Pwll’s biggest
Millennium Coastal Park
Park or garden
96 ha (236 acres)8.3 km of path
1 h 50 minto walk all 8.3 km of path
134 pitchesfootball pitches would fit
Centralin the middle of Pwll
2 nature reserves
Directionsto the nearest entrance
Photo: David Lewis · CC BY-SA 2.0AOutdoors Grade
Outdoors in Pwll · parks, paths & countryside
Pwll is on the coast
The sea makes up 31% of the area within 5 km. Parks and playing fields in Pwll add up to 21.6 ha for every 1,000 residents; the typical UK town has 2.1. The Gower National Landscape begins 0.7 mi from the village’s edge. Pwll grades A for the outdoors. A character grade: it isn’t part of the overall grade.
Green space
21.6 ha
per 1,000 residents
Typical UK town 2.1
Near a park
64%
of residents within 400 m
Typical UK town 83%
Footpaths
24 km
2.6 km per km², town + 1 km
Typical UK town 3.0 per km²
Protected landscape
19%
of the land within 5 km
Nearest: Gower National Landscape
The sea
31%
of the area within 5 km
A coastal town
Character
What kind of outdoors village is Pwll?
Read from the data: what stands out first, good and bad.
On the coast31% of the area within 5 km is sea; 3 beaches mapped.Room to roam21.6 ha of parks and playing fields per 1,000 residents, more than 99% of UK towns.Countryside close byThe Gower National Landscape starts 0.7 mi south-west.Parks can be a walk away37% of residents live more than 400 m from a park or playing field.
Pwll’s strongest suit is the sea, followed by plenty of park space. Where it falls short is how far some homes are from a park.
Outdoors grade
Pwll grades A for the outdoors
Each chart is every UK town of 1,000 or more on one measure: the green bar is Pwll, 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 91% of UK towns6th of 60 UK villages its size
Public green space21.6 haper 1,000 residents: parks, gardens, playing fields, play spaces
99out of
100
100
A park within a walk64%of residents within 400 m (a 5-minute walk)
23out of
100
100
National Park or National Landscape19%of the land within 5 km
77out of
100
100
Footpaths2.6 kmper km², the town and 1 km around it
47out of
100
100
The sea31%of the area within 5 km
93out 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
Pwll is 6th of 60 UK villages its size for the outdoors
The 60 UK towns and cities of 1,200 to 1,400 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
Pwll2.6
Villages its size2.2
Dyfed towns1.2
All UK towns3.0
Green space, ha per 1,000 residents
Pwll21.6
Villages its size2.3
Dyfed towns2.2
All UK towns2.1
Residents within 400 m of a park
Pwll64%
Villages its size73%
Dyfed towns74%
All UK towns83%
Against villages its size, Pwll stands out most for park space per resident: only 2 of the other 59 have more. It falls furthest behind on homes near a park, where 36 of the others do better.
Show as a table
| Town | Outdoors | Green space | Near a park | Path per km² | Protected | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Hightown Hampshire | A+ | 15.7 | 100% | 3.5 | 58% |
| 2 | Rough Common Kent | A+ | 11 | 100% | 9.2 | 1% |
| 3 | Worrall South Yorkshire | A+ | 3.7 | 100% | 5.4 | 21% |
| 4 | Box Wiltshire | A+ | 3.8 | 100% | 3.9 | 56% |
| 5 | Holybourne Hampshire | A+ | 12.2 | 100% | 2.7 | 23% |
| 6 | Pwll Dyfed | A | 21.6 | 64% | 2.6 | 19% |
| 7 | Hurley Berkshire | A | 3.1 | 100% | 2.6 | 36% |
| 8 | Amberley Gloucestershire | A | 13.7 | 0% | 6.3 | 87% |
| 9 | Bere Regis Dorset | A | 39.2 | 100% | 3.5 | 0% |
| 10 | Cliffs End Kent | A | 6.9 | 100% | 1.8 | 0% |
| 11 | Burbage Wiltshire | A | 2.7 | 100% | 1.9 | 100% |
| 12 | Compton Hampshire | A− | 18.8 | 61% | 3.6 | 28% |
| 13 | Bradley Clwyd | A− | 29.9 | 100% | 2.6 | 0% |
| 14 | Blean Kent | A− | 5.9 | 80% | 6.5 | 0% |
| 15 | Sherford Devon | A− | 3.2 | 100% | 1.5 | 28% |
| 16 | Exton Devon | A− | 2.2 | 100% | 0.6 | 7% |
| 17 | Riseley Bedfordshire | B+ | 2.4 | 100% | 3.9 | 0% |
| 18 | Baddesley Ensor Warwickshire | B+ | 18.3 | 100% | 2.1 | 0% |
| 19 | Marshfield Gloucestershire | B+ | 4.9 | 42% | 2.7 | 99% |
| 20 | Welland Worcestershire | B+ | 1.7 | 100% | 1.9 | 38% |
| 21 | Lidlington Bedfordshire | B | 1.9 | 100% | 3.3 | 0% |
| 22 | Weir Lancashire | B | 0.6 | 100% | 6 | 0% |
| 23 | Codmore Hill West Sussex | B− | 3.5 | 0% | 2.7 | 46% |
| 24 | Lingdale North Yorkshire | B− | 1.4 | 100% | 1.7 | 31% |
| 25 | Blindley Heath Surrey | B− | 3.2 | 79% | 2.2 | 1% |
| 26 | Blakeney Gloucestershire | B− | 2.1 | 68% | 3.1 | 0% |
| 27 | Fowlmere Cambridgeshire | B− | 4.5 | 100% | 1.1 | 0% |
| 28 | Burham Kent | C+ | 1.4 | 77% | 2.8 | 35% |
| 29 | Belford Northumberland | C+ | 1.2 | 83% | 0.9 | 21% |
| 30 | Perranarworthal Cornwall | C+ | 2.5 | 76% | 1.6 | 19% |
| 31 | Claverdon Warwickshire | C+ | 1.2 | 100% | 2.5 | 0% |
| 32 | North Duffield North Yorkshire | C | 2.6 | 100% | 0.4 | 0% |
| 33 | Biddulph Moor Staffordshire | C | 8.4 | 43% | 2.4 | 0% |
| 34 | Quainton Buckinghamshire | C | 3.8 | 69% | 2.1 | 0% |
| 35 | Haughley Suffolk | C | 3 | 71% | 2.3 | 0% |
| 36 | Kislingbury Northamptonshire | C | 8.4 | 26% | 2.3 | 0% |
| 37 | Nefyn Gwynedd | C | 0 | 0% | 2 | 24% |
| 38 | Ninfield East Sussex | C− | 1.8 | 50% | 1.4 | 50% |
| 39 | Atworth Wiltshire | C− | 1.5 | 62% | 2.2 | 13% |
| 40 | Spratton Northamptonshire | C− | 2.3 | 85% | 0.4 | 0% |
| 41 | Weeley Essex | C− | 7.5 | 0% | 1.5 | 0% |
| 42 | Langthorpe North Yorkshire | C− | 0.3 | 100% | 1.6 | 0% |
| 43 | Wingham Kent | C− | 2.2 | 53% | 1.3 | 0% |
| 44 | Llandysul Dyfed | C− | 5.2 | 47% | 1 | 0% |
| 45 | Wooden Dyfed | D | 0.1 | 0% | 0.4 | 18% |
| 46 | Yardley Gobion Northamptonshire | D | 1.2 | 47% | 3 | 0% |
| 47 | Bampton Devon | D | 1.5 | 22% | 1.6 | 5% |
| 48 | Pagham West Sussex | D | 0.3 | 0% | 2 | 0% |
| 49 | Heddon-on-the-Wall Northumberland | D | 0.6 | 70% | 2.7 | 0% |
| 50 | Colsterworth Lincolnshire | D | 1.3 | 67% | 2.2 | 0% |
| 51 | Hockwold cum Wilton Norfolk | D | 1.6 | 75% | 1.4 | 0% |
| 52 | Garsington Oxfordshire | D | 0.4 | 65% | 2.6 | 0% |
| 53 | Appleby Magna Leicestershire | D | 1.7 | 46% | 2 | 0% |
| 54 | Saham Toney Norfolk | D | 3 | 18% | 0.7 | 0% |
| 55 | Byfield Northamptonshire | D | 1.9 | 48% | 1.5 | 0% |
| 56 | Croeserw West Glamorgan | D | 1.3 | 33% | 2.5 | 0% |
| 57 | Hauxton Cambridgeshire | D− | 1.3 | 55% | 1.8 | 0% |
| 58 | Deeping St Nicholas Lincolnshire | D− | 0.7 | 80% | 0 | 0% |
| 59 | Hunger Hill Greater Manchester | D− | 0 | 0% | 2.4 | 0% |
| 60 | Witheridge Devon | D− | 0.5 | 36% | 1 | 0% |
The map
Parks, footpaths & countryside
Tap a number to zoom to a park. Tap a layer to hide it. The dashed line is Pwll’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 Pwll
The biggest is Millennium Coastal Park, 96 ha (236 acres). Directions go to the park’s nearest public entrance where Ordnance Survey maps one.
Close to home
6 in 10 Pwll 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 (64%)Further (37%)
Pwll64%
Villages its size73%
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; 11 playgrounds are mapped in and around the village, about one for every 119 residents.
National Parks & National Landscapes
The Gower National Landscape is 0.7 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 Landscape
Gower
0.7 mi south-west187 km²since 195619% of the land within 5 km
National Park
Brecon Beacons
13 mi north-east1,350 km²since 1955
National Park
Pembrokeshire Coast
18 mi west615 km²since 1951
19% of the land within 5 km of Pwll is National Park or National Landscape, more than 77% of UK towns. Brecon Beacons National Park covers 1,350 km² and has been a National Park since 1955.
Footpaths & waymarked walks
2 waymarked walks pass through or near Pwll
24 km of footpaths, bridleways and rights of way are mapped in Pwll and the kilometre around it, 2.6 km for every square kilometre (the typical UK town has 3.0). Bars show each route’s kilometres within 2 km of the village.
Regional
St Illtyd's Walk9.3 km
Heart of Wales Line Trail1.1 km
2 regional routes pass through, including the St Illtyd's Walk and Heart of Wales Line Trail.
Waymarked walks are OpenStreetMap walking routes. Public rights of way are only as complete as the map in each area.
History along the way
A registered historic park in Pwll
Historic England’s register of parks and gardens, and the listed buildings and scheduled monuments that stand inside Pwll’s named parks.
Registered · Grade IIStradey Castle0.7 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 Pwll: 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 | 16.6 | 16.2 | 14.6 | 12.6 | 10.5 | 8.7 | 7.8 |
| High (°C) | 8 | 8 | 10 | 13 | 16 | 19 | 20 | 20 | 18 | 14 | 11 | 9 |
| Rain (mm) | 131 | 92 | 83 | 72 | 73 | 79 | 90 | 101 | 94 | 137 | 137 | 136 |
April is the driest month (72 mm) and July the warmest (highs of 20 °C). Winter days are short, about 8 hours of daylight in December, and 137 mm of rain falls in November, the wettest month. Frost comes on about 37 nights a year. The climate in Pwll →
The coast
The coast and beaches near Pwll
31% of the area within 5 km of Pwll is sea. 3 beaches are mapped within 5 km, 1 with a name.
Tywyn Bâch0.6 mi from town
DirectionsSea: 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
2 viewpoints and 11 playgrounds
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.
Every named place, with directions
Viewpoints 2
Plus 2 viewpoints without a name on the map.
Nature reserves 2
Pwll Lagoon Local Nature Reserve5.1 ha · 0.0 mi from town
DirectionsAshpits Pond Local Nature Reserve6.9 ha · 0.4 mi from town
DirectionsPlaygrounds 11
Old Road School Nature's Den1.0 mi from town
DirectionsPlus 10 playgrounds without a name on the map.
Slipways 4
Plus 4 slipways 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.
Burry PortLlanelliTrimsaranPembreyCarwayBrynPwll
ABCDOutdoors Grade
Burry Port, 2.1 miles away, grades A+, the best next door: 75% of its residents live within 400 m of a park.
Questions about the outdoors in Pwll
What is the biggest park in Pwll?
Millennium Coastal Park, 96 ha (236 acres), with 8.3 km of path. 1 named park, garden or playing field is in the village or within 400 m of it.
Is Pwll near a National Park?
Yes. Brecon Beacons National Park begins 13 mi north-east of the village’s edge. It covers 1,350 km² and has been a National Park since 1955. The nearest protected landscape of any kind is the Gower National Landscape, 0.7 mi away.
What are the best walks near Pwll?
2 waymarked walking routes pass within 2 km of the village, including the St Illtyd's Walk and Heart of Wales Line Trail. Millennium Coastal Park alone has 8.3 km of path.
How many people in Pwll live near a park?
64% 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 Pwll?
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 Pwll are historic?
Stradey Castle (Grade II) is on Historic England’s register of parks and gardens.
Is Pwll good for walking?
About average for paths: 2.6 km of footpath and right of way per square kilometre, more than 47% of UK towns. For park space per person it beats 99% (21.6 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 Pwll’s overall grade.
Sources
Where Pwll’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.