Llandovery’s biggest
Castle Sports Ground
Playing field
2.4 ha (6 acres)
3 pitchesfootball pitches would fit
Centralin the middle of Llandovery
Directionsto the nearest entrance
Photo: Stephen McKay · CC BY-SA 2.0A−Outdoors Grade
Outdoors in Llandovery · parks, paths & countryside
Almost everyone in Llandovery lives within a 5-minute walk of a park
Parks and playing fields in Llandovery add up to 13.3 ha for every 1,000 residents; the typical UK town has 2.1. The Brecon Beacons National Park begins 0.3 mi from the village’s edge. Footpaths add up to 9 km in the village and the kilometre around it, 1.0 for every square kilometre. Llandovery grades A− for the outdoors. A character grade: it isn’t part of the overall grade.
Green space
13.3 ha
per 1,000 residents
Typical UK town 2.1
Near a park
100%
of residents within 400 m
Typical UK town 83%
Footpaths
9 km
1.0 km per km², town + 1 km
Typical UK town 3.0 per km²
Protected landscape
22%
of the land within 5 km
Nearest: Brecon Beacons National Park
Character
What kind of outdoors village is Llandovery?
Read from the data: what stands out first, good and bad.
A park on every doorstep100% of residents live within 400 m of a park or playing field.Room to roam13.3 ha of parks and playing fields per 1,000 residents, more than 97% of UK towns.Countryside close byThe Brecon Beacons National Park starts 0.3 mi south-east.Few mapped footpaths1.0 km of path per km²; the typical UK town has 3.0.
Llandovery’s strongest suit is parks close to every home, followed by plenty of park space. Where it falls short is footpaths.
Outdoors grade
Llandovery grades A− for the outdoors
Each chart is every UK town of 1,000 or more on one measure: the green bar is Llandovery, the dashed line the typical town. The number is the share of towns it beats; the five are averaged and the average ranked again.
A−
Better than 82% of UK towns12th of 60 UK villages its size
Public green space13.3 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 Landscape22%of the land within 5 km
79out of
100
100
Footpaths1.0 kmper km², the town and 1 km around it
7out 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
Llandovery is 12th of 60 UK villages its size for the outdoors
The 60 UK towns and cities of 1,400 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
Llandovery1.0
Villages its size2.0
Dyfed towns1.2
All UK towns3.0
Green space, ha per 1,000 residents
Llandovery13.3
Villages its size1.9
Dyfed towns2.2
All UK towns2.1
Residents within 400 m of a park
Llandovery100%
Villages its size79%
Dyfed towns74%
All UK towns83%
Against villages its size, Llandovery stands out most for park space per resident: only 3 of the other 59 have more. It falls furthest behind on path per km², where 49 of the others do better.
Show as a table
| Town | Outdoors | Green space | Near a park | Path per km² | Protected | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | West Runton and Beeston Regis Norfolk | A+ | 25 | 100% | 4.8 | 34% |
| 2 | Sandridge Hertfordshire | A+ | 18.8 | 100% | 6.4 | 0% |
| 3 | Newburn Tyne and Wear | A | 12.1 | 100% | 4.3 | 0% |
| 4 | Whiteshill and Randwick Gloucestershire | A | 4.5 | 60% | 7 | 64% |
| 5 | Penrhyndeudraeth Gwynedd | A | 2.5 | 100% | 1 | 68% |
| 6 | Balcombe West Sussex | A | 2.9 | 100% | 2.2 | 90% |
| 7 | Three Crosses West Glamorgan | A | 2.4 | 100% | 1.3 | 39% |
| 8 | Sedbergh Cumbria | A | 1.9 | 83% | 5 | 92% |
| 9 | Chaldon Surrey | A− | 7.4 | 50% | 4.9 | 24% |
| 10 | Heath and Reach Bedfordshire | A− | 3.3 | 100% | 4.1 | 0% |
| 11 | Five Oak Green Kent | A− | 3 | 100% | 2 | 30% |
| 12 | Llandovery Dyfed | A− | 13.3 | 100% | 1 | 22% |
| 13 | Little Kingshill Buckinghamshire | A− | 6.5 | 50% | 2.9 | 90% |
| 14 | Princetown Devon | B+ | 1.4 | 100% | 2.3 | 100% |
| 15 | Burnhope County Durham | B+ | 3.1 | 100% | 2.8 | 0% |
| 16 | Horspath Oxfordshire | B | 14 | 54% | 5 | 0% |
| 17 | Cowling North Yorkshire | B | 1.3 | 100% | 6 | 0% |
| 18 | Staveley Cumbria | B | 1.7 | 85% | 2.5 | 89% |
| 19 | Alconbury Cambridgeshire | B | 5.1 | 100% | 1.9 | 0% |
| 20 | Kelloe County Durham | B | 5.6 | 42% | 6 | 0% |
| 21 | Calvert Buckinghamshire | B | 3.3 | 100% | 1.9 | 0% |
| 22 | Little Hallingbury Essex | B− | 1 | 100% | 4.2 | 0% |
| 23 | Brigstock Northamptonshire | B− | 8.2 | 84% | 2.1 | 0% |
| 24 | Netherne on-the-Hill Surrey | B− | 1.6 | 40% | 5.9 | 19% |
| 25 | Robertsbridge East Sussex | C+ | 2 | 38% | 2.7 | 100% |
| 26 | Gosfield Essex | C+ | 3.7 | 85% | 1.9 | 0% |
| 27 | Pirton Hertfordshire | C+ | 2.4 | 57% | 2.3 | 24% |
| 28 | Sutton Valence Kent | C+ | 5.6 | 71% | 1 | 1% |
| 29 | Killinghall North Yorkshire | C+ | 1 | 100% | 1.6 | 7% |
| 30 | Gelligaer Gwent | C+ | 2.3 | 100% | 1.4 | 0% |
| 31 | Lavendon Buckinghamshire | C | 1.5 | 100% | 2 | 0% |
| 32 | Castor and Ailsworth Cambridgeshire | C | 3.4 | 41% | 3 | 0% |
| 33 | Ryhall Rutland | C | 1.9 | 100% | 1.2 | 0% |
| 34 | Newborough Cambridgeshire | C | 2.1 | 100% | 0.1 | 0% |
| 35 | Ticehurst East Sussex | C | 1.4 | 75% | 0.8 | 100% |
| 36 | Patrington East Riding of Yorkshire | C− | 3.6 | 79% | 0.4 | 0% |
| 37 | Warton Warwickshire | C− | 1.1 | 100% | 1.5 | 0% |
| 38 | Cogenhoe Northamptonshire | C− | 1.5 | 78% | 2.7 | 0% |
| 39 | Burniston North Yorkshire | C− | 0.1 | 0% | 0.9 | 49% |
| 40 | Mid Lavant West Sussex | C− | 1.3 | 33% | 1.8 | 62% |
| 41 | Ruishton Somerset | C− | 0.6 | 60% | 2.7 | 4% |
| 42 | Marnhull Dorset | C− | 1.8 | 41% | 3 | 0% |
| 43 | East Rainton Tyne and Wear | D | 1.4 | 34% | 3.4 | 0% |
| 44 | Hook East Riding of Yorkshire | D | 1.1 | 19% | 2.2 | 0% |
| 45 | Shipton Bellinger Hampshire | D | 1.5 | 79% | 1.8 | 0% |
| 46 | Pontyates Dyfed | D | 4.6 | 39% | 0.7 | 0% |
| 47 | Ranskill Nottinghamshire | D | 0.4 | 100% | 0.5 | 0% |
| 48 | Keadby Lincolnshire | D | 1.7 | 84% | 0.6 | 0% |
| 49 | Flore Northamptonshire | D | 1.6 | 62% | 2.1 | 0% |
| 50 | Westonzoyland Somerset | D | 3.1 | 30% | 1.2 | 0% |
| 51 | Copplestone Devon | D | 1.1 | 88% | 0.9 | 0% |
| 52 | Blakedown Worcestershire | D | 0.8 | 79% | 2 | 0% |
| 53 | Gosberton Lincolnshire | D | 1.1 | 86% | 0.1 | 0% |
| 54 | Byram North Yorkshire | D | 2.1 | 19% | 1.5 | 0% |
| 55 | Four Crosses Powys | D− | 1.9 | 53% | 0.8 | 0% |
| 56 | Markham Gwent | D− | 0.1 | 0% | 2.6 | 0% |
| 57 | Guilden Sutton Cheshire | D− | 0.3 | 56% | 1.7 | 0% |
| 58 | Shadwell West Yorkshire | D− | 0.3 | 25% | 2 | 0% |
| 59 | Easton Norfolk | D− | 1 | 0% | 1.2 | 0% |
| 60 | Woodford Northamptonshire | D− | 0 | 0% | 1.5 | 0% |
The map
Parks, footpaths & countryside
Tap a number to zoom to a park. Tap a layer to hide it. The dashed line is Llandovery’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 Llandovery
The biggest is Castle Sports Ground, 2.4 ha (6 acres). Directions go to the park’s nearest public entrance where Ordnance Survey maps one.
Green Lodge Playground
Play space
0.1 ha (0 acres)
Centralin the middle of Llandovery
Directionsto the nearest entrance
Close to home
How close Llandovery’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 (100%)Further (0%)
Llandovery100%
Villages its size79%
Dyfed towns74%
All UK towns83%
Playing fields count, so a park within reach isn’t always one with paths or trees; 3 playgrounds are mapped in and around the village, about one for every 485 residents.
National Parks & National Landscapes
The Brecon Beacons National Park is 0.3 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
0.3 mi south-east1,350 km²since 195522% of the land within 5 km
22% of the land within 5 km of Llandovery is National Park or National Landscape, more than 79% of UK towns. Brecon Beacons National Park covers 1,350 km² and has been a National Park since 1955.
Footpaths & waymarked walks
Llandovery is on the Cambrian Way
9 km of footpaths, bridleways and rights of way are mapped in Llandovery 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 village.
NationalRegional
Heart of Wales Line Trail8.8 km
Cambrian Way6.9 km
The Cambrian Way, a national route, passes Llandovery. The regional route here is the Heart of Wales Line Trail.
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 Llandovery: 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) | 8.2 | 9.8 | 11.7 | 13.8 | 15.7 | 16.7 | 16.3 | 14.6 | 12.6 | 10.5 | 8.7 | 7.8 |
| High (°C) | 8 | 8 | 10 | 13 | 16 | 18 | 20 | 19 | 17 | 14 | 10 | 8 |
| Rain (mm) | 148 | 126 | 107 | 89 | 89 | 86 | 94 | 104 | 107 | 162 | 163 | 182 |
June is the driest month (86 mm) and July the warmest (highs of 20 °C). Winter days are short, about 8 hours of daylight in December, and 182 mm of rain falls in December, the wettest month. Frost comes on about 43 nights a year. The climate in Llandovery →
Things to do
3 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
Campsites 1
Llandovery Caravan & Camping Park0.0 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.
LlandeiloLlandovery
ABCDOutdoors Grade
| Town | Outdoors | Green space, ha per 1,000 | Near a park | Protected within 5 km |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Llandovery | A− | 13.3 | 100% | 22% |
| Llandeilo 11.4 mi | B− | 1.8 | 88% | 22% |
Llandovery grades higher for the outdoors than every neighbour in the table.
Questions about the outdoors in Llandovery
What is the biggest park in Llandovery?
Castle Sports Ground, 2.4 ha (6 acres). Green Lodge Playground (0.1 ha) is second. 2 named parks, gardens and playing fields are in the village or within 400 m of it.
Is Llandovery near a National Park?
Yes. Brecon Beacons National Park begins 0.3 mi south-east of the village’s edge. It covers 1,350 km² and has been a National Park since 1955.
What are the best walks near Llandovery?
2 waymarked walking routes pass within 2 km of the village, including the Heart of Wales Line Trail and Cambrian Way.
How many people in Llandovery 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 Llandovery?
May to September: the longest days, the warmest afternoons and the least rain of the year, from the Met Office 1991–2020 averages.
Is Llandovery 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 98% (13.3 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 Llandovery’s overall grade.
Sources
Where Llandovery’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.