrounds 1
Plus 1 playground without a name on the map.
Campsites 2
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pelynt | D | 0.0 | 0% | 13% |
| Looe 3.5 mi | C− | 0.1 | 47% | 6% |
| Fowey 5.4 mi | A | 3.2 | 91% | 32% |
| Dobwalls 6.0 mi | D | 1.4 | 28% | 15% |
| Liskeard 6.7 mi | C+ | 0.8 | 89% | 6% |
| Lostwithiel 6.7 mi | C− | 1.6 | 67% | 11% |
| Tywardreath 7.4 mi | A+ | 4.6 | 100% | 26% |
Tywardreath, 7.4 miles away, grades A+, the best next door: every resident lives within 400 m of a park. Fowey, Dobwalls and Liskeard have at least twice Pelynt’s green space per resident.
Questions about the outdoors in Pelynt
Is Pelynt near a National Park?
The nearest protected landscape is the Cornwall National Landscape, 1.3 mi south-east of the village’s edge. It covers 964 km² and was designated in 1959.
How many people in Pelynt 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 Pelynt?
May to September: the longest days, the warmest afternoons and the least rain of the year, from the Met Office 1991–2020 averages.
Is Pelynt good for walking?
Paths are thinner than most towns: 0.6 km of footpath and right of way per square kilometre, more than 2% of UK towns. For park space per person it beats 1% (0.0 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 Pelynt’s overall grade.
Where Pelynt’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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