Pembroke’s biggest
Memorial Park
Park or garden · 370 m outside town
3.5 ha (9 acres)0.7 km of path
10 minto walk all 0.7 km of path
5 pitchesfootball pitches would fit
1.2 mi north-westfrom the centre
Directionsto the nearest entrance
Photo: Stephen McKay · CC BY-SA 2.0B+Outdoors Grade
Outdoors in Pembroke · parks, paths & countryside
31% of the land within 5 km of Pembroke is National Park or National Landscape
The Pembrokeshire Coast National Park begins 0.9 mi from the town’s edge. 16 km of footpaths run through the town and the kilometre around it, 1.0 for every square kilometre. 91% of residents live within a 5-minute walk of a park or playing field. Pembroke grades B+ for the outdoors: #6 of 23 in Dyfed. 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
91%
of residents within 400 m
Typical UK town 83%
Footpaths
16 km
1.0 km per km², town + 1 km
Typical UK town 3.0 per km²
Protected landscape
31%
of the land within 5 km
Nearest: Pembrokeshire Coast National Park
The sea
15%
of the area within 5 km
Character
What kind of outdoors town is Pembroke?
Read from the data: what stands out first, good and bad.
Protected countryside31% of the land within 5 km is Pembrokeshire Coast National Park.On a National TrailThe Pembrokeshire Coast Path main route passes through.Historic parks2 registered historic parks and gardens, including 111 Main Street, Pembroke.Few mapped footpaths1.0 km of path per km²; the typical UK town has 3.0.
Pembroke’s strongest suit is protected countryside on the doorstep, followed by the Pembrokeshire Coast Path main route. Where it falls short is footpaths.
Outdoors grade
Pembroke grades B+ for the outdoors
Each chart is every UK town of 1,000 or more on one measure: the green bar is Pembroke, 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 74% of UK towns#6 of 23 in Dyfed · 17th of 60 UK towns its size
Public green space2.2 haper 1,000 residents: parks, gardens, playing fields, play spaces
50out of
100
100
A park within a walk91%of residents within 400 m (a 5-minute walk)
69out of
100
100
National Park or National Landscape31%of the land within 5 km
84out of
100
100
Footpaths1.0 kmper km², the town and 1 km around it
6out of
100
100
The sea15%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
Pembroke is 17th of 60 UK towns its size for the outdoors
The 60 UK towns and cities of 7,600 to 8,400 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
Pembroke1.0
Towns its size2.9
Dyfed towns1.2
All UK towns3.0
Green space, ha per 1,000 residents
Pembroke2.2
Towns its size2.1
Dyfed towns2.2
All UK towns2.1
Residents within 400 m of a park
Pembroke91%
Towns its size84%
Dyfed towns74%
All UK towns83%
Pembroke falls furthest behind on path per km², where 58 of the 59 others do better.
Show as a table
| Town | Outdoors | Green space | Near a park | Path per km² | Protected | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Chipping Sodbury Gloucestershire | A+ | 5.2 | 93% | 8.2 | 29% |
| 2 | Ecclesfield and Grenoside South Yorkshire | A+ | 5.1 | 94% | 5.2 | 2% |
| 3 | Stakeford Northumberland | A+ | 10 | 100% | 2.9 | 0% |
| 4 | Bargod Gwent | A | 13.6 | 100% | 5.5 | 0% |
| 5 | Dursley Gloucestershire | A | 1.8 | 90% | 7.2 | 52% |
| 6 | Grove Oxfordshire | A | 2.2 | 92% | 4.7 | 27% |
| 7 | Brecon Powys | A | 3.2 | 86% | 3.2 | 61% |
| 8 | Stonehouse Gloucestershire | A | 1.8 | 94% | 4.6 | 36% |
| 9 | Bursledon Hampshire | A | 2.6 | 90% | 3.8 | 0% |
| 10 | Richmond North Yorkshire | A | 2.4 | 96% | 3.9 | 7% |
| 11 | Norton Canes Staffordshire | A− | 13.3 | 97% | 1.9 | 10% |
| 12 | Dinas Powis South Glamorgan | A− | 3 | 73% | 4.5 | 0% |
| 13 | London Colney Hertfordshire | A− | 3.7 | 96% | 4.3 | 0% |
| 14 | Burnham-on-Crouch Essex | A− | 5.3 | 86% | 2.5 | 0% |
| 15 | City of London London | A− | 2 | 100% | 11 | 0% |
| 16 | Cam Gloucestershire | A− | 2.8 | 57% | 5 | 34% |
| 17 | Pembroke Dyfed | B+ | 2.2 | 91% | 1 | 31% |
| 18 | Annfield Plain County Durham | B+ | 3.4 | 93% | 3.7 | 0% |
| 19 | Great Notley Essex | B+ | 6.4 | 79% | 4.1 | 0% |
| 20 | Coppull Lancashire | B+ | 4.6 | 85% | 3.7 | 0% |
| 21 | Runwell Essex | B+ | 5.1 | 92% | 2.8 | 0% |
| 22 | Pershore Worcestershire | B | 2.7 | 76% | 3.2 | 7% |
| 23 | Partington Greater Manchester | B | 2.8 | 100% | 2.7 | 0% |
| 24 | Edenbridge Kent | B | 2.6 | 64% | 3 | 42% |
| 25 | Rusthall and Langton Green Kent | B | 2.1 | 69% | 2.7 | 79% |
| 26 | Clayton-le-Moors Lancashire | B | 1.1 | 86% | 4.2 | 2% |
| 27 | Ashley Hampshire | B | 2.2 | 53% | 1.7 | 47% |
| 28 | Twyford Berkshire | B− | 2.4 | 86% | 2.1 | 5% |
| 29 | Berechurch Essex | B− | 2.1 | 72% | 10.4 | 0% |
| 30 | Meltham West Yorkshire | B− | 1 | 63% | 5.3 | 27% |
| 31 | Yatton Somerset | B− | 3.7 | 40% | 2.5 | 0% |
| 32 | Denbigh Clwyd | B− | 1.3 | 96% | 2.3 | 5% |
| 33 | Buntingford Hertfordshire | C+ | 1.5 | 95% | 3.2 | 0% |
| 34 | Ystalyfera West Glamorgan | C+ | 2.6 | 84% | 0.8 | 15% |
| 35 | Bewdley Worcestershire | C+ | 1.7 | 88% | 3.3 | 0% |
| 36 | Crediton Devon | C+ | 2.4 | 89% | 2.4 | 0% |
| 37 | Countesthorpe Leicestershire | C+ | 1.7 | 100% | 2.1 | 0% |
| 38 | Seaton Delaval Northumberland | C+ | 0.5 | 66% | 4 | 0% |
| 39 | Ammanford Dyfed | C+ | 2.8 | 70% | 1.5 | 9% |
| 40 | Holywell Clwyd | C | 0.9 | 68% | 3 | 0% |
| 41 | Mablethorpe Lincolnshire | C | 2.1 | 66% | 1.5 | 0% |
| 42 | Elworth Cheshire | C | 1.8 | 83% | 2.6 | 0% |
| 43 | Norton-on-Derwent North Yorkshire | C | 1.6 | 58% | 2.4 | 16% |
| 44 | Southam Warwickshire | C | 2.3 | 86% | 1.7 | 0% |
| 45 | Histon and Impington Cambridgeshire | C | 1.5 | 66% | 3.9 | 0% |
| 46 | Gerrards Cross Buckinghamshire | C | 2.1 | 38% | 2.3 | 2% |
| 47 | Heathfield East Sussex | C | 0.9 | 53% | 2.3 | 79% |
| 48 | Hedon East Riding of Yorkshire | C− | 0.9 | 74% | 2.1 | 0% |
| 49 | Glastonbury Somerset | C− | 2 | 69% | 2.6 | 0% |
| 50 | Llanharan and Brynna Mid Glamorgan | C− | 1.7 | 97% | 1.2 | 0% |
| 51 | Hilton Derbyshire | C− | 1.1 | 89% | 2.4 | 0% |
| 52 | Radlett Hertfordshire | C− | 2.1 | 60% | 2.7 | 0% |
| 53 | Rainworth Nottinghamshire | C− | 0.5 | 65% | 4.6 | 0% |
| 54 | Tenterden Kent | C− | 0.8 | 58% | 1.8 | 48% |
| 55 | Cotgrave Nottinghamshire | C− | 1 | 47% | 4.1 | 0% |
| 56 | Godmanchester Cambridgeshire | C− | 1.6 | 66% | 2.7 | 0% |
| 57 | Highworth Wiltshire | C− | 0.4 | 59% | 4.1 | 0% |
| 58 | Clowne Derbyshire | C− | 1.4 | 67% | 2.8 | 0% |
| 59 | Old Windsor and Wraysbury Berkshire | D | 1.2 | 52% | 2.5 | 0% |
| 60 | Treorchy Mid Glamorgan | D− | 1 | 57% | 1.6 | 0% |
The map
Parks, footpaths & countryside
Tap a number to zoom to a park. Tap a layer to hide it. The dashed line is Pembroke’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 Pembroke
The biggest is Memorial Park, 3.5 ha (9 acres). Directions go to the park’s nearest public entrance where Ordnance Survey maps one.
Lower Common Park
Park or garden
2.5 ha (6 acres)0.3 km of path
4 pitchesfootball pitches would fit
Centralin the middle of Pembroke
Directionsto the nearest entrance
Upper Common Park
Park or garden
1.9 ha (5 acres)
3 pitchesfootball pitches would fit
Centralin the middle of Pembroke
Directionsto the nearest entrance
Close to home
9 in 10 Pembroke 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 (91%)Further (9%)
Pembroke91%
Towns its size84%
Dyfed towns74%
All UK towns83%
About 700 people live further than that. Playing fields count, so a park within reach isn’t always one with paths or trees; 17 playgrounds are mapped in and around the town, about one for every 468 residents.
National Parks & National Landscapes
National Parks and National Landscapes around Pembroke
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 south-east615 km²since 195131% of the land within 5 km
31% of the land within 5 km of Pembroke is National Park or National Landscape, more than 83% of UK towns. Pembrokeshire Coast National Park covers 615 km² and has been a National Park since 1951.
Footpaths & waymarked walks
Pembroke is on the Pembrokeshire Coast Path main route
16 km of footpaths, bridleways and rights of way are mapped in Pembroke 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 town.
National
Pembrokeshire Coast Path main route10.7 km
The Pembrokeshire Coast Path main route, a national route, passes Pembroke.
Waymarked walks are OpenStreetMap walking routes. Public rights of way are only as complete as the map in each area.
History along the way
2 registered historic parks in Pembroke
Historic England’s register of parks and gardens, and the listed buildings and scheduled monuments that stand inside Pembroke’s named parks.
Registered · Grade II*Monkton Old Hall & Vicarage0.4 ha
Registered · Grade II111 Main Street0.2 ha
A listed building or monument counts when it sits inside the park’s OS Open Greenspace outline (to about 15 m), so a few at the boundary are included. Historic England, National Heritage List for England.
When to get out
The best walking months in Pembroke: 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) | 8 | 9 | 10 | 13 | 16 | 18 | 20 | 20 | 18 | 14 | 11 | 9 |
| Rain (mm) | 122 | 88 | 82 | 72 | 67 | 74 | 80 | 100 | 91 | 131 | 152 | 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 152 mm of rain falls in November, the wettest month. Frost comes on about 22 nights a year. The climate in Pembroke →
The coast
Pembroke is near the sea
15% of the area within 5 km of Pembroke is sea. 7 beaches are mapped within 5 km, 1 with a name.
Freshwater East2.1 mi from town
DirectionsThe 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
17 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
Campsites 1
Glan Y Mor0.0 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.
Pembroke DockNeylandMilford HavenJohnstonMerlin's BridgeWoodenPembroke
ABCDOutdoors Grade
| Town | Outdoors | Green space, ha per 1,000 | Near a park | Protected within 5 km |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pembroke | B+ | 2.2 | 91% | 31% |
| Pembroke Dock 1.5 mi | B− | 1.7 | 80% | 25% |
| Neyland 2.9 mi | A− | 3.0 | 93% | 13% |
| Milford Haven 5.8 mi | C | 0.8 | 70% | 30% |
| Johnston 6.6 mi | D | 1.4 | 55% | 5% |
| Merlin's Bridge 8.1 mi | A− | 3.3 | 100% | 11% |
| Wooden 8.5 mi | D | 0.1 | 0% | 18% |
Neyland, 2.9 miles away, grades A−, the best next door: 93% of its residents live within 400 m of a park.
Questions about the outdoors in Pembroke
What is the biggest park in Pembroke?
Memorial Park, 3.5 ha (9 acres), with 0.7 km of path, just outside the built-up area. Lower Common Park (2.5 ha) is second. 3 named parks, gardens and playing fields are in the town or within 400 m of it.
Is Pembroke near a National Park?
Yes. Pembrokeshire Coast National Park begins 0.9 mi south-east of the town’s edge. It covers 615 km² and has been a National Park since 1951.
What are the best walks near Pembroke?
1 waymarked walking route passes within 2 km of the town, including the Pembrokeshire Coast Path main route.
How many people in Pembroke live near a park?
91% 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 Pembroke?
May to September: the longest days, the warmest afternoons and the least rain of the year, from the Met Office 1991–2020 averages.
Which parks in Pembroke are historic?
111 Main Street (Grade II) and Monkton Old Hall & Vicarage (Grade II*) are on Historic England’s register of parks and gardens.
Is Pembroke good for walking?
Paths are thinner than most towns: 1.0 km of footpath and right of way per square kilometre, more than 6% of UK towns. For park space per person it beats 50% (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 Pembroke’s overall grade.
Sources
Where Pembroke’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.
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