Photo: Orrcad · CC BY-SA 3.0Almost everyone in Kilgetty lives within a 5-minute walk of a park
The Pembrokeshire Coast National Park reaches the edge of Kilgetty. Footpaths add up to 7 km in the village and the kilometre around it, 0.9 for every square kilometre. Parks and playing fields in Kilgetty add up to 1.0 ha for every 1,000 residents; the typical UK town has 2.1. Kilgetty grades B for the outdoors. A character grade: it isn’t part of the overall grade.
What kind of outdoors village is Kilgetty?
Read from the data: what stands out first, good and bad.
Kilgetty’s strongest suit is parks close to every home, followed by the Pembrokeshire Coast National Park close by. Where it falls short is footpaths.
Kilgetty grades B for the outdoors
Each chart is every UK town of 1,000 or more on one measure: the green bar is Kilgetty, the dashed line the typical town. The number is the share of towns it beats; the five are averaged and the average ranked again.
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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.
Kilgetty is 25th of 60 UK villages its size for the outdoors
The 60 UK towns and cities of 1,200 to 1,300 people with an Outdoors Grade. Hover a dot for its figures; tap one for its page.
Against villages its size, Kilgetty stands out most for homes near a park: none of the other 59 has more. It falls furthest behind on park space per resident, where 50 of the others do better.
Show as a table
| Town | Outdoors | Green space | Near a park | Path per km² | Protected | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Huncoat Lancashire | A+ | 10.1 | 100% | 4.9 | 1% |
| 2 | Clanfield Hampshire | A+ | 6.1 | 100% | 2.9 | 78% |
| 3 | Kirton Suffolk | A+ | 2.5 | 100% | 2.3 | 50% |
| 4 | Otterbourne Hampshire | A | 2.9 | 100% | 3.2 | 25% |
| 5 | Thurgoland South Yorkshire | A | 2.5 | 100% | 4.1 | 1% |
| 6 | Haydon Bridge Northumberland | A | 7.2 | 100% | 1.7 | 26% |
| 7 | Cronton Merseyside | A | 6.8 | 100% | 3.5 | 0% |
| 8 | Chew Magna Somerset | A | 2.4 | 100% | 3 | 15% |
| 9 | Millhouse Green South Yorkshire | A | 1.9 | 100% | 3.6 | 18% |
| 10 | East Hanney Oxfordshire | A− | 5.7 | 100% | 1.8 | 4% |
| 11 | Harlech Gwynedd | A− | 1.9 | 36% | 3.5 | 67% |
| 12 | Caldy Merseyside | A− | 19.3 | 47% | 3.6 | 0% |
| 13 | Thorpe Surrey | A− | 5.2 | 100% | 3.1 | 0% |
| 14 | Bonds Lancashire | A− | 1.7 | 100% | 3.5 | 16% |
| 15 | Bradpole Dorset | A− | 0.9 | 100% | 3.3 | 95% |
| 16 | Felsted Essex | A− | 7.5 | 81% | 4.4 | 0% |
| 17 | Tregarth Gwynedd | B+ | 1.5 | 100% | 2.9 | 23% |
| 18 | Bierton Buckinghamshire | B+ | 5.8 | 70% | 7.7 | 0% |
| 19 | Walberton West Sussex | B+ | 1.8 | 100% | 1.9 | 39% |
| 20 | Sharpness Gloucestershire | B+ | 2.1 | 100% | 1.8 | 0% |
| 21 | Billy Row County Durham | B | 2.3 | 100% | 3.1 | 0% |
| 22 | Stoke Holy Cross Norfolk | B | 2.2 | 100% | 2.1 | 0% |
| 23 | Horton Kirby Kent | B | 5.9 | 78% | 1.7 | 21% |
| 24 | Bunbury Cheshire | B | 2.6 | 100% | 2.7 | 0% |
| 25 | Kilgetty Dyfed | B | 1 | 100% | 0.9 | 18% |
| 26 | Talgarth Powys | B | 5.7 | 71% | 1.5 | 52% |
| 27 | Minster Lovell Oxfordshire | B | 3.6 | 79% | 1.5 | 37% |
| 28 | Sutton Benger Wiltshire | B | 2.7 | 100% | 2.4 | 0% |
| 29 | Eckington Worcestershire | B | 4.1 | 72% | 1.9 | 23% |
| 30 | Potten End Hertfordshire | B− | 2.4 | 73% | 2.2 | 44% |
| 31 | Brightwell-cum-Sotwell Oxfordshire | B− | 2.5 | 72% | 2.2 | 40% |
| 32 | Wyton Cambridgeshire | B− | 4.9 | 100% | 0.8 | 0% |
| 33 | Gilmorton Leicestershire | B− | 3.3 | 100% | 1.4 | 0% |
| 34 | Chulmleigh Devon | C+ | 3.5 | 100% | 0.9 | 0% |
| 35 | East Morton West Yorkshire | C+ | 2.1 | 89% | 2.9 | 0% |
| 36 | Trimdon Grange County Durham | C+ | 2.1 | 100% | 2.1 | 0% |
| 37 | Sutton Common Suffolk | C+ | 0.8 | 51% | 3.9 | 85% |
| 38 | Thorpe on the Hill West Yorkshire | C+ | 2.2 | 64% | 4 | 0% |
| 39 | Ashill Norfolk | C+ | 3.7 | 82% | 1.7 | 0% |
| 40 | Westhampnett West Sussex | C | 0.2 | 79% | 2.6 | 33% |
| 41 | Ampleforth North Yorkshire | C | 2.3 | 27% | 1.7 | 95% |
| 42 | Bradfield Essex | C | 1.4 | 27% | 1.5 | 35% |
| 43 | Warwick Bridge Cumbria | C | 6.5 | 78% | 1.3 | 0% |
| 44 | Stoke Hampshire | C | 0.3 | 0% | 2 | 32% |
| 45 | West Clandon Surrey | C | 1.9 | 49% | 2.1 | 28% |
| 46 | Ponthir Gwent | C | 2.9 | 78% | 1.8 | 0% |
| 47 | South Killingholme Lincolnshire | C | 1.7 | 68% | 1.8 | 0% |
| 48 | Hanwood Shropshire | C− | 1.9 | 19% | 2.6 | 3% |
| 49 | Little Downham Cambridgeshire | C− | 2.8 | 61% | 1.8 | 0% |
| 50 | Trewoon Cornwall | D | 0.9 | 71% | 1.7 | 6% |
| 51 | Blyth Nottinghamshire | D | 2.5 | 76% | 0.3 | 0% |
| 52 | Burton on the Wolds Leicestershire | D | 2.5 | 31% | 2 | 0% |
| 53 | Southery Norfolk | D | 2 | 61% | 1.7 | 0% |
| 54 | Dishforth North Yorkshire | D | 2.3 | 68% | 0.7 | 0% |
| 55 | Fleet Hargate Lincolnshire | D | 1.7 | 76% | 0.7 | 0% |
| 56 | Felton Northumberland | D− | 1.7 | 50% | 1.4 | 0% |
| 57 | Sutton on Trent Nottinghamshire | D− | 0.5 | 39% | 1.9 | 0% |
| 58 | Walsham le Willows Suffolk | D− | 0.4 | 0% | 2 | 0% |
| 59 | Helpston Cambridgeshire | D− | 0 | 0% | 1.7 | 0% |
| 60 | Prees Higher Heath Shropshire | D− | 0.7 | 26% | 0.9 | 0% |
Parks, footpaths & countryside
Tap a number to zoom to a park. Tap a layer to hide it. The dashed line is Kilgetty’s built-up area.
How close Kilgetty’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).
Playing fields count, so a park within reach isn’t always one with paths or trees; 12 playgrounds are mapped in and around the village, about one for every 104 residents.
National Parks and National Landscapes around Kilgetty
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.
Pembrokeshire Coast
18% of the land within 5 km of Kilgetty is National Park or National Landscape, more than 76% of UK towns. Pembrokeshire Coast National Park covers 615 km² and has been a National Park since 1951.
Kilgetty is on the Pembrokeshire Coast Path main route
7 km of footpaths, bridleways and rights of way are mapped in Kilgetty and the kilometre around it, 0.9 km for every square kilometre (the typical UK town has 3.0). Bars show each route’s kilometres within 2 km of the village.
The Pembrokeshire Coast Path main route, a national route, passes Kilgetty. The regional route here is the Landsker Borderlands Trail.
Waymarked walks are OpenStreetMap walking routes. Public rights of way are only as complete as the map in each area.
The best walking months in Kilgetty: 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 | |
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| 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 | 15 | 18 | 20 | 19 | 17 | 14 | 11 | 9 |
| Rain (mm) | 139 | 105 | 95 | 85 | 82 | 87 | 94 | 117 | 104 | 154 | 165 | 164 |
May is the driest month (82 mm) and July the warmest (highs of 20 °C). Winter days are short, about 8 hours of daylight in December, and 165 mm of rain falls in November, the wettest month. Frost comes on about 36 nights a year. The climate in Kilgetty →
Kilgetty is near the sea
15% of the area within 5 km of Kilgetty is sea. 7 beaches are mapped within 5 km, 5 with a name.
The Pembrokeshire Coast Path main route passes the town.
Sea: 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.
5 viewpoints and 12 playgrounds
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.
Every named place, with directions
Viewpoints 5
Playgrounds 12
Plus 9 playgrounds without a name on the map.
Dog parks 1
Plus 1 dog park without a name on the map.
Campsites 5
The outdoors in nearby towns
The nearest towns of 1,000+ within 12 miles. Tap a town for its outdoors page.
Tenby, 4.2 miles away, grades A, the best next door: 88% of its residents live within 400 m of a park. Saundersfoot, Tenby and Whitland have at least twice Kilgetty’s green space per resident.
Questions about the outdoors in Kilgetty
Is Kilgetty near a National Park?
Pembrokeshire Coast National Park reaches the edge of Kilgetty. It covers 615 km² and has been a National Park since 1951.
What are the best walks near Kilgetty?
2 waymarked walking routes pass within 2 km of the village, including the Landsker Borderlands Trail and Pembrokeshire Coast Path main route.
How many people in Kilgetty 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 Kilgetty?
May to September: the longest days, the warmest afternoons and the least rain of the year, from the Met Office 1991–2020 averages.
Is Kilgetty good for walking?
Paths are thinner than most towns: 0.9 km of footpath and right of way per square kilometre, more than 6% of UK towns. For park space per person it beats 13% (1.0 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 Kilgetty’s overall grade.
Where Kilgetty’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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