Carway’s biggest
Coed Ffos Las
Park or garden
31 ha (77 acres)2.0 km of path
25 minto walk all 2 km of path
44 pitchesfootball pitches would fit
Centralin the middle of Carway
Directionsto the nearest entrance
Photo: John Lord · CC BY-SA 2.0B+Outdoors Grade
Outdoors in Carway · parks, paths & countryside
Carway has more park space per resident than 9 in 10 UK towns
Parks and playing fields in Carway add up to 17.0 ha for every 1,000 residents; the typical UK town has 2.1. A park or playing field is within a 5-minute walk for 100% of residents. The Gower National Landscape begins 3.8 mi from the village’s edge. Carway grades B+ for the outdoors. A character grade: it isn’t part of the overall grade.
Green space
17.0 ha
per 1,000 residents
Typical UK town 2.1
Near a park
100%
of residents within 400 m
Typical UK town 83%
Footpaths
15 km
1.8 km per km², town + 1 km
Typical UK town 3.0 per km²
Protected landscape
0%
of the land within 5 km
Gower starts 3.8 mi out, past the 5 km
Character
What kind of outdoors village is Carway?
Read from the data: what stands out first, good and bad.
Room to roam17.0 ha of parks and playing fields per 1,000 residents, more than 98% of UK towns.A park on every doorstep100% of residents live within 400 m of a park or playing field.Countryside close byThe Gower National Landscape starts 3.8 mi south.
Carway’s strongest suit is plenty of park space, followed by parks close to every home.
Outdoors grade
Carway grades B+ for the outdoors
Each chart is every UK town of 1,000 or more on one measure: the green bar is Carway, the dashed line the typical town. The number is the share of towns it beats; the five are averaged and the average ranked again.
B+
Better than 68% of UK towns20th of 60 UK villages its size
Public green space17.0 haper 1,000 residents: parks, gardens, playing fields, play spaces
98out 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 · Gower begins just past 5 km
31out of
100
100
Footpaths1.8 kmper km², the town and 1 km around it
26out 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
Carway is 20th of 60 UK villages its size for the outdoors
The 60 UK towns and cities of 1,300 to 1,500 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
Carway1.8
Villages its size2.4
Dyfed towns1.2
All UK towns3.0
Green space, ha per 1,000 residents
Carway17.0
Villages its size2.1
Dyfed towns2.2
All UK towns2.1
Residents within 400 m of a park
Carway100%
Villages its size82%
Dyfed towns74%
All UK towns83%
Against villages its size, Carway stands out most for park space per resident: only 1 of the other 59 has more. It falls furthest behind on path per km², where 41 of the others do better.
Show as a table
| Town | Outdoors | Green space | Near a park | Path per km² | Protected | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Dwygyfylchi Clwyd | A+ | 3.2 | 83% | 4.3 | 28% |
| 2 | Tatsfield Surrey | A+ | 7.5 | 100% | 3.1 | 34% |
| 3 | Troon Cornwall | A+ | 6.2 | 100% | 3.7 | 0% |
| 4 | Kingswood Gloucestershire | A | 2.1 | 100% | 3.7 | 45% |
| 5 | Tir-y-berth and Glan-y-nant Gwent | A | 22.1 | 100% | 4.3 | 0% |
| 6 | Chilton Oxfordshire | A | 5.4 | 88% | 2.8 | 70% |
| 7 | Cromford Derbyshire | A | 1.8 | 100% | 6.6 | 12% |
| 8 | Cowfold West Sussex | A | 2.6 | 100% | 3.6 | 15% |
| 9 | Gomshall Surrey | A | 1.9 | 89% | 4.8 | 87% |
| 10 | Jump South Yorkshire | A | 5.1 | 100% | 4.2 | 0% |
| 11 | West Horsley Surrey | A | 3 | 74% | 5.2 | 40% |
| 12 | Startforth County Durham | A | 6 | 78% | 4.3 | 4% |
| 13 | Sherston Wiltshire | A | 3.7 | 100% | 1.4 | 75% |
| 14 | Sherfield on Loddon Hampshire | A− | 8.3 | 100% | 3.2 | 0% |
| 15 | Weston Rhyn Shropshire | A− | 3.6 | 100% | 2.2 | 10% |
| 16 | Wharncliffe Side South Yorkshire | A− | 3.3 | 47% | 6.4 | 22% |
| 17 | Wigginton North Yorkshire | A− | 4.1 | 100% | 2.9 | 0% |
| 18 | Shotley Gate Suffolk | A− | 1 | 100% | 1.5 | 34% |
| 19 | Grundisburgh Suffolk | B+ | 2.2 | 100% | 2.6 | 3% |
| 20 | Carway Dyfed | B+ | 17 | 100% | 1.8 | 0% |
| 21 | Handcross West Sussex | B | 9.6 | 58% | 1.9 | 87% |
| 22 | Wedmore Somerset | B | 4.7 | 60% | 3.1 | 1% |
| 23 | Barrow Lancashire | B | 0.5 | 100% | 2.8 | 27% |
| 24 | Trevor Clwyd | B | 2 | 60% | 3.5 | 55% |
| 25 | Woolmer Green Hertfordshire | B | 1.3 | 100% | 4.3 | 0% |
| 26 | Bentley Hampshire | B | 1.3 | 100% | 2.1 | 22% |
| 27 | Tye Green Essex | B | 2 | 100% | 3 | 0% |
| 28 | Cefn Cribwr Mid Glamorgan | B | 6.5 | 100% | 1.2 | 0% |
| 29 | Abertysswg Gwent | B | 2.5 | 85% | 3.6 | 0% |
| 30 | Warkworth Northumberland | B− | 1.8 | 76% | 1.3 | 9% |
| 31 | Bishop Sutton Somerset | B− | 2.3 | 64% | 2.5 | 36% |
| 32 | Clwt-y-bont Gwynedd | B− | 0.8 | 100% | 2.1 | 19% |
| 33 | Ashton Keynes Wiltshire | C+ | 1.7 | 100% | 2.6 | 0% |
| 34 | Trub Greater Manchester | C+ | 1.9 | 100% | 2.3 | 0% |
| 35 | Pilning Gloucestershire | C+ | 2 | 54% | 2.6 | 0% |
| 36 | Thorner West Yorkshire | C+ | 2.1 | 74% | 3.4 | 0% |
| 37 | Benenden Kent | C | 2 | 57% | 1.7 | 83% |
| 38 | Barlaston Staffordshire | C | 2.7 | 80% | 2.4 | 0% |
| 39 | Great Waldingfield Suffolk | C | 2 | 100% | 1.5 | 0% |
| 40 | Brailsford Derbyshire | C | 0.9 | 100% | 2.4 | 0% |
| 41 | Slip End Bedfordshire | C | 1.9 | 22% | 2.3 | 28% |
| 42 | Hurley Warwickshire | C | 2.8 | 75% | 2.2 | 0% |
| 43 | Stewkley Buckinghamshire | C | 4.2 | 74% | 1.7 | 0% |
| 44 | Tickton East Riding of Yorkshire | C | 2 | 100% | 0.7 | 0% |
| 45 | Chelford Cheshire | C | 1.8 | 82% | 2.5 | 0% |
| 46 | Easebourne West Sussex | C | 0.4 | 0% | 2.9 | 100% |
| 47 | Blunham Bedfordshire | C | 2.2 | 77% | 2.3 | 0% |
| 48 | Offord D'Arcy and Offord Cluny Cambridgeshire | C− | 2.7 | 78% | 1.5 | 0% |
| 49 | Penperlleni Gwent | C− | 0.6 | 80% | 1.7 | 17% |
| 50 | Newton Flotman Norfolk | C− | 2.5 | 78% | 1.2 | 0% |
| 51 | Penrhyn-coch Dyfed | D | 0.7 | 100% | 0.8 | 0% |
| 52 | Hawley Kent | D | 0.7 | 24% | 2.8 | 3% |
| 53 | Perham Down Wiltshire | D | 0.8 | 42% | 2.2 | 17% |
| 54 | Billingborough Lincolnshire | D | 2.4 | 45% | 1.6 | 0% |
| 55 | Skelton (York) North Yorkshire | D | 1.4 | 77% | 1.6 | 0% |
| 56 | Meon Vale Warwickshire | D | 0.4 | 50% | 1.4 | 19% |
| 57 | Stillington County Durham | D | 1.4 | 77% | 0.8 | 0% |
| 58 | Friday Bridge Cambridgeshire | D− | 1 | 79% | 0.3 | 0% |
| 59 | Woodmansey East Riding of Yorkshire | D− | 0.7 | 0% | 1.9 | 0% |
| 60 | Langham Rutland | D− | 0.3 | 23% | 1.3 | 0% |
The map
Parks, footpaths & countryside
Tap a number to zoom to a park. Tap a layer to hide it. The dashed line is Carway’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 Carway
The biggest is Coed Ffos Las, 31 ha (77 acres). Directions go to the park’s nearest public entrance where Ordnance Survey maps one.
Carway Recreation Ground
Playing field
2.7 ha (7 acres)0.2 km of path
4 pitchesfootball pitches would fit
0.5 mi north-eastfrom the centre
Directionsto the nearest entrance
Close to home
Everyone in Carway 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%)
Carway100%
Villages its size82%
Dyfed towns74%
All UK towns83%
Playing fields count, so a park within reach isn’t always one with paths or trees; 5 playgrounds are mapped in and around the village, about one for every 280 residents.
National Parks & National Landscapes
The Gower National Landscape is 3.8 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
3.8 mi south187 km²since 1956
National Park
Brecon Beacons
12 mi north-east1,350 km²since 1955
National Park
Pembrokeshire Coast
17 mi west615 km²since 1951
Protected landscape begins just outside the 5 km ring the Outdoors Grade measures, so Carway scores 0% on it even though the Gower National Landscape is 3.8 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 Carway
15 km of footpaths, bridleways and rights of way are mapped in Carway and the kilometre around it, 1.8 km for every square kilometre (the typical UK town has 3.0).
No named walking route is mapped within 2 km of Carway; 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 Carway: 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 | 16.6 | 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) | 141 | 99 | 90 | 81 | 83 | 87 | 95 | 116 | 106 | 152 | 150 | 150 |
April is the driest month (81 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 October, the wettest month. Frost comes on about 42 nights a year. The climate in Carway →
Things to do
5 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
Carway is inland. These are the nearest named beaches, measured from the edge of the village.
Tywyn Bâch3.5 mi from Carway’s edge
DirectionsCefn Sidan4.7 mi from Carway’s edge
DirectionsNicholaston Beach12 mi from Carway’s edge
DirectionsOxwich Beach12 mi from Carway’s edge
DirectionsPobbles Beach12 mi from Carway’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
Waterfalls 1
Trimsaran Waterfall0.6 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.
TrimsaranPontyatesKidwellyBurry PortPwllPembreyCarway
ABCDOutdoors Grade
Burry Port, 3.4 miles away, grades A+, the best next door: 75% of its residents live within 400 m of a park.
Questions about the outdoors in Carway
What is the biggest park in Carway?
Coed Ffos Las, 31 ha (77 acres), with 2 km of path. Carway Recreation Ground (2.7 ha) is second. 2 named parks, gardens and playing fields are in the village or within 400 m of it.
Is Carway near a National Park?
Yes. Brecon Beacons National Park begins 12 mi north-east of the village’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, 3.8 mi away.
What is the nearest beach to Carway?
Tywyn Bâch, 3.5 mi from the edge of the village, then Cefn Sidan (4.7 mi). Carway itself is inland.
How many people in Carway 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 Carway?
May to September: the longest days, the warmest afternoons and the least rain of the year, from the Met Office 1991–2020 averages.
Is Carway good for walking?
Paths are thinner than most towns: 1.8 km of footpath and right of way per square kilometre, more than 26% of UK towns. For park space per person it beats 98% (17.0 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 Carway’s overall grade.
Sources
Where Carway’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.