Capel Hendre’s biggest
King George's Field
Playing field
0.9 ha (2 acres)
Centralin the middle of Capel Hendre
Directionsto the nearest entrance
Photo: Richard Webb · CC BY-SA 2.0DOutdoors Grade
Outdoors in Capel Hendre · parks, paths & countryside
Almost everyone in Capel Hendre lives within a 5-minute walk of a park
The Brecon Beacons National Park begins 4.0 mi from the village’s edge. 8 km of footpaths run through the village and the kilometre around it, 0.9 for every square kilometre. Parks and playing fields in Capel Hendre add up to 0.8 ha for every 1,000 residents; the typical UK town has 2.1. Capel Hendre grades D for the outdoors. A character grade: it isn’t part of the overall grade.
Green space
0.8 ha
per 1,000 residents
Typical UK town 2.1
Near a park
100%
of residents within 400 m
Typical UK town 83%
Footpaths
8 km
0.9 km per km², town + 1 km
Typical UK town 3.0 per km²
Protected landscape
0%
of the land within 5 km
Brecon Beacons starts 4.0 mi out, past the 5 km
Character
What kind of outdoors village is Capel Hendre?
Read from the data: what stands out first, good and bad.
A park on every doorstep100% of residents live within 400 m of a park or playing field.Countryside close byThe Brecon Beacons National Park starts 4.0 mi north-east.Few mapped footpaths0.9 km of path per km²; the typical UK town has 3.0.
Capel Hendre’s strongest suit is parks close to every home, followed by the Brecon Beacons National Park close by. Where it falls short is footpaths.
Outdoors grade
Capel Hendre grades D for the outdoors
Each chart is every UK town of 1,000 or more on one measure: the green bar is Capel Hendre, the dashed line the typical town. The number is the share of towns it beats; the five are averaged and the average ranked again.
D
Better than 15% of UK towns48th of 60 UK villages its size
Public green space0.8 haper 1,000 residents: parks, gardens, playing fields, play spaces
8out 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 Landscape0%of the land within 5 km · Brecon Beacons begins just past 5 km
31out of
100
100
Footpaths0.9 kmper km², the town and 1 km around it
5out of
100
100
The sea0%of the area within 5 km · Inland
42out 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.
Villages its size
Capel Hendre is 48th 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.
Outdoors score: the share of UK towns each one beats
Footpath, km per km²
Capel Hendre0.9
Villages its size2.0
Dyfed towns1.2
All UK towns3.0
Green space, ha per 1,000 residents
Capel Hendre0.8
Villages its size1.8
Dyfed towns2.2
All UK towns2.1
Residents within 400 m of a park
Capel Hendre100%
Villages its size90%
Dyfed towns74%
All UK towns83%
Against villages its size, Capel Hendre stands out most for homes near a park: none of the other 59 has more. It falls furthest behind on path per km², where 49 of the 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 | Chatburn Lancashire | A− | 1.7 | 100% | 2.6 | 59% |
| 9 | Rock Cornwall | A− | 3.2 | 39% | 2.5 | 37% |
| 10 | Camber East Sussex | A− | 0.9 | 100% | 2.4 | 5% |
| 11 | Gotherington Gloucestershire | B+ | 2.7 | 72% | 3.7 | 33% |
| 12 | St Erth Cornwall | B+ | 0.9 | 100% | 2.5 | 4% |
| 13 | Walton Somerset | B+ | 3 | 100% | 3.2 | 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% |
The map
Parks, footpaths & countryside
Tap a number to zoom to a park. Tap a layer to hide it. The dashed line is Capel Hendre’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 Capel Hendre
The biggest is King George's Field, 0.9 ha (2 acres). Directions go to the park’s nearest public entrance where Ordnance Survey maps one.
Close to home
How close Capel Hendre’s homes are to 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%)
Capel Hendre100%
Villages its size90%
Dyfed towns74%
All UK towns83%
Playing fields count, so a park within reach isn’t always one with paths or trees; 15 playgrounds are mapped in and around the village, about one for every 76 residents.
National Parks & National Landscapes
The Brecon Beacons National Park is 4.0 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
Brecon Beacons
4.0 mi north-east1,350 km²since 1955
National Landscape
Gower
9.6 mi south-west187 km²since 1956
Protected landscape begins just outside the 5 km ring the Outdoors Grade measures, so Capel Hendre scores 0% on it even though the Brecon Beacons National Park is 4.0 mi away. Brecon Beacons National Park covers 1,350 km² and has been a National Park since 1955.
Footpaths & waymarked walks
Footpaths in and around Capel Hendre
8 km of footpaths, bridleways and rights of way are mapped in Capel Hendre and the kilometre around it, 0.9 km for every square kilometre (the typical UK town has 3.0).
No named walking route is mapped within 2 km of Capel Hendre; 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.
When to get out
The best walking months in Capel Hendre: 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) | 8.3 | 9.9 | 11.7 | 13.8 | 15.6 | 16.7 | 16.2 | 14.6 | 12.6 | 10.5 | 8.7 | 7.8 |
| High (°C) | 8 | 8 | 10 | 13 | 16 | 19 | 20 | 20 | 18 | 14 | 11 | 8 |
| Rain (mm) | 173 | 125 | 113 | 90 | 94 | 97 | 113 | 129 | 123 | 180 | 180 | 186 |
April is the driest month (90 mm) and July the warmest (highs of 20 °C). Winter days are short, about 8 hours of daylight in December, and 186 mm of rain falls in December, the wettest month. Frost comes on about 39 nights a year. The climate in Capel Hendre →
Things to do
2 viewpoints, 15 playgrounds and the nearest beaches
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.
The nearest beaches
Capel Hendre is inland. These are the nearest named beaches, measured from the edge of the village.
Tywyn Bâch10 mi from Capel Hendre’s edge
DirectionsABCC Meeting Point12 mi from Capel Hendre’s edge
DirectionsSwansea Beach12 mi from Capel Hendre’s edge
DirectionsSwansea Bay13 mi from Capel Hendre’s edge
DirectionsCefn Sidan14 mi from Capel Hendre’s edge
DirectionsGood to know
Check the water before you swim. Natural Resources Wales tests designated bathing waters from May to September and publishes a rating for each beach.
Every named place, with directions
Picnic sites 1
Plus 1 picnic site without a name on the map.
Playgrounds 15
Plus 15 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.
TycroesPenybancCross Hands and Pen-y-groesAmmanfordLlandybieTumbleCapel Hendre
ABCDOutdoors Grade
Tumble, 3.3 miles away, grades B−, the best next door: 93% of its residents live within 400 m of a park. Tycroes, Penybanc and Cross Hands and Pen-y-groes have at least twice Capel Hendre’s green space per resident.
Questions about the outdoors in Capel Hendre
What is the biggest park in Capel Hendre?
King George's Field, 0.9 ha (2 acres). 1 named park, garden or playing field is in the village or within 400 m of it.
Is Capel Hendre near a National Park?
Yes. Brecon Beacons National Park begins 4.0 mi north-east of the village’s edge. It covers 1,350 km² and has been a National Park since 1955.
What is the nearest beach to Capel Hendre?
Tywyn Bâch, 10 mi from the edge of the village, then ABCC Meeting Point (12 mi). Capel Hendre itself is inland.
How many people in Capel Hendre 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 Capel Hendre?
May to September: the longest days, the warmest afternoons and the least rain of the year, from the Met Office 1991–2020 averages.
Is Capel Hendre good for walking?
Paths are thinner than most towns: 0.9 km of footpath and right of way per square kilometre, more than 5% of UK towns. For park space per person it beats 8% (0.8 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 Capel Hendre’s overall grade.
Sources
Where Capel Hendre’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.