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Outdoors in Lampeter · parks, paths & countryside

88% of Lampeter’s residents live within a 5-minute walk of a park

Footpaths add up to 9 km in the town and the kilometre around it, 0.9 for every square kilometre. Parks and playing fields in Lampeter add up to 1.5 ha for every 1,000 residents; the typical UK town has 2.1. Lampeter grades D for the outdoors. A character grade: it isn’t part of the overall grade.

3named parks 15 mito Brecon Beacons

Green space

1.5 ha

per 1,000 residents

Typical UK town 2.1

Near a park

88%

of residents within 400 m

Typical UK town 83%

Footpaths

9 km

0.9 km per km², town + 1 km

Typical UK town 3.0 per km²

Protected landscape

of the land within 5 km

Nearest: Brecon Beacons National Park

Outdoors grade

Lampeter grades D for the outdoors

Each chart is every UK town of 1,000 or more on one measure: the green bar is Lampeter, the dashed line the typical town. The number is the share of towns it beats; the five are averaged and the average ranked again.

Better than 14% of UK towns#22 of 23 in Dyfed · 49th of 60 UK towns its size

Public green space1.5 haper 1,000 residents: parks, gardens, playing fields, play spaces

28out of
100

A park within a walk88%of residents within 400 m (a 5-minute walk)

64out of
100

National Park or National Landscape0%of the land within 5 km · None within 5 km

31out of
100

Footpaths0.9 kmper km², the town and 1 km around it

6out of
100

The sea0%of the area within 5 km · Inland

42out of
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

Lampeter is 49th of 60 UK towns its size for the outdoors

The 60 UK towns and cities of 2,400 to 2,600 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

Lampeter0.9

Towns its size2.2

Dyfed towns1.2

All UK towns3.0

Green space, ha per 1,000 residents

Lampeter1.5

Towns its size2.2

Dyfed towns2.2

All UK towns2.1

Residents within 400 m of a park

Lampeter88%

Towns its size85%

Dyfed towns74%

All UK towns83%

Lampeter falls furthest behind on path per km², where 52 of the 59 others do better.

Show as a table

	Town	Outdoors	Green space	Near a park	Path per km²	Protected
1	Rawnsley Staffordshire	A⁺	17.7	100%	3.7	36%
2	Shalford Surrey	A⁺	14.9	89%	4.8	47%
3	Silloth Cumbria	A⁺	7.3	100%	1.4	17%
4	Eton Berkshire	A	22.9	100%	4.5	0%
5	Lyndhurst Hampshire	A	3.6	73%	4.3	100%
6	Rowhedge Essex	A	1.6	100%	6.4	0%
7	Chopwell Tyne and Wear	A	7.5	100%	3.4	0%
8	Longford Gloucestershire	A	11.9	100%	3.3	0%
9	Little Clacton Essex	A⁻	3.6	100%	2.2	0%
10	South Anston South Yorkshire	A⁻	3.5	100%	3.4	0%
11	Stewartby Bedfordshire	A⁻	21	100%	2.4	0%
12	Saundersfoot Dyfed	A⁻	10.2	69%	0.9	19%
13	Higher Folds Greater Manchester	A⁻	2.8	90%	5.4	0%
14	Thornley County Durham	B⁺	3.2	100%	2.9	0%
15	Witton Gilbert County Durham	B⁺	2.1	100%	3.9	0%
16	Craven Arms Shropshire	B	1.3	87%	2.9	59%
17	Barlestone Leicestershire	B	3	100%	2.3	0%
18	Farndon Nottinghamshire	B	3.8	100%	1.8	0%
19	Oakley Bedfordshire	B	3.2	100%	2	0%
20	Alresford Essex	B⁻	1.3	100%	2.1	0%
21	Pannal North Yorkshire	B⁻	3.7	77%	3	0%
22	Coundon and Leeholme County Durham	B⁻	4.4	100%	1	0%
23	Brewood Staffordshire	B⁻	3	100%	1.6	0%
24	Kelvedon Hatch Essex	B⁻	7.3	77%	2.5	0%
25	Ash Green Warwickshire	B⁻	3.4	67%	3.6	0%
26	Timsbury Somerset	B⁻	2.7	68%	4.1	0%
27	Bishop's Itchington Warwickshire	C⁺	1.5	100%	2.8	0%
28	Llanrwst Clwyd	C⁺	2.2	75%	1.6	45%
29	Crossways Dorset	C⁺	0.5	100%	1.8	22%
30	Shepley West Yorkshire	C⁺	1.6	87%	3.5	0%
31	Widdrington Station Northumberland	C⁺	1	88%	2.4	0%
32	Caton Lancashire	C⁺	1.2	72%	2.2	67%
33	Steeple Claydon Buckinghamshire	C⁺	1.5	100%	2.2	0%
34	Whittington Staffordshire	C	7.5	77%	1.5	0%
35	Stratton Gloucestershire	C	0.7	46%	3.3	70%
36	Great Houghton South Yorkshire	C	1.8	100%	1.7	0%
37	Tycroes Dyfed	C	3.5	80%	1.5	0%
38	Llandybie Dyfed	C	2.6	59%	1.2	13%
39	Laleham Surrey	C	9.8	34%	2.1	0%
40	Ash (Dover) Kent	C	2.3	72%	2.4	0%
41	Willaston (Cheshire West and Chester) Cheshire	C⁻	4.2	60%	1.6	0%
42	Upper Heyford Oxfordshire	C⁻	1.1	100%	1.4	0%
43	Hatton Derbyshire	C⁻	3.3	61%	1.7	0%
44	Loggerheads Staffordshire	C⁻	1.2	86%	2.1	0%
45	Cwm Gwent	C⁻	2	12%	3.1	0%
46	Cliffe Kent	C⁻	1.1	55%	1.9	0%
47	Maulden Bedfordshire	D	0.9	55%	3.7	0%
48	East Harling Norfolk	D	1.7	85%	0.9	0%
49	Lampeter Dyfed	D	1.5	88%	0.9	0%
50	Long Crendon Buckinghamshire	D	1.4	86%	0.8	0%
51	Llanhilleth Gwent	D	1.3	71%	2.2	0%
52	Mawsley Village Northamptonshire	D	1.5	71%	2	0%
53	Broughton Lancashire	D	1.7	45%	2.2	0%
54	Long Itchington Warwickshire	D	2.1	45%	1.7	0%
55	Clophill Bedfordshire	D	0.7	41%	3.1	0%
56	Silverstone Northamptonshire	D	1.1	0%	2.8	0%
57	Nafferton East Riding of Yorkshire	D⁻	1.3	56%	0.6	0%
58	Holme upon Spalding Moor East Riding of Yorkshire	D⁻	1.5	41%	0.8	0%
59	Shipdham Norfolk	D⁻	1	59%	0.8	0%
60	Rhos West Glamorgan	D⁻	1	58%	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 Lampeter’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 Lampeter

The biggest is Parc yr Orsedd, 0.3 ha (1 acres). Directions go to the park’s nearest public entrance where Ordnance Survey maps one.

Lampeter’s biggest

Parc yr Orsedd

Park or garden

0.3 ha (1 acres)0.2 km of path

Centralin the middle of Lampeter

Playground 1 listed

Directionsto the nearest entrance

College Playing Field

Playing field

0.2 ha (0 acres)

Centralin the middle of Lampeter

1 listed

Directionsto the nearest entrance

College Playing Field

Playing field

0.2 ha (0 acres)

Centralin the middle of Lampeter

1 listed

Directionsto the nearest entrance

Close to home

How close Lampeter’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 (88%)Further (12%)

Lampeter88%

Towns its size85%

Dyfed towns74%

All UK towns83%

About 300 people live further than that. Playing fields count, so a park within reach isn’t always one with paths or trees; 4 playgrounds are mapped in and around the town, about one for every 626 residents.

National Parks & National Landscapes

The Brecon Beacons National Park is 15 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

15 mi south-east1,350 km²since 1955

Brecon Beacons National Park covers 1,350 km² and has been a National Park since 1955.

Footpaths & waymarked walks

Footpaths in and around Lampeter

9 km of footpaths, bridleways and rights of way are mapped in Lampeter 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 Lampeter; 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 Lampeter: 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)	8.2	9.8	11.7	13.8	15.7	16.7	16.3	14.6	12.6	10.5	8.7	7.7
High (°C)	7	8	10	13	16	18	19	19	17	14	10	8
Rain (mm)	131	104	81	70	87	76	93	86	94	145	153	155

April is the driest month (70 mm) and July the warmest (highs of 19 °C). Winter days are short, about 8 hours of daylight in December, and 155 mm of rain falls in December, the wettest month. Frost comes on about 38 nights a year. The climate in Lampeter →

Things to do

4 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.

4Playgrounds0.5× towns its size

The nearest beaches

Lampeter is inland. These are the nearest named beaches, measured from the edge of the town.

New Quay Beach13 mi from Lampeter’s edge

Directions

Harbour Beach13 mi from Lampeter’s edge

Directions

Dolau Beach13 mi from Lampeter’s edge

Directions

Traeth y Quarry14 mi from Lampeter’s edge

Directions

Traeth y Coubal14 mi from Lampeter’s edge

Directions

Good 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

Playgrounds 4

Maes y Deri Play Areain town

Directions

Maes Y Felin Play Areain town

Directions

Parc yr Orsedd Play Areain town

Directions

Plus 1 playground 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.

LlanybydderLlandysulPencaderAberaeronLampeter

ABCDOutdoors Grade

Town	Outdoors	Green space, ha per 1,000	Near a park	Protected within 5 km
Lampeter	D	1.5	88%	0%
Llanybydder 4.2 mi	D	2.2	60%	0%
Llandysul 11.0 mi	C⁻	5.2	47%	0%
Pencader 11.3 mi	D⁻	1.2	30%	0%
Aberaeron 11.6 mi	A	6.1	100%	0%

Aberaeron, 11.6 miles away, grades A, the best next door: every resident lives within 400 m of a park. Llandysul and Aberaeron have at least twice Lampeter’s green space per resident. None of the neighbours has a protected landscape within 5 km either.

Questions about the outdoors in Lampeter

What is the biggest park in Lampeter?

Parc yr Orsedd, 0.3 ha (1 acres). College Playing Field (0.2 ha) is second. 3 named parks, gardens and playing fields are in the town or within 400 m of it.

Is Lampeter near a National Park?

Yes. Brecon Beacons National Park begins 15 mi south-east of the town’s edge. It covers 1,350 km² and has been a National Park since 1955.

What is the nearest beach to Lampeter?

New Quay Beach, 13 mi from the edge of the town, then Harbour Beach (13 mi). Lampeter itself is inland.

How many people in Lampeter live near a park?

88% 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 Lampeter?

May to September: the longest days, the warmest afternoons and the least rain of the year, from the Met Office 1991–2020 averages.

Is Lampeter 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 28% (1.5 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 Lampeter’s overall grade.

Sources

Where Lampeter’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.