Glanaman’s biggest
Parc Golwg yr Aman
Park or garden
4.7 ha (12 acres)1.1 km of path
15 minto walk all 1.1 km of path
7 pitchesfootball pitches would fit
Centralin the middle of Glanaman
Directionsto the nearest entrance
Photo: Nigel Davies · CC BY-SA 2.0B−Outdoors Grade
Outdoors in Glanaman · parks, paths & countryside
29% of the land within 5 km of Glanaman is National Park or National Landscape
The Brecon Beacons National Park reaches the edge of Glanaman. 13 km of footpaths run through the town and the kilometre around it, 0.8 for every square kilometre. Parks and playing fields in Glanaman add up to 3.3 ha for every 1,000 residents; the typical UK town has 2.1. Glanaman grades B− for the outdoors: #10 of 23 in Dyfed. A character grade: it isn’t part of the overall grade.
Green space
3.3 ha
per 1,000 residents
Typical UK town 2.1
Near a park
83%
of residents within 400 m
Typical UK town 83%
Footpaths
13 km
0.8 km per km², town + 1 km
Typical UK town 3.0 per km²
Protected landscape
29%
of the land within 5 km
Nearest: Brecon Beacons National Park
Character
What kind of outdoors town is Glanaman?
Read from the data: what stands out first, good and bad.
Protected countryside29% of the land within 5 km is Brecon Beacons National Park.Few mapped footpaths0.8 km of path per km²; the typical UK town has 3.0.
Glanaman’s strongest suit is protected countryside on the doorstep. Where it falls short is footpaths.
Outdoors grade
Glanaman grades B− for the outdoors
Each chart is every UK town of 1,000 or more on one measure: the green bar is Glanaman, 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 51% of UK towns#10 of 23 in Dyfed · 25th of 60 UK towns its size
Public green space3.3 haper 1,000 residents: parks, gardens, playing fields, play spaces
74out of
100
100
A park within a walk83%of residents within 400 m (a 5-minute walk)
52out of
100
100
National Park or National Landscape29%of the land within 5 km
83out of
100
100
Footpaths0.8 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.
Towns its size
Glanaman is 25th of 60 UK towns its size for the outdoors
The 60 UK towns and cities of 3,700 to 4,000 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
Glanaman0.8
Towns its size2.4
Dyfed towns1.2
All UK towns3.0
Green space, ha per 1,000 residents
Glanaman3.3
Towns its size1.9
Dyfed towns2.2
All UK towns2.1
Residents within 400 m of a park
Glanaman83%
Towns its size82%
Dyfed towns74%
All UK towns83%
Against towns its size, Glanaman stands out most for park space per resident: only 10 of the other 59 have more. It falls furthest behind on path per km², where 56 of the others do better.
Show as a table
| Town | Outdoors | Green space | Near a park | Path per km² | Protected | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Batheaston Somerset | A | 3 | 84% | 4.6 | 71% |
| 2 | Cuckfield West Sussex | A | 6.7 | 70% | 4.9 | 49% |
| 3 | Cranbrook Kent | A | 5.8 | 82% | 2.9 | 65% |
| 4 | Walter's Ash and Naphill Buckinghamshire | A | 3.7 | 50% | 5.3 | 79% |
| 5 | Disley Cheshire | A− | 1.2 | 100% | 4.6 | 22% |
| 6 | Mulbarton Norfolk | A− | 7 | 100% | 3 | 0% |
| 7 | Welwyn Hertfordshire | A− | 2.6 | 100% | 4 | 0% |
| 8 | Esh Winning County Durham | A− | 3.2 | 100% | 3.5 | 0% |
| 9 | Old Basing Hampshire | A− | 13.6 | 92% | 3.1 | 0% |
| 10 | Colden Common Hampshire | B+ | 2.7 | 82% | 2.8 | 35% |
| 11 | Barnt Green Worcestershire | B+ | 37.8 | 81% | 3.7 | 0% |
| 12 | Carbis Bay Cornwall | B+ | 0.5 | 88% | 2.8 | 20% |
| 13 | Long Melford Suffolk | B+ | 6.9 | 87% | 3.3 | 0% |
| 14 | Papworth Everard Cambridgeshire | B+ | 4.3 | 100% | 2.5 | 0% |
| 15 | Chirk Clwyd | B+ | 1.8 | 100% | 2.3 | 15% |
| 16 | Locking Somerset | B+ | 2.7 | 84% | 2.4 | 23% |
| 17 | Greasbrough South Yorkshire | B | 2.9 | 80% | 4.7 | 0% |
| 18 | Queenborough Kent | B | 1.6 | 100% | 2 | 0% |
| 19 | Stoke Poges Buckinghamshire | B | 7.7 | 76% | 3.3 | 0% |
| 20 | Romanby North Yorkshire | B | 3.1 | 100% | 2.3 | 0% |
| 21 | Mytholmroyd West Yorkshire | B | 1.8 | 88% | 5.8 | 0% |
| 22 | Framlingham Suffolk | B | 3.7 | 73% | 4.2 | 0% |
| 23 | Pirbright Surrey | B | 2 | 84% | 5.7 | 0% |
| 24 | Rhuddlan Clwyd | B− | 1.8 | 85% | 0.9 | 8% |
| 25 | Glanaman Dyfed | B− | 3.3 | 83% | 0.8 | 29% |
| 26 | Cholsey Oxfordshire | B− | 2.3 | 55% | 2.5 | 81% |
| 27 | Alford Lincolnshire | B− | 2.1 | 85% | 1.5 | 26% |
| 28 | Lower Stondon Bedfordshire | B− | 2.7 | 73% | 2.2 | 5% |
| 29 | Cardigan Dyfed | B− | 1.9 | 69% | 1.4 | 13% |
| 30 | New Romney Kent | C+ | 2.5 | 79% | 1.6 | 0% |
| 31 | Chipping Ongar Essex | C+ | 2.5 | 83% | 2.9 | 0% |
| 32 | Bar Hill Cambridgeshire | C+ | 1.4 | 93% | 3.5 | 0% |
| 33 | Pewsey Wiltshire | C+ | 1 | 64% | 3 | 91% |
| 34 | Troedyrhiw and Pentrebach Mid Glamorgan | C+ | 2.5 | 84% | 1.5 | 0% |
| 35 | Norton Fitzwarren Somerset | C+ | 1.3 | 35% | 5.2 | 6% |
| 36 | Forest Row East Sussex | C+ | 0.3 | 51% | 3.4 | 94% |
| 37 | Coggeshall Essex | C | 2.1 | 84% | 2.5 | 0% |
| 38 | Silver End Essex | C | 2 | 88% | 2.1 | 0% |
| 39 | Cubbington Warwickshire | C | 1.5 | 100% | 1.7 | 0% |
| 40 | Tenbury Wells Worcestershire | C | 2.3 | 51% | 2.1 | 3% |
| 41 | Oaklands Hertfordshire | C | 2 | 7% | 4.3 | 0% |
| 42 | Bromyard Herefordshire | C | 0.9 | 100% | 2.1 | 0% |
| 43 | Whiston South Yorkshire | C− | 1 | 75% | 3.8 | 0% |
| 44 | Desford Leicestershire | C− | 1.6 | 90% | 2 | 0% |
| 45 | Holton le Clay Lincolnshire | C− | 2 | 59% | 1.4 | 8% |
| 46 | Lydd Kent | C− | 1.7 | 66% | 0.9 | 0% |
| 47 | Kingston Bagpuize Oxfordshire | C− | 0.8 | 100% | 1.3 | 0% |
| 48 | Swanland East Riding of Yorkshire | C− | 1.1 | 75% | 0.3 | 0% |
| 49 | Sutton Cambridgeshire | D | 1.9 | 82% | 1.1 | 0% |
| 50 | Glyn-neath West Glamorgan | D | 1.3 | 57% | 1.1 | 22% |
| 51 | Pen-pedair-heol Gwent | D | 0.9 | 80% | 2.3 | 0% |
| 52 | Crowle Lincolnshire | D | 1.3 | 91% | 1 | 0% |
| 53 | Puckeridge and Standon Hertfordshire | D | 0.9 | 59% | 3.2 | 0% |
| 54 | Sutton Bridge Lincolnshire | D | 1.3 | 79% | 0.8 | 0% |
| 55 | North Ferriby East Riding of Yorkshire | D | 0.6 | 33% | 1 | 0% |
| 56 | Willingham Cambridgeshire | D | 1.4 | 73% | 0.8 | 0% |
| 57 | Llanbradach Gwent | D− | 1.2 | 52% | 1.9 | 0% |
| 58 | Long Buckby Northamptonshire | D− | 0.6 | 52% | 1.9 | 0% |
| 59 | Penyffordd Clwyd | D− | 0.7 | 36% | 1.6 | 0% |
| 60 | Indian Queens, Fraddon and St Columb Road Cornwall | D− | 0.7 | 27% | 1.6 | 0% |
The map
Parks, footpaths & countryside
Tap a number to zoom to a park. Tap a layer to hide it. The dashed line is Glanaman’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 Glanaman
The biggest is Parc Golwg yr Aman, 4.7 ha (12 acres). Directions go to the park’s nearest public entrance where Ordnance Survey maps one.
Y Palais Garnant
Park or garden
0.5 ha (1 acres)0.3 km of path
0.4 mi eastfrom the centre
Directionsto the nearest entrance
Close to home
8 in 10 Glanaman 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 (83%)Further (17%)
Glanaman83%
Towns its size82%
Dyfed towns74%
All UK towns83%
About 700 people live further than that. Playing fields count, so a park within reach isn’t always one with paths or trees; 17 playgrounds are mapped in and around the town, about one for every 227 residents.
National Parks & National Landscapes
National Parks and National Landscapes around Glanaman
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
At the edge north-east1,350 km²since 195529% of the land within 5 km
National Landscape
Gower
13 mi south-west187 km²since 1956
29% of the land within 5 km of Glanaman is National Park or National Landscape, more than 82% of UK towns. Brecon Beacons National Park covers 1,350 km² and has been a National Park since 1955.
Footpaths & waymarked walks
1 waymarked walk passes through or near Glanaman
13 km of footpaths, bridleways and rights of way are mapped in Glanaman and the kilometre around it, 0.8 km for every square kilometre (the typical UK town has 3.0). Bars show each route’s kilometres within 2 km of the town.
Local
walk or endurance training1.6 km
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 Glanaman: 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 | 16.7 | 16.2 | 14.6 | 12.6 | 10.5 | 8.7 | 7.8 |
| High (°C) | 8 | 8 | 10 | 13 | 16 | 18 | 20 | 20 | 17 | 14 | 10 | 8 |
| Rain (mm) | 183 | 138 | 122 | 97 | 99 | 106 | 118 | 138 | 134 | 189 | 192 | 198 |
April is the driest month (97 mm) and July the warmest (highs of 20 °C). Winter days are short, about 8 hours of daylight in December, and 198 mm of rain falls in December, the wettest month. Frost comes on about 37 nights a year. The climate in Glanaman →
Things to do
17 playgrounds and the nearest beaches
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.
The nearest beaches
Glanaman is inland. These are the nearest named beaches, measured from the edge of the town.
ABCC Meeting Point13 mi from Glanaman’s edge
DirectionsSwansea Beach14 mi from Glanaman’s edge
DirectionsSwansea Bay14 mi from Glanaman’s edge
DirectionsAberavon Beach14 mi from Glanaman’s edge
DirectionsTywyn Bâch14 mi from Glanaman’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.
Up high. Mynydd Isaf, at 299 m, is the highest named top within 2 km of Glanaman.
Every named place, with directions
Viewpoints 1
Plus 1 viewpoint without a name on the map.
Hills and peaks 2
Mynydd Isaf299 m (981 ft) · 0.9 mi from town
DirectionsMynydd Y Betws341 m (1,119 ft) · 1.2 mi from town
DirectionsPicnic sites 6
Plus 6 picnic sites without a name on the map.
Playgrounds 17
Plus 17 playgrounds without a name on the map.
Campsites 1
Black Mountain Fishing and Camping0.6 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.
Gwaun-Cae-GurwenBrynammanAmmanfordCwmllynfell and YstradowenLlandybiePenybancGlanaman
ABCDOutdoors Grade
| Town | Outdoors | Green space, ha per 1,000 | Near a park | Protected within 5 km |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Glanaman | B− | 3.3 | 83% | 29% |
| Gwaun-Cae-Gurwen 1.9 mi | C− | 1.1 | 80% | 26% |
| Brynamman 1.9 mi | B | 1.7 | 100% | 51% |
| Ammanford 3.1 mi | C+ | 2.8 | 70% | 9% |
| Cwmllynfell and Ystradowen 4.1 mi | B | 4.1 | 79% | 40% |
| Llandybie 4.1 mi | C | 2.6 | 59% | 13% |
| Penybanc 4.1 mi | B− | 7.4 | 35% | 1% |
Cwmllynfell and Ystradowen, 4.1 miles away, grades B, the best next door: 79% of its residents live within 400 m of a park. Penybanc has at least twice Glanaman’s green space per resident.
Questions about the outdoors in Glanaman
What is the biggest park in Glanaman?
Parc Golwg yr Aman, 4.7 ha (12 acres), with 1.1 km of path. Y Palais Garnant (0.5 ha) is second. 2 named parks, gardens and playing fields are in the town or within 400 m of it.
Is Glanaman near a National Park?
Brecon Beacons National Park reaches the edge of Glanaman. It covers 1,350 km² and has been a National Park since 1955.
What are the best walks near Glanaman?
1 waymarked walking route passes within 2 km of the town, including the walk or endurance training.
What is the nearest beach to Glanaman?
ABCC Meeting Point, 13 mi from the edge of the town, then Swansea Beach (14 mi). Glanaman itself is inland.
How many people in Glanaman live near a park?
83% 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 Glanaman?
May to September: the longest days, the warmest afternoons and the least rain of the year, from the Met Office 1991–2020 averages.
Is Glanaman good for walking?
Paths are thinner than most towns: 0.8 km of footpath and right of way per square kilometre, more than 5% of UK towns. For park space per person it beats 74% (3.3 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 Glanaman’s overall grade.
Sources
Where Glanaman’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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