Burry Port’s biggest
Millennium Coastal Park
Park or garden
96 ha (236 acres)8.3 km of path
1 h 50 minto walk all 8.3 km of path
134 pitchesfootball pitches would fit
0.6 mi southfrom the centre
Nature reserve
Directionsto the nearest entrance
Burry Port Harbour Light · Photo: Vouliagmeni · Public domainA+Outdoors Grade
Outdoors in Burry Port · parks, paths & countryside
Burry Port is on the coast
The sea makes up 37% of the area within 5 km. Parks and playing fields in Burry Port add up to 11.8 ha for every 1,000 residents; the typical UK town has 2.1. The Gower National Landscape begins 0.5 mi from the town’s edge. Burry Port grades A+ for the outdoors: #1 of 23 in Dyfed. A character grade: it isn’t part of the overall grade.
Green space
11.8 ha
per 1,000 residents
Typical UK town 2.1
Near a park
75%
of residents within 400 m
Typical UK town 83%
Footpaths
38 km
2.8 km per km², town + 1 km
Typical UK town 3.0 per km²
Protected landscape
17%
of the land within 5 km
Nearest: Gower National Landscape
The sea
37%
of the area within 5 km
A coastal town
Character
What kind of outdoors town is Burry Port?
Read from the data: what stands out first, good and bad.
On the coast37% of the area within 5 km is sea; 3 beaches mapped.Room to roam11.8 ha of parks and playing fields per 1,000 residents, more than 97% of UK towns.Countryside close byThe Gower National Landscape starts 0.5 mi south-east.
Burry Port’s strongest suit is the sea, followed by plenty of park space.
Outdoors grade
Burry Port grades A+ for the outdoors
Each chart is every UK town of 1,000 or more on one measure: the green bar is Burry Port, 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 95% of UK towns#1 of 23 in Dyfed · 4th of 60 UK towns its size
Public green space11.8 haper 1,000 residents: parks, gardens, playing fields, play spaces
97out of
100
100
A park within a walk75%of residents within 400 m (a 5-minute walk)
37out of
100
100
National Park or National Landscape17%of the land within 5 km
75out of
100
100
Footpaths2.8 kmper km², the town and 1 km around it
54out of
100
100
The sea37%of the area within 5 km
95out 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
Burry Port is 4th of 60 UK towns its size for the outdoors
The 60 UK towns and cities of 4,800 to 5,100 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
Burry Port2.8
Towns its size2.6
Dyfed towns1.2
All UK towns3.0
Green space, ha per 1,000 residents
Burry Port11.8
Towns its size2.2
Dyfed towns2.2
All UK towns2.1
Residents within 400 m of a park
Burry Port75%
Towns its size79%
Dyfed towns74%
All UK towns83%
Against towns its size, Burry Port stands out most for park space per resident: none of the other 59 has more.
Show as a table
| Town | Outdoors | Green space | Near a park | Path per km² | Protected | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Rye East Sussex | A+ | 3.5 | 89% | 3.5 | 46% |
| 2 | Pill Somerset | A+ | 5.2 | 100% | 3.8 | 0% |
| 3 | Frinton-on-Sea Essex | A+ | 7.5 | 100% | 2.6 | 0% |
| 4 | Burry Port Dyfed | A+ | 11.8 | 75% | 2.8 | 17% |
| 5 | Wilford Nottinghamshire | A | 7.7 | 93% | 9.6 | 0% |
| 6 | Moreton-in-Marsh Gloucestershire | A | 5 | 100% | 1.8 | 55% |
| 7 | Wirksworth Derbyshire | A | 2 | 100% | 4.6 | 8% |
| 8 | Rhymney Gwent | A | 2.9 | 97% | 3.8 | 6% |
| 9 | Meols Merseyside | A | 3.1 | 100% | 2.2 | 0% |
| 10 | Holmfirth West Yorkshire | A | 2.2 | 88% | 4.6 | 27% |
| 11 | Fitzwilliam and Kinsley West Yorkshire | A− | 11.5 | 100% | 3 | 0% |
| 12 | Joyden's Wood Kent | A− | 2.7 | 82% | 5.6 | 4% |
| 13 | Fordingbridge Hampshire | A− | 3.6 | 92% | 2 | 56% |
| 14 | Coleford Gloucestershire | A− | 2.8 | 66% | 4.3 | 48% |
| 15 | Elvetham Heath Hampshire | A− | 8.7 | 100% | 2.8 | 0% |
| 16 | Needham Market Suffolk | A− | 7.2 | 88% | 4 | 0% |
| 17 | Overseal and Castle Gresley Derbyshire | A− | 2.5 | 100% | 4.4 | 0% |
| 18 | Binfield Berkshire | A− | 8.5 | 100% | 2.5 | 0% |
| 19 | Huthwaite Nottinghamshire | B+ | 8.1 | 75% | 4.9 | 0% |
| 20 | Seaton Cumbria | B+ | 2.5 | 87% | 2.6 | 0% |
| 21 | Cranbrook Devon | B+ | 6.4 | 87% | 1.9 | 1% |
| 22 | Hildenborough Kent | B+ | 6.5 | 40% | 2.8 | 46% |
| 23 | Sturry Kent | B+ | 2.7 | 80% | 3.4 | 1% |
| 24 | Stone Cross East Sussex | B+ | 1.4 | 86% | 2.3 | 9% |
| 25 | Aspull Greater Manchester | B | 7.6 | 92% | 2.4 | 0% |
| 26 | Easingwold North Yorkshire | B | 4.3 | 86% | 1.5 | 14% |
| 27 | Grimethorpe South Yorkshire | B | 2.5 | 100% | 2.8 | 0% |
| 28 | Market Rasen Lincolnshire | B | 2.6 | 94% | 1.6 | 16% |
| 29 | Sedgefield County Durham | B | 6.2 | 81% | 2.8 | 0% |
| 30 | Headley Down and Headley Hampshire | B | 2.1 | 55% | 3.4 | 44% |
| 31 | Whitburn Tyne and Wear | B− | 2.5 | 46% | 2.5 | 0% |
| 32 | Wotton-under-Edge Gloucestershire | C+ | 0.4 | 32% | 5.4 | 60% |
| 33 | Stokesley North Yorkshire | C+ | 0.9 | 100% | 1.7 | 16% |
| 34 | Wool Dorset | C+ | 2.3 | 51% | 2.5 | 33% |
| 35 | Steeton West Yorkshire | C+ | 1.3 | 100% | 2.7 | 0% |
| 36 | Moulton Northamptonshire | C+ | 3.3 | 88% | 1.7 | 0% |
| 37 | Barton-le-Clay Bedfordshire | C+ | 1.3 | 43% | 3.2 | 38% |
| 38 | Church Lancashire | C | 1.5 | 79% | 3.9 | 0% |
| 39 | Billinge Merseyside | C | 0.9 | 94% | 3 | 0% |
| 40 | Treharris Mid Glamorgan | C | 2.6 | 72% | 2.6 | 0% |
| 41 | Copthorne West Sussex | C | 1.2 | 62% | 2.9 | 13% |
| 42 | Bowburn County Durham | C | 1.5 | 71% | 3.8 | 0% |
| 43 | Bungay Suffolk | C | 0.5 | 78% | 2.6 | 12% |
| 44 | Sutton on Sea and Trusthorpe Lincolnshire | C | 1.8 | 67% | 1.5 | 0% |
| 45 | Northway Gloucestershire | C | 0.9 | 58% | 3.1 | 13% |
| 46 | Odiham Hampshire | C | 1.9 | 72% | 2.8 | 0% |
| 47 | Jaywick Essex | C− | 1.1 | 75% | 1.4 | 0% |
| 48 | Shavington Cheshire | C− | 1.1 | 87% | 2.1 | 0% |
| 49 | Melbourne Derbyshire | C− | 1.5 | 67% | 2.7 | 0% |
| 50 | Halesworth Suffolk | C− | 1.4 | 55% | 1.9 | 5% |
| 51 | Tickhill South Yorkshire | D | 1.7 | 69% | 2.2 | 0% |
| 52 | Haslington Cheshire | D | 1.8 | 41% | 2.6 | 0% |
| 53 | Gresford Clwyd | D | 1.4 | 76% | 1.8 | 0% |
| 54 | Melbourn Cambridgeshire | D | 1.2 | 45% | 2.7 | 0% |
| 55 | Fleckney Leicestershire | D | 0.8 | 63% | 2.3 | 0% |
| 56 | Lepton West Yorkshire | D− | 0.9 | 36% | 2.3 | 0% |
| 57 | Wingate County Durham | D− | 1 | 64% | 1.5 | 0% |
| 58 | Harleston Norfolk | D− | 0.2 | 42% | 2.2 | 0% |
| 59 | Bulford Wiltshire | D− | 0.9 | 51% | 1.6 | 0% |
| 60 | Shotton Colliery County Durham | D− | 0.9 | 40% | 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 Burry Port’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 Burry Port
The biggest is Millennium Coastal Park, 96 ha (236 acres). Directions go to the park’s nearest public entrance where Ordnance Survey maps one.
Memorial Park
Playing field
6.0 ha (15 acres)1.1 km of path
15 minto walk all 1.1 km of path
8 pitchesfootball pitches would fit
Centralin the middle of Burry Port
Directionsto the nearest entrance
Close to home
7 in 10 Burry Port 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 (75%)Further (25%)
Burry Port75%
Towns its size79%
Dyfed towns74%
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; 10 playgrounds are mapped in and around the town, about one for every 497 residents.
National Parks & National Landscapes
The Gower National Landscape is 0.5 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
Gower
0.5 mi south-east187 km²since 195617% of the land within 5 km
National Park
Brecon Beacons
15 mi north-east1,350 km²since 1955
National Park
Pembrokeshire Coast
16 mi west615 km²since 1951
17% of the land within 5 km of Burry Port is National Park or National Landscape, more than 75% of UK towns. Brecon Beacons National Park covers 1,350 km² and has been a National Park since 1955.
Footpaths & waymarked walks
2 waymarked walks pass through or near Burry Port
38 km of footpaths, bridleways and rights of way are mapped in Burry Port and the kilometre around it, 2.8 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
St Illtyd's Walk11.1 km
Penybedd Trail1.3 km
The regional route here is the St Illtyd's Walk.
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 Burry Port: 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) | 8.3 | 9.9 | 11.7 | 13.8 | 15.6 | 16.6 | 16.2 | 14.6 | 12.6 | 10.5 | 8.7 | 7.8 |
| High (°C) | 8 | 8 | 10 | 13 | 16 | 19 | 20 | 20 | 18 | 15 | 11 | 9 |
| Rain (mm) | 128 | 87 | 78 | 76 | 73 | 74 | 79 | 101 | 93 | 138 | 134 | 131 |
May is the driest month (73 mm) and July the warmest (highs of 20 °C). Winter days are short, about 8 hours of daylight in December, and 138 mm of rain falls in October, the wettest month. Frost comes on about 38 nights a year. The climate in Burry Port →
The coast
The coast and beaches near Burry Port
37% of the area within 5 km of Burry Port is sea. 3 beaches are mapped within 5 km, 1 with a name.
Tywyn Bâch0.4 mi from town
DirectionsSea: 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
10 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 3
Ashpits Pond Local Nature Reserve6.9 ha · 0.3 mi from town
DirectionsPwll Lagoon Local Nature Reserve5.1 ha · 0.6 mi from town
DirectionsFfrwd Farm Mire Nature Reserve20 ha · 1.1 mi from town
DirectionsPlaygrounds 10
Plus 10 playgrounds without a name on the map.
Slipways 1
Plus 1 slipway 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.
PembreyPwllTrimsaranCarwayKidwellyLlanelliBurry Port
ABCDOutdoors Grade
Burry Port grades higher for the outdoors than every neighbour in the table.
Questions about the outdoors in Burry Port
What is the biggest park in Burry Port?
Millennium Coastal Park, 96 ha (236 acres), with 8.3 km of path. Memorial Park (6.0 ha) is second. 2 named parks, gardens and playing fields are in the town or within 400 m of it.
Is Burry Port near a National Park?
Yes. Brecon Beacons National Park begins 15 mi north-east of the town’s edge. It covers 1,350 km² and has been a National Park since 1955. The nearest protected landscape of any kind is the Gower National Landscape, 0.5 mi away.
What are the best walks near Burry Port?
2 waymarked walking routes pass within 2 km of the town, including the St Illtyd's Walk and Penybedd Trail. Millennium Coastal Park alone has 8.3 km of path.
How many people in Burry Port live near a park?
75% 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 Burry Port?
May to September: the longest days, the warmest afternoons and the least rain of the year, from the Met Office 1991–2020 averages.
Is Burry Port good for walking?
About average for paths: 2.8 km of footpath and right of way per square kilometre, more than 54% of UK towns. For park space per person it beats 97% (11.8 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 Burry Port’s overall grade.
Sources
Where Burry Port’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.