Tywardreath’s biggest
King Edward's Garden
Park or garden · 300 m outside town
0.2 ha (1 acres)
0.6 mi westfrom the centre
Directionsto the nearest entrance
Photo: Roger Cornfoot · CC BY-SA 2.0A+Outdoors Grade
Outdoors in Tywardreath · parks, paths & countryside
Tywardreath is on the coast, on the South West Coast Path
The sea makes up 26% of the area within 5 km. The Cornwall National Landscape reaches the edge of Tywardreath. Parks and playing fields in Tywardreath add up to 4.6 ha for every 1,000 residents; the typical UK town has 2.1. Tywardreath grades A+ for the outdoors: #1 of 35 in Cornwall. A character grade: it isn’t part of the overall grade.
Green space
4.6 ha
per 1,000 residents
Typical UK town 2.1
Near a park
100%
of residents within 400 m
Typical UK town 83%
Footpaths
26 km
2.5 km per km², town + 1 km
Typical UK town 3.0 per km²
Protected landscape
26%
of the land within 5 km
Nearest: Cornwall National Landscape
The sea
26%
of the area within 5 km
A coastal town
Character
What kind of outdoors town is Tywardreath?
Read from the data: what stands out first, good and bad.
On the coast26% of the area within 5 km is sea; 33 beaches mapped.A park on every doorstep100% of residents live within 400 m of a park or playing field.Room to roam4.6 ha of parks and playing fields per 1,000 residents, more than 85% of UK towns.Protected countryside26% of the land within 5 km is Cornwall National Landscape.
Tywardreath’s strongest suit is the sea, followed by parks close to every home.
Outdoors grade
Tywardreath grades A+ for the outdoors
Each chart is every UK town of 1,000 or more on one measure: the green bar is Tywardreath, 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 almost every UK town#1 of 35 in Cornwall · 2nd of 60 UK towns its size
Public green space4.6 haper 1,000 residents: parks, gardens, playing fields, play spaces
85out of
100
100
A park within a walk100%of residents within 400 m (a 5-minute walk)
89out of
100
100
National Park or National Landscape26%of the land within 5 km
81out of
100
100
Footpaths2.5 kmper km², the town and 1 km around it
46out of
100
100
The sea26%of the area within 5 km
91out 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
Tywardreath is 2nd of 60 UK towns its size for the outdoors
The 60 UK towns and cities of 2,500 to 2,700 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
Tywardreath2.5
Towns its size2.3
Cornwall towns2.3
All UK towns3.0
Green space, ha per 1,000 residents
Tywardreath4.6
Towns its size2.3
Cornwall towns1.6
All UK towns2.1
Residents within 400 m of a park
Tywardreath100%
Towns its size84%
Cornwall towns81%
All UK towns83%
Against towns its size, Tywardreath stands out most for park space per resident: only 14 of the other 59 have more.
Show as a table
| Town | Outdoors | Green space | Near a park | Path per km² | Protected | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Petworth West Sussex | A+ | 29.6 | 100% | 4.1 | 93% |
| 2 | Tywardreath Cornwall | A+ | 4.6 | 100% | 2.5 | 26% |
| 3 | Ambleside Cumbria | A+ | 6.9 | 92% | 4.6 | 100% |
| 4 | Silloth Cumbria | A+ | 7.3 | 100% | 1.4 | 17% |
| 5 | Hopton on Sea Norfolk | A+ | 6.7 | 100% | 1.6 | 2% |
| 6 | Hellingly East Sussex | A | 6.9 | 90% | 3.7 | 11% |
| 7 | Dolgellau Gwynedd | A | 3.6 | 100% | 1.9 | 100% |
| 8 | Binley Woods Warwickshire | A | 5.5 | 100% | 4.3 | 0% |
| 9 | Hawley Hampshire | A | 6.9 | 92% | 5.8 | 0% |
| 10 | Maple Cross Hertfordshire | A | 3.1 | 100% | 2.9 | 14% |
| 11 | Chopwell Tyne and Wear | A | 7.5 | 100% | 3.4 | 0% |
| 12 | Longford Gloucestershire | A | 11.9 | 100% | 3.3 | 0% |
| 13 | Darenth Kent | A− | 1.8 | 100% | 4.3 | 1% |
| 14 | Drybrook Gloucestershire | A− | 3.9 | 83% | 3.4 | 10% |
| 15 | Stewartby Bedfordshire | A− | 21 | 100% | 2.4 | 0% |
| 16 | Avonmouth Bristol | B+ | 2.5 | 100% | 1.8 | 0% |
| 17 | Langold Nottinghamshire | B+ | 13 | 100% | 2.3 | 0% |
| 18 | Porthmadog Gwynedd | B+ | 0.9 | 94% | 2 | 41% |
| 19 | Thornley County Durham | B+ | 3.2 | 100% | 2.9 | 0% |
| 20 | Dipton County Durham | B | 3.2 | 87% | 3.5 | 0% |
| 21 | Craven Arms Shropshire | B | 1.3 | 87% | 2.9 | 59% |
| 22 | Prestbury Cheshire | B | 5.6 | 42% | 3.2 | 6% |
| 23 | Barlestone Leicestershire | B | 3 | 100% | 2.3 | 0% |
| 24 | Builth Wells Powys | B | 4.9 | 100% | 1.6 | 0% |
| 25 | Brynamman Dyfed | B | 1.7 | 100% | 1 | 51% |
| 26 | Pannal North Yorkshire | B− | 3.7 | 77% | 3 | 0% |
| 27 | Brewood Staffordshire | B− | 3 | 100% | 1.6 | 0% |
| 28 | Halton Lancashire | B− | 0.9 | 100% | 1.7 | 35% |
| 29 | Seer Green Buckinghamshire | B− | 1.7 | 38% | 3.8 | 35% |
| 30 | Grimsargh Lancashire | B− | 2.6 | 67% | 2.8 | 2% |
| 31 | Ash Green Warwickshire | B− | 3.4 | 67% | 3.6 | 0% |
| 32 | Bishop's Itchington Warwickshire | C+ | 1.5 | 100% | 2.8 | 0% |
| 33 | Godstone Surrey | C+ | 1.7 | 52% | 3.7 | 18% |
| 34 | Little Dunmow Essex | C+ | 1.1 | 89% | 3.8 | 0% |
| 35 | Dunchurch Warwickshire | C+ | 7.8 | 68% | 2.2 | 0% |
| 36 | Caton Lancashire | C+ | 1.2 | 72% | 2.2 | 67% |
| 37 | Steeple Claydon Buckinghamshire | C+ | 1.5 | 100% | 2.2 | 0% |
| 38 | Stratton Gloucestershire | C | 0.7 | 46% | 3.3 | 70% |
| 39 | Heage Derbyshire | C | 1.9 | 78% | 3.1 | 0% |
| 40 | Watlington Norfolk | C | 2.3 | 100% | 0.6 | 0% |
| 41 | South Brent Devon | C | 1.5 | 79% | 0.8 | 64% |
| 42 | Smallfield Surrey | C | 1.6 | 70% | 2.4 | 1% |
| 43 | Llandybie Dyfed | C | 2.6 | 59% | 1.2 | 13% |
| 44 | Marham Norfolk | C | 3.5 | 85% | 0.4 | 0% |
| 45 | Ash (Dover) Kent | C | 2.3 | 72% | 2.4 | 0% |
| 46 | Higham Kent | C− | 0.5 | 0% | 1.8 | 18% |
| 47 | Hatton Derbyshire | C− | 3.3 | 61% | 1.7 | 0% |
| 48 | Costessey Norfolk | C− | 1.8 | 12% | 3.5 | 0% |
| 49 | Cliffe Kent | C− | 1.1 | 55% | 1.9 | 0% |
| 50 | Probus Cornwall | C− | 0.6 | 75% | 1.5 | 15% |
| 51 | Keele Staffordshire | D | 1.1 | 0% | 3.6 | 0% |
| 52 | Fordham Cambridgeshire | D | 2.3 | 35% | 1.7 | 0% |
| 53 | Silverstone Northamptonshire | D | 1.1 | 0% | 2.8 | 0% |
| 54 | Watton at Stone Hertfordshire | D | 0.8 | 61% | 2.3 | 0% |
| 55 | Swineshead Lincolnshire | D− | 1.2 | 73% | 0.7 | 0% |
| 56 | Manea Cambridgeshire | D− | 1.3 | 63% | 1 | 0% |
| 57 | Holme upon Spalding Moor East Riding of Yorkshire | D− | 1.5 | 41% | 0.8 | 0% |
| 58 | Nafferton East Riding of Yorkshire | D− | 1.3 | 56% | 0.6 | 0% |
| 59 | Rhos West Glamorgan | D− | 1 | 58% | 0.8 | 0% |
| 60 | Cranwell Lincolnshire | D− | 0.5 | 57% | 1.1 | 0% |
The map
Parks, footpaths & countryside
Tap a number to zoom to a park. Tap a layer to hide it. The dashed line is Tywardreath’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 Tywardreath
The biggest is King Edward's Garden, 0.2 ha (1 acres). Directions go to the park’s nearest public entrance where Ordnance Survey maps one.
Glencliffe Community Garden
Park or garden
0.1 ha (0 acres)
Centralin the middle of Tywardreath
Directionsto the nearest entrance
Close to home
Everyone in Tywardreath 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 (100%)Further (0%)
Tywardreath100%
Towns its size84%
Cornwall towns81%
All UK towns83%
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 144 residents.
National Parks & National Landscapes
National Parks and National Landscapes around Tywardreath
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
Cornwall
At the edge south-east964 km²since 195926% of the land within 5 km
Official site26% of the land within 5 km of Tywardreath is National Park or National Landscape, more than 81% of UK towns.
Footpaths & waymarked walks
Tywardreath is on the South West Coast Path
26 km of footpaths, bridleways and rights of way are mapped in Tywardreath 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.
NationalRegionalLocal
Saints Way8.5 km
Par Beach Trail6.4 km
South West Coast Path (Section 33: Par to Polperro)4.2 km
South West Coast Path (Section 32: Mevagissey to Par)3.7 km
The South West Coast Path, a national route, passes Tywardreath. Close to home, the Par Beach Trail has 6 km of local walk within 2 km of the town. The regional route here is the Saints Way.
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 Tywardreath: 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) | 8.5 | 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 | 10 | 11 | 13 | 16 | 19 | 21 | 20 | 19 | 15 | 12 | 10 |
| Rain (mm) | 135 | 110 | 88 | 73 | 69 | 67 | 79 | 82 | 84 | 128 | 148 | 151 |
June is the driest month (67 mm) and July the warmest (highs of 21 °C). Winter days are short, about 8 hours of daylight in December, and 151 mm of rain falls in December, the wettest month. Frost comes on about 13 nights a year. The climate in Tywardreath →
The coast
The coast and beaches near Tywardreath
26% of the area within 5 km of Tywardreath is sea. 33 beaches are mapped within 5 km, 10 with a name.
Par Sands0.3 mi from town
DirectionsSpit Beach0.5 mi from town
DirectionsBooley Beach0.6 mi from town
DirectionsShorthorn Beach0.9 mi from town
DirectionsCrinnis Beach1.3 mi from town
DirectionsCoombe Haven2.2 mi from town
DirectionsReadymoney Cove Beach2.3 mi from town
DirectionsDuporth Beach2.7 mi from town
DirectionsPorthpean Beach3.0 mi from town
DirectionsThe South West 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
Nature reserves 2
Tywardreath Marsh Nature Reserve1.5 ha · 0.1 mi from town
DirectionsPrideaux Wood Nature Reserve25 ha · 0.9 mi from town
DirectionsPlaygrounds 18
Trail Balyser Park0.4 mi from town
DirectionsPlus 17 playgrounds without a name on the map.
Campsites 3
East Crinnis Holiday Camp0.8 mi from town
DirectionsPenhale Caravan and Camping Park0.9 mi from town
DirectionsPolglaze Holiday Park1.1 mi from town
DirectionsNext door
The outdoors in nearby towns
The nearest towns of 1,000+ within 12 miles. Tap a town for its outdoors page.
St BlazeyCarlyon BayFoweyPenwithickLostwithielSt AustellTywardreath
ABCDOutdoors Grade
| Town | Outdoors | Green space, ha per 1,000 | Near a park | Protected within 5 km |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tywardreath | A+ | 4.6 | 100% | 26% |
| St Blazey 1.1 mi | A− | 2.4 | 78% | 17% |
| Carlyon Bay 2.6 mi | C | 0.7 | 0% | 12% |
| Fowey 2.7 mi | A | 3.2 | 91% | 32% |
| Penwithick 3.7 mi | A | 15.0 | 100% | 0% |
| Lostwithiel 3.7 mi | C− | 1.6 | 67% | 11% |
| St Austell 3.7 mi | B− | 1.2 | 71% | 7% |
Tywardreath grades higher for the outdoors than every neighbour in the table. Penwithick has at least twice Tywardreath’s green space per resident.
Questions about the outdoors in Tywardreath
What is the biggest park in Tywardreath?
King Edward's Garden, 0.2 ha (1 acres), just outside the built-up area. Glencliffe Community Garden (0.1 ha) is second. 2 named parks, gardens and playing fields are in the town or within 400 m of it.
Is Tywardreath near a National Park?
It covers 964 km² and was designated in 1959.
What are the best walks near Tywardreath?
4 waymarked walking routes pass within 2 km of the town, including the Saints Way, Par Beach Trail and South West Coast Path (Section 33: Par to Polperro).
How many people in Tywardreath live near a park?
100% 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 Tywardreath?
May to September: the longest days, the warmest afternoons and the least rain of the year, from the Met Office 1991–2020 averages.
Is Tywardreath 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 85% (4.6 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 Tywardreath’s overall grade.
Sources
Where Tywardreath’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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