Kidwelly’s biggest
Parc Stephens
Playing field
7.6 ha (19 acres)0.7 km of path
10 minto walk all 0.7 km of path
11 pitchesfootball pitches would fit
Centralin the middle of Kidwelly
Directionsto the nearest entrance
Photo: Derek Voller · CC BY-SA 2.0COutdoors Grade
Outdoors in Kidwelly · parks, paths & countryside
Parks and walks in Kidwelly
The Gower National Landscape begins 3.6 mi from the town’s edge. The sea makes up 25% of the area within 5 km. 21 km of footpaths run through the town and the kilometre around it, 1.0 for every square kilometre. Kidwelly grades C for the outdoors: #18 of 23 in Dyfed. A character grade: it isn’t part of the overall grade.
Green space
2.8 ha
per 1,000 residents
Typical UK town 2.1
Near a park
56%
of residents within 400 m
Typical UK town 83%
Footpaths
21 km
1.0 km per km², town + 1 km
Typical UK town 3.0 per km²
Protected landscape
0%
of the land within 5 km
Gower starts 3.6 mi out, past the 5 km
The sea
25%
of the area within 5 km
Character
What kind of outdoors town is Kidwelly?
Read from the data: what stands out first, good and bad.
Countryside close byThe Gower National Landscape starts 3.6 mi south-east.Few mapped footpaths1.0 km of path per km²; the typical UK town has 3.0.
Kidwelly’s strongest suit is the Gower National Landscape close by. Where it falls short is footpaths.
Outdoors grade
Kidwelly grades C for the outdoors
Each chart is every UK town of 1,000 or more on one measure: the green bar is Kidwelly, the dashed line the typical town. The number is the share of towns it beats; the five are averaged and the average ranked again.
C
Better than 29% of UK towns#18 of 23 in Dyfed · 36th of 60 UK towns its size
Public green space2.8 haper 1,000 residents: parks, gardens, playing fields, play spaces
66out of
100
100
A park within a walk56%of residents within 400 m (a 5-minute walk)
17out of
100
100
National Park or National Landscape0%of the land within 5 km · Gower begins just past 5 km
31out of
100
100
Footpaths1.0 kmper km², the town and 1 km around it
7out of
100
100
The sea25%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
Kidwelly is 36th of 60 UK towns its size for the outdoors
The 60 UK towns and cities of 2,700 to 2,900 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
Kidwelly1.0
Towns its size2.2
Dyfed towns1.2
All UK towns3.0
Green space, ha per 1,000 residents
Kidwelly2.8
Towns its size1.8
Dyfed towns2.2
All UK towns2.1
Residents within 400 m of a park
Kidwelly56%
Towns its size78%
Dyfed towns74%
All UK towns83%
Against towns its size, Kidwelly stands out most for park space per resident: only 15 of the other 59 have more. It falls furthest behind on path per km², where 52 of the others do better.
Show as a table
| Town | Outdoors | Green space | Near a park | Path per km² | Protected | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Lindford Hampshire | A+ | 17.1 | 100% | 4.7 | 42% |
| 2 | Settle North Yorkshire | A+ | 6.4 | 100% | 3.6 | 73% |
| 3 | Hadston Northumberland | A+ | 5.8 | 100% | 2 | 1% |
| 4 | Bruton Somerset | A | 9.3 | 100% | 2.5 | 1% |
| 5 | Penmaenmawr Clwyd | A | 1.7 | 78% | 3.4 | 39% |
| 6 | Martlesham Heath Suffolk | A− | 3.5 | 68% | 4.6 | 25% |
| 7 | Congresbury Somerset | A− | 8.5 | 67% | 3.5 | 10% |
| 8 | Jacksdale and Westwood Nottinghamshire | A− | 2.7 | 100% | 3.9 | 0% |
| 9 | Holywell Green and Stainland West Yorkshire | A− | 4 | 89% | 4.1 | 0% |
| 10 | Combe Martin Devon | A− | 1.8 | 88% | 1.5 | 37% |
| 11 | Newhey Greater Manchester | B+ | 2.4 | 100% | 3.9 | 0% |
| 12 | Perranporth Cornwall | B+ | 1.3 | 75% | 3.4 | 4% |
| 13 | Buckfastleigh Devon | B+ | 2.9 | 89% | 1.3 | 53% |
| 14 | Mundesley Norfolk | B | 1.8 | 79% | 1.5 | 24% |
| 15 | Broadway Worcestershire | B | 2 | 65% | 3.6 | 56% |
| 16 | Charlbury Oxfordshire | B | 3.1 | 66% | 2.4 | 65% |
| 17 | Boverton South Glamorgan | B | 4.3 | 52% | 2.5 | 0% |
| 18 | Ormesby St Margaret Norfolk | B | 2.1 | 79% | 0.8 | 21% |
| 19 | Sutton-in-Craven North Yorkshire | B | 1.8 | 100% | 3.1 | 0% |
| 20 | Tollesbury Essex | B− | 2 | 85% | 2.2 | 0% |
| 21 | Chalgrove Oxfordshire | B− | 4.1 | 85% | 1.2 | 4% |
| 22 | Alltwen West Glamorgan | B− | 4.2 | 100% | 0.9 | 0% |
| 23 | Denby Dale West Yorkshire | B− | 0.7 | 100% | 4 | 0% |
| 24 | Pimperne Dorset | C+ | 1.9 | 72% | 1.9 | 89% |
| 25 | Shevington Moor Greater Manchester | C+ | 2.1 | 90% | 2.8 | 0% |
| 26 | Great Totham Essex | C+ | 2.8 | 100% | 1.3 | 0% |
| 27 | Hambrook and Nutbourne West Sussex | C+ | 1.2 | 28% | 2 | 69% |
| 28 | Snettisham Norfolk | C+ | 1.1 | 73% | 1.3 | 32% |
| 29 | Rhostyllen Clwyd | C+ | 1.1 | 68% | 3.7 | 10% |
| 30 | Bluntisham and Colne Cambridgeshire | C+ | 2.3 | 88% | 2.2 | 0% |
| 31 | Lostock Gralam Cheshire | C | 1.2 | 100% | 2.4 | 0% |
| 32 | Catterick North Yorkshire | C | 3.6 | 89% | 0.7 | 0% |
| 33 | Asfordby Leicestershire | C | 4 | 57% | 2.5 | 0% |
| 34 | Badsey Worcestershire | C | 2.8 | 54% | 1.9 | 5% |
| 35 | Woolton Hill and Highclere Hampshire | C | 1.2 | 60% | 2.3 | 70% |
| 36 | Kidwelly Dyfed | C | 2.8 | 56% | 1 | 0% |
| 37 | Buckden Cambridgeshire | C | 2.9 | 85% | 1.4 | 0% |
| 38 | Swavesey Cambridgeshire | C− | 1.8 | 80% | 2.4 | 0% |
| 39 | Cheswick Green West Midlands | C− | 1 | 77% | 3.4 | 0% |
| 40 | Tuxford Nottinghamshire | C− | 1.4 | 100% | 1 | 0% |
| 41 | Mere Wiltshire | C− | 1.6 | 34% | 1.5 | 54% |
| 42 | Gwaun-Cae-Gurwen West Glamorgan | C− | 1.1 | 80% | 0.8 | 26% |
| 43 | Tarvin Cheshire | C− | 1.2 | 90% | 1.9 | 0% |
| 44 | Clifton Bedfordshire | C− | 1.7 | 64% | 2.6 | 0% |
| 45 | Kirkbymoorside North Yorkshire | C− | 0.4 | 55% | 1.9 | 37% |
| 46 | Willington Derbyshire | D | 1.8 | 67% | 2 | 0% |
| 47 | Brierley South Yorkshire | D | 0.7 | 82% | 2.1 | 0% |
| 48 | Catterall Lancashire | D | 1 | 47% | 1.9 | 9% |
| 49 | Croston Lancashire | D | 0.6 | 78% | 2.3 | 0% |
| 50 | Harbury Warwickshire | D | 1.6 | 73% | 1.7 | 0% |
| 51 | Larkhill Wiltshire | D | 1.1 | 68% | 2.5 | 0% |
| 52 | Ambrosden Oxfordshire | D | 1 | 78% | 2.1 | 0% |
| 53 | Sherburn County Durham | D | 0.2 | 0% | 4.1 | 0% |
| 54 | Berinsfield Oxfordshire | D | 0.1 | 0% | 2.1 | 11% |
| 55 | Terrington St Clement Norfolk | D | 1.5 | 53% | 0.4 | 0% |
| 56 | Seghill Northumberland | D | 0.2 | 41% | 3.1 | 0% |
| 57 | Repton Derbyshire | D | 0.8 | 36% | 2.8 | 0% |
| 58 | East Ayton and West Ayton North Yorkshire | D | 0.1 | 0% | 1.2 | 33% |
| 59 | Pickmere Cheshire | D− | 0.4 | 71% | 1.6 | 0% |
| 60 | Greetham Rutland | D− | 0.9 | 30% | 0.8 | 0% |
The map
Parks, footpaths & countryside
Tap a number to zoom to a park. Tap a layer to hide it. The dashed line is Kidwelly’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 Kidwelly
The biggest is Parc Stephens, 7.6 ha (19 acres). Directions go to the park’s nearest public entrance where Ordnance Survey maps one.
Close to home
6 in 10 Kidwelly 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 (56%)Further (44%)
Kidwelly56%
Towns its size78%
Dyfed towns74%
All UK towns83%
About 1,200 people live further than that. Playing fields count, so a park within reach isn’t always one with paths or trees; 3 playgrounds are mapped in and around the town, about one for every 920 residents.
National Parks & National Landscapes
The Gower National Landscape is 3.6 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
3.6 mi south-east187 km²since 1956
National Park
Pembrokeshire Coast
13 mi west615 km²since 1951
National Park
Brecon Beacons
15 mi north-east1,350 km²since 1955
Protected landscape begins just outside the 5 km ring the Outdoors Grade measures, so Kidwelly scores 0% on it even though the Gower National Landscape is 3.6 mi away. Pembrokeshire Coast National Park covers 615 km² and has been a National Park since 1951.
Footpaths & waymarked walks
2 waymarked walks pass through or near Kidwelly
21 km of footpaths, bridleways and rights of way are mapped in Kidwelly and the kilometre around it, 1.0 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 Walk2.9 km
Penybedd Trail1.7 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 Kidwelly: 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 | 18 | 20 | 20 | 18 | 14 | 11 | 8 |
| Rain (mm) | 123 | 96 | 85 | 83 | 81 | 74 | 80 | 114 | 105 | 143 | 142 | 142 |
June is the driest month (74 mm) and July the warmest (highs of 20 °C). Winter days are short, about 8 hours of daylight in December, and 143 mm of rain falls in October, the wettest month. Frost comes on about 43 nights a year. The climate in Kidwelly →
The coast
Kidwelly is near the sea
25% of the area within 5 km of Kidwelly is sea. 4 beaches are mapped within 5 km, 1 with a name.
Cefn Sidan0.5 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
3 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 1
Ffrwd Farm Mire Nature Reserve20 ha · 0.9 mi from town
DirectionsPicnic sites 2
Plus 2 picnic sites without a name on the map.
Playgrounds 3
Plus 3 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.
TrimsaranCarwayPembreyPontyatesBurry PortPwllKidwelly
ABCDOutdoors Grade
Burry Port, 4.1 miles away, grades A+, the best next door: 75% of its residents live within 400 m of a park. Carway, Burry Port and Pwll have at least twice Kidwelly’s green space per resident.
Questions about the outdoors in Kidwelly
What is the biggest park in Kidwelly?
Parc Stephens, 7.6 ha (19 acres), with 0.7 km of path. 1 named park, garden or playing field is in the town or within 400 m of it.
Is Kidwelly near a National Park?
Yes. Pembrokeshire Coast National Park begins 13 mi west of the town’s edge. It covers 615 km² and has been a National Park since 1951. The nearest protected landscape of any kind is the Gower National Landscape, 3.6 mi away.
What are the best walks near Kidwelly?
2 waymarked walking routes pass within 2 km of the town, including the St Illtyd's Walk and Penybedd Trail.
How many people in Kidwelly live near a park?
56% 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 Kidwelly?
May to September: the longest days, the warmest afternoons and the least rain of the year, from the Met Office 1991–2020 averages.
Is Kidwelly good for walking?
Paths are thinner than most towns: 1.0 km of footpath and right of way per square kilometre, more than 7% of UK towns. For park space per person it beats 66% (2.8 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 Kidwelly’s overall grade.
Sources
Where Kidwelly’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.