Llanybydder’s biggest
Llanybydder Rugby Club
Playing field
1.6 ha (4 acres)
2 pitchesfootball pitches would fit
0.5 mi northfrom the centre
Directionsto the nearest entrance
Photo: Liz Tipping · CC BY-SA 2.0DOutdoors Grade
Outdoors in Llanybydder · parks, paths & countryside
Parks and walks in Llanybydder
4 km of footpaths run through the village and the kilometre around it, 0.3 for every square kilometre. A park or playing field is within a 5-minute walk for 60% of residents. Parks and playing fields in Llanybydder add up to 2.2 ha for every 1,000 residents; the typical UK town has 2.1. Llanybydder grades D for the outdoors. A character grade: it isn’t part of the overall grade.
Green space
2.2 ha
per 1,000 residents
Typical UK town 2.1
Near a park
60%
of residents within 400 m
Typical UK town 83%
Footpaths
4 km
0.3 km per km², town + 1 km
Typical UK town 3.0 per km²
Protected landscape
0%
of the land within 5 km
Nearest: Brecon Beacons National Park
Outdoors grade
Llanybydder grades D for the outdoors
Each chart is every UK town of 1,000 or more on one measure: the green bar is Llanybydder, the dashed line the typical town. The number is the share of towns it beats; the five are averaged and the average ranked again.
D
Better than 7% of UK towns53rd of 60 UK villages its size
Public green space2.2 haper 1,000 residents: parks, gardens, playing fields, play spaces
52out of
100
100
A park within a walk60%of residents within 400 m (a 5-minute walk)
20out of
100
100
National Park or National Landscape0%of the land within 5 km · None within 5 km
31out of
100
100
Footpaths0.3 kmper km², the town and 1 km around it
1out 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
Llanybydder is 53rd of 60 UK villages its size for the outdoors
The 60 UK towns and cities of 1,100 to 1,200 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
Llanybydder0.3
Villages its size1.9
Dyfed towns1.2
All UK towns3.0
Green space, ha per 1,000 residents
Llanybydder2.2
Villages its size2.1
Dyfed towns2.2
All UK towns2.1
Residents within 400 m of a park
Llanybydder60%
Villages its size74%
Dyfed towns74%
All UK towns83%
Llanybydder falls furthest behind on path per km², where 57 of the 59 others do better.
Show as a table
| Town | Outdoors | Green space | Near a park | Path per km² | Protected | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Porlock Somerset | A+ | 2.9 | 75% | 5.2 | 71% |
| 2 | Carlin How North Yorkshire | A+ | 3.1 | 100% | 2.3 | 13% |
| 3 | Sundridge Kent | A+ | 9.1 | 100% | 2.3 | 73% |
| 4 | Longhoughton Northumberland | A+ | 4.7 | 100% | 1.2 | 27% |
| 5 | Dawlish Warren Devon | A | 21.1 | 73% | 2.9 | 1% |
| 6 | Egloshayle Cornwall | A | 7.3 | 100% | 2.6 | 12% |
| 7 | Bures Suffolk | A | 5.4 | 100% | 2.5 | 14% |
| 8 | Ruardean Gloucestershire | A | 4.5 | 100% | 2.2 | 29% |
| 9 | Great Bedwyn Wiltshire | A | 3 | 76% | 3.7 | 100% |
| 10 | Brighstone Isle of Wight | A | 2.2 | 55% | 3.4 | 56% |
| 11 | Hampsthwaite North Yorkshire | A− | 2 | 100% | 2.6 | 23% |
| 12 | Hurst Green East Sussex | B+ | 2.3 | 100% | 1.1 | 100% |
| 13 | Oxspring South Yorkshire | B+ | 2.7 | 77% | 4 | 1% |
| 14 | Stallingborough Lincolnshire | B+ | 2.3 | 100% | 1.8 | 0% |
| 15 | St Bees Cumbria | B | 8.5 | 78% | 1.2 | 0% |
| 16 | Gislingham Suffolk | B | 3.1 | 100% | 2.3 | 0% |
| 17 | Clyst St Mary Devon | B | 5.8 | 100% | 1.6 | 0% |
| 18 | Bodedern Gwynedd | B | 1.2 | 100% | 0 | 16% |
| 19 | Moresby Parks Cumbria | B− | 1.2 | 100% | 2 | 0% |
| 20 | Stradbroke Suffolk | B− | 3 | 100% | 1.8 | 0% |
| 21 | Thorpe End Norfolk | B− | 0.7 | 100% | 2.5 | 10% |
| 22 | Stretton-on-Dunsmore Warwickshire | B− | 2.9 | 100% | 1.7 | 0% |
| 23 | Rushwick Worcestershire | B− | 5 | 71% | 2.8 | 0% |
| 24 | Datchworth Hertfordshire | C+ | 10.8 | 76% | 2.2 | 0% |
| 25 | Tansley Derbyshire | C+ | 1.6 | 73% | 3.4 | 4% |
| 26 | Coldeast Devon | C+ | 1.6 | 47% | 3.6 | 30% |
| 27 | Haswell County Durham | C+ | 3.2 | 100% | 0.9 | 0% |
| 28 | Allithwaite Cumbria | C+ | 1.9 | 60% | 1 | 17% |
| 29 | Baslow Derbyshire | C+ | 1.6 | 45% | 2.8 | 98% |
| 30 | Chesterton Oxfordshire | C+ | 1.8 | 100% | 2.2 | 0% |
| 31 | Bottom Boat West Yorkshire | C | 0.8 | 100% | 2.6 | 0% |
| 32 | Stalmine Lancashire | C | 3.1 | 67% | 0.8 | 0% |
| 33 | Carlyon Bay Cornwall | C | 0.7 | 0% | 2.4 | 12% |
| 34 | Rearsby Leicestershire | C | 1.5 | 100% | 1.9 | 0% |
| 35 | Yoxall Staffordshire | C | 1.9 | 100% | 0.9 | 0% |
| 36 | Barrington Cambridgeshire | C | 3.6 | 69% | 1.9 | 0% |
| 37 | Raglan Gwent | C− | 3.9 | 0% | 1.2 | 1% |
| 38 | North Elmham Norfolk | C− | 4.7 | 71% | 1 | 0% |
| 39 | Old Leake Lincolnshire | C− | 3.6 | 75% | 0.3 | 0% |
| 40 | Chilworth Hampshire | C− | 1.1 | 24% | 5.4 | 0% |
| 41 | Chudleigh Knighton Devon | C− | 1 | 46% | 2.5 | 16% |
| 42 | Methley West Yorkshire | C− | 0.2 | 100% | 1.6 | 0% |
| 43 | Abbotskerswell Devon | C− | 4.2 | 49% | 1.4 | 0% |
| 44 | Spofforth North Yorkshire | C− | 1.7 | 78% | 1.8 | 0% |
| 45 | Bratton Wiltshire | C− | 1.9 | 25% | 2.8 | 0% |
| 46 | Parson Drove Cambridgeshire | D | 3.5 | 60% | 0.9 | 0% |
| 47 | Shardlow Derbyshire | D | 1.5 | 73% | 2.3 | 0% |
| 48 | Kingswood Warwickshire | D | 1.7 | 42% | 2.7 | 0% |
| 49 | Pant Shropshire | D | 0.3 | 0% | 4.1 | 0% |
| 50 | Puddletown Dorset | D | 0.2 | 0% | 2.1 | 15% |
| 51 | Outlane West Yorkshire | D | 0.5 | 0% | 3.5 | 0% |
| 52 | Aston Oxfordshire | D | 2.2 | 62% | 0.6 | 0% |
| 53 | Llanybydder Dyfed | D | 2.2 | 60% | 0.3 | 0% |
| 54 | Melton Constable Norfolk | D | 1.6 | 76% | 0.7 | 0% |
| 55 | Stoke Ferry Norfolk | D | 1.1 | 73% | 1.6 | 0% |
| 56 | Bretforton Worcestershire | D− | 0.2 | 0% | 1.4 | 9% |
| 57 | Standlake Oxfordshire | D− | 1.7 | 42% | 1.3 | 0% |
| 58 | Wrawby Lincolnshire | D− | 1.8 | 26% | 0.8 | 0% |
| 59 | Darrington West Yorkshire | D− | 0.5 | 72% | 0.8 | 0% |
| 60 | Moor End Gloucestershire | D− | 0 | 0% | 1.9 | 0% |
The map
Parks, footpaths & countryside
Tap a number to zoom to a park. Tap a layer to hide it. The dashed line is Llanybydder’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 Llanybydder
The biggest is Llanybydder Rugby Club, 1.6 ha (4 acres). Directions go to the park’s nearest public entrance where Ordnance Survey maps one.
Close to home
6 in 10 Llanybydder 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 (60%)Further (41%)
Llanybydder60%
Villages its size74%
Dyfed towns74%
All UK towns83%
About 500 people live further than that. Playing fields count, so a park within reach isn’t always one with paths or trees.
National Parks & National Landscapes
The Brecon Beacons National Park is 14 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
14 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 Llanybydder
4 km of footpaths, bridleways and rights of way are mapped in Llanybydder and the kilometre around it, 0.3 km for every square kilometre (the typical UK town has 3.0).
No named walking route is mapped within 2 km of Llanybydder; 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 Llanybydder: 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) | 7 | 8 | 10 | 12 | 15 | 18 | 19 | 19 | 17 | 13 | 10 | 8 |
| Rain (mm) | 163 | 116 | 90 | 81 | 82 | 83 | 95 | 107 | 82 | 153 | 157 | 181 |
April is the driest month (81 mm) and July the warmest (highs of 19 °C). Winter days are short, about 8 hours of daylight in December, and 181 mm of rain falls in December, the wettest month. Frost comes on about 39 nights a year. The climate in Llanybydder →
Things to do
Viewpoints, hills and nature near Llanybydder
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.
The nearest beaches
Llanybydder is inland. These are the nearest named beaches, measured from the edge of the village.
New Quay Beach12 mi from Llanybydder’s edge
DirectionsHarbour Beach12 mi from Llanybydder’s edge
DirectionsDolau Beach13 mi from Llanybydder’s edge
DirectionsTraeth y Quarry13 mi from Llanybydder’s edge
DirectionsTraeth y Coubal13 mi from Llanybydder’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.
Every named place, with directions
Playgrounds 1
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.
LampeterPencaderLlandysulLlanybydder
ABCDOutdoors Grade
Llandysul, 7.1 miles away, grades C−, the best next door: 47% of its residents live within 400 m of a park. Llandysul has at least twice Llanybydder’s green space per resident. None of the neighbours has a protected landscape within 5 km either.
Questions about the outdoors in Llanybydder
What is the biggest park in Llanybydder?
Llanybydder Rugby Club, 1.6 ha (4 acres). 1 named park, garden or playing field is in the village or within 400 m of it.
Is Llanybydder near a National Park?
Yes. Brecon Beacons National Park begins 14 mi south-east of the village’s edge. It covers 1,350 km² and has been a National Park since 1955.
What is the nearest beach to Llanybydder?
New Quay Beach, 12 mi from the edge of the village, then Harbour Beach (12 mi). Llanybydder itself is inland.
How many people in Llanybydder live near a park?
60% 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 Llanybydder?
May to September: the longest days, the warmest afternoons and the least rain of the year, from the Met Office 1991–2020 averages.
Is Llanybydder good for walking?
Paths are thinner than most towns: 0.3 km of footpath and right of way per square kilometre, more than 1% of UK towns. For park space per person it beats 52% (2.2 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 Llanybydder’s overall grade.
Sources
Where Llanybydder’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.