Narberth’s biggest
Town Moor
Park or garden
3.9 ha (10 acres)1.7 km of path
25 minto walk all 1.7 km of path
5 pitchesfootball pitches would fit
Centralin the middle of Narberth
Carding Mill Lane
Directionsto the nearest entrance
Photo: Colin Smith · CC BY-SA 2.0B−Outdoors Grade
Outdoors in Narberth · parks, paths & countryside
Almost everyone in Narberth lives within a 5-minute walk of a park
The Pembrokeshire Coast National Park begins 1.8 mi from the village’s edge. Footpaths add up to 17 km in the village and the kilometre around it, 1.6 for every square kilometre. Parks and playing fields in Narberth add up to 1.9 ha for every 1,000 residents; the typical UK town has 2.1. Narberth grades B− for the outdoors. A character grade: it isn’t part of the overall grade.
Green space
1.9 ha
per 1,000 residents
Typical UK town 2.1
Near a park
100%
of residents within 400 m
Typical UK town 83%
Footpaths
17 km
1.6 km per km², town + 1 km
Typical UK town 3.0 per km²
Protected landscape
4%
of the land within 5 km
Nearest: Pembrokeshire Coast National Park
Character
What kind of outdoors village is Narberth?
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.Countryside close byThe Pembrokeshire Coast National Park starts 1.8 mi west.Few mapped footpaths1.6 km of path per km²; the typical UK town has 3.0.
Narberth’s strongest suit is parks close to every home, followed by the Pembrokeshire Coast National Park close by. Where it falls short is footpaths.
Outdoors grade
Narberth grades B− for the outdoors
Each chart is every UK town of 1,000 or more on one measure: the green bar is Narberth, the dashed line the typical town. The number is the share of towns it beats; the five are averaged and the average ranked again.
B−
Better than 52% of UK towns14th of 60 UK villages its size
Public green space1.9 haper 1,000 residents: parks, gardens, playing fields, play spaces
41out 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 Landscape4%of the land within 5 km
67out of
100
100
Footpaths1.6 kmper km², the town and 1 km around it
18out 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
Narberth is 14th of 60 UK villages its size for the outdoors
The 60 UK towns and cities of 2,300 to 2,500 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
Narberth1.6
Villages its size2.1
Dyfed towns1.2
All UK towns3.0
Green space, ha per 1,000 residents
Narberth1.9
Villages its size1.9
Dyfed towns2.2
All UK towns2.1
Residents within 400 m of a park
Narberth100%
Villages its size86%
Dyfed towns74%
All UK towns83%
Against villages its size, Narberth stands out most for homes near a park: none of the other 59 has more. It falls furthest behind on path per km², where 39 of the others do better.
Show as a table
| Town | Outdoors | Green space | Near a park | Path per km² | Protected | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Reydon Suffolk | A+ | 3.5 | 93% | 3.6 | 49% |
| 2 | St Margaret's at Cliffe Kent | A | 2.3 | 90% | 2.4 | 15% |
| 3 | Upton upon Severn Worcestershire | A− | 4.9 | 90% | 2.8 | 2% |
| 4 | Colerne Wiltshire | A− | 3.1 | 86% | 2.4 | 84% |
| 5 | Picket Piece Hampshire | A− | 3.9 | 100% | 1.3 | 33% |
| 6 | Tanfield Lea County Durham | A− | 3.8 | 89% | 4.4 | 0% |
| 7 | Cannington Somerset | A− | 2.8 | 88% | 3.2 | 3% |
| 8 | Y Felinheli Gwynedd | B+ | 4.9 | 65% | 1.9 | 10% |
| 9 | Cotford St Luke Somerset | B+ | 2.2 | 100% | 2.2 | 6% |
| 10 | Nant-y-moel Mid Glamorgan | B | 7 | 100% | 1.3 | 0% |
| 11 | Chattenden Kent | B | 1.4 | 100% | 2.2 | 0% |
| 12 | Middlestown and Overton West Yorkshire | B− | 1.5 | 100% | 3.5 | 0% |
| 13 | Stalbridge Dorset | B− | 3.3 | 100% | 1.8 | 0% |
| 14 | Narberth Dyfed | B− | 1.9 | 100% | 1.6 | 4% |
| 15 | Creech St Michael Somerset | B− | 1.2 | 88% | 3.4 | 0% |
| 16 | Upper Halliford Surrey | B− | 5.1 | 44% | 4.1 | 0% |
| 17 | Bassingbourn Cambridgeshire | B− | 3.8 | 85% | 2.5 | 0% |
| 18 | Riccall North Yorkshire | B− | 2.9 | 100% | 1.7 | 0% |
| 19 | Wiveliscombe Somerset | B− | 2.3 | 100% | 2.1 | 0% |
| 20 | Ashurst Hampshire | B− | 0.9 | 65% | 3.6 | 72% |
| 21 | St Dennis Cornwall | C+ | 2.4 | 100% | 1.8 | 0% |
| 22 | Osbaldwick North Yorkshire | C+ | 1.9 | 70% | 5 | 0% |
| 23 | Padstow Cornwall | C+ | 0.6 | 33% | 2.5 | 37% |
| 24 | Pentyrch South Glamorgan | C+ | 2.6 | 50% | 4.5 | 0% |
| 25 | Bramford Suffolk | C+ | 3.2 | 76% | 2.7 | 0% |
| 26 | Shelley Essex | C+ | 0.7 | 100% | 3.3 | 0% |
| 27 | Mickleton Gloucestershire | C+ | 2.2 | 52% | 2.1 | 45% |
| 28 | Witchford Cambridgeshire | C+ | 1.9 | 100% | 1.9 | 0% |
| 29 | Coven Staffordshire | C+ | 3.6 | 87% | 1.5 | 0% |
| 30 | Lingwood Norfolk | C+ | 1.2 | 73% | 2.6 | 26% |
| 31 | Pontycymer Mid Glamorgan | C | 2.2 | 100% | 1 | 0% |
| 32 | Stanton Suffolk | C | 2.6 | 87% | 1.7 | 0% |
| 33 | Woolavington Somerset | C | 1.6 | 100% | 1.5 | 0% |
| 34 | Dearham Cumbria | C | 0.6 | 72% | 1.4 | 6% |
| 35 | South Milford North Yorkshire | C | 1.7 | 100% | 1.4 | 0% |
| 36 | West Rainton County Durham | C | 2.1 | 73% | 2.7 | 0% |
| 37 | Bletchingley Surrey | C | 0.5 | 10% | 3.9 | 18% |
| 38 | Credenhill Herefordshire | C− | 1.5 | 87% | 2.3 | 0% |
| 39 | Wilstead Bedfordshire | C− | 1.7 | 88% | 1.8 | 0% |
| 40 | Roche Cornwall | C− | 2.8 | 81% | 1 | 0% |
| 41 | Marshfield Gwent | C− | 1 | 85% | 0.3 | 0% |
| 42 | Hathern Leicestershire | C− | 1.8 | 50% | 3.3 | 0% |
| 43 | Knowsley Merseyside | C− | 3.1 | 77% | 1 | 0% |
| 44 | Collingham West Yorkshire | C− | 1.4 | 84% | 2.2 | 0% |
| 45 | Reepham Norfolk | C− | 2.3 | 66% | 2.1 | 0% |
| 46 | Stilton Cambridgeshire | C− | 0.8 | 100% | 1.4 | 0% |
| 47 | Coates and Eastrea Cambridgeshire | C− | 0.9 | 100% | 1.3 | 0% |
| 48 | Dinnington Tyne and Wear | C− | 1.6 | 89% | 1.4 | 0% |
| 49 | Brown Edge Staffordshire | C− | 1.1 | 88% | 2.1 | 0% |
| 50 | Goxhill Lincolnshire | C− | 1.5 | 69% | 0.5 | 0% |
| 51 | Usk Gwent | C− | 3.5 | 56% | 1.3 | 0% |
| 52 | Eastry Kent | D | 2 | 77% | 1.4 | 0% |
| 53 | Netherton (Wakefield) West Yorkshire | D | 0.7 | 27% | 4.5 | 0% |
| 54 | St Stephen Cornwall | D | 1.2 | 88% | 1.2 | 0% |
| 55 | Leyburn North Yorkshire | D | 0.6 | 22% | 2 | 16% |
| 56 | Fishburn County Durham | D | 1.5 | 76% | 1.2 | 0% |
| 57 | Parbold Lancashire | D | 1.5 | 36% | 2.4 | 0% |
| 58 | Burton upon Stather Lincolnshire | D | 1.5 | 75% | 1.3 | 0% |
| 59 | Myerscough Smithy Lancashire | D | 0.5 | 45% | 3 | 0% |
| 60 | Leven East Riding of Yorkshire | D− | 1.2 | 64% | 0.7 | 0% |
The map
Parks, footpaths & countryside
Tap a number to zoom to a park. Tap a layer to hide it. The dashed line is Narberth’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 Narberth
The biggest is Town Moor, 3.9 ha (10 acres). Directions go to the park’s nearest public entrance where Ordnance Survey maps one.
Close to home
How close Narberth’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%)
Narberth100%
Villages its size86%
Dyfed towns74%
All UK towns83%
Playing fields count, so a park within reach isn’t always one with paths or trees.
National Parks & National Landscapes
The Pembrokeshire Coast National Park is 1.8 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
Pembrokeshire Coast
1.8 mi west615 km²since 19514% of the land within 5 km
4% of the land within 5 km of Narberth is National Park or National Landscape, more than 66% of UK towns. Pembrokeshire Coast National Park covers 615 km² and has been a National Park since 1951.
Footpaths & waymarked walks
Footpaths in and around Narberth
17 km of footpaths, bridleways and rights of way are mapped in Narberth and the kilometre around it, 1.6 km for every square kilometre (the typical UK town has 3.0).
No named walking route is mapped within 2 km of Narberth; 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 Narberth: 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) | 8.3 | 9.9 | 11.7 | 13.8 | 15.6 | 16.7 | 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 | 9 |
| Rain (mm) | 144 | 105 | 93 | 81 | 80 | 89 | 78 | 108 | 97 | 163 | 169 | 159 |
July is the driest month (78 mm) and the warmest (highs of 20 °C). Winter days are short, about 8 hours of daylight in December, and 169 mm of rain falls in November, the wettest month. Frost comes on about 38 nights a year. The climate in Narberth →
Things to do
2 playgrounds and the nearest beaches
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
Narberth is inland. These are the nearest named beaches, measured from the edge of the village.
Coppet Hall Beach5.6 mi from Narberth’s edge
DirectionsSaundersfoot Beach5.8 mi from Narberth’s edge
DirectionsMarros Sands5.9 mi from Narberth’s edge
DirectionsMonkstone Beach7.0 mi from Narberth’s edge
DirectionsWaterwynch Bay7.5 mi from Narberth’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 2
Plus 2 playgrounds without a name on the map.
Campsites 1
Twin Oaks Camping0.5 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.
KilgettyWhitlandWoodenSaundersfootTenbyCrundaleNarberth
ABCDOutdoors Grade
Tenby, 8.9 miles away, grades A, the best next door: 88% of its residents live within 400 m of a park. Whitland and Saundersfoot have at least twice Narberth’s green space per resident.
Questions about the outdoors in Narberth
What is the biggest park in Narberth?
Town Moor, 3.9 ha (10 acres), with 1.7 km of path. 1 named park, garden or playing field is in the village or within 400 m of it.
Is Narberth near a National Park?
Yes. Pembrokeshire Coast National Park begins 1.8 mi west of the village’s edge. It covers 615 km² and has been a National Park since 1951.
What is the nearest beach to Narberth?
Coppet Hall Beach, 5.6 mi from the edge of the village, then Saundersfoot Beach (5.8 mi). Narberth itself is inland.
How many people in Narberth 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 Narberth?
May to September: the longest days, the warmest afternoons and the least rain of the year, from the Met Office 1991–2020 averages.
Is Narberth good for walking?
Paths are thinner than most towns: 1.6 km of footpath and right of way per square kilometre, more than 18% of UK towns. For park space per person it beats 41% (1.9 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 Narberth’s overall grade.
Sources
Where Narberth’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.