Photo: Alwyn Williams · CC BY-SA 2.0Parks and walks in Pencader
1 km of footpaths run through the village and the kilometre around it, 0.1 for every square kilometre. 30% of residents live within a 5-minute walk of a park or playing field. Parks and playing fields in Pencader add up to 1.2 ha for every 1,000 residents; the typical UK town has 2.1. Pencader grades D− for the outdoors. A character grade: it isn’t part of the overall grade.
Pencader grades D− for the outdoors
Each chart is every UK town of 1,000 or more on one measure: the green bar is Pencader, the dashed line the typical town. The number is the share of towns it beats; the five are averaged and the average ranked again.
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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.
How Pencader compares with UK villages of 1,000 to 1,100
The 60 UK towns and cities of 1,000 to 1,100 people with an Outdoors Grade. Hover a dot for its figures; tap one for its page.
Pencader falls furthest behind on path per km², where 59 of the 59 others do better.
Show as a table
| Town | Outdoors | Green space | Near a park | Path per km² | Protected | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Giggleswick North Yorkshire | A+ | 14.2 | 100% | 4.1 | 75% |
| 2 | Lizard Cornwall | A+ | 2.3 | 100% | 3.3 | 30% |
| 3 | Lympne Kent | A+ | 4 | 100% | 2.7 | 34% |
| 4 | Uplyme Devon | A+ | 2.4 | 100% | 3 | 61% |
| 5 | Frampton on Severn Gloucestershire | A+ | 11 | 100% | 3.6 | 0% |
| 6 | Bromham Wiltshire | A+ | 5.8 | 100% | 3.3 | 13% |
| 7 | Blagdon Somerset | A | 3.3 | 100% | 2.9 | 62% |
| 8 | Colney Heath Hertfordshire | A | 8.7 | 100% | 7.4 | 0% |
| 9 | Alston Cumbria | A | 5.8 | 100% | 2.1 | 100% |
| 10 | Newnham Gloucestershire | A | 4.2 | 100% | 3.2 | 0% |
| 11 | Heather Leicestershire | A | 16.9 | 100% | 4.7 | 0% |
| 12 | Blockley Gloucestershire | A | 2.9 | 100% | 2.5 | 86% |
| 13 | Silverdale Lancashire | A | 2.3 | 46% | 3.9 | 76% |
| 14 | North Curry Somerset | A | 6.2 | 100% | 3.5 | 0% |
| 15 | Furness Vale Derbyshire | A− | 2 | 78% | 5 | 36% |
| 16 | Old Langho Lancashire | A− | 7.6 | 73% | 2.9 | 20% |
| 17 | Chedgrave Norfolk | A− | 3 | 100% | 1.7 | 26% |
| 18 | Plumpton Green East Sussex | A− | 4.6 | 54% | 3.6 | 37% |
| 19 | Cwmgwrach West Glamorgan | B+ | 3.2 | 100% | 1.7 | 6% |
| 20 | Calver Derbyshire | B+ | 2.2 | 44% | 4.8 | 99% |
| 21 | Hyde Heath Buckinghamshire | B+ | 5.4 | 68% | 2.1 | 81% |
| 22 | Crowlas Cornwall | B+ | 3.3 | 73% | 1.1 | 23% |
| 23 | Blackfordby Leicestershire | B+ | 3.5 | 100% | 2.6 | 0% |
| 24 | Five Ash Down East Sussex | B+ | 2.8 | 0% | 4.1 | 43% |
| 25 | Avening Gloucestershire | B | 0.9 | 100% | 2.3 | 97% |
| 26 | Flamstead Hertfordshire | B | 2.1 | 82% | 2.7 | 33% |
| 27 | Sharnford Leicestershire | B− | 1.9 | 100% | 2.9 | 0% |
| 28 | Tackley Oxfordshire | B− | 1.9 | 100% | 2.8 | 0% |
| 29 | Ettington Warwickshire | B− | 3.3 | 100% | 1.6 | 0% |
| 30 | Coopersale Essex | B− | 1.1 | 100% | 3.5 | 0% |
| 31 | Carleton-in-Craven North Yorkshire | C+ | 0.4 | 100% | 2.3 | 10% |
| 32 | Chillington Devon | C+ | 0.6 | 78% | 1.3 | 55% |
| 33 | Draycott Somerset | C+ | 2.1 | 68% | 2.1 | 46% |
| 34 | Sutterton Lincolnshire | C+ | 2.8 | 100% | 0.4 | 0% |
| 35 | Upper Basildon Berkshire | C+ | 2.3 | 0% | 2 | 97% |
| 36 | Weston Staffordshire | C+ | 1.3 | 100% | 1 | 4% |
| 37 | Simister Greater Manchester | C | 16.6 | 0% | 2.7 | 0% |
| 38 | Little Melton Norfolk | C | 4.2 | 72% | 2 | 0% |
| 39 | Hilton Cambridgeshire | C | 6.8 | 70% | 1.8 | 0% |
| 40 | Huby (Hambleton) North Yorkshire | C | 2.4 | 75% | 1.5 | 2% |
| 41 | Elswick Lancashire | C | 1.8 | 100% | 0.8 | 0% |
| 42 | Freethorpe Norfolk | C− | 2.3 | 26% | 0.7 | 61% |
| 43 | Kimbolton Cambridgeshire | C− | 2.4 | 50% | 2.8 | 0% |
| 44 | Ansley Warwickshire | C− | 1.8 | 64% | 2.8 | 0% |
| 45 | Stebbing Essex | C− | 2.4 | 70% | 2 | 0% |
| 46 | Tolleshunt Knights Essex | C− | 3.4 | 41% | 1.8 | 0% |
| 47 | Gorefield Cambridgeshire | D | 2.9 | 67% | 0.5 | 0% |
| 48 | Skidby East Riding of Yorkshire | D | 2.8 | 56% | 0.9 | 0% |
| 49 | Snitterfield Warwickshire | D | 2.4 | 63% | 0.8 | 0% |
| 50 | Crundale Dyfed | D | 1.5 | 57% | 0.5 | 5% |
| 51 | Napton on the Hill Warwickshire | D | 0.4 | 69% | 2.5 | 0% |
| 52 | Aberporth Dyfed | D | 0.6 | 38% | 0.8 | 0% |
| 53 | Wisbech St Mary Cambridgeshire | D | 1.8 | 69% | 0.2 | 0% |
| 54 | Horsham St Faith Norfolk | D | 0.9 | 52% | 1.1 | 0% |
| 55 | Henham Essex | D | 0 | 0% | 3 | 0% |
| 56 | Hockliffe Bedfordshire | D− | 1.2 | 49% | 1.8 | 0% |
| 57 | South Hykeham Lincolnshire | D− | 0.2 | 0% | 2.3 | 0% |
| 58 | Pencader Dyfed | D− | 1.2 | 30% | 0.1 | 0% |
| 59 | Netheravon Wiltshire | D− | 0.4 | 0% | 1.3 | 0% |
| 60 | Leeming Bar North Yorkshire | D− | 0.7 | 0% | 0.9 | 0% |
Parks, footpaths & countryside
Tap a number to zoom to a park. Tap a layer to hide it. The dashed line is Pencader’s built-up area.
3 in 10 Pencader 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).
About 700 people live further than that. Playing fields count, so a park within reach isn’t always one with paths or trees.
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.
Brecon Beacons
Pembrokeshire Coast
Brecon Beacons National Park covers 1,350 km² and has been a National Park since 1955.
Footpaths in and around Pencader
1 km of footpaths, bridleways and rights of way are mapped in Pencader and the kilometre around it, 0.1 km for every square kilometre (the typical UK town has 3.0).
No named walking route is mapped within 2 km of Pencader; 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.
The best walking months in Pencader: 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 | 16 | 18 | 19 | 19 | 17 | 14 | 10 | 8 |
| Rain (mm) | 188 | 161 | 119 | 96 | 90 | 100 | 130 | 138 | 105 | 192 | 187 | 210 |
May is the driest month (90 mm) and July the warmest (highs of 19 °C). Winter days are short, about 8 hours of daylight in December, and 210 mm of rain falls in December, the wettest month. Frost comes on about 41 nights a year. The climate in Pencader →
Viewpoints, hills and nature near Pencader
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
Pencader is inland. These are the nearest named beaches, measured from the edge of the village.
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
Hills and peaks 2
Plus 2 hills and peaks without a name on the map.
Playgrounds 1
Plus 1 playground without a name on the map.
The outdoors in nearby towns
The nearest towns of 1,000+ within 12 miles. Tap a town for its outdoors page.
| Town | Outdoors | Green space, ha per 1,000 | Near a park | Protected within 5 km |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pencader | D− | 1.2 | 30% | 0% |
| Llandysul 3.5 mi | C− | 5.2 | 47% | 0% |
| Llanybydder 7.1 mi | D | 2.2 | 60% | 0% |
| Newcastle Emlyn 9.1 mi | B− | 5.9 | 100% | 0% |
| Carmarthen 9.9 mi | D | 1.6 | 76% | 0% |
| Lampeter 11.3 mi | D | 1.5 | 88% | 0% |
Newcastle Emlyn, 9.1 miles away, grades B−, the best next door: every resident lives within 400 m of a park. Llandysul and Newcastle Emlyn have at least twice Pencader’s green space per resident. None of the neighbours has a protected landscape within 5 km either.
Questions about the outdoors in Pencader
Is Pencader 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 Pencader?
Traeth Penbryn Beach, 13 mi from the edge of the village, then Traeth Bach (14 mi). Pencader itself is inland.
How many people in Pencader live near a park?
30% 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 Pencader?
May to September: the longest days, the warmest afternoons and the least rain of the year, from the Met Office 1991–2020 averages.
Is Pencader good for walking?
Paths are thinner than most towns: 0.1 km of footpath and right of way per square kilometre, more than 0% of UK towns. For park space per person it beats 18% (1.2 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 Pencader’s overall grade.
Where Pencader’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.