Neyland’s biggest
Brunel Quay
Park or garden
1.0 ha (2 acres)
0.5 mi south-eastfrom the centre
Directionsto the nearest entrance
Photo: Agathoclea · CC BY-SA 3.0A−Outdoors Grade
Outdoors in Neyland · parks, paths & countryside
Neyland is on the coast, on the Pembrokeshire Coast Path main route
The sea makes up 16% of the area within 5 km. The Pembrokeshire Coast National Park begins 0.9 mi from the town’s edge. 15 km of footpaths run through the town and the kilometre around it, 1.2 for every square kilometre. Neyland grades A− for the outdoors: #4 of 23 in Dyfed. A character grade: it isn’t part of the overall grade.
Green space
3.0 ha
per 1,000 residents
Typical UK town 2.1
Near a park
93%
of residents within 400 m
Typical UK town 83%
Footpaths
15 km
1.2 km per km², town + 1 km
Typical UK town 3.0 per km²
Protected landscape
13%
of the land within 5 km
Nearest: Pembrokeshire Coast National Park
The sea
16%
of the area within 5 km
A coastal town
Character
What kind of outdoors town is Neyland?
Read from the data: what stands out first, good and bad.
On the coast16% of the area within 5 km is sea; 2 beaches mapped.Countryside close byThe Pembrokeshire Coast National Park starts 0.9 mi east.On a National TrailThe Pembrokeshire Coast Path main route passes through.Few mapped footpaths1.2 km of path per km²; the typical UK town has 3.0.
Neyland’s strongest suit is the sea, followed by the Pembrokeshire Coast National Park close by. Where it falls short is footpaths.
Outdoors grade
Neyland grades A− for the outdoors
Each chart is every UK town of 1,000 or more on one measure: the green bar is Neyland, 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 towns#4 of 23 in Dyfed · 6th of 60 UK towns its size
Public green space3.0 haper 1,000 residents: parks, gardens, playing fields, play spaces
70out of
100
100
A park within a walk93%of residents within 400 m (a 5-minute walk)
72out of
100
100
National Park or National Landscape13%of the land within 5 km
73out of
100
100
Footpaths1.2 kmper km², the town and 1 km around it
10out of
100
100
The sea16%of the area within 5 km
88out 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.
Towns its size
Neyland is 6th of 60 UK towns its size for the outdoors
The 60 UK towns and cities of 3,100 to 3,400 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
Neyland1.2
Towns its size2.4
Dyfed towns1.2
All UK towns3.0
Green space, ha per 1,000 residents
Neyland3.0
Towns its size1.6
Dyfed towns2.2
All UK towns2.1
Residents within 400 m of a park
Neyland93%
Towns its size78%
Dyfed towns74%
All UK towns83%
Against towns its size, Neyland stands out most for park space per resident: only 13 of the other 59 have more. It falls furthest behind on path per km², where 56 of the others do better.
Show as a table
| Town | Outdoors | Green space | Near a park | Path per km² | Protected | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Whyteleafe Surrey | A+ | 16.3 | 100% | 4.9 | 15% |
| 2 | Bakewell Derbyshire | A | 5.5 | 91% | 2.7 | 98% |
| 3 | Bignall End Staffordshire | A | 9.1 | 100% | 4.1 | 0% |
| 4 | Broadwell and Coalway Gloucestershire | A | 2.8 | 72% | 5.5 | 38% |
| 5 | Moira Leicestershire | A | 15.5 | 86% | 5.1 | 0% |
| 6 | Neyland Dyfed | A− | 3 | 93% | 1.2 | 13% |
| 7 | Netherton (Kirklees) West Yorkshire | A− | 2 | 88% | 5.5 | 6% |
| 8 | North Petherton Somerset | B+ | 3.8 | 91% | 2.3 | 5% |
| 9 | Amlwch Gwynedd | B+ | 1.6 | 87% | 2.1 | 14% |
| 10 | Addingham West Yorkshire | B+ | 1.8 | 93% | 3 | 32% |
| 11 | Newlyn Cornwall | B+ | 1.5 | 67% | 3.2 | 24% |
| 12 | St Agnes Cornwall | B+ | 1 | 81% | 3 | 5% |
| 13 | Markyate Hertfordshire | B+ | 1.4 | 100% | 2.2 | 53% |
| 14 | Wheatley Hill County Durham | B+ | 2.6 | 100% | 3 | 0% |
| 15 | Mickletown West Yorkshire | B+ | 3.3 | 93% | 3.2 | 0% |
| 16 | Elton Cheshire | B | 1.9 | 100% | 1.9 | 0% |
| 17 | Madeley Staffordshire | B | 3.8 | 100% | 2.1 | 0% |
| 18 | Walton West Yorkshire | B | 12.3 | 78% | 3 | 0% |
| 19 | Treeton South Yorkshire | B | 4.4 | 63% | 5.3 | 0% |
| 20 | Fernhill Heath Worcestershire | B | 3.2 | 88% | 3.1 | 0% |
| 21 | Caddington Bedfordshire | B | 1.3 | 81% | 3.6 | 33% |
| 22 | Ringmer East Sussex | B− | 1.9 | 91% | 1.8 | 37% |
| 23 | Pangbourne Berkshire | B− | 2.9 | 61% | 2 | 85% |
| 24 | Askam in Furness Cumbria | B− | 1.7 | 90% | 2 | 0% |
| 25 | Dunton Green Kent | B− | 1 | 82% | 2.7 | 69% |
| 26 | Healing Lincolnshire | B− | 2 | 78% | 1.3 | 1% |
| 27 | Lambourn Berkshire | C+ | 1.2 | 61% | 3 | 100% |
| 28 | Highley Shropshire | C+ | 3.4 | 73% | 2.8 | 0% |
| 29 | Pegswood Northumberland | C+ | 1.3 | 100% | 2.7 | 0% |
| 30 | Milborne Port Somerset | C+ | 1.6 | 100% | 2.3 | 0% |
| 31 | Leadgate County Durham | C+ | 1.5 | 91% | 1.9 | 1% |
| 32 | West Bergholt Essex | C | 1.5 | 82% | 1.8 | 9% |
| 33 | Marlow Bottom Buckinghamshire | C | 0.5 | 40% | 3.4 | 50% |
| 34 | Somersham Cambridgeshire | C | 2.7 | 81% | 1.9 | 0% |
| 35 | Earls Colne Essex | C | 1.4 | 91% | 2.6 | 0% |
| 36 | Bedale North Yorkshire | C | 3.6 | 78% | 1.4 | 0% |
| 37 | Adderbury and Twyford Oxfordshire | C | 1.7 | 89% | 2.2 | 0% |
| 38 | Laceby Lincolnshire | C | 1.6 | 64% | 2.1 | 18% |
| 39 | Hadlow Kent | C− | 1.7 | 61% | 2 | 11% |
| 40 | Charvil Berkshire | C− | 0.7 | 68% | 2.7 | 6% |
| 41 | Sapcote Leicestershire | C− | 2.4 | 67% | 2.4 | 0% |
| 42 | Appleby-in-Westmorland Cumbria | C− | 1.2 | 63% | 2.1 | 24% |
| 43 | Bishopthorpe North Yorkshire | C− | 3.2 | 51% | 2.2 | 0% |
| 44 | Yarnton Oxfordshire | C− | 0.4 | 69% | 3 | 0% |
| 45 | Farnsfield Nottinghamshire | C− | 2 | 63% | 2.8 | 0% |
| 46 | Purton Wiltshire | C− | 0.8 | 60% | 4.3 | 0% |
| 47 | Rendlesham Suffolk | C− | 0.8 | 52% | 1.6 | 59% |
| 48 | Astwood Bank Worcestershire | C− | 0.9 | 79% | 2.6 | 0% |
| 49 | Navenby Lincolnshire | D | 1.2 | 81% | 2.1 | 0% |
| 50 | Talbot Green Mid Glamorgan | D | 0.7 | 66% | 3.3 | 0% |
| 51 | Eglwys-Brewis South Glamorgan | D | 0.3 | 0% | 2.2 | 0% |
| 52 | Iver Buckinghamshire | D | 1.3 | 60% | 2.5 | 0% |
| 53 | Tarporley Cheshire | D | 1 | 69% | 2.5 | 0% |
| 54 | Eccleshall Staffordshire | D | 1.1 | 74% | 1.4 | 0% |
| 55 | Heckington Lincolnshire | D | 1.4 | 68% | 1.2 | 0% |
| 56 | New Tredegar Gwent | D− | 1.4 | 68% | 1.2 | 0% |
| 57 | Headcorn Kent | D− | 1.6 | 48% | 1 | 0% |
| 58 | Dunnington North Yorkshire | D− | 0.8 | 44% | 1.6 | 0% |
| 59 | Upper Tean Staffordshire | D− | 0.6 | 60% | 0.8 | 0% |
| 60 | Donington Lincolnshire | D− | 0.8 | 54% | 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 Neyland’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 Neyland
The biggest is Brunel Quay, 1.0 ha (2 acres). Directions go to the park’s nearest public entrance where Ordnance Survey maps one.
Close to home
9 in 10 Neyland 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 (93%)Further (7%)
Neyland93%
Towns its size78%
Dyfed towns74%
All UK towns83%
About 200 people live further than that. Playing fields count, so a park within reach isn’t always one with paths or trees; 12 playgrounds are mapped in and around the town, about one for every 271 residents.
National Parks & National Landscapes
The Pembrokeshire Coast National Park is 0.9 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
0.9 mi east615 km²since 195113% of the land within 5 km
13% of the land within 5 km of Neyland is National Park or National Landscape, more than 73% of UK towns. Pembrokeshire Coast National Park covers 615 km² and has been a National Park since 1951.
Footpaths & waymarked walks
Neyland is on the Pembrokeshire Coast Path main route
15 km of footpaths, bridleways and rights of way are mapped in Neyland and the kilometre around it, 1.2 km for every square kilometre (the typical UK town has 3.0). Bars show each route’s kilometres within 2 km of the town.
National
Pembrokeshire Coast Path main route10.9 km
The Pembrokeshire Coast Path main route, a national route, passes Neyland.
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 Neyland: 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) | 8.3 | 9.9 | 11.7 | 13.8 | 15.6 | 16.6 | 16.2 | 14.6 | 12.6 | 10.5 | 8.7 | 7.8 |
| High (°C) | 9 | 9 | 10 | 13 | 16 | 18 | 20 | 20 | 18 | 15 | 11 | 9 |
| Rain (mm) | 121 | 85 | 82 | 70 | 67 | 75 | 80 | 98 | 89 | 134 | 151 | 143 |
May is the driest month (67 mm) and July the warmest (highs of 20 °C). Winter days are short, about 8 hours of daylight in December, and 151 mm of rain falls in November, the wettest month. Frost comes on about 24 nights a year. The climate in Neyland →
The coast
The coast and beaches near Neyland
16% of the area within 5 km of Neyland is sea. 2 beaches are mapped within 5 km, 0 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.
Things to do
12 playgrounds
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.
Every named place, with directions
Picnic sites 2
Plus 2 picnic sites without a name on the map.
Playgrounds 12
Plus 12 playgrounds without a name on the map.
Campsites 1
Cwtch Camping0.6 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.
Pembroke DockPembrokeMilford HavenJohnstonMerlin's BridgeHaverfordwestNeyland
ABCDOutdoors Grade
| Town | Outdoors | Green space, ha per 1,000 | Near a park | Protected within 5 km |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Neyland | A− | 3.0 | 93% | 13% |
| Pembroke Dock 1.5 mi | B− | 1.7 | 80% | 25% |
| Pembroke 2.9 mi | B+ | 2.2 | 91% | 31% |
| Milford Haven 3.6 mi | C | 0.8 | 70% | 30% |
| Johnston 3.7 mi | D | 1.4 | 55% | 5% |
| Merlin's Bridge 5.4 mi | A− | 3.3 | 100% | 11% |
| Haverfordwest 6.4 mi | C− | 1.0 | 85% | 8% |
Neyland grades higher for the outdoors than every neighbour in the table.
Questions about the outdoors in Neyland
What is the biggest park in Neyland?
Brunel Quay, 1.0 ha (2 acres). 1 named park, garden or playing field is in the town or within 400 m of it.
Is Neyland near a National Park?
Yes. Pembrokeshire Coast National Park begins 0.9 mi east of the town’s edge. It covers 615 km² and has been a National Park since 1951.
What are the best walks near Neyland?
1 waymarked walking route passes within 2 km of the town, including the Pembrokeshire Coast Path main route.
How many people in Neyland live near a park?
93% 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 Neyland?
May to September: the longest days, the warmest afternoons and the least rain of the year, from the Met Office 1991–2020 averages.
Is Neyland good for walking?
Paths are thinner than most towns: 1.2 km of footpath and right of way per square kilometre, more than 10% of UK towns. For park space per person it beats 70% (3.0 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 Neyland’s overall grade.
Sources
Where Neyland’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.